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1️⃣ Recreate, with attention. Don’t suppress the urge to recreate. Simply sit down (somewhere else), and give the music or video its own space and attention right there, on the spot (till we don’t want to anymore). https://t.co/eZ8mc5U4vT
More often than not, you might find yourself back at the original activity. (Yet it will have mattered you paused.) https://t.co/QevBTdpQNa
2️⃣ Pause, indiscriminately. Whenever you have the urge to pause, PAUSE. Whether it’s music, writing a tweet, working—urge? Pause. You don’t have to stand up. You don’t even have to stop typing. But mentally: you have paused. This may make you smile :) https://t.co/WgFUJLWIAx
It’s like that other rule you have. Whenever you’re bored of a meeting, *start standing up,* no questions asked, and think of the excuse on the way out. It saved you a ton of time in the long-run, to know what you want in moments of indecision.
⚠️ Don’t make “pausing” it’s own doing. You can continue typing/watching/doing the thing when you pause. But your impulsive mind may also feel free to actually hit pause and stand up and sing. Pausing is a non-doing, a non-gripping of continuing to try to do. https://t.co/FdTkybr93r
Pausing doesn’t always mean stopping (though I recommend going and taking a lie down). https://t.co/le9o04tNWU
@m_ashcroft @captain_mrs @CompliceGoals > So you have urgent things to do? Yes. > But you don’t feel their urgency? No. > What do? 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲: AAAAH go DO them of course they’re URGENT. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲: Relax and lie down till they feel urgent and I begin doing them spontaneously.
Why do we need this? You have this part of your brain that throws up error signals, “if we’re working, we better continue and finish it, just a bit more.“ https://t.co/MJ1PEvQw99
To know where the sweet spot is, you have to have been on both sides. That’s what we’re doing here. https://t.co/vGc7JWBvtb
3️⃣ Practice all this, gently. There’s an imperative that comes up, with any of these self-improvement things, “NOW, I am waking early every day, NOW, I am supposed to be meditating.” We’re going to work with that this quarter.
When the thought arrives, “let’s go meditate or sth,” hold it with the looseness you would a friend saying “let’s go for chips.” Do you wanna? Do you wanna read a bit of a book first? Ok. Wanna just get out there and do it? Ok.
Both are ok. The poison is “now the thought has arrived, so now I should.” Stay with the poison. Pause on the poison and slurp it up like a tasty thought. This thought is a core part of your psychology, and it’s what we’ll spend *time with.* https://t.co/bHt3bE1Zzy
The point is not to box away those thoughts so they affect our behaviour minimally again. The point is to bring them to enough consciousness and slurp slurp slurp till both of you are like “yeah ok man, this is what we really want.” https://t.co/h5t0ztkAnf
Bringing mental processes into conscious awareness allows other processes to examine and communicate. It frees the mind from a bunch of 9yos trying to turn the car every what way and puts them in a room together and makes them stare eyes till they get it https://t.co/XFfCG5fNuw
No drama necessary! https://t.co/jYtoNVeGQn
Already violated some of these precepts, and that’s ok. They’re meant to be inspiration. Not enforced, not even intended, just considered. rules = must do intentions = intend, not explicitly do inspiration = consider, do not even intend