Very often, especially when we are new to meditation, we feel that we are responsible for the experience that we have in meditation – we feel that it is up to us to make something happen! Sometimes we push and pull and become discouraged, but as we progress in our spiritual journey, we begin to realise that meditation is something that occurs quite naturally and spontaneously from within – like a river that flows from a spring in the ground. We cannot necessarily see the source of the river, but we can see or, as it is with meditation, feel the results.