I’ve tried, but I just can’t meditate
A lot of people these days like the idea of meditation, and even science tells us that meditation is good for us. So we might try some meditation classes, but many people say they just can’t meditate. Master Sri Avinash addresses this issue with inspiring simplicity and we have a multitude of free resources to help.
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Meditation is natural
If someone tells me they can’t meditate or that meditation is too hard, there are two things I say to the person. Firstly, “Do you know how to eat? Who taught you how to eat?” Nobody.
When you were a baby, you cried for your mother’s milk straight away when you were hungry. In the same way, meditation is very natural.
When meditation feels unnatural it is because we haven’t been living in that state of meditation for most of our life. So that natural state of meditation has become a foreign thing. The muscle of meditation has shrunk so much that we find it difficult to lift any problems above our shoulders!
Meditation gets easier with practice
The second thing I say to the person is, “The first time Roger Federer went onto the tennis court he was not a champion.” It takes many years of dedication, passion, practice, training and coaching to make a person a champion.
So there’s no such thing as a person who can’t meditate. It’s just a beginner who hasn’t practiced for long enough, that’s all.
Why we find it hard to meditate
The word ‘meditation’ refers to both the meditation state and meditation techniques. Meditation techniques are tools that help us to experience that natural meditation state.
There are many meditation techniques, such as breath meditation, mantra meditation, walking meditation, guided meditation and mindfulness meditation. And these techniques aim to bring you to the meditation state—that natural stillness of energy within you, with no choppy emotions, no dull flatness, no dramas.
When the energy within you is still for long periods of meditation, then suddenly everything comes from that—lightness, joy, wisdom, love, laughter, even good health comes from that.
Meditation is so simple. But what makes meditation techniques difficult is when you think the situations in your life are really important.
As soon as you decide a situation in your life is really significant, and that meditation is less important, you will be focusing on thoughts about that situation. So you try to meditate but your awareness is really on solving or planning or strategizing around that situation in your life.
That’s why you feel meditation is too hard, and you believe you can’t meditate.
Determination to meditate properly
If you want to still the energy within you and to experience the many benefits of meditation, you have to be determined. When a situation pulls you to think, you have to be determined to just focus, not allowing your attention to go to those things that make you worry or plan or strategize.
So it takes a bit of courage, a bit of practice and also a shift in perspective.
It’s absolutely simple to meditate for two or three minutes, but not for two or three hours. That’s why you have to be clear about what you want and how to achieve it.
If you want to be happy in your life, if you want love in your life, if you want joy, if you want peace, then you have to be clear about what leads to that.
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