tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137720809430579183.post3819261977956433234..comments2023-09-01T17:15:39.570-04:00Comments on The Paleo Drummer: The worst excuse ever for not meditatingSteve Kirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07196209369347662434noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137720809430579183.post-12364517063972314992013-06-24T16:58:26.478-04:002013-06-24T16:58:26.478-04:00This is intriguing enough that I will answer you i...This is intriguing enough that I will answer you in a post. Stay tuned.Steve Kirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07196209369347662434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137720809430579183.post-10934439497398846742013-06-23T21:32:01.048-04:002013-06-23T21:32:01.048-04:00Truthfully, I still don't get it. Your analog...Truthfully, I still don't get it. Your analogy doesn't work for this reason. If I'm a fat slob, and I eat paleo, I'll get better. It might be hard, it might be really hard, I might not have enough willpower, etc. But if you locked me in a metabolic ward and gave me nothing but paleo food, I'd get healthy.<br /><br />What about meditating? If I stare at a wall for 15 min/day, I *can* do it, but will it accomplish anything? Will I get (mentally) healthier? Or will I just be wasting 15 min/day doing an unpleasant activity that gets me nothing.<br /><br />It took me years to learn to stop craving sugar and to eat well, but even when I doubted if I could do it, I never doubted the goal itself. The reason I don't meditate is that I doubt that even if I learn to be able to stare at a wall 15 min/day without hating it that I would have actually improved my life. That's what you need to address to convince somebody like me. Because all I ever see is pablum like "meditation teaches we make ourselves miserable with our negative thoughts". I know that already, and have managed to improve that a lot. Will staring at a wall really teach me that, or anything?<br /><br />It's about opportunity cost. Do spend 15 min/day doing something unpleasant, I have to expect that it'll pay off adequately. The meditators I've met have not lead me to believe that. I'd *love* to know why I'm wrong, because if it really is a beneficial activity, I'd like to do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com