Activities such as showering, brushing teeth, or driving home from work are deeply ingrained habits that require no effort or forethought. They are known as instrumental tasks. By linking your meditation for any of these tasks, the effort required to initiate the meditation session will be significantly reduced.
Davidji, author of Secrets of Meditation, the RPM provides acronyms (up, pee, and meditation) and RAW (right after work) as a guideline for linking meditations habits. Not only are these acronyms catchy, they can reduce the resistance most people experience when trying to create a new habit. Linking your meditation session to an automatic activity, one that does not require the use of power, increases the chances that your new habit takes root.
