The most common question asked when giving meditation classes is “How to quieten the Mind”. Often people realise how busy the mind is.
I suggest we shouldn’t expect to be able to stop thoughts straightaway. THe mind is so used to thinking it takes a while for it to learn a completely new approach. 
This is an answer by Sri Chinmoy to a question “What do I do when bothered by thought in my meditations?”
Firstly persevere. This is the most common problem in the beginning because we use the mind constantly in our daily affairs. The mind can resist, it is very powerful and stubborn, but your determination and patience shall overcome these early difficulties. The soul has infinitely more capacities than the mind. The mind’s activities are only shallow, whereas the soul’s stillness lies within a much deeper and vaster reality. ..
We have to give the soul time to illumine the mind. The soul brings its qualities forward through the spiritual heart. That is why we focus on the heart in our meditation exercises. The spiritual heart is the vessel through which the soul offers its illumining, pure and divine qualities to the mind and body.
From: Meditation by Sri Chinmoy
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2006-11-07 08:59 | Posted by tom useful advice thanks