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Meditation & Mindfulness

Sitting Notes

A small site about meditation as a daily practice — short sits, what to expect, and the few honest pointers that survive years of practice.

Edited by Finley Holden

Meditation is mostly boring. The marketing makes it sound like enlightenment is around the corner; in practice it is twenty minutes of watching your breath while your mind wanders to laundry. The benefits arrive slowly and indirectly.

Where to start

Start with five minutes a day, not twenty. Five minutes is short enough that you cannot reasonably skip it; twenty leads to skipped days and abandonment within a month.

What matters most

Posture matters less than you think. Sit on a chair with feet flat. The cushion-and-cross-legged ideal is not the goal — the goal is to be comfortable enough to be still without falling asleep.

What to skip

Apps are useful at first and become a crutch later. After the first few months, sit without one. Listening to a guided voice forever bypasses the actual practice.