Most people who come to me don't use the word "home."

They say things like "I want to be calmer" or "I need to stop overthinking" or "I just want to switch off."

Perfectly reasonable things — and they happen, they genuinely do.

But there's another, deeper, thing I've noticed, over and over, in the course of twenty-three years teaching:

When people describe what actually happened after the course — not what they hoped for, but what they got — they almost always reach for a word that's unrelated to a quieter, calmer mind:

Home.

"It felt like coming home." "I came back home to who I am." "I found what I'd been looking for my whole life, and the only word I have for it is home."

Nobody asks for that on the registration form. Nobody writes "I'd like to feel at home in myself, please."

Because when you've been away from it long enough, you forget it's even an option. You forget there's a place in you that isn't the noise, isn't the overthinking, isn't the endless managing and coping and holding it all together. You forget there's ground under all of it.

And then you find it again, and the word that comes out — before you've had time to think about it — is home.

I don't think that's a coincidence. I think it's recognition. Something in you remembering what was always there.

The noise isn't you — it never was.

Go well,

Arjuna

P.S. There’s two ways in, if any of this made you want to go further:

My next Ascension course is this weekend, 3–5 July, 7pm start Friday — a full weekend learning the practice that people keep describing as coming home.

Reply to this email if you'd like to know more, or here is the link to book:

https://www.arjunaishaya.com/ishayasascension

And on Monday 13th July at 7pm in Richmond, N Yorks,

I'm running a meditation and mindfulness workshop — as much as I can give you in 60–90 minutes. Details coming soon, but save the date.