ElderChicks

Meditation is unlike any other mental activity. It is not day-dreaming, zoning, prayer, sleep.  The first time I was guided into meditation was by my husband several years ago. He also practices yoga.  (I don’t.)  

When we were finished going through every part of the body, releasing tension and focused on our breathing, I emerged perfectly calm, rested, refreshed, the way I would expect to awake in the morning after a good night’s sleep.

A few years ago I wrote an essay, “Just Do Nothing” which took a humorous slant on meditation.  Alas, meditation is not doing nothing.  Last weekend while walking the High Line in NYC, I overheard a sound byte of a conversation.  A young man said, “Meditation NOT medication.”