"The Calm Technique" by Paul Wilson is an excellent beginner's guide to meditation. Meditation, for programmers, is like circuit training for athletes. It's th

"The Calm Technique" by Paul Wilson is an excellent beginner's guide to meditation. Meditation, for programmers, is like circuit training for athletes. It's the time you put in to train and build strength in you mind itself - not knowledge of the game, not skills in the craft - but actually building and maintaining the structure of the mind itself. For whatever reason, it tends to help stabilize emotions too.