How To Talk To Your Friends About Meditation.

Without boring them to tears.

We’ve all been there. You have a friend or a loved one whose life you know would be changed by meditation, but however many hints you drop they just don’t seem interested. Short of forcibly signing them up to a three-month silent retreat, how can you rescue them from their emotionally reactive, spiritually inconsequential existence?

Thanks to a rich and storied history of messing up this exact situation, I feel uniquely qualified to share some lessons I learned along the way. The path of spreading enlightenment is not an easy one, but there are some pitfalls you can avoid as you walk it.

Pick your moment aka, don’t be annoying.

There’s a reason why people like the Jehovah’s Witnesses have become living, breathing synonyms for irritating behaviour. They turn up unannounced and uninvited, they’re incapable of listening to any perspective other than their own, and if at first they don’t succeed, they try and try (and try) again. Most right-minded people come to the conclusion that if these people represent whatever it is they’re preaching, they’re better off without it.

Whatever you do, don’t be that guy or girl who is constantly trying to convert your friends. The harder you try to persuade…