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When I was six, my best friend was a dog named Fluffy. Behind the house there was a patch of woods with a stream running through it, and that was our spot. We'd sit and watch the water move over the rocks. Birds landed close. Sometimes nothing happened at all.

I didn't have a word for any of it. I was six. My first formal training didn't come until I was fifteen. But I'd already started.

Season Two of Reading Your Own Life is about meditation, and it begins with the sentence people say to me most often. Not a question. A confession. I've tried meditation, I can't do it. My mind won't stop. I fall asleep. I'm not spiritual enough. The details change and the conclusion never does: something is wrong with me.

I don't believe that, and I never have.

Episode One is about the picture you were handed of what meditation is supposed to look like, and why failing at someone else's version isn't the same as failing. A child with a coloring book. A friend who told me for years she couldn't do it, while doing it every morning in her backyard with a garden hose.

You have your own version of that stream. You've probably already been there. You just didn't call it that.

This week, notice where your time disappears.

Join me next time for Episode Two, Why Are You So Sure You Can't?

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Reading Your Own Life With Swami Larry is written and hosted by Larry Lee. Season One is based on a manuscript written by Swami Larry with Faith Bleasdale.

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