Why Aren’t More Men Meditating?
Age, cultural bias and addiction to stress are key factors
The fact that most of my students are women has never been a concern of mine. That changed however one sunny Saturday afternoon, when during a meditation and relaxation workshop a slender gentlemen in the front row asked, “Why am I the only man here?” Meditation has so many physiological, mental and emotional benefits I’ve often wondered why everyone isn’t doing it, now I’m wondering why more men aren’t doing it.
Of the few men who have attended my meditation classes in the past, the majority are prodded by their significant others, injured or suffering from a stress related illness. Even my husband of nearly ten years didn’t try meditation until he started to break out in a “mysterious” rash on his upper torso.
After weeks of contemplating this issue as well as taking an informal survey among my family and friends, I feel that the major reasons why many men will wait until their relationship or their organs are in peril before taking a meditation class is more about age, cultural bias and addiction to stress than just being from Mars. (more…)
Popularity: 18% [?]
Energize your meditation practice with the use of mudras. Mudra means hand gesture, and the best known mudra is the Jnana Mudra where the thumb and the index finger touch. This mudra or gesture represents, "the oneness of humanity with cosmic...
The book of the month is the “Tao Te Ching” (pronounced Dow Deh Jing) translation by Stephen Mitchell. It is purportedly written by a man called Lao Tzu of which very little is known in about the 6th or 5th century B.C.E....