The Importance of Meditation

[Night Owl]

What I find most people have in common when trying to meditate unsuccessfully is they try way too hard. I had this problem for a long while, and it still happen to me sometimes although I had a good breakthrough a little while ago. The answer is as simple as to not try so hard. Try easy instead. You can't force meditation to happen, meditation happen by itself when you stop trying to get a hold of it. The popular thing to say is to empty the mind but then it is very tempting to fight against the thoughts that pop up, to judge them, to repress them. But that is the mind fighting the mind. Instead allow them to be without even trying to think about it, accept them, just contemplate and eventually they stop bothering you. Meditation will find you when you are in an allowing state.