| When you learn to meditate, you will often | | | | your body feels uncomfortable for sitting for a |
| encounter a lot of obstacles throughout your | | | | long time. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or |
| sessions and practice. This is nothing to be | | | | advanced learner, restless will happen, and it does. |
| ashamed of because everyone goes through it | | | | If you find yourself feeling this way, you might |
| because when we learn to meditate, we are | | | | want to listen to relaxing music, find a point of |
| learning to work with our mind and adjust with | | | | focus such as an ocean, or mountain scene, or |
| what works and doesn't work for us. This article | | | | chant to relax. It's important that to calm your |
| is going to explain some obstacles we face when | | | | restless spirit, you need to allow some time to |
| learning the art of meditation and actually applying | | | | get comfortable and not launch into your |
| it and how we can work through them. | | | | meditation practice right away so you don't feel |
| Even if we want to meditate, there are times | | | | like you're rushed, too distracted, etc. |
| when we just don't feel like it. Sometimes it's | | | | Of all the biggest obstacles that a practitioners |
| because we are too tired, other times we're too | | | | encounters when he or she learns to meditate is |
| busy, or sometimes it's just an excuse not to | | | | the self-defeating fact that they don't believe |
| meditate at all. If you don't feel like meditating for | | | | they are good enough to do so. This is a fallacy |
| the usual amount of time that you usually do, it's | | | | of the mind, because the mind is afraid and is |
| a good idea to shorten your meditation time for | | | | dealing with life from a different exercise, angle, |
| that day, even if it's just for 3-5 minutes at a | | | | or perspective. When it comes to meditation, the |
| traffic light. If you don't, and the less you | | | | idea of being whether or not you're a good |
| meditate, you will lose all ambition to meditate at | | | | meditator is just silly. The art and practice of |
| all until you stop meditation altogether. The key is | | | | meditation is not a contest for who's bigger and |
| to keep going, even if your mind is trying to trick | | | | better, but a self-improvement process that builds |
| you into not feeling like it. | | | | up over time to center the self and to bring it to |
| If you're sitting still while in meditation, you might | | | | the original source of where you came from, |
| feel like your mind is wandering or that parts of | | | | which is your spiritual essence. |