overthinking is either something inside of the mind is fluctuating all the time. There is too much input available, and it's jumping from one to another. So, in a way, there is that type of restlessness of the mind. It's continuously jumping, which means it's too much. So you're thinking about too many different things. This is one type of overthinking. Overthinking can also mean you only have one thing that you that is like keeping you busy, but you are turning it over and over again and never come to any type of conclusion. It's also a type of overthinking related to let's say one subject. So, these are now simplified the two, uh, problematic States. Problematic if you don't have the ability to switch it off. If you want to switch it off, yeah, if you have the ability to regulate this about yourself. So when you want to be focused, you can be focused. When you want to dream, you can dream. If you want to make your brainstorming, you can open up for brainstorming. If this is the range of

adjustment you have about yourself then it's not a problem. A problem is if you need to stay focused but then you're shattered. These are the moments when it makes sense to learn methods how to avoid that or how to really focus when you need Focus. Now I wouldn't say that the right approach would be uh to state that focus is the only right way. No, we have focus in this life, which means there is something, there's a limited type of view you're putting yourself in because this limited type of you is it's like it's the collection of awareness. It's the collection, the summary of intention into a specific spot that you want right now to make it grow faster or to develop faster. That's why we need Focus, that all the energy is bundled into that one Focus point so you want to push something forward you need Focus but how amongst all this variety of options that we humans sometimes have how do you know on what should I focus should I focus on the social media should I focus on my family should I

focus on that number business number one, or should I focus on business number two? Should I focus on wife number one, or wife number two? Yeah, there's so many different options, and therefore what do you need is overview sometimes about your life overview. The white view, the wide angle, is different than Focus, the focus is I only watch you. I'm focused, but the more I get into that limited view, the more I will forget about she's sitting there, there's your brother, there are, uh, your friends. So what needs to be learned and is able to be developed is you have both sometimes at the same time. I know who is sitting where, but at the same time, I'll also know in which direction I'm pointing my words to. So that means on the one side there is something open at this moment in time, but at the same time also you have something focused and to have and learn the ability to access this, let's say with your mind, to train your mind that he is always like in this category because it's like you're driving the

car. Of course, it matters what you're doing in regards to the steering. So, it's like the direct focused interaction, yeah, but only in interplay with all the other drivers on the street. So, what is now more important: to focus on the others or to focus on your driving? Both of it at the same time, only this focus and the openness at the same time. This is what means yin and yang, cannot be separated, but in order to get there, sometimes it's necessary to individually separately practice. Okay, this now is a focused state, and this one right now is an open state, yeah, to be very clear and be able to distinguish for yourself. Okay, this is the focus, it feels like this, this is the open, it feels like that, and now comes the magic about it, how to combine both into the same into the same time, yes, and this is something everybody will need to figure out. This is when the magic happens, and you are stopping from the separation of either that or that into it's both of it at the same.

time, yeah. And now in regards to this overthinking, so what is it that people, for example, are able to practice? There, I can suggest, for example, you are choosing one object, which can be in a lot of cases an object that we call, that is your meditation object. It can be the breath, for example. So instead of, um, following up what comes into your mind, which means if you have too many thoughts, we turn it around. You are deciding what you are going to put onto your mind for the next 5 minutes. Whatever it is, whatever you choose, this is your so-called meditation object. So it means I am telling myself, okay, for the next 5 minutes, I am going to only place my attention, my mind on the breath. So I feel how the breath enters into my body, and I also feel how it is coming out of my body. This is when you use the breath, for example, yeah. Other people, if they find it too hard, still you can use this type of movement. So what is your, uh, meditation object is now, let's say, the movement.

it's the movement itself. The up movement, the down movement, but the focus is there. So, this is a way of what we call mindful. You are mindful of what you do. Your mind is full of something, yeah, full of what? Full of what you have put into it. That's why then you call it mindful practice. I know exactly where I put my hands. I make it slow. It doesn't really matter what type of movement it is. It is only as long as I do it. I know what I do, so I don't leave, let's say, these movements right now to, um, to coincidence. No, you learn for 2 minutes, 3 minutes to take something in full responsibility and awareness of what you are able to concentrate on. And this is a so-called, uh, we sometimes also call them mind exercising or mind development practices because it's not about the movement itself to just do this movement. It's not going to bring you too much benefit, let's say, physically right now, not yet, but this is

yeah this slow movement and all of that that is there for you to first of all learn to focus the mind. Learn to focus the mind. This number one and afterwards after you realize, okay, actually right now I can feel that in the moment where I start to have conversations with people. You know when you are present or not, yeah, you are starting to feel that okay, now my awareness is not, is not with you, it's gone. No, and then you feel what is the difference between now. I'm mindful, now I'm not mindful because this ability to distinguish is therefore so essential because if there is something that we humans can do about our life, then it can only be done while you are mindful. If you don't know you have a problem, you can't solve it and that's it. So the whole point of why is there so much this emphasis on mindfulness, yeah, why should I know what I do because if you don't know what you do, your life is a coincidence and that's not what it's

