Certain pressures are part and parcel of the modern materialistic civilization. Perhaps you can not avoid them. But there are certain types of situations, which can be managed without pressure. By mishandling those situations, and many times with imaginary fears, you build a fence around you and lock yourself within the fence, throw the key of the lock somewhere, and blame others for your plight! You lose your peace of mind and blame others for it. Remember the fox that says grapes are sour, when it is unable to get at its height!
Meditation is supposed to bring peace to your agitated mind. But your authentic question is how to do meditation? Your each day is filled with many a stressful activities, one after another!
Take a beautiful example. Have you seen the lotus in a pond? Where it is born? In the depths of the pond, where there is nothing but slush and mud. Where does it grow and ultimately bloom? In the very same pond. Do you see mud on its petals? Not even a grain. Not even a drop of pond water can sustain on it. With whom does it maintain the contact? With the glorious, sparkling sun high above, with the sunrise, its petals open. With the sunset, its...