2,165 Days of Meditation
April 6, 2026
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One thousand, one hundred and sixty five days ago, I wrote the last post in my meditation series when I completed 1,000 days of consecutive meditation.
I posited that that was the end of the series. It seemed like a good place to end.
Now, I’m back with an update.
It’s an update I meant to write at 2,000 days, but 165 days have passed since then.
I wrote a bit in my newsletter to mark the milestone, but then I just let the days pass.
Consciously, consecutively, meditating each day.
I wanted to share today because when we think of consecutive meditation or a devoted practice, we often think of all the reasons we can’t do something. All the ways we will be interrupted, or forget, or put it down and not pick it up again. The ways we will “fail.”
This is why I always recommend starting small. Like, really small. Five minutes small. For a short period of time and then building from there.
This is what it looked like for me in the beginning. 5 minutes for 40 days, just to see if I could do it. Then I just kept doing it. I changed my identity to someone who meditates. It happened slowly over time. Boringly to be honest.
That’s what I’m finding. Sometimes the most effective and supportive things we do in life are “boring.”
We have been so conditioned to look for the big, splashy, extroverted, visible to everyone else, gives you a rush type of things, that the steady foundation of creating a supportive practice in life (in any area) can feel “boring.”
Now, I find that the practice itself, inside of it when I am sitting is not boring, but the getting to the cushion is. It’s a part of my routine. I don’t question it for the most part, I just do it.
Though, full disclosure, some days I do want to skip it (because, human), but those are rare.
In the last 2,165 days of meditation, I have had reasons to skip it, just like I am sure you would. But I didn’t and it held me through family health journeys, a covid episode that was more intense than anything I have ever experienced, work transitions, deaths, relationship transitions, moving, releasing limiting beliefs, a back issue that laid me out for more than a month, and more.
Through it all, through every emotion, I meditated, daily. With my back issue, I couldn’t sit, so I stood. With covid, I had to do it in bed. Somedays, I cry through it. Somedays it's a joy. I adjusted, as we humans do. And if I could do it, I am sure so can you. It just might look a little different, since you are an individual.
I want to say that in American culture, we can often get stuck in a mindset of “what does it get me, or what does it do for me.” A lot of marketing is built on this.
We don’t want to do or try something unless we know what we are going to get out of it. It’s pretty much the crux of pain point marketing. But with the quiet internal practices, sometimes there is no answer like this, and that is a good thing.
I can’t tell you what meditation will “do” for you, I don’t know our life, values, or goals.
But I do know that any practice that you put real spirit and devotion to, will help you get closer to yourself and enliven your self-connection to your own spirit.
And your spirit is kind of awesome, don’t you want to get to know it?
Want a deeper perspective on how to create a daily meditation practice?
Check out my “Create A Meditation Practice” Audio Workshop - HERE
Or meditate along with me on Insight Timer.
