It's so simple to teach someone how to add meditation to their practice of Step 11:

Close your eyes. Sit down. Keep an upright posture, but relax. Now breathe in, watch the act of breathing, experience what it feels like. Now breathe out, watching the act of breathing again, experiencing what it feels like.

Done it for one breath? Then that's it. Simply repeat.

It can't be that simple, we think as we first start to do it. Well, it is simple. It's just not very easy.

As we progess in our meditation, we find other little tricks that work for us; we count our breaths, or we say a mantra with each in-breath and out-breath. We read books on meditation, and we take certain suggestions from them.

Gradually, perhaps, our meditation period becomes a collection of various little tricks and devices to help our practice ... and then the day dawns when we realize once again that it's simply about the breath. Breathe in, being aware of the in-breath. Breathe out, being aware of the out-breath. With a wry smile, perhaps, we see that we're right back at the beginning again, that it's all just about as simple as it can be, that everyone knows how to and everyone can meditate.