Among the documented benefits of meditation are less anxiety, decreased depression, reduction in irritability and moodiness, better learning ability and memory and greater creativity. That's just for starters. Then there is slower aging, feelings of vitality and rejuvenation, less stress, rest, lower blood pressure, and higher blood oxygen levels.

 "Now-ness" is the state of ideal attention. That is, it is a state of being where all that exists is the present moment, without any thought of past or future.…