Before we travel, the idea is always that we will go about the planned activities that are making us travel, that is, to enjoy our vacation or to attend to business related events, and get to meditate too.
However, when we actually get to travel and arrive at our various destinations, things begin to change. We start moving things around in our schedule to accommodate new things we had not planned for and add new things we didn’t think we would have to address.
After a few days into the travel, it crosses our minds that we have not meditated since we got there. So we plan we will meditate in the evening after an activity we are looking forward to in the next 30 minutes to one hour.
And as we might imagine, we let that slide too and end up not meditating. This goes on until we go back home and chew ourselves up for not sparing a few minutes for meditation.
Now, many people might think that meditating when traveling is just outright impossible, but it’s not. The secret to making that work lies in how you have designed your meditation routine, how you have planned to do it during the travel and how committed you are to making it work.
Here, we get to learn how to approach that problem in great detail and how we can make considerations of the meditation routines we work with when at home, our travel plan and our intentions and purpose of meditation.
With those 3 factors in mind and remaining aware of ourselves throughout the travel so as to help us check in with ourselves as far as meditation is concerned, we are more likely to be successful with meditation whenever we are traveling.