Meditation is not rocket science. The western lifestyle, simply put, is messy, and you get pulled in many directions, with the most important side effect of lo

Meditation is not rocket science. The western lifestyle, simply put, is messy, and you get pulled in many directions, with the most important side effect of losing attention to yourself. Meditation simply restores (quite forcefully, in this case) at least part of that attention. If you find hard to grasp the concept, you can imagine it as being the analogue of being "in the zone" when programming (or anything else). I don't think it would actually be too far-fetched to think "the zone" as a form of meditation.