Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

Learning is making synaptic connections; instruction gets the body involved in order to have a new experience, which further enriches the brain. When we also pay attention and repeat our new skill over and over again, our brains will change.

Obviously, to avoid letting any thought or feeling you don’t want to experience get past you unchecked, you have to develop powerful skills of observation and focus.

Imagine how much good you could do by converting any destructive energy to productive energy.

When we stay present, when we are “in the moment,” we can move beyond space and time, and we can make any one of those potentials a reality.

Your beliefs are the thoughts you keep consciously or unconsciously accepting as the law in your life.

and how to close the gap between who you really are in your inner, private world and how you appear in the outer, social world.

Warning: when feelings become the means of thinking, or if we cannot think greater than how we feel, we can never change. To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self. It is to be greater than the body.

cells begins to feel normal to them, and eventually, what the body perceives as normal starts to be interpreted as pleasurable.

So it is a good idea to meditate in the morning or evening, because it will be easier to slip into a state of Alpha or Theta.