How to handle distractions during meditation

A brass band could pass by and I wouldn’t be bothered by it.

This is not what most of my meditations look like.

Distractions in meditation used to drive me nuts.

Before my current home, I lived with my husband in a beach shack in Mermaid Beach (Australia).

We had wooden floors that would creak and groan as you walked the hallway. And the entire…