Meditating is an action, something you do. It’s not about practicing a particular religion or spiritual system. Whether you are a religious person or non-religious, I can guarantee you’ve meditated and called it something else.
Most religious people call it prayer.
Most non-religious people call it staring off into space or watching the waves.
Members of AA and Al-Anon call it Step 11.
You meditate when you fold socks, get caught up in music, knit or paint or build something. In fact, most of your day is on autopilot as you perform actions and are thinking about something else. You are meditating, but not on purpose (intentionally).
Some of us are really, really good at getting through the day and thinking about other things. We miss out on hours or weeks or years because we’re thinking intensely but without purpose. Every once in a while we wake up briefly and wonder where the time went, then go back down into our thoughts.
If you’re already doing meditation (and you are), you can turn that superpower around and do good for yourself.
Keep your religious practices and add guided meditation. Keep your non-religious practices and add guided meditation. But I am inviting you to set aside “unintentional” meditation and try “intentional” meditation the way we teach it.
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