I had an interesting revelation about meditating the other day. I stopped doubting I could do it and I trusted it would work. I was imagining going down a country road waiting, looking and hoping for a connection and then I was on the road. I noticed a shift in my awareness. I didn’t stay long cause my thoughts started evaluating what just happened. But it happened. And I’ll take it.
When I was growing up back in the 70’s and 80’s, we were taught you had to meditate in a certain way, at a certain time, every day for a certain amount of time. Well that just seemed impossible from the get go. Fortunately the expectation for meditating is not that rigid these days. But old habits die hard.
I have struggled to just relax and fit meditating into my day. It has always seemed like I have to give something up. Like I am depriving myself. When in truth it really is opening up to receiving so much more. When we quiet our minds and get comfortable with the silence, that is when the connection happens. It is so frustrating to me that I make this direct line of communicating with Source (God) so hard. Alas it is a practice and I am committed to doing some sort of meditation daily.
I am grateful to teachers like: Dr. Wayne Dyer, Neale Donald Walsch and Mary Morrissey who stress the importance of the intention to meditate rather than the technique.