This may come as a surprise to you, but I don’t enjoy teaching beginners how to meditate. In fact, one of the questions I least like directed my way is How do I meditate? or even, How do I stop the chatter in my head when I close my eyes?
I used to, until quite recently, feel that it was my role to answer questions like this. Surely, I believed, it’s within my job description to provide practical solutions for quieting the noise, or unique methods to stop thoughts from drifting down memory lane, or zigzagging across future avenues. And yet, every time someone would describe the display of unhelpful images their mind suddenly brought into play during meditation, I would have an automatic sinking feeling. It came and stayed for the length of the discussion and to be brutally honest, it was likely rooted in boredom.
