Most people who try meditation do not quit because it is too hard. They quit because they start it the same way they start every other resolution, by being too ambitious, too rigid, without any plan for the day, and simply without being motivated.
You sit down once or twice, decide it “doesn’t work” for you, and go back to your phone at 11 pm.
Sounds familiar?
But this pattern can be changed, if we change the way we look at things.
Actually, meditation has quite less to do with finding the perfect posture or a quiet mind, and more to do with choosing a practice for yourself that can survive real life, with the deadlines, distractions, and days you just don’t feel like it.
Building a daily habit and following it consistently is completely different from having one good session now and then, jumping straight on “how to breathe” without addressing that gap.
So, if you’ve tried and quit before, it probably wasn’t a lack of willpower. It was a missing structure.
Here are 5 simple tips to inculcate meditation as a practise in your daily routine.