I've found that many people don't meditate because their experience of meditation is unpleasant and stressful. There are specific difficulties that are sometimes encountered. Generally, that is one of the advantages of working with a good meditation teacher, they can guide you. However, most meditation teachers don't have this full set of distinctions.

Meditation is simple, proven by dozens of scientific studies to be effective, and in my opinion essential for anyone who is interested in improving themselves.

In fact, if you aren't meditating for at least 10 minutes everyday either: you need to troubleshoot your meditation practice find the snarl and unravel it, or you have trouble fitting it into your schedule, or you just plain don't know how to meditate.

In this article we'll focus on the third, not knowing how.

As you might be aware of, toward the end of 2007 there were
some articles that surfaced in Time, Newsweek, and other
publications about some journals that Mother Teresa kept covering
a large portion of her amazing life.

Before we go any further I want to go on the record and say that I
only have the deepest, and highest respect, admiration, and
appreciation for Mother Teresa. She was truly one of the great
people that lived during our time.

The shocking thing that came to light in her journals was that for
nearly half a century she felt unfulfilled and disconnected from

Did you realize that a HUGE percentage of the population is
addicted to something?

20.8% of Americans are addicted to cigarretes, and that becomes
29.2% when you include all forms of tobacco and nicotine.

22.9% of Americans report engaging in binge drinking once
per month or more.

8.3% of the population is addicted to illegal drugs according to
the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. That doesn't count
"recreational" users.

10% are addicted to sex.

5.7% are addicted to gambling.

Let alone food, coffee, tv, computer and video games, etc.

A vast amount, if not all effective change work happens like this:

1) Clarify your desired goals.

2) Check for incongruence with achieving your goal.

3) Reframe the incongruence found in step 2.

4) Repeat Step 2 and 3 until there is absolutely zero incongruence. The flip of zero incongruence is CONGRUENCE otherwise known as alignment.

5) Out of your congruence, you will take new actions. You will sort of spontaneously find yourself doing new things in alignment with your goal. If not, this indicates further incongruence to reframe.