Over the past few years, I’ve written around ten stories about meditation.What might happen if you start meditating,an introduction to mindfulness meditationanda guide to chakra meditations, among others. And every time I wrote one of those stories, I would think to myself,I really have to try to get into meditation—this time will be different. And reader, let me tell you, each subsequent time was not different…it was exactly the same. I’d redownload a meditation app, wake up 30 minutes before I needed to and try to quiet my mind. Like clockwork, this would last two maybe three days before I decided meditation just must not be for me.
That was until about a month ago. With theone-year anniversary of the pandemicquickly approaching, my own mental health was on my mind even more than usual, so I made a goal: I will meditate every morning for two weeks. No excuses, no quitting. Read on for the expert tips I leaned on when I felt like giving up, plus five things I learned from meditating every morning—and whether or not I’ve stuck with it.