How to get out of your head
Day 4 of the New Year's Meditation Challenge + a live check-in for paid subscribers tonight
One of the most effective ways to be unhappy is to live in your head. To be cut off, an isolated ego peering fretfully out at the world.
Which is why the goal of every contemplative tradition is to get you to see through the illusion of separation—to help you escape what the writer David Foster Wallace called the “skull-sized kingdom.”
Today, on day four of the New Year’s meditation challenge, a guided practice on interconnection from my guy Jeff Warren, a human narcotic if there ever was one.
Catch up on Days 1, 2 and 3 of the challenge here. Also, feel free to skip, repeat, or do out of order. No rules here.
Also—tonight at 7PM ET, I’ll be doing a live check-in for paid subscribers via the Substack App.
If you have questions, hit me up in the chat. For my final check-in on Sunday at 7PM ET, I’ll be answering questions and also sharing tips on how to keep going with a meditation habit—in a way that works for you—once the challenge ends.
Paid subscribers are also able to comment on posts, join the chat, participate in monthly live meditations + Q&As and more.
Jeff Warren is an international treasure. I deeply appreciate him.
Some of my deepest meditations have been with Jeff. (Mostly from the internet but one in person at the meditation party) His ability to combine the human condition with something bigger is so awesome. His cadence let’s you feel your body and your insight. Going BIG here. The meditations allow and inspire emptiness. Thank you!