Meditation: Living in the Land of No Thoughts

Peace of Mind or Mind-in-Pieces

Have you ever considered that it is possible to actually live without thoughts? Sounds impossible? Yes, it appears impossible in today’s digital world where the decibel level of unspoken mental radio is too high. If you peep inside the mind of any normal person, you are sure to find an abnormal level of mental noise – often bordering around chaos and confusion. When the mental talk becomes obsessive, you can expect that some expert will label you as suffering from a disorder like OCD. There are many other sequences of alphabets, giving you plenty of choice. As stress is becoming a symbol of status and achievement, you are sure to find most people with everything except “peace of mind”!

When the mind is spinning too fast, almost uncontrollably, it is a fragmented mind; not a mind at peace. It is more accurate to call it a shattered mind or a “mind-in-pieces”. A mind at peace is a mind in control and at rest – happiness is just a by product. Few thoughts dare to cross this tranquil landscape. A thought has to hunt around a lot to find another entity of its kind. There is a vast peaceful valley between any two thoughts. People living in here can always look forward to deeper levels of tranquility and bliss – almost heavenly – where thoughts are out-lawed.

Arriving on this land-of-no-thought is the ideal of any devoted yogi regardless of the path he chooses. Of course, thoughtlessness is just a superficial description of a mind that is full of positivity, originality, and intuition. And, meditation is the vehicle to reach this land of no-thought.

Meditation is the Vehicle

Therefore, you have to prepare yourself to get on to this vehicle if you ultimately want to reach the territory where thoughts are forbidden. Meditation is the procedure to root out undisciplined thinking. it teaches you how to deal with thoughts that trample upon your peaceful mental landscape. It is surely a process of purification of mind – the only basic purpose of meditation.

You can choose from either of the two meditation styles. One is where you try to concentrate on one specific meditation object to the exclusion of everything else. For instance, if you are concentrating on your respiration you muster all mental efforts to maintain the awareness of the breathing and try to not allow any other mental activity such as thinking, judging, imagining, or analyzing. This is an example of concentration or absorption form of meditation. You aim to fully concentrate on or get absorbed in the single object of the meditation.

The other popular style of meditation is called insight or Vipassana meditation where your efforts are just the opposite. You don’t try to control or focus on any single thing, but transform yourself into a “mere witness” – an absolutely impartial, nonjudgmental, and detached witness who merely observes without interference. This form of meditation is the art and science of “mere observation, bare observation”. This popular form of meditation is firmly grounded on the foundation of mindfulness – a mental faculty that is making its presence felt in psychotherapy also.

There are two mental attributes that help you in both forms of meditation: detachment and non identification – developing them, therefore, becomes central to long term success in meditation.

Detachment and Non Identification

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who still remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of non-identification. Non-identification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation. – Osho

A witness has two vital qualities: detachment and non-identification. Your success is measured by your degree of non-involvement in the mental processes. According to Osho detachment is the yardstick; the more detached you are, the better is your meditation. Thus, you essentially end up training yourself in the art of non-identification or detachment from your mental activities.

The primary reward of meditation comes in the form of decrease in the frequency of thoughts; in other words, increasing space between them. This thoughtless space is pregnant with peace and tranquility – and extremely wholesome. It also sets into motion a positive feedback – grounded in thoughtlessness you become less distractible and meditate better, which in turn still further discourages thoughts. This encourages you to meditate regularly; you are already becoming familiar with the mental states of deep inner peace and tranquility which is, by nature, independent of mental activities.

This is how meditation automatically injects discipline in your life and gives you a vastly improved ability to concentrate and focus – you are not easily distracted or “tempted”, putting it in layman’s words.

Important Tip: If you are having problem of excessive thinking during meditation, play a brainwave entrainment audio in the background.

What to Do with the Mental Radio in Meditation

Meditation and Mental Talk

Thoughts are the biggest distraction in meditation – this statement can never be overemphasized. A meditator has to learn to continue his regular practice despite the almost non-stop broadcast from the mental radio. Success in meditation depends on how skillful you are in dealing with the incessant mental talking. Many people get so much annoyed by the ever lurking uninvited mental broadcast that they quit meditation and come to the conclusion that they are not fit for it.

