Summer Stories 2024

Guided Meditation on Interconnectedness

My LIA revolved around teaching a meditation course at a mental health charity and participating in various wholesome community programmes. By the end of the six weeks, I was left feeling an intense sense of interconnectedness, which I have attempted to fittingly repackage in a meditation for you.

Sep 29, 2024

Mridula Sathyanarayanan

Student, University of Toronto

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Interconnectedness sums up perhaps the dominant takeaway from working with a mental health organization this summer. By planting roots in nature, other people, and therapeutic values, we grow stronger. This guided mindful visualization meditation is designed to help honour interconnectedness by connecting our breath to the growth of what surrounds us.

Here is the link to the meditation :)

Music credits: Buddha's Flute

Mridula Sathyanarayanan (She/Her)

Student, University of Toronto

Hi everyone! I am a first-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. My primary academic interests include the science of well-being, philosophy of mind, and subjective impacts of contemplative traditions. My research project surrounds how Buddhist-inspired meditation practices impact the phenomenology of experienced meditations, specifically their sense of self, objecthood, and command over their emotion.

I am originally from India, but I graciously got to spend my childhood across six other countries: Zimbabwe, Nepal, Kenya, Switzerland, Bangladesh, and Qatar. Witnessing so many diverse contexts has opened me up to unique traditions, patterns of behaviour, and problems that characterize our world.

I look forward to meeting and learning from the extremely talented and passionate members of the Laidlaw community :)