Do you meditate? No? You should.

The topic of meditation is one of my favourites, I write a lot about it. I had lapsed for a while there, stopped my daily routine, but then I started again this week and lo-and-behold, on that very day an article in the newspaper confirmed once again what I am convinced of anyway: Meditation is good for us.

But we're not talking of any old meditation here. Not the 'mindfulness' meditation, where you concentrate your mind on certain thoughts, certain concepts. We are talking of true meditation, where the goal is to clear your mind, to empty it of thoughts altogether. Difficult, that. But this is my favourite answer to the question: "What is meditation?" 

"When a thought has ceased and before the next thought has arisen, isn't there a gap? Prolong it. That is meditation." Good luck.