Maijeee

Thank you for your advice Jordan! I just watched Leo's video titled "Concentration vs Meditation - How To Develop Concentration", which was really helpful. Although he didn't speak specifically about relaxation, he helped distinguish between meditation and concentration, which made things a lot more clear! So I will continue doing what I am doing + taking your guys' words into account as well.

I will try my best to be gentle and as relaxed as possible then. As I understand from your guys' thoughts on it, it will be relaxing after I've gotten the hang of it. So we will see how it feels in a little while! I'm hoping to be able to get good concentration skills, so that I can move on to contemplating a question or something else.

Okay I see, thank you both for your advices!

So I've finally become more serious in my mindfulness practice. I've tried meditating before, however it would only last for a couple of weeks, but now I intend for it to stay as a part of my everyday life. I just have a question about meditation, because today I got hung up on the idea of meditation being a relaxing practice. I feel like the idea of meditation being relaxing is a common one. The thing is, I don't feel like it is relaxing. I might feel relaxed after being done, but not while doing it. I personally feel like it probably shouldn't be too relaxing, because you are doing this to practice - to do work. You're not just sitting there being mindless, you are sitting there being mindful. Am doing something wrong, or am I on the right track? By the way, my intention for meditating right now is to practice on my concentration. And just to be specific, my body feels relaxed (besides my spine, as I'm not used to keeping it erect yet), but my mind does not.