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It doesn’t want you to know what is

in this program.

Thinking wants you to listen to itself and believe what it says.

Thinking wants you to be its slave. And most of all it doesn’t want you

to know how Great You Are

and how small it is

~ Alan Klima

Thinking is Afraid of You

Snap Out of It

How to Use This Guide

This guide is for people who want to meditate without feeling

blown around by thinking. And the good news is that the steps in the

Snap Out of Thinking Method are simple and easy.

If there’s a problem, it’s that a lot of wrong ideas have been

handed down to us by meditation instructions that are misleading.

Many of us, these days, have these ideas in our head right now,

blocking our clarity.

That causes us to misunderstand both meditation and thinking,

making it impossible to show any great transformational change.

Nevertheless— within moments of pointing out to you the five

steps here in this guide— you will get an entirely new perspective on

meditation that you can use immediately.

The old ideas may still get in the way. If you have some

experience with meditation you may be able to read through this

guide and immediately put the Snap Out of Thinking method into

practice. Also, if you are a brand new meditator who hasn’t been

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exposed to a lot of confused teachings, you may also be able to

understand this deeply, immediately.

But just in case, I’ve included in this program some

strategically chosen guided meditations. These will make the

steps of Snap Out of Thinking go deeper and deeper.

So, you’re covered either way.

Read this quick guide to the five steps. As you get each step,

check it out in your experience immediately as you go along.

Confirm the power of each one in your immediate

experience. It’s simple and easy and you can do it right as you

read this.

Then do some of the meditations to get clearer or deeper,

and you’ll step into a whole new experience of meditation and a

whole new experience of life…

“Check For Yourself in Your Experience“

You Can Snap Back

INTRODUCTION

The most common question I get asked as a meditation teacher is,

“How do I stop all the thinking?”

You know those times when it just blows you around, sticking on you, shaking you around, and you keep going back to the same thing over and over. It’s like you’ve lost all control and it’s taking you for a ride that you can’t get off of.

And you know those times when it’s just going on auto-pilot and we’re just thinking on and on and on about nothing special at all…

The annoying noise and clatter that won’t let you settle down.

And everything in between.

You already know that negative thoughts, worries, self judgment, and bad moods are what rob you of the fresh taste of life. Meditation

is so frustrating with all that thinking and you don’t want to live that

way. Sometimes it’s just unnecessarily painful for yourself and others.

Run-away-thinking also robs you of sleep, good health, puts you in bad moods that others don’t enjoy, and makes it impossible to focus

enough to manifest whatever you want in life or to really feel the spark of life.

But something in you probably also knows that deep focus and a clear mind is the way to a good life.

Of course, other things in life are good too! But without focus and clarity you can’t really enjoy those things.

And sometimes excessive thinking prevents you from even getting those good things in the first place.

Meanwhile, when thoughts are not suffocating you, you’re free to have flow, creativity, joy, and connection with others.

The truth is that you can have more than just a temporary taste of the sweetness of life.

This doesn't have to be a dream you watch others experience.

It doesn’t have to be just a memory from a time in life before it became trudging.

There are natural living powers in you, right now, that can snap you back out of thinking—you only need to know what these snap-back

powers are and how to use them.

“Deep Focus + Clear Mind = A Good Life “


Once you understand your natural power to snap out of

thinking, and have the right tools to start, a life without the drag of

excessive thinking will become your experience.

The key is having the right approach to the natural powers

already in you, and knowing how to tap into them within seconds.

This one tool will change your meditation and it will change your

life.

The Snap Out of It Mindfulness Method

I’m not talking mass-produced meditation methods where

you’re supposed to pay attention in a cold and neutral way, like a

robot. I’m talking organic mindfulness that taps into every every

aspect of your being. This unleashes an irresistible force that pulls

your attention home to the core of your being in a snap, to the

real one you are when you are in your right mind.

It’s not based in forcing yourself with artificial and unnatural

instructions. Organic meditation is based in real powers that are

already here.

Organic meditation taps into the actual whole, real, lived

experience that is you, and in methods that have proven effective

time and time again.

“This Power is in You Already“


Those factory processed meditations out there may be okay

for some things.

But if you’ve been frustrated with thoughts just coming and

coming and taking control of your meditation and taking control

of you, then it’s time to try the natural way.

Here are some of the things the Snap Out of Thought

Meditation Method WON’T ASK YOU TO DO…

– You won't have to pay attention like a machine. That's boring and causes your mind to get busy thinking even more.

