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#35 Combining Deliberate Habit Formation with Mindfulness Meditation

36 minutes Posted Nov 13, 2018 at 7:40 pm.

Today’s topic: Unknown

Background: Charles Duhigg’s “The Power of Habit” and Sam Harris’ “Waking Up”

David: How is your meditation habit going?

Magnus: How I’ve failed

Not being disciplined might be a question of the chicken or the egg

Magnus trying to explain…(away?)

Analogy: the successful habit of exercising

How more positive self-talk motivates

Magnus: A conscious decision not letting reality get in the way of the exercise habit

The connection between the two books and the question of not being able to create the habit to meditate

The parts of a habit: Cue, routine, reward

The conscious decision to exercise might not be conscious

Sam Harris: All our experiences are products of our consciousness -> The illusion of the I (or the self)

Motivation comes out of the narratives we tell ourselves

Mindfulness helps us see these narratives

Narratives are useful to create meaning. Unsound behaviours can be avoided by seeing and getting rid of counter-productive narratives

Meditation can help your long-term ego

If you can be fully content in the present, are long term plans then really important?

Meditation is not removing meaning, rather to be able to see it (and its roots) clearly.

You can keep, see and experience your narratives if you do mindfulness

When meditating don’t try to analyze the narratives, just experience them and let them move on

David’s meditation habits

About The Power of Habit

Combining mindfulness meditation and meta-cognition

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In this first episode with a freer discussion format we talk about how we form new habits and the difficulties we face as we try to keep them, in particular regarding Magnus’ attempt to start meditating regularly. David tells us about his own mindfulness meditation habit and we contrast our personal experiences against Charles Duhigg’s “The Power of Habit” and Sam Harris’ “Waking Up”.

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