How to Meditate: It's Easier Than You Think
Fourteen practices in breath, presence, prayer, and listening, from a doctor who lives in meditation
Begin the CourseReturning to Stillness
If you've ever sat down to meditate and wondered whether you were doing it right, you are in good company.
Many people come to meditation believing it asks for an empty mind, a quiet house, or an hour they don't have. So they try, feel restless, and quietly decide meditation isn't for them.
I'm Dr. Arlene Dijamco, an integrative physician, pediatrician, and cranial osteopath, and I'd like to offer you an easier way in.
Stillness is something you can return to, gently and simply, in the middle of real life. It can begin with one breath. It can happen in the car before you walk into work, at the kitchen table, or in the few minutes before sleep.
This Course May Be For You If
- You've tried meditation before and felt you couldn't quite find your way into it.
- You want a practice that fits into a full, busy day rather than one that asks you to rearrange it.
- You're drawn to meditation that includes prayer, intuition, and inner listening alongside the breath.
- You care for others, as a parent, clinician, or caregiver, and are looking for small moments to return to yourself.
- You're new to meditation and would like a kind, clear place to begin.
A Different Kind of Course
I've spent decades listening to the whole person, as a cranial osteopath, integrative physician, and intuitive healer. That perspective shapes how I teach meditation.
Here, meditation begins with what is already present: your breath, your body, the surface beneath you, the quiet awareness that is always available. From there, the practices open toward prayer and listening, drawing on osteopathic principles and timeless wisdom, including the work of Dr. Gladys McGarey, the Edgar Cayce readings, Walter Russell, and Rudolf Steiner.
I won't ask you to force your mind quiet. I'll invite you to notice, gently, and to discover what stillness feels like for you.
The PLAY Framework
The course is woven together by a simple framework I call PLAY.
P: Pause, Presence, and Purpose.
Meeting the moment, and remembering what matters to you.
L: Listening.
Making room to receive the quiet guidance within.
A: Asking.
Prayer and intention, offered in your own words.
Y: Yes, Thank You.
Gratitude as a way of completing the circle.
PLAY is meant to be easy to remember, so you can return to it anywhere, long after you finish the course.
What You May Notice
Everyone's experience of meditation is their own, and your experience is the better guide. Some people notice that pausing becomes more natural. Others find that a single breath before a hard conversation feels different than it used to. Some discover that prayer and listening open a deeper connection with their inner life.
I won't ask you to reach a particular state. I'm offering practices, and space for you to find your own way with them.
What Students are Saying
Thank you for helping me see myself again.
~From a member in our community
This book changed my life. Once I finished reading it I went back through the book to do the exercises for the body, mind and spirit.
~ Reader of I AM Intuitive: A MultiDimensional Guide to Embrace Your Inner Light
The concepts you presented mixed with your guidance throughout were otherworldly.
~ CarterBiskup, DO, early student of The Dig On Series osteopathic courses
About Arlene Dijamco, MD
Dr. Arlene Dijamco is an integrative physician, board-certified pediatrician, and cranial osteopath based in Roswell, Georgia, and the founder of All Worlds Health and School of Stillness.
She is the author of I AM Intuitive: A MultiDimensional Guide to Embrace Your Inner Light, co-hosts Edgar Cayce's Creating Calm with Corinne Cayce, and hosts The MultiDimensional MD podcast.
She teaches emotional stress and trauma release courses to osteopaths around the world through The Dig On Series. She also serves on the board of Dr. Gladys McGarey's Foundation for Living Medicine, where she chairs the Education Committee.
Meditation has shaped every part of her life and work, from her intuition to the way she connects with people to how she teaches osteopathy.
School of Stillness was founded on a simple belief: Where Everyone Is a Healer.
