Meditation has a lot of benefits. However, people often use meditation to change how they feel while maintaining unhealthy behaviors. The Tibetan Buddhist leader Chogyam Trungpa called it “spiritual bypassing”. I tell a story in this article about how this is pissing on ourselves.
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Book Review of The Open Focus Brain by Les Fehmi
The most important thing we have to give is our attention. What we pay attention to determines what we do, which determines who we are. Les Fehmi’s The Open Focus Brain teaches how to train your own attention to be relaxed and intuitive. It is akin to Buddhist and Indian non-dual meditation techniques. However, it is rooted in research by the author and well-suited for people who do not want the metaphysical assumptions that often accompany meditation traditions.
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