When I was a kid, we never wore sunscreen. It was around, but we didn’t think we needed it and we were cool to go without it. In fact, we’d go for the first burn and think we were good to go for a nice dark tan.  And if you burned enough to peel, it was sort of interesting. I was a farm kid, so I would spend hours and hours on a tractor or out on the hay wagon.

Now we know that sunscreen is important to be healthy. I slathered it on my kids, and slather it on my grandkids and it is just  the norm that you put it on.

We are at a transitional time in which meditation will become the norm. Dan Harris and many others predict this. So I hope young people make it a healthy habit.

Like sunscreen, meditation has been around for a long time. But it was for the hippies and the weirdos. Not for the common person.

I know the benefits of both. Yet I am spotty at both of them.  I forget to put sunscreen on and I have trouble meditation consistently.  But hopefully the next generation will automatically do them.

Sunscreen protects you from skin damage. Meditation protects you mental health.  It keeps it from gathering cancerous thoughts that spread and age you.