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Thomas McConkie, The Mormon Meditator

10% Happier with Dan Harris

CHAPTER

The Colon and Meditation

The colon has a way of bringing your thinking mind to its knees, so to speak. It frustrates our normal path to trying to solve something. A different kind of action tends to arise out of that. I love the expression think hole because it's awesome. But often it's just random thinking. Think hole actually adds another layer because it's so seductive. And you know, more thinking leads to more thinking leading to more thinking. Yes. You're in a hole. And when you're in that hole, it doesn't even occur to you how you got there, which is by thinking.

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