Comments on: What are your problems with meditation techniques?

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:29:34 +0000

my problem with meditation is that it costs too much money to learn anything that I think really will work!! I am on disability and looked into TM it is 1500.00$ cant afford that so I have been trying to find someone who is decent that can share what they know for free…because I would …..kev

By: Cirelle

Cirelle — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:04:16 +0000

My biggest difficulty is my lack of ‘presence’-I tend to live primarily inside my head! I want to live in a state of awareness and consciousness THROUGHOUT my day. I want to be able to live in the moment without wishing I was not who I am! I want to be in touch with knowing who I am and what I want. I want to live in a state of harmony with myself, others and the Universe and I wish I knew how!

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:50:06 +0000

Concentration is my main problem. It seems as if I just cannot get my mind still. I keep coming back to focus on crud in my mind.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:59:48 +0000

Hi!

I used to live mostly in a blissful and expansive state of awareness. I used to practice quite a lot, perhaps 2 or 3 hours a day. The more I practiced, the more expansive and blissful I became and easier it got; and the more I wanted to practice. However, this took me away from ‘normal’ people. I felt estranged from society. So I practiced less, drank more, got involved in dramas. Consciousness became constricted and neurotic like normal.

Less practice, more drama, reduced ability to have a successful practice of touching on that which is eternal and intrinsic to us.

Now it is difficult to get back to where I was. Normal life is unsatisfying; spiritual life is just out of reach.

My problem is inconsistent outcomes in meditation and difficulty in spiritually satisfying practice while living in the world. How to know the eternal while living in it here and now in the world?

Thanks!

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:24:45 +0000

I have heard alot about TM. I have no access to a training centre for TM. Is there anywhere I can get free info on how to practice TM

By: Priya

Priya — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:15:40 +0000

Whenever I sit to meditate, past memories spin in front of me and I easily get diverted. Also daily chores and stress of what I need to do in a day catches up- almost like saying “you are sitting and wasting your time- catch it”
Very recent pleasant and not so pleasant memories tend to crowd up my mental space when I try and sit.

I always keep meditation as a thing to be done when I have nothing more important to do.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:03:42 +0000

For me, meditation in the beginning is not a problem. The problem is that after about 10+ minutes goes by and the chatter starts to ‘cripes’ in. Normally, they are either things happened prior or on the day before which later analyzing them have no prevalent to anything at all. The saboteur does its best to be there loud and clear — to STOP me from having my healing moment. (Yes, I call meditation, the healing).
To this day, I just smile if there is someone with me or laugh loudly if I am in the room by myself. Seem like that move the energy pretty quick. All the pain and suffer that the saboteur bring would get release quickly out of my space.

By: Steven Sashen

Steven Sashen — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:22:39 +0000

So, we have at least 2 themes brewing: quieting the mind (a.k.a. stopping thoughts), and motivating oneself to meditate. Interesting.
What I can tell you is that both of these are highly misunderstood, at many levels.
For example, lets say you like chocolate cake (I do). Do you need motivation to eat it if it’s available (and you’re not trying to de-motivate yourself because you’re on a diet)? No, of course not. Do you need motivation to watch your favorite television show? Nope.
The issue here is that you can’t fake motivation (at least not for long and not without having to re-motivate yourself over and over with new techniques). Further, if you explore the very reason WHY you even want to motivate yourself you may find some beliefs about yourself, about meditation, about what you imagine meditation can do for you, etc. which may be… let’s see, how to say this… inaccurate. And trying to believe something inaccurate is actually de-motivating!

Similar thing with “stopping thoughts” (also known as: getting the mind to do something it doesn’t naturally want to do). The only reason we want to stop thoughts is because: a) We don’t like the ones we’re having, and; b) We think it takes getting rid of them, therefore, to find peace. Ignoring for a moment whether it’s even possible to stop thinking for an extended period of time, or even for a short time whenever we want (FWIW, meditations whose goal is stopping thoughts were developed to be used by reclusive monks), let me ask this question: What if you didn’t perceive any thought as problematic or stressful? Would you then find the need to get rid of it?
No. Why would you? If no thought were a problem, where’s the stress? Gone, that’s where. Suffice it to say, it’s MUCH easier and faster to learn how to understand and see your thoughts in a way that they don’t cause problems than it is to stop your mind from doing what it was built to do.

The point of the techniques in the Instant Advanced Meditation Course is to discover this new way of relating to the mind, which produces rapid and easy changes: from stress to peace, confusion to clarity, effort to ease. And it can be done anywhere, any time. So you don’t need to motivate yourself to go sit in a corner, because you can do the practices whenever and wherever you are.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 05 May 2010 07:22:42 +0000

What I find most difficult, is quietening my mind. There is so much going on that even focussing energy on one thing seems impossible or rather unatainable. I want to be able to get to a point where I can be still and have no thought whatsover for a given time…How do I get this right?

By: ChimeraCrimer

ChimeraCrimer — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:40:51 +0000

I find it difficult to relax, I find it difficult to have the urge to meditate or to have the motivation for it.
I have set high goals that NEED meditation to be done at its highest levels.
Without urge and motivation I will continue being a failure.

That is why I need correct techniques and motivation and/or urge somehow…