Chances are you’re experiencing, or will experience, one or more of these hindrances at some point during your journey with meditation. Becoming aware of this list is an integral part of starting a meditation practice, as it will lay to rest any notion that you’re somehow meditating wrongly. Mainly because you’ll realise that the hindrances/challenges arising for you are completely normal.

I find that the best way to learn how to meditate is to start to do it with people who can help you. That’s why I run an online meditation community every Wednesday, where you can be guided on how to meditate and have a chance to speak to others who also enjoy meditating.

Before you roll your eyes at the expected promises of bliss and tranquility, let’s be honest it can be difficult to meditate. Let alone feel anything other than restlessness, doubt, discomfort, fatigue and the admission that perhaps ‘I just can’t meditate’. My intention isn’t to convince you to meditate, it’s to lay to rest some of the most common misconceptions of meditation and to briefly explain its true value.

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So there I was again crying on the toilet. This had become a familiar place for me over the years, as I struggled with the changing patterns of irritable bowel syndrome and chronic back pain. Whenever I thought I’d gotten a handle on it, something would set it off. To the point that I felt hopeless, lost and alone. Until finally I found the answers to fully heal my pain.

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Once you understand TMS it becomes a choice, either continue to take a new pill for a ‘new pain’ or start to do the work of understanding what needs resolving and how you’re going to resolve it.

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Instead of trying to figure out why you have chronic pain, start with how you feel towards your chronic pain. When you acknowledge the way you feel towards your pain, cultivate practices to get comfortable feeling those emotions.

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