Meditation is for wimps, hippies, and flakes – right?
No. Meditation is most useful to those who have the ability to take on a real-world project and carry it out successfully. Meditation is part of the training regime for many professional athletes and some elite military units. They find it useful because meditation improves your focus, raises confidence, and reduces inner conflict. Meditation prepares you for ‘The Zone’ of optimal performance – in which extraordinary action feels effortless. There is a misleading association between meditation and the 1960s counter-culture. That culture often valued passivity, confusion, and drug-induced fantasies over hard work, clarity, and realism. Meditation, by contrast, requires some determination, good sense, and practicality.
