Ah...train your mind and get past that roadblock, then. Try meditating as a precursor to sleep in the evening, that works very well for me. At that time of day there is less going on anyway and less of a chance of being interrupted. Get some earplugs and focus on the physical mechanisms of breath - that is the best way to train your mind to 'get bored with' the random thoughts; it is occupied with the physical mechanisms. (One of my teaches suggested I stop trying to go to sleep and just meditate
dont think I'm quite there just yet!
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Focus on that over enough sessions and it should quiet your mind down some so that sitting is not quite so much of a chore.
Again there's a string of things to learn as you go along, you'll most likely go from one to another and back again many times - refine one thing, and another becomes illuminated, refine that and you might just have a new outlook on the first phenomenon, etc. For instance as I made my way down this path I established abdomen, then huiyin coordination, smoothed out diaphragm inefficiencies and rolled it past them, cultivated the qi-ball at the lower dantien, let go of the air passgeways, coordinated it all from the ni wan, let the heart center interact to smooth out a discrepancy in how soft above/below diaphragm was evolving....and I went in and out and through all of these a ton of different ways...not everything, just a quick 'most of them.."
Calm, soft, slender, long, deep, gentle roll - when your diaphragm gets 'soft' enough and you learn to let go of your air passageways, then you are on your way to eliminating the turbulence in your breath, which has significant energetic gains for the breath itself, because anytime you can hear yourself breathe, that sound is the sound of circular currents sucking some energy out of the breath via vortex motion.
Keep your awareness down there on the dantien and breath mechanisms for a long time, until you have achieved real regulating. Regulating, without the Yi-oriented action of regulating. When you get proficient with that, "the spirit can abide at its residence" and you can basically keep your awareness at the ni-wan and the muscle memory you've built up will carry on and your bodily motions will be regulated "without the Yi having to make a visit to the locale."
I mention the ni wan and not the third eye because at early stages the third eye is nothing more than a distraction - there is so much other work to do before its relevant! The ni wan on the other hand is the secret square inch, the midbrain, where the pineal and pituitary reside - seat of endocrine function (well regulated endocrine function=happy disposition) and also where all of the cranial nerves stem from. (This point of assembly is why you restrain the senses during meditation, you are returning the vital energies toward core processes - by calming the 5 senses you're suppressing just about all the Cranial Nerves but the vagus, which goes down through your internal organs - actually the smoothing out of the breath seems to send a calming/regulating message
up the vagus nerve - look a little more closely and in the indian and tibetan paradigms, the vagus nerve is the left & right central channels, also the maiden's weave in the nei jing tu.)
Once the spirit can abide at its residence, you've taken a good step towards becoming more integrated as a whole - in fact at that stage of regulation you usually dont distinguish any of these things anyway
You can get a lot of things going on without doing small circulation - in fact I havent really done much at all in the way of small circulation, perhaps because of the reason that I still have so much going on with doing embryonic breathing. (Then again, I do have other practices that I do, so EB or even getting to the point of residing at the niwan isnt the..."most advanced" thing I do per se, so I dont necessarily know how to reconcile that in light of another's practice regimen - but EB is excellent for just about any spiritual practice, and also one that can eventually be done at all times...)