Mindsight

Mindsight offers a new way of transforming your life for the better by connecting emotional awareness with the right reactions in your body, based on the work of a renowned pyschologist and his patients.

This is it. If I could only ever give you three lessons to live by, this would be one of them. It’s been one of the core things that’s allowed me to live a very happy life so far. Ready for it?

Be balanced and harmonic. I believe in the golden mean. Always have, always will. Staying away from extreme thoughts and ideologies has helped me get along with most of the people I’ve met in my life, constantly adapt to my circumstances, yet never completely veer off the path I intended to pursue.

Whenever I’ve abandoned this and gone too extreme in one direction or the other, for example by slacking off too much or too little, I’ve become unhappy.

Finding the right balance means being able to adapt to changing, external circumstances, while staying stable and true to your own values. How can you do that?

Think of yourself as a gently flowing river. You won’t clash with the people in your life and your environment, but just embrace them, make room for them, flow around them and continue on your original course.

This means accepting that it’s normal for your actions, emotions and thoughts to fall into different places on a big spectrum and trying to balance emotional and rational thinking, so that neither completely takes over.

The reason the above exercise helps is that it shows you that your emotions aren’t character traits – they’re fleeting experiences in your life, nothing more. This is great because it gives you control and makes them much less frustrating to deal with.

A similar exercise you can do is to imagine your mind is an ocean. What you think and feel comes in ripples, waves or even storms, but it always just moves across the surface of the ocean – the bottom deeply beneath it is always calm. The feelings on top are always temporary, but it’s still up to you to find the calmness deep within.

With exercises like these, you’ll practice the three key pillars of mindsight:

Observation – learning to notice when distracting thoughts pull away your focus. Objectivity – following the flow of your thoughts without judging, noticing how you feel and learning from it. Openness – accepting your emotions at every turn and not letting them turn into a source of stress.

Keep practicing these and you’ll become the most balanced human being you know!