You've been struggling to meditate or you've been consistent, but you don't feel like much is happening when you meditate.

Or you feel like something is happening, but it seems to be happening randomly.

And it's hard to have a reliably enjoyable experience.

I've taught thousands of people how to meditate over the last 20-something years.

I even wrote a book about it called How to

Succeed in Meditation Without Really Trying. And in this episode, I want to give you five

principles for creating delightful meditation experiences in a reliable way. And the last

principle is the one that everybody seems to overlook. So make sure you watch this until the end. Okay,

let's get into it. Now, why is it important to enjoy meditation? Because if you don't enjoy

meditation, you are not going to make the time for it. If meditation lives in the chore category of your mind,

you're going to easily excuse yourself from sitting down and doing it. But if you can get it

into the same category as playing with puppies and Sunday brunch and drinking coffee, if you're a

coffee drinker, you're going to happily go out of your way

to make time for it even on your busier days.

And the more consistent you are, the more you're going to experience the benefits of meditation.

The less consistent you are, the more elusive those benefits are going to become,

and you're going to start wondering,

I'm doing all this meditation, but nothing seems to be happening. I don't really feel like I'm

changing in the way that people say you're supposed to change when you meditate. And whenever

someone tells me that, and I ask them a few questions about their experience, it becomes pretty

evident that either they're not being consistent

with their practice or they're working way too hard when they sit down to meditate.

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