Do you ever feel stressed or fatigued from the persistent chatter in your mind? Are you curious about who you actually are beneath the roles you play? You can release your identification with outer world activities and experience a peaceful and fulfilling state by developing a regular practice of quieting your mind. Take a few moments to sit still and just notice the air moving in and out of your lungs. Notice your belly rising…and then notice it falling. If your mind strays, gently bring it back. Though it’s very simple…
The results are profound.
Steve and Jarl
Most of this material from Steve and Jarl is so simple, many of us have an immediate reaction of: “Oh, Come on! Nothing worthwhile is that simple!” It’s related to the old notion that “you get what you pay for”. Instead, we find out that this bounty is indeed that simple and that it should be the underlayment for everything else we learned, our “socialization”. Therefore, parents should show this stuff to their kids in the womb. I’m serious: kids are learning how to get by much earlier than we think, and this stuff should be pre-socialization, not just pre-school!