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There are an awful lot of misconceptions about mindfulness meditation. Like, "people who meditate are just using it as a place to 'hide out' by escaping into some blissed-out, checked-out place". It's why a lot of people mistakenly decide that meditation is useless, or worse. What if it turned out they were actually re-wiring their brains in vital, important ways? Read More
All you really seem to be
All you really seem to be describing is how to be a mature person.
Is it really necessary to attach the meditation label to it or can I just be mindful and attuned and while knowing how to relax without the pedantic baggage?
If you can do it, go for it
Russell,
Estimates vary about how many people are able to have healthy, attuned relationships. Most of the research shows that between 40-60% of US adults have difficulties with it. Attachment researchers believe this has to do with how one's developing brain was shaped during early attachment. If you didn't get it then, meditation is one way to get the same "wiring" benefits, even in adulthood.
If you don't need it, great!
Yeah... I think I actually do
Yeah... I think I actually do "meditate" but I've never really called it that. Then again I am in my own head a lot so I have just naturally figured it out and I can see how others might not quite get it and need formal training.
I'm a bit of a cynic too so I have to wonder how many of these so-called gurus are just folks trying to get attention/social status by doing something that is really a lot easier than they make it seem. Like Buddha is some sort of untouchable status that us "little people" can never attain.
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