For years, I struggled with meditation. I read books, attended workshops, and followed countless guided meditations, all promising peace and stillness. Yet every time I closed my eyes, my mind would whirl into action—endless streams of thoughts cascading one after another. The harder I tried to quiet my mind, the louder it seemed to get. Frustration mounted, and I began to wonder if I was simply incapable of meditating.

The reason I couldn’t meditate in the classical way—with an empty, silent mind—wasn’t because I was doing it wrong. It was because my defined Ajna simply doesn’t work that way. My mind is designed to think, to analyze, to conceptualize. Asking it to stop was like asking the ocean to stop producing waves. It wasn’t a flaw; it was just my nature.