– You won't spend hours in practice fighting against your thoughts – those methods are ineffective.

– You won't try to “hack” your brain with special “frequencies.” That’s superficial and deceptive, and often just a scam.

– You don’t have to give up on your dreams, desires, attractions, and motivations in life– that’s totally unnecessary!

In fact, it’s a big mistake to meditate against your nature.

“You Are Not A Robot. Why Meditate Like A Machine?“


Instead in this guide you're getting five steps of natural

meditation mind-shifts that unleash a cascade of interest and

fascination to keep your attention riveted.

And, we’ll clear out those things people have been saying

about meditation that have actually been making it worse. You

might be surprised how wrong they are and how easy it is to see

through them!

This will get you instantly on track to snapping out of thought

and into your own meditation cocoon safe from thought and

connected to your own natural power.

Sit back, get focused, and soak up every bit of the guidance

that follows. Do that and a peaceful feeling of being in a cocoon

free from thought is just around the corner…

“Set Off the Organic Process“

Creative interest is the key Every day you can find some hot new mindfulness technique

that promises to shape your brain, that’s supposed to be based in

science, and gets you to “hack” your life.

Just repeat it over and over until you fix your machine.

I'm going to let you in on a secret that many people who

recommend these techniques don't want you to know – they

don't work long-term, or they don't work at all.

When you first hear about these things, some may work

initially because you might try something you never did before,

and it’s interesting. But if you keep going through the same robotic

motions over and over, eventually you’ll get bored. You won’t stick

“You are Not a Robot. Why Meditate Like a Machine?”

Organic Meditation Rooting Technique # 1

with it. And your mind will bounce back with excessive thinking,

either sooner or later, and it might even get nasty. Sometimes it will

spill out onto other people too.

How can you be fully on-board with a meditation if it goes

against important aspects of what you naturally are?

What is key to meditation is a focus on multiplying your

interest and tapping into your feelings and desires—not rejecting

them.

Your interest is your most important power for dealing with

thought – it's that simple!

Input Interest = Output More Interest

Now let’s explore this force in your own experience.

No worries, we’ll go into depth about how to harness your

interest in a moment, but let’s just now explore how simple it is to

start getting this working for you.

Try the simple pointer on the next page by taking just a little

while to investigate and see how interest works for you in

meditation…

“ Your interest is the most important power for dealing with thought –

it's that simple ! “


For a few moments, make your attention feel like an investigation,

a question.

Take a few breaths and for each breath, have a kind of

curious investigation in the way you do it. Do this deliberately.

It’s like asking yourself, what do these breath sensations feel like?

Can I see if I can feel them even more vividly?

Instead of “pay attention,” bring in something like a question

into your meditation focus.

In this case “How does the breath feel?” How does it really,

really feel?

Get into the details of exact sensations as they change and

behave in various ways. You don’t have to literally ask the

question, but it’s a kind of curious looking– what does it really feel

like?

Take a moment now, a few breaths, and practice bringing

this investigation and curiosity to your focus. Notice the difference

when you bring in this energy of interest.

What difference does meditating with deliberate interest make?

Look into it!

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Great. That’s it!

Now let’s talk about how you actually harness the power of

this interest, and what effect that has on all the noisy thinking

voices in our heads…

Imagine your best friend was leaving town forever. And you

have ten minutes to connect with each other for the last time, and

you sit down at a table with them in a crowded restaurant, with

lots of noise and voices all around you.

How hard do you have to struggle to be with that person?

Don’t all the noises and voices simply not matter, and you

don’t have to fight them off?

That’s because you’re rooted in your interest and you don’t

need any will-power to keep you there. It comes naturally and

organically.

If your attention goes to some sudden sound or something, it

snaps right back!

The noises and other voices don’t disappear, they just don’t

matter to you and stop bothering you, completely. It’s not an

issue.

It’s not a struggle.

“You Don’t Have to Struggle IF You Are Fascinated“


Our modern Western meditation gives us too many robotic

repetitive commands, and lacks feeling for interest and creativity

and desire. It’s full of painstaking struggle to slowly drag the mind

back, kicking and screaming. No wonder people can’t stick with it

and struggle against the voices in their heads, unable to shut them

out.

Then they blame themselves like “I suck at meditation” or “I

can’t stick with anything” or “I have no self-control” or “My

thinking is so strong!”

