Well I am not sure about what you mean by does meditation really work? What are you trying to do. Again there are alot of youtube videos that like to claim that meditation is going make you more money, make you healthier, make you sexier and give you a better sex life. Again most of these claims are just antedotal without much evidence. There are alot of meditation studies, and they like the claim the great benefits of meditation, and yet not much is said about the control groups ie non meditators. Was there any difference at all between the two groups? I would like to know. But most of the time belief is really the most important thing. If you believe that it is going to work it probably might work, where if you believe that it is not going to work than it is probably not going to work.
There is a point to this in that Physicsts when they are think light is wave than they start to see that light behaves like a wave. When physicsts believe that light behaves like a particle than light starts to display proporties of a particle. Which is the laymans idea of quantum physics, which kind of leads one to believe that you maybe creating your own reality. I know that is alot to take in. Again What is meditation suppose to do for you? That is an amazing question. Meditation in a way is like a wine. Wine works in that the first glass or two can make you very merry indeed, and just oh so happy to be alive and well for the people to see. But yet at the same time wine can drain you and really just crash your life if you are too dependent on it .
I think that meditation could be the same way, I don’t think that it is going to lead to negative qualities of addiction like wine, but it can be over inflated in that you believe that the act of meditation is going to releave you of all of your missery and pain for one reason or another. But like wine, where you are enjoying that nice sip of the vine and enjoying it go down your mouth in such a smooth matter of fact kind of way meditation can have the same sort of feel in that you just focus on each breath that you take in. Taking in that breath, and feeling exhaling it all the way out.
Just feeling it leave you and then fill you back up is just so incredible. But yet at other moments you just feel like you are going through the motions. You may not know that meditation is working for you until someone you know says yeah I can see a change in you such as you are not as agressive as you once where, things just don’t get you as all bent out of proportion as you once would have been. That being said if you do get bent and lose your cool than someone might say hey is that meditation thing working for you? Which is a fair criticism to say the least.
Does meditation really work?
Again that is just all up to you to determine that no one is going to know but you. At the end of the day it comes down to you. I will say this that you should not be putting too much expectations on yourself, in that you should not make the goal the thing of something so far off. Make the goal the doing of the habit. Such as if you want to lose weight than make the goal going for a walk and watching what you eat, not shedding of the pounds. You have control over whether you worked out or not. You have control over whether you stop off at wendys for a mouth watering burger or you stop by Whole Foods for a healthy meal. Whereas with meditation you have control of whether you meditate or not
Again does meditation work?
Somedays I think that meditation is working and other days I am not sure, maybe there are days that I think I should not have meditated but I still meditate anyway. So just see for yourself if it works or not you don’t need a guru to tell you that. Be gentle with yourself, life can be tough enough just be kind to yourself and you may see that you are feeling just all that much better than you may have thought possible. Somedays that one piece of music really hit the spot and at other times that same piece of music just doens’t do it for you in some other moment.