Who doesn't meditate and why?

[TheAmbiguousSod]

I meditate almost daily. I do a silencing meditation and a loving kindness meditation which is part of my practice for channeling love into the Earth.

Just a reminder, you don’t have to sit and be quiet to meditate, what is important in my opinion is that you connect with the creator on some level and allow the thinking mind to be the less dominant mind. I like to walk in nature and take really small and slow steps, my mind slows down without effort and I see so much more. Every flower and big jumps to life, each step I take feels dense and vibrant.

Just checking in to see how you’re feeling can be useful too. Is there stress present? Where do I feel it? What does it feel like? Will it hurt me to leave it sitting here?

I’m no master and I wouldn’t claim to be successful at meditation but the benefits are invisible and infinite. I have a personality disorder which means my amygdala, the emotional progressing part of the brain, is underdeveloped. I can react emotionally and my cooling down period from emotions can be significant compared to the healthy brain. I read that Buddhists who meditate for a long period of time, as in years not hours, have larger amygdala and hippocampus.

Meditation has allowed me to develop space in between action and reaction, it forces me to slow down, put life into perspective and to connect to the creator.

If you attempt to meditate for a single minute and feel unsuccessful, please try again and know that you have succeeded in trying. The attempt is what is important. Trust in the creator to have made it possible for you to achieve everything you wanted. This isn’t designed for us to constantly struggle and be unsuccessful.