Over the past 5 to 6 weeks I’ve been experiencing a meditation plateau. Similar to physical exercise 💪🏻 or studying 👨🏻💻. T
he law of diminishing returns also applies to mental workouts like meditation. (If you just want the answer without any context, scroll to the bottom)
I understand what’s happening, but it’s kinda fucked up how strong your mind can be in pulling you back into the pain body. 🙅🏻♂️ To fix this. I focused on self-reflection. Why did I start? Why Continue? Why is my mind doing this? What makes me complex?
I found that after an extremely challenging time… followed by months of exponential personal growth… I’ve finally hit a plateau. The effectiveness of the mental exercises that had previously lifted me up, has now become stagnant.
Like a chore (Or what I thought was a chore). My unconscious mind was telling my physical body that the meditation, workouts, gratitude, humbleness, thankfulness etc. are now ineffective and shouldn’t be practice.
If you think about this at a fundamental level, it seems like pure insanity!
Why would I choose pain over happiness?
Why would I choose self-doubt over self-esteem?
Why would I choose the ego over humbleness?
Why would I choose negatives over positives?
Why would my mind pull me down, exchange personal positives for selfish interests, and tell me positive new habits are now superfluous?
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It could be the 26+ years of pleasure seeking, environmental conditioning and poor mental habits… My mind is trying to get back to a safe and comfortable place. I get it. Back to the pain body… That place just happens to be miserable and not for me.
Answer: Self-Reflect. Be uncomfortable to the Max. Challenge yourself motherfucker.
Guard your mind. Sometimes it needs to be told to “Fuck Off” 😏
learn or die.
greg