Mindfulness is the practice of becoming more fully aware of the present moment—non-judgmentally and completely—rather than dwelling in the past or projecting into the future.It generally involves a heightened awareness of sensory stimuli (noticing your breathing, feeling the sensations of your body, etc.) and being "in the now."

What Is Mindfulness? 

If you are experiencing thoughts that cause great discomfort or unease, it might be time to begin a mindfulness practice to support coming back to the here and now, which can significantly reduce your level of stress.

Should You Practice Mindfulness? 

While mindfulness has origins in Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, there is no necessary religious component to mindfulness. Anyone with any belief system can enjoy the benefits of mindfulness.

Is Mindfulness Related To A Religion? 

<ul><li>You are struggling with feelings of anxiety or depression. </li><li>You feel distracted or find it hard to concentrate. </li><li>You feel stressed. </li><li>You have a hard time practicing <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/can-self-compassion-make-you-happier-4159536">self-compassion </a>. </li><li>You struggle with overeating or excessive snacking. </li><li>You tend to focus on negative emotions. </li><li>Your relationships with others are not as close or as strong as you would like. </li> </ul>

You Should Try Mindfulness If...

<ul><li>Pay attention : Take the time to notice things in the world around you, including your own feelings, senses, and thoughts. Focus on slowing down and enjoying the things you are experiencing.</li><li>Focus on the moment : Rather than thinking about the past or worrying about the future, try to just take in what is happening right in front of you. Being present in the moment can help you feel more mindful and aware.</li><li>Try mindfulness meditation : Regular practice of mindfulness meditation has benefits for your physical as well as your <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/mental-illness-and-stigma-2337677">mental health</a></li></ul>

How To Practice Mindfulness? 

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<li>For those who tend to get "antsy" during meditation, there are other ways to ease into the practice of mindfulness.</li>
<li>Gardening, listening to music, and even cleaning the house can become a practice in mindfulness if you take the right approach.</li>
<li>Focus on the present and quiet that voice inside—the one that offers the running commentary on what you’re doing, what you’ve done, and what you will be doing.</li>
<li>The goal isn't to silence what is happening in your mind.</li>
<li>Instead, observe your thoughts without judgment and gently bring your focus back to the present when you notice your mind wandering.</li>
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Other Tips To Practice Mindfulness

As Eastern practices gain more popularity in the West, mindfulness has been paired with <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/cognitive-therapy-for-stress-relief-3144920">cognitive therapy </a>. Research shows some very promising results in a number of different areas. Practicing mindfulness, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) have all been found to be helpful with the following concerns.<ul><li>Anxiety disorder</li><li>Depression</li><li>Relationship issues</li><li>Eating disorders</li><li>Stress management</li></ul>

Impact Of Mindfulness

<ul><li>Try an app. If you are new to the practice of mindfulness, using an app that provides information, resources, and guided practices can be helpful for getting started.</li><li>Practice focusing on one thing at a time. Multitasking can leave you feeling distracted, so try simply concentrating on one task with your full, focused attention.</li><li>Go for a walk. Spending time outdoors on a gentle walk is a great way to live in the moment and observe the sights, sounds, and sensations of the world around you. </li><li>Be kind to yourself. Mindfulness is also about accepting yourself and treating yourself with compassion. </li></ul>

BONUS: Mindfulness Tips

While research suggests that mindfulness has a wide range of benefits, that does not mean that it is without potential adverse effects. One study on the impact of intensive meditation found that more than 60% of participants experienced at least one negative effect.Some possible pitfalls include:<ul><li>Increased anxiety or depression</li><li>Increased stress levels</li><li>More physical and somatic complaints</li></ul>Research also suggests that higher levels of self-focused attention can lead to worsened mental health. This includes decreased ability to manage pain and increased anxiety.9

Potential Pitfalls

It is important to note that context can play an important role in outcomes. Mindfulness used in a therapeutic setting and led by a trained professional may be more likely to produce desirable results while practicing alone or in a group without training or supervision may be more likely to produce unwanted effects.Other pitfalls to watch for include expecting a quick-fix or thinking that mindfulness is a cure-all. Remember that it takes time, may not be appropriate for every problem, and may work best when used in conjunction with other therapies or treatments.

So, Should I Practice Mindfulness Or Not? 

