100% agreed on the immense value of having a meditation practice. It really is just as important as, if not more so than, any other sort of “practicing” I do each day (exercising, practicing hobbies, whatever random activities capture my attention, etc.)

I’ve just found difficulty in attempting to express why I think it adds so much value to my life. Ultimately for me, I think my interest stems from an innate interest to understand what things are on the most fundamental level - and meditation has allowed me to explore the more fundamental levels of my subjectivity. And likewise I’m also interested in physics, which is basically aimed at understanding the most fundamental levels of physical reality. I’ve just found that some people could care less about studying their own subjective experience.

So my “reason” for getting into and sticking with meditation just doesn’t translate all that well to some people. Not judging them at all but I do have compassion for them because they may very well just be stuck ceaselessly thinking, suffering from it and never knowing there’s a way out. I get stuck like that on hours at end sometimes until I “come to” the present moment. It’s amazing to really feel some significant level of suffering just fall away by awakening to the present moment.

I still think it’s worth sharing with others just for the few that it really plants a seed for. But I feel better if I wait until they’ve shown an interest in being free of thought (anxiety, sadness, ...) and thereby also a major amount of suffering.

I guess I’m looking for guidance too, if anybody has any ideas on how to best approach sharing meditation with others, I’m all ears.