BlogPracticeEnergy enhancement

Toothbrush practice

Toothbrush

This is one of my favorite practices over the years.

It's very simple: we combine what we do every day with what we need to achieve. We brush our teeth every day. We need to achieve mindfulness, in translation, to make the brain our friend. To do this, you need to learn how to switch thoughts. Of course, you can write a phrase familiar to many, "disable internal dialogue," but this is already the result of a set of practices. Remember, it's not necessary to turn off the internal dialogue, but learning how to switch thoughts is very important. Of course, you can continue to chatter uncontrollably in your mindset and on. But! Wasting your life's time on the debauchery of a superficial mind is not effective.

Therefore, when you brush your teeth, you are giving an order to your brain not to think. This is how you act every day in the morning and in the evening. Fine motor skills are very conducive to concentration on movement, so it will be easier for you to turn off the jumble of images and interpretations in your mind. And practice will give results, but it will take time. This time is individual for each person. The main thing is to remember that practice has the effect of accumulation. Don't rub your teeth all the time. They just did and forgot. They did and forgot. Quantity will turn into quality.

Attention!

Imagine if you were to do this simple action for a year, two, five, ten, fifteen, twenty years? You will become a Master of working with the brain! I want to think about a person or an event, I think. I don't want to, I don't think. This practice is just a gearshift lever. And then, of course, you won't need a toothbrush. Therefore, start.

You need to learn how to control your incessant internal monologue with yourself or a dialogue with images of people in the default brain system. Default mode network is an operational rest neural network that becomes active in a state when you are not busy performing a specific task and solving a specific issue. In this system, you have about 150 different images wandering around.5 people are the closest, another 15 are more distant friends and acquaintances, all the rest are; This and all the others are there. A crowd of images of people that you periodically recall. Clean your mind from conversations with these fictional characters. There is nothing of reality in them. Just images... Only images... And you spend your life on them...

Let's say one of the people hurt you. You are upset. But you're only worried because you can't tell your brain to stop. I'm not thinking about this person right now.

Of course, while you are in illusions about the fact that someone might offend you.

Let people say and do what they want, but you have to learn how to do what you want. And you want, strangely enough, to be in a state where your emotions are pleasant. Only you can do it yourself. Because your emotions follow your thoughts.

Your emotions are pleasant when your thoughts about yourself are pleasant. To clarify: if your vanity has been fueled by external factors, praised, loved, etc., you feel good. If your importance is not appreciated or trampled on, you feel bad. Well, is it nonsense to live like this? Constantly depend on the external environment. Think about how much time you've spent on this constant and sluggish conversation. And — act.

✶