Mindfulness involves being purposely aware of the moment including your thoughts, sensations, and feelings. Learn about the benefits of mindfulness.

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Psychology generally, and the scientific study of cognition more specifically, have tended until quite recently to focus more on past-oriented cognition (<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/memory">memor</a>y) and present-oriented cognition (perception) and less on future-oriented/prospective cognition (expectation, anticipation).This has been changing. Increasingly, there is interest in how the brain is oriented to, and perhaps even organized around, forming predictions. And there is interest in developing an evolutionary understanding of why anticipatory cognition is so crucial.

Past-, Present- And Future-Oriented Cognition

The <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202009/what-actually-is-consciousness-and-how-did-it-evolve">brain evolved </a>as an adaptation enabling organisms to better perceive and control <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/environment">the environment </a>and their own internal state. Consciousness further enhances this ability by modeling the environment and the self. The ability to make predictions, guided by prospective representations—“if-then” possibilities, greatly enhances this modeling ability. A system that can model the environment and itself well can form simulations of the future environment and its adaptations to that environment.

The Brain Models The Environment And Itself… Into The Future 

In attempting to resolve the seeming enigma of how the brain produces consciousness, it’s important to first understand <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/201902/what-actually-is-thought-and-how-is-information-physical">"What Actually Is a Thought? And How Is Information Physical?" </a>Thoughts are physical representations or maps. The mind is a kind of map. The brain, and its functional product, the mind, evolved as a map of the body’s relation to its external environment.More evolved brains, such as human ones, can integrate past sensory experiences to form representations of things that are not presently “out there”—predictive simulations.<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/201810/what-actually-is-belief-and-why-is-it-so-hard-change">Beliefs </a>are a form of predictive modeling.

Consciousness, Thoughts And… Maps?

Anil Seth, a <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/neuroscience">neuroscientist </a>at the forefront of the serious science of consciousness, explained and developed the concept of the brain as a prediction machine in his book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness .Seth suggested that even our perceptions of what is presently “out there” are, in a sense, just predictions or simulations (what he refers to as “controlled hallucinations”). These are formed by a continual process of updating predictions or assumptions (“best guesses”) as to what the sensory data are perceiving.

From Best Guesses To Controlled Hallucinations

As Seth explained in his popular TED talk:“Perception—figuring out what's there—has to be a process of informed guesswork in which the brain combines these sensory signals with its prior expectations or beliefs about the way the world is to form its best guess of what caused those signals. The brain doesn't hear sound or see light. What we perceive is its best guess of what's out there in the world.”According to this theory, what we perceive is strongly shaped by top-down expectations / predictions, not just by bottom-up sensory input.

When You’re A Brain Inside A Dark Skull, You’re Guessing

In his book, A Thousand Brains, Jeff Hawkins elaborated on how the brain’s knowledge is stored as numerous models or maps of the world. Research by Hawkins’ group has focused on how the brain has thousands of complementary models of each object it perceives.He calls this the “Thousand Brains Theory of <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/intelligence">Intelligence”</a>. Each model operates as a reference frame, physically stored in a tiny cortical column. These complementary reference frames provide “what” and “where” information; acting all together, they provide information about how the different aspects of the object relate to each other.

A Thousand Models Or, A Thousand Brains

So how come we don’t feel like we’re composed of a thousand brains, each with their own independent little model of the world? How come our consciousness feels unified? This is known as the binding problem. Hawkins’ “Thousand Brain Theoryproposes that the cortical columns work together through their connections with each other, some of which are long-range connections crisscrossing the entire neocortex.

The Binding Problem

Through a process akin to “voting,” the different simultaneous models established by different cortical columns encoding perceptions from different reference frames reach a “consensus” best guess (an algorithmic inference) as to what the object is that is being perceived, based on prior learned information (e.g. “the only thing that is consistent with what we’re all perceiving right now, based on the input from all the different senses and from all our different reference frames, is a coffee cup.”).

A “Consensus” Best Guess And Vote

The fact that expectations fundamentally shape perceptions and beliefs explains many of the brain’s most successful features, as well as its many problematic bugs.Seeing is believing. But our perceptions are sometimes wrong. This may lead us to form mistaken (and often, intransigent) beliefs. Equally, believing is seeing—that is, our perceptions are shaped by top-down expectations/assumptions about what we are seeing, hearing, etc. When our prior expectations are mistaken, they powerfully influence us to perceive things in mistaken ways.

