Should I start again from the beginning?

[Anonymous]

Hi folks, I purchased the Taoist Meditation Program and managed to get as far as week 4 of daily meditating, doing 20 mins a day. Unfortunately I have bombed over the previous week and have not done any meditation for the previous ten days. I practice standing Qigong and T’ai Chi for two hours everyday (as well as other Taoist disciplines) but have flopped on the meditation practice (which is new to me).

I suppose the best approach is to start again from week 1?

Any opinions? thanking you in advance.
Ray

[Anonymous]

Hi. Just my opinion but there’s no value to hurrying through. Take all the time you need to get what feels right before going ahead. So, probably you should, start again, but perhaps move a little more quickly depending on how it feels to you.

Good luck,
Matthew

[Anonymous]

Thanks Matthew

Am going to start again from the 1st of June.

Ray

[Anonymous]

I’m on month 6, and I find myself always doing the first week’s meditation; just taking stock without doing anything special…like the man says, it’s a circular path and you’ll always be going over the same thing, but such is life…or maybe I’m wrong (just an eager pupil, I s’ppose)

Hope that helps…

[Anonymous]

Your question/comment makes me think of a training scheme to bike to the top of the Mont Ventoux (France) in 13 weeks. What if I fail? So I skipped it.
Is it important to have a meditation calendar? How much frustration can you handle? If you are in love, do you follow calendars and scheme’s too? No, you follow your heart, of course.
In my eyes (or is it: between my eyes) there is no reason to hurry. Your immortal child is already there, you just discover it, talk with it, fuse with it. The immortal child is knowing, waiting and watching, it knows no hurry, it detests “have to”. It is all there, for you to (slowly) discover.
The act of discovering is inhibited by many injunctions of the past, the things your inner child had to do and had to avoid. Perhaps, there is a struggle or even a war to be fought… an anger to overcome, a fear to defaer, or defeat. I whish you luck.

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