Meditation

When I started to work at the Barbican, last December, I went to a Occupational Health appointment. I wanted to understand what I could put in place to perform better with ADHD in my role. The doctor suggested, among other things, that I try Headspace. He wrote it on a post-it note and didn't even explain what it was (the appointment was supposed to be one hour and ended up being 1:40, this tends to happen quite often in situations like these).

After a few days I researched it and discovered it is a Meditation App. The idea of meditation kept coming to me very frequently in the last years so I decided to give it a try. I wasn't happy that this was yet another app wanting things from me, but I decided to give it a go.

To be frank, I wasn't very engaged with Andy Puddicombe's voice. He is the co-founder and "narrator" of the sessions. Every now and then I would also question some of the concepts or ideas he introduces. But I decided I would give it a go and invest on it and try something I have been learning over time: keep on working on it, even if some things aren't like you like, or give it a proper try before you say no to it.

I ended up buying a one year subscription of the service so I can use it all. Meditation has been giving me some really good tools to cope with myself. I might write more about them in the future.

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