I find it hard to stay Mindful

[Erlind123]

Hey!

I needed some help about this mindfulness thing.

I try to stay as much mindfull as possible throught the day. It’s easy to remove external distractions, but my mind keeps putting me of road thinking stupid stuff rather then being in the moment and being mindful what im doing, thinking, saying ect ect.

Thank you.

[Farnaby]

Hi!

I think this is something we all face when practicing meditation, mindfulness, etc. There are different ways to approach this, such as bringing your attention back to your breath, doing a body scan, but IME it's easy to turn this into an effort instead of a letting go. 

For me what works best is to accept anything that arises in my awareness, whether it's thoughts that are distracting me, some tension in the body, some expectation or memory and so on. So instead of fighting these thoughts, I would suggest not trying to do anything about them and see what happens to them. 

There may even be times where you feel more agitated after meditation, which may conflict with our typical expectation to attain some kind of peaceful state of mind. This may trigger the thought that you're somehow doing it wrong. Watch these kind of thoughts how they come and go instead of resisting them. 

I just listened to this meditation and found it very useful, you may want to check it out  

Good luck!

 

[Erlind123]

@Farnaby Thank You.

It was very helpful. I’ll be more aware of these.

Appreciated