Holding onto a grudge only hurts you, like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. Forgive, accept life’s experiences, and enjoy moving on.
Happiness is a choice and a skill. Learn to reframe thoughts and surround yourself with what you need to find a happier life, as it’s within your grasp.
Understand that most situations are neutral; your perspective determines their impact. Cultivate the skill of controlling your thoughts and reframing situations to empower yourself.
Unhappiness stems from the gap between life’s events and your expectations of how life should be. Adjust your expectations to reduce discontentment.
To foster realism and appreciation, “look down” at the suffering and lack around you or in the world, reminding yourself of your blessings and reducing feelings of entitlement.
If you’re unhappy, ask yourself what you are doing to make yourself feel that way, what perspective you’re taking, or what emotions you’re ignoring.
Accept that suffering is a necessary part of progressing to enlightenment in life. By accepting it, suffering transforms into a natural part of the journey.
Being able to love and feel a connection to another being is a sufficient source of happiness, reflecting a divine part of yourself.
If your basic needs are met and you experience love, it becomes easier to work on your mind to achieve a state of happiness.
Recognize that past suffering has shaped you into who you are. Be grateful for the pain you’ve experienced, as it contributes to your current self.
Cultivate true intelligence by questioning everything, including what is said in this podcast. Humbly state your truth while acknowledging the possibility of being wrong, fostering continuous learning.
If you feel defensive or triggered by differing perspectives, self-reflect on why this disproportionate emotional reaction occurs. Choose an empowering mindset instead of being a victim to external opinions.
To continue learning and evolving, be willing to remove old beliefs and replace them with new understandings that make more sense, engaging in continuous debate.
Every other Sunday, from waking until 3 p.m., disconnect from external knowledge (no phone, books, speaking, or time-telling). Engage internally with just paper and pen, or instrumental music.
Go somewhere in nature for 40 days each year, refraining from words, listening to instrumental music, and allowing minimal phone checks for emergencies, to process thoughts and gain clarity.
Extend your intermittent fast (e.g., stop eating at 4 p.m. and not eat again until 5 p.m. the next day) to give your digestive system a break and allow your mind to settle.
Allow your mind a break of silence to settle the constant analysis and suspended thoughts, leading to clarity and relaxation.
Go off social media for several weeks each summer to reduce external influences, allowing you to tune into your own thoughts, gain clarity, and strengthen your conviction in who you are.
Embrace the feeling of hunger without immediately eating, recognizing it as an opportunity to cultivate personal power and avoid being a slave to cravings and emotions.
Recognize that life is a zero-sum game where you come and leave with nothing. This perspective can empower you to detach from physical attachments and material possessions.
Engage in practices like walking slowly, silence, and fasting to achieve a state of detachment from the physical world, allowing you to be fully alive but not attached, akin to “dying before you die.”
Employ meditation, silence, long reflections, and breath work to shift the dominance of the mind that creates illusions, helping you realize a more expansive reality beyond physical experience.
Meditating regularly increases the likelihood of experiencing non-duality, where the boundaries between yourself and everything else dissolve, leading to a deeper understanding of existence.