Seeing Is Believing. Also, Believing Is Seeing. 

Magicians skillfully exploit our perceptual expectations to entertain and amaze us, as do psychics—some of whom are charlatans, others are themselves true believers—victims of <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/deception">self-deception </a>as much as they are responsible for deceiving others.We, humans, are highly <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202103/fashion-suicide-why-we-imitate-each-other">suggestible</a>, which, for many, combines with an incomplete understanding of science and other complex subjects (and an overestimation of that understanding), leading to beliefs in paranormal phenomena, mystical experiences, and other weird beliefs (including conspiracies), confused as to what is real and what is not.

Optical Illusions And Delusions

Mistaken expectations play a role in many mental disorders. <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/anxiety">Anxiety </a>and <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/depression">depression</a>, the most common mental disorders, are characterized by, and some would say partly caused by, faulty expectations of, or predictions about, the future—overestimation of threat or failure.Furthermore, expectations and <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/unconscious">unconscious </a>biases in processing bodily sensations play an important role in functional neurological disorders (conversion disorders), and in other psychosomatic disorders. And expectations most certainly play a central role in the ubiquitous phenomenon of <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/placebo">placebo </a>response.

Mistaken Expectations And Disorders

<ul><li>Psychology has focused a lot on how the past causes our present behavior. But the future can cause the present too, via prediction / simulation.</li><li>The brain is constantly making predictions. Consciousness enhances the brain's ability to form predictive models of the environment and the self.</li><li>Faulty top-down influence of expectation on perception shapes illusions, weird beliefs, anxiety, depression, psychosomatics, placebos, and more.</li></ul>

The Takeaway

When you’re a brain inside a dark skull, guessing what’s presently “out there” is a form of prediction. What happens when you believe what you predict?

Part 1: Expectations shape many key features of brain and behavior.

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The Brain as a Prediction Machine: The Key to Consciousness?

Introspection is blind to construction. This does not mean that our introspective guesses are never accurate, just as you might guess the correct answer to a multiple-choice question. 
When you don’t know the actual facts about yourself, your consciousness pieces together a compelling story, much in the same way it does when you’re trying to read the minds of other people to make sense of why they act as they do. 
Introspection makes us feel like we know what’s going on in our own heads, even when we don’t. We don't realize that we’re spinning a story rather than reporting the facts.

We Are Strangers To Ourselves

“Have you ever noticed that everyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

<ul><li> Naïve realism: the intuitive sense that we see the world out there as it actually is, rather than as it appears from our own perspective. </li><li>When other people don’t share your views, the all-too-common sentiment that comes straight from naïve realism is “I’m right and you’re biased.” </li><li>Disengagement can come anytime there is a distance between two minds that needs to be bridged. </li><li>Minds are inferred rather than observed. They exist only as a theory each of us uses to explain both our own and other people’s behaviour.</li></ul>

Naive Realism – The Human Curse

When others’ minds are unknown, the mind you imagine is based heavily on your own. So, it is heavily distorted by your reality. Neural regions that are active when actually experiencing physical pain firsthand also being active when watching other people experiencing pain. It quite literally hurts to watch someone else being hurt.

Our Reality Vs Reality

Getting to know someone, even over a lifetime of marriage, creates an illusion of insight that far surpasses actual insight.
The violent actors are overwhelmed by empathy for their own group, which all too often naturally leads to disdain for competing groups.

We Believe We Know People Better Than We Actually Do

Your sixth sense functions only when you engage it. When you do not, you may fail to recognize a fully human mind that is right before your eyes. Said differently, sometimes we are triggered to engage with the mind of another and other times we are not. When you can’t see a human in front of you, you fail to empathise.  When we fail to empathise we believe others have lesser minds. This lesser minds effect has many manifestations, including what appears to be a universal tendency to assume that others’ minds are less sophisticated and more superficial than one’s own.

Fighting The Other Person

By thinking that their employees have simplistic motives, bosses overlook the actual depth of their employees’ minds and therefore fail to offer their workers what really motivates them.