But all this problem is… is that the approach is all wrong.

Now take this example:

What if your friend in the restaurant was a very slow talker,

and you didn’t really like them all that much anyway?

(or your meditation practice was cold, clinical, and neutral)

And it was the tenth time this month they said they were

leaving town, but they never followed through and left.

(or you weren’t seeing enough lasting results from your

meditation)

How focused would you be?

“You Don’t Have to Struggle IF You Are Fascinated“


Right—the voices and the noises in the restaurant would all

come crashing in, and even the littlest fork scraping a plate would

reach you.

In fact you might be dying to find something else more

interesting to do than be there.

Maybe the clock in the corner would captivate your

attention, with how slow it’s moving.

The approach in modern Western meditation is all wrong

because you’re not a robot.

You’re not a machine. And these hot fad mindfulness

meditations that give you clinical commands (maybe in a fake

flowy voice) are not really tapping into what you really are:

a living, breathing being with a whole life full of feelings, dreams,

and desires.


It’s no good to chase after theories of meditation from people

with science degrees who dabble a bit in meditation themselves. They

seem like experts, but they are the furthest thing from that.

They don’t know the depth of the powers that are in you, powers

that you can easily use because they are already here in you.

They tell you to believe yourself to be just a brain, for the most

part. Now that might sound all sciency and truthy, or gadgety and

easy.

But it’s a myth: we are not machines.

And you are more than your brain.

On top of that, what these “experts” advertise is not as easy as

they make it out to be. It’s hard:

it’s hard to try to live like a machine

when that’s not

what you are!


Multiplying Interest vs. Multiplying Negative Thoughts

Now you've probably seen people who seem rather

peaceful and happy and don’t meditate whatsoever. You see,

peace of mind doesn't come from just going through mental

motions.

You already have a peaceful mind, but it's covered over by

layers of noise and turmoil. Organic meditation naturally taps into

the peace that is already here and keeps you irresistibly attracted

to it until you’re rooted firmly in it.

It’s hard to fight against your organic nature with these

repetitive meditations, and that’s a battle that, eventually you

can’t win. Robotic meditation doesn't give you the richness of

experiences that can capture your attention and keep it. In order

to do it you’re supposed to shut out most of your desires and be

neutral. And then you have very little left over motivation to work

with.

Instead, the mindfulness routine here consists of organic

meditation that isn't mass-processed to make us relate to ourselves

like machines: it involves you in feeling, creative exploration, as

well as fun and fascination.

Variety is the spice of meditation!

“Don’t Let Meditation Go Stale“


You need an easy-to-do, well-rounded diet of meditation

that combines all of your special needs, from emotions to thoughts

to bodily sensations to your imagination and creativity and your

dreams and desires, your attraction to pleasure and sense of

beauty, excitement and joy.

If you do the exact same thing the exact same way for a

long time you get into ruts and habits and it becomes going-

through-the-motions. It doesn’t bring real, noticeable effects in the

long term. Our habit sets in, we aren’t engaged, and we miss out

on so much potential life experience because we aren’t even

looking for it.

Would you exercise only one muscle in the body over and

over and over, and not any others? You would injure that muscle,

and all the rest would decay.

There is a way that works best for people who live an active

life where thinking can get out of control:

A step-by-step cycle through a variety of meditations

designed to tap into every aspect of your being,

prevent over-training, ignite that spark of interest

and keep the flame burning.

“Variety is the Spice of Meditation“

Let’s face it.

If we are getting caught up in a lot of thinking then something in

us finds even the negative, harmful thinking…

interesting!

Even if it’s terrible interesting or unpleasant interesting, something

in you is going into thinking, and it’s holding the attention.

How can going through the motions compete with that?

It can’t. Instead meditation needs a sense of adventure and

exploration, of play and enjoyment. Meditation should be fun. Does

that sound strange? Throw the artificial shackles off of what you’ve

been told about mindfulness, and put interest first.

If a tree was to have only one branch root it would not get the

nutrients it needs to live, and would be pulled out of the ground and

tipped over the very first strong wind that came along.

You need a many-branched root. You need to grow those roots

so that they spread and multiply in all directions.

Then you are hooked into the life energy of interest and you

can’t be uprooted.

“You Captivate Your Own Attention

with Exploration“


So in laying the organic roots for your power to snap out of

thinking,

to become firmly rooted so that snapping back is easy,

we work this soil with a variety of nutrients.

