user23492: My brain is constantly raising, I’m always thinking about new stuff. Does that affect my meditation?

user10100: Yes, it is.
But it is normal for the ordinary layman, so do whatever you can do. Don't pretend to be what you can't do. Just try to practice, not force to practice. When you force to practice, you will be stressful which means you are not feeling happy to practice. But you can try the meditation for entire life, if you just try to do the meditation  again and again with happiness. So, the happiness is the chance for the meditation to be developed.
We were so messy before we met the Buddha. Now we are lesser messy, so if it still left, don't let it ruins our happiness in meditation. That's the way meditation keep going on.

23492: <p>My brain is constantly raising, I’m always thinking about new stuff. Does that affect my meditation?</p>
 10100: <p>Yes, it is.</p>
<p>But it is normal for the ordinary layman, so do whatever you can do. Don't pretend to be what you can't do. Just try to practice, not force to practice. When you force to practice, you will be stressful which means you are not feeling happy to practice. But you can try the meditation for entire life, if you just try to do the meditation  again and again with happiness. So, the happiness is the chance for the meditation to be developed.</p>
<p>We were so messy before we met the Buddha. Now we are lesser messy, so if it still left, don't let it ruins our happiness in meditation. That's the way meditation keep going on.</p>
