“Hello,
There is this saying that there is no wrong kind of meditation.
I hope that it’s true 🙂 but I feel sometimes I’m not meditating right.
I read about people feeling that meditation is having a great impact on their life…
And to me it’s just not like that. I meditate regularly, not for too long but over the years it’s quite some time. But I don’t feel any difference (when meditating and in my everyday life). I feel like I learned a lot but that’s more a rational thing about the truth of my experience but not that I’m more relaxed in any way.
Sometimes I think that I meditate not correct or not ‘efficiently’. Sometimes meditation feels like I have no motivation to actually focus or actually do it correctly.
I just sit, try (with little effort) to focus on my breath and then I get distracted constantly or for a very long time and every time I get so very tired.
Keeping focus feels like an effort and way too often I don’t feel like making an effort when I sit down.
Maybe I want the benefits without the HARD work.
I dunno… How do you keep up the motivation to mediate properly and not just sitting there and waste your time?”
Meditation is simple, easy and effortless.
Solely focusing on your breathing is difficult and not needed to meditate.
When meditating allow your thoughts to flow.
Observe them neutrally as if they were another person’s thoughts.
To begin with there will probably be a constant stream of thoughts.
Some important and many unimportant thoughts.
Allow the unimportant thoughts to flow away.
Pay attention to the important thoughts and spend time focussing on these.
Address them and resolve them.
Some important thoughts will carry over between meditation sessions, this is normal.
Your mind wants you to think, work together with your mind.
Edwin Leo 