Discouragement

Sometimes what happens is we start a practice and we think it will really be beneficial but after a while, we get really discouraged by our mind and what the experience of meditation is. So discouragement contains the word courage but literally means lack of courage. The absence of it. But it’s really more than the absence of something, it's the presence of criticalness, disappointment, a pushing back, or an aversion of something. There is a judgment that it’s supposed to be different.

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Thus is by far the best meditation I have stumbled onto since I started using Insight Timer and I hope others will find it too. Thank you for such an embraceable way of framing discouragement and giving me a way to step out of it, even if ever so briefly.

Parts of this made me chuckle 😁 Thank you for another excellent reflection, Lisa 🌟

Thank you Lisa for the insights and encouragement for patience and new perspectives on this topic 💖