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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Albert Stumm

Tried meditating but failed? Here’s how – and why – to start again

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The first time Marcelle Hutchins sat down to meditate, she put on a guided session, relaxed her shoulders and tried to close her eyes. She lasted two minutes.

“I had a deadline, and I thought, ’I don’t know if I can sit still this long,'” said Hutchins, who was working as a radio journalist.

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