Motives For Meditation

[Zane]

I have a new meditation habit and it's been coming along great. My motives for meditation is for to awaken and trigger my creativity, self-actualization, deep relaxation, lucidity of mind and for self-hypnosis. I want to ask people on the forum "what are your motivations for meditation? Why do you meditate?" I see meditation as a way to find inner peace during drastic social change and so I can focus on staying calm while other people are bitter and angry. 

[cetus]

@Zane It's more a wanting to return to what is at at the core of being. Life can be like a big wheel that goes round and round endlessly. For me meditation is a way to connect to that stillness that resides at the center of it all. The still axle that the wheel moves around.

[Dodo]

I meditate in order to cut dysfunction and grow functions

[The White Belt]

@Zane I mediate, because the more I can see what a thought is, the more I can see it in my every day life.

Therefore the more I can see bullshit in my mind, and can starve it from dictating how I feel! 

[Danielle]

I don't know why I meditate anymore. I just do it.  It doesn't feel like I'm meditating, it's more like meditation does me nowadays, if that makes sense.

[FindingPeace]

18 hours ago, Danielle said:

I don't know why I meditate anymore. I just do it.  It doesn't feel like I'm meditating, it's more like meditation does me nowadays, if that makes sense.

I can relate to this.

I don't really meditate for a 'reason'. Because as soon as you expect something out of it the whole process starts to take on an agenda and becomes frustrating. This is counterproductive. Meditation has benefits. Many different benefits and I don't even know what they all are. In fact I'm not interested in 'knowing' what they are. I will find out in time as the benefits become apparent. And that's really my motive. Not because I am expecting anything specific from it, but because in time, I will see the value in it. And I'm starting to see the value. What more value I will get in the future remains to be seen. Only time will tell.

My motivation is really just to go into it with an open mind and see where it will take me. That is why I started in the first place. Just to see what would happen, without expecting anything in particular. But once established in a meditation habit I find that it motivates itself. I am driven to do it. As though it is doing me.

Edited January 30, 2017 by FindingPeace