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4 Powerful Habits to Clear Your Mind During Meditation

from Wayne Dyer's Getting in the Gap

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Mindfulness

4 Powerful Habits to Clear Your Mind During MeditationPerhaps the most elusive space for human beings to  enter is the gap between our thoughts. When you attempt to clear your mind, usually the act of clearing your mind only leads to more thoughts.

After all, thinking about what it would be like to be in the gap between our thoughts…is just another thought.

Have you observed the following at times? Usually we stay on one thought until another one takes over, leaving very little unused space. The spaces between our thoughts are brief, and seldom does anyone wonder what it would be like to have fewer thoughts, or what we’d find in the void between them. But the paradox is obvious.

Rather than expanding that space between, we move on to more thoughts. So why should we concern ourselves with entering the elusive gap? Continue Reading