Emily McDonald

And so it really is developing that ability to respond that allows you to act as a new version of you.

And so that was the first time I had noticed meditation changing my mind and my brain.

And now I just see it in so many different areas of my life.

If I don't know where my keys are, I'm able to just pause and literally backtrack and, oh, this is where my keys are.

I have two phones because one of them I use to create content.

And yesterday I couldn't find the phone.

So where's the phone?

And I paused and I remember it was in a bag that I threw it into when I was in my car earlier that day because I didn't want it to be on the seat.

People see in the window.

That's where it is in that random bag that's in the hallway over there.

And just little things like that.

I notice now I'm like, oh, wow, like I'm just able to unlock this different level of my mind.

I don't want to say that I know what the root cause is for everyone, because for me, when I started vaping nicotine, there wasn't really a cause.

It was just all my friends are doing it, and so I'm going to do it.

Everyone around me was doing it, so I'm going to do it.

I wasn't necessarily trying to fill any void.

It was just, oh, hey, I was just a silly little teenager.

So it's sort of seeking out something outside of you to give you dopamine to make you feel better.

Right.

Why did I continue to do it?