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Meditation When Your Mind Just Won’t Quit
Recently someone on Instagram commented to me and said that her mind just can’t stay focused. She then asked how I calm down.
One of the most common complaints or questions I hear is a variation on, “My mind is too busy to meditate!” Some meditation teachers will tell you that’s not possible or true, but I understand that for some of us, it is.
As an overthinker myself, I understand that sometimes you just have so many thoughts coming at you that you truly feel like you can’t relax and let them go.
So how do you meditate when your mind is too busy to meditate?
There are probably a lot of options, but there are two that work really well for me. I recommend these just about every time someone tells me their mind is too busy.
Go with it
As you probably know by now, meditation is not about stopping thinking. It’s about simply letting your thoughts pass by without clinging or attaching to them. However, guided meditations or meditations in which you seek the answer to a specific question or problem do provide focus on something specific.
If your mind is just too wired, sometimes just going with it can be the best meditation.
