Socrates is said to have claimed, The unexamined life is not worth living. By this he meant that examining our lives, beliefs and values is what makes us fully human. An unexamined life is lived passively without a conscious understanding of why we think, act or choose as we do. Carl Jung echoed this when he wrote, He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks within awakes. Meditation then is not a modern invention. Yet in this era we often feel too busy for introspection. In