This Could Be a Way to Get the Benefits of Meditation Without Meditating - Facts So Romantic

It can seem like a Catch-22 is baked into the practice of meditation. It's meant, among other things, to foster patience--but meditation also seems to require considerable patience to work. Or at least "mindfulness meditation" does. When I began to toy with it several years ago--because of the demonstrable health benefits science was showing it could provide--I found that I couldn't stand the "mindfulness" version. In "The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation," a 2015 paper in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Yi-Yuan Tang and colleagues write that mindfulness meditation is often described as "non-judgmental attention to present-moment experiences."