Step One of Snap Out of Thinking

is to take an interest in variety

and well-rounded diet in meditation,

and take an interest in interest itself.

A great start is the “Follow the Path of the Breath Meditation”

provided with this program, because it moves through a variety of

places along the path of changing breath sensations in the body.

And while you do it, you can actually focus on developing

interest itself, just like in the first exercise we did.

Interest has this investigating and curious energy to it. It’s like

you ask, “what feelings and sensations are there?” And then the

answer appears. The “answer” comes in the exact feelings and

sensations that appear. You’re investigating but not analyzing. Just

asking, and looking, feeling, and then seeing if you can feel it

even more vividly…

“Attention Takes Root in Fertile Soil“


So now there are now two important aspects of interest that

you understand.

One is the active deliberate interest that you can apply and

investigate. This is something that you can focus on from time to

time. It’s like priming the pump from time to time. (You don’t need

to keep it up for long periods of time).

And then there is your whole long-term set-up, which you do

keep going: are you set up with a cycle and variety of meditations

that keep you interested automatically, keep you fresh and open

to discovery?

“Strong Attention Takes Root in Fresh Soil“

Organic Meditation Rooting Technique #2

Enjoyment

If your mindfulness diet is sorely lacking in Vitamin P then it

could be doing more harm than good.

Are you getting enough pleasure from meditation?

I’m just kidding about the mind vitamin (pleasure) but I’m not

kidding about something that’s absolutely essential if you want

your interest to stay close to home, in your whole being. This is very

important if you don’t want to fly off into excessive thinking.

Pleasure attracts the attention naturally and automatically,

without fighting against yourself. Normally, you don’t have to force

yourself to eat a little of your favorite food, right?

A simple way to boost your meditation momentum is to focus

on enjoying something in your body and mind that is pleasurable.

For example, when you breathe in meditation, don’t simply “pay

attention to the breath.”

That’s cold, neutral, lifeless robot meditation talk.

“It’s Easy to Focus on Something You Enjoy“


This is the ONE meditation instruction you should STOP doing

right now because it’s doing more harm than good:

“Pay attention to your meditation object”

Instead, if breath is your object, focus on how good it feels to

be alive and breathing. You don’t have to think about your life

situation. That’s completely different. Just feel how good the

breath feels, that feeling of being alive.

What is that feeling? Take an interest in it! Then enjoy it.

It’s good to also play with the breath and see what kind of breath

feels the nicest. Try subtly nudging the breathing like this, and that.

Which feels best? Take an interest in that. Then enjoy it.

Step One is take an interest, and step Two is enjoy it.

What do you focus on? You don’t “focus on the breath.” You

focus on the feeling of enjoyment of the breath.

That’s the secret!

If you focus on the pleasure of the breath, you will enjoy

yourself, and the pleasure will grow.

And it’s not hard to keep enjoying something that is pleasant.

It’s a lot more interesting than simply “pay attention to the

breath.”

“Enjoyment is Your Object of Meditation“

Enjoy the pleasantness of the breath. That is the meditation

instruction.

The enjoyment itself is the object you focus on.

So just like you might try to “pay attention” to the breath for a

span of a few seconds or minutes at a time, instead you try to “enjoy

the breath” and keep that feeling of enjoyment present for a few

seconds or minutes at a time.

Isn’t that amazing?

Try it right now for a few seconds. You’ll see the difference it

makes!

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“Enjoyment is Your Object of Meditation“

You Can Snap Out of It Whatever your meditation object is, organic mindfulness root

# 2 is to focus on the enjoyment, and keep it present for a while.

Now, I know that some people may hear that and think,

“Mindfulness is supposed to be cold and neutral, and make you

detached and objective.”

“you are not supposed to be attached to anything.”

“you are not supposed to like any experience too much. If

you have pleasant experiences you’re not supposed to be

attached to them. You just simply observe, like a surveillance

video drone.”

But while you might be able to force yourself to do that for a

short amount of time, in the long run you are fighting nature, and

sooner or later you have to give up. Pretending to be a robot just

doesn't work.

Instead, for your well-rounded diet of organic mindfulness

roots, we’ll tap into all of your natural powers and bring all of them

in to strengthen your meditation.

“Feel Free to Like What Feels Right“

If you want to be free from suffering your thoughts, you’ll

need to feel your way into your quiet being with deep interest. The

key to this process is combining mindfulness roots that multiply

interest throughout your whole being to set off a cascade of

powers that automatically snap you back out of thought.

