BEST OF FOMOSAPIENS: Feeling Stressed? Here's How to Think Like a Monk
FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis
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Why Do We Want to Look Down When We're Meditating?
Why do we want to look down when we're meditating? Because sensory triggers like the eyes of the most like window into everything. So lowering your gaze, being having your eyes closed, just switches off another sense. If you're constantly in your senses, then you can't go into your mind. And so that's why incense exists. It's not just like what we like insens cause it smells god. It's like your your senses are now all correctly directed and stimulated so you can go inward.
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