Meditation

The idea of meditating a few minutes every now and then wasn’t new to me.  My aunt is a devout Buddhist, and she makes sure to set aside time for meditation everyday.  She evens has a whole collection of tapes and CDs of chants and meditation “songs.”  Somehow, a good majority of my family has joined her over the years.  Now, often my dad would go to her and exchange tapes.  I used to find it all ridiculous but my mind has changed.  I try to meditate myself now to relieve stress, but it’s not easy.  Rather than emptying, my mind wanders off to useless thoughts.  It does help me de-stress, but I don’t think that what’s meditation really is.  Maybe the problem is that I haven’t really truly focused on meditating before.  However, “Changing Minds and Concord High” showed great results with meditation among the students, helping them cope with anger and stress.  I’ll definitely remember this when I’m going through stressul times myself.