When you prepare the ground with a proper cycle of

meditations, and learn to play with and explore the pleasure in

your attention, you are now empowered to effectively practice

snap out of thinking and discover how simple and easy it is.

Step Two, the subtle shift to enjoyment as the object of focus,

is simple and easy. Plus, you can use the provided Pleasant Breath

guided meditation audio to deepen your your focus on

enjoyment. Use the provided meditation on “Pleasant Breath” to

practice going deeper into making enjoyment the object of your

meditation.

“It’s Not A Struggle if You Enjoy It“


Quick, Clear Meditation

This step may surprise you. Quality over Quantity in

Meditation– this can be a radical, life-changing proposition if you

truly understand exactly what it means, and what it does not

mean.

And it’s easy to understand, once we remove some of the

broken robot parts that are covering it all up.

So what this does NOT mean is that there is something wrong

with doing long meditations. There may be a problem with long

meditations, but only if we’re struggling and fighting against

ourselves to maintain them. Also there may be something very

right about long meditations too, but it’s not what we may think:

Long meditations are good only if you’re doing them

because you’re not feeling bound to thoughts that are tied to

time: just like you lose track of time in a good book or movie. If you

“Quality over Quantity“


are already starting to get free of time-thoughts, then long

meditation is good. If you are checking the clock in your mind and

waiting for it to be over, that’s less good. If you keep peeking

around and actually checking a real clock, very not good!

So Quality over Quantity, and Quick, Clear Meditation

doesn’t mean that long meditation isn’t good.

And it also doesn’t mean short meditation is the right way

either! That’s what processed fast-food meditation wants you to

believe, that 7 minutes a day with their special sauce will change

your life.

Actually, it’s zero minutes of meditation that is best!

Whah?

“Quick, Clear, Intense Meditation“


What is best of all is to set time aside completely, just for a

moment, so to speak.

This is the real power and juice in meditation, though not

many are awake to it.

And it’s is something anyone can do if they put aside beliefs

about meditation and time. It’s something you must be able to do.

Every meditation practice should cultivate the ability to

absorb and register what is truly present and real, in an instant,

without trying for anything more, without looking past what is here.

Admittedly, the more you have tried Step One and Step Two

the easier this will be. That’s why we do them!

The more you have sunk your many roots into the ground of

your being and have started to listen to, and hear, the sweeter

song of life playing inside you, the easier it will be.

And most importantly, the more it will spontaneously occur to

you to do it.

“Wild Abandon to You as You Are“


It is absolutely essential to any meditation practice that you

include some wild abandon to quick, clear recognition of what it’s like to be conscious in the moment.

And that can’t happen if you are tied to the belief that this is

something that will happen in the future, after you have

meditated a lot.

Those thoughts have their own time and place. Of course, I

agree with you if you feel that meditation is the best thing you can

do for your life and something you want to keep doing a lot of.

“Wild Abandon to You as You Are“

But this thought can also cause you to overlook and

overshoot in the middle of your meditation, to be living in a plan of

meditation instead of seeing the one thing that is truly here: you as

you are in conscious presence.

So that is why practicing dedication to the moment—

beyond anything else— is crucial to your practice. Go ahead and

try it right now!

It’s simple and easy. It’s only hard if you attach something

extra on it.

Simply settle in for only a moment and recognize what it’s like

to be consciously present. Take a few seconds break now and try

it.

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That’s it. It doesn’t take much time or energy. In fact, it’s

important to tap into it lightly, like you would ring a bell.

You’ll see how important this is to Snap Out of Thinking in a

moment.

But this is the thing that is aimed at. Simply that experience

of being consciously present, with no commitment to anything

else including no commitment to continuing it or sustaining it.

Only sinking into it and recognizing it such as it is, for as long

as it lasts, or more accurately, with no thought to it’s lasting.

You strike a bell, and then it rings for as long as it lasts.

“It’s A light Touch, Like Ringing a Bell“

You Can Snap Out of It Step Three is the easiest part, and it’s hard only if we lack the

trust in it’s power:

If we don’t believe it’s good enough because it’s just a few

moments,

or we don’t believe it’s strong enough because we’re not

exerting a lot of energy, but tapping into it lightly, like ringing a

bell.

That’s okay though. If we keep practicing it, we’ll see it’s

power and come to trust it. Use the guided meditation “Shift to the

Heart of Meditation” to boost your trust in this power.

