I'm Deepak Shobra. This is daily breath. My friend and colleague Jay Shetty joins me today and all week.

Jay has a new book out called Think Like a Monk. Train your mind for peace and purpose every day.

Our topic today is total meditation.

Everybody is burden with limitations that are created by running into resistance.

So let's talk a lot. that are created by running into resistance.

So let's talk a little bit about intention

and also about resistance. Let's frame this in a way that is easily understand because all intentions ultimately come either from our ego mind or from a deeper level of awareness.

But that part of ourselves that we could level of

a awareness.

has been shaped by disappointments also in the past,

of course rewards but also disappointments in the past, of course rewards but also disambordements in the past.

All those times when things didn't go away.

You want to do something but you meet with the resistance. Things that are hard to change about ourselves always

meet with the resistance like trying to lose weight or improving our body image or not having the experience of love because we have

lacked the awareness that invites love or feeling frustrated in a relationship.

So this creates both stuckness and resistance.

And this is how stuckness and resistance gain the upper hand. You've known about this problem for a while.

You've thought about it often. You haven't made progress in solving it or progress

has been temporary. No one has given you truly useful

advice. In your worst moments you feel helpless, hopeless, or perhaps both. You keep repeating fixes that never worked in the first place.

In the end you simply put up with whatever has gone wrong. So the more we meet with

resistance the more we meet with resistance, the more likely we are to define ourselves in limiting waves.

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