The Easy Meditation Practice for Fidgety, ADD Afflicted, Go-getters Like Me

if I can do it, you can do it

It wasn’t a deliberate decision.

It just dawned on me one day that I was turning some everyday events into meditative experiences.

I have a really wriggly body. It’s hard for me to sit still for even a few minutes.

Movement calms me. Movement clears my head. Movement dissolves my anxiety.

There’s no rule that says you have to meditate in lotus position. Or clear your calendar and your mind for an hour. Or sit completely still.

I find a lot of everyday things to be meditative.

I work from home, so my active meditation time tends to involve things around the house.

— Hanging laundry on the line (yes I still do this). I think I hang laundry on the line because it’s meditative.

— Anything that involves gardening. Digging in the dirt, pulling weeds, turning the compost, raking, trimming, watering, planting.

(I dream of turning our home into a retreat center one day, and I already have one moving meditation activity planned: picking up…