A series of reflections excavating the unexamined mind.
Shared as essays, spoken word, and community conversation.
Every myth we inherit (personal, cultural, or collective) shapes how we see ourselves and the world.
The Common Myth is my ongoing practice of pausing, questioning, and unearthing the hidden agreements that live beneath the surface of our daily lives. These reflections are both reminders to myself and invitations for you: to look deeper, to think for yourself, and to reclaim the freedom that already belongs to you.
Here, you’ll find essays, audio readings, and connected practices… threads of excavation that move from reflection into embodiment. This is where inquiry meets creation, where we dissolve illusion and rediscover the art of living with presence.
Welcome to The Common Myth
If you’ve found your way here, I imagine you, too, are curious.
Curious enough to look beneath the surface.
Curious enough to ask whether the myths you live by are truly your own… or simply inherited.
I don’t have final answers.
What I do have is a practice: excavating the unexamined mind, holding the questions, and creating from presence.
Thank you for crossing this threshold with me.
— Veronica
Myth comes from Greek mŷthos, meaning speech, tale, or story. It passed through Latin and French before entering English. Its meaning evolved from any kind of tale to specifically sacred or traditional stories, and later, to false or untrue beliefs.
At its deepest linguistic root, myth is tied to the Proto-Indo-European base muH- / mewd-, meaning to think, imagine, mutter, or speak. This connects myth to the very act of giving form to thought through sound.
A related echo appears in Sanskrit with māyā, meaning illusion, magic, or appearance. In yogic philosophy, māyā refers to the veiling power that obscures reality, keeping us entangled in the kleshas (the afflictions or obstacles of the mind).
Both mythos and māyā express the human impulse to create and live within stories… narratives that can reveal deep truths, but also conceal them beneath layers of imagination.
Meditation Is Meeting Yourself
Most of us think meditation is about calm and relaxation. But peace isn’t the starting point. It’s the result of the real work. Meditation is meeting yourself: your wounds, your thoughts, your conditioned mind. This post explores how presence, yoga, and integration turn discomfort into wisdom.
When most of us think about meditation, we imagine peace, calm, or relaxation. And while those may come, they are not the starting point.
Meditation is not about escaping your thoughts. It is about meeting them. The patterns, the stories, the parts of yourself you’ve avoided. This is why meditation can feel uncomfortable at first. It brings you face-to-face with the conditioned mind. The part that lives in past hurts, betrayals, and wounds. The part that is not in the present moment. In the now.
But this is also where the real work begins.
When you sit with yourself, when you stay present instead of running, you discover something deeper. You begin to uncover the wisdom that only comes from meeting the challenge, doing the work, and carrying that wisdom into your life.
This is the essence of yoga and meditation. Not something left on the mat, but a way of living that I call a moving meditation, moment by moment. Breath by breath. Step by step.
I share more about this in the reflection below:
Take a few minutes after watching to sit with these questions. Write, breathe, or simply notice what comes up:
What thought or story shows up most often when I try to be still?
Do I notice the conditioned mind speaking from past wounds, or the connected mind guiding me toward presence?
Where in my daily life can I bring what I’ve uncovered on the mat, in meditation, into how I show up?