Enough grasshopping

Meditation.
The Final Frontier?!

Maybe not but it's clear that taming our minds is possibly a very important step in achieving anything resembling peace, tranquility etc. It can be done in countless ways but I think, ultimately, is the same conclusion. You need to be able to focus and stop the monkey brain from jumping all over the place all the time.

Meditation is proven to have many positive effect on our wellbeing. But, it is very difficult. WHAT do you even do?
Focus on your breath.
Let the mind forever focus the attention back as it drifts to the current of random thoughts.
And sit.

I'm sure you've heard all this before. Maybe even tried and didn't work. It's weird but our mind just hates stillness.

I got roped in a meditation discussion with someone and it's a bit of a weird subject for me to engage in because on the one hand I read a lot about meditation but on the other hand I didn't do much meditation. So I think I have less to say than someone who really meditates daily but never read a word on it. Yet, here I yapp...

But one thing that I think is important is that if you start and it's hard, nothing works etc you only need a little ray of achievement. You want to really be in the meditation, in the "no thoughts" zone for like..10 seconds. It's such a wonderful, unfamiliar place to be that you'll surely want to come back again and again to it. That's the first goal. Get there for a second and then you might become passionate. Or spin your wheels aimless and give it up like most of us.

So yeah, when my meditation app stats look like this, when I'm still a "grasshopper" after having it installed 4 months ago. It's a good sign something is not clicking.

Enough grasshoping and more sitting.
I'm curious to see what my next badge will be :)