Originally Posted by Erika
I think getting over Christmas has put me back. I cooked for 13 this year, so its not given me much time for myself. Also the children are still off school. They go back Monday, so Monday I will have to get the house cleaned up so again no time. I am aiming for Tuesday to make a new start again. I still have to get into this, but im not giving up.  |
Dear Erika,
Please don't think of this as critisism, it's certainly not meant this way ( ! ) but my personal experiance is that life will always keep interfering with your meditation, it always does with me too !
If you allow life to keep you from meditating one day, it's quite easy to let it get in the way of more days.
I also noticed with myself that it is also easyer to drop out of meditation when the going gets tough, and something bad happens, while in fact that would be the time you should continue !
You are a special person, and you should award yourself with 30 minutes a day completely to yourself:
You deserve it !
If you can't even make 30 minutes time for yourself, are you living your own life, or are you being lived through others ?
In the earlyer days, Michael Mackenzie once sent an email to me with a great story of a woodchuck:
Once there was a man who started a new job as woodchuck.
He wanted to do his very best, and on his very first day he managed to chop down 6 trees !
His boss was really happy with him, and this made him want to try even more.
The next day, he put his back into it, but at the end of the day, even tho he tried even harder, he only managed to chop down 5 trees !
The day after that, he tried even harder than the day before, but this time he only managed to chop down 3 trees.
His boss came over and asked him why his productivity was going down, as he looked very tired and worn down from trying so hard.
The man explained that even tho he kept raising his efforts, it was continually getting harder to chop down the trees.
The boss asked him if he had sharpened his axe every day.
"No" the man answered " I didn't have time to do that, I wanted to spend all my time on chopping down trees so I could do more ! "
Give yourself time every day to "sharpen your axe" and you will see that the hectic life you think you lead will change gradually !
