Peter Attia· MD
the bicep curl of the brain is not the cessation of thought it's the recognition of the thought that then allows you to go back to the breath or whatever the focus is
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the bicep curl of the brain is not the cessation of thought it's the recognition of the thought that then allows you to go back to the breath or whatever the focus is
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he described it as the bicep curl of the brain is not the cessation of thought it's the recognition of the thought that then allows you to go back to the breath or whatever the focus is
And I do this goofy thing every day, most days, this practice where I sit there and I, you know, focus on my breath and I catch myself thinking and I come back and forth and back and forth and back and forth because as Jeff Warren, who's a great meditation teacher describes it, that's just a bicep curl.