Time often is a great healer and helps us understand our own thoughts and attitudes.
I would add that 'meditation time' is always a great healer.
Its strange (or perhaps not?) that problems are often met with an unwillingness to meditate or maybe shorten our meditation with the idea that it's too hard when our consciousness is ruffled. This happened to me the other day after a surprising anxiety producing incident. I pushed through and forced myself to meditate even though I was agitated. I asked for guidance and help, as you suggested Steve, and meditation was much deeper than I expected and the next day the repercussions of the incident simply melted away.
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I agree with you, that often we need to ‘push forward’ our meditation even though we ‘don’t feel like it’ but I do recall reading and hearing advice that sometimes we can be so obsessed with a problem that it is better to sleep it off and wake up with a different attitude. And often if I have difficulty with meditation I resort to ‘practicing the presence’ a lot after such challenging circumstances and find that often helps also. Because I’m quite aware that it is difficult 😞 to meditate when worldly problems engulf our minds. I think though that after years or maybe life times of meditation practice we become more free of letting worldly problems take over our consciousness, but rather see them for what they our; part of the delusion of letting the world get the beat of us when in reality this too will pass.
What I do find is that reading something like this from you is quite a relief from other friends that do not make the effort at meditation and let their consciousness be disturbed 😳 and stirred up by the worlds turmoil.