supposed to be it is supposed to be what you put onto your mind. What you want to see yourself, the way how you want to see yourself, what you want to achieve in this lifetime. It should be possible, but only if with the allowance of what has been given into your own hands. If you also use this chance. And like I said in our first, uh, in the first time that we were meeting, I strongly think and believe that we all have something that comes from us, that we have in our hands. And if that potential that we have in our hands is merged with our awareness and with our action, and then at the same time also is combined with the will of God or the will of the Destiny or destiny itself, then it's going to happen. But if you put something onto the mind which is not in harmony with the will of the nature, with the will of God, with the destiny, you can try as much as you want, it's not going to happen. So what is this discovery once

again, about discovering your place in this hugeness and submit. But submit doesn't mean it's bad. It means that it's um, it's incredible that something like this exists. This is the submission, submission. It's not in terms of um, you give up. No, it's not you give up life. No, you finally allow the fullness of life to flow through you. This is called submission. So you can always understand these wordings in different ways, but the one I'm talking about right now is allow life to run through. [Music] you. You can express it in terms of what happens, happens for a reason. Yeah, if something happens. And this is why it's so important that acknowledgement because acknowledgement is the first step of understanding all of what we go through belongs to the process. And what is this process? For example, everybody, every human in this world, I think is going through different stages of challenges. Let's call them like this. These challenges can be, for example, let's just take one loss, losing something. There was a time when we all

were still small child, and when somebody took something away from you, maybe some of us were already crying because already very young you felt what losing means, to lose something that actually you like. Now, then teenager, 10 years later, somebody took again something away from you, same feeling. Nowadays, somebody takes something away that you strongly feel like it belongs to you, the same feeling comes up. So what I'm saying is, throughout all the decades, the feeling of loss, it's always the same. The situations, the circumstances, they change, why that feeling comes up, but the point is, it's the same, the feeling of loss is the feeling of loss. If you're angry about your car gets scratched, or you're angry about you lost something, or you're angry about somebody took something of you, the angriness is also the same. If you're jealous, you're jealous, there are not 50 different type of jealousy, there are 50 different reasons why you become jealous, but the jealousy is the same, the angry ESS is the same, the loss is the same, the hate is the

same the joy is the same the happiness it's the same and so what I think is going what I think is happening is that each human being is confronted with loss and now the question is how are you individually dealing with that now and as long as you have not found a solution to deal with loss losing is going to be part of the challenges you will face over and over and over again once you have managed and found a solution in regards to loss there will be things coming up that make you angry because your next challenge is overcome angriness small things make you angry big things make you angry it's always the same angriness until you found a solution no the anger cannot manage me it must be the other way around anger solved then comes the next one question of life and death of fear until you have solved the answer for yourself how to deal with fear and why I'm now pretty convinced to State the things like this is because there is so much

similarity to the way and the reasons why we have this type of hardening methods coming from The Shaolin Kung Fu training. Hardening meaning like you saw also before from Shiuan when he was hitting himself. We have many tools inside that uh you can use to get in touch with pain. We necessarily take into consideration that this is going to happen. We know when you start touching that when you start doing these methods the pain is going to come. We want it to come why because now you can go in now you can really go in and on the go in the present moment that is the special part about it in the present moment you figure out the way how to release it and there is that saying when you have went over when you have overcome a certain level of pain overcome means it's never going to come come again it's finished you walk through that level of pain one time the next pain you will feel is a different one it's not the same anymore so there is a difference between

something shows up in your lifetime, and you are ignoring it. You are uh avoiding it, you're trying to run away from it, and you face it. You face the anger, you face the fear, you face the jealousy, you face the pain, you face what you don't like. You face the fact that you're out of your comfort zone. Why? Because you know that once you have overcome it and find a solution for it, it's solved for this lifetime. And this is my suggestion to view these methods, sometimes to make yourself life like that's that nice thing, yeah. Life is not going to get easier, it's just that your mind and your body become more resistant, more strong, same situation, more relaxed. Why? Because you finally start to find a solution that is within your reach, within your hands. And I think the great part for me personally, why I'm still after so many years like this approach about the physical practice combined with the spiritual mental development, like in the Shaolin Temple, is because there are many institutions, many philosophies that talk

about overcome the suffering, ending the suffering, but end the suffering, but overcome the suffering that gives now for me perspective. Overcome the suffering means it's going to be there. You're going to lose your mother, you're going to lose your father, you're going to lose animals and humans that you love. It's going to happen. You're going to lose money and at the same time people are also going to hurt you even though you don't even know what you did wrong. Things like this are going to happen in this lifetime. To wait for better times to come where the world will be completely in peace and you can walk peacefully over the street never having the fear that somebody's going to come and do something to you. It's not going to happen because the world is just the way as it is but knowing this preparing yourself learning the right ways or useful ways that are developing yourself physically and mentally to be able to walk through this lifetime that's possible that is something that is available to us is just you need to get

rid of those fantasies. Um, that better times are going to come. If we don't create the better times, nothing's going to happen.

Master Shi Heng Yi | Why are you overthinking?

Master Shi Heng Yi | Why are you overthinking?

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