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Smoking itself is a very easy habit to quit. The difficult thing to do is to change yourself into someone who doesn t smoke. When I quit smoking over 14 years ago, it occurred to me at a certain point that the thing that was more addictive than the cigarettes was my identification with being a Continue reading How To Quit Smoking, Easily
I think the secret of happiness is that you re not supposed to be happy. Not for for very long at least. Rather than striving for happiness, I think we should be striving for contentedness. I think happiness may be a byproduct that cannot be created directly, but can only be cultivated indirectly by developing contentedness. Continue reading The Secret Of Happiness
You know that excellent feeling you get when you re traveling solo, and you e on the first full day of the trip after the journey to get to your first destination? You know how you realize, Wait a minute, nobody here knows me or my past! They have no expectations of me. I can be whoever Continue reading Meditation Is Like That Feeling You Get When Traveling Solo, All The Time
I was talking to some people I d just met while on a hike, and the conversation made it s way to meditation. That tends to happen if you re talking with me. I was trying to find a simple analogy for someone to understand the experience of what one is trying to achieve from meditation, and to Continue reading Meditation Analogy: The River Of Thoughts
The Olight i3E EOS is the perfect keychain flashlight, and is even a great flashlight beyond the Every Day Carry (EDC) scope. It has great throw, a perfectly-tapered soft halo, and is the smallest and lightest AAA LED flashlight out there. It also costs the least. My main criteria for a keychain flashlight was that Continue reading The Perfect Keychain Flashlight
I have been experimenting with using the built-in Notes app on iOS and macOS lately. I ve found some unique capabilities that make it a pretty interesting project management app, in particular the ability on macOS to add links to files from the Finder, as well as drag in links to email messages and setup names Continue reading Project Management in Apple Notes
Nothing much seems to be happening Your mind wanders constantly, and your thoughts keep taking your attention away from the object of focus (breath, etc.) Nothing mystical is happening If any of the above — or better yet all three of these indicators has happened to you during your ongoing meditation sits, then it s a Continue reading 3 Signs That Your Meditation Sits Are Going Well
Here s a simple way to cultivate the state of mind that meditation techniques are designed to help you achieve: pretend the environment around you is actually a virtual reality simulation. Years ago, I read a meditation/mindfulness book that suggested one way to foster the state of mind was to really pay attention to the 3D-ness Continue reading Meditation Technique: Virtual Reality
If you ever try to deep clean your mini blinds, as a bonus you will also learn how to repair one of the slats. It will be one near the top, of course. But as an added bonus, it will also help you reach enlightenment. I ve come to the (temporary) conclusion that in essence, meditation Continue reading The Zen Of Fixing Mini-Blinds
One of my current overthink topics is the distinction between the dabbler and the exclusionary. Or the jack of all trades, master of none versus the master of one . It occurred to me that perhaps the dabbler mindset is yet another camouflaged appearance of perfectionism. I definitely fall into the dabbler category. One of the Continue reading Dabblers and Perfectionism