To Those Who Can't Meditate Normally.

I can’t meditate normally because my mind is always too insanely active. ‘To correct an overly active mind,’ say the great and the good, ‘you should meditate.’ Sorry, but my overly active mind easily beats the imperative to focus however hard I try.

But tonight I realised that reading Virginia Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness prose is the next best thing, if not equally as good. You have to concentrate, you see, because it’s far too dense if you don’t and then you miss all the wonderful stuff written there. And concentration is a form of focus, right? So why should concentrating on stream-of-consciousness prose be any less efficacious than watching your breath go in and out of your nose?