Meditation
Practice for Mothers, Tip #9: Saturday morning can be an excellent time
for an extended meditation sit if you are all right with your children
watching a few episodes of Saturday morning cartoons while they nibble
on bagels and fruit. I personally am fine with 2-3 PBS kids shows. If
you feel guilty about all the TV-watching while you meditate, however,
welcome the guilt--it will give you something to work with during your
sit.
Meditation
Practice for Mothers, "Just Do It" Tip #10: There are some days that,
despite a good run of daily meditation, insights, yoga, healthy eating,
and a comfortable sense of being on your path, that you wake up and just
cannot get it together. You can't quite wake up, you are only
partially attentive to your kids, the deafening sound of the high school
sports teams waiting in the 4-mile long
line at Chick Fil-A (where your kids just HAD to go and you are to
tired/out of it to argue, though you did insist on fruit cups) is about
to drive you into the nearest cave, your neck is stiff from sleeping
funny, and you basically wish you could just start over, or are waiting
to start but its already 3pm. I call this the "1 step forward 2 steps
back" principle. It is insidious because it gives the illusion that
your meditation practice isn't working. Don't let this principle deter
you. It too is an illusion and an important part of the practice.
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