In the legal profession, activity, achievements and results are rewarded. So why turn to meditation, which seems to be a non-activity with little achieved? Well, just as your body needs sleep to recover after exercise, your mind needs time to break away from the chaos of modern life. And if any of you have been as stressed as I have, you will know that your brain definitely does not stop when your head hits the pillow. As a matter of fact, it seems that the little monkey that lives in our heads is nocturnal.
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W. Blake Wilson, aka @amindfulgeek on twitter, has a useful post on the benefits of meditation for law students and lawyers.
Lawyers, and especially law students, are driven people who often think they have too much on their plates. And yes, they often do (as a law student, I don't remember much in the way of leisure time except for on a few Saturdays); but it doesn't mean that lawyers and law students can't find the time to help the rest of their work life.
I meditate for 15 minutes at a time; perhaps once or twice a day depending on my schedule. Having a three year old limits my flexibility on when I can meditate.
And yeah, that's it. 15 minutes.
The key for me is not what meditation will provide me; its that I just do it. All the benefits that Blake describes, and they are benefits, will come .