2354: The Alternative to Thinking All the Time by David Cain of Raptitude on Meditation Practice & Mindfulness Routines

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🗓️ 22 May 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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David Cain of Raptitude shares the alternative to thinking all the time. Episode 2354: 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 Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.
0:10.0	Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit
0:15.0	because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top
0:20.0	and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.
0:25.0	Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.
0:30.0	Imagine living until you're a hundred. For people born today there's a good chance it could be a reality.
0:35.0	As life expectancy continues to increase we need to change the way we view retirement.
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0:56.0	Phoenix Group is the brand name for Phoenix Group Holdings PLC and its subsidiary company St. Brands.
1:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2354, the alternative to thinking all the time by David Kane of Raptitude.com.
1:09.0	Animonerator Justin Malik reading you blogs every single day of the year including holidays. So with that let's get right to another post as we optimize your life.
1:19.0	The alternative to thinking all the time by David Kane of Raptitude.com.
1:28.0	One evening last week I was sitting on my front stoop waiting for a friend to come over.
1:33.0	I brought a book out with me but instead of reading I just sat there and let my senses take in the scene.
1:39.0	I didn't look or listen for anything in particular. I just let the details of this particular moment in the neighborhood come to me.
1:46.0	The quality of the air heavy and warm the incoming summer storm kind.
1:51.0	Birds two couples having conversation down the sidewalk the clinking of dishes coming from inside the house to my right.
1:58.0	Dist in hammering from a construction site somewhere in the blocks behind my house.
2:03.0	There was also a scent that I only recently learned has a name, Petrocore.
2:08.0	It's the earthy scent of rain having just fallen on soil after a dry spell. You definitely know it.
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