Self Control

On today's Mindfulness Minute, we'll continue talking about natural remedies for anxiety, as well as understanding self-doubt and frustration.

Ultimately, these are a problem of being distracted.

But distraction doesn't happen here or there, it happens ALL OVER our life. It is a way of life.

You want improved productivity? You want to feel happy? Proud?

Focus!

Easier said than done, but practice makes perfect. Let's talk about it. In less than 10 minutes, I will leave you with something you can start this week to level up your mindfulness...

If self-discipline happens in our mind, what are the actual, physical tasks we can do to strengthen it?

One of these behaviours is EXPRESSION.

But how do you express? What are you supposed to say?

How does it help?

All of this will be answered in less than 10 minutes. In this episode, I will explain how expression frees us from a life of "not thinking for our self" and tell you exactly what I had to express (and how to do it) in order to quit numerous bad habits.

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I want to let you know that YES, there are natural ways to increase focus and concentration.

The fact that you are reading this means you have already started. So let's keep going!

If you are aware that you struggle to stay focussed...

Or if anxiety is getting worse because you can't achieve your goals...

Now is the time to bring mindfulness into your life. These improvements won't come over night, but it's time to start the process of repetition.

Through watching our self and our thoughts over and...

For years, I was in the grip of both a pornography and marijuana addiction. Many, many days of my youth wasted.

Toxic habits like these lower our energy, put us in a bad mood, ruin our self-confidence, and WORST OF ALL, they blind us to who we truly are! They rob us of our potential.

Looking back on how I quit these 10 and 15-year-long addictions, I have developed a clear process that I want to share with you. You can apply this process to nearly any toxic habit or vice.

And you have...

There are too many ways to be distracted these days.

So why add to that by distracting yourself?

If you find that you're not getting enough done, not staying on task, and struggling to concentrate, you may be asking yourself "how can I focus better?"

Then the anxiety starts to creep in...

Not getting enough done, falling behind, doubting yourself.

This has been a major problem for me, but through mindfulness I have begun to find ways to both manage my anxiety and improve my focus and attention.

I have spent years trying to understand why I fell into toxic habits like pornography, marijuana, and overeating.

I tried and failed to quit those habits more times than I can count.

Today, I consider myself free and clear of both porn and weed. Now I am working on healthy eating. (I've lost 30lbs, but the battle continues!)

It wasn't until I regularly did these 3 things that I began to understand why I self-sabotaged with harmful behaviours. Then and only then, was I able to quit.

In this episode, I will...

We humans are gifted with many great powers.

In this episode I will remind you of two of them: the ability to see the past, present and future, and the ability to talk to our self.

But as the late Uncle Ben said, "with great power comes great responsibility."

Are you worried about your future? Guilty about your past?

Do you talk to yourself like an enemy or a friend?

Do you see and express the life you want? The life you could build?

Or do you...

Is there a so-called "bad habit" in your life that you're trying to quit?

How's that going?

Have you considered that maybe it has something to teach you before it leaves your life?

My biggest and longest addictions took years to break, but over that time I learned so much about myself.

So hopefully, using what I learned, you can get past those unhealthy habits much quicker and still get the benefits of living an authentic life.

Today's episode is a little longer but I think you'll find it...

Everywhere you look, someone is trying to sell you a miracle cure or a product that will change your life.

I'm no different.

However- I believe the cure and the product exist within you already. I'm just encouraging you to look and listen hard enough to find them.

So, if you're working on improving some unhealthy habits...

If you have mental health issues, and you're feeling:

-Guilt and shame about your past

-Fear or hopelessness about the future

-Like becoming someone else, someone different

In our last few episodes we've been talking about Binary Entrapment.

What the hell does that mean and how can it help you?

It is THE fundamental understanding I needed to quit my addictions and improve my mental health.

This is something you CAN control if you're looking to stop feeling guilty, be less distracted and quit self-abuse and end self-sabotage.

So in the interests of communicating it to you as easily as possible...

Here is a 10 minute recap I did on my phone. Consider it my personal voicemail...