Most people are stuck in a rut… and unaware of it. Sometimes, ignorance truly can be bliss. But more often it leads to suffering. For instance, many are stuck in a survival mode mindset, with every day a stressful mental obstacle course aimed at fighting others, and feeling victimized as...
Read More...What’s the point of mental training? When I started the path of Zen when I was 20, I thought if I meditated and trained on the dojo floor for a couple hours a day, I would find that elusive sense of enlightenment in just a few short years. Why not...
Read More...Most people have a distorted view of their own development. They pretend to be way more squared away than they actually are. Some are fit, but emotionally weak. Others are intellectually strong in an academic sense, but physically weak. Then others are accomplished, even wealthy, but lack connection to others...
Read More...When I was going through SEAL training, I was constantly busy with a never-ending barrage of learning new skills. There were the performance skills of running, ocean swimming, underwater navigation, obstacle course, and endless strength and stamina exercises. Learning those undoubtedly made me more physically fit and competent as a...
Read More...Your witness is beyond your ego’s identification with the past or future. Maybe the word “consciousness” or “conscious awareness” would work as an alternative to “witness”, but I like witness, so let’s go with it. This is the aspect of your mind that knows without knowing how or why. It...
Read More...Sun Tsu, in The Art of War, says, “Victorious warriors win first in their mind, and then go to battle. All others go to battle first, and hope to win.” In order to win first in your mind, you will need to can the weak thinking. Thinking about your thinking...
Read More...When I set out in life, I wasn’t confident, or particularly uncommon. I felt lost and without a vision for my future. The Mark Divine I knew then was trying to be Mr. perfect, a great athlete, a straight-A student, yet inside I had no confidence, no emotional awareness and...
Read More...Don’t be common… be unbeatable. Being common sucks. Imagine launching into your life’s most valuable work knowing that you are capable of twenty times more than you ever thought possible. How cool would that be, you accomplishing twenty times more than you currently can imagine? Be genuinely happy, financially secure...
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