Returning to Sa Ta Na Ma: Why This Simple Meditation Still Changes Me

Returning to Sa Ta Na Ma: 

Why This Simple Meditation Still Changes Me

Every so often, I reread something I wrote years ago and feel a little shock of recognition—*Oh… this is still good. This still works.*  

That happened recently with my ebook on Sa Ta Na Ma meditation. It's a small guide, simple and direct, written when I was first discovering how powerful this practice could be. I hadn't updated it in years, but reading it again reminded me exactly why I started this meditation in the first place.

My real journey with Sa Ta Na Ma began in late 2022. I committed to the traditional 40‑day cycles, and each round pulled me a little deeper into myself. By mid‑2023, I felt ready for something bigger—so I began a 1000‑day practice. And I stayed with it until December 2024, when life became chaotic enough that the meditation slipped away.

And here's the thing about Sa Ta Na Ma:  

When you stop, you start over at Day One, which means Day One.

So on September 29, 2025, I began again at Day One.   

Another 1000 days.  

A new beginning, but also a continuation of something I know works.

My reason for recommitting is simple and honest:  

I want to shift my lifelong patterns of procrastination and impatience. These two tendencies have shaped more of my life than I'd like to admit, and neither one has ever taken me anywhere I actually want to go. 

I know—both from research and from lived experience—that Sa Ta Na Ma rewires those patterns if you stay with it. It's the simplicity that makes it powerful, and ironically, it's the simplicity that makes it easy to abandon.

But I'm at a point in my life where I want to change what I can while I'm still here.  

I want to meet myself with more steadiness.  

I want to finish what I started.  

I want to live with less urgency and more presence.

Revisiting my own book reminded me that the tools I need are already in my hands. The guide may be a few years old, but the practice is timeless—and it still holds up. Sometimes the things we wrote in earlier versions of ourselves are exactly the reminders we need now.

If you're curious about the meditation that keeps pulling me back, the ebook is here. It's simple, accessible, and designed to help you begin your own 40‑day or 1000‑day journey—whatever that looks like for you.

Whether you've read it before or are exploring it now, your review will help it reach more people who might need this kind of reset.