#thoght

Healthy Drugs? What? There is no way that drugs could ever be good for you. When we see drugs as stimulants or medicine of chemical substance, I would fully agree. Although, a drug in itself is not solely defined this way. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a drug as ‘’ A substance used as medication or in the preparation of medication’’. With this clarification (no pun intended), the word drug takes on the meaning of being anything that can aid in a medical, stimulating or healing manner. And what better drug could there be than one that heals the mind and body with a sweet aftertaste, meditation.

Back in the day, I used to smoke weed, and a lot of it too. The period lasted for 2 years, the second year the label of addict most certainly applied to me. Not a day would go by that I didn’t smoke weed. It became a habit, and without knowing it, I had developed the subconscious mantra, ‘’A day not having smoked is a day not having lived.’’ Thankfully, I was able to break the addiction in the most unorthodox way, by starting a new addiction, meditation.

By replacing daily stoner-dom with daily meditation my quality of life enhanced incredibly. Instead of rolling fat joints with carefully folded filters, I was now sitting in bed cross-legged while focussing on each and every in –and exhalation. I can’t deny that there were some tough moments in the beginning, but after about a month of daily awareness-practice, meditation had become my new love.

A haze of incense having replaced the fog of weed, I was still experiencing mystified thoughts and spaced out states, only now minus the anxiety, drowsiness, and coarse throat that burning weed had always left me. Surprisingly enough that state of calm contentment and occasional wonder remained.

I have experienced many moments during meditation where it was not only comparable to weed but even to the euphoric feeling of taking xtc. I would sit in deep and utter contentment with everything and nothing, a loving sensation engulfing the entire body and mind. Only one who would have taken xtc could understand what I mean here. If you have not taken these drugs and even if you have, rest assured that they are not necessary. Meditation can take you all the way, and it is much less costly too!

I could ramble on about the positive benefits of this drug, so… I will! Because meditation has offered me so much more than only content moments of cross-legged concentration. In day to day life, I feel so much more relaxed, my head is empty, and my body feels like it is filled with air. Like a balloon ready to fly up, yet accordingly tied to the ground. Like being in the sky while you are down to earth. And the sensation is great, imagine being on a star somewhere outside the Milky Way while you are fully aware of your place on earth, I do not exaggerate when I say that meditation can offer something magical.

Where in the hell of eternity is a star outside the Milky Way you say? What devil would you be to be hanging out there? Only a devil who seeks more of what it means to be a devil. Peering outside of my own looking glass, I have discovered there is so much that I do not know. I have no idea what it means to be on a star, let alone one outside of our native milky way. Where are you if you have no clue as to where you are? Let it stand as a metaphor for the unknown. In any case, it feels good to float out of the known from time to time.

‘Thought is the only activity that needs nothing but itself for its exercise.’ #HannahArendt #TheLifeOfTheMind #AVidaDoEspírito