Some advice or tips please!

Yes, friend. I have two recommendations for meditation resources that have really helped. One is a book called "Good Morning, I Love You." A relative sent it to me - such synchronicity - without knowing what I was going through. It's a compilation of a bunch of resources with short chapters that encourages journaling. It's a short read a centering exercise every day I work with it. The other is a Netflix series by Headspace called Guide to Meditation. Each short chapter in the series has a guided meditation and introduces a different meditation technique. It has given me different meditation options to choose from, depending on what I need.

I am no meditation expert. An easy and defeatist trap for me is the thought that I don't "get" meditation or am "bad" at it. Especially the guided meditations (I really like his in the Netflix series more than most) helped me have a blueprint to know where to start, how to structure - feel competent. And the reminder to always gently catch the mind - that's all it is, not judging. AND I loved learning that every time you catch the mind wandering and bring it back, one is reprogramming their brain, so there is a utility in the practice of bringing the wandering brain back - as opposed to "oh damn, I am so bad at this" it's like "oh, another opportunity to take advantage of neural plasticity and reprogram my brain."

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