The funny thing is that even if you are resting physically the mind does not stop or suspend its activity. It is always spinning and rolling in thoughts – and hopping from thought to thought almost without logic. Moments when the mind is not hopping thoughts are extremely rare and hence, we find them unusual. Researchers tell us that we think 50,000 – 60,000 thoughts every day – an astronomical figure by any measure. Needless to say that most of it is useless and irrelevant. If every thought consumes some energy, the amount of energy wasted daily is considerable; emotional thoughts consume the most. Regular meditators have relatively lesser number of thoughts crossing their mind and thus, they conserve a lot of energy.

Highly evolved yogis have considerable control on what enters their mind and can suspend their thinking process for considerable length of time. No wonder their dietary requirements are minimal. Of course, this is just the physical benefit; the larger advantages are mental, emotional and spiritual which are the real reasons why people take to meditation.

There is NO Escape from Thoughts

Thinking is what the mind does all the time. It does not know how to “not think”. Expecting that the mind would not think is like expecting a bird to not fly. This is a reality you have to accept; you can’t wish it away. This is the nature of the mind – accept this glaring reality. This acceptance is very important if you are really serious about advancing in meditation in the long run.

Not all mental chatter is aimless; the mental activities of daily living also make their presence felt whenever you sit for meditation. For instance, you are suddenly thinking “I must not forget that I have to call Mitch at three.” Or “Oh s—, I did not check mail.” Very often when such task related thoughts do not appear to stop, you abruptly conclude that you have a lot of work to do and must suspend meditation for the time being so that you can take care of these activities. This is how most people give us regular meditation much sooner than they ever wanted to.

The remedy lies in not identifying with the mental activities.

Non Identification

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who still remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of non-identification. Non-identification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation. – Osho

The only way to tackle this problem is to train to ignore them for the hour of meditation. What you can do is to try not to encourage or fuel the thinking process. How would you do that? You will do it in the same manner when you are walking on a busy street – you ignore people walking around you (after being careful not to bump into them!). You deal with thoughts the same way you deal with some mad man talking – you ignore the non-sense. You know the consequences if you get involved in conversation with him. Right?

Another way to relate to such thoughts is to see them as “teasers”; the moment you respond to such teasers, your brain offers you further related thoughts. You’ll get mental images of Sam, phone, computer, browser, and so on. If you respond to any thought, it will only lead to more thoughts.

When you do not respond to a teaser thought and continue to focus on the meditation object, say respiration, your brain will let go of that teaser and try something else. You carry on with the practice and the teasers will become less and less frequent. That is meditation in a nutshell – non-identification and increasing the space between thoughts.

Therefore, stay-put for the whole meditation-hour and face the mental chatter without identifying with it. Remember, the only effort you make in meditation is to try non-identification. It will be tremendously helpful if always keep at the back of your mind that you will try to live in the present moment during meditation hour. When you have the “mental presence” or mindfulness, it discourages the usual mental talk. Therefore, learning mindfulness is extremely helpful for any meditator.

A Useful Tip: Play a brainwave audio in the background while meditating.

Meditation is Also a Battle with Boredom

Meditation and Boredom

Boredom is the biggest enemy of people trying to meditate. Even the most enthusiastic souls, sooner than later, surrender before the “monster called boredom.” And the funny thing is that they will almost always give you the standard answers: I can’t concentrate no matter how hard I try, so why waste time, or that meditation does not suit me.

These standard answers make sense to most people, but they solve no problem. However, if any experienced meditator can tell you that they gave up because meditation did not offer them excitement. They started meditating with wrong notions and got the wrong result in return – quite logical. You don’t go to work expecting fun or entertainment, do you?

Meditation is only rewarding for people who are persistent and have the right attitude towards it. People who manage to sustain their meditation practice or make it part of their lives are those who have correct understanding of what to expect from it. It is not like going to a party, having fun, and returning to the routine life only to wait for another cathartic occasion.

No matter what style of meditation one tries it is a repetitive activity – that makes it dull and boring for any one. You are either chanting some mantra (a sequence of words) monotonously or trying to keep the mind focused on breathing or some thing else. Even if it is Vipassana Meditation you are supposed to be busy keeping the mind in the present and trying to be non judgmental and unbiased. Therefore, no matter what you are doing it is unexciting and repetitive, devoid of fun and entertainment, and offers nothing that the mind can dance about.

The net outcome is that your mind soon loses interest in the activity and suddenly you have “convincing arguments” why you would try it some other time, or at least quit for now.

