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Meditation Is Easy

December 19, 2018 By //  by Michael Holmes

Yes, meditation is can be easy.

And the potential benefits of meditation are well-known for anyone who is slightly interested:

  • Enhances self-awareness
  • Reduces stress
  • Lengthens attention span
  • Aids memory
  • Increases empathy
  • Alleviates anxiety & frustration
  • Promotes emotional health
  • Can generate kindness
  • May help fight addictions
  • Improves sleep
  • Alters reaction to (acute) discomfort
  • Increases body awareness and general well-being

It does take a little guidance to get the hang of ‘doing’ meditation.

An initial burst of momentum always helps too, for example, a 10-day Vipassana course, sitting in total silence.

Whatever the setting, sitting down and doing nothing is a struggle for most…

Take it to the extreme – a monk or recluse hiding up in a mountain for the purpose of full-time meditation. He/she is drawn to the concept of enlightenment. It’s a calling.

Most people would do anything to avoid being (stuck) in that situation.

Now apply the same logic from the monk or recluse’s point of view:

They would do anything to avoid moving around in society, interacting with people, building a family with someone they love, living an ‘ordinary’ life.

As the well-known life-strategist Anthony Robbins once joked,

“You think meditating in a cave up in a mountain is hard,
try sharing living space with a spouse.”

In all seriousness, it seems to me the challenge is maintaining a sense of equanimity when we are involved in the world – however that manifests for you or me or anyone.

Not when we’re all alone in a cave, with nothing coming at us.

As an introvert, that would actually be a kind of holiday for me.

Meditation can be a mini-holiday for you, without having to run away to an isolated mountain. And it is free.

Here is how I meditate.


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