If you like music, try music meditation: listen to a track and every time you notice that you’re doing anything other than paying attention to the music, pull it back to the song.
Disclaimer: I made up this style after doing meditation for a year or so, it seemed to follow the principles but fit in better with my lifestyle
Meditation totally saved me personally, I used to be crippled with depression, insomnia, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Now I’m happy and healthy with no medication.
The thing is, it takes YEARS and you really have to keep up the practice while you are getting little results for a long time.
But then boom you look back and it’s like “woah I’m way better now”.
Maybe you just need to try a different style that suits you better… after a while (depending on how often/how long you are meditating) it should be pleasant enough you want to keep trying it
For guided meditation it takes practice to learn to let go and figure out what your mind needs to enter such a state. It’s a trance state, which some people are better or worse at.
For observer style I like to do mild exercise (walking or casually biking for me) and letting my mind roam free. The trick is you let your thoughts happen as they will, without trying to encourage or discourage any of them. You just let then play themselves out. It’s very much a “the only way out is through” thing
There’s also energy style and I recommend starting with guided energy meditations and once you find them helpful and understand the basic gist you can free-form decently.
This is satire right? I can’t seem to get meditation to do anything for me.
If you like music, try music meditation: listen to a track and every time you notice that you’re doing anything other than paying attention to the music, pull it back to the song.
Disclaimer: I made up this style after doing meditation for a year or so, it seemed to follow the principles but fit in better with my lifestyle
Meditation totally saved me personally, I used to be crippled with depression, insomnia, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Now I’m happy and healthy with no medication. The thing is, it takes YEARS and you really have to keep up the practice while you are getting little results for a long time. But then boom you look back and it’s like “woah I’m way better now”. Maybe you just need to try a different style that suits you better… after a while (depending on how often/how long you are meditating) it should be pleasant enough you want to keep trying it
If it takes years, how do you know it’s the medicine? Couldn’t it also just be time and maturity?
For guided meditation it takes practice to learn to let go and figure out what your mind needs to enter such a state. It’s a trance state, which some people are better or worse at.
For observer style I like to do mild exercise (walking or casually biking for me) and letting my mind roam free. The trick is you let your thoughts happen as they will, without trying to encourage or discourage any of them. You just let then play themselves out. It’s very much a “the only way out is through” thing
There’s also energy style and I recommend starting with guided energy meditations and once you find them helpful and understand the basic gist you can free-form decently.