The wise question is not, “How can I train my mind to do what I want?” but rather, “How could I help my mind to go with the flow in the most wonderful way?” For the Tao Te Ching cautions us that we could be controlling or we could be laid back but not both as they are mutually exclusive. According to old Lao Tzu, in the long run yin’s The Dude is always superior to yang’s Big Lebowski.
This begs the question, “What is the best way to get out of our mind’s way that I could best go with the flow?” The more we use our medial prefrontal cortex to focus or our dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to analyze the more our anxious and aggressive amygdala is stimulated and the more we’ll be stuck in yang.
However, the more we use our intention and inhalation to cooperate with our sympathetic nervous system the more we’ll notice: vulnerably, passively, viscerally, randomly, and fleeting. Similarly, the more we us our volition and our exhalation to cooperate with our parasympathetic nervous system the more we’ll so physically relax and mentally release that, that which we noticed during our previous inhalation could fleetingly feel LESS solid, LESS permanent, and LESS defining.
Practice this organic version of mindfulness and meditation every twelve hours or so and you could find your: choices, utterances, and deeds flowing in the effortless effort of love’s centered spontaneity. Do this and you’ll be what the Tao Te Ching describes as a superior one.
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