People Are Complex

By remaining disengaged from other minds in this way, we neglect a chief source of human happiness: engaging relationally with other people.

Social Disengagement

The language of intentions and motives and other mental states avoids this complication altogether by using the same set of concepts to explain all actions. We use the idea of consciousness and intent and prescribe it to everything.
This mentalistic language is both imprecise and inaccurate matters nothing for providing a functional explanation for almost any behavior, one that uses a language that everyone can easily understand.

The Mental Shortcut To Simplify Life

Religious beliefs are intuitively compelling because minds—in this case, the mind of a god—are intuitive explanations for the behavior of almost anything.Two very important things about when minds emerge in both humans and nonhumans.  <ul><li>First, they tend to emerge when someone has explaining to do.</li><li>Second, minds emerge from our attempts to explain a phenomenon when no other obvious explanation exists.</li></ul>

The Minds Ways

<ul><li>We give things a mind when we can’t truly understand why something has happened.</li><li>Studies reveal that people report that unpredictable gadgets seemed more mindful than predictable gadgets.</li><li>When geometrical figures assume personal characteristics, a unified structure emerges. Unpredictable objects get a mind because a mind makes sense of action. </li><li>When something needs to be explained, mind reading is engaged. We give things a mind to give them meaning. Otherwise, we can’t understand. </li></ul>

Giving Things A Mind Of Their Own

Nature is filled with fakes. Lithops are deliciously succulent plants that look like completely inedible rocks. The praying mantis is a perfectly deadly predator that can look like a completely harmless plant. You don’t need a PhD in evolutionary biology to understand fakery.

Don't Believe Anything

As a member of one of the planet’s most social species, you are hypersensitive to eyes because they offer a window into another person’s mind. 
Given the obvious benefits of attending to others’ eyes, it makes good sense that we would be hypersensitive to anything that even vaguely resembles them.

Observing The Eyes

The basic principles of perception described here are simple, based almost entirely on similarity: “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it must be a duck.”

We Deduct Based On What We Have Seen

When we’re seeking to understand another’s mind, we rely on at least three strategies.  1. We project from our own mind. 2. Use stereotypes.  3. Infer a mind from a person’s actions.

Understanding The Mind Of The Other

As Galileo knew, to see the world accurately, you need to look in the right place and then view it through the right lens. These are two pieces of wisdom that you and I can easily forget.  A man on one side of a river shouts to a man standing on the other side, “Hey, how do I get to the other side of the river?” The other man responds, “You are on the other side of the river.”

Our Perspective Is Unique

Childhood instincts are not outgrown so much as they are overcome by more careful and reflective thinking.
As we grow up we learn nuances of a situation. Even in small groups, the social spotlight does not shine on us nearly as brightly as we think.
Becoming aware of the power of your own perspective is the very thing that enables a broader perspective. Relax. Others likely won’t notice, and if they do, they likely won’t mind.

We Are Not On The Spotlight

<ul><li>Distortions like this are easy to find. When your own views are one-sided, a balanced account will necessarily differ from your own perspective, and the errors in reporting will therefore seem to exist in them rather than in you. </li><li>The problem of expertise is one of many examples of mistakes that come from projecting our own minds onto others: assuming that others know, think, believe, or feel as we do ourselves. </li><li>The less willing or able others are to give you a piece of their minds, the more their minds become a blank slate onto which you project your own. </li></ul>

Beware of your own Biases

<ul><li>What you pay attention to</li><li>Your interpretation of what you are paying attention to</li></ul>The two different versions of egocentric biases, are produced by differences in attention (the neck problem) and the differences in interpretation (the lens problem).  Of these two, existing evidence suggests that the neck problem is easier to overcome than the lens problem.

The Two EgoCentric Biases

<ul><li>Anyone who’s ever spoken in front of a large audience or walked down a crowded city sidewalk can confirm this. Individuals within large groups are almost invisible. </li><li>What your brain extracts automatically from a group is an overall assessment, not its distinct individuals. </li><li>Our stereotypes go wrong, three wicked ways matter most: getting too little information, defining groups by their differences, and being unable to observe the true causes of group differences directly. </li></ul>

Group Stereotypes

You define yourself not by the attributes that make you the same as everyone else—has two arms, two legs, breathes air—but, rather, by the attributes that make you different from everyone else—spent 
A group defined by its similarity to others is, by definition, no group at all. Your social senses, just like your eyes, are difference detectors. 
When groups are defined by their differences, people think they have less in common with people of other races or faiths or genders than they actually do and, as a result, avoid even talking with them.

