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Slow ls Smooth – Interactive Lesson B

Hi, this is AJ get energized. Charge your mind with positive energy. Shoulders back, put a smile on your face, move your body a little that might help. You can stand up, shake your body, get some energy in your body.

I’m going to go through the essay again. This time I will ask questions, very easy questions. When I ask questions I will pause and then you will shout an answer to my question. You can just answer one or two words, that’s okay, one, two, three words but shout your answers if you can. If you’re alone shout your answers. If not, say the answers out loud as best you can. This will help you learn the phrases, the vocabulary and yes, even the grammar and will improve your fluency. Let’s begin…

If you are reading these words then I am assuming you are a warrior.

Is the author assuming you are a warrior or a banker?

A warrior, a fighter. He’s assuming you are a warrior.

Are you a warrior or are you lazy?

You’re a warrior, you’re a fighter, you have a lot of energy. He is assuming you are a warrior, an honorable fighter.

You have been drawn to this moment by your thoughts.

Have you been pushed away from this moment?

No, no, no, you haven’t been pushed away from this moment, you’ve been drawn to this moment you’ve been attracted to this moment.

By what?

By your thoughts. Your thoughts have drawn you to this moment. Your thoughts which have inspired your actions to develop your mental toughness and warrior spirit.

What kind of spirit are you developing?

Warrior spirit. You are developing your warrior spirit.

What kind of spirit?

Warrior spirit. You are developing your warrior spirit, your fighting spirit.

You are a warrior, regardless of your path in life. Some warriors are Navy Seals. They are the fit, aggressive and adventurous ones. Other warriors are on a peace or education mission abroad. Others yet are warriors in the commercial realm.

Some warriors are in what realm?

The commercial realm.

Are they in the education realm or the commercial realm?

They are in the commercial realm.

What is the commercial realm, what kind of world?

It’s the business world. Some warriors are fighting in the business world, in the commercial realm.

They are upholding a code of honor, severely lacking in the business world.

Are these warriors following a code of cheating?

No, no, not a code of cheating.

What kind of code are they following?

A code of honor. These businesspeople, these warriors are following a code of honor, a code of goodness, a code of honesty, like at Effortless English.

And they are under attack daily. Warriors differ in degree, not in spirit.

In spirit are all warriors the same?

Yes, yes they are. In spirit they are all essentially the same. All warriors are essentially the same. They differ in degree. They differ in style, but they are essentially the same.

The battlegrounds are different, but the motivation, values and warrior spirit are alike. Sun Tzu said, “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war. While defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” True warriors are unbeatable because they have conditioned their minds to be unbeatable.

Why are true warriors unbeatable?

Because they have what?

Because they have conditioned their minds. Because they have conditioned their minds, true warriors are unbeatable.

What have they conditioned, what have they trained?

Their minds. True warriors have conditioned their minds to be unbeatable.

They learn to control their minds and win internally, well before they enter the fight. This is the first premise of unbeatable mind training.

Is it the first complete certainty?

No it’s not a complete certainty. It’s not a scientific fact it’s an assumption, it’s a belief.

It’s a what?

It’s a premise. It’s a premise.

Which premise is it?

It’s the first premise. It’s the first premise of unbeatable mind training, the first strong belief.

This sounds simple, but it is not easy. It takes knowledge, skills and practice. The process looks like this.

Step one is to gain control of your mind, rather than allow your mind to what?

Rather than allow your mind to run amuck.

If your mind runs amuck, is it calm?

No, no, no, if your mind runs amuck it is not calm. If your mind runs amuck it acts wild. It is wild.

Should you allow your mind to run amuck?

No, no, no, you shouldn’t allow your mind to run amuck.

The mind running amuck I call the monkey mind. This the term that Buddhists use to describe the untamed mind.

What kind of mind do Buddhists describe as monkey mind?

Untamed, the untamed mind they describe as monkey mind.

Their goal, like ours, is to train the mind to be unfettered.

Who wants to train the mind to be unfettered?

We do. Buddhists do. We do. Everyone. Warriors want to train the mind to be unfettered.

To be what?

Unfettered. Unfettered means unchained or free.

Our goal is to train the mind to be unfettered, focused, concentrated and pure.

So, you need to gain control of the monkey mind before you can begin to work with it, similar to roping a horse before you train it.

What’s step two?

Step two is to charge your mind with positive energy.

Do you charge your mind with negative energy?

Of course not, no.

What kind of energy do you charge your mind with?

You charge your mind with positive energy, powerful energy.

Which step is that?

That’s step two. Step two is to charge your mind with positive energy.

Step three is to build your unbeatable vision, imagination, in the fertile soil of your unfettered mind.

Step four is to nurture and strengthen your vision through repeated, internal visualization practice.

To nurture means to take care of, to protect and take care of.

What should you nurture?

Your vision, your vision for the future. Your dream for the future. Your dream for your life.

What should you do with your vision?

Nurture it. You should nurture your vision, your dream.

How should you nurture your vision, through what?

Through internal visualization. Imagining your dream in your mind. Through internal visualization practice.

Step five is to take massive action, big action.

Of course, there are many nuances and skills involved in the details of this process, but this is essentially it.

What is a nuance?

It’s a small point or a small difference.

Are there a few nuances in this process?

No, no, no, no, there are many nuances and skills involved in this process.

But, these five steps are essentially it. They are basically the process.

Where do we start if our minds, like most people, are like runaway freight trains? Most people have minds like what?

Like runaway freight trains. Most people have minds like runaway freight trains.

Are most people’s minds controlled and calm?

No, they’re uncontrolled like runaway freight trains.

What are like runaway freight trains?

Most people’s minds. Most people’s minds are like runaway freight trains.

So you start by controlling your mind. If you’re like most folks, most people, you’ve heard about the benefits of meditation, but the one time you tried it, it was a disaster. You sat down in a nice comfortable chair and tried like