Creating a Healthy Lifestyle

During the day, there may be a lot of distracting or negative thoughts that may cross your mind.  It will make it very difficult to meditate on an object.  Jennifer, for instance, says “I start to meditate, and then all my worries come to me.  I also have fibromyalgia and I feel pain all over my body.  I wish I could meditate but it’s so hard.”

If you have similar problems, like Jennifer, or if you have stressful thoughts that just don’t seem to go away, you need to continue to concentrate and try to make those thoughts go away.  This will be difficult, but it’s important to concentrate and get back to the ‘object’ or image that you are focusing on. As you do this, don’t blame or judge youreself .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        It will be even more difficult to focus if you have fibromyalgia, which is a condition of physical discomfort through various pressure points in your body. But even then, it is possible to go back to the object of focus–the image you are meditating on.  Let the discomfort or troubling thoughts come to you, and then let it go away as you go back to your meditation experience.

My book, Create a Healthy Lifestyle, discusses some of these issues to help you meditate in pure mindfulness.   It’s an important step to health and happiness.