I Find Peace Like This
The Buddhist monkĀ Matthieu Ricard has been acclaimed to be the happiest man on earth. Do you know by whom? Well, some cognitive scientists of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience in Wisconsin made this affirmation after showing that Matthieu Ricard, a highly experimented meditator, has extraordinarily high levels of upbeat activity and almost invisible levels of negative emotions.
Itās certainly not a coincidence that both the words āmedicineā and āmeditationā come from the same etymological root: the Greek prefix āmedā, which alludes to a medium point in between two opposites or, in other words, to that subtle state of balance we hear so much about in health blogs and yoga lessons but rarely get the chance to truly interiorize.Ā In this brief post Iāll share my experience of meditation as the most effective, universal and low-cost medicine I have ever tried.
