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Overcoming

When meditating and you notice yourself feeling stressed, confused, unhappy or anxious for the meditation session to finish, you are experiencing "tension in the mind". Tension in the mind comes from trying too hard to mediate or having too strong intention to get something from your meditation time.

The way to overcome this obstacle is simple, here are some tips:

Close your eyes very softly and gently when meditating

  • When you sit for meditation, pay attention to how you close your eyes. Don't close them too tightly, the eyelashes should just barely touch each other. Do not immediately start visualizing a meditation object, first wait for the tension in the mind to pass before starting to visualize.
  • Prepare the body properly. First relax the body, stretch your muscles. Observe and ensure that there is no tension in your body, because if the body is not comfortable, it wil be difficult to set the mind at ease.
  • 'Loosen' your mind by looking at beautiful scenery, nature, go for a walk, or go for a bathroom-break. Once the mind feels at ease, restart your meditation.
  • Do not have too much intention to attain or reach Inner Peace, because it is already within you. You already have it, there is no need to get it. Only stop-still the mind with ease, be mindful, "touch" the sabai-feeling continuously. This is the foundation for your mediation practice. You mediate to be happy, and what you "see" is secondary. Once the mind is still, the Inner Peace will arise naturally, without any effort of your own.

Once you feel that meditation is fun, or that you enjoy meditation it shows that you are using the correct method. Meditation needs to be sabai and easy every step of the way, from the beginning, the middle to the end, for beginners and experts alike.

Being at the center is fun. Feel it!


Submitted on 29 Mar 2012 03:40

Max Raphael


Thanks very much. The last two paragraphs are so so helpful for me right now. Just before reading this I had IPT that reminded me of touching sabai, of meditation being light and easy. I can't be rigid about relaxing the mind!

Submitted on 30 Mar 2012 04:57 from Ariya App

Kubwimana Venuste


why i became slave of Meditation

In my own rational sense, meditation is about living in the present moment. But each person's experience of the present moment varies, and so naturally, the exact meaning of meditation is also unique. A wise man once said, "As many minds, so many paths." Just in the way that two people can watch the same movie and get two entirely different things out of it, meditation also yields subjective experiences.

Many of us aren't used to really looking within: at our thoughts, our intentions, our truer selves. And when things around us are going on full speed, it can be even more difficult to be aware of what's going on within us. So, one way to think of meditation is as an intentional simplification, a slowing down of sorts.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves." In life we are often faced with unwanted circumstances -- an unachieved goal, an insult, an injury, or even worse the loss of a loved one. Often times, nothing can be done to change things on the outside, and despite knowing that rationally, it proves difficult to even accept things the way they are, let alone be at peace with them.

Meditation is about accepting that challenge to change ourselves, and transforming our habits of interpretation. By learning to understand and focus on what is real, we go beyond the apparent reality and into subtler realms of our experience, becoming more connected with what is true for us. Fortunately, that which is real is continuously manifesting itself in this present moment, and in every present moment. It's as simple as that: just by letting go of the past and the future, we remain with our awareness of reality and increase our ability to embrace that reality.

Submitted on 1 Apr 2012 05:28 from Ariya App