First of all, a very SPECIAL thanks to MasterMind for pointing me in the right direction. Seriously, your explanation really really helped.

I've been dabbling with meditation for the last few months on and off, but today I realized this is something I'm going to be doing for a long time. My main focus is mindfulness (via vipassana methods). I knew that there was something to this meditation thing, but didn't really grasp it until today.

So, my realization: Before, I had always focused on the breath with the intent of quieting my mind. There was some minor success but nothing crazy. After reading MasterMinds meditation tutorial, I took away that you should meditate for the sake of meditating, not to reach some goal. I transposed this idea to the breathing exercises. It didn't really hit me until I tried it... instead of focusing on my breath to settle my mind, I focused on it just, well, for the hell of it. And WOW did it work! Ten minutes in I started giggling, and finally got a taste of that infinite peace and euphoria that I hear about so often, but always seemed out of reach. And still have a wide wide grin on my face.

Meditation. Is. Awesome.



(His tut: http://www.dreamviews.com/meditation...appy-free.html)