How Can You Tell When You’re Meditating?

Often, even people who’ve been meditating for years will express a concern that perhaps they’re not doing it right. After all, each of us has only our own experience of meditation, so there’s not any actual objective point of comparison. (Even if you’re hooked up to an EEG, different brains will show different results.) And while a quiet mind might sound absolutely fantastic, figuring out how to still the mind seems mysterious…even impossible. What is the mind doing when it’s still? Nothing? Hardly. Meditation Is a State of Two Minds The conscious mind thinks thoughts. That’s its job. It craves…