Meditation in practise- but why!?

Just a little something that helped me...(Lens 2)

Our selves are two children the mind and the body, we teach our body to walk and to eat and pay attention to it right from the beginning. We look after it if we hurt ourselves, we put a plaster on it, or we go to the doctors and fix a broken arm or a pain in the stomach or throat we automatically go to the chemist. We do exercise to keep it trim and healthy. Our other child is neglected; we only demand it learns by constantly feeding it with information, but we never let it sleep. We torcher it by always thinking, even when we finally go to sleep, we still make it dream and piece together the day’s events. This poor child never rests…and when it finally rebels and lashes out via stress or depression we battle on and tell it off for doing so, saying there is something wrong with it. We have only started to listen to it culturally. I am starting to learn to give this second child of mine some overdue attention but still am not accustomed to it. Trying to start putting this child into my everyday routine like the other, simply allowing myself to stop and give it some rest; by simply meditating. Sitting and listening to the sounds in the room or standing and listening to the sounds around me or slowly walking in nature and listening to the birds around me. For me and most people probably my second child has not been paid attention to and is very unruly and misbehaved, compared to my other child of the body. One of them is my age and the other is very much still a child. If I imagine my meditation as a long road, and we are walking holding hands alongside it on the pavement, the child is constantly running into the road and bringing with it noise, thoughts, past memories, random ideas, so I keep having to be patient for a moment let the ‘thought pass’ and then lead the misbehaved brainchild bac onto the path; as a child this process needs to be done over and over again before it will learn to stay on the pavement ad keep the road of meditation clear and silent.

This for me is how I am starting to integrate the obligatory the practice of meditation I feel I need to keep myself positive and creative.