Day 182

[Surrendering] 5mins
"If it feels like you’re constantly surrendering in your meditation, giving up old habits, letting go of old ways, you’re probably on the right path."

The idea today was interesting. Andy says that during meditation, we are not creating or building up a strong mind or something like that, but rather letting go. Focus is letting go of distraction. Resilient is letting go of old habits. It feels a lot easier to do it since we are not making something new. We have the thing we want all along, and now we just need to let go of everything else covering it.

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