More and more people are motivated to understand deeper realities.  Yet, the process of learning meditation can also seem discouraging.  You may not be making progress as fast as you would like.  You may resent your effort when the results just don't come the way you desire. Why might people prevent their own progress?

1) Fear.   To stand back from the comfort of common noise, predictability, and the daily existence you're familiar with, you must confront deeper, unresolved feelings inside yourself.  The ego-mind tends to do anything to evoke fear and discomfort so you no longer sense the truth about yourself is beyond what you already think you know.  Meditation is a means to enable you to teach yourself to listen differently, to heighten your sensitivities and reframe fear as illusion.

2) Confusion about happiness.  People who win money are often not as happy as we assume.  People who have suffered health setbacks and people with serious illness are frequently happier than we initially realize.  As a person evolves in solitude, true sources of happiness within can be easier to discern than during distraction. Happiness is in the "now" as you are.  You can tap into it anytime.

3) Ignorance. If you have never experienced love, compassion, forgiveness or other uplifting feelings that come with increasing self-awareness, then its likely you don't know what you're missing.  You may think that's fine, and you're entitled to your opinion.  Yet, from the moment you open your heart and your mind to something other than what you think you know, then your world will transform in unimaginable directions.  To confront who you're not is the first step to discovering who you really you.  Its a question of being willing and taking the new steps forward.