03-09-2014, 10:23 AM
(03-09-2014, 02:44 AM)Bring4th_Plenum Wrote: yeah, I don't know how people can maintain a regular meditation practice (daily) when working full time.
you get home at maybe 6pm or 630pm, do some internet, cook dinner, watch some tv, catch up on the forums, and before you know it, its like 1030 or 11pm and time for bed. Then rinse and repeat the next day.
I'm only really able to meditate on my days off, which I'm fortunate to have.
but for you full-timers, a 40 hour week, Mon-Fri with regular/irregular family commitments ... one's life work and service is to one's family, quite truly.
Edgar Cayce encouraged/started meditation groups at 4 in the morning (believe I have the time right - at any rate it was in the middle of the night). Some people following his advice actually get up in the middle of the night and do sitting meditation. What I have been doing is sneak in 1 or 2 minute meditations during the day whenever I remember to and then I often have a meaningful meditation (sometimes really "good" sometimes just practicing getting into the place) while lying in bed sometime close to 4 in the morning. It's a good time for prayer, too, if you're into that. Then back to sleep. I did buy a meditation CD several years ago and after making the financial investment (large for me) I was motivated to actually practice sitting meditation after work every day for 20 minutes. It was shortly after that that I met the man I am married to now - wonder if that intense period of meditation for a couple of months or more had anything to do with my meeting the person I had been wishing for. I'm inclined to think so.