Overcoming Boredom

Speaking in psychological terms, boredom has two associated factors: one is a pervasive lack of interest and the other, difficulty in focusing attention on the current activity. Speaking from a practical angle, boredom is a situation when a person finds his environment dull, tedious, and lacking in stimulation.

In normal living, the moment we don’t like something or when we find something is boring we try to escape from it. Therefore, boredom propels us towards activities that are interesting. We have hardly ever learned that boredom is also a normal emotional state of mind – and it is OK to be bored. On the contrary, we view boredom as something that must be avoided. This mental conditioning is the problem. As a result, we never really become familiar with this emotion.

Here are the words of renowned spiritual master, Osho that put boredom in the right perspective for any meditator:

“Boredom has been used as a technique; it is a device in meditation. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do (anything), you are not to talk, and you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

What exactly is meditation? Facing boredom is meditation. What does a meditator go on doing? Sitting silently, looking at his own navel, or watching his breathing, do you think he is being entertained by these things? He is utterly bored!

The whole effort in meditation is this: be bored but don’t escape from it; and keep alert, because if you fall asleep you have escaped, if you start thinking you have escaped. Keep alert! Watch it, witness it. If it is there, then it is there. It has to be looked into, to the very core of it.”

Therefore, as long as we don’t develop familiarity with boredom, it will remain a problem. The only correct way to handle it is to face it and see boredom as an opportunity for growth. Running away from boredom is an incorrect habit; regular efforts to meditate will sure correct it. Therefore, sit regularly and face boredom head-on.

Why People Give Bad Publicity to Boredom!

How often we start checking mail when we are not busy only to keep busy? Or rush to twitter, facebook, or some other social media site and start posting messages? We certainly like doing such things but what purpose does it actually serve?

There are certainly situations when we must respond to mails or send messages. But studies show that we indulge in such activities just to keep busy and avoid boredom. In fact, we engage in many things because we just can’t sit quiet. This is the typical lifestyle of people living in this digital world: it does not allow you to “rest in peace” and demands that you are “always busy”.

The “Always Busy” Syndrome

Doing something every minute’ may be a gesture of despair – or the height of a battle against boredom.” — B. F. Skinner

For some reason people want to be “always busy”, as if being not busy even for few moments is a crime. For many it is almost an obsession and they have mastered the art of being always busy (gone are the good-old-days of nail biting, now you “chat”, “tweet” or send messages to online friends). Don’t ask them what the purpose is; being busy is the purpose (else the monster called “boredom” will come and get you).

When I look around carefully I find that people in the modern society can not stand three things: pain, bad dreams, and boredom. They will do anything to avoid facing them. I can understand that pain is painful and the monsters of the bad dreams can give hellish experience so people avoid them. But what I really don’t understand is why something innocent like boredom (when you have nothing to do) can be so threatening that we start talking of being “bored to death”.

Boredom Redefined – It is Lack of Pleasure

In today’s world where every aspect of human life is invaded by high technology and digital tools, boredom has come to mean “absence of pleasure”. The easy thrills that come from social media sites, emails, cell phones, ipods is so absorbing that even a few minutes without them seems killing – this empty space is called boredom these days. When we get tired of digital entertainment we have other options to get “quick high” in the form of shopping, eating something (called “boredom eating”), or buying the latest cell phone model. These are wonderful ways to lead a life of addiction to trivialities; in real terms, it implies a “thrill followed by gloom” trap.

But Life is Still Empty

As it happens with any addiction, the “highs” do not last long and we crash back to our base-level only to face the emptiness we have been trying to avoid as boredom. The longer we remain trapped in the world of quick thrills the harder it becomes to come out of it. Actually, it turns the mind into an undisciplined bully. It starts demanding excitements more frequently and goes into depression whenever the dose of excitement is delayed or missing. Don’t be surprised if experts give you innovative labels to this “mental disease”. Whether the labels will cure this “illness” is unclear but for sure we are left more miserable and confused than before.

Need Mental Discipline

Boredom is a reminder that your mind wants excitement because we have trained it that way by an undisciplined lifestyle.

Boredom is just another side effect of the modern digital lifestyle: we equate the pleasure of thrills and amusements with happiness, which actually has nothing to do with how high or low you feel. It is a wrong notion that we must be excited all the time in order to be happy.

Happiness is an internal stuff; it has more to do with the way of being – it is a mental state of contentment and satisfaction with what we have; not the other way around. Boredom inherently implies dissatisfaction with what we have and a craving for what we do not possess. Basically we crave for a change in order to feel better. We have to realize that craving is the problem. There is no other problem.