We Define by Differences not by Similarities

Stereotypes routinely stray beyond observation and into explanation. When groups differ, the easy answer is that the differences are due to something essential, internal, or stable about the group members, rather than to something external and therefore unstable, such as social norms and hair dye. We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.

A World Of Differences

When a man looks into the camera and renounces his citizenship, you have every reason to assume that he means what he says. When that camera zooms out to show a jihadist holding a gun to the man’s head in one hand and a script in the other, you know his words are misleading. The problem is that life is viewed routinely through the zoom lens, narrowly focused on persons rather than on the broader contexts that influence a person’s actions.

The Context Matters

Much more effective for changing behaviour is targeting the broader context rather than individual minds, making it easier for people to do the things they already want to do. Statistics (the numbers) doesn’t reveal the context. Therefore the fundamental problem that plagues all statistics is an explanation. When a statistician moves beyond the data, problems ensue.

Changing The Behaviour

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<li>Human beings are more likely to do things that are easy rather than hard. They don’t have some deep desire to litter; they’re just more likely to do whatever is going on around them. </li>
<li>And so you do what social animals do when they’re unsure: you look to other people for information about how to behave, to see if others seem as concerned as you feel. </li>
<li>Failing to recognize an emergency makes someone human, not necessarily a callous jerk.</li>
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Social Influences

<ul><li>The relatively slow work of getting a person’s perspective is the way you understand them accurately, and the way you solve their problems most effectively. </li><li>The main barrier to getting perspective is that others won’t tell you what you’d like to know. They lie, mislead, misdirect, avoid, or simply refuse to divulge the truth. </li><li>The main reason people lie is to avoid being punished, and so enabling people to give you their perspective requires putting them in a context that diminishes the fear of punishment. </li></ul>

Get The Perspective Of The Other

We then developed a household policy of complete immunity as long as you tell the truth. This combination of delay and immunity has worked wonders for us. <ul><li>When the employee fears retribution and the boss isn’t open to hearing the truth, nobody speaks their mind and the event becomes pointless. </li><li>Interrogators often learn that they, as the interrogator, are the main barrier to truth telling.</li></ul>

The Role Is The Problem

one common laboratory technique for creating fast friends is to have two strangers disclose private thoughts or memories to each other. This is why shyness is one of social life’s biggest curses. Companies truly understand their customers better when they get their perspective directly through conversation, surveys, or face-to-face interaction, not when executives guess about them in the boardroom.

The Curse Of Shyness

Mindwise Book Summary explores why we see human motivations in inanimate objects, why we fight others and why we are strangers to ourselves. If you’re interested in human behaviour and why people separate others into groups, this is the book for you.

An exploration of the human mind's capacity for instinctive understanding about the feelings and desires of others explains how the ability or inability to understand the minds of those around us leads to connection or conflict.

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Winner of the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) Why are we sometimes blind to the minds of others, treating them like objects or animals instead? Why do we talk to our cars, or the stars, as if there is a mind that can hear us? Why do we so routinely believe that others think, feel, and want what we do when, in fact, they do not? And why do we think we understand our spouses, family, and friends so much better than we actually do?In this illuminating book, leading social psychologist Nicholas Epley introduces us to what scientists have learned about our ability to understand the most complicated puzzle on the planet—other people—and the surprising mistakes we so routinely make. Mindwise will not turn others into open books, but it will give you the wisdom to revolutionize how you think about them—and yourself.

Nicholas Epley is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Nicholas Epley has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Nicholas Epley's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Our days can feel like a crazy sea of distraction, stress, busyness and overwhelm.We can get lost in that sea, and it’s hard to figure out how to find mindfulness and focus in the middle of it all.The answer, I’ve repeatedly found, is in the pure elegance of simplicity.Simplify to find focus. Simplify to find peace. Simplify to find a way through the sea of chaos.Let’s look at some things you can do today to create the elegance of simplicity and focus in your life.

