I keep saying "Meditate" but people don't believe me. They should. I am not saying "Meditate" for me. Well, accept for the fact that I feel I am doing my part if I tell about the best tool, the cheapest aide, the most effective and valuable and helpful thing a person can do for themselves.
Just today, I learned about Prof. Rhonda Magee, a law professor and the author of "The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness". I am happy to see a law professor who knows and teaches meditation. I expect to see all sorts of teachers, specialists and experts taking up meditation. It can be a big help in facing fears, in searching out new ideas, finding a way forward in all sorts of difficulties and challenges.
One of my books, maybe by Dan Harris or Chade Meng-Tan, says that meditation has a huge public relations problem. That seems to be true and I think it stems from the simplicity of the activity. I am confident that much about meditation uses symbols that look like this:
This depicts a person sitting on the floor or a cushion in a cross-legged position. The implication can develop that this position is part of meditation. I have to go to a bit of special effort to find this:
The point is to avoid internal stories and thinking. It tends to work best if one picks a point in front of them and simply keeps looking at the same point. What? For a month? The Google engineer Meng-tan says he and his two year old meditate for as long as an engineer can manage: two minutes. He also says the minimum time is one full conscious, uncluttered, unadorned breath.
You can see that a young attorney, a person in a bad divorce, a person facing criminal charges might all do well to learn calm acceptance of themselves and life.
