The KEY To STOP Overthinking - SHAOLIN MASTER | Shi Heng Yi 2023

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Summary

In the Mulligan Brothers interview with Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi, the discussion centers on the pervasive issue of overthinking and how individuals can combat it. Master Shi Heng Yi emphasizes the importance of mindfulness and meditation as key techniques to manage overthinking. He encourages understanding one's emotions and developing a balance between focus and a broader perspective. Through mindfulness, individuals can learn to concentrate on specific thoughts and tasks and embrace life's challenges with resilience. The practice can lead to a more purposeful and aware lifestyle, acknowledging life's difficulties while fostering personal growth and mental clarity.

Highlights

Master Shi Heng Yi teaches how to stop overthinking through mindfulness. 🧠
Emphasizing the balance between focus and broader awareness is crucial. 🎯
He advocates living a life of intention, aligning actions with destiny. 🔮
Understanding emotions like loss and anger helps overcome repeated life challenges. 💪
Shi Heng Yi suggests meditation objects to redirect your thoughts intentionally. 🧘

Key Takeaways

Life is full of inevitable challenges; prepare mentally and physically to navigate them. 🧗
Overthinking is common, but mindfulness and meditation can help manage it effectively. 🧘‍♂️
Balancing focus with a wide perspective is essential to remain aware and attentive. 🎯
Understanding and mastering emotions like loss or anger can transform them into strengths. 💪
Embrace life's flow instead of resisting or avoiding difficult experiences. 🌊

Overview

Life, according to Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi, is a journey not meant to be easy. He begins by reminding us that challenges like the loss of loved ones are unavoidable, hence the need to cultivate mental and physical resilience. His approach is centered around mindfulness—awareness of the present—and meditation as vehicles for navigating the complexities of human life.

The crux of his message is gaining control over one's mind, primarily curtailing overthinking. This involves distinguishing between necessary focus and unnecessary mental restlessness. Master Shi suggests that overthinking manifests in two ways: an overload of thoughts or an obsession with a singular idea. Mindfulness helps regulate this by allowing individuals to concentrate on a chosen meditation object, redirecting the mind's energy productively.

Moreover, Shi Heng Yi talks about understanding emotions and embracing them, not as weaknesses but as aspects to master. By facing pain, loss, or anger head-on, you learn to manage them, transforming potential obstacles into strengths. This philosophy aligns with the broader principle of flowing with life's journey, emphasizing adaptability and self-awareness.

The KEY To STOP Overthinking - SHAOLIN MASTER | Shi Heng Yi 2023 Transcription

00:00 - 00:30 life is not going to get easier you're going to lose your mother you're going to lose your father 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 the world is just the way as it
00:30 - 01:00 is if we don't create the better times nothing's going to happen have you ever suffered from overthinking in today's society it's a very normal thing to happen to absolutely everybody and today I wanted to sit down with master shangi and ask him how he feels we can stop overthinking the answer is actually quite simple and very very helpful get ready for 2024 with with the sale now on
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01:30 - 02:00 actually lead to success and the momentum or he posters but before that let's dive in this incredible interview with Master Shahi people want to know how to stop overthinking how do they stop overthinking or ruminating on things the easy answer would right now be learn how to meditate okay but to really bring it into perspective right now overthinking is
02:00 - 02:30 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 oh overthinking can also
02:30 - 03:00 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
03:00 - 03:30 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
03:30 - 04:00 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 me
04:00 - 04:30 there is something there's a limited type of view you're putting yourself in because this limited type of view 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
04:30 - 05:00 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 number one or wife number
05:00 - 05:30 two yeah there's so many different options and therefore what you need is overview sometimes about your life overview the white view the white 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
05:30 - 06:00 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
06:00 - 06:30 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 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 stre
06:30 - 07:00 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
07:00 - 07:30 this now is a focused State and this one right now is a 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 the the magic about it how to combine both into a same into the same time yes and this this is something
07:30 - 08:00 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
08:00 - 08:30 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 we turn it around you are deciding what you are going to put onto your mind for the next next 5
08:30 - 09:00 minutes whatever it is whatever you choose this is your so-called meditation object so that 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 breast for example yeah other people if they find it too hard
09:00 - 09:30 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 full of what you
09:30 - 10:00 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
10:00 - 10:30 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
10:30 - 11:00 or mind 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
11:00 - 11:30 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 know and and then you feel what is the difference between now I'm mindful
11:30 - 12:00 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
12:00 - 12:30 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
12:30 - 13:00 possible but only if with the 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
13:00 - 13:30 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 some something onto the mind which is not in harmony
13:30 - 14:00 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 discover your place in this hugeness and submit but submit doesn't mean it's bad it means that it's
14:00 - 14:30 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 subm
14:30 - 15:00 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 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
15:00 - 15:30 process and what is this process for example everybody every human in this world I think is going to different stages of challenges let's call them like this these challenges can be for example let's just take one loss losing
15:30 - 16:00 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 to lose something that actually you like now then teenager 10 years later somebody took again something away from you you same
16:00 - 16:30 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
16:30 - 17:00 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 angriness is the same the loss is the same the hate is the
17:00 - 17:30 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
17:30 - 18:00 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
18:00 - 18:30 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 con vinced to State the things like
18:30 - 19:00 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 uh you can
19:00 - 19:30 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 now you can really go in and on
19:30 - 20:00 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 again it's finished you walk through that
20:00 - 20:30 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 ER you face the fear you
20:30 - 21:00 face the jealousy you face the pain you face what you don't like you face the fact that you 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
21:00 - 21:30 sometimes to make yourself life there that nice saying 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 that is within your
21:30 - 22:00 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
22:00 - 22:30 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
22:30 - 23:00 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
23:00 - 23:30 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 it's just you need to get rid of those
23:30 - 24:00 fantasies um that better times are going to come if we don't create the better times nothing's going to happen overthinking is one of those things that can plague you at a very random time you might think that you never ever experience it and then maybe you have a downward turn of your mental health and you start to overthink you overthink random things you overthink the simplest mundane relationship issues
24:00 - 24:30 whatever it is you overthink and for me this guy this sort of message from Master shongi is fantastic I like to try and be mindful I like to try and be peaceful uh meditation helps me there's loads of different techniques but um for me this is absolutely fantastic if you want to see more from Master Shahi head to the link in the description and also if you want to help supporters more please head over to mull rivers.com the 2024 end of year sale is now on it's by w't get one free across the not a journal the success journal to get ready
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