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This is actually how our minds are much of the time, but it can feel stressful and unfocused. Many of us would like a calmer, more focused way of being, at least some of the time.
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So we can start to accept this jumping around nature of the mind, not as something to be battled, but as something to be befriended. Making friends with the monkey mind is bringing a sense of friendliness and warmth to our mind's nature. Being calm with it and not judging it. Gen...
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The term "monkey mind" captures this fairly well - our minds swinging from one branch to the next, jumping around without pause. It's not quite accurate (monkeys rests a lot of the time, and it's apes that swing from branches, not monkeys) ... but the image is vivid enough.
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The first idea is that the monkey mind's activeness isn't an enemy to be slayed. We might not like the feeling of constant distractedness, but if we sit with the mind in meditation, we can see that this is just how the mind likes to behave. It's a habit, but also a big part of th...
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Most people feel busy and distracted throughout the day - calm and focus and a feeling of purpose are fairly rare for most of us.
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We're jumping from messages to social media to email to quick work tasks to a search for something we're curious about, from dozens of messages to dozens of posts to a couple doze browser tabs. All day long, one quick thing to the next, putting off anything that requires much more focus than that...
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