Morning meditation is fantastic! Just 10-15 minutes can make a perfect day! I’m so blessed that I have time and ability to do it!
I know what you mean! And if I can find the time to throw in a few sun salutes all the better.
Thank you both for being meditators – it is such a tremendous gift to the world to have your efforts and practices flowing back into the collective source.
*nichole
I just recently moved my mediation to the first thing in the morning and it is wonderful
While I for some reason can physically sit still longer in the mornings it’s harder for me to focus than in the evening. Evenings are better for me unless I’m tired.
Usually I do it both times though so it doesn’t matter 
CitiMonk, you are really blessed. But if you don’t find time for meditation at home and have to be at work, there is one more option that I have been doing and enjoying. In the first few minutes do whatever calming breathing exercise, or quiet rendering of “Om” and then get down to work on “to do” list for the day. Imagine each one of the tasks as being dedicated to Ishvara or whoever you rever. When I started doing this, I found several fallouts. In dedicating the tasks, you separate yourself from the perceived hardships that causes amazing mode of meditation, with eyes wide open and without sitting cross-legged. The anxiety level drops considerably, as the worries for the outcome of the tasks disappear. Redusction in mind modifications further helps the meditation. Very often, some breakthrough thought appears intuitively for some daunting task. And then you can try and expand this meditation over the rest of the work-day whenever feasible. Great feeling.
10-15 min of meditation is not actually enough. It takes most people a longer time to enter into appreciable deeper states of consciousness. If you are strapped for time, then just wake up an hour earlier. Ideally you should meditate for least an hour in a sitting, once in the morning and once in the evening.
It is also important to do pranayama before you begin meditation. If you can only dedicate an hour then do 30 min of pranayama and 30 min of meditation. The real magic is being done by the pranayama.
If you are really commited 1 hour of pranayama and 1 hour of meditation.
[QUOTE=Surya Deva;38044]10-15 min of meditation is not actually enough. It takes most people a longer time to enter into appreciable deeper states of consciousness. If you are strapped for time, then just wake up an hour earlier. Ideally you should meditate for least an hour in a sitting, once in the morning and once in the evening.
It is also important to do pranayama before you begin meditation. If you can only dedicate an hour then do 30 min of pranayama and 30 min of meditation. The real magic is being done by the pranayama.
If you are really commited 1 hour of pranayama and 1 hour of meditation.[/QUOTE]
Do you do this?
[QUOTE=Surya Deva;38044]10-15 min of meditation is not actually enough. It takes most people a longer time to enter into appreciable deeper states of consciousness. If you are strapped for time, then just wake up an hour earlier. Ideally you should meditate for least an hour in a sitting, once in the morning and once in the evening.
It is also important to do pranayama before you begin meditation. If you can only dedicate an hour then do 30 min of pranayama and 30 min of meditation. The real magic is being done by the pranayama.
If you are really commited 1 hour of pranayama and 1 hour of meditation.[/QUOTE]
do you think that pranyama is itself a some sort of meditation? for example 3 chamber breath…
[QUOTE=Surya Deva;38044]10-15 min of meditation is not actually enough. It takes most people a longer time to enter into appreciable deeper states of consciousness. If you are strapped for time, then just wake up an hour earlier. Ideally you should meditate for least an hour in a sitting, once in the morning and once in the evening.
It is also important to do pranayama before you begin meditation. If you can only dedicate an hour then do 30 min of pranayama and 30 min of meditation. The real magic is being done by the pranayama.
If you are really commited 1 hour of pranayama and 1 hour of meditation.[/QUOTE]
What pranayama you think is safe to do for duration of 1 hour?