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4 Meditation Struggles & How to Overcome Them
These struggles can make or break your practice if you don’t know how to handle them
There are plenty of reasons to meditate, and perhaps just as many meditation struggles that cause people to give up or not even try in the first place. Let’s talk about five specific obstacles and how you can overcome them.
Resistance to wanting to meditate right now
You’ve decided you want a daily meditation practice. You’ve found an app, maybe even a specific meditation, and committed a time. But when that time comes, you feel resistant to meditating right then. You want to do other things — or tell yourself you need to do other things. You might not even know why you feel resistant; you just know you do.
The solution: To quote Nike, just do it! This is procrastination, just like anything else that you put off doing. And the only way to overcome procrastination is to just do it. When the time rolls around for you to meditate, plop your butt on the floor, a cushion, your bed, or a chair. Open your app, close your eyes, and meditate. It’s truly that simple. But if you still want to complicate it more, you can hire a meditation teacher. Paying someone to help you meditate might motivate you a little more to actually follow through.
