In my journal a while back, I was working through the idea of meditation - it seemed too simple to have all the benefits everyone claimed. But I decided I could see some benefit - it would be a nice thing to get my mind to actually think about what
I wanted it to think about, instead of what it wanted to think about. It eventually became clear to me one night after driving home from a terrible meeting - replaying the conversations in my head wasn't helping anything at all, and I made up my mind not to do so... but it didn't work. My brain insisted on going back to all the insults and arguments, and I kept getting angrier and angrier. So I decided to take up meditation so I wouldn't have to do that anymore.
David Seah wrote a great article on
arguments between his brain and body... we like to think our brains are in charge, but there's a lot of evidence against it.
