Brisbane, capital of the Sunshine State, home to the Great Barrier Reef, host of the 1982 Commonwealth Games and host of the 2032...

When I joined this meditation while ago, I was coming after 7 years of mood swings and severe depressions. In this time I had gone to several psychiatrists and psychologists, gotten diagnosed first with seasonal depression (as my downs used to occur in winter time) and then with cyclothymia (a mild case of bipolar, which is deemed to be serious mental illness). And ended up taking a bunch of pills. All this to not much avail. And then when I moved to a place with a better wea