Ah, yes, meditation might be thought of as a way of “stilling the mind”, or “calming the crazy mind”, but there’s something totally absorbing, focused and calming in the activity of photographing butterflies. You need patience. Lots of it. And you need to be able to let go of the need to control and predict. You have absolutely no way to know how long a particular butterfly will rest on a particular flower, if or when it will open its wings, and which direction it’s going to fly off in next.
Here’s some I spent a LONG time capturing!
Try it for yourself sometime. It’s very therapeutic. Slows you right down…..
Heroes Not Zombies 
wonderful pictures and very relaxing indeed. I have never had success in my attempts to photograph butterflies….but I love to just sit and watch them savor the yard thank you for sharing