Just fyi, if meditation feels difficult or frustrating, it may mean you are meditating for the wrong reason. Your objective when meditating should be to observe

Just fyi, if meditation feels difficult or frustrating, it may mean you are meditating for the wrong reason. Your objective when meditating should be to observe your own experience as objectively as you can. This includes things like your chosen object of meditation (e.g. following the breath), whatever thoughts, feelings, itches, pains may arise. If you are failing at this, you won't be aware you are failing at it, but if you are aware your attention has drifted elsewhere aside from your goal of sitting and observing, you are now observing again and succeeding at meditation. So you can actually only ever be aware of succeeding at meditation :). If you are meditating with the goal of relaxing your mind, for example, you can easily fail at that, and will likely fail at it more often than not given how much the mind can wander. Meditating with that goal in mind can be extremely frustrating. So a useful thing to know is that intentions matter a lot when meditating.