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**echocassidyde** · 03-28-2012, 05:54 AM

I went to my first meditation retreat over the weekend and we did a sitting/walking meditation set that lasted about 3 hours and I thought I was going to go insane. Maybe that is way too much too soon. My meditation practice is frustrating, but I'm allowing myself to continue and push on past the frustration. I drift off in thought way too much. I'm going to do shorter stints of meditation (going down from 20 min to 10 min) this week to see if the shorter time lets me focus better. I guess I have a lot of work to do in adjusting things until I find what it takes to keep me "in the now".

I am learning to be more patient just not less controlling.

03-28-2012, 05:54 AM	#17
echocassidyde Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 407 Senior Member	I went to my first meditation retreat over the weekend and we did a sitting/walking meditation set that lasted about 3 hours and I thought I was going to go insane. Maybe that is way too much too soon. My meditation practice is frustrating, but I'm allowing myself to continue and push on past the frustration. I drift off in thought way too much. I'm going to do shorter stints of meditation (going down from 20 min to 10 min) this week to see if the shorter time lets me focus better. I guess I have a lot of work to do in adjusting things until I find what it takes to keep me "in the now". I am learning to be more patient just not less controlling.
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