Attention, stillness, and how to stay whole

I write about what happens to a person's attention in a noisy world, and what can be done about it.

By trade I build software systems. For more than ten years I have also practised Raja Yoga as taught by the Brahma Kumaris. This site is where those two habits meet: the engineer's wish to understand how something works, and the practitioner's interest in what actually changes when you sit still.

Most writing about the inner life offers it as something for later: for when you are older, when the children have grown, when work calms down, or for a life after this one. I think that is why so many people who respect it never actually use it.

Everything here is meant for now — an ordinary Tuesday, with deadlines and a family and a phone that will not stop — and to be learnable early, which is why the same argument is written for an adult, for someone sitting exams, and for a four-year-old at bedtime. I did not write any of it to be believed. I wrote it to be tried. If it works, you will not need me, or anyone else, standing between you and your own practice.