15 Reasons To Start A Meditation Practice

Thinking back on a life filled with adventure and challenge, I realize that many of my accomplishments came from situations I was too naive to realize I should be afraid of. Like the 10 years I spent teaching in a large, racially diverse inner city high school. If offered the job today, I would certainly recognize the enormous challenges and inherent risks and might turn down the opportunity.


Or the morning I woke up and knew it was the day I would start my meditation practice. 15 years ago, no one had told me there was a 'right' way to sit. I didn't know there were techniques to follow and protocol to observe. I simply knew it had been a longstanding goal of mine, and that I needed to change SOMETHING about my life. So I began. So what are you waiting for?

• Ignore the self talk that says you can't
• Disregard the people in your life that prevent you from doing this
• You are never too busy to dream
• You are are the right age
• You'll be educated along the way
• That one door closed so this one can open
•  You are fit enough
• You are good looking enough
• You have everything you need
• There are obstacles to everything worth fighting for
• You don't need permission
• You are in the perfect place, right now, in your life!
• You need no goals, no teacher, or other method than the desire
• Leave behind those things that want to hold you back
• Put your energy where it will pay off