Today is my birthday and these markers often make us reflect on who we are and where we’ve come from here.
Here’s a refection on three things I have that are very special to me, and have been life changing.
1993. 1995. 1997.
Three years.
Three thresholds.
Three quiet practices that entered my life… and never really left.
1993 brought the discipline of daily writing.
Three pages every morning. No exceptions.
A simple, unwavering practice, guided by Julia Cameron and The Artist’s Way.
I didn’t know then that those pages would become a place of refuge, revelation, and return. A safe way to meet myself honestly, day after day as I lived and travelled all over the world.
1995 marked the beginning of listening inward.
Learning to trust my intuition rather than override it.
To pause instead of push.
To sense what was true beneath the noise, the expectations, the momentum of life.
It was the start of a relationship with my own inner knowing and inner wisdom.
It was imperfect and tentative, but real.
1997 ushered in formal meditation practice.
Two hours a day and ten-day silent retreats.
Again and again, over nine consecutive years.
A deep training in stillness, presence, and humility.
And a long apprenticeship with and appreciatation for silence.
Then came motherhood.
My journals were crumpled and smudged with crayons and porridge.
Meditation dissolved into fractured moments of snatched breaths, quiet pauses while the house slept. There were years of continuous breastfeeding, fatigue, and fierce love.
Seasons of second-guessing myself. Moments when I didn’t know the way, or trust that I ever really had.
And yet.
Through relationship upheavals.
Through illness, loss, study, business-building, and the many reinventions life demands, my writing, my intuition, and my meditation practice remained.
Not perfectly.
Not uninterrupted.
But faithfully.
They didn’t earn me a post-doc or a wall of credentials.
There are no trophies or titles or accolades.
That was never the point.
The outer results, in my work, my family, my publications, and the quiet steadiness of my inner life, speak for themselves.
These practices have travelled with me for more than half my life.
They strengthen and underpin every piece of creativity, leadership, commitment, and craft I bring to the world.
This is the power of practice, and it’s legacy.
Quiet. Persistent. Consistent. Considered.
Each have offered a form of wisdom that can’t be rushed, erased or outsourced.
And a depth that grows slowly, invisibly, when no one is watching.
The rewards are deep and personal.
This is the power of practice.
With Heart,
Chandu xx
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