Maybe a lot of people knew what is meditation but seldom had known the benefits of meditating and how to do it properly. And there are very few who practice meditation or don't really meditate.
Can it be possible? In my case, yes. I heard about meditation but never tried sitting down in minutes with eyes closed, minding only the "in" and "out" of my breath. Despite the benefits it gave, which I hardly knew until I did some research because of this article, a lot of us didn't practice meditation.
For this week's question: "Why is it so hard to meditate?", I would like to express my own thoughts regarding this matter and listed some factors that I think hinder us from doing meditation.
LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MEDITATION
The reason why I didn't try meditating even once, is that I don't know how to do it. The proper ways, the positions, and the preparations that I think are important also. No one in the family had ever tried it even our grandparents. Even my friends only knew the word 'meditation' but never tried doing it and how to do it. I know that there are lots of videos on the internet that will help me how to do it on my own, but I didn't find a way because for me meditation is not really important. It's because I didn't know the IMPORTANCE of meditating. And no one ever tried to explain it to us even in school when I'm still studying for how many years.NO TIME
The everyday routine of house chores, taking care of the children, and the hustles of everyday life leaves us no time doing something else. It seems that we are always lacking in time that sometimes we deprive our body of rest. And the only thing we know to relax and rest our both body and mind is through sleeping and not meditating.WEAK CONCENTRATION
Meditation is about concentration. You focus your mind only on your breath/mantra. (I didn't know what mantra is, but heard it many times.) But because we live in a busy society with all the kinds of technology that tends to get our attention every time, our concentration changes quickly from one thing to another. For example, social media that shows various things like product promotions, ads, movies, celebrity news, and many many more, tends to register on our mind, and unintentionally we develop the habit of constantly changing our focus from one thing to another in just a split second. After you close your eyes for meditation, maybe after a minute or two, your mind wanders and then refocuses again on your breath, and then another thing popped out on your mind because that is how you had trained your mind. CONCENTRATION LEADS TO PROPER MEDITATION. And I think, to help us stably regain our focus and be able to practice it daily is by immersing ourselves mostly to the stillness of nature, without holding your cellphone scrolling that social media. 😅
But then, the bottom line of these all no matter you had the knowledge about meditation, lots of time of doing it and have a deep concentration, still the EAGERNESS and DETERMINATION of doing it still plays a big role.
If there's a WILL, there's always a WAY.
A famous saying, that no one can hinder you if you really wanted it.
Thank you @ecotrain for this question of the week, and for the opportunity to be able to participate.
(Images used from CANVA.)
Thanks for reading.
Have a nice day everyone.
And to God be the glory.
