Meditating everyday for the rest of your life can be challenging. Sometimes you just do not feel like doing the practice. Having ways of motivating yourself can make it easier for you to meditate. The following are some ways that will help keep you motivated to do so:
Focus on getting started. Do not worry about the entire session. Once you get going it will be easier to keep going. The neurons in your brain responsible for meditating will get fired up.
Reward yourself by learning something interesting about meditation every day. This will make your meditation more fun. When it is more fun it becomes easier to do.
Do not look for results or try to be perfect. The more you look for results or try to be perfect the more you push it away. Let things unfold in a natural way.
Focus on your strengths. Ask yourself what part of your meditation is going well, and you can do more of it. You will get better at meditating.
Learn meditation teaching. If you are not just doing meditation for the experience, but also to improve your life you will be more motivated to do it.
See meditating as an investment not a sacrifice. Do not look at the fact that you are spending your time and energy meditating. Look at all the things it is enabling you to do. It is helping you have more blissful and stress free days.
Be with the pain unconditionally. If you do not accept the pain, you will give up or be more stressed. What you fear or focus on is made more manifest.
Do not limit yourself to one percent of meditation. There is a whole world you can play around and have fun with. Ask yourself what you feel like doing today and do it.
For better results mix faith and positive emotions with your meditation. Whatever you send out into the universe you receive. Do creative visualization, and affirmations. With faith and positive emotions you will have better memory, focus, energy, and motivation.
If you do not have time or get distracted easily, schedule the time the night before. If you are behind in other things still meditate. It is okay to complete your to do list the next day after you meditate.
Remind yourself the reason why you are meditating. It is the only time you connect to your soul, be more loving and grateful, let go of control, and merge with the one. It is a blissful experience. It has many benefits including stress and pain relief. Also, it ripples to other areas of your life. If you don’t meditate you will miss it.
Use pain and suffering to support meditation. It is not hard to make meditation a habit. Once you experience higher states of consciousness and you do not experience it anymore you will seek it.
Look at expert work for inspiration. It is where you could be tomorrow. Do not compare yourself today to expert Buddhist monks. Compare yourself to where you were yesterday.
If you cannot meditate no matter what you do it is probably because you are depressed. Try this trick. Sometimes you will not feel like focusing on any activities. This can happen sometimes. Trying to fight it will make things worse. Things that you found rewarding are no longer rewarding because you need a cue to trigger motivation for reward. You cannot keep rewarding yourself with activities all the time. If this happens during the time you are supposed to meditate and you cannot get yourself to do so no matter what you try have down time, lie down, and listen to a positive podcast. You can resume your activities later.
Mix faith and positive emotions with your meditation. The human mind does not want to engage in an activity that is uncertain. If you view it as fun and fulfilling it becomes just that. Do not worry about the other things that are going on in your life. Faith and positive emotions that worked for your meditation will work in other areas.
Now that some ways for you to motivate yourself to meditate have been discussed, it will make your meditation journey a whole lot easier. You can use some of the techniques discussed, and even add to the list. Next time you need a little motivation to meditate you know what to do.