Based on my experience of Everything In Life, progress generally isn’t on a steady upward curve. Take today, for example. Since the 9th I’ve been writing blog post after blog post. Now today I don’t feel like writing anything. This is just part of the way things are.

I used to be a hardcore runner. I went through a spell of bad training sessions and told my PT I thought something was wrong. He said that you just have times like that, it’s the nature of the beast. Some days, you can meditate for ages and it’s brilliant; other times you feel like you can’t last five minutes. Relax. It’s cool.

I don’t flap either. But meditation is good for picking up on the internal chatter you get that might give you a clue to your patterns and habits. That’s what I use it for. Meditation is amazing for learning all about those niggly things because you have time to pick up on them. You can really hear your inner voice.

Final point: OH BOY are you putting a great deal of pressure on this. All these outcomes and plans and questions about it. What about doing something out of pure curiosity, without measurement, just as an exploration?

I say this partly because I think we tend to get wrapped up in only doing things with concrete, measurable outcomes. People asked why I wrote when I wasn’t getting paid. I trained in Buddhist meditation and did some research around it. In order to get the really hardcore benefits we’re not talking 30 days of practice, we’re talking 30 years. For several hours a day.

The one law I’m most familiar with is that the more you push, the less you seem to move. Again, relax. I’ve met people, very high-power pushy people, who do meditation and approach it like a marathon. It looks like you’re doing the same. Meditation is about letting go, not grabbing hold. So chill. Just really, really chill. Do the thing, and keep doing it every day. Explore it. Magic happens when you stop trying to make it happen by hitting it on the head with a hammer. You’ll find your way.

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How about doing something completely fresh and new. That you’ve never done before and would require some concentration and using some new skills.

You really analyse everything, so I’m thinking of something that isn’t a distraction but that you can’t analyse so much. (I’m sure you’ll find a way

Perhaps come snowboarding with me on Thu evening? The point is you’ve broken your habits and you are doing less… why not try doing something at a complete tangent. Not necessarily going mad on it, just experience it and try it out.

I agree you don’t flap – I hogged all the flappy genes

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Maybe I missed a key point somewhere, but why are you meditating? (Almost wrote medicating LOL). If you are doing it to prove you have self-discipline and ‘make’ yourself do this for 30 days straight, I say pish-tosh. I try that must be self-disciplined every once in awhile but it’s complete and utter crap really. A friend of mine meditated because she wanted to have A Vision. She never had one. I have had several because it was never my goal. Anyway, just curious, because like I said I missed something.

I will send you the Light Body meditation if you wish. Just let me know. It’s very easy to perfect (almost instant gratification) and creates an out of body experience.

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Oh, yeah. We all loooooove to believe our thoughts, and yet, not a single one of them is true.

And as long as you’ve self-identified as a seeker, by definition, you’ll never find what you’re looking for.

What about meditating without any expectations of ANYthing? What about meditating with nothing but not knowing and deep curiosity?

And what about allowing yourself to veg out and do nothing?