Emotional cleansing

Media detox and meditation: maximizing effectiveness. Illustration of a man meditating.

Doing a media detox dramatically changes the effectiveness of meditation

The beginning of a media detox, and a small resolution I've been meditating for quite some time, starting with 30 minutes a day and reaching a deep state some days for over an hour and a half. But recently, I realized that my meditation practice was making a big difference. It started with a “media detox.” Smartphones, YouTube, TV, and social media were all around me. Smartphones, YouTube, TV, social media - these things were always at hand. Most of us turn them on for a few hours at a time, and our brains are bombarded with stimulation. I wasn't this bad, but one day I decided to cut back on it and...

🌿 Does Pain Have to Come?

🌿 Does Pain Have to Come?

What Subconscious Cleansing Really Looks Like We often believe that “growth comes with pain”: that in order to grow, you have to have sore muscles, and in order to change your life, you have to go through pain.It feels ‘real“ because we've all been through a lot of pain. However, I'm standing in front of a different realization now... A few hours ago, I was struggling emotionally. My mood was sinking deeply, and a black mass of emotion was rising inside me. I felt suffocated, like I was trapped in a maze that I couldn't escape from no matter what I did. I used to think, "Oh, the pain is testing me again...