Welcome!

This is the first post to our new blog about meditation, energy work and alternative healing practices. By "we" I am referring to my wife, LJ, and myself, Cameron. Together we have been practicing and exploring various meditation and healing modalities (from acupuncture to vipassana to reiki to vortex healing to shamanistic practices to chanting to hypnosis to. . .well, you get the idea) for the past twenty plus years.

Many times over that period either LJ or I have been asked by friends, acquaintances and sometimes total strangers (that is, people we just met) for advice about meditation. It seems there are many people who want to learn to meditate but they just don't know where to start. Both LJ and I have taught a number of people over the years to use various techniques. That's where the name of the blog comes from. There is a tremendous wealth of background information about meditation from both the spiritual traditions and scientific studies that anyone can access on the internet. I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there! Tons! And that's what seems to stop most people from developing a regular meditation practice. TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!! Which is ironic in a way as one of the benefits of meditation is to help people focus and get better at sorting through all that's going on in your life.

"A Technique" is both the name of this blog and the name of a guided meditation that LJ created and is available on our website (luckyporcupine.com). We have found that for people just starting out in meditation that what they want to most is "a technique." A simple, easy to understand, easy to use technique. A sort of "do this, not that" approach to meditation. A basic meditation primer, if you will.
That's what "A Technique" is. That's what my wife and I specifically created it to be. My wife did the bulk of the work (it's her voice you'll hear throughout the meditation should you try it) and I chipped in my two cents every now and then. My job now is to do the blog. Seems like a fair trade to me.

So, that's the short introduction. I'll give more details about what is you can expect from "A Technique" (both the blog and the meditation) in my next post.

Thanks!