Meditation habits and tips

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Do you consider comfort and silence/peace to be important aspect of meditation or is that only the mind trying to find excuses not to do it?

I personally think that it's relatively important. I advise to, as much as you can, close all your windows and do as much as you can to have peace and quiet. I tend to have noisy neighbors that make noise when I'm meditating sometimes. They're being kind of noisy right now and I'm due to meditate in about half an hour, so I'll try to let you know if I get distracted. The other time, my neighbor who was talking on his cellphone was distracting me, but I'm not sure if I snapped out of the "trance" because I scratched my nose. So I don't know. But I'll try to keep you posted in a couple of hours or so when I'm done meditating.