What We Get Wrong About Meditation + Silence Is Not The Absence Of Sound

<p class="p1">The benefits of meditation most certainly can’t be under estimated.  It is one of the most potent tools we have in grounding a busy mind and calming the restless thoughts that we carry with us in life.  It is estimated that 2 - 500 million people meditate around the world, and its popularity continues to grow as we fall deeper into the Kali Yuga era of time, where it seems imperative that we find strategies to cope with the often unforgiving consequences of our continued descent into the collective shadow.  One thing is definitely certain; meditation helps many and has the potential to juristically alter the way in which we perceive the world outside; that is of course, if we are doing it correctly.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Just as with anything, the more popular something becomes, the more of a tendency we have to trivialize the sanctity of sacred practices like meditation, and a few hundred meditation apps later, we have a global industry worth an estimated 522.21 million and no shortage of instructional content there to guide us on our journey.  It can be difficult to witness how much of a spectacle its become.  It can be even more difficult to witness so many organizations using meditation as a way to sell products or promote services. And while we certainly can’t limit the momentum of this machine, what we can do is ensure that we understand the most important elements of this practice as to not lose site of the sacred principles that exists within meditation. </p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1">Although I may sound a bit cynical when speaking of our western societies proclivity towards culturally appropriating eastern spiritual practices for their own benefit; it’s with good reason.  Much of what true meditation teaches us seems to work in direct contradiction to how our western society approaches the practice all together.  Instead of leaning into the simplicity of eastern stillness, they lean more into the complexity of western mind, which contributes to more of the same conf