I've run into a number of non-meditators who say that meditation would be hard for them "because I can't stop my mind from thinking." Meditation has been falsely advertised as "stopping the mind from thinking." That's not meditation at all. The brain is a thinking organ, the way that the heart is a pumping organ. Asking it to stop doing its job would have disastrous consequences. In my view "stopping the brain from thinking" is actually another definition for being dead... (!) Meditation is a very different thing. This week after our MBSR class, I happened upon another word whose definitions are closer to my experience of what meditation is actually about. And that word is RESPITE Noun 1. respite - a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort 2. respite - a pause from doing something 3. respite - an interruption in t...