One of my good Mexican doctors gently tried to persude me to take up Mediation.
"How long will it take me to learn Doc?"
She smiled at me. "In your case Dave about 5 lifetimes."
She gave me this huge book and I was delighted. The Idots guide to Meditation.
There was only 1 catch, the book is 596 pages long. This was about 2 years ago.
This is very frustrating for me I like to know the bottom line to a books knowledge without having to spend days reading the damn thing.
All books should have 1 page highlighted to speed up the process.. anyhow I flipped thru it a couple of times and nothing happened.
A month later I was on a beach with a buyer and I was very frustrated, the buyer wanted to pay 1/2 what the seller wanted so the buyer walked off in a huff.
So I just started humming to myself and bingo.
When I humm all those thoughts that slip in and out of our brains, like 20000 a day, gets shut out for a while and we can find ourself slipping into that quiet place where we are spiritually at rest and in quiet harmony. Then when I stop humming all those thoughts come flooding back in.
So now even when Im driving I try to meditate for 20 minutes a day but often forget.
I find you can humm on many levels and for me it seems to work best when my lips vibrate.
I tried teaching my kids who are 11 pushing 19, didnt seem to go over to well at first.
So there you have it. Daves 10 second secret to Meditation for free. Try it and let me know if it works for you.