It was 2010. I was curious about the experience of being fully immersed in mediation. I asked, then the answer came. There is an international meditation organization with meditation centers all over the world. I looked them up and to my amazement, there was a center 40 minutes from my home. Wow, I want to try this. Ten full consecutive days in silence. I wondered what that would be like?

February 2010 was my first experience. It was a lot easier than I had expected. It was in this sitting that I learned that the mind and body are connected. What I mean by this is that all of our thoughts, experiences and sufferings are all recorded in the body. It’s as if the body is a large repository of our thoughts.

We would sit on and off for ten hours every day. After seven days, I started to observe

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