Reddit reviews We're All Doing Time: A Guide to Getting Free

I used to use quite a few different breathing techniques after reading We're All Doing Time by Bo Lozoff. That book and the techniques within helped me as a person immensely when I was going through troubling times as a youth. I'd definitely recommend checking the book out if you can.

The book is obviously intended for people that are incarcerated but it served me as an incredible insight to human nature and as a beginner's introduction to spirituality, meditation and knowing myself.

I have heard that some prisons don't allow it, but We're All Doing Time is excellent.

Sometimes just seeking is enough. Seeking in and of itself can be a purpose. It will lead you to places you can't even imagine right now, both professionally and in terms of your personal development/happiness, if you consciously make it a priority in your life

What could you do today to imbue your life with meaning? If you can't answer that question, what could you do to start figuring out what is meaningful to you? Some ideas:

1. Research world religions and attend a service of the one that makes the most sense to you, even it doesn't come from your culture.
   
2. Sign up for classes that interest you at a community college. Don't worry about degrees, etc, just choose something you genuinely want to learn about.
   
3. Start the process of volunteering for a cause that seems worthwhile to you.
   
4. Plan and start saving for an extended trip. You're 19 and it sounds like you don't have any big commitments. Spend 6 months backpacking around Africa, or India, or Latin America, or the Carribean, or Southeast Asia. Volunteer or work abroad.
   
5. Look into joining the Peace Corps or Americorps, or whatever the equivalent to those things in your country is.
   
6. Start looking into living in an ashram or a monastery so you can spend some time thinking about what it's all for and learning from other seekers just like you.
   
   Those are just 6 random ideas off the top of my head. Maybe none of those sound interesting to you, but there's something you can do today.
   
   Suggested reading:
   
   We're All Doing Time by Bo Lozoff