Michael Carroll: Mindfulness meditation, at first glance, provokes a reasonable question: “why on earth would I, or anyone for that matter, sit still doing nothing for long periods of time?”
We can take two basic approaches to answering this question: we sit still for long periods of time in order to get a lot of benefits — to get a return on our investment — an ROI.
Or we sit still for long periods of time in order to achieve nothing.
Let’s take the ROI approach first. Recent scientific research seems to document that mindfulness meditation produces a wide range of positive results …
