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The Golden Rule Of Meditation

Meditation / 26 May, 2020 / Leave a Comment

Notice whenever you find your attention slipping.

Over time, you will get quicker at realizing when your mind has begun to wander. Once you realize your mind has started to get lost in thoughts., gently bring your attention back to your meditation (for example to your breath, one of your 5 senses or another type of meditation anchor).

The RAIN Meditation Practice

Meditation / 26 May, 2020 / Leave a Comment

RAIN is a mindfulness meditation practice that can be used in any situation, but is typically applied to unpleasant, uncomfortable, or upsetting thoughts or events.

Apply the RAIN acronym to your thoughts, emotions, and feelings:

  1. Recognize
  2. Accept
  3. Investigate
  4. Not-Identify

Approaching painful emotions in this way can transform them into more workable, revealing experiences. Practicing RAIN can also prevent unhelpful responses such as rumination or other harmful/aggressive behavior.

Mediocrity & Success

Personal Growth / 26 May, 2020 / Leave a Comment
  • The majority of people are living bearable lives that are below their potential
  • Your ability to tolerate pain directly determines how successful you’ll be
  • Busyness is often a sign of weakness; a cluttered mind unable to set boundaries
  • The love of this busyness only leads to a life that feels short and ends quickly
  • The (modern, material) world sets you up for mediocrity
  • The world does not want you to succeed
  • The world has one agenda when it comes to you: It wants you to spend your money
  • The world wants to make money from your attention
  • If you follow all the rules, buy what everyone else buys, act the way everyone else acts, and live the life everyone else is living, you’re almost guaranteed to end up in mediocrity
  • The solution is to do what other people are unwilling to do
  • If you want what no one else has, you have to do what no one else does
  • Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do