My meditation cycle is different?!

Question: My meditation cycle is different?

I work a week in, week out rotation to work. One week in, I fly to work and depending on my work schedule, I may be working dayshift or nightshift. The week out, I'm back at home, enjoying the advantage of day time activities and night time rest.. During the weeks I work night shift, I get up around 3:30 in the afternoon, and begin my meditations at 4:00 pm. I do this for the entirety of the week, until I go home, in where I begin my meditations at 9:00 am. Now, I've come to understand the advantages of meditating at the same time, everyday, in how it allows my mind and body to become more immersed in my meditative state. What I was wondering is how getting used to meditating at a certain time (afternoon), might affect my meditations at other times (morning)?

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Immersed ? Although you do not say so, it sounds like jhana practice. While keeping the habit of same time might help, as Martita said, it's a relatively minor issue.

If you were doing many other styles of meditative practice, such as mindfulness practice, for instance, it definitely would make no difference what the time was, since you are practicing to affect consciousness at all times.

Whatever practice you do, the important thing is commitment and taking joy in the practice. The latter motivates, and the former takes over when practice becomes challenging or difficult. And if you stick with it, eventually, it will. And that's when you really start to learn.

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The only thing that meditating at the same time daily will accomplish is to condition you to meditating at that time. This repetition will allow you to relax easier when you sit. It becomes part of your schedule, thus becoming a part of you. You end up missing it if it is not there.

If you consistently meditate upon waking up, the time difference shouldn't affect you. The only thing that might, would be the sounds you hear when you sit. For example morning meditations may bring the sounds of birds, while afternoon you will hear more cars and traffic.

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