Relax

Collecting Art, take a look Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. I ran back up the stairs after my morning walk, flung open the door to my studio apartment, and saw my boyfriend sitting at the table, already tapping away at his computer. In a second, my plans to meditate that morning disintegrated. Shouldn’t I be doing something productive, too? I pulled out my laptop, skipping my meditation practice for the day. It had been years since I’d begun reading about the wide-ranging benefits of meditation. As someone who has struggled with a lifelong penchant for getting lost in anxious ruminations and rigid self-expectations, my intermittent meditation habit was a way to practice momentarily releasing the desperate grip of control I usually maintained. After enough profound moments of tuning into the present moment, I knew on an intellectual level that a regular meditation practice would help me. But when it came time to ex...

Collecting Art, take a look Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. I ran back up the stairs after my morning walk, flung open the door to my studio apartment, and saw my boyfriend sitting at the table, already tapping away at his computer. In a second, my plans to meditate that morning disintegrated. Shouldn’t I be doing something productive, too? I pulled out my laptop, skipping my meditation practice for the day. It had been years since I’d begun reading about the wide-ranging benefits of meditation. As someone who has struggled with a lifelong penchant for getting lost in anxious ruminations and rigid self-expectations, my intermittent meditation habit was a way to practice momentarily releasing the desperate grip of control I usually maintained. After enough profound moments of tuning into the present moment, I knew on an intellectual level that a regular meditation practice would help me. But when it came time to ex...