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[MoJoV]

I've been meditating for years on and off.  I have books, I've taken classes, too.  My mind is a whirling dervish. The mind takes you in a million directions.   I'm not speaking of prayer which is a kind of meditation.  Just curious on any success or failure you've had.

[SilleeMee]

Yes. I do some mindfulness meditation to help me fall asleep. Not usually every night but often when my thoughts are racing just as I lay down. That works for me.

[Bonkers1]

I have tried to but my mind also wanders.  Dinner, laundry, chores etc.  I have even tried sitting in the yoga position without luck.

[Desertdi]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

Yes. I do some mindfulness meditation to help me fall asleep. Not usually every night but often when my thoughts are racing just as I lay down. That works for me.

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@SilleeMee 

I worked graveyard for years...and can sleep ON COMMAND (!!!)    di

[jlkz]

@MoJoV 

I agree that praying is  also a form of meditation.  For the last 10-15 years, I look forward to my once weekly Adoration visit.  Most times I pray for the folks on my Prayer List.  While I am in the chapel, my whole body and mind calm down and become peaceful.  It's as though I am in another world.

One night in late December  I was in my darkest hour while  DH was in limbo with lack of communication from the cardiology department.  I couldn't pray: I simply sat in the semi-dark chapel and let the tears quietly flow.  That evening when I arrived home I was alone and within 30 minutes received 3 amazing signs from different areas that I could never have envisioned.  The strong scent of chrysanthemums where there were none, huge poinsettia arrangement sitting on my front steps, and a call from out-of-blue from my PCP who had just heard of our situation and offered me the opportunity for DH to meet with her friend who was head of cardiology at a famous hospital.

(Things are now fine: procedures done, right meds, monitoring of pacemaker and defibrillator on track.)

Repetition of prayers can be a type of meditation.  Other times, it can be mentally asking for help from a higher power and then sitting in absolute quiet.

When I leave the chapel, I have peace of heart and mind.  I have done all that I can do and turn it over to someone above who has the power.

[AuntG]

I pray, and each morning, my husband reads a short devotion.

[Neetgal2]

I have tried since COVID several types but my mind mostly always wonders.☹️

[mrshckynut]

@MoJoV    do relaxation response  Herbert Benson

mrshckynut 

[Sooner]

@jlkz I agree with everything you said about prayer.  Not only does it give me focus and peace, I know I have been heard, and I know I am in the best hands.  I have trust, love, faith and hope.  

[Bella8888]

@MoJoV 

I have meditated for nearly 45 years.  To do it for this long is bound to confront all sorts of ego activity, which resolves over time.  I don't look to it for 'enlightenment', in fact, I don't believe in that as an end result.  

For me, the end result would be how to live in the world, where I can make choices that either bring more suffering or add to the world to relieve it, both in large and small ways.  That, and to recognize nothing is perfect and in accepting that truth there is a continual learning that is wisely amazing.