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LM: #303: Meditate or stagnate
I am close to completing my fourth 60 hours in 60 days meditation challenge. This time, I hope to make a daily hour of meditation part of my normal routine.
An hour a day of sitting and doing nothing seems like an absurdly long amount of time. The natural response to the idea is, “Who can afford to meditate an hour a day?”
We’ve long been in an age in which a huge amount of information is coming at us. If you spent one minute on social media, then stepped away to consider the consequences of all the information you encountered, including asking yourself why it caught your attention, you would be busy the rest of the day.
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Yet daily, we encounter hundreds if not thousands of times more information than that. As this info-tsunami has swelled, it makes sense that meditation has become more popular. Some silence and self-examination goes a long way in helping sort through it all.
But now we’re adapting to the rapid introduction of the most powerful information tool to this point in history. It’s now possible to do in mere seconds many informational tasks that might otherwise take hours.
Using that tool to simply do more is a race to the bottom. The less-obvious and more challenging path is to use that extra time and energy to make better decisions about what to do with our tools. The better question is becoming, “Who can afford to not meditate an hour a day?”
Your mind is like a body of water, which must circulate. If your mind doesn’t meditate, it stagnates.
Book: Purple Cow (Amazon) is Seth Godin’s classic about the ever-growing importance being remarkable.
Cool: Paul Millerd discusses, on Eric Jorgenson’s podcast, the history of publishing.
Best,
David
P.S. Thank you Jessica Mudditt for having me on The Hembury Books Podcast.
