Are you bigger than your mind?

I know that you are, but how can YOU know whether that’s true if it isn’t your current experience?

Most modern humans only experience themselves as their mind (including emotions). Anyone telling them they they’re bigger than that just sounds like a crazy person!

Or at best like they are having a really different experience than you are… which isn’t so helpful.

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Is Your Reality Too Limited?

It doesn’t have to be! You have all the tools you need already to expand your horizons infinitely.

If we spend our time only using our mind to perceive reality, we miss out on a lot of what’s going on. We miss out on all of the things that our mind simply doesn’t pick up on.

Same if we’re only relying on our body/gut/instinct (however you think of that kind of perception). Or only navigating using our emotional intelligence.

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The Utility of Honest Friendships

Do you have a friend that you can be honest with? That you feel safe enough with that you can give and receive truth from, even when it’s not so comfortable?

Most relationships are more surface, which is usually a good thing.
Most of us aren’t equipped to hear what everyone really thinks, and most of us think so many goofy things, that it’s not great to be sharing all that silliness anyway. Certainly my inner critic does not need to be given free rein to speak her mind to everyone all the time!

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Are You Self-Aware?

And what the heck does that even mean?!

I can definitely say that I wasn’t when I started meditating! I was all over the place, and as I started to be self-aware enough to see the patterns I was running in my life, I realized that 1.) it was going to take a while to sort out my anger issues! and 2.) it was possible!

Self-awareness starts with training our attention.

First, what we start with in many kinds of meditation is training our attention, which 99% of us have totally lost control over.

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What is Processed Food?

And why should you care?

Processed food is food that’s been…. 

… wait for it….

… processed!

(Ok, ok, I know. But when else was I going to get to make that silly joke?)

Processed food is any edible matter that’s been changed from it’s original natural state and cooked or altered in some way.

For example taking a tomato off the vine (it’s natural state) and cooking it and turning it into tomato sauce.

Usually processed foods are marketed as a convience for you. The idea given is that it is faster and easier for you to buy that jar of sauce than to buy tomatoes and make it yourself.

Why care about this? And why do so many health conscious people tell you to “eat less processed foods” ?

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You’re Not In Control of Your Attention

What do I mean by that?!

I mean that you’re not able to focus on anything for more than a few seconds at a time before your attention wanders away, and you aren’t able to keep it from wandering even if you try.

I totally didn’t believe this at first.
You probably don’t either, so I’m going to give you an example and a simple exercise to test it out for yourself.

— Definitely don’t just believe this craziness! Find out for yourself! —

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