Meditation, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is to think deeply or focus one's mind for a period of time, in silence or with the aid of chanting, for religious or spiritual purposes or as a method of relaxation.

Brenda Murphy is the owner of Interior Consciousness, a business that focuses on teaching and educating people about meditation and mindfulness. Launched this past March, Interior Consciousness aims to help those interested in meditation to achieve their wellness goals and assist in co-creating their lives.

By calming the mind, meditation and the practice of mindfulness allows for us to become more thoughtful and responsive instead of reactive human beings, Murphy said. Mindfulness is present moment awareness without judgment.

Murphys interest and practice of meditation began when she was a teenage athlete where she would meditate and do some yoga before and after each workout session. This ritual stuck with her throughout university and adolescence, as she became a wife, a mother and a business professional. Her practice deepened a few years ago after being involved in a propane explosion, which she describes on her website as devastating.

My injuries matched those of our home: shell intact, but the inside destroyed, Murphy writes. My life as I knew it was gone and I was required to build and heal both the physical home and the spiritual home.

With the damage her home received and sustaining injuries to her brain, lungs, ears, sinuses and central nervous system, Murphy was left with not only pain and ruin but Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well.

Depression, crippling anxiety, anger and hopelessness were my new unwanted friends and I joined the club of walking wounded, Murphy writes. I decided to give myself permission to heal in a way that spoke to me. That is not to say that the ailments suddenly disappeared, although some have; it means that with my meditation and mindfulness practice, I no longer suffer. Today I am living a life of joy, peace and vitality.

It was with this new outlook that she chose to rise above and made the decision to share her experience and knowledge with the community in the form of Interior Consciousness. She is a dedicated to the practice of meditation and yoga, receiving her certification in January of this year through the McLean Meditation Institute in Sedona, AZ.

After practicing meditation and yoga for 35 years, I feel that with my certification I finally have the knowledge to compliment my personal experience, Murphy said. I wanted to share my experience and knowledge with our community.

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