The Anchor Point-Episode 5: When Practice Gets Hard: The Gap Between Knowing and Doing

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of maintaining a meditation practice and offers practical strategies to overcome common obstacles.

There's a massive gap between knowing meditation works and actually sitting down to do it. Restlessness. Sleepiness. Doubt. Resistance. Difficult emotions that make you want to bolt from the cushion. This episode doesn't give you platitudes about "just showing up." It gives you practical strategies for the five main obstacles that derail meditation practice. You'll learn the difference between discipline and punishment, why practicing badly beats not practicing at all, and how the obstacles t...

People in this episode

Host: Alexandria Quinn Love

Topics covered

• meditation
• obstacles
• discipline
• practice
• mindfulness

Keywords

• meditation
• restlessness
• sleepiness
• doubt
• resistance
• discipline
• practice

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