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Recovery and Strength
Real strength is not fearlessness. It is resilience, and recovery is its engine. Why meditation gives the mind the rest it needs to come back stronger.
Your Thoughts Are the Product of the Attention That You Give Them
Give a thought your attention and it intensifies. Take your attention away and it subsides. How selective attention builds worry loops, and how to build calmer ones instead.
You Can't Calm the Sea
You can't calm the sea, but you can learn to sail. Meditation doesn't give us control over the thoughts, feelings, or disturbances that pass through the mind. But it teaches us how to navigate them. And how to find our way back to the present moment.
Meditation: Answering the Three Key Questions
What is meditation, why would you want it, and how do you actually get it? My definition, stripped of the mystique, and the frictionless way to build a practice into the life you already have.
Pure Awareness
Insights on awareness for meditators: the three levels of awareness, the rock in the stream, the surfer at the break, and why awareness is standard human equipment.