Eckhart Tolle argues that scheduling meditation as a task you complete defeats the purpose. Treating it as something to check off creates a mental barrier that blocks genuine presence. Instead, let meditation arise naturally without time pressure or the idea that you're doing it.
What prevents the meditation practice from really being deeply effective is at the back of your mind the idea, the assumption that you are doing a meditation. I'm now going to do my meditation. I have got 30 minutes, and after that I have to do my emails. But first I'll do the meditation. Okay, I'm done for today.
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