You Are Meant To Feel Better After You Meditate, NoT During

Here is a misconception that leads most people to become frustrated with their meditation practice, and subsequently quit it.

You are meant to feel better AFTER you meditate, not during the meditation itself.

If you expect yourself to feel Zen calm during your practice, you might be disappointed because that’s not the reality for most people.

At least not for the people who hang out on LinledIn and whose plates are choke full.

If you come with the wrong expectations, you are likely to drop meditation because the reality doesn’t match your expectations.

And then you might believe that the problem is you.

A better way:

Treat meditation the same way you would do a physical workout.

When you meditate, you might feel nothing but fatigue and exhaustion. And stress buzzing in your nerves.

That’s perfectly fine and you are not doing anything wrong.

That’s just your nervous system flushing the stress hormones out of your body and you feeling it in the process.

The greater calmness comes after this process is done, which is minutes, hours, and days after you finish.

The true results come after you complete your practice.

Give your meditation a chance to work.

And don’t make yourself wrong for being human.