Overcoming the barriers to meditation

Anyone who meditates – or has tried to – will be familiar with a commonly experienced problem: the distracted mind. Rather than feeling your mind quieten or focus, sitting or standing still just gives it the chance to fly off into all sorts of thoughts, worries, and memories. Leslie Booker believes this is because before we mediate we have to set ourselves up right. In this practice for the GCC, she talks us through the common issues people experience when they try to meditate and guide you through practices to help you overcome them.