Reflection: Meditating Experience

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This is one of the most interesting projects that I have ever been assigned in schooling in general. I found this project to be quite refreshing, and I really enjoyed how it opened up a new prospective I never thought that I would gain. I had attempted to meditate prior to this assignment, but I never was able to really gain the level of thinking I needed. I felt frustrated time and time again, and ultimately gave up rather quickly. When this assignment came to light, I truly thought I was going to have a hard time completing it. To my surprise, I ended up having a truly invigorating experience, and meditation is now something I am going to be implementing in my life daily.
For me, this assignment was a huge challenge to me in the very beginning. For at least a week, I could not clear my mind and open myself up to a new level of thinking. Every time I sat down to try and meditate, I just simply couldn 't focus on anything but the negative. The things that were weighing me down were just consuming my mind, and preventing me from letting go of all the negative
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I feel that every single person on Earth is created equally, and we all have the same capability, it just comes down to how we challenge ourselves. We have the ability to differentiate ourselves from everyone else, thus creating an identity, which is the most important part of our lives. My personal goals and objectives of life is to arrive at a point in my life where I have influence based on my ideologies, and I can implement them onto a social media form to help people get through their hardships. I have an entertainment Facebook company where my team and I showcase events in New York City to bring people together. My goal is to accumulate a following to share my ideologies, and influence those followers into living their life in a more efficient way, to not sweat the small

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