“I felt the suffocating rubber clown suit of negativity dissolving, and it was such a feeling of bright freedom” David Lynch
When I was first researching meditation I was really struck by this quote.
David Lynch is such a character and I loved his metaphor of the suffocating rubber clown suit of negativity.
I could picture him walking round like a fool in his clown suit, getting all hot and bothered, and then it all just falling away with meditation.
Diminishing negativity is definitely one of the main benefits of meditation I’ve noticed.
It’s not that I suddenly put on rose tinted glasses about everything.
But I was much more likely to give people the benefit of the doubt and let things wash over me rather than taking them personally.
And the process was a natural and effortless dissolution.
It didn’t take lots of busy or messy unpicking of negative thinking – there was just less of it each day.
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