About Not Meditating

Meditation can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. But what if you can’t sit still? Not Meditating offers plenty of alternatives.

What do you do if you want the many benefits of meditation but just can’s seem to sit still? Luckily, there are many ways to connect with peace, joy, and creativity.  Humans have been exploring and using a myriad of techniques across the ages. From ancient cave paintings to computer games, from pilgrimages to visualization, from choral music to trance – we have always been trying to quieten the monkey mind and connect with something more. Not Meditating is about these ways.

How Not Meditating can help

Not Meditating offers numerous simple ways to achieve the benefits of a calm, quiet mind. The blog suggests many ways to create a state of mind that is open to life and joy rather than crammed with endless, repetitive, disturbing and often destructive thoughts. In these pages there are ideas and inspiratiosn that can be adapted and recreated to suit anyone. In this way, everyone can find a way to connect with something beyond the material world.

The possibilities for Not Meditating are literally endless. You might find peace through developing a relationship with Nordic Gods or indulging an attraction to modern architecture. Perhaps you might unleash your creativity by following a desire to paint or restore a vintage car. You might find joy from baking bread or sitting on a beach.

It is possible to be peaceful and joyful most of the time. We can make room in our lives for activities that have intrinsic value and meaning and give us a sense of a life well lived. I hope that after trying a few of the simple exercises in this blog you will be hooked on the idea of a more peaceful, joyful, creative and loving life. Then, your journey to happiness will be well under way.

Happy Not Meditating

Kirstie x