14 Tips for Making Meditation Easier

When It's Hard to Get Started....

We've all been there--you go to meditate/run energy, but nothing seems to work. You can't sit still, can't get grounded and your thoughts are all over the place. You just can't seem to get started, and it feels pointless.

What to do? You know meditating is a good idea, but it's just not working. Well, here are a few tips for you. Find one or two you like, and give them a try!

First of all--just do it anyway! Keep going, despite how futile it feels. You're experiencing what the body and what the mind interprets as nothing happening. On an energy level, you may be making more progress than you recognize!

Sometimes the first stuff that starts moving is that resistance, invalidation and numbness, and as you move it out, your body and mind "experience" it. When you're done, even if you've not reached a place of calm or flow, you may discover you still feel better and more energized. It worked!

Now, in no special order, here are some more tips for when it's tough going:


1. Just keep going anyway (see above).
2. Blow roses--for no particular reason.
3. Take a deep breath.
4. Amplify that "I don't want to" feeling until it becomes humorous.
5. Identify where in your body (or aura) that "I don't want to" energy is; say hello to it, ground it, move it out.
6. Give yourself a pep talk.
7. Plan a reward for yourself afterwards.
8. Ground your body as if you were five feet away.
9. Get a running energy buddy: do it at the same time; or just text each other when you start and end.
10. Create tiny roses and use them to clean out the energy channels.
11. Meditate listening to a guided running energy exercise (we have them available).
12. Create a soft rose and massage the back of your head and neck with it.
13. Blow up pictures of how it's supposed to feel or be.
14. Get a running energy checkup--during the Wed. Healing Clinic or some other time.

Perhaps you have something that's worked for you? Feel free to share.

We'll have another list of tips for you soon (maybe next week!).