Mindfulness Meditation
Meditation Resources
Meditation can help you live in the present and get your head out of the future, because it trains you to give your mind room to simply be. You learn to be less judgmental, especially of yourself, and you learn that your mind is not equivalent to a constant internal monologue: that another very important part of your being/soul/mind, your variable feelings, can be acknowledged and accepted for what they are—not good, not bad, just feelings. You can learn to avoid denying your feelings, or smothering them with words from your internal narrator, while also avoiding letting your emotions take you for a ride, when the internal narrator grabs the mic and starts catastrophizing.
- For more on mindfulness and a secular (and science-backed) approach to meditation, read about or listen to Noah Rasheta's *Secular Buddhism* podcast, complete with a 15-minute meditation MP3 (both guided or audio-only, i.e. timers).
- For a dead tree (book) version, read someone who knows a lot more about it explain it a lot better than me, John Kabat-Zinn. The title should be Wherever You Go, There You Are (you cannot escape yourself), not Wherever You Go, There You Are, some truism about geography.
- Also, Sam Harris's book Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion and the Meditation App with Practice and Theory courses