3 Meditations to Master your Mind and why they work - a podcast by Jo Smith - Yoga Punx Unite

Do you feel trapped in the vicious cycle of thought and behaviour patterns? Are your thoughts controlling your life?

It’s really not uncommon, and very easy to get sucked into.

Experts estimate that the mind thinks between 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts a day. Crazy huh?

And these thoughts pop in and fly by most of the time. Leaving little impression on the conscious mind.

It’s our mind processing information, repeating words, experiences, scenarios⸺we can’t control them. They happen whether we like it or not.

The issue we face is trying to work out which are worth thinking, and which are not.

We’re affected by the outside world. The events and experiences in our lives, shape our beliefs and our values. We make judgements based on those beliefs and values. These shape our thoughts, our emotions and our behaviours.

So the external world, deeply affects our internal world.

When it comes to anxiety and negative self-talk, this cycle can definitely get out of hand. For example, the ‘external event’ in our life could be a personal experience from years past, that leads to a certain belief. That belief triggers a negative emotion (it could also trigger a physical reaction e.g. heart palpitations), this then changes our behaviour which is externalised and affects our external world. And thus the cycle continues.

So how do you break the cycle?

Listen to this 25-minute talk on how to use meditation to master your mind, covering 3 specific meditation techniques and why they work, followed by 11-minute meditation practice.

If you’d like to join the live recording of Yoga Punx Unite, you can sign up for free via my online studio.

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