RULE 3
Train your mind to relax
The human mind is an extraordinary thing. The more you use and reinforce those neural pathways, the stronger they get. In the same way you’ve learnt to salivate when you see or smell food, so you can train your mind to relax in response to certain things.
So if you routinely relax your mind by closing your eyes and taking deep breaths, or by playing patience, or by going for a five-minute walk, your mind will learn to relax when it receives these triggers. Once you’ve trained your mind to associate these ploys with relaxing, it will get the message and drop into relaxation mode pretty quickly as soon as you start.
If you think about it, it will be much easier for your mind to relax in response to these activities ...
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