MEDITATION isn’t for everyone. Or at least not when life has taken you so far from calm that your brain is soup.
“It’s the nature of the mind to have this ongoing conversation in the background,” says Joy Rains, a mindfulness practitioner and author of Meditation Illuminated: Simple Ways to Manage Your Busy Mind.
“I call this ‘Stuff ’, which is an acronym for stories, thoughts, urges, frustrations and feelings. When you’re in a meditative state, you’re in the here and now and you’re releasing your Stuff. You’re not getting caught up in judgments, thoughts about the past or worries about the future.”
There’s a growing body of evidence that “releasing our Stuff ” like