The rhythm will create boundaries of silence in which meditation can and does occur. Now, let's take a look at a few other ways that meditation, understanding what is meant by meditation, will impact the personal life. Incidentally, and somewhat contrary to popular notions, the personal life has no effect at all on meditation. The subjective side of life influences, changes, creates the phenomenal world. The objective or phenomenal world has nothing to offer to the subtle world except an arena for service.
Meditation calls in light.
One does not sit down one time and flash into enlightenment. That only happens in glamorous books. Meditation works much more, much much more like a rheostat. Perseverance in meditation gradually but steadily increases or turns up the light. It is the increasing light that causes the problems or restructures one's life.