Hey everyone, Danielle Jochenan here talking about meditation and what are the frequently asked questions around meditation? A lot of times, you'll end up meditating and you'll ask, "Am I doing it right?" And my friend, I'll say you are doing it right because you are trying it on. You are doing it. There's no right or wrong. Just be aware that, "Oh, I'm questioning myself and I'm doing it." It's really about not letting yourself get caught up in the thoughts about it, making it mean something. I'm not doing it right.
You may say, "After that, therefore I shouldn't do it." We allow ourselves to take ourselves off the hook for doing something we want to do. So for you and last question, am I doing it right? Yes, you are. Number two is, does meditation have to hurt? It doesn't have to hurt. So two things with that. The one is, I always say get yourself comfortable. The goal is to be seated, spine straight. You can sit in a chair to help your posture. You can lean back against the wall. You can lay down. The goal is to be seated though.
So two things with that, like I said, with the pain. The pain could arise in your body and come up because, yeah, you have tight ham strings. There's something just physical going on with your body. So adjust yourself. Eventually your hips will open with combination of doing yoga and meditation together. The other thing is sometimes things are manifested in the mind that land in the body, that feel like pain, that's not pain. So notice, is this just a sensation that is coming for more of my thoughts, which manifests pain in the body.
So it's a combination of both. It's how your body is made. And also then, again, we are creating pain in our body with our thoughts. So I don't want you to be in pain. Number one, make yourself cozy. But a lot of times, too, it passes as well. And the more you meditate, actually, the better you'll get at it. I remember first meditating my back hurt and my leg would fall asleep and I'm like, how do people do this? I'm like, I can't do it, but I just stuck with it, so just stick with it. Oh, and then thoughts.
How do you not just let your thoughts come up, come up, like clouds in the sky passing? So it's not about totally stopping your thoughts because you're not going to be able to do that right away anyways. So it's just really observing them. It's like noticing a cloud in the sky and seeing it and you're like, huh, that cloud looks like a bunny. Neat. Let it pass. What we don't want to have happen if you look at that, say, cloud thought, it's stuck in it. Like, oh, there's a bunny. I used to have a bunny.
Her name was Isabel. I really like that bunny. I wonder. I remember. Yeah. You see the bunny bread and yeah, that was a really good bunny. No, I missed it, but now I want a bunny. Should I get a bunny? Do I have time? So see again, you're getting in a spiral thinking. So again, it's observing the thought and letting it pass. This is really about allowing you become the observer of your mind. Okay. So yes, you are doing it right. Pain can be happening in the body just how you are physically made or also manifested from thoughts.
And then again, thoughts, notice them, notice them, let them pass, notice them, let them pass. Let me know if you have any other questions.
