Peace and Rich's blessings.

And welcome to Take Back Your Mind podcast Life Question of the Week.

I have the opportunity to answer questions that people are asking me as they email their question to me.

And I'm always feel privileged to be in the position to seek to bring some level of understanding, some level of

assistance to all of you who are tuning in. And oftentimes, maybe you personally haven't

written in the question. However, the questions are applicable to everyone. So today we have a

question from Samuel, from Malawi Africa.

He says this, can meditation become addictive? For the past year my meditation practice

has brought me so much joy that I do it so often that I'm wondering if it's turned

into an addiction. For example, when I'm at work and happen to have a few moments to spare,

I'll meditate. When I'm at home sometimes, I leave everyone else outside and I go inside

to meditate. I've even lost interest in attending church services and instead prefer to stay home

and meditate. Considering that I am a man with a family to provide for, how can this behavior

affect my family and me both positively and negatively? How best can I handle this desire of wanting

to meditate every chance I get? Samuel, first of all, I applaud you for going down this path of awakening through the practice of meditation.

It's very wonderful, it's very magnificent.

One, meditation is not an escape from life. Meditation is an escape from your

little points of view, perceptions, and opinions, and to come into a much more expanded awareness of that

which is real. So there are cycles in meditation where you appear to be going through one,

in which you just want to meditate all the time.

And I can remember going through those same cycles myself.

It's all I wanted to do was meditate.

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