#79 - 3 Minute Thursday: Calm

Welcome to our weekly segment, "Three Minute Thursday"  (#3MinThursday) where I highlight a piece of wisdom I’ve come across from my own readings over the past week, or share with you an inspirational anecdote or insight that can help you lead a more calm, free and compassionate life. 

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I’m overjoyed by the support we’ve received this year on this very special podcast. I want to thank you for taking the time out of your life to be here with us every week. It is my sincere hope that the insights laid bare on this podcast will help you navigate both your inner and outer world in a way that brings you deep and lasting happiness and the freedom to blossom fully into the incredible human being that you are which will allow you to not only take life fully by the horns but also pass on these gifts of head and heart to the people you love and extend it further into our common humanity.

Today I want to reflect on the world calm. Calm is the chief skill to cultivate in the next year, in 2022. And it may surprise many of you that although calm can be cultivated through meditation, silence, breathwork and mindfulness timeless philosophical insights that connect the heart and mind can also generate calm.

Here are a few insights to expand on this point and it is my hope that you will take them with you into the new year:

When you live life as if it is rigged in your favor, you find calm. 

When you stop pinning your happiness to future goals and start tapping into it now, you find calm.

When you realize the pie is big enough for everyone to have a slice, you find calm.

When you let go of grudges and spite and forgive both yourself and others, you find calm.

When you make the outcome of your process about compassion and caring for others, not you, you find calm.

Wishing you all a healthy, restful, end of the year. Please join me next week, the first week of January, for a powerful meditation to help you start of 2022 with supreme calm.

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