Taking a Break From Your Mind

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Personal Development, Presence, Mental Health, Wellness, Personal Growth, Meditation, Self-improvement, Mindfulness, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Positive Psychology, Happiness, Buddhism

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🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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There are two minds, your small mind and your Big mind. Most of our lives are spent in our small mind--thinking thoughts, caught in ideas, wracked with anxiety, or simply confined by the limited bounds of your "self." There's another way to live, and in this episode, I share with how I access my Big mind, even in the mundane moments of the day. As always, if you'd like to get free access to my resource library, including guided meditations, book recommendations, app recommendations, and more...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about how to take a break from your mind.
0:17.0	More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, how to take a break from your mind.
0:45.0	Now it's important to start by clarifying something that when I say mind this can mean different things and when I'm using it to
0:57.4	label this podcast episode I mean it in a certain way and in a small way.
1:04.1	So in many meditation traditions,
1:07.0	there's a distinction made between what
1:09.2	is called the small mind and the big mind. The small mind refers to the thoughts, mental images,
1:18.7	judgments, beliefs, the sense of self. This is the small mind, and is important.
1:25.2	It helps us navigate the world.
1:26.9	It gives us an idea of who we are.
1:29.9	We use it to interact with people, memory, all this stuff.
1:34.4	It's great.
1:35.3	But there's this other mind, the big mind,
1:38.7	that is much more spacious, vast, and inherently peaceful.
1:47.4	So this is the part of you that is not tossed around
1:51.4	like leaves in the wind. It's not consumed by thoughts, by judgments, by the ideas about
2:00.3	who you are and everything that's great about you and everything that's not great about you.
2:05.0	It's not tormented or confined by needing to control everything.
2:10.0	The big mind is the part of us that simply knows what is happening in the moment that it's happening.
2:18.0	It's the part of us that rests in the
2:23.0	awareness, consciousness, knowing,
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