{"id":50750,"date":"2016-04-01T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=50750"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T20:58:23","slug":"why-people-stop-meditating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/it\/journal\/why-people-stop-meditating\/","title":{"rendered":"Why People Stop Meditating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post is part\u00a0of our series from Wanderlusters in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/festivals\/thredbo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/festivals\/great-lake-taupo\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a>. Check back soon\u00a0for more Dispatches from Down Under!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Meditation is a word that seems to conjure up idealistic visions of peace, bliss, and stillness\u2014a state of being far removed from the reality of paying rent, dating\/breaking up, and trying to find your passion whilst keeping your parents happy.<\/p>\n<p>We have ideas of meditation that either prevent us from beginning a practice\u2014i.e. \u201cI could never meditate, my mind just doesn\u2019t stop thinking\u201d\u2014or if we do invest in the romantic vision of stillness and bliss, when our expectations aren\u2019t immediately met, we simply dismiss meditation as another one of those things that \u201cdidn\u2019t work for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now I want to propose that it\u2019s these pre-conceived ideas that meditation is meant to bring you instant peace, happiness, better health, and enlightenment\u2014without any challenges\u2014that end up collapsing a healthy meditation practice. Why? Because meditation is not a quick-fix happy pill, it\u2019s not the silver bullet to instantly solve all your dilemmas, nor the magic wand to take you away to another world where you can &#8220;start afresh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/14-ways-to-start-and-maintain-a-meditation-practice\/\">Meditation is a practice<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;practice&#8221; is an activity or exercise performed repeatedly or regularly in order to improve or maintain one&#8217;s proficiency. In this case, meditation is a technique that\u2019s performed daily in order to improve your life experience and reveal your truest self.<\/p>\n<p>And during this daily practice of meditation\u2014sitting with the eyes closed, de-exciting the mind, and allowing the natural innate intelligence of the body to heal and repair itself\u2014we begin what\u2019s known as the process of <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/journal\/embracing-aging-let-the-force-awaken\/\">awakening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Throwing in the towel.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s at the point, when our meditation sessions may start to become less than gratifying, that we (consider or actually) throw in the towel.<\/p>\n<p>In meditation you may experience constant thinking, agitation of the body, your mind telling you to shut up and sit still because you\u2019re meant to be meditating not thinking about that last conversation you had or what colour to paint the room when you\u2019re done\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Then outside of meditation during the day you may be experiencing overwhelming emotions, confusion about what you\u2019re supposed to be doing in this life, anger for no apparent reason or loneliness that there\u2019s no one sharing this awakening process with you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re doing it right.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s these experiences, both in meditation and in daily life, that are of great benefit. Yes, all those thoughts, those seemingly menial or highly aggravating conversations you have with yourself in your head, the tears, the aches, and the drama are all a part of a very important process.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re healing yourself, detoxing and transitioning through to a huge upgrade. And when we allow these experiences to play out in our meditations, what we\u2019re doing is allowing the body to naturally come back into alignment and process our life experiences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reposted and sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1giantmind.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/why-people-stop-meditating-and-how-to-stick-with-your-practice\" target=\"_blank\">1Giant Mind<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0b2781_eb5e97e1a3b24ed1b78e06552ac2fd1d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-50790\" src=\"http:\/\/live-wanderlust-fest.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/0b2781_eb5e97e1a3b24ed1b78e06552ac2fd1d.jpg\" alt=\"laurapoole\" width=\"200\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a>Laura Poole is based in Melbourne, Australia teaching the simple and effortless art of Vedic meditation, and also travels to teach in Sydney, India, USA and Bali.\u00a0For her, it&#8217;s all about sharing\u00a0simple \u2018how-to\u2019 techniques for creating balance &amp; harmony, and\u00a0guiding people to live a radical and fierce life in flow with nature.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And how to stick with your practice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2207,"featured_media":50794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[778],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-50750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice","tag-meditation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.0 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why People Stop Meditating<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And how to stick with your practice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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