Meditation is easy right? You just clear your mind and BOOM all the knowledge just flows in, right?
Yeeeah, not in the house, partner.
I would have great intentions of focusing on the message or simply seeing what messages came to me but all of a sudden my brain is showing me pages from the Target ad, popping up random scenes from movies and trying to remind me of that kid in 7th grade that didn’t invite me to their birthday party.
I wish I was kidding!
It goes without saying this is an obvious case of being overstimulated.
In an effort to combat this, I have started brain dumping beforehand. This helps push a chunk of those random thoughts before sitting down to meditate.
My best practice is putting on a bilateral beats and brain dumping everything into one of my notebooks before then lighting an incense, allowing one of my Spirit team members to come forward then lighting their candle and beginning my meditation process.
Occasionally, I am so overstimulated that my brain dump pages do not even come close to make sense. I’ll start one thought and then finish another in the same sentence. To say my brain is working overtime and I’m often pulled in five directions is an understatement.
Another struggle is group meditations. Being that I have been working with Brittany for a little over two years now, I have been to my fair share of group Zoom meditations. I struggled before with remotely keeping up at all with the prompts until I realized that I was picking up on everyone else’s energy, some their own downloads during the sessions.
Oops!
To combat this, I bubble myself off (when I remember, at least) before group meditations.
I still can definitely find myself wandering off or struggling to pay attention but this has helped immensely in my process.
Do you struggle to meditate? Sound off in the comments.