Do You Find it Difficult to Meditate? Don’t Fool Yourself, Meditation Isn’t Easy…Yet!

Published: Mon, 06/01/20

Meditation Resources for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Minding The Bedside
Do You Find it Difficult to Meditate? Don’t Fool Yourself, Meditation Isn’t Easy…Yet!


2020-06-01 08:00:00-04

What you may find as you begin to meditate is that many of your habits of being distracted seem to get worse. You'll sit down to begin your daily practice of 20-minutes and before you know it, you've gotten up from your cushion or couch and are writing down your shopping list. Resistance happens because we're not used to just observing our usual mind, the normal mind that delights in being distracted with thoughts and emotions.

The post Do You Find it Difficult to Meditate? Don’t Fool Yourself, Meditation Isn’t Easy…Yet! appeared first on Minding The Bedside.



Find out more
 
Originally designed as the launch-page for the book, Minding the Bedside: Nursing from the Heart of the Awakened Mind, this site has become a place where people from many different professions can come to read about meditation and compassion and share a the community of like-minded people.
 
Minding the Bedside, the book, is about mindfulness, meditation and compassion practices, written specifically for nurses. However, it can be read and bring benefit to anyone who would like to learn to work with their mind and heart in being more present in their daily life.
 
This site is dedicated to the creation of a community of people whose focus is on bringing mindfulness, meditation, and compassion practices into their life and in sharing their experience –successes as well as failures – in applying these practices.
 

    

     

r