Sit, smile, breathe, smile, breathe

Chade-Meng Tan wants to make the world a better place and thinks that meditation is the tool to do so. I fully agree. Once you start meditating, the world starts to look very different, and you begin to understand how everything is connected. Read “Metahuman” and you will be convinced.

Search Inside Yourself

So he wrote “Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness”. A book about attention. Attention is the basis of all higher cognitive and emotional abilities. A book about self-mastery. Use your trained attention to create a high-resolution perception in your cognitive and emotive processes. And a book about emotional intelligence. The ability to monitor one’s own and other’s feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. Self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.

Your body

But also training the body. A healthy body, a healthy mind. There are two very good reasons to work with our bodies: vividness and resolution. Every emotional experience is not just a psychological experience; it is also a physiological experience. The fitter you are, the more aware you will be. Very often, bodily tension builds up because we are not paying attention to the body, so the mere presence of attention…