Let Go of Mental Entanglements that Disturb Your Clarity Throughout the Day
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Meditate Regularly to Release Attachments and Gain Insight over the Workings of Your Mind
Broad Category: Use the exercises referenced through the section "Meditate Regularly to Release Attachments and Gain Insight over the Workings of Your Mind" to free yourself from your unexamined superstitions that you are a separate self, that change can be stopped, that the desires you are so attached to will make you happy, or that your story about reality is actually the truth.to understand more clearly how your mind actually works, how its automatic reactivity causes unhappiness, separation from others, self-absorption and narcissism, blame and fear, and other mental poisons.to eliminate the impediments to living a peaceful, tranquil, and centered life by helping you understand how you alone are responsible for your state of mind by the illusions that you choose to hang on to.
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Break Away from Normal Consciousness to View the World with Detached Wisdom
Category: Use the exercises in the section "Break Away from Normal Consciousness to View the World with Detached Wisdom" to disengage from the group mind of our culture so that you can clearly identify the toxic attitudes and superstitious beliefs that permeate it and thereby extricate yourself from being imprisoned in negative patterns that you reject. to examine everything in your life from this detached alternative perspective to determine what you personally sense about reality, rather than relying on the standard, socially approved version of truth that is frequently confused with reality. to develop an independent point of view that makes new possibilities, greater personal autonomy, and freedom from pressure and unhealthy levels of ambition available to you.
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Take a Vacation from Your Attachments
Category: Use the exercises in the section "Take a Vacation from Your Attachments" to release yourself from stress, worries, external demands, and other attachments by simply doing things which distance you from your concerns or which are inconsistent with being attached. to break free from habits that keep you from living from clarity and intention and to give yourself the freedom to operate from your own sense of inner wisdom.to give you the perspective that you need to overcome the seductions of the parasite that lives in the culture and in your ego by disentangling yourself from the rewards and expectations that are used to control you.
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Live Your Own Truth, Free of the False Values Foisted on You by this Culture
Category: Use the exercises in the section "Live Your Own Truth, Free of the False Values Foisted on You by this Culture" to break free from the ways that the culture impinges on your point of view, so that you authentically make your own choices and manage your life according to your own lights, rather than operating as a puppet for forces you do not choose to obey. to reduce the power that your own internal enforcer wields inside of you to force you to live according to values, principles, rules, and goals that you do not agree with. to release yourself from these restrictions that society has implanted into your psyche against your will by committing yourself to alternate actions which are more in line with your true intentions.
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Set Your Concerns Aside by Practicing Mindfulness and Appreciating What's Real
Category: Use the exercises in the section "Set Your Concerns Aside by Practicing Mindfulness and Appreciating What's Real" to break the habit of useless worry, unnecessary mental rehearsal, and destructive obsessions by regularly taking vacations from these habits that bind your consciousness to fantasies about the past and future.to distinguish which of your upsets and concerns are genuine and which ones you've created by the stories that you tell yourself about what's happening around you or to you. to release the charge you feel about the issues, concerns, and worries that are bothering you or stressing you by practicing mindfulness--so that you can deal with them later from a more centered and balanced perspective.
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