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I Guarantee You’ll Have a Meditation Practice by the End of This Article

The Hardest Part of Meditation Is Discipline — You Have to Build the Habit of Sitting Every. Single. Day. Sike! Here’s How to Start Meditating the Easy Way.

Matt Gangloff
4 min readFeb 4, 2022
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You should never start eating healthier until you’re ready to eat salads every day for the rest of your life. You should never start exercising until you can run a marathon. You should wait to start meditating until you can sit every single day.

Sounds ridiculous, right?

It is.

But that’s how a lot of people think about starting a meditation practice. They think they need to build up the requisite discipline first, to build the habit of sitting every day or it’s not worth starting.

They think…

Someday soon, I’ll rearrange my morning routine. I’ll get up an hour earlier. I’ll buy a meditation chair. I’ll read all those books on my list. I’ll choose a discipline, go to a retreat, and find a guru.

Then, I’ll start my meditation practice.

It Took Me Ten Years to Build My Meditation Practice…

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Matt Gangloff
Matt Gangloff

Written by Matt Gangloff

I teach the how-to’s of Post-Traumatic Growth: How to heal and grow, find a new mission, become your best self and build a meaningful life. www.mattgangloff.com

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