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Everyone runs into a few obstacles on their first trial in learning how to meditate. It’s quite a common thing among people. But the best thing to do is by recognizing and acknowledging those obstacles.  With that you can be able to have a smooth meditation period without any obstacles but yet, most persons still find it difficult to meditate. Meditation is staying focus, working out for your mind muscle, It can be hard to be aware of your thoughts and this is because you have thousands of thoughts every day. Sitting with ourselves without distraction (that’s if you’re lucky) is not an easy task, especially for those of us dealing with physical or emotional pain, It takes a brave heart to meditate because the reflection from your mind. Sitting for meditation involves a willingness to be present for the emotional pain that may surface, difficult thoughts, beliefs, and memories that’s why most people do not meditate.

**Why is Meditation Hard**?
I am going to relate this one on a personal level and I know you too would be able to relate with it. Meditation It's hard because you have to begin to understand what is behind the curtain of your mind. If you have never really taken out time to examine your past thoughts and actions, meditation can be shocking and triggering coming from those reflections.

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**few reasons why meditation is hard**

**Overthinking**
You’re all set to carry on with meditating and before you know it you are lost in so many thoughts thinking about how a particular conversation went during the day, the fight you engage in with your colleague at work few days back, thinking about all the different ways it could have gone and what you would have said. We can spend hours overthinking without even being conscious of it that so much time has gone. This makes meditating hard. 

**Worry**
This one works along side with Overthinking. We find ourselves in deep thoughts worrying about little things that were once the least of our problem. This can cause hindrances to a good meditation. We think about opportunities that were missed that you may have even gotten over in the past already but they just come rushing back to your mind bringing all those same pain, anxieties and thoughts that came along with it. Worry can change our lives in such an extent that for some people, it's as though there is nothing else in life. 

**fear of the unknown**
Meditation can be hard to some people because of fear. Maybe you have glimpses of a terrible past life, or a trauma from your childhood and are triggered more when your mind is more relaxed. Even the things we tend to fear from happening in our daily life, like getting into an accident, fear of loosing a loved one and then you begin to "see things and hear things" during deep contemplation. And you feel scared about these things which tend to make you stop practicing meditation.

**Personal Time Schedules**
This one is certainly common, for instance, you  have a full-time job and young children too who needs the most of your attention and you see that to be more important than spending few minutes taking meditation because all you have to be thinking is how you are going to do the laundry or how to reply those mails. It only appears like we don't have the time because we usually fill every moment with activities that won’t stop coming.

**Distraction**
Distracted can in meditation can be either internal or external. The internal distraction is having thoughts that can make you lose focus while the external distraction are those physical things that can easily disturb us like noise from the background, from children and your neighborhood. When people consider this things it makes them lost interest in meditating. 

There is no medical cure for stress but, as meditation is one of it best remedies, so let’s make out time for it, because it's worth creating the space for.

**Thank you for reading**