My therapist recommended his book 'Full Catastrophe Living' to help deal with a recent diagnosis of mine.

I've done meditation before but never carried on the practice for very long. So I'm picking it up again and I enjoy it. I find it very useful for a number of things. Reducing anxiety being the main thing. Handling of pain, handling the unknown, and building my own concentration and most importantly self-acceptance and equanimity.

I am glad more people are getting into meditation. That being said, I hear a lot of people misunderstanding the overall goals of meditation. I have a friend who does this but gets impatient with her partner for not following along at her own pace— which defeats the basic concept, IMO.

I have another who seems to think it's all about focusing on a specific task she wants to accomplish. So she'll chant in her mind the whole time— about that thing or person. Which to me, is not the goal either.

But to each their own, as they say. It's good thing to have more people in the world being self-aware.