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Meditation question and answer index

1. I often find that the quality of my meditation goes up and down...

2. Is there any way I can get back to the heart?

3. When I was meditating I felt really tense... What should I do in a case like that?

4. I find your meditations very hard for me...why does this happen?

5. Very often when I am concentrating on my heart centre during meditation, I find that my breathing is very heavy and distracting.

6. When I get upset with someone who does something to me, I can't meditate the way I want to. How can I overcome this?

7. How can I tell if I am meditating too much?

8. When I meditate I lose energy and get tired. Is it because I meditate too much?

9. Is there anything I can do to always have a good meditation?

10. Should you also make an effort ...?

11. Sometimes during my morning meditation, I fall into a doze...is this a bad thing?

12. Sometimes it seems like I spend my whole time trying to keep myself awake and I don't really meditate.

13. How can I keep myself from falling asleep after about five minutes of meditation?

14. How can we energise ourselves so that we don't fall asleep?

15. When I try to meditate, there is something that holds me back.

16. I don't think that I am pulling, but still I get a headache when I meditate in the morning.

17. I feel a pressure in my forehead when I meditate. What causes this and how can I stop it?

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How my spiritual search led me to Sri Chinmoy

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The most beautiful and fulfilling of all possible experiences

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My inner calling

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My Life with Sri Chinmoy: a book

Tejvan Pettinger Oxford, United Kingdom

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A Flame in my Heart

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A Quest for Happiness

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Running for Peace

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