Energy Management, Plug the Holes First
Everyone asks how to get more energy. That is the wrong first question. Your body and mind are a bucket — and before you pour anything in, you plug the holes.
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Everyone asks how to get more energy. That is the wrong first question. Your body and mind are a bucket — and before you pour anything in, you plug the holes.
Intuition comes from the superconscious, not the thinking mind—it feels calm, clear, and certain, with no emotional charge, fear, or need to convince you.
Anger, joy, jealousy, happiness — every state of mind is a room in a vast mansion. You are not the mind. You are awareness moving through it, and you can choose the room.
You can choose which room of your mind to occupy—moving awareness from worry to gratitude is a skill of concentration and willpower you can train.
The moments just before sleep and just after waking are two of the most powerful windows in your day—guide your awareness through them deliberately.
The superconscious mind — the source of intuition and creativity — is reached one way: by holding awareness in a state of unwavering focus long enough to truly experience it.
Whatever you give your awareness to grows within you; a constant diet of fear-based news cultivates anxiety, so be discerning about what you allow into your mind.
A reaction far bigger than its trigger isn't about the present moment; it's an unresolved experience in your subconscious showing you exactly where it lives.
You worked hard to create the experience. This is a teaching on actually being there for it — on presence, awareness, and giving what matters most your undivided attention.
You have a mind. You are born with it. You live with it. Throughout your entire life, you function in the mind whether it be in your waking state or in your sleeping states. It’s the one thing you…
Since I released my Introduction to Meditation course in 2016, thousands of students from more than 130 countries around the world have gone through this training. Many students have shared with me…
Ultimately, it all comes down to how badly you desire to live a concentrated life. Most people don’t desire it badly enough and hence never reach a state of concentration where they can manifest the…
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