Remember all those meditation apps promising to quiet your mind if you just sit still long enough? Jim Kallett reveals why you've been approaching meditation completely backwards.

"What is meditation? Is it sitting in a dark room, listening to soft music, chanting 'Om Shanti' and letting your mind float away? No. Is it focusing and chanting a mantra to still your mind? In a sense. But what meditation really is, is simply the awareness of this moment. Right here, right now."

Here's the brutal reality: "As soon as you're aware of this moment, it's gone. To sustain that awareness more than two or three seconds... your mind is going to start chattering. That's the nature of the human mind—to think, to exist in the realm of idea, which isn't real."

The fundamental distinction that changes everything: "Your mind is not you, it's an aspect of you. It's what controls your body. You have to learn to control your mind. Who is you? That's called your atman, your soul, your spirit. It's you."

"When you sustain present moment awareness, you're focusing attention to a single point, like a singularity in quantum physics. Your consciousness, awareness starts to expand—the depth, the frequency, the amount of time you are awake, aware, conscious."

Here's the profound insight: "If that's what makes us human, doesn't it make sense that increasing the frequency and depth of that makes us more human? That's our humanity."

"This Yoga is about meditation, concentration—using your body as a medium to learn to control that restless mind that Yogananda described as a drunken monkey stung by a bee."

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