Meditation didn't "click" for me for a long time because it wasn't ... aggressive enough.
A friend taught me this: Sit or lie still. Burn your body with a white-hot fire, starting at your toes. Incinerate yourself. Visualize intense fire with a child's pure unfettered imagination. Let that fire burn your body slowly, creeping up inch by inch with its quiet impersonal anger. When your body has burnt up, the fire quiets down and the weightless ash blows away. Then you open your eyes.
This worked for me - I felt it! - and opened up meditation for me. I have since had very good success with the Headspace app, for instance.
Another important thought for me was "Meditation is watching your thoughts go by like the bubbles in a glass of champagne."
Overall, in a nutshell, what meditation has done for me is: There is more of what should be. There is less of what shouldn't be.
A friend taught me this: Sit or lie still. Burn your body with a white-hot fire, starting at your toes. Incinerate yourself. Visualize intense fire with a child's pure unfettered imagination. Let that fire burn your body slowly, creeping up inch by inch with its quiet impersonal anger. When your body has burnt up, the fire quiets down and the weightless ash blows away. Then you open your eyes.
This worked for me - I felt it! - and opened up meditation for me. I have since had very good success with the Headspace app, for instance.
Another important thought for me was "Meditation is watching your thoughts go by like the bubbles in a glass of champagne."
Overall, in a nutshell, what meditation has done for me is: There is more of what should be. There is less of what shouldn't be.