Any practical recommendations on how to get into a daily meditation habit. Do you use an app like Headspace? Any special mind hacks you use?

I greatly prefer silent meditation. People prefer different things, so ymmv.

My advice is to carve out 30 minutes in the morning and just start. Pick a focus; most people pick a sensation of breathing. While focusing on this, observe what your mind and body do, without reacting to it, and without judging it or yourself. When your attention wanders, re-focus it without judgement. This will happen a lot, noticing your attention wandering and re-focusing is part of the practice. It will happen less and less over time.

There are no mind hacks, but here are some things that might be helpful to look out for. These are things to verify for yourself through direct insight: don't take my word for it.

* Your thoughts are not actually part of your identity. You are not your thoughts, judgements, emotions, etc. The "voice in your head" is not you.

* Most people actually see and live in a landscape of subjective thoughts based on reality, instead of seeing and living in reality directly.

* People are primarily harmed not by events, but by their reaction to the events.

This is great!! I'm a big fan of Manning books and have learnt a lot from reading it.

Thanks!

I'd like to read about it too...

Can you tell me exactly which HDMI audio splutter you use? I want to try something similar.

More examples from the book?

Thanks! :-)

Love it!

I've been wearing it for 24/7 for the last 3 days and wanted to share with you guys what I like, don't like about it.

Would be really interested to see an actual prototype.

Cool! I use PostRank every single day to filter out my feeds.