How To Get The Benefits of Meditation When Your Mind Races

Struggles with Meditation

I’ve had an on and off again relationship with meditation. Being a lightworker, I’ve sometimes felt that I was lagging behind in my spiritual development because I hadn’t integrated it into my life.

When I was younger I had better success with it. I would have stretches lasting months, sometimes years, where I could keep a regular routine and when I saw some progress from it. I noticed my thoughts quietening a little and other benefits to my life. I would come to a point where I would get out of the habit though and then struggled to reintroduce it into my life again.

How Do You Define Meditation?

The first realisation that had an big impact on me was over a decade ago. It was the idea that my definition of meditation was rather limited. When I thought about “meditation” it conjured up Buddhist monks sitting still in front of a shrine. This is likely because I went to many Buddhist events and retreats with my family as a child and it was my first impression of meditation. It was during these occasions that I began to understand why people meditated in the first place.