Swimmer963 comments on Meditation: a self-experiment - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Swimmer963 30 December 2013 12:56AM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 30 December 2013 08:14:14PM 2 points [-]

I used to find meditation frustrating and boring, and didn't feel like I was getting anything out of it, because it didn't feel like practicing hard at something.

Interesting, meditation does feel to me like practicing hard at something, and did from the very beginning. Even if that something is just sitting still and doing nothing and not getting up to do all the things that I'm constantly remembering I should do. It was hard.

Comment author: Benquo 30 December 2013 10:03:49PM 0 points [-]

Hard as in effortful, requiring willpower, &c.? Or just hard as in you were trying to do something & weren't good at it yet?

Because the "click" moment for me was realizing that meditation could be in the second category but not the first.

Comment author: Swimmer963 31 December 2013 12:59:06PM 3 points [-]

Both. I think we're different in that way.

Comment author: Benquo 31 December 2013 01:41:00PM 1 point [-]

:| Maybe this is part of why meditation is so hard to talk about and conffusing to read about.