How to Meditate Without Meditating
Two years ago, I started my meditation practice in earnest. Before then, I had dabbled in it, keeping up with it daily for several weeks at a time and then losing steam, never feeling like I was “doing it right.”
I had read a couple books on the topic and started to understand that it wasn’t about “clearing your mind” so much as it was about staying present. I thought that seemed much more doable, but even then, I never felt like I was making progress. The benefits of taking even 5 minutes out of the day to get grounded and centered are immeasurable, especially for a stress case like myself, but I really just found myself going over my mental to-do lists in that space of time, thinking about what I would do when the timer was completed.