I haven’t been good about blogging over the last few days, but I only skipped one day of meditation—I was just too tired yesterday evening. Since the last time I wrote, however, I exchanged emails with one of my friends who was part of the inspiration for me to try meditation. After reading through my blog, he suggested a number of things for me to think about. One of those ideas was to meditate earlier in the day when I’m not as tired. So today, I sat down at 1:30.
WOW!!! What a difference. My mind was far from quiet. It was a real challenge to bring myself back to breath and focus. This is the part of the day where I’m supposed to be productive. This is not the time to be sitting around “doing nothing.” While I don’t believe meditation is a waste of time (otherwise, I wouldn’t be doing it), at some level, I kept feeling as though I needed to be getting up and tackling some project. Time, therefore, became a very recurrent theme in my distractions. The other distractions were there too. I noted them and returned to focus—but it took longer to do so than had been the case for the last few days.
This was a long 20 minutes. I might need to step back a little on time for the mid-day mediations. We’ll see.
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