Meditation Tip: Excuses

The most attractive thing is to tell ourselves that we are too busy to stop and do our practice. At the bus stop, on the bus, in the airport, at our desk, while the kids are napping, when we are leaving work in our car before we drive away...the moments are actually endless...just like the excuses!

It is uncomfortable to sit with ourselves when we are so busy. This is because it is not our natural state of being to be so busy. Stillness is our natural state. It isn't that the Stillness isn't there when our minds and lives are so busy, it is just that we are paying attention to the movement, or the busyness.

No matter what the excuse is, it is not valid. Period. The Stillness is there right now waiting for us to notice it. We have been paying attention to the busyness most of our lives and so it is unusual and uncomfortable to turn our attention elsewhere. Being disciplined in doing so is important. It is by exercising this "muscle" that we strengthen it, habituating a new focus and a new experience of life. So, taking my own advice and hoping you'll join me...let's just do it!