It has that much of a powerful positive effect on our psychological and emotional well-being . Um We also know that a mindfulness practice is just gold . Like not thinking is one of the best things you could possibly practice doing is just learning not to think , you know , you can learn to do things .
At least once as often you can remember , you might literally be walking to the bathroom and see if you can't just take one breath all the way in all the way out as you continue walking . You don't have to stop what you're doing that one exercise , micro meditations . If you did that and didn't do anything else in the whole world , you never read another self help book , psychology book .
And so part of the I , I think part of the work to be done with addiction . Um you know , there's lots of approaches , but one thing I realized was that and this is where mindfulness comes in really handy . Is that what often people try to do is they try to repress this primitive almost or this knee jerk reaction to use a substance or to go participate some unhealthy activity and they'll try to repress it .
Thinking about that discursive like circular logic of thought or thinking that goes on because it's like 90% or more of our thoughts are redundant and negative . So if you can just practice something as simple as micro meditation , um you'd be surprised the ways in which you can begin to get that over analytical mind under control . Can you walk us through this micro meditation ?
If you did that and didn't do anything else in the whole world , you never read another self help book , psychology book . It would be more transformative than practically anything else you can possibly do because you're doing something that even expert meditators don't do , which is weave and integrate a quiet , cool , calm , composed mind , a meditative mind into your daily activities . You know , and that's even something that's very difficult for expert meditators to accomplish .
