Are you “bad” at meditating?

Susan Brumbaugh
6 min readSep 6, 2021

Try meditating using sound as the focus.

Photo by Uday Mittal on Unsplash

Regular practice of mindfulness meditation helps to train the brain to come into the present moment — where worries and ruminations have a hard time sticking around. When we first begin meditating, our minds tend to wander a lot, and we can judge ourselves when that happens. If you think you’re “bad” at meditation, or focusing on the breath is difficult for you, you might…

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Susan Brumbaugh

Susan Brumbaugh is a criminal justice researcher who telecommutes, a licensed counselor, a mindfulness meditation practitioner, and a perpetual learner.