What for you gets in the way of daily meditation? The reason I ask this question is that almost universally mediation is said to be one of the fundamentally best ways to relax and get relief from stress so the question is, why is it more people don't meditate? On Google there were 673,000 searches in September 2008 for the term learn meditation. So I was curious to discover what holds people back. One area that sprang to mind especially thinking back to when I first got interested in meditation is time.



A perception there is not enough time to meditate

People often give time as a major reason for not meditating however this in its self is not totally accurate, it is just more likely that we are putting other things in front of meditation. Now when I say this there is often a chorus well, I have to go to work, I have my children to attend to. Yes I know we all have lives to lead so how can we make enough time to do self meditation?

Seeing the Bigger Picture

Often in our daily rush we do not often have time to ask what's really important to us. Quite often we are so absorbed moving from one doing to another, there is very little time for self awareness or stillness in our lives. The funny thing is awareness and stillness are key elements for keeping in touch with every area of our life positively. So for example as a busy parent, you will probably interact with your children better, day to day stresses and strains are still there however some how do not seem to get on top of you like they used too . So when viewed this way, if your life is important to you and by that I mean what's within your life, be it family, work etc is important, if you want the very best from these elements of your life, then you are going to require something that can help maintain you at your very elementary best. Now if you were to believe this something was meditation, and you were willing to accept and believe it could transform your day to day life, would you consider making time for meditation then?

And finally a little faith

And so the question how will you know what I am saying is either true or accurate? This really is the crux of meditation, in that it is a process, that reveals its true value over time, this is not to say that benefits can not be experienced fairly quickly, just that mediation, is about bringing you back to your source or your core self. To some that might seem deep and perhaps a little weird, but I always say its great to come home after a journey, by that I mean we journey outward everyday getting things done, and that's important, however its great to just sit, and return home (source or core) before you journey outward once more.