While meditation works for some people, I think that the narrative of meditation will work for everyone if you just stick with it is false. I don’t have rigorous data to support this; I only have my only experiences and observations. Some people take to it very easily. I gave meditation an attempt multiple times during different periods of my life (joining meditation events, short classes for an hour or two each week, yoga teacher training, and lots of shorter mediations as part of yoga classes). I never really got anything out of it. I honestly don’t think that it benefited me at all.
So my non-expert, layperson’s perspective would be this: just because mediation is a useful tool for some people, doesn’t mean it is going to be the right tool for you and for what you want to do. If you want increased calm, self-awareness and wellbeing, there is more than one path to get that.
While meditation works for some people, I think that the narrative of meditation will work for everyone if you just stick with it is false. I don’t have rigorous data to support this; I only have my only experiences and observations. Some people take to it very easily. I gave meditation an attempt multiple times during different periods of my life (joining meditation events, short classes for an hour or two each week, yoga teacher training, and lots of shorter mediations as part of yoga classes). I never really got anything out of it. I honestly don’t think that it benefited me at all.
So my non-expert, layperson’s perspective would be this: just because mediation is a useful tool for some people, doesn’t mean it is going to be the right tool for you and for what you want to do. If you want increased calm, self-awareness and wellbeing, there is more than one path to get that.
thank you for sharing