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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Specific meditation practice

I've been doing meditation on and off for about half a year now.  More off than on, but I've done at least a month of 10-minute daily meditation.  I think it had a beneficial effect of calmness which seems to be wearing off after many months of doing almost no meditation.

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to see Kamal Sarma, who gave a talk on leadership.  His talk was better than I thought, and actually had some nice insights about leadership.  Before the talk, I picked up Kamal's book, Mental Resilience, and I've read through it since then.  Overall, the book was an excellent introduction to meditation that gives just the right amount of information.  More importantly, it has a specific recommended regimen for meditation practice, along with a CD.  It's not the perfect meditation book; I'm still looking for a book on meditation that has no bullshit at all, and I'm afraid that even Kamal's book has some bullshit, but it's less than most.  I can live with it.  

That's specifically what I'll be doing for this month.  This is day 2.  I've been meditating at work, which has been challenging.  Twice, people walked in on me meditating in an empty conference room today, which threw me off a bit.  I need to find somewhere a little more out of the way.

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