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The Monkey Is the Messenger
The Monkey Is the Messenger: Meditation and What Your Busy Mind Is Trying to Tell You | Ralph De La Rosa
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Hope for all those who want to meditate but feel they can't because they think too much. My mind is so busy, I really need to meditate. My mind is so busy, theres no way I can meditate. Familiar dilemma? These days just about all of us know we should be meditating, but that doesnt make it any easier to sit down and face the repetitive thoughts careening around our brainsseemingly pointless, sometimes hurtful, nearly always hard to control. Rather than quitting meditation or trying to wall off the monkey mind, Ralph De La Rosa suggests asking yourself a question: If you were to stop demonizing your monkey mind, would it have anything to teach you? In a roundabout way, could repetitive thoughts be pointing us in the direction of personaland even societaltransformation? Poignant and entertaining, The Monkey Is the Messenger offers a range of evidence-based, somatic, and trauma-informed insights and practices drawn from De La Rosas study of neuroscience and psychology and his long practice of meditation and yoga. Here at lasta remedy for all those who want to meditate but suppose they cant because they think too much.
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“The ability to handle the workload of four people is practically considered a virtue. We have come to feel little to no empathy or appreciation for the body, taking for granted all that it does for us and all we put it through.”

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”So often the answers we seek are right in front of us, in the very things we have been taking for granted. This is especially true of the body and it‘s role in meditation.”

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”Matters of the brain, belief, and behavior always come down to matters of perception. And perception, highly limited in nature, is always worthy of further examination.”

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Am I the only one that reads while pumping gas?⛽️🤣