Relax, it's only meditation

I was drawn to meditation for all the wrong reasons. Specifically, I'd read somewhere that meditating could replace several hours' sleep each night. Being someone who needs about 9 hours, I figured I could get a lot more writing done if I meditated.

By the time I signed up to a course, though, it was more than that. I'd realised that I had to find some way of handling stress and anxiety, two tides that periodically engulfed me, and for which I had no life raft. Looking back, I almost crawled...