I tried, and ‘failed’, to learn to meditate back in the early 2000’s, when during my university days found myself searching for something to help me with the stress of my studies and an underlying feeling of dissatisfaction with my world.   A decade passed, life moved on, yet the feeling of dis-ease and stress remained. I felt an increased sense of desperation to find something to soothe my ever-restless mind. ​ In 2012, I completed an 8-week course in mindfulness based stres