Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

or relax. Pretty much everybody can breathe easily.
And under the right circumstances, pretty much
anybody can concentrate, anybody can relax.
People often confuse meditation with relaxation or
some other special state that you have to get to or
feel. When once or twice you try and you don't get
anywhere or you didn't feel anything special, then you
think you are one of those people who can't do it.
But, meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's
about feeling the way you feel. It's not about making
the mind empty or still, although stillness does
deepen in meditation and can be cultivated
systematically. Above all, meditation is about letting
the mind be as it is and knowing something about
how it is in this moment. It's not about getting
somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be
where you already are. If you don't understand this,
you will think you are constitutionally unable to
meditate. But that's just more thinking, and in this
case, incorrect thinking at that.
True, meditation does require energy and a
commitment to stick with it. But then, wouldn't it be
more accurate to say, "I won't stick with it," rather
than, "I can't do it"? Anybody can sit down and watch
their breath or watch their mind. And you don't have
to be sitting. You could do it walking, standing, lying