This is your brain on meditation

[xise]

Oh I have the time so I can't use that excuse. I generally meditate after I come back from the gym in the morning and before work. I have found that it gives me good energy for the day. When I meditate at night, I find that it's quite difficult to sleep afterwards as I'm buzzing with energy for some reason so diurnal meditations don't seem to be very productive for me.

It's all about motivation for me or lack of I should say.

Have you meditated heavily in the past, Jeremy? If you have, I would meditate as you feel is appropriate.

But until you've personally gone through a say a two month where you were meditating heavily, like an hour a day or more, you can't really know what you're missing, or how heavy meditation helps things get to the root of the mind.

Once you've "been there, done that" in a small sense (this area is very deep), you'll better understand why to increase or decrease your meditation, and how to incorporate meditative techniques into your daily life, daily contemplation, and daily prayer. It starts becoming less of a sit one hour a day thing and more of a constant all day beingness thing.

It's like exercise in that you really have to do a good amount to see the benefits, but it's unlike exercise in that once you've understood the benefits at a deep level, you can start practicing the benefits outside of actual meditative practice.

I used to meditate 1 hour per day for a few months last year, but now I meditate maybe 3-4 hours per week, though my conscious being-ness is much meditative now than in the past.