Changes in my experience after 2 years of meditation practice

I started to meditate around 2 years ago. Since then, and particularly within this past year there are a number of changes in my day to day experience that seemed worth documenting for future reference and hopefully as motivation for others that may be considering starting a meditation practice. A note of caution is that meditation is not the only thing that I've done during this time. My mom died earlier this year, and I had been doing a particularly intense form of somatic psychotherapy for a few months twice a week. I cannot claim that absent these other things I would have experienced what I have experienced. I am definately not saying "meditate for two years and you'll get to where I am". Certainly some people take a decade to get where I got and others make much faster progress than I have. But the place where I got seems to line up with the sorts of changes one is expected to get if one meditates, so the title of this post still strikes me as fair. The sort of meditation I've…