Dalio On Meditation

I went to this place and I learned how to meditate and and it one of the most important greatest things in my life because It allowed me to have an equanimity

it’s a simple exercise really in which one has a mantra which is a sound or a made-up word and when you repeat it over and over again with your breath, it takes your mind away from your thoughts and it directs those attentions to your mantra. And then when you keep doing that, the mantra disappears and you go into your subconscious. And when you’re in your subconscious mind, that’s So much comes from our subconscious mind. That’s where our creativity comes from, you know. That’s what in intuitions and all of that happens. And so it opens a passageway between one’s subconscious and one’s conscious. So you’re not in an unconscious state like sleeping and you’re not in a conscious state. And so that exercise allows you to completely eliminate stress and it fosters creativity. Because when you think of creativity, it’s not that you go muscle it. It’s more like you take a hot shower and these great ideas come to you. Well, that’s what happens. So meditation creates that equanimity, it creates that vehicle for the connection between the subconscious and the conscious, and it allows creativity. And I really think that then the reconciliation of what is subconscious and what is logical.

It is very powerful because your instincts, your intuitions and so things, those sort of things may be invaluable insights and they may be wrong. And when one can reconcile their subconscious thoughts, those instincts, those intuitions with their logic and the consciousness, it’s very, very powerful. So that gives me an equanimity that helps keep me out of the blizzard.

It’s a practice. It’s a simple exercise. And the more you do it, the more you get better at it. And the deeper you go, the easier it is.

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