Róisín Ingle

I would really recommend it as a bit a reset, but also like I wish I'd continued on the actual meditation.

But it taught me a lot.

And, you know, in my recent more things that have been going on for me, I realize it has been so helpful.

Because basically, just to explain what Vipassana is, it's just observing what's going on, what's really happening and not reacting to it.

OK, so we go around life and all the time we're reacting, aren't we?

You know, good things happen and we're really happy and terrible things happen and it makes us sad and we only want good things to happen and we're pissed off when bad things happen.

This is about equanimity is the word that I learned in Vipassana, how to be equanimous, which is a beautiful word, not a word that we use very often, but would be really nice if we did use it more.

And it teaches you that because the meditation technique is basically just body scanning.

So you're observing your body.

And when you're sitting for a long time, for hours and hours, there's a lot of sensations in your body.

It's very uncomfortable.

And there's a part of the meditation, which is an hour where you basically try your best not to move.

So not to adjust your position.

And you do that because you're trying to observe all the really, really horrible, painful feelings.

and not react.

So it's a training like that.

So it's a physical, mental, emotional training in how to be equanimous.

And I've done it three of those times, three 10 day sessions.

And I think even though I didn't continue the meditation, something must have gone in because when I was having my darkest, most shocking time, when I got my cancer diagnosis,

I sometimes think, how am I?