Do you ever meditate?

[lost_soul]

I over analyse things that a guy may do and I definitely over think things! So I did make a joke saying I should do yoga or meditation to one of my friends who knows I over think.

I've tried yoga on the wii in the past but found it rather painful and I end up just playing the balance games and stuff on the wii fit.

But I've tried meditating and think its good. I read that you're supposed to concentrating on your breathing. However, my mind keeps wandering when I try it.

I've tried some of the listening clips that you can listen to when meditating but I find it hard to follow them at times and they seem rather too short as well.

So do you meditate? And any advice on making it easier?

[Phoenix1991]

Yeah I do meditate a lot, trust me I understand how you feel, your mind keep wandering. I have a trick where your mind that wonders works to your advantage. If you can, sit down somewhere calm, quiet, and comfortable temperature. When you find that, sit down and close your eyes, now think about yourself sitting down on a nice spring day in a park/backyard/field,etc. Keep your mind focused on the image and setting of the place, and keep looping that image in your head as if you were there. Now , your meditating, it took me a while to figure it out, I'm from New york ,so I barely had the opportunity to see nature. When I had the chance to do so, it calms me down and it seems so peaceful. My kind of environment =)

[lost_soul]

I think mine has always been a lovely clearing in the middle of some forest. There is just something nice about thinking of a place unknown to others, even if its in the head

[Phoenix1991]

yeah I know what you mean =)

[Red_Raconteur]

Not in the traditional sense, but sometimes I like listen to my music and then I kind of space out and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist. That's meditation to me.