I'm making a better effort to meditate, but I don't know if I'm doing it right. Focusing on my breathing and releasing thoughts is hard and if I relax too much, I fall asleep.
If you have related issues when meditating, have you found better ways to meditate or alternatives that give you similar results?
You mentioned that when you relax to meditate, you fall asleep.
Do you think it may be that you are just low on sleep? It might be good to just let that happen or to try meditating around when it would be okay to fall asleep for the night.
I am very low on sleep. I'm bad at it, and I'm starting to improve my sleep hygiene. If meditation as I initially interpreted it gets me to sleep, then maybe that's a useful practice to explore. Thanks!
It's funny, in making this post, I'm hearing people saying it's okay for my body and mind to act the way it does. There's this layer of acceptance that makes me glad I brought this question to hexbear.
Sleep is important! If meditation gets you sleep I think that is a good thing.
Hexbear is overall pretty good at empathizing and trying to understand and help - and often has folks that have relevant personal experience so they don't try to offer bad advice or make it all about themselves. I think it has a pretty good culture around this kind of thing!