(Saw a similar Coco-pops-adjacent thing in the cereal isle at my local Tesco yesterday...)

I spent quite a lot of time over the years meditating on Headspace doing a mixture of focused attention, body scanning, and visualisation techniques and have done several retreats and classes in which we were did "mindfulness" meditations... I'd like to try loving kindness meditation too

A lot of people ask whether it's necessary/important to have proper TM lessons, and my answer is yes. It's quite a precise though easy technique and I've needed a bit of steering back on track. I'd also highly recommend 2 books, a wonderful one by David Lynch and one by the head of his foundation:

I love that, yes!

Wonderful ad placement in the column 🫠

Thank you!

PS that’s an interesting distinction between pity and praise / admiration that I haven’t thought about and shall, thank you

Absolutely

Thank you.

Oh, I'm sorry to have made you sad! My hope is that we can change things so that we don't make so many men feel so undervalued (eg just by changing the way we talk about this and by making constant man-bashing less cool/acceptable). And that we can do so without sending men to war 🙏