Choosing a Focus in Life

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We have 65,000 thoughts a day. 90% of them are repeats from the day before. It can be very helpful to give yourself five minutes a day where you choose a focus in life. I had to start with the sounds because too intimate. The first i really started coming back to life was it was like, oh wow, th ere's light, all these sounds. There's the bird, there's the car,there's the dog,There's the eater turning on.

Mary O’Malley is the author of many books and a speaker and has studied with Patricia Sun, Steven Levine, Jack Kornfield, Pema Chodron, Adyashanti, and more! Since the early 1980’s she has been writing books, speaking to groups, leading retreats, and working with people all over the world.

In this episode, Eric and Mary O’Malley discuss how to bring awareness and attention to our heart and learn to fall in love with ourselves.

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Mary O’Malley and I Discuss How to Fall in Love with You and …

Learning to embrace the difficult makes it lose its power
Noticing what is here brings awareness and openness
Our minds are a tool for maneuvering reality, but are not reality
How our challenges will be our teachers if we let them
Understanding that our heart is connected to everything and is the doorway to freedom
Her course, “Falling in Love With You”
How your home is your heart
The pathways back to YOU
What you try to control, controls you
One of our core addictions is fixing ourselves
The difference between meeting and feeling our feelings
How attention heals
The importance finding curiosity in your immediate experience