By lukas51 on Skatehive
Meditation is one of those activities, which is not really well understood after being done for a first time. You sit in a chair for 10 minutes, only with your thought — what a scary picture huh? and then you open your eyes and… nothing. You do not feel any significant difference. But still, there are many people who meditate each day, some of them for long sessions (60m +). Why they do it? What is the benefit from it? Well, I cannot speak for somebody who meditated for eons, but I can speak as somebody, who starts to understand what is meditation probably about. For me it is all about being an observer of thought, not their slave. As I wrote in previous article, I do have a problem with anger. Sometimes I’ve got angry even without realizing it. There was one great quote from a book called 7 habits of highly effective people which really stuck with me till this day. It goes like this: Between stimulus and response is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose response.