1288: The Alternative to Thinking All the Time by David Cain of Raptitude on Meditation Practice & Mindfulness Routines

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🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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David Cain of Raptitude shares the alternative to thinking all the time. Episode 1288: The Alternative to Thinking All the Time by David Cain of Raptitude on Meditation Practice & Mindfulness Routines David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: https://www.raptitude.com/2017/07/alternative-to-thinking-all-the-time/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.2	The Alternative 2 Thinking All the Time by David Kane of Raptitude.com
1:16.0	One evening, last week, I was sitting on my front stoop waiting for a friend to come over.
1:20.9	I brought a book out with me, but instead of reading, I just sat there and let my senses take
1:26.0	in the scene. I didn't look or listen for anything in particular. I just let the details of this
1:31.5	particular moment in the neighborhood come to me. The quality of the air, heavy and warm, the
1:37.5	incoming summer storm kind. Birds, two couples having a conversation down the sidewalk,
1:43.0	the clinking of dishes coming from inside the house to my right, distant hammering from a construction
1:48.1	site somewhere in the blocks behind my house. There was also a scent that I only recently learned
1:53.6	has a name, Petrocore. It's the earthy scent of rain having just fallen on soil after a dry spell.
2:00.0	You definitely know it. It's a big part of the overall flavor of the scene. I engaged this kind
2:04.8	of receptive awareness often, particularly when I'm waiting for someone, and there's something very
2:09.3	satisfying about it. Every scene in our lives, whatever's unfolding at any given time in a front
2:14.8	yard, a living room, a doctor's office, a grocery store, has its own unique tone and emotional
2:20.8	signature, which you can notice if you're not talking in your head, which we usually are.
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