When an anxious thought arises, its job, like any other thought, is to be noticed. Unlike other thoughts, however, an anxious thought carries a negative charge, or stress. Our power of control over anxious stress lies in how we decide to handle the anxious thought and its message.

Breathwork, also known as Pranayama, is a powerful prism for developing mindfulness, and which can level up your meditation practice.

Read on to discover how yoga and meditation are revealed as practices meant to strengthen your mindfulness muscle.

The point of Alan Watts’s statements are to make you realize that you’re trying to understand something that is impossible to understand and moreover besides the point. The point is to let go of trying to grasp the “meaning” of everything, stop trying to “attain” knowledge, and simply let things be as they are.

Our egos persistently label moments as “good” and “bad.” We are thus led by our egos to become lost in the past or future, where present teachings are inaccessible to us.

If the world cannot verify through perception of interactions that a self exists as the body exists, then it is a moot point for the self to claim that it exists. Something that can only be proven to exist to itself cannot be proven to exist in the wider context.

The eight components of mind include Automatic, Sensing, Core, Memory, Emotion, Ego, Deductive mind, and the Genius Channel.

Spoiler: this secret to reducing daily stress, as the title alludes to, is to accept the cyclical nature of life, without creating mental resistance to it by beating ourselves up.

Setting and achieving goals is a problem if you believe that that setting and achieving new goals is necessary — the only way — to be happy or fulfilled.