Meditation can be seductive. It can bring your current position in to clear focus and calm your mind into awareness of the now. The problem of being in the moment, is that here/now is a point which is a wave of constant transition.
It is important to stay on the crest of the now/next wave instead of in the now/past trough.
Knowing how you got where you are now is of limited consequence. Sure, it can give you insight, and give you endless idle entertainment watching your own movie, speculating on subplots and motivations and catching glimpses of foreshadowing: But the important thing is knowing where you are going and what to do next.
To use the analogy of a journey, your intuition is pointing towards San Francisco. You at the moment are standing in a cornfield in Kansas. Never mind how you got here. The thing is, you need to be heading West. From a Kansas cornfield perspective, any road West will do. Just get moving. You can pick up a map at the next gas station. You can refine your directions as you go, but if you just sit there and fuss at yourself for being stuck in Kansas and ruminate on how you got there and why – well, when you are done, you'll still be standing in the cornfield, won't you?
If you need to, use meditation to hone your insight on the next move, and then do that. You are either moving towards your goal or away from it, because time is moving around you and it has a tendency to catch you up in its currents, and widen the gap.
I was once given the advice, if you don't know what to do, do nothing. I couldn't disagree more. In that circumstance, the something you should be doing at the very least is repairing your compass. That is an action, isn't it?
I love my GPS. When I miss the turn, it doesn't freak out, it just says “Recalculating.” No big. Just find the next turn.
Gotta keep going, though. Don't park and cry. Don't rage at the traffic. Don't curse the department of transportation.
Flat tire? Fix it.
Can't fix it? Get help.
No help? Call a taxi or get out and walk.
THE NEXT THING is always right there to do, so do it. Sometimes meditation is the next thing to do, but do it as an action, not as a hard stop.
Keep the ball rolling.
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