Stress, tension and pain can slow down your ability to meditate. Learn to control issues including financial matters, family business, marital concerns, worries from work and pain to decrease stress and tension. Techniques in relaxation are very useful to coming to a position of meditation. Relaxing the muscles and the mind offers an outlet or feeling of calmness. As you develop the ability to reduce your emotional stressors and tension you begin to see the world and yourself differently as you feel the changes leading into meditation.
Relaxation is a natural process, as natural as walking, talking and whistling.
It is a natural process that takes a lot of practice. It is a skill that we must learn, in the same way that we learn any other skill, by practice and experience. There is no way you can get stuck in relaxation. Everyone has a degree of experience in moving between the states of relaxation and alertness. We do it every time we fall asleep and again when we wake up.