Meditation Is The Solution

It is on the inward condition that the outer reality depends.
~ Roy Eugene Davis

Our daily meditation practice gives us the tools to mold our normal mental state, our attitude toward others and our expectations of life. I have been meditating almost all of my adult life and am convinced that this has made me the optimist that I am.

I have been working for a small company for the last ten years as it's IT manager. This past week we experienced what could have potentially been a very serious problem with our main servers. It was my job to find the solution which involved stitching together solutions from two different vendors. Without a solution, my company could have gone out of business. Of course, one vendor blamed the other and said that a solution was not possible. At one point, I just took a deep breath, meditated briefly and made one last phone call to tech support at one of the companies. I reached a very cheerful, helpful person who said of course he could help and a solution could be found and it was. Within two hours everything was working perfectly. To paraphrase Paramahansa Yogananda, whatever the problem, meditation is the solution. Even if we were not able to find a fix to this computer problem, because of my meditation practice, I would have known I did my best and been at peace with that.