📖 Introduction
How many times have you read a self-help book that tells you to simply “control your emotions,” “let things go,” or “think positively”? While this advice sounds great on paper, reality is often much messier. Trying to constantly suppress our natural feelings or force ourselves to be joyful when we are exhausted rarely works. We end up feeling burned out from managing our own minds. But what if there was a logical, scientific method to actually clear those heavy emotions instead of just managing them?
In this post, a 33-year-old practitioner shares her insightful journey with mind subtraction meditation. After realizing that common self-help advice wasn’t enough to handle the ups and downs of real life, she discovered a practical method to subtract her accumulated experiences and subjective “pictures.” By trusting this logical process, she experienced both her mind and body becoming lighter, opening the door to true freedom.
Read her inspiring story to discover how letting go of conventional self-improvement tactics and practicing mind subtraction can lead to genuine lightness and mutual understanding.
💬 Story 1: “Our lives don’t play out according to common self-help books”
By Joy / Age 33 / Level 1
I was usually interested in meditation, and when I learned the principle of ‘this meditation’, I thought it was more scientific and logical than any other method. So, I started the practice with a mind to first trust that ‘method’ and try it.
People’s minds can be good, struggling, joyful, or angry; considering it natural for those emotions and minds to arise, and having to live joyful days as they are and sad days as they are sometimes felt exhausting.
“Our lives don’t play out according to common self-help books that tell us to control, suppress, and let go of those emotions.”
However, this meditation, that is, subtraction meditation practice, is a method of finding original purity by subtracting all ‘experiences’ up to now, the ‘pictures’ created from one’s own perspective. The practice went well sometimes and was hard sometimes, but as a result of trusting and following it, I feel my mind world, my own mind world filled with thoughts, becoming lighter. And I feel my body becoming lighter along with it.
Of course, this too will require continuous practice and a process of patience, but I want to trust this method to the end and feel what the joy of ‘completion’ is like. Moving forward, I want to experience true freedom outside of my own world full of thoughts. If family and acquaintances meditate together too, I think the breadth of our understanding of each other will widen, and we can be happy together. I am grateful for this method.
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🌱 NEXT STEPS: Experience True Freedom Beyond Self-Help
Are you tired of trying to force positive thinking or exhausting yourself by constantly trying to control your emotions? True mental clarity doesn’t come from suppressing how you feel or reading another self-help book; it comes from eliminating the root cause of your heavy thoughts.
Through mind subtraction meditation, you can learn a scientific, logical method to discard the accumulated “pictures” and experiences that dictate your reactions. By emptying this subjective mind, you will discover an incredible lightness in both your body and mind, leading to true freedom. Take the first step today to experience a practical way to lighten your life.
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