Try meditating anyway. It’s a challenge! Just accept the noise and discomfort. Acknowledge it. Listen for all the noises you can hear — loud ones. Soft ones. Your own breathing. Just sit with it and let it crash around you.
I have been so distracted lately since traveling to Vietnam to visit my son and his wife who just had a baby yesterday. I have been doing everything l can to help. When l first got here and l am still struggling a little with the time zone change and the jetway. So l haven’t really been able to fine a quiet place to meditate, there’s moments l have closed my eyes and reflect in all the good around me.
I do one of two things (sometimes both), if it’s too noisy I tend to meditate whilst wearing noise cancelling headphones or I meditate first thing in the morning or late at night when everyone in my household is asleep.
I close my eyes, visualize a great meditative session/place, and quiet my mind for a few minutes. If things are literally coming AT me, I breathe through it and to keep from being disappointed or even derailed for the day, I make an appointment with myself for a later session that day instead of morning!
When I cannot find a quiet place, I block any nise out with calming music or let it continue and learn how to tolerate the noise of regular life and even enjoy it
I meditate anyways. Use the waking up meditation app by sam harris. He talks a fair bit about what meditation is really about, about sounds and meditating in public places. X
Headphones or earplugs to help calm the noise with sunglasses on in my car or work truck. But first I plan to make time to have breaks so I am less likely to not be able to find a quiet space
Focus inward and let sounds from your environment wash over your meditation practice as background noise, not the soundtrack.
I do a sound meditation, focusing on and using the noise around me. This works when writing too. Documenting every sound around me brings me into presence and calms me.
Allow the sounds to be a part of your meditation! Notice them, notice how you feel about them, notice when you forget to notice them. Everything can be your practice. 💕
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