Meditation: A Quiet Kind of Medicine
Have you ever noticed how meditation is just one letter away from medication?
It’s a small shift—but it says a lot.
Both are tools for managing pain, soothing anxiety, and navigating the messiness of being human. But where medication often works from the outside in, meditation works from the inside out. It invites you to pause, breathe, and listen—without needing to fix anything right away.
We’re not here to pit one against the other. Medication can be essential, life-saving, and profoundly supportive. So can stillness. Especially in a culture that teaches us to treat discomfort as something to escape or numb.
Meditation doesn’t cure all. But it does change how we relate to our experience.
My new favorite practice is simple but powerful.
I breathe in the flowers and blow out the candles, slowly and intentionally, three times.
Once for everything in the past that still feels heavy
Once for everything happening today that stirs up tension or unease
And once for everything in the future that fills me with uncertainty, doubt, or worry
Each breath makes space.
Each exhale reminds me I don't have to carry it all.
In a world full of noise and swirling thoughts, that’s powerful medicine.
Written by Dana Meyer, executive coach and consultant based in Hood River, Oregon—a Pacific Northwest community known for its wild beauty, technical innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit. This reflection is part of a growing library for those reimagining the world of work—at every scale—by focusing on what matters most with clarity, purpose, and ease. Together, we can create better.