How to practice Zero Minute Mindfulness

So how do you practice it?

At first you can practice it with your meditation object,

whatever it is. You simply just commit to a few seconds of the

experience, which just means no concern for time, maintenance,

building up effects, getting into meditation states.

FUN FACT ON YOUR SIDE:

Because the time commitment is short,

you are free to be whole-hearted.

You must experience this whole-heartedness and get clear

about what it is like. You investigate it with interest.

“ Don’t Believe ‘Not Enough’“


If you’ve tried meditation for any bit of time then you

probably know what it means to commit some time to meditation.

You’ve probably sat for a certain amount of time, or said you were

going to meditate every day for a week, or forever.

So we know what that commitment is. That is a very valuable

and important commitment, no doubt.

But what so many are missing is the power of the opposite

commitment!

You can’t have a lasting meditation practice without

including a deliberate practice of commitment to the moment.

Experience the commitment to only those moments of

conscious awareness, without commitment to time.

So in the middle of your meditation some time, you will come

out of a long drawn out thought. You know how that is.

It just happens, you just pop out.

And then there’s this moment when it feels like we have a

choice.

Your are consciously present as your Self. When that sense

happens, that’s a great time to practice zero minute meditation.

Just check it out. Be curious. Be interested. Enjoy these

moments, free of everything and consciously aware.

What is that like?

“There Are Other Things to Commit Besides Time“


It doesn’t mean you won’t meditate for 5 minutes or one

hour some other time. It doesn’t mean you aren’t in the middle of

a long meditation at this very time!

It’s not about that at all. It’s just about that one, zero

moment, just taking that in. Registering it. Recognizing it.

It’s also about practicing that commitment to the moment

and not following the thoughts that draw us into agendas and

plans for bettering ourselves. It’s a commitment to you as you are.

The fact is, snapping out of one of those long drawn out

thoughts is only this exact thing we are talking about now. It isn’t

anything else but this.

This awake aware conscious presence.

What is it like in that split second or few seconds when the

long mind-movie has disappeared, and you feel in your right

mind?

Look, and find out! Keep looking. Keep being interested in

that question, what is it like now when you are awake and aware?

“Your Awake Aware Consciousness Can Be Recognized“


So, we all know what it’s like when you’re meditating and

attention is all wrapped up in thoughts, on and on and on.

And then something happens. It breaks.

Suddenly you are awake and aware. You realize the long

mind-movie is over. Now you may start having the thought “Oh

crap, I was just thinking that whole time!” or “I suck at this,” or

whatever is the feeling.

But the truth is, your awakening being just popped the

attention right out of the thinking, and something miraculous and

wonderful just happened.

It’s a time to celebrate, if anything. Not feel bad about

yourself, but feel great about your Self!

So your new way of celebrating is this: soak it in. Bask

attention into this moment when you feel consciously aware.

Really take it in. Commit to it completely, just for now. Really

notice, be interested and enjoy this moment.

“Your Awakening Being is What Pops Attention Out of Thoughts“


What this does not mean is that you will assess how

continuous over time this has been. Instead, you don’t care about

that at all. This point is crucial!

What this does not mean is that this is the only way you will

ever meditate. There is no commitment about the future. This point

is crucial!

What this does not mean is that you should always be

consciously aware in this way, maintain it 24/7 and that’s the right

way you’re supposed to live your life.

What this does not mean is that long thoughts are in their

nature bad or anything you should have to worry about.

What it DOES mean is… you don’t care what it means!

Meaning is for time and that whole part of your life and your story,

but we’re not doing that now, not in this moment. Because you’re

practicing to fully trust it without even needing to know what it

means!

You will find out. But that’s none of our concern now.

See, now that’s commitment!

Simple, easy. Not asking any long, hard thing from you

or sacrificing anything but the smallest amount of time.

“It’s a Completely Different Kind of Commitment“


Again, committing to the moment wholeheartedly is easy

when you are not committing any more than that.

And who knows, maybe it will just be this one time, and never

happen again.

I doubt it, but that would be true commitment, to not be

concerned about ever doing it again.

In fact I know it’s not like that. I know that commitment to the

moment will lead to clarity, and more commitments later.

But let’s not think about that now: Only look into this break

where you recognize you are awake and aware.

What is this like?

