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If you follow Tim Ferriss, Ryan Holiday or other successful individuals, you will know that all of them have some meditation or silent practice. Hal Elrod, in his book, The Miracle Morning, has ‘silence’ as one of his S’s for his acronym SAVERS, which outlines how people should be spending their first hour.
The one story that really convinced me that meditation was something that I should adopt was a story by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said that he had practiced transcendental meditation for some time and even though he has since stopped, found the benefits of TM to last much longer even after he had stopped.
Ryan Holiday’s new book talks about silence or ‘stillness’ as being incredibly important in our lives. Even not thinking about meditation, we want some sort of stillness in our lives. If you have kids, the stillness that comes from your kids sleeping and you not having to watch over them all the time can be a sigh of relief. If you have an open office workspace, the quiet that comes from not having coworkers chatter about their weekends can be a great boost to your concentration. If you have a lot of things going on, the stillness that comes from having a weekend or a day where you have no plans can be a great way to reset.
