To meditate or not to meditate…

I’m just about to climb a bandwagon that’s been turning its wheels in my brain ever since a much loved family friend championed TM, years ago, trying to convince all of us to give it a try.

I  was curious enough back then and whipped up a mantra to help me past the gates. But I never got there.  Like the time in my mid-twenties when I tried to fill up a small notebook with all the members of the Greek alphabet, coasting past pi, but never quite making it to omega. I failed.

At least a part-time contrarian, I tend to avoid coming attractions.

But now I’m about to try to catch up with the wise flock on ahead and piece together how to meditate and make it my newest habit.    Everything that Dan Harris wrote about the rewards of meditation in 10% Happier appealed to me.  And if playing anthropologist helped me relax while interviewing and being interviewed, and made me feel cozy at very un-home-like surroundings, then I’m ready to take the next step, tonight.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2011/jan/22/how-to-meditate-ten-steps-headspace