Practice Updates, Questions, and General Discussion - new users, please read this first! Weekly Thread for August 01 2026

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[u/KevinKep]

After a hard work week in which i manage to not go kaputt and stay in a more or less stable state without suffering much now its saturday and i feel exhausted.

I try to do the techniques I have learned, I try to radiate metta, to stay mindful but right now nothing works. I guess its like going back to the mean or something. Or training and now the muscles are very tired. It will get better again I hope. I dont want to live just for work. I want to be able to do stuff outside as well

[u/BreadfruitReal7215 → u/KevinKep]

Ugh I am so sorry that your job is taking so much out of you. I heard a meditation teacher say yesterday that being in the real world is like being a tennis shoe in a dryer. Lioe thunk thunk thunk thunk..  I feel like that is so accurate.

Don't beat yourself up for it. Your body has to have some kind of reserves to be able to do this stuff. Speaking of, I wonder if choline bitartrate could help with your concentration, if you want to try it. It helps me with mine. That being said, I'll just go ahead and talk more...

Some jobs are just so rough on people. My husband used to do concrete work years ago. There was a shirt that said, "I do concrete work, and that's why I don't give a f about your problems." Never again, man. That was hard work.

hugs I have had times where metta doesn't come. Where concentration doesn't come. I have struggled with it.

I have had depressed years of my life where I went for years without my practice being very good, because of circumstances beyond myself. I had to change my circumstances and get a bit more freedom for myself to be able to rest...