Chasing all the things you think you need, but really only want on an ego level, will drive you insane… especially when you’re not moving any closer to them.
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Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. VI: Stillness
In the proceeding post, I advocated for effort and seeing yours tasks and endeavors through to completion. However, there is always a point where action becomes forced, and disadvantageous to either the work or to yourself.
Non-forcing and having trust in the natural order of all things (Tao) that unfolds when you just get out of your own way is an underlying principle of the Taoist concept, wu wei.
Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. II: Detached Observing of Your Consciousness
In the first post of this series, I wrote about how finely-tuned body awareness allows you to identify changes in the state of your nervous system, and brings insight into what triggered that change. Staying with the body also keep you established in the here and now. When your attention does leave the present, itContinue reading “Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. II: Detached Observing of Your Consciousness”
Principles for Finding Mental Clarity, Contentment, and Your Self – Pt. I: Mindfulness of the Body
The starting point and most useful tool for me is body awareness—recognizing the conditions of your inner world and subsequently regulating the nervous system. Everything else is downstream from there.
Mindfulness: Kill Your Thoughts or Let Them Pass?
From the point of view of mindfulness, the logic is not to care about any of the interesting changes and experiences that come as a result of practicing in this way, because the underlying goal is to be more and more equanimous with changes. So it’s not to grasp at what’s pleasant or interesting andContinue reading “Mindfulness: Kill Your Thoughts or Let Them Pass?”
Exteroception vs Interoception: Getting Out of Your Head
Most people are sort of in their head a lot. They’re not really present to what they’re doing, which leads me to the statement that I believe, most people have an interoceptive bias—they’re focused more on what’s going on internally than on what’s happening externally. I think that this is an issue because we hearContinue reading “Exteroception vs Interoception: Getting Out of Your Head”
Mindfulness of… Cleaning?
Mindfulness is always mindfulness of something… We can cook our breakfast mindfully and continue to produce the energy of mindfulness, concentration and insight. We do not have to go to a temple, to a meditation center in order to generate these three kinds of energies. You don’t have to set aside time to practice mindfulness—youContinue reading “Mindfulness of… Cleaning?”
Identity, the Self, and Finding Your Higher Purpose
Too many things nowadays are outsourced—you are outsourcing maybe your happiness to outside circumstances. Once you spend time with yourself, investigating, the inside (Self) comes. Shi Heng Yi Some people go their entire lives without satisfying their fulfilling, true purpose. While they may reach contentment, it may be they have become complacent, and settled forContinue reading “Identity, the Self, and Finding Your Higher Purpose”
Mindful Intent, Vitality and Improvement
It doesn’t matter how many hours you lay in bed—what matters is how many hours of this laying part you are regenerating. The more vital you feel, the better your ability to actively create something, create a life you enjoy living. But you can’t do that without the proper methods and character traits. Shi HengContinue reading “Mindful Intent, Vitality and Improvement”
Movement and (Mental) Longevity – Cognitive and Emotional
I’ve talked a lot of the benefits or stillness (both physical and mental) in the past. However, being sedentary for too long has detrimental effects.
On the flip side, movement can also be used to benefit the mind, like improving mood, memory, and attention.
Conscious Consumption 