For many of us, becoming comfortable with meditation can be quite elusive. Our education and upbringing have concentrated on developing our thinking—our capacity to gather information, manipulate it, evaluate it, and draw conclusions. As humans we are very good at it, and, unquestionably, it is a valuable skill to have. While we are growing up, however, there are usually very few institutions or people who encourage us to develop mindfulness or simple awareness—our capacity to recognize w...
