Despite the growing popularity of meditation, prevailing misconceptions about the practice are a barrier that prevents many people from trying meditation and receiving its profound benefits for the body, mind, and spirit. Here are seven of the most common meditation myths dispelled.

Myth #1: Meditation is difficult.

Truth: This myth is rooted in the image of meditation as an esoteric practice reserved only for saints, holy men, and spiritual adepts.

In reality, when you receive instruction from an experienced, knowledgeable teacher, meditation is easy and fun to learn.

The techniques can be as simple as focusing on the breath or silently repeating a mantra. One reason why meditation may seem difficult is that we try too hard to concentrate, we’re overly attached to results, or we’re not sure we are doing it right.

During this shifting time, there will be people in your lives that want you to stay exactly where you are for them. What is the best course of action? Smile…nod…say, “Okay”, and continue growing in ways that are in your highest and best. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/06/25/smile-and-nod/

There is a path to a meaningful life.

Too often, however, we are stalled at the boulders that are blocking this path. We feel stuck, yearning for that something “out there” that will bring us joy, connection satisfaction.

So we look for satisfaction in the wrong places— in the refrigerator, at the shopping mall, in the martini glass, at the television screen, on the Internet and in the back of the cupboard where we keep the cookies.

The truth is:

Facebook is fun, but it does not satisfy deeply. Busyness overtakes time for rejuvenation and genuine relaxation. Cookies are tasty, but too many of them will produce new problems.

Increasing numbers of people are finding out that financial success, a dream house and personal recognition, while certainly making life more comfortable, are ultimately empty and sometimes even lonely when other parts of their lives are not satisfying.

So, back to the path to that meaningful life – how do we find it?

By Steve Taylor Ph.D
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Many people believe that the powers of science are unlimited. Science is a process of uncovering the mechanisms by which nature works, and eventually, after enough experimentation and investigation, every mystery will be understood. The darkness of ignorance will have been completely illuminated by the light of reason, and we will possess the truth about life and the universe.

Some observers even believe that we’re quite close to reaching this point now. If scientific progress continues at the same rate as the last few decades, so this argument goes, it can only be a matter of a few more decades (or even less) before all the mysteries in the universe are solved. After all, haven’t most of the biggest mysteries already been solved? As long ago as 1971 the biologist Bentley Glass wrote, ‘We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated to its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.’