5 Tips For Getting Started With Meditation

“Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It’s called meditation.” – Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis

Meditation is scientifically proven to make you happier, healthier, more effective, more balanced, and way less stressed out. It’s like push ups for the brain, except it requires no effort, literally. However, it’s very possible you encounter frustration when you first try it out. Right up until this point in the day, or in your life for some, your mind has been a constant stream of chatter. Subsequently, it refuses to sit still.

Examples of this kind of useless mind chatter:

• “I had a really bad day at work today.”
• “I’m stressed out, I just want to…”