3 Ways to Meditate at Home That Aren’t Sitting

If I’ve been meditating on anything these days, it’s that I already sit way too much. When I’m eating, I’m sitting. When I’m working, I’m sitting. When I’m reading or writing I’m sitting. When I’m doing almost anything apart from sleeping or shopping or peeing—well, sometimes—I’m sitting.

In recent years, sitting has been associated with a tonne of health problems, from memory loss to heart disease. It’s even been called a disease in itself.

It’s unclear why sitting is such a huge pain in the butt. But possible explanations are that it reduces the workload of your largest muscles, puts pressure on the heart, tightens hip muscles, stiffens joints, causes back pain, collapses your spine, and disrupts your gait and sense of balance.

In other words, by practicing sitting, pretty much everything in your life gets worse. Oh, well, you do get better at one thing:

Sitting.

I’m pretty sick of sitting. And because I already do a lot of it during the day, and like many of you, have suddenly found myself doing a lot more of it, the last thing I want to do is to spend more time sitting on my butt without anything to distract me and focusing intently on the sensations of how terrible it is for me.

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