Peter Attia· MD
if you can muster that on your own if you can actually guide attention irrespective of the object you're attending to then anything any arbitrary object the feeling of wind on your hand as you walk can be an exquisitely pleasurable thing to notice this is why in that first type of meditation practice concentration practice it doesn't matter what you pay attention to you can pick an arbitrary object it can be a random sound it can be a mantra and it doesn't matter what the mantra is it can be a candle flame it can be a color on a piece of paper it can be a random sound in the environment it can be in the this sensation of a a fly walking across the back of your hand right to anything that you can pay attention to to the exclusion of anything else can suddenly disclose what it's like to have a very concentrated mind and concentration is intrinsically pleasurable and this is why meditation can have the character of a kind of drug experienced mates