Yes, 30 minutes in the morning, and 30 minutes in the evening. I started off doing mindfulness meditation, using 'Mindfulness in Plain English' as a guide. I now do a type of Buddhist meditation called 'placement meditation' which entails generating a specific state of mind and using that as the object of meditation, as opposed to the sensation of breath.
Meditating has helped me to relax, to concentrate better, and to generally feel more comfortable in my own skin.
Incidentally, I wrote a free Android app to help to motivate me to meditate every day. I wrote it because I would quite often find a reason to skip meditating, especially in the evening. In my experience, the days that I felt like skipping meditation were the days that I really needed to meditate. Now, using my app, I am currently on a run of 65 days where I have hit my meditation target of 1 hour per day.
Meditating has helped me to relax, to concentrate better, and to generally feel more comfortable in my own skin.
Incidentally, I wrote a free Android app to help to motivate me to meditate every day. I wrote it because I would quite often find a reason to skip meditating, especially in the evening. In my experience, the days that I felt like skipping meditation were the days that I really needed to meditate. Now, using my app, I am currently on a run of 65 days where I have hit my meditation target of 1 hour per day.
See http://meditation-helper.blogspot.com/2010/08/using-widget.h... for a more detailed explanation, or search for "Meditation Helper" in the market.