CHAPTER 11: MEDITATION FOR SELF-DISCIPLINE AND Focus In the last chapter, you read about how important meditation is for improving self-discipline. In this chapter, you will learn a few basic exercises that will help improve your meditation skills. Some people might not be interested in meditation because they assume it’s a boring practice that involves you sitting cross-legged for hours at a time humming! This is a totally false assumption. First of all, you don’t need to remain seated for hours to meditate. Second, meditation is a lifestyle and not a practice, and that is the attitude you should have about it. Before going into specific meditation techniques, let’s take a look at how it’s going to benefit you. ‘THE BENEFITS OF MEDITATION e Meditation increases your ability to concentrate and focus on the task at hand. It also boosts your capacity to make rational decisions. It will improve your ability to delay instant gratification so that you can