Meditation - How to stop trying too hard?

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What you can do is to just sit, get comfortable and relax and then allow, allow what ever arises in you to be as it is! To be you! As Wittgenstein said.

Trying to gain results from your efforts to gain peace of mind is part of the logical rational mind, it’s used to seeing results after all the effort the me puts in, and will constantly look for progress along the way.
But all its really doing is rearranging the furniture that’s already in there and also tightening the nuts and bolts that’s holding it all together, as far as I see it meditation should be letting go of any control that the mind tries to do on anything that arises, and the loosening of the screws and bolts that’s holding it all together.

so I would just sit and just watch, dont try and shape, control, or block anything.