A Crazy Sea Of Distractio

The distraction of multitasking and technology can be hard to overcome. But it drains away our mindfulness, effectiveness, and life energy. So let’s do something about it.Let’s start with the phone. Put all apps into one folder. I call mine “uncertainty” to remind me that everything lives in uncertainty.Keep the homescreen clear. No tempting apps to click on. I use the search function to open an app, requiring myself to type in the name, which makes me think about what I’m doing.Shut off almost all notifications.Choose a simple and beautiful background to remind me to be mindful.

Simplify to Clear Distractions

Let’s move on to the computer, which has some similar steps (these instructions are for a Mac but Windows/Linux users could use similar ideas):Clear your desktop (put all files into one folder, or several). Put a nice wallpaper in the background.Clear the dock. Instead, use a search app to open apps, such as Alfred, Spotlight or Launchbar.Turn off most notifications.Single-task. Close all apps but the one(s) you’re using.

Simplify Your Computer

Single tab. Close everything else. If it’s important, throw it into a read-later service, bookmark it, or put it into your todo manager.Close your email program. When you open it, open with intention, and clear out the inbox as much as you can. Then close it.Use the Momentum add-on to keep yourself focused and mindful.I like single-tasking apps, at full screen, like Ommwriter, when I’m writing or doing other work outside of the browser.Simplifying your physical and digital workspaces will help you be less distracted, and more able to focus on a single task.

Simplify Your Browser

As much as possible, it’s best to focus on a single task at a time. With intention.That means, instead of constantly switching around, it’s best to pick one thing and set aside some time (10 minutes, half an hour, etc.) to focus on just that thing. If it’s important enough to take up your attention and time, it’s important enough to give it the space for complete focus.When you clear everything aside, before you dive fullbore into the task, ask yourself, “What is my intention here?”

Simplify Your Focus

Perhaps the intention is just to learn to focus better. Maybe it’s to push into discomfort and uncertainty. Maybe it’s to be mindful and joyful as you work. Whatever your intention, set it consciously. Then get started, with focus. Don’t let yourself do anything else, even if you feel the urge to switch. At least for 10 minutes. Simplify by setting intention and keeping your focus on one thing at a time, as much as you’re able. This is a practice, which means you won’t be perfect at it, but daily practice helps you get better.

Simplify Your Intention

As you narrow your focus on fewer things, simplify your workspace so that there are fewer distractions, and practice single-minded focus with intention … things start to change.It’s like the reverse of how the distraction of technology and social media changes our brains. Our brains seem to become calmer, more at peace, when we find joy in the elegance of simplicity.It’s the pure elegance of simplicity, and it is found in the paring down.

The Elegance of Simplicity

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Strategies for finding life's Task1. Return to Origins:      What you enjoyed as a child and through        out your whole life.2. Occupy or choose a perfect niche :      Master different skills until you find the right  one for you.3. Avoid the false path (Rebel against):      Don't accept the norm.4. Let go of the past:       Don't clinge to your past believes and way        of doing things5. Find Your way back in:       Don't Quit no matter what the world says

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From the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a vital work revealing that the secret to mastery is already within you. Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master. Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with years of experience, surge past competitors to surpass them in brilliance, and explode established patterns from within. Study the behaviors of Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Leonardo da Vinci and the nine contemporary Masters interviewed for this book. The bestseller author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene has spent a lifetime studying the laws of power. Now, he shares the secret path to greatness. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters.

From the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a vital work revealing that the secret to mastery is already within you. Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master. Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with years of experience, surge past competitors to surpass them in brilliance, and explode established patterns from within. Study the behaviors of Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Leonardo da Vinci and the nine contemporary Masters interviewed for this book.  The bestseller author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene has spent a lifetime studying the laws of power. Now, he shares the secret path to greatness. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters.

Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.

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Is what you want to do a must? or is it a should? Ask yourself if the thing you want to accomplish seems as an obligation o as a pleasure to do.

Should vs. Must

Why do we want to interact with the goal so much?Why don't we focus on interacting with the process?

Interact With the Actionable Steps to Change Your Life, Not With the Goal Itself

If you wake up one day without wanting to go to the gym, trying to rationalise that decision, don't do it before, do it after you work out.

