This Could Be a Way to Get the Benefits of Meditation Without Meditating

t 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. (There are many ways to meditate; the practice isn’t monolithic.) When I 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 in , Yi-Yuan Tang and colleagues write that mindfulness meditation is often described as “non-judgmental attention to present-moment experiences.” I agree. That’s why it’s so