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A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation
What if the key to better focus, deeper sleep, less anxiety, and a more balanced body and mind was already inside you?
"I don't have enough time to meditate", "My mind is too busy—I can't meditate properly", and "I'm not the 'meditative type'—it's only for calm, patient people," are phrases I hear a lot when talking about meditation. And if you asked me 10 years ago, I would have told you something along those lines as well.
My introduction to meditation was more or less forced, as I "hit the wall" during the first months of the pandemic back in 2020. Up until that point in my life, I was carrying a lot of internal stress, and my preference was to direct my focus outwards - maintaining my well-inhabited coping strategies. I thought that worked perfectly until my set of coping strategies stopped working, and I had to start the inner work.
And yes, I'll admit that starting to practice meditation was a pain in the ass in the very beginning—a bunch of racing thoughts, no inner stillness, and so forth.
However, it did become much better and more comfortable over time.