Judge Your Habits After You Do Them, Not Before

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How to change your life in a year

Don't try to fix things that are not broken, if you are not ready for them to get worse.Sometimes, we see the oportunity to improve something that seems easy and not very time-consuming. It can happen for some reason, when trying to improve it, that things get worse and more time is required in order to get it back to the previous state.

Unnecessary Focus

Sometimes, problems get solved by themselves.When no immediate and critical action is required, time can show that the problem was not in need of an action from our side to be solved.

Unnecessary Action

You can solve the problem: You can do it, no reason to be stressed.You can't solve the problem: Nothing you can do, so don't get stressed.

Unnecessary Stress

Solving problems needs more than knowledge and experience. Needs a clear and calm mind.

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Problem Solving

Patience and Solutions

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

In The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy gives you the tools you will need to unlock the awesome powers of your subconscious mind. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Once you learn how to use this unbelievably powerful force there is nothing you will not be able to accomplish. Join the millions of people who have already unlocked the power of their subconscious minds. I urge you to study this book and apply the techniques outlined therein; and as you do, I feel absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure, and guide you to your true place, solve your difficulties, sever you from emotional and physical bondage, and place you on the royal road to freedom, happiness, and peace of mind.- Dr. Joseph Murphy

Joseph Denis Murphy was an Irish author and New Thought minister, ordained in Divine Science and Religious Science.

Joseph Murphy

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

<ol><li>Our attitudes affect everything we do.</li><li>Have a positive inner dialogue.</li><li>A good attitude begins with self-awareness.</li><li>Gratitude and forgiveness are important elements for maintaining a positive attitude.</li><li>An attitude with purpose and passion is powerful. </li><li>Don’t let negative thoughts rent space in your mind. </li><li>Lighten up your life with humor. </li><li>Build relationships with the right attitude. </li><li>Develop a Whatever-It-Takes attitude. </li><li>Make a mark and make a difference - leave a lasting legacy. </li></ol>

10 Key Points From Attitude Is Everything

Understand the power of positive attitude. 

Mega-successful motivational speaker profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Keith Harrell shows how to put good atttitude to work to get ahead in all aspects of life Keith Harrell has been taking the corporate lecture circuit—and the media—by storm, and is poised to take his place among the motivational greats of the world. At six feet six inches, 43-year-old Harrell has the charisma of Tony Robbins, the intellect of Stephen Covey and the looks of Stedman Graham. He regularly inspires Fortune 500 companies with a 100% satisfaction rate. His message is simple yet powerful: Attitude, whether positive or negative, has the power to impact on an organization’s or individual’s success. Harrell teaches readers techniques for maintaining a powerful positive attitude in order to get ahead in life.

Mega-successful motivational speaker profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Keith Harrell shows how to put good atttitude to work to get ahead in all aspects of life Keith Harrell has been taking the corporate lecture circuit—and the media—by storm, and is poised to take his place among the motivational greats of the world. At six feet six inches, 43-year-old Harrell has the charisma of Tony Robbins, the intellect of Stephen Covey and the looks of Stedman Graham. He regularly inspires Fortune 500 companies with a 100% satisfaction rate. His message is simple yet powerful: Attitude, whether positive or negative, has the power to impact on an organization’s or individual’s success. Harrell teaches readers techniques for maintaining a powerful positive attitude in order to get ahead in life.

Keith Harrell

Attitude is Everything Rev Ed

If you also think that - every one is your enemies and nobody cares about you and jealousy etc. Then you must have to note few things by which your thinking will be change and you can handle all that kind of Stuff very Finely. Every natural occurring carbon containing particle wants to be in stable state in world but why we are not giving wnoughlight on it.

Enemies......😈

Look there are many things happening around you and our life is so precious and brief that if you are happily enjoying then it will seems to be like a super sonic rocket you can't able to notice that is it day or night, is it good or bad you will always be in the Shower of happiness but if you are depressed or tensed it fells like a long slow train which is moving somewhere. Just think in which state do you want to be in life.

The Best Way To Deal With Yourself 👇

So what other mocking is all depends upon our state of mind, also all the powers are in our hands you can be sad, depressed, angered or you be like a blossom like a flower every day. Choices your !!!!

Make Your Own State Of Mind 

.TRY TO MAKE EVERYBODY SMILE.NOBODY KNOWS WHEN THE DEATH APPROACHES TO US.

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