WHAT IS MEDITATION?
Meditation is the noble act of making friends with yourself. Moment by moment , breath by breath  we begin to learn Who we really are. At first  the thought of meditation can be boring, appalling, interesting. Eventually your mind softens and you find a natural attunement with yourself. Slowly your thoughts begin to settle and you become aware of the different sensations in the body. Slowly you stop all those intruding thoughts of Did i feed the dog, did i turn  the kettle off etc. you slowly begin to slow your mind  and you find that you are living in a very open and spacious world.
Meditation need not be an unusual practice or even a particularly spiritual one. It is quite ordinary, yet somehow changes everything. It allows you to just be.
Mediatation is often associated with Buddhism and the practises contained in Joyful mind stem from Buddhist tradition.There is no need to be anything other than who we already are.  That is the beauty of Meditation, it  is a way of making self  discovery. Buddah didint make up meditation, it has been practised in one form or another for thousands of years, THERE FORE it is not necessary to even think of becoming a Buddhist in order to practice meditation, just as it is not required to become a Christian to practice charity. These things are simply our natural heritage, the ground of being human