“ Whole-hearted Commitment to Wild Abandon in the Moment

Requires No Sacrifice of Your Time ! “


Be As You Really Are

Now we are ready to Snap Out of Thinking, and to

understand exactly why the number one thing people

recommend to deal with thinking is completely unrealistic and

causes more confusion than good.

You may have heard it said that “you should notice when

you are thinking and come back to the breath.”

Or something like that.

You do know why you might want to notice when you’re

thinking, but what about how to notice?

How do you notice, when you seem to be all caught up in

thoughts?

There are good reasons to want to stop. Negative thinking

can lead to negative moods and unpleasant body sensations,

which make it easy to think negative thoughts again. On and on,

in a cycle.

That can go on for days and build up a lot of bad feelings,

“How Do You Notice Thinking?“

You Can Snap Out of It which you can just think more negative thoughts about, and so

on. So of course you want to catch it early. You want to notice

before it’s too late.

Even if the thinking is not too negative, just trying to meditate

we might want to notice it before it goes on for a long time.

But how do you notice thinking when you are all caught up

in thoughts?

The answer to this may change your life.

The idea that “you should notice you are thinking” is

completely unrealistic. You can’t notice it while it happens.

We’ve been told something completely untrue.

The truth is this:

If you know that a lot of thinking has been happening…

You’ve already snapped out of it!

Meanwhile, when attention is riveted in thoughts—

having imaginary arguments with troublesome people,

thinking about your regretful actions, worrying about some

situation that is not there, or simply wondering how to make a 5

cheese pizza topping—

there is no coming out of it until your awakening being pops

attention out of it.

You don’t do it. It does.

“What Is It That Wakes Up Out of Thoughts?“


It’s confusion about this that makes everything difficult when

it doesn’t have to be.

As long as you believe it is “your” fault that you are thinking

and “your” responsibility to notice you are thinking,

you’re going to be believing a false thought,

because that’s not how it works.

And you will fail in your own mind because you’ve been

taught to believe it’s what you are supposed to do, but you’ve

been failing to do it (because it’s impossible).

You’re going to be impressed with all the power thinking has

over “you,”

and you’re going to think thoughts about your weak self

and your lack of power over thoughts.

And that’s all just a false thought and belief. That’s not how it

works.

So we wind up supplying thinking with a belief in it’s power

and importance that only fuels it all the more.

This is the true source of that feeling of struggling with thought,

and losing.

“Why Does It Feel Like A Losing Battle?“


Thinking is secretly smiling to itself in the background, while

you battle with it, and it’s saying “I got ya!”

To notice that you are thinking is completely unrealistic.

However, to live with attention attracted and naturally

returning to it’s source—automatically– that is completely realistic.

The truth is to snap out of thinking is to not give up your care

and attention and belief, at the moment you have broken free,

back to anything else except your conscious presence. And in

steps 1-3 you have already been practicing that.

Step four is not exactly a step. It’s a recognition of where you

stand.

You are greater than thoughts. Thoughts happen in you, and

you don’t happen in thoughts. Thoughts don’t do anything to your

awakening being.

Sure, thoughts can bring tension to the body, and they can

bedazzle the attention temporarily. This can lead to a lot of

negative emotions and suffering while it’s happening, and some

after effects in the body such as moods and difficult emotions.

But you are the witness of all that. And when your awakening

“Who Is Going to Get the Last Laugh, You, or Thinking?“


being pops attention out of thinking, the thoughts are already

gone and the awakening you is left as you are.

When that moment of awakening you appears, when

thoughts break, step four is simply to remain as you are and

recognize your true position as the one here before thoughts,

during thoughts, and after they are gone.

It is developing a taste for your very own presence that will

keep bringing attention back home to it’s heart.

Why does your awakening being pop attention out of thinking?

Because it likes it!

In fact it loves to have attention come home to it’s heart.

And all you have to do is just cooperate with that. Just enjoy

your sense of presence.

Now put the steps together and you might notice that they

are not as distinct as they might have seemed:

“Awakening Being Will Pop Attention Out

of Thoughts Because It Likes It“


Step 1. You lead with a focus on interest first, using variety,

play, experiment and exploration in your meditations and using a

targeted cycle of meditations to multiply the roots of your

interest.

Step 2. You attend to pleasure and practice using the

pleasantness itself as the object of your meditation, at least on

occasion.

Step 3. You’ve been recognizing the moment after

emerging from thought when you are consciously present, with

wild abandon to the moment. In other words you dedicate your

interest to it.

