How to Meditate. A Thinking Man’s Guide to Not Thinking From jet contrails to baseball stats to flirting strategies to irregular moles to nagging deadlines and tuition bills and squeaky brakes and, now, window mold, my mind has been busy-busy-busy for half a century.
That busyness has kept me awake when I wanted to sleep, distracted when I wanted to focus, off somewhere else when I just wanted to be where I was—with my family, at my job, with my friends. Yes, I’d love to free myself from that 24-7 onslaught of thought. Quieting minds is Mark Williams’s specialty. Williams, a clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford, wrote the script for the audio file I’m listening to, a Web supplement to his book Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World, written with journalist Danny Penman.
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I'm bathing in it now, submerged in the sweet smell of Neuzeller Kloster-Brau Original Badebier, a German brew of 16th-century origin. It's blacker than motor oil (and only slightly less viscous), but it's uncommonly delicious. In fact, after I had uncorked the bottle and sampled it, it seemed criminal to pour it into a tub of hot bathwater. This stuff is for my insides, not my outsides. But when I punch on the Jacuzzi jets, my beer bath foams into an impressive head. After 20 minutes of soaking, I step out, heeding the brewer's advice to towel off without rinsing. If Badebier weren't so expensive and difficult to obtain (the only U.S. importer is Noble Union Imports, nobleunion.com, 713-874-1984), I could become a bubble-bath addict. The experience started me thinking about other possible uses for my favorite beverage.
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" I muttered into the 2 a.m. silence. While reading Bob Dylan's memoirs, I'd stumbled on something interesting. "I did everything fast," wrote the troubadour of his early struggles to marshal his skills. "I needed to slow my mind down if I was going to be a composer with anything to say. " Earlier that day, I'd been in my car, tearing it up and singing along to a tune on the radio, when I noticed that I was always a shade too fast. All these years, I had been searching for the same thing every man desires: fast answers to all of my dilemmas. The slow road I've traveled for the past few years has been less about savoring and more about succeeding.