How to Meditate
The gifts we have inside
but do not give to the world
can create depression
or what feels like depression.
There are multiple causes for this.
One of the main reason people stop meditating after having a consistent practice for awhile is that their life changes. They may have been depressed, and the meditation heals that and leads them out into life. So they need to drop the old form of meditating and invent a new one.
Life is rhythm and flow. Think about what breathing is. Meditation is a process of delighting in the flow of life. If we accept this gift of rhythm then aha, we can realize that the joy of meditating is similar to what we feel in the presence of music and dancing.
Some days you may not feel like meditating. Procrastinate instead. Clean up the house.
‘Although it is totally fine to meditate with dishes in the sink, if you have the impulse to straighten up, go for it. Indulge in the cleaning instinct. Puttering around may also serve to clean up your mind, so to speak. Sometimes this can open the way to a deeper, more fulfilling meditation.
If you have meditated in the past and want to get back into the practice of daily meditation, or occasional meditation, then treat yourself as a beginner. Most likely the reason you stopped meditating was not lack of discipline - it was that you changed somehow. You may have fulfilled the intention of the meditation you were doing, or something in your body or your life changed - and so the meditation you had been doing was no longer appropriate.
