I suggest you use the Pomodoro technique, a productivity method developed by Francesco Cirillo based on the idea that the optimal time for a task is 25 minutes, followed by a 5-minute break.2 Each 25-minute chunk is called a “Pomodoro.” As
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The same technique applies while learning to play any instrument. Practice for 25 to 30 mins and then let the subconscious take over the learning
“how to handle it. The yogic system gives no commandments whatsoever. It leaves you free to choose whether you want to generate positive karma for the future, distance yourself from your karmic package, or dissolve it altogether.”
― Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
― Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
“karma is like old software that you have written for yourself unconsciously. And, of course, you’re updating it on a daily basis! Depending on the type of physical, mental, and energetic actions you perform, you write your software. Once that software is written, your whole system functions accordingly. Based on the information from the past, certain memory patterns keep recurring. Now your life turns habitual, repetitive, and cyclical. Over”
― Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
― Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
“karma is action on three levels: body, mind, and energy. Whatever you do on these three levels leaves a certain residue or imprint upon you.”
― Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
― Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
“The essential characteristic of human play is not that the emotions are spurious, but that they are regulated. This is revealed when sanctions are imposed on an illegitimate emotional display. Play may be grimly serious, or even fatally serious, but the social sanctions are serious only if the rules are broken. Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.”
― Games people play: The psychology of human relationships
― Games people play: The psychology of human relationships
“The karmic mechanism is ceaseless. Every mental fluctuation in you creates a chemical reaction, which then proceeds to provoke a physical sensation. This sensation, in turn, reinforces the chemical reaction, which then strengthens the mental fluctuation. Over time, your very chemistry is determined by a series of unconscious reactions to sensory and mental stimuli.”
― Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
― Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny
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