What should I do when I feel like I'm at the limit for how long I can meditate?

[lmfao]

It's a common occurrence for me and for anyone meditating, you sit down for a long time and neuroses inside of you just start bubbling up faster and faster. The physical pain in your body from sitting down for a long time (especially if ur doing a SDS) may or may not serve as a catalyst for your suffering, but regardless of that your mind starts to almost go crazy with suffering from the mere process of doing nothing and sitting down.

And when this happens, I feel the intense urge to just jump and lunge out of my seat, but I often just stick it through till my timer goes off. It's sometimes like there are explosive thoughts you can't do anything about. A random thing I do when I feel a stagnant with suffering is to just say to myself verbally in my head  "its ok to have pain and suffer" , to try and avoid the trap of suppressing things when meditating.

How to raise your consciousness without suppression of yourself is probably the greatest paradox out there. It's kinda related to idea of how desire is the root of suffering, but to desire to get rid of suffering is still another form of desire which makes you suffer.

Anyway, so what should one do when the neuroses inside them starts building up intensely? My impression is that the approach in various traditions is to just stick it out, never lose faith in the situation not being all that bad, and eventually the stormy clouds will clear up.

[Mulky]

Just go a little bit longer.  Like if you were an athlete and you reached the limit of how tired you can get, just push a little more.  The desire to stop meditating is a good clue to keep meditating, but even this mindset can turn into a problem, so just meditate a bit longer, like 5 minutes past when you wanted to stop.

[Anton_Pierre]

@lmfao Have a timer, the goal is to reprogram your mind when that discomfort occurs, if you are in dis-comfort it mean's you're un-conscious. Comfort is consciousness

[Shin]

Just go through it.

It's only the first 20 to 60 minutes that are "hard", after that you can pretty much meditate all you want.