Meditation and Mindfulness Humor

Here’s a Hack for When You Have Trouble Meditating

Please stop thinking.

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So, you think you can’t meditate because your mind is too busy?

A lot of people will tell you that meditation is hard. It’s too hard, so they gave up. They sat down once for two minutes to try to meditate and all they got were rushing thoughts blasting at them through their consciousness, and they want none of it. They would rather stay distracted by the insanity of the world.

Western culture loves the buzzword “mindfulness” but I have news for you. Please do not keep your mind full. Your full mind is what’s causing all the problems here. Keep your mind simple.

I am a meditation teacher and I’ve heard it all — the reasons why meditation doesn’t work for people and the ways it can work. I’ve heard people say they don’t care about their souls so they’d rather just practice mindfulness, where their mind stays full of pointless crap so that no soul stuff gets in there.

I’ve heard that people have too much on their minds so they can’t really settle down in meditation. So they skip it.

I’ve heard people tell me they’re “done” with meditation because it sucks and doesn’t do anything, they can’t stop their thoughts so what’s…