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and start optimizing your life how reset your life with ten days of silent meditation by Chris ironing of Chris raining die. Come embargo, my car, at a meditation centre here in Wisconsin, wondering why I signed up to sit in silence for ten days, then I remember is because I thought I was die and a doctor- and They are told me to learn how to meditate. These is better than taking a vacation on a sound all Wu Wu. Somebody tell you there's a ton of science by meditation, it reduces stress and blood pressure, improves attention and even helps. He makes martyr choices. Those are just a short term, benefits key meditating and increases the gray matter in your brain and improves resilience, mindfulness and empathy. SL. Who goes to something like this.

The former Hollywood actor and start man, a software developer for hedge funds, ceo of publicity trading company. I ask them why they're here and I've been doing yoga for the last five years, so I know this crowd and expect them to talk about getting in touch with themselves, but they just want to get better at life, and so it begins that night. We take our vow of silence, no more talking for the next two hundred and forty hours and no more. I contact either. Here's the daily schedule, you wake up at four a m and sit for two hours. He breakfast said for three hours eat: lunch said for four hours, your dinner said for one hour watch some video instruction and sit for one more our before bed, you feel Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day, though one where he realized the same day over and over. I make it today, five, that's when we get instruction,

not to make any movements always set. If we get uncomfortable observed the pain but not react to it. So after thirty minutes of sitting my legs go numb my fee feel like they broke. I think of doing good fighting not to move and then my mind, separate from my body, and I start flying through space if you'll them using- and I think so. This is meditation, but then someone starts crying and ruins it later ass. The teacher, what happened she told me I was physically torture, myself, which causes me to elucidate. She tells me not to torture myself on day. Eight, I wake up. Feeling crazy is anxious to know tat. the thing. Is I ve been analyzing my life, a hundred different ways. I've been thinking about my childhood and how it should me into the person I am today. I've been thinking about every relationship. I've been in what worked and what didn't I've been thinking about the things I want to change to become the person I want to be after dinner. I lose it, I start crying and if I

honest. It felt really good like I'm letting go of everything I need you to let go of so I started getting the things that I want to get I reset my life, I didn't there going to happen in fact, might know what to expect I knew I learned from reading Bank- has no cuz experience of those interesting. He felt like a prisoner, Even real prisoner say it's like prison only harder, but that's why it works. If you see with yourself for hours for day it's for more than a week to get to the place. You need to get to that's one thing. I learned here the others number one. You dont need much money to be happy. Everyone things more stuff will make more happy crafty get what You want and realize it didn't make you as happy as you thought you start over for ten days I eat oatmeal for breakfast maybe chilean salad for lunch and apple or banana for dinner. I slept on cod and adorned divided by sheets

I loved it. It was a reminder I dont need much. Studies show affair, We have seventy five thousand dollars to be happy so after food, shelter, clothes and health care- you can decide, if you want to waste your life chasing something money can't buy number to change is one constant in life this year, my cat died. I quit my job. I went through a break up. To be honest, it's been a struggle for theirs. hunting the instructor s angle, Anchorage rolled in my head. It's that everything is continuously change. And I ve been learning that this idea of impermanence is central to Buddhism when you start framing things that happen to you as change. Instead of laws, He turned something negative into a positive and number three, Know who you are to get what you want? I thought I knew myself, because how would you not I mean it's? You ve spent twelve hours a day for ten days. Is yourself and your figure out who you are, and we

oh who you are, it makes you more successful in life. Why busy need to understand who you are and how people see you see can change things that need to change to become the person who can get what they want to get, You just listen to the poles titled. How to read at your life with ten days asylum meditation by Chris raining Chris writing de come. There The centre I've been to a couple of times up in the rocky mountains of Colorado. Definitely has these solemn meditation retreat haven't done, one that lost more than day arrived on, half or full days, asylum, meditation and an interesting experience. But the centre I've been to have these pictures of people as their starting the course and then, as a finnish play day. People come out of the silent retreat and they tend to have this huge genuine smile on their faces. I love looking at that wallet pictures and

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