Ideas to Contemplate When Meditation is Difficult I wrote previously that somehow, my meditation practice suddenly became more difficult, without any cause. So, I wondered what measures could be taken. Since my objective -- for now -- is meditation once per day, any means by which I'd sit and meditate for an allotted time would be useful.

I wondered: what reasons/motives can one contemplate mentally to get that push and sit more easily? For example:


"Once I will sit down, the difficulty will diminish."
"This is part of a path leading eventually to Buddhahood."
"Meditating will help not only myself, but others."


I guess I'm looking for canonical or traditionally given reasons to invoke to motivate oneself to meditate or practice in any form. 

Thank you.
We always want things to be less difficult, that's why they are difficult.

I thought,  I need things to be easy now and latter I would ease into being able to handle what is more difficult but then I found that if I faced what is difficult head on with heroic and sustained effort then over time what is uncomfortable becomes way more manageable. This was a fundamental breakthrough idea for me.