An Interview with KIRAT RANDHAWA To watch and listen to the full sit down with Kirat Randhawa click here.
1. Tell us about yourself and what motivated you to a career in development, conscious exploration, transformational practices, and life’s shifts of others • being invited to navigate my own experiences without the proper resources I needed. I understand the importance of utilizing support during these experiences, and most importantly understand the power of community and empathic connection. I realized I needed a more compassionfocused refuge during my own experiences than concrete answers, per say, and I wasn’t able to find that anywhere.
2. Was meditation and mindfulness practices something that clicked with you immediately or was it an ‘acquired taste’? • it clicked immediately. I grew up in a very spiritual and religious household and found the inner world to be incredibly comforting. It was safe - and sacred. A space that I could rest in that wasn’t open for external access. I realize now that we all have these inner sources of comfort and support that are actually rooted in the same purity of awareness.
3. What was your journey like from the time you started practicing in meditative and mindfulness activities and how did this reflect into other aspects of your life? • I very quickly realized just how much I was suffering and that has been an ongoing discovery, really. When you seek to know the mind, you seek to know everything that is true for you including your pain - and that was a humbling experience for me. In my life, I experienced dissonance for a while after, trying to make sense of the world. After some time, I noticed an increase in thoughtfulness in the way I spoke, moved, ate, consumed, etc. It was a very overwhelming, lonely, yet necessary adjustment.
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