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Episode 53: Critical Thinking
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9 minutes
Released:
Jan 25, 2022
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Description
A general assumption or bias about meditation is that it’s all about calming down, taming the mind, and getting more chill • but in fact meditation has two components: one is a sense of calming, settling, and being; and the other has to do with enhancing our clarity, our critical thinking, and our ability to question and investigate • critical thinking is especially helpful when we are faced with conspiracy theories of all kinds — both the ones we encounter out in the world, and the ones we ourselves cook up • meditation practice reveals the jungle of assumptions and thoughts and inner conspiracies that we all have; critical thinking is a way of cutting through that, cutting that underbrush down so that you get to a clearer, more straightforward, and more accurate state of mind • we learn to not to be caught in our thoughts, not to believe everything that pops into our mind • step-by-step, as we strengthen our mind, we become less gullible, less dull, less caught in negativities, and better able to relate to fresh moments as they arise.
Released:
Jan 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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