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?
Be tolerant of yourself. Acknowledge your fidgeting and wandering thoughts. If you try to fight who you are, you're not meditating. Notice the fidget, do your best to quiet it, then get back to meditating. Same with random thoughts.
And sometimes it's just not the right time to meditate. Try again later under different circumstances.
Thank you. I think I fixate on doing things incorrectly a lot when that kind of thinking is counterproductive for meditation.
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Yeah, people who love meditation and try to get others to do it kind of forget that whatever transcendence they've experienced is fundamentally rooted in becoming more attumed to themselves.
Which is actually pretty much the definition of irony, I think?
Heck I think "you'll love & understand yourself more" is probably a better selling point than "you'll experience a higher level of being." I think I can understand the former, but the latter is just incomprehensive.