Summary: In this episode I tend to ramble a little bit, so brace yourselves. I talk about thoughts, meditation, and how I now view one of the most painful physically experiences of my life as a positive experience. Show Notes Can we control our thoughts? Meditation, pink elephants, and the ability to hold focus. Is thinking positively a load of crap? (it is without the proper tools and techniques) Technique to use to get over something in your life if its bothering you. Thoughts come and go with no real rhyme or reason. How the mind deals with pain (can this change how we experience pain?) Passage from The Emperor’s Handbook: “Don’t be a Caesar drunk with power and self importance: it happens all too easily. Keep yourself simple, good, pure, sincere, natural, just, god-fearing, kind, affectionate, and devoted to your duty. Strive to be the man your training in philosophy prepared you to be.” – Meditations, page 70, Book six, passage 30, "“Pain is either bad for the body (and if so, let the body say so) or for the soul. But the mind can refuse to regard pain as bad and thereby ensure the soul’s unclouded calm and perfect equanimity. Every judgement of this sort, every impulse to act, every desire and aversion comes from within; nothing bad can gain entrance without the mind’s consent.” Meditations, page 96, passage 28. Resources Books I reference: The Emperor’s Handbook by Marcus Aurelius Songs by Slayerment Some random pics of me when I had my ol' faithful.
