My Shaking Energy Brought Me Home to Myself
And even led me to my Twin Soul
In my 20s, I was involved with a group of Buddhists in East London and used to go to regular meditation evenings a few times a week. On one of these evenings, I glimpsed a young woman whose body was shaking during the group meditation. I was intrigued. During the tea break, I went up to her and asked her about it. She seemed quite nonplussed, simply saying that it always happened during her meditations — but only for a short period. She said that she didn’t really think about it that much and didn’t know what it was.
Who would have thought — certainly I wouldn’t have thought — that a few years later this would be me. Also experiencing this shaking during meditation. It is so interesting and strange that I was drawn to notice a fellow meditator shaking and then being curious enough to ask her about it. A part of me must have known that I was one of those — whatever one of those was (or is).
I can trace the emergence of the shaking in me back to an experience that I had during a Tai Chi class some time after the experience at the meditation class. I had discovered Tai Chi a few years earlier and had got totally hooked — going to classes as much as I could and practising on my own intensely — sometimes for several hours at a time. I was nearing the end of performing the…
