Take the Meditation Challenge!
A Challenge and an Experiment My friend and I are about 10 days into a meditation challenge. We're both meditating every day for 40 days, to see what changes it brings in our lives. It's really great to have a partner, even though he's in another state. It helps me stay on track, probably (sadly) because of my competitive nature. I really don't want to be the one to admit, "Well, no, actually, I didn't meditate today." :-D My friend is taking an awesome 40-day Mindfulness Daily audio course created by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield . I'm doing 20 minutes of mindfulness meditation and 10 minutes of aikido breathing . Getting Scientific: Endpoints and Benchmarking We're actually not being very scientific at all. But we do have some general "endpoints" we're looking to "measure." Do we have improvement in mood? Are we more effective in daily life? Are we better musicians/martial artists? Is our practice more eff...