I'm a wild person. Crazy. Outgoing. But with an unpredictable and manic lifestyle comes a level of disarray that even the most organized person on Earth would have trouble keeping up with. How do I deal with this whirlwind that life basically just throws at me?

Meditation! I'm pretty loud and high energy most of the time, so never in a million years would my closest friends guess that I meditate in my free time. But let me tell you, meditation does wonders. Other than being an obvious stress reliever, it gives you time to prioritize and focus on who you are as a human being.

Most of the time when I meditate, I clear a space in the center of my room, grab a pillow, a blanket, and some rainforest background noises. I turn off all the lights, light a few vanilla candles, and lay on the ground, and spread out like a starfish, almost. The whole point of the session is to connect with your body and become self aware of your being, thoughts, and desires.

Your mind is NOT supposed to float around, so if you find yourself just thinking about life in general, try to return back to your focus point.

The focus point that you start with should be something physical like a part of your body, or a person. But one of my favorite things to meditate on is asking myself: "Who am I?" over and over again until it scares me. When you start to ask yourself "Who am I?", you can literally feel your soul screaming "OH MY GOD I DON'T KNOW WHO I AM". It becomes this point of self actualization that you are a soul in a body, and there are people around you with souls in their bodies, living their lives.

But before you start to reach that point, meditation needs to be focused on a physical object and how it affects your life. I started with my fingers, just focusing on their existence and how much I depend on small pieces of flesh and bones to help me through the day. When you progress through the different depths of meditation, you become more aware of your body and thoughts, and in a way, it helps you organize where you're going in life.

Meditation also helps calm me down when I'm caught up in drama or overloaded with schoolwork. While it is a temporary escape from the chaos of life outside, it provides that quiet calm every person (yes, even the loud ones) deserve in their life.