Is It Worth It?

[Dominic]

Are you really THAT much happier meditating for years? Are you really THAT much for filled putting in the years of effort of personal development? Need some opinions of people been doing it for a year or longer, and some motivation to keep going haha (well i'll never stop but still)

Edited February 9, 2016 by Dominic

[Guest]

Hi Dominic!

 

I've been skimming through your posts before answering your question. Based on that I believe that you already know about the possible benefits of meditation and personal development. But then again there must be a reason for you to ask this question especially with regard to you asking for motivation. From my point of view, it seems like you didn't absorb or feel what this development process can change in you yet.

Maybe the first things to get rid of are the preconceptions and expectations that come with the term meditation. I assume that you are looking for something that meditation can give. 

For me "meditation", if you want to call it that, has nothing to do with doing. It's simply the deep realization that you are. It is beeing. Nothing more. 

And this feeling is what true happiness consists in. There is no need of understanding and no resisting from anything. Just the awareness that I am, which calms and relaxes your mind and body and depressurizes from all the heavy trains of thought throughout the day.

This is what my personal development process is based on. The change and the power from within. As I experienced it this process is long and will probably never be completed. But as time goes on you'll not only know about personal development, you will actually have personal development happening in yourself and feel real happiness in everything you do. 

It's something that doesn't start today and ends tomorrow. The process will accompany you your entire life!

This is just what I have experienced so far. Stay on this journey and true happiness will come...

 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Dominic said:

Are you really THAT much happier meditating for years? Are you really THAT much for filled putting in the years of effort of personal development?

It is not the meditating itself that brings happiness or fulfilment.  Rather, it is the insights gained by being quietly alone for a while - where you can just put aside all worries or cares or hopes and desires, and just sit calmly and watch the thoughts appear and disappear.   Watch the feelings as they move through the body.  Have no opinions.  If an opinion comes up then just watch it as a prank thought and soon it will disappear.   All thoughts come and go.   It is a movement.   You are the watcher.  You are NOT the thoughts.

Somewhere along the line, not necessarily during a meditation period, an insight may trigger a sudden feeling of relief or happiness or joy.  This becomes possible because of the quiet periods of just sitting and watching.   The "scattered you" starts to move towards an "integrated you".  A whole, complete you.   In this lies the very secret of fulfilment.

Do not dispair.  Do not feel that you are trying to achieve something special.   You are already that which you seek, but you do not know it when the mind is in a "scattered state".

joy

 

[Ajax]

Your mind is your greatest enemy because it is always with you and feeding you crap.

To have the ability to still your mind in the midst of chaos and uncertainty is priceless.

[NickOleksiak]

1 hour ago, walt said:

It is not the meditating itself that brings happiness or fulfilment.  Rather, it is the insights gained by being quietly alone for a while - where you can just put aside all worries or cares or hopes and desires, and just sit calmly and watch the thoughts appear and disappear.   Watch the feelings as they move through the body.  Have no opinions.  If an opinion comes up then just watch it as a prank thought and soon it will disappear.   All thoughts come and go.   It is a movement.   You are the watcher.  You are NOT the thoughts.

Somewhere along the line, not necessarily during a meditation period, an insight may trigger a sudden feeling of relief or happiness or joy.  This becomes possible because of the quiet periods of just sitting and watching.   The "scattered you" starts to move towards an "integrated you".  A whole, complete you.   In this lies the very secret of fulfilment.

Do not dispair.  Do not feel that you are trying to achieve something special.   You are already that which you seek, but you do not know it when the mind is in a "scattered state".

joy

 

Beautifully worded~ I figure you won't mind, but out of the curtesy of tell you, I'm saving this somewhere on my desktop for future reference. Thanks for the wise words.