{"id":308,"date":"2013-01-10T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2013-01-10T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T18:16:12","slug":"no-time-to-meditate-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/meditation-advice\/no-time-to-meditate-really\/","title":{"rendered":"No time to meditate. Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we are busy, we find it difficult to meditate.<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons for it. A busy home schedule, busy working hours, demanding boss, demanding wife, naughty kids and many other distracting things.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us are not multi-millionaires having all the facilities of life at our disposal. We have to work hard to make a living. And we like it or not- making a living involves work and it simply means less time for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Many people think that religion and spirituality are the things of old and retired people. It is because that mostly see old people doing spiritual stuff.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, it is not the case.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Old people get into religion and spirituality because they have time. Young just can&#8217;t afford it. They have no time for this stuff. As such it is not a young and old type of thing. At the core, it is only a matter of those who have time and those who don&#8217;t have it.<\/p>\n<p>Now coming back to finding time for meditation.<\/p>\n<p>When we say that we have no time for meditation, are we really being true to ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>Do you really have no time for meditation? Really?<\/p>\n<p>If the answer is yes, you need to do a reality check.<\/p>\n<p>It may sound a bit harsher but having no time for ourselves simply points towards the fact that we are not having proper priorities in life.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend you to read this eye opening article on the busy people:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calnewport.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/if-youre-busy-youre-doing-something-wrong-the-surprisingly-relaxed-lives-of-elite-achievers\/\">If You\u2019re Busy, You\u2019re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For me reading this article was a hard hitting experience. It reinforce the truth which i have read many times: The busiest people on earth are the most relaxed and they always find the time to do the things of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>Before reacting to this article, I again suggest you to read this article. Here are the concluding paras of this wonderful piece of advice:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; If you\u2019re chronically stressed and up late working, you\u2019re doing something wrong. You\u2019re the average players from the Universit\u00e4t der K\u00fcnste \u2014 not the elite. You\u2019ve built a life around hard to do work, not hard work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hope this will kindle some bulb in your head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we are busy, we find it difficult to meditate. There are many reasons for it. A busy home schedule, busy working hours, demanding boss, demanding wife, naughty kids and many other distracting things. Most of us are not multi-millionaires having all the facilities of life at our disposal. We have to work hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}