So, you think that meditation doesn’t work? That it may relax you for a moment, but then you just jump right back into the insanity of your day? That’s is too hard to do all the time? Well, if you’re into those pesky little studies, there’s a new one on Mindfulness Meditation that’s about to show up in the January 30th issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.

I get we need to be reminded sometimes. But why is it that when we are feeling tired, we need to be told to sleep? Can we not tell that stress is making us feel stressed and about to bitch-slap someone? Are we so disconnected from our hormones that we can’t tell when we are horny?

I felt it crawling up the back of my neck all damn day. Maybe even a couple of days before, though it might have had more of a prickle on the backside of my skull. I knew where I would take it out, and I fought it like it was a malaria-infected mosquito buzzing around my head. I failed.