Step 4. When this moment that thought breaks appears, you

begin to understand and recognize that this is truly who you are,

and so you remain as you are and enjoy your presence. In other

words, you enjoy your Self. The bond you make here, every time,

is what is going to change your life.

Step 1: Interest

Step 2: Enjoyment

Step 3: Interest in Presence

Step 4: Enjoyment of Resting in Presence

“It All Comes Together On Your Side“


What we are talking about here is awakening your NATURAL

POWER. You already have it. Your awakening being is already

popping the attention out of thoughts.

The problem is only that this moment itself, after your

awakening being has popped attention out of thinking, is not

recognized deeply.

The only important thing is to not let it slip by unnoticed, as

unimportant, or weak.

This is your true strength, your organic natural power. Every

time your attention pops out of thinking is an opportunity to

strengthen this realization.

That which your attention roots into, will grow.

It doesn’t matter if thinking happens or doesn’t happen.

That’s not where your concern should be. Have no concern with

that. When attention has popped out of thoughts, don’t look

back. Look right here, to you as you are.

That which you put your trust and attention in will come to

prove itself trustworthy and strong.

“Keep Your Eyes On Your Natural Power“


Because of these steps, you are familiarizing your attention

with something that gets skipped over in our modern world– your

very own sense of presence.

Your attention is starting to cultivate a taste for this, and an

attraction to it. The power of that attraction will grow and grow,

and the awakening being will pop attention out of thought more

often, sooner rather than later, and more decisively.

And so there will be more opportunities for you to recognize

this shift. And so on.

An organic cycle is set in motion.

“Set the Organic Cycle in Motion“

Organic Meditation Rooting Technique #5

Get A Well-Rounded Plan (or Plan for Things to Go Flat)

Once the cycle of awakening into your presence is set in

motion, you want to keep it motion.

The fact is that most people who set out in meditation have

an initial “honeymoon” phase and then give it up later.

Many of those who don’t quit wind up stalled, without a

dramatic transformation, and that goes on for years. Why is that?

Well you probably already have a good idea why.

They have neglected variety, interest, and pleasure. And

their meditation practice is mis-aimed, past their true present Self.

It’s aimed toward an idea of meditation instead of the

awakening presence that they are.

But your attention CAN become rooted deeply in our

presence: it just needs a well-rounded program of natural

meditation to do so.


You Can Snap Out of It Mass-processed “change your brain” teachings are not rich

enough to get the whole of your being involved. They appeal to a

thinking mind that likes cool sciency theories, but that thinking is

just a part of a being a person.

Theories that appeal to the thinking mind may not have

enough appeal in the long run, not have enough passion to go

really deeply into this.

A living being is so much more than just a thinker.

You need to get more aspects of your being on your side if

you’re going to really do this.



But that stuff is okay, I guess. Just like with factory processed

food. It might have been an okay stage in our development, at

one point: when factories began to mass produce milk, white

bread, and twinkies…

And then followed that up with almost every kind of food,

mass-processed and wrapped in plastic.

At least people didn’t go hungry, what with all the twinkies

and wonderbread so readily available.

(And It’s good that mindfulness is so common these days).

It probably also seemed to make scientific sense at one

point, when we decided to hack the food supply.

Increase additives and preservatives, pack farm animals into

tiny cells for the efficient use of space, pump them with hormones

and antibiotics.

We’re good at hacking things, and it seemed right at the time.

But then people started to catch on that they weren’t feeling

right; life was not going the way they hoped. They didn’t feel truly

nourished and happy.

Something was missing.

“You Are A Living Being“


So they started thinking about a well-rounded diet and

organic foods. And now it’s pretty clear that we should all eat

natural food if we can.

And it’s becoming more and more clear that, if possible,

maybe we shouldn’t eat factory processed foods at all!

So why make the same mistakes all over with your whole

precious life and being that you are?

It might be an okay stage that mindfulness meditation is now

getting spread in society as a mass-processed form that “hacks”

the brain and gets you to relate to yourself like a robot or a

machine or science experiment. At least people have heard

about mindfulness now.

But you can’t really live—

not really, really live—

on meditation twinkies.

You are more than a brain, and you are not a machine. You

are a mysterious living being.

Find out for yourself. Get started with a well-rounded step-by-

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let your whole being automatically snap you out of thinking and

into a cocoon of freedom from negative thinking.

Naturally, the butterfly will then emerge.

“You Are life“


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