What you seek is seeking you. ~Rumi
What does it take to keep going when, as the saying goes, the going gets tough? Really tough.
We all start on the path of meditation with high hopes, serious aspirations, or maybe just guarded optimism.
We come to the practice suffering from stress, anxiety, and some form of overwhelm. Maybe you’re haunted, like I was, by the feeling that there is more to life than you can see, touch, taste, hear, feel, or cognize with your rational mind.
The answer to this feeling seems close but always just out of reach—an essence or key that you’re somehow missing. And yet you know that connecting with that essence will help you make sense of life and all this chaos we’re swimming in all the time.
Or maybe you come like a refugee, seeking some sort of relief and rest from the relentless press of 21st century life. Maybe you just sense an unrealized opportunity to tap into your potential.
The Lonely Meditator’s Guide
We all approach meditation based on variations of these themes. And sometimes you’re meditating, but you just don’t know if you should carry on. You’re not seeing results. You’re not having breakthroughs. Meditation is hard. You’re not sure if you’re doing it right or if you’re really cut out for it.
So this episode of the OneMind podcast is for you. For the lone meditator who just doesn’t know if she should carry on and whether it’s really worth it.
From one fellow meditator to another, this is a call from the heart to press on and don’t look back. It’s time for you to burn the boats.
If you enjoyed this podcast, you can sign up for our free How To Meditate mini course here.
(Photo Credit via Flickr Creative Commons: Challot & Facebook Buddha Heart)
Hi Morgan
I liked this ” poddy”, I know that I do struggle with my meditation . Because of my work shift pattern , I have been developing my meditation , first thing as awake ;(been about a month and half ) , ok, its guided , and is roughly 12 mins . Whether this is wrong or not , I do not know.
Sometimes its sets me up for the day , I feel great , then there are those days , that just make me think ” what’s going on ” . Why bother , but , I am still doing it first thing at moment , So this podcast has given me a little boost .
Hope you and family are well .
David
Hi David, so glad to hear that this gave you a boost and that you found it helpful. And congratulations on setting up a consistent practice with your challenging work shift pattern. That’s great!
Wonderful, thank you! E
Thanks Esperanza. Really glad you liked it 🙂
I wasn’t able to concentrate at work because of the hectic schedules of my busy life. And this busyness of life was effecting adversely on my relationship with others in the family. I wasn’t a big fan of meditation until I have watched your pod casts today. They are really encouraging and I am seriously thinking to do mediation in the coming days. Thanks a lot Morgan.
Hi there Ben, Thanks so much for your comment. That’s really inspiring to hear. Thanks for sharing your story and it sounds like meditation might be a good step for you. Keep us posted!
Years ago I meditated,but drifted away due to a very busy life. I am finding it difficult to get my concentration back. Hope this will help.
Hi James, thanks for your comment. I hope it helps as well. Keep us posted!
Loved it Morgan. Thanks for coming up with this. Hope this will help me get back to meditation.
Thanks Shikha! Lovely website you have and I enjoyed scrolling through your photos from your travels in India and beyond…Good luck with you practice! Looks like you are in a great habitat for meditation :-).
You’re welcome Morgan, well-deserved. I love your updates, already started meditating again. And yes, India is a great place for its practice. Himalayas are one great love where people still do it as a daily ritual, great life there.
And thank you so much Morgan. Glad that you loved my work 🙂 Peace.
Thank you, Morgan for these lovely words of inspiration and encouragement. Since I have begun your Core Group Meditation course I am feeling that I am in it for the long haul this time. This podcast helps to reassure me that I need to continue my daily practice of meditation ‘come hell or high water’ so to speak. I plan to listen to this again and again. Exceptionally good, Morgan!
Thanks so much Germaine. I’m happy to hear that you find it helpful. Please don’t hesitate to reach out any time on the FB group if you have question related to the course. And I love hearing that deep resolve you’re expressing about your practice!
WITH PEACE AND LOVE GREETINGS AGAIN. TO MORGAN DIX,,(and all others)..Thanks for all you great inspirational encouragement in meditation , I have been meditating for 2 years, and it just keeps getting, stronger and more satisfacting, and skills get better, even when the periods of meditation are very difficult to accept, and sometimes, the mind is still running all over the place, while I am trying just to sit and accept the all, and nothingness of my EXISTENCE, in silence, being present, with self in form is hard. Accepting things just as they are, in myself is still a battle , for me , and settling down seems unwilling, at many times So the struggle from the mind to become…??.. “A this , or a that” gets less WITH MEDITATION, but the struggle is never completely gone, it is merely more accepting in the mind body with meditation, and therefore allowing silence to be there, it is in the fading thoughts.. as the meditation begins to take hold of the mind. The persisting thoughts dismiss themselves gradually …For me, greatness is this, with continual habits kept in silent sitting,This formation of mind body is successful, for achieving inner peace , and self realization, is possible. , These disciplines bear fruits of happiness., When I keep meditating, I have learned many skills to meditate, and I keep learning more. as the thinker, in all of us is strong and deeply conditioned, from decays of our evolution This part of our brain has its great survival qualities in strong hold., As a result of this, the truth of our being is in the shadows of silence..This experience in sitting in silence is plagued with the unstoppable chit chat thoughts of the brain, where inner peace is denied, from the disruptions of outside life forces, in radoom thoughts , These disturbances continually can be very discouraging in our meditation routine.,Whenever I try to control the thinker, i lose my friendly still presence, to the emotional annoyed fatigue, It is from these ever changing feelings of thoughts. that I keep grasping , and reaching for outside life… However I have learned that, from that ignorance,, .Coming into PRESENCE takes Patience in practice ., for any kind of achievement in this timeless space of being Indeed It is always so worth the sitting in the silence,, which is always there waiting to free you, from the struggling pains, of daily life, by the process of MINDFUL MEDITATION…., iT IS with great glory that i EXPERIENCE THE PATH OF TRUTH .,which is a perfect prize. which comes with harmony , love , laughter and happiness in peace, on many levels. This is available for any and all individuals, this can be a great healing source for all always..( if you want this) Yes! this should and could be your world, for it is mine, and I so want and need to share it, with all of the world and I am overjoyed that so many are now doing this…thank you one and all, for your travels on this beautiful path .. , which is always rewarding in any MEDITATION session. However, each meditation brings its WONDERFUL sharing GRACEFUL LESSON AND AA different experience, which I never want to miss, even with my unwilling mind , that keeps holding on to its struggle,s something, Meditation always gives a beautiful birth to the self, embracing the heart in love harmony and bliss, It is this feeling I cannot afford to miss, and do not wish to live without,in our present day, our world conditions need healing. The silence conscious awareness awakens to the heart, deep love and peace. .My soul rejoices to connects to the source or to(God). or whatever words you give this energy) Meditation, is the unspeakable manner, That the INNER SILENCE is rewarded with grace in abundance .. I so deeply wish to share this, with all others, as it is being done by YOU MORGAN DIX and company..Thanks for your WONDERFUL emails and your SINCERE works in caring and sharing for all…on this side of Our Dream World…Let us all be awaken to THE Universal love and peace,by meditating …Let us keep sitting in silent meditation, together dear readers, friends and all others , thank you for your great contribution to the beauty and glory of humanity…..BE BLESSED…PLEASE CONTINUE ..DEEPLY APPRECIATED..BLESSING FOR ALL..From Amsterdam ….vhb…