My mind starts to scurry and scrabble, like a trapped rodent in a cage, desperate to think of anything other than breathing, Linda Jones writes
First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines atI read somewhere that daily meditation can make you 10 per cent happier. So starting about a month ago, for 20 minutes each day, I sit on a folded towel on my bedroom floor and breathe.
I assume the recommended position of sitting cross-legged on the floor, eyes closed, hands resting on my knees or cupped in my lap. I’m not too precious about all the postural rules around meditation, just sitting on the floor and breathing for 20 minutes is a pretty big leap so everything else is optional in my opinion.
So the trick is to keep counting and breathing and gently bring your mind back to the breathing you’re doing. After a month of daily practice I can just about maintain full attention to three consecutive breaths at a time before my mind sprints off to whether the freezer needs defrosting or if I need to buy cat food tomorrow.
By breath 30, I’m a third of the way there and now the real heavy lifting starts. The stretch between breaths 30 and 50 is a brutal slog through despair at my paltry efforts and willing myself not to quit. Exactly why am I doing this again? Breathe and count and stop asking so many questions. Sometimes I just roll with it and watch my mind thinking all its random thoughts, doing pretty much anything else rather than focus on breath 43.
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