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My whole family used to do meditation together when I was a kid (yes that was the early 70’s in California – haha). I was the much younger, youngest kid, and hyper as a jumping bean. I just felt like meditation was an activity designed to highlight my shortcomings! I dreaded it because I would just be a distraction to everyone else and be unable to do anything but talk about why I couldn’t do this. I saw those looks I would get – “ugh, she is so “not zen” – can’t we just send her to her room?”
Then many years later during a time of great crisis, a friend re-introduced it to me, and I did it by myself without having to be compared with anyone else or be a distraction to anyone else.
I can only meditate for very short periods of time, and I am pretty liberal in what I define as meditation – anything where I stop what I’m doing and consciously control my mind and body. Even if it’s only for 10 seconds, it’s beneficial.
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