When Meditating becomes Stressful

If attempting to sit and meditate is stressing you out, please stop. The practice of meditation is not supposed to be stressful. The awakening process might be, but not meditation.

And you may ask, what is the difference? We will discuss that in a different post, but today we speak about stressful meditation.
Meditation should be stress-empty so please stop if it is stress-full.

Many of us humans, we are seeking enlightening, or the idea of what we think enlightenment is and so we believe that meditation is going to do the job and the longer and harder we meditate, the greater our chances for enlightenment.

We decide we want to be psychics, so we seek meditation.
We decide we want to be intuitives, so we seek meditation.
We decide we want to develop some superpower, so we seek meditation.
We decide we want to be manifesters of great abundance, so we seek meditation.

Can we just decide to meditate simply to be and allow for the becoming in its own time? We may then discover the becoming that we need.

We be-come quiet.
We be-come peaceful and happy.
We be-come loving and giving.
We be-come healed and whole.
We be-come the receivers of pure infinite love when we rendezvous with Source Energy, God, The Creator, The Divine, whatever our name for that which connects to our Inner Being to the Light.

So if your meditative practice is stressing you out, stop what you are doing and just be.