So I think when you are meditating it can be quite tempting to apply a lot of effort. The idea being that the more effort you apply that quicker the results, or the better the results. But meditations is a little bit different from that, in fact I think meditation is a lot like sleep in that way. I don't know if you've ever experienced that feeling of lying in bed and not being able to go to sleep, but the more you try to go to sleep the further away you move from it. You can't false it, right? It's exactly the same meditation. You can't force meditation, you can't force a state of relaxation or calm. It's something that happens very naturally or gradually on its own. I think a nice metaphor or analogy for this is an idea of taming a wild horse. If you look at how a wild horses is tamed, rather than pinning it down in one place the horse is let out on a very long rope and put in a big open spacious field. The horse runs around feeling like it's got all the space in the world and very slowly the rope is brought in. The horse adjusts to this feelings and it comes to a natural state of rest. So we're looking to do just the same thing with the mind in meditation - not trying to pin it down in one place, but bring it to a natural place of rest.