The only way to handle craving is by injecting elements of discipline in the life and come out of the I-will-do-what-excites-me attitude. We need to train to do things that are important rather than what we like to do. Doing things just to keep busy is a bad habit. This is a lesson we need to write with stone on our mind. Besides, it is also bad time management that lowers our productivity.

Once you have developed some mental discipline, you will easily understand why boredom is an opportunity.

The Challenge of Boredom

Boredom is the situation when the environment is dull, tedious, and doesn’t offer motivation. Anxiety is inherent in boredom; people go to any extent to remedy or prevent it. If sleeping and daydreaming are common passive ways to cope with boredom, looking for new and unfamiliar challenges such as puzzles, crosswords, or creative games are the active forms of boredom management.

Boredom is associated with failure of attention and also to depressive symptoms. Some people are more prone to boredom than others; they are thus, also more susceptible to depression.

In educational set up lack of understanding is the common cause of boredom. If you don’t follow the lecture material you will be bored. However, the opposite can also be true; if the topic is too easy or trivial you again lose interest and get bored. Thus, boredom is closely related to challenge; either there is not enough challenge or too much of it.

Boredom Research

Much of the research on boredom has focused on the bad company it keeps – from depression, overeating, smoking, drugs, etc. So, it is not wrong to say that most of the studies have been co-relational rather than studying the mental state of boredom.

After studying decades of research on boredom, Teresa Belton and Esther Priyadharshini ofEast Anglia University in England concluded that it’s time that boredom “be recognized as a legitimate human emotion that can be central to learning and creativity.” Boredom is more than just flagging of interest or a precursor to mischief – it is a time out to recast the outside world in ways that can be productive and creative. It is a tool for sorting information — a sensitive spam filter.

When boredom is a temporary state it reflects the obvious – that the brain has concluded there is nothing new, interesting, or useful in the current activity. When bored the brain withdraws but does not become passive. In this state of withdrawal time appears to drag on than when the mind is absorbed. Unlike the self imposed boredom of repetitive activity of meditation, in the routine life it is frustrating and restless. This makes boredom a state that demands relief – if not from a conversation, then from some mental challenge. Thus, there is opportunity in boredom.

Military boredom has been studied since World War II by a variety of researchers – a common conclusion is that boredom leads to alienation, followed by resentment and anger.

Boredom in Modern Life

Boredom appears to be the ubiquitous driving force of modern life. It, of course, does not attract people but repels them into non-stop action.

“By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.” – Lewis Mumford

How often we start checking emails when we are not busy, just to keep busy? Or rush to twitter, facebook, or some other social media sites and start posting messages? Or how many times call friends just to talk – aimlessly?

We certainly like doing such things but what purpose do they actually serve?

There are certainly situations when we must respond to mails or send messages. But studies show that we indulge in such activities just to keep busy and avoid boredom. In fact, we engage in many things because we just can’t sit quiet. This is the typical lifestyle of people living in this digital world – the fear of boredom drives it.

5 Boredom Quotes

“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.” — Saul Steinberg

“Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“If you get bored with the person you married for love, there’s something wrong with you – not with that person.” — Shahrukh Khan

“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.” — Cory Doctorow (Little Brother)

“When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.” — Eric Hoffer

I Don’t Feel WELL; Must be Depressed

A Tale of Two Wolves

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. 

“One is Evil – It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

“The other is Good – It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins? 

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

(Received in mail from a friend)

Meditation – How to Deal with Thoughts

Intrusive Thoughts

You are trying your best to concentrate on your breathing, or mantra, or meditation image and suddenly the mind goes “fishing”. Several minutes are gone by the time you realize it and bring the mind back on the meditation object. This keeps happening for the whole hour you sit for meditation. A lot of people get fed up and give up meditation all together.

Thinking is what the brain does all the time. It does not know how to “not think”. This is a reality you have to accept. It is useless to dislike this glaring reality. However, what you can do is not encourage the thoughts. How would you do that? You do it in the same manner as you do on a busy street – you ignore people walking around you after being careful not to bump into them. You deal with thoughts the same way you deal with some mad man talking – you ignore whatever he says. You know very well what will happen if you get involved in conversation with him.

