Please add to this list

For myself, up until last year, at times I could be too angry to meditate. This hasn't been a problem for a while now... and you know what? It's a pretty good feeling! I hadn't really thought about this before, but it appears to me to be a nice indication of growth.

Even if I did just have a pleasant little sparky light bulb moment, seems kind of a strange question to ask, so why do you ask?

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Too lazy to meditate
Too fidgety to meditate
Too paranoid to meditate
Too lonely to meditate
Too relaxed to meditate
Too monothiestic to meditate
Too skeptical to meditate
Too stupid to meditate

I kind of skipped your reply on this thread earlier but when I re-read it just now, it was funny because I was just contemplating the same thing.

I 'can' keep things tidy and neat, etc, but often it is the last thing I care to even think about. Hygiene, on the other hand, is a big priority for me: Always change sheets weekly, drink plenty of fluids, stretch and breath through Qigong, etc. But when it comes down to organizing my room or those certain chores, I find that I tend to procrastinate.

Something stuck to me from the Spider-Man movie, when William Dufoe (Green Lantern) goes up to Peters room and says it's messy, and then his grandmother says all great minds have messy rooms.

(feeds the ego...yumm...)

Hi BB,

I tend to be "environment sensitive" so a messy room does not feel comfortable to me. Its the energetics of the whole thing, so I tend to keep things tidy and uncluttered and have finally managed to train the family to do the same.

Just the damn cats keep leaving furballs that roll across my appartment like tumbleweeds in a desert from a low budget cowboy film...and they also take great delight in scattering kitty litter across the pristine white floor tiles of my bathroom.

Though I would not say that tidyness akin to that seen in the film "Sleeping with the enemy" is appropriate - thats just neurotic :-D

WR

JT

I used to be like that for years, seeker. From my experience, you should definately put some energy into deep-breathing exercises.

Hi JT, gotcha mesage, and have been ruminating upon such  (meditation), for the past month or so.  Hmm... W can enumerate on such and such, whatever, but meditation techniques can be illusive to many as far as what works. We are unique and special beings. For myself, NATURE works the best when just being in the here and now.  Wonderful sights, sounds, smells, miracles of its specialness seems to transform us to who we are really are and wht we can be ro come back to be, a reminder of what is our true home. Nature seems to be a wonderful meditative experience for myself, but others may experience the same joy from other modalities as well.