What is your practice like? Do you ever find yourself avoiding meditation?

Sometimes it feels like a time commitment issue, but if you can break it down into smaller segments than I believe some reflective quiet time is better than none

Yes. Meditation helps me so much though. It’s just about building a habit. It makes it so much easier and makes me really look forward to it.

Yes i have. Everytime I always easily distracted whenever do meditate. It’s really hard for me to stay focus for a several time

I don’t find myself avoiding meditation but I do get very distracted. I feel my mind wanders a lot and instead of accepting it and getting back to meditating, I sometimes give up thinking I will get back to it at a better time.

I try to meditate in the morning and evening in my room I usually sit legs crossed ...ideally I use a meditation app such as the sequences on her , or headspace . If not I just focus on my breath and my meditation stones for peace and healing. I can struggle to get comfortable and can find it difficult to refocus ifvny my mind wanders. I can usually manage ,5 minutes

I’ve been meditating since I was a very young child, long before I ever heard the word. I taught myself. Here I am, about 40 years later and yes, I still sometimes avoid it. I like my life much more when I keep it up though. There are so many different forms. If one doesn’t work for you - try another! Keep it interesting, keep it fun,and keep it personalized. This is your mind, no one else’s. 🍂

I’m by no means good at meditating. More often than not, I want to skip it. I find I need to make myself do it. A few moments of quiet is necessary for me to keep my head on and refocus myself.

I always meditate every night. Some nights my meditation is shorter and it just consists of me breathing, some nights I talk about what I’m thankful for. Some nights it’s longer. Meditation always makes me feel relaxed.

I’ve found that making the practice as accessible as possible makes me more likely to do it. That’s required some creativity. For instance, I have it scheduled on my work calendar everyday at 2:30PM. It’s not an indulgence. It makes me better at my job and more available to my teams, so I prioritize it. I work at a startup in a split-use building, so quiet is hard to find. I get around that by finding a semi-quiet space, putting on my noise-canceling headphones, and firing up Headspace. The more you welcome the practice into your routine, and the more you connect to why you’re doing it, the more pleasurable and impactful meditation becomes.

Yes! Just like how I know I’ll feel better if I exercise regularly and eat more vegetables, I know that everything will feel and function better if I meditate, but it can still be so hard to get myself to take the time for it every day. I finding that incredibly short meditations, 5-6 minutes long, are a perfect way to get myself back to meditating daily. It’s reeeally hard to find an excuse not to spend 5 minutes on something.