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Distracting thoughts while doing mindful meditation are all part process, and not an indication that it’s something you can’t do.
When a thought distracts your focus from your breath, counting, or whatever the focus of your meditation is, do not get frustrated, or annoyed. Acknowledge the thought and go back to your focus. If that is difficult, then try to feel if an emotion is driving the thought. Again, don’t get involved in that emotion, but accept it without judgement, and go back to your focus.
There seems to be many things going on during this process. The practice of returning to a focus after distraction, Not letting our thoughts take us off to places we don’t want to go at this time, and taking note of our emotions, but not letting them control us. An important part of this, is to learn to refrain from judging everything as good or bad. This is not the same as ignoring thoughts and emotions.
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