Almost everyone becomes goes through periods of significant change.  And without even realizing it, we go through something inevitable – attention overload. We change jobs, move to a new home, have changes in the family and boom, lots of things immediately get into disarray in our lives.

But more than that, these times of big changes in your life are attacks on our stable and well-set habits. Like meditation for instance. While many of us build a strong enough platform of resilience to avoid unsettling our meditation routines and other good habits entirely, a majority of people are more vulnerable to some disruption.

So what do meditators do differently when going through significant changes in their lives to avoid being overwhelmed?

Are you hearing “I hate you” often these days from your child? Do you find yourself often using Raymond’s last resort of “No TV for you” for his daughter Ally from the famous sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond? Or maybe you’re still dealing with temper tantrums from the terrible twos and you feel these things are going to hit you squarely in the eye eventually, given the way your child is acting up.

Here’s the hilarious episode.

The good news is that meditation can help. And not in a superficial way, like merely being mindful about parenting. This is far deeper. This works on you and your child and makes changes deep inside. It spreads positive vibrations in your household and builds long-term family bonds.

For many, Meditation just doesn’t seem to be an immediate priority. They figure they’ll get to it at some point in their lives. More commonly, many think they should probably wait and explore meditation at a point when they’re less “active.” For some reason, meditation is wrongly associated with being physically inactive, or viewed as an activity you do when you have nothing else important to do. Meditation is sometimes viewed as a classic “postpone for retirement” candidate.

Others view meditation as a practice that must be borne out of necessity — to solve a particular problem or health concern. If they’re already successful, generally content and have what they want, or at least most of it — money, success, fame, peace of mind — meditation seems “unnecessary.”

And finally, for those of us who are already meditators, we pass through periods in life where many other things become priority and meditation takes a back seat, sometimes too frequently. Sure we’re meditators, but not all that regular.

Should meditation be a priority in our lives, if so, why and how?

With meditation becoming a serious commercial affair, everyone these days is out to find the newest and fanciest ways to get people to meditate. The latest innovation seems to be having meditation trucks going around where people can sit down and meditate.

Quite an interesting idea. In fact, we love anything that makes people take to meditation. But aside from the commercial aspect that is obvious, is the food truck concept extended to meditation really necessary?

We all face this problem almost always – we either have no time at all or very little of it. And for some strange reason, it’s always our self-improvement activities that end taking the brunt of the “lack of time” problem. Like meditation or a gym workout for example.

Yet you feel like you want to meditate or at least that you should’ve done a better job of making time to meditate. You see, it’s also that self-improvement bug in us – we got here and decided to try something like Sahaja because of its great potential and promise to transform.

Here’s what we can do.