Hi Everyone, I think something that everyone encounters in their meditation practice is getting sleepy during the session. I don't mean just a little tired, but the proverbial heavy eyelids and the feeling that I might topple over and go to sleep right here and now. Sometimes I feel quite wide awake when I start meditating but then part way through the session I start to feel tired and it's difficult not to just go to sleep. So here are some of the things I've found that help in this case: This will become much less common as you get

Hi Everyone, One thing that really helps my meditation is being alert and comfortable while I'm meditating. To do that we do not need to sit on the floor or even sit cross-legged. I guess it's true that if you grew up sitting cross-legged, or just have great knees, then that will work well for you. But lots of us in the West didn't grow up that way. And we may spend many hours at a desk each day or standing up all day long and our legs get tired. So when we meditate we need to find the posture

Hi Everyone, Sometimes I notice it is time for me to go sit down and meditate, and I don't want to. It took awhile for me realize that it isn't meditating that I didn't want to do, but rather the specific technique I was practicing at that time. My practice of that technique was getting a little old. Maybe it is an external focus on a yantra, or a mindfulness body scan, or an internal mantra repetition. Well, perhaps it isn't the technique that is getting old; it is my body or mind that was tired and so I reflected