Practicing for many years doesn’t mean that we’ve been practicing continuously. If we have, our practice changes over the months and years.
In the beginning we’re just following instructions, then things start to shift – we don’t have to do things the same way we used to, and we have to recognize those changes and allow for them.
Sometimes, we don’t have to be trying so hard and making ourselves so tense. We learn the basic principles, but we have to start to see what is happening now and learn for ourselves.
For some of us who are not practicing continuously – we have an intensive practice for a while followed by a relaxed period and repeating that, then it progresses in a different way.
Every time we relax, there is a decreasing of the results that come with momentum; and when we restart intensive practice, it’s like we have to gather the momentum again. We have to accept that we’re almost like beginners again.
We can be more accepting of it if we understand that this is the process.