Reasons Not To Meditate

From Artly Snuff

I’ll be honest: I’ve never liked meditating. I’ve dabbled in it, and forced myself to sit for 30 day meditation challenges, and it was boring and hard. Plus life is so busy: Five minutes a day is a lot to ask!

…The truth is, more than anything, I am afraid of sitting still and feeling my feelings… I’ve discovered…reasons not to ever do this:

You’ll have to feel your feelings. All that anxiety, anger, shame, and fear you’ve been trying to suppress…will hit you with its full force. This is not a practice of rainbows and flowers. Ugly, uncomfortable feelings are trying to talk to you, and if you meditate, you give them the chance.

You will lose the ability to lie to yourself. If you practice feeling what you feel, your mastery for self-deception will start to fail. It gets harder to convince yourself that this relationship is going to work or that you really do like your job, or that it’s okay to keep letting your boss talk down to you. You might even have to do something about it.

…Admitting to yourself what you really feel makes it that much harder to deceive others. You could get incredibly vulnerable, and it will show. You might have to tell someone you love them. Or that you need help. Or cry in public.

…Spirituality is not pretty. It’s not about positivity, or who can have the most inspiring…