Trouble making it to the next level
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:38 pm
Good Afternoon All,
Since I started practicing the AC meditation 2 or so years ago I have posted some info about my experiences while using the meditation tapes. One of the threads took off and took on a mind of its own, that is awesome. The more I think about the other meditative experiences that I have had I think the one of the "graceful bird" was the only true one. I believe now that the others were dreams I had where I had fallen asleep during the meditation.
I come here today asking for guidance because I seem to be at an impasse with my meditation. I put a post on here a while back with tips on how to relax during meditation, do not sit waiting for something to happen because that is not the purpose and so on.... I follow my own tips as far as that goes but still feel that I am stuck and can not go any further in my meditation than I already am. At this point after I am about 15 - 20 minutes or so into the meditation I start go get very restless and agitated, to the point of stopping the meditation and going off to do something else. This does not seem to start until I have been working on it for a couple months, everything is pretty smooth up until that point and then it starts all over again.
I have a fairly quiet place to meditate, I can either sit up in a chair, or a bed or lay down in the bed, with a fan on or without a fan on, I can use headphones or just let the meditation tracks play through my speakers so I have a very flexible way and time to do my meditation and I have tried every combination, it always comes out the same after I am about 2 months into it I become too restless to finish the meditation.... I have tried to force myself through the restlessness but after that point my mind is firing on 20,000 different things that I cant push away and I just give up. I have also tried this at different times of the day from 10am on through 9pm, it does not seem to matter....
Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be happening? I could understand it if it happened from day one, but this does not seem to come on until after I have ben practicing for a couple months.
--Bryan
Since I started practicing the AC meditation 2 or so years ago I have posted some info about my experiences while using the meditation tapes. One of the threads took off and took on a mind of its own, that is awesome. The more I think about the other meditative experiences that I have had I think the one of the "graceful bird" was the only true one. I believe now that the others were dreams I had where I had fallen asleep during the meditation.
I come here today asking for guidance because I seem to be at an impasse with my meditation. I put a post on here a while back with tips on how to relax during meditation, do not sit waiting for something to happen because that is not the purpose and so on.... I follow my own tips as far as that goes but still feel that I am stuck and can not go any further in my meditation than I already am. At this point after I am about 15 - 20 minutes or so into the meditation I start go get very restless and agitated, to the point of stopping the meditation and going off to do something else. This does not seem to start until I have been working on it for a couple months, everything is pretty smooth up until that point and then it starts all over again.
I have a fairly quiet place to meditate, I can either sit up in a chair, or a bed or lay down in the bed, with a fan on or without a fan on, I can use headphones or just let the meditation tracks play through my speakers so I have a very flexible way and time to do my meditation and I have tried every combination, it always comes out the same after I am about 2 months into it I become too restless to finish the meditation.... I have tried to force myself through the restlessness but after that point my mind is firing on 20,000 different things that I cant push away and I just give up. I have also tried this at different times of the day from 10am on through 9pm, it does not seem to matter....
Anyone have any thoughts on why this might be happening? I could understand it if it happened from day one, but this does not seem to come on until after I have ben practicing for a couple months.
--Bryan