Drain the dirty bathwater with meditation

Most days when I meditate, the experience is unremarkable.  I sit in silence and allow my brain to defrag like a bogged down hard drive.   A flurry of thoughts typically arises like a snowstorm and one by one the snowflakes …

Make Yourself Sit Still

I had dinner with a friend last night, and we were talking about how it’s not always easy to be disciplined in our meditation practice, thus the concept of discipline.  She said something that really clicked.  She said, “I just physically walk myself over to my meditation spot, and make myself sit down.”  Genius.   Whether or not you have a regular asana (yoga pose) and meditation practice, you know that even if you don’t feel like it, you always feel better after you’ve done it.  It’s true.  I’ve never felt worse after I’ve pushed myself to flow through my practice or meditate.  Sure, I might have a cleansing cry or a flood of thoughts bombard my mind, but that’s the point of meditating  — sitting still long enough for the purification to happen.