Before I get into the nitty-gritty of this, there’s an obvious disclaimer I need to make:
When you’re away from home, pay attention to what’s going on. The fairways have fast moving metal things that can hit you.
I’m not patronizing you here. Once, by (mis)using this, I almost ran in front of a cyclist. That was a great learning experience for me, followed by the weird one of him saying:
“Hey, be careful! I almost hit you…but I didn’t, so there’s no need for me to get mad.”
My point: It’s easy to get lost in this experience.
And what experience is that?
Well, a couple of days ago I went into a self-hypnotic trance while walking home from the shops.
Do you think you don’t have time to meditate, practice self-hypnosis or sharpen your mind?
The typical rebuttal is that it will tell you time in the long run. Thirty minutes in the morning will improve your productivity and focus for the rest of the day.
But what if you have a hard time finding the time to do that?
Why not meditate while doing other things?
Now, there are plenty of tricks to mindful driving, cooking, and conversing.
And mindfulness is a key part of meditation…
But it is not the only part.
Consciously dicing vegetables misses the experience of going so deep into your own mind that you get lost in a vast mental void, free of problems and attachments.
It’s hard enough to achieve that state while sitting still with your eyes closed.
At least, if you learn to meditate the traditional way…
My approach?
I practice both meditation and self-hypnosis. There are important differences, but the important details are the same. They draw you into a similar state of focus and heightened awareness, although self-hypnosis is generally easier to enter.
And you can go deeper.
Delving into meditation requires years of practice, ideally full time in a monastery.
I reached monk-like trance levels after a year or two messing around with self-hypnosis.
But what’s really great about self-hypnosis?
You can set triggers for it.
Think of a stage hypnotist: “When I snap my fingers, you’ll cluck like a chicken!”
Only it’s less ridiculous and more useful than that.
When you touch your own earlobe, you will enter a deep meditative state.
It’s a useful trick to know.
Especially since, with practice, you can do it anywhere and anytime.
Do this and meditation will not take time, because you are already using that time for something else.
In fact, with practice, you’ll end up doing the task faster.
Now I can really say that you don’t have time not to learn these things.