Meditation: Your Escape from the Clock’s Tyranny

One of the paradoxes of meditation is that the very thing we turn to it for – peace, clarity, presence – is the thing that feels impossible to achieve when we need it most because “time” won’t allow us.

Why?

Because the mind doesn’t want to cooperate.

The thoughts we’re trying to quiet, the emotions we’re trying to calm, the anxieties we’re trying to release, they’re the same forces that fight back the hardest when we try to sit still. We tell ourselves: I can’t meditate right now, I’m too busy, too worried, too distracted.

But that’s exactly why we need to meditate.

It’s not a luxury. It’s not an escape.

It’s reclaiming our inner power.

We live in a world where time rules us, and I mean ruthlessly. The outside clock never stops ticking, constantly screaming: You’re late! You’re behind! You’re wasting time! You’re running out of time!

And the most insidious of them all: You’re running out of life!

But meditation stops all that because it stops the clock so we can focus on the present.

When we sit down, close our eyes, even for just five minutes, we move away from this man-made time and return to something more permanent…presence. The moment is always now.

We meditate to let go of our thoughts.

We meditate to let go of our emotions.

But we also meditate to take charge of tyrannical time.

When we sit still, we’re not doing “nothing.” We’re doing the most radical thing a person can do in an overstimulated world:

You’re taking control of your mind and emotions rather than them taking control of you.

So the next time your mind says, “I don’t have time to meditate,…

Let those thoughts pass, because they’re not really you. You’re not creating them. Use your will and gently tell the ego… “That’s exactly why I have to.“