If you’re struggling with mindfulness meditation, work on zen meditation until you can focus on the feelings of your goal. With zen meditation, you focus on your breathing and let your thoughts flow like a stream. Don’t hold on to any particular thought, but don’t push away the thoughts either.

I really want to open and edit this with the thirty thoughts I have at any given moment instead of all the “bad at this” bubbles.

But I know I’ll get distracted halfway through.

I can empathise with Nancy!

My observation - part of the point of mindful meditation is accepting that there is the thought. Thoughts will come, thoughts will go.

There will be days where your mind absolutely spams your meditation. There will be days where you start to fall asleep. There will be days where the final timer goes before you’ve been able to concentrate on your breath.

That’s the point. The meditation is your time to do nothing else. There is nothing you need to do. Just be, and breathe.