My Meditation Failure Last Week and the 3 Lessons Learnt

So meditation is not all plain sailing! And even though I have been meditating regularly for a fair while now, sometimes you fall off the bandwagon.

Last week was one of those weeks for me. A combination of back and forth trips to family a couple of hours away and some interstate leisure travel thrown in meant all my usual routines were totally out of whack. And as a result, my meditation practice also took a back seat…in other words, I didn’t meditate at all.

Did my life fall apart? Most definitely not. Did I suddenly have an uncontrollable mind? Not really.

So do I really need to meditate every day? Maybe not.

But the break from meditation did make me realise a few things:

  • During the week I felt more ‘in the moment’ than I have for quite some time. The time spent with family was all about that, time with family. And so was the time with friends on our weekend away. I didn’t get much work done during the period and it didn’t bother me which hasn’t necessarily been the case in the past. I was relaxed and comfortable that where I was on each day was what I was meant to be doing at that point in time.
  • Back in the early days of starting my meditation practice I would get stressed and worked up every day I didn’t meditate. I would have beat myself up, got down on myself, and generally just started those negative thought patterns that can be so detrimental. But this week, no such thoughts crossed my mind. On occasion, I thought to myself ‘I do really need to meditate tomorrow!’ but then I just moved on.
  • Routine can be both good and bad! The good well, when everything goes to plan they are great! Things just go along oh so smoothly. My meditation routine is based around my work. Sit down at the laptop to start the day, meditate, and then get into work. Repeat a couple of time at different points throughout the day and feel all the more amazing for it. The bad, well I don’t really have a backup routine for the times I don’t get straight into work.

So back to the question of ‘do I really need to meditate’?

Being able to live in the moment more and not getting stressed out when things don’t go to plan are the reasons why I say ‘yes’. Yes I do need to meditate because that’s the type of life I want to live. One where I am in the moment far more than I am not, and where it’s okay for things not to work out. And meditation helps me achieve that.

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