Feeling bored while meditating and how to get past it
Yesterday morning as I got up from meditating and headed for the kitchen to get started on the laundry, I realised that it has been a long time, years in fact, since I found meditation boring. In my early years with meditation, although I’d had a couple of profound experiences, my usual experience while meditating was profound boredom. I couldn’t wait for the timer (usually set to 10 or 15 minutes) to go off so that I could get up and do something, anything, that was less dull. At that time, having no-one to compare notes with, I assumed it was just me; that I must be doing something wrong. Eventually though, I discovered that boredom is quite a common experience for those starting a meditation or a contemplative prayer practice, so I dug into the research a bit to find out more and hopefully to help anyone who is still in that position. I looked around to see what other people were reporting and discovered that, even when someone commits to a daily practice, there was qui...