Happy Friday! I am feeling so sluggish and a bit of anxious today. Some stuffs are bothering me right now. Mainly financial, and then I worry for my safety caused by car issue and another thing is about how I am not eating and sleeping enough to sustain my lifestyle training and working in fitness. Other than that, things are pretty rosy (and challenging). Today, I came across a post by Cory Muscara on Instagram (@corymuscara) on his lessons after 6-months meditating and living like monks. I am so glad I have found it, convinced me a lot that I have healed a lot and I am just getting better. Here are the things that he shared:
- Find your true self is an act of love. Expressing it is an act of rebellion.
- A sign of growth is having more tolerance for discomfort. But it’s also having less tolerance for bullshit.
- Who you are is not your fault, but it is your responsibility.
- Desires that arise in agitation are more aligned with your ego. Desires that arise in stillness are more aligned with your soul.
- Procrastination is the refusal or inability to be with difficult emotions.
- The moment before letting go is often when we grip the hardest.
- You don’t find your ground by looking for stability. You find your ground by relaxing into instability.
- What you hate most in others is usually what you hate most in yourself.
- The biggest life hack is becoming your own best friend. Everything is easier when you do.
- The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the less you need to manufacture the world around you for comfort.
- An interesting thing happens when you start to like yourself. You no longer need all the things you thought you needed to be happy.
- If you don’t train your mind to appreciate what is good, you’ll continue to look for something better in the future, even when things are great.
- The belief that there is some future moment more worth our presence than the one we’re in right now is why we miss our lives.
- There is no set conditions that leads to lasting happiness. Lasting happiness doesn’t come from conditions, but from learning to flow with conditions.
- We often need to get out of alignment with the rest of the world to get back into alignment with ourselves.
- Real confidence looks like humility. You no longer need to advertise your value because it comes from a place that does not require the validation of others.
- Negative thoughts will not manifest a negative life. But unconscious negative thoughts will.
- Bullying yourself into enlightenment does not work. You must befriend yourself to transcend yourself.
- There are 3 layers to a moment: Your experience, your awareness of the experience, and your story about the experience. Be mindful of the story.
- Your mind doesn’t wander. It moves toward what it finds most interesting. To improve focus, become curious about what’s in front of you.
- Life continues whether you pay attention to it or not. I think it’s why the passage of time is so scary.
- High pain tolerance is a double-edged sword. It’s key for self-control, but can cause us to override the pain of being out of alignment.
- Peak experiences are fun, but you always have to come back. Learning to appreciate ordinary moments is the key to a fulfilling life.
- You cannot practice non-attachment. You can only show your mind the suffering attachment creates. When the mind sees this clearly, it will let go.
- Meditation can easily become suppression. Don’t use concentration to avoid what is uncomfortable.
- Meditation is not about feeling good. It’s about feeling what you’re feeling with good awareness. Plot twist: Eventually that makes you feel good.
- Some of the deepest peace we can experience is living in integrity. You can lie to other people about who you are, but you can’t lie to your heart.
- Be careful not to let the noise of your mind overpower the whispers of your heart.
- Life is always happening in just one moment. That’s all you’re responsible for.
- Monks love to fart while they meditate. The wisdom of letting go is expressed in many forms.
- You can’t life-hack wisdom. Do the work.
Can relate to most of it. Hope his work is not a scam. Looking forward to more of his sharings.