The Importance Of Learning Meditation

Is Learning Meditation For Me?

One of the first major stumbling blocks of anyone who is thinking of learning meditation is that they can't do it. It's too difficult and they will never be good enough.

You might feel the same way and you're reading articles on the web that are trying to put your mind to rest - or scare you away from meditation forever.

Well, based on my experience - and I am just a regular person like you, with an average life, a few hobbies, a family and a job, I am here to tell you that yes, you can learn to meditate.

If you are serious about improving your life, learning meditation is like learning everything else that you put your mind to it.

As long as you don't give up on it in the next week or so, you can do it. The

I don't have the talent for it

I'm not cut out for it

These are some of the most common reasons that people give when they are afraid to embark on learning meditation. And that's ok. It is human nature to resist change and learning meditation is a change in our life, so why should this be any different from anything else that might require a change?

You can learn to meditate

We all can learn to meditate. There are many different meditation techniques, some easier than others, and there are different levels of meditators, ranging from the girl next door who simply wants to relax after a hard day's work to the Buddhist monk up on the top of the mountain waiting for enlightenment.

Just because the girl is not at the level of the Buddhist monk, don't underestimate the benefits of meditation that she is receiving for her efforts.

Meditation is like learning to read

Do you remember your first class in school when you were trying to learn to read? The very first steps you did were to learn the letters of the alphabet. That took quite a while and there were many times tears and frustration that you would never learn to