Till around a year back, I had no use for psychology articles. Like most of the people, I thought that psychology book articles were for experts and experts.

Then one day, I read a psychology article that changed the course of my life. It was an article on meditation from a mental perspective. I am definitely a pretty practical and down to earth sort of guy, and I never put much stock in the concept of meditation. I thought that my mind works more or less how it should, and that there wasn't any point in staring off and chanting foolishness syllables a pair times per day. What do you gain from any of that? According to the psychology article, rather a lot in reality.

It was regarded as a conventional article on the front page of the science section of the local paper. The writer was glaringly a layman, experienced at writing psychology articles and other science subjects, but specializing in explaining them to your typical dude rather than deliberating them with scientists. It summarised the results of many, more heavy psychology articles. Seemingly, plenty of the major psychology books had printed studies of meditation in the last couple years. Nearly each one of them showed a similar thing : meditation significantly reinforced standard of life. Now I'm no hothead, but I do have mood swings from time to time. Though the psychology articles differed in the approach to meditating they used, all of them appeared to agree that any one of the common approaches would work. I used the easiest technique I could find, and set out to do a half hour each day.

For the 1st week or 2, nothing occurred, but then there had been a dramatic shift in my daily experience.

I felt happier, more in touch, and more tuned in to my environment. The low-grade respiration infection I had been suffering from all winter went away, and I felt as if I was in perfect health.