Prince Harry recommends meditation

Harry is too self-absorbed and self-obsessed. He would feel better in himself if he physically helped others instead of just preaching at people, using what the Americans call "word salad".

The press report all of Harry's navel gazing, because it feeds public interest.
But if they didn't keep themselves in the public eye and invite media attention constantly, we'd never know about his soul-searching or receive constant advice on how we should live our lives.

It's strange that he seeks the media attention which he says led to the death of his mother, like a moth to a flame.

Leading a simpler life might give him more peace.

Wouldn't leading a simpler life give most people more peace?
I regularly see on here people's lives which are so complicated, running around after others, worrying that people won't be able to manage without their help...
It's easy to look from outside and find things obvious.
Worry about things? Yes? Simple solution. Don't. It makes no difference at all.
Easy peasy.
Except it's not.

Diana loved her children very much. Please leave her alone.

VANECAM Sorry, you are correct Parent is a better term.

It's just that I was working at a food bank yesterday afternoon and it was all Mum in that session so I my focus was narrowed and I was wrong to confine it to Mums.

We do see Dad's, we see people of all ages but yesterday it was was all Mums with little ones.

But then again I don't suppose people who use a food bank are Harry's target market.

I do think he has the luxury of making himself disappear though, through mediation or otherwise

AGAA4

Meditation can help but it won't cure unhappiness. Whether it is the loss of his mum at a young age or taking the wrong path as an adult we can't know but Harry seems to me to be a very troubled soul.

I agree. The sneering and jeering from women old enough to be his mum is a bit unpleasant. Disagree with the way he is living his life, shake your heads, even roll your eyes, but making some of the school yard comments that have been posted on here is really childish and unedifying.

I don’t see any childish and unedifying comments on here. I just see a group of people, presumably from a variety of backgrounds, discussing a topic that has been all over the news today. I asked the question in the OP, do you meditate and has it helped you? People have responded to that. I set the question against the background of Prince Harry because that is what was in the news, and people have responded accordingly.

Beswitched you say.... 'school yard comments that have been posted on here is really childish and unedifying.'......
you must have been on a different thread then because you are quite wrong!

Meditation is brilliant - when you've developed the (extreme) patience to perfect it. It's a luxury to have the time to do it properly.

When anyone mentions 'the universe' though - I just switch off. 'The universe' doesn't decide anything or teach us anything - is irrelevant - just a trendy buzzword.

Changing the way we think about things can be a revelation. I like the book 'Think like a monk' by Jay Shetty (train your mind for peace and purpose).

tidyskatemum

He was also doing a sales pitch for BetterUp, where he happens to be Chief Impact Officer, whatever that is. He wants everyone to have access to a BetterUp coach - currently $279 a month. Some people, when they actually have money, have other things to spend it on, like food and heating.

Yes, he’s a CHIMPO (that really is what they are called).

Personally, I cannot stand the man.

I find meditating very, very hard.
I find it easier and more enjoyable to ‘loose’ oneself in a creative activity.
I hear jigsaws are good too.
Something that needs concentration, but not much thought

The word "childish" seems to be in vogue. This is the 3rd thread running in which posters' are called this. Underneath it all, I question whether Harry really wants things to get better for him because that might not suit his narrative. Maybe he thinks that a happy ending, drawing a line under his suffering, would not engender the same amount of interest in him, so he has to prolong it.
Personally I find it all very self absorbed.

(I'm up early because in 30 minutes I'm a guest at a cousin's wedding in Hong Kong! So far all I'm getting is twinkly oriental music. Very pretty. I'm meditating.)

You’re in Hong Kong Josie?!

Sounds fabulous! Have a lovely day!
Pictures later please!

Of course there was a ‘word’ consisting of 4 x * in my post, but GN saw fit to delete it.

Witzend that’s quite funny! (Forgive me for being ‘childish’)
I too think that he could do well to shut the up

I've read the thread again and am still seeing some childish name calling. Harry seems to have issues. Sneering at him is unkind.

Beswitched but we all have issues
That’s why he is so annoying.
He brings it all on himself.

^I hear jigsaws are good too.
Something that needs concentration, but not much thought^

I agree * FannyC* We have one on the go all the time on the dining table.

I haven’t seen childish name calling on this thread.
Fanny is absolutely right that we all have issues of some kind but most of us don’t have time to dwell on them like Harry seems to, which cannot be good for him. He seems to spend a lot of time navel gazing. If he hadn’t married Meghan, moved to the US and estranged himself from his family I think he would be a very different and more likeable person.

Diana loved her children, I would say adored them, but that did not make her a good mother. She spoilt and indulged them, was jealous of and removed the stabilising influence of their nannies, displayed and discussed far too much publicly and with them about her marital problems and post-marital affairs instead of protecting them from things they were not old enough to understand, and did everything she could to turn them against their father's family.
Both of them sought refuge within their school, and they were protected from public scrutiny via the press until they were twenty-one.

I agree eazybee. There are so many who refuse to acknowledge the negative and flawed aspects of Diana. She was by no means a perfect person or mother.

Beswitched

I've read the thread again and am still seeing some childish name calling. Harry seems to have issues. Sneering at him is unkind.

Plenty of posters sneer at Boris Johnson, at Donald Trump, at Dominic Cummings, etc. Personally I haven’t seen any sneering at Prince Harry but I’m wondering what you think is so precious about Prince Harry that posters are rebuked for their entirely reasonable opinions?

No of course not. But the damage that was already there was increased tenfold by placing a 19 year old in that situation. I am fairly sure that wouldnt happen today.

Diana didn’t protect her children from the press, she informed the press when she could be seen with them.