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Stop Doing & Start Being
How To Reduce Anxiety & Heal Your Mind By Becoming Present
“Instead of learning to talk to yourself better, maybe you need to listen to yourself better.”
I recently heard this (paraphrased) quote from the legendary Peter Crone, AKA The Mind Architect.
And it appeared for me (in the form of a podcast) directly on the heels of a long period of grinding the axe.
Getting after it.
Burning the candle.
Or whatever other disciplinary mannerism best suits your fancy.
It was all resistance.
You see, after about 6 weeks into this journey of badassery, I slowed down. It was part of “the plan” to avoid burnout, but in truth, I really wanted to get through it ASAP and return to my self-flagellating lifestyle of “staying hard.”
Instead, I found a treasure I thought I’d long lost:
Intuition.
Stop doing & start being.
No-Mind
Let’s backtrack a bit.
When I was supposed to attend 8th grade, my father homeschooled me for a year. We can psychoanalyze that bit of my life elsewhere, but one of the highlights that year was my introduction to Buddhism…
