Daily Connect: The rational YES

I just read this article in Science Fair about how meditation can make one a more rational decision maker. Since my practice has been a bit shaky this week, reading this makes me want to sit RIGHT NOW. Yes I agree, I do feel calmer and more rational around decisions since I started to meditate and I really like this about myself.

The article focuses on the meditators' ability to accept a gift without second guessing. The non-meditators were dubious. In our culture we learn to be constant skeptics and doubters. I experience this as a profound lack of security. It's like when we can't accept a compliment or an act of generosity because all these needles and pins of defense rise up in us. Karmic needles and pins that poke us from the inside and don't allow us to receive. Often what we cannot receive is love and goodness. I feel a bit of Hungry Ghost in there.

I appreciate in myself and others when the ability to just say yes without hesitation or fear. There is actually a skill involved in the  ability to immediately recognize a good thing and just be open to it. Just as there is a skill in the immediate "no".

Has meditation helped you with this?

Are you sitting?...I will right now!