Think of it this way – your mind is presenting “teasers” almost every second, such as “I must not forget that I have to call Mike at three.” Or “Oh s—, I did not check mail.” The moment you respond to a teaser, your brain gives you more thoughts on that subject. You’ll get mental images of Mike, phone, computer, browser, and every thing connected with that thought. If you respond to any thought, it will only lead to more thoughts. Therefore, an essential skill one develops in trying to meditate is to ignore thoughts.

When you do not respond to a teaser thought and continue to focus on the meditation object, say respiration, your brain will let go of that teaser and try something else. You carry on with the practice and the teasers will become less and less frequent. That is meditation in a nutshell – non-identification and increasing the space between thoughts.

Non Identification

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of non-identification, and non-identification is all. Non-identification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation. – Osho

As renowned master, Osho, puts it – detaching from mental activity is meditation. The more detached you are, the better is your meditation. So, essentially you end up training yourself in the art of detachment or non-identification from your thinking. And the reward of meditation comes in the form of increasing space between your thoughts. This space is nothing but peace and tranquility – it is highly energizing. It also sets into motion a positive feedback – it makes you less distractible and you meditate better. This encourages you to meditate regularly, and you are already on your way to deeper and deeper feelings of inner peace and “natural” happiness.

This is how meditation increases your mental discipline and gives you a vastly improved ability to concentrate and focus – you are not easily distracted or “tempted”, putting it in layman’s words. Putting together all you get from meditation – you become strongly focused, highly disciplined and a confident personality. Things like thoughts, emotions, or feelings can’t sway you from what you are doing.

Stress Management: Why Relaxation Alone is NOT Enough

Relaxation is an important part of stress management and for many people the two terms are synonymous. For long term and effective stress relief, however, you need to go beyond learning to relax. It is your reaction to outside situations that stresses you out; not the situations themselves. So, ideally you should learn to react better. It is all the more important in today’s fast changing society.

Rapid globalization and advances in information and technology have radically transformed the businesses and societies in recent years. Combined with negative economic forces, it has significantly added to job and lifestyle insecurities. As a result, the stress level of people across the world has significantly gone up in last couple of years. It has taken a heavy toll on the physical and emotional health of people. One can also see it in the deteriorating interpersonal relationships.

Stress related health troubles cover a wide range of illnesses right from headaches to heart diseases. In fact, if stress is removed from life, medical bills will drastically go down making everyone happy. But it is doubtful if it is realistically possible looking at the way life is evolving.

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A Four-Step Formula to Boost Your Brain Fitness

When people think of exercising it often involves physical training to strengthen muscles. The human brain is also an important “muscle” in the body and with the right brain training and exercises you can help keep it fit, alert and ready to handle the rigors of a typical working day. Often brain exercises come in the form of games that help train the brain improve memory, strategize, and think in advance. Some common forms of brain exercise include chess, crossword puzzles, memory games and mathematical problem solving.

Use it, or Lose it

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. – Newton D. Baker 

Unfortunately when most people stop formal schooling, either by completing a degree or choosing to drop out, the study habits and brain training that was part of their daily schedule also ends. The learning and critical thinking that helped get people through school shouldn’t have to stop just because a specific goal has been reached. In fact, if you don’t keep using the brain it keeps becoming lazy and won’t function as sharply as it used to. Experts say it aptly: use it or lose it.

Importance of Brain Plasticity

Plasticity is the tendency to shape itself according to experience – it is the most important quality of the human brain. Plasticity creates neural networks that give you adaptability and versatility. Without plasticity you won’t be able to survive in the fast changing world. Lack of plasticity means rigidity – rigidity of attitudes, likes and dislikes as well as of preferences and prejudices. A healthy human brain is highly flexible and most moldable.

Warning – Couch Potatoes!

All the labor-saving conveniences provided by technology is increasing the population of couch potatoes in the society. A sedentary lifestyle severely deteriorates vascular system, which ultimately affects physical and mental health. The increasing penetration of computers, Internet, TV, and video games is slowly pushing us towards a real health crisis. A recent survey concluded that nearly half of youngsters (12 – 21 years) do not participate in vigorous physical activity on a regular basis.

Here is a four-step prescription for boosting the health of your brain.

1. Break Your Routine

Falling in the rut (and living there!) is the best way to disrespect your brain. Doing things in non-routine ways challenges the existing neural network to perform and stimulates creation of new connections. So keep challenging your brain to learn new skills, particularly those you have never tried before. However, it does not mean that you stand on your head, begin walking on one leg or start breathing from the mouth!! There are sane ways to stimulate and challenge your brain. Here are some simple ideas:

• Brush your teeth using the other hand,
• Try controlling the mouse or TV remote from the other hand,
• Shop at a new grocery store,
• Switch hands to hold fork and knife and eat,
• Join a dance class if you can’t dance,
• Take a different route to your office,
• Solve puzzles, play chess and brain-games.
• Try writing or painting with the other hand,

If you felt uncomfortable or awkward don’t worry – that’s how you feel when the brain is learning. You can invent more such activities; the idea is to do things that force you to break from the routine and be attentive. When you are doing things habitually, brain goes into neutral.

When you do such non-routine activities, apart from feeling awkward you will discover another vital thing – you become consciously aware of what you are doing. You can’t afford not to pay attention if you are doing things unconventionally!

2. Be Witty!

Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths. - Steven Wright

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. - Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. - Woody Allen

Why is it when we talk to God we’re praying, but when God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic? - Lily Tomlin

3. Use Brainwave Audios for Mental Development

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus”. – Bruce Lee

This is a recent development that is fast picking up and gives all round benefits. Regular listening to low frequency entrainment audios leads to a mind with heightened awareness. With this awakened mind, you begin to perceive things from a different angle and with new wholesome meaning. This is significantly different from the previous “narrow mind” which could only do few things in limited ways. So, you have a new and more confident self now.

What causes the feeling of high and peak experiences? The neuroscientists say that the euphoria or ‘high’ you experience is caused by the release of endorphins in the brain, which is far more powerful than morphine. Many people, particularly students and professionals whose performance depends on their brain fitness, are taking help of brainwave audio tracks to improve their memory, intelligence, and other faculties of mind. They discover that they have not only become significantly more productive but also stay relaxed and enjoy life simultaneously.

My personal recommendation is the brainwave entrainment package of Genius Brain Power that can systematically walk you through the whole brainwave landscape right from mild relaxation to deeply touching meditative states.

4. Fill your Mind with Positivity

You need to learn the Art of Relaxed Productivity. For that you will have to move away from the clutter and over-complicated life and start living a simpler, more focused, and effective life filled with inner peace and joy. Specifically, you would like to achieve the following:

• Switched from a negative mindset to a much more positive one.
• Get rid of negative habits such as feeling inferior and un-worthy, victim thinking, over-thinking and fear.
• Become more present/mindful in daily life.
• Become a less shy and a more confident person.
• Become more socially attractive with highly developed social skills.
• Stay relaxed, patient, and positive even in most difficult situations

Rather than offering do’s and don’ts from my side, I recommend a life-transforming book, The Power of Positivity, by Henrik Edberg which is highly loaded with inspiration and motivation. It comes with a workbook and MP3 audios and is a constructive and practical guide to living a more positive, happy and successful life. This book can drastically change your life because it is a product of real-life personal transformation.

Feeling Stuck? Mental Barriers Holding you Back?

Mental barriers are barriers in life. They are more common than they should be. But the hard fact is: we have to find a way around them or dissolve them. They are highly frustrating and leave you with sense of shame and inferiority. In the core of your heart you know that you are capable but in reality “something always holds you back”.

Everyone has mental barriers in their life that cause them problems. Mental barriers are those little things in the back of your mind that stop you doing what you know is best for you. For example, you may turn down a promotion at your job because you are scared of the responsibility. Or you don’t give 100 percent to any task because you are afraid of failure, and must have an escape route. The point is that these mental barriers are holding you back from a truly successful life. If you hope to reach your full potential you need to break these mental barriers once and for all!

Will power is a common tool people use to get past these blocks. But much sooner than later we run out of the will power and are back to square one, sometimes even before trying. How about studying and understanding them? Probably good for writing thesis but getting past (or over) them is a different ball game.

How about getting some help from a tool like hypnosis? Yes, it is easy, simple, and effective at the same time.

Your subconscious is the breeding ground for those dreaded mental barriers and is what we need to work on. When you are in a hypnotic state of mind it completely opens up your subconscious. It gives you the power to clear out all those nasty little cobwebs that dirty up your thinking. No matter what it is holding you back you can have the power the push past it.

The future that you picture for yourself can be reached. It’s a long journey but it starts with a single step and that single step starts when you break your mental barriers.

Breaking Mental Barriers hypnosis MP3 can effectively help you break through any mental barrier.

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