In January, I started the BB4 Breakfast Club, it was a very simple idea in principle: get people out of bed to meditate online at 6:30am three times per week for the entire month so that they could establish a consistent meditation practice. If you had told me at the time that we would still be going strong almost a year later I would have laughed — yet what started out as a new year’s resolution/experiment grew into something far more profound!
I know that meditation and mindfulness have the potential to work for people, because they worked and continue to do so for me. As somebody that spent much of my life, from as early as I can remember, suffering from crippling anxiety and bouts of depression along with frequent frustration, impatience and the fear-based anger that accompanied it, I am a pretty good test subject for its value.
At the same time, I have never been under the illusion that it is a one-stop fix for everyone. But what I have discovered over at least 30 years of practice is that the reason it doesn’t work for most people is that there is no long-term consistency to their practice.
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