Meditation By David R. Hamilton PhD.

[Manuel Tavares]

Meditation
By David R. Hamilton PhD.
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The first time I tried meditation was after reading James Redfield’s novel, ‘The Celestine Prophecy’. It was in the late 1990s and I was working as an R&D scientist in the pharmaceutical industry at the time.

To be fair, I had meditated before, as a teenager, when I listened to a relaxation tape that my Mum used every day to help her sleep, but I didn’t realise at the time that I was meditating.

I had heard the word meditation before, but only in the context of bare-chested Indian Gurus sitting cross-legged and chanting in Sanskrit. I also attended a holistic fayre one weekend and the stall that featured meditation was run by people with long hair and dressed as hippies.

The practice seemed inaccessible to me. I didn’t want to grow my hair, wear a big necklace, and start walking around barefoot. I honestly thought the practice and the style came hand-in-hand so it had never occurred to me to try meditation.

But after reading the book and realising that anyone can practice it, I was eager to try. I wasn’t exactly sure I was doing it right. I could barely sit still for a couple of minutes and every single time I tried – every single time – my nose or some other part of my face would develop an unbearable itch...+
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