Bethel was the envy of everyone, considered the healthiest, smartest, most athletic and certainly the most beautiful, for she was by far the fattest – and in caterpillar world, when it comes to beauty, the plumper the better.

Meditation initiates a process of transformation from within. Transformation requires change. We all want transformation, yet most do not welcome change, for change involves giving up old ways and habits which we are attached to – such as depression, doubt, fear, frustration, negative thinking and self-indulgence.

We each have many barriers standing in our way. But if we do not start our journey because of them, we will never start, and these barriers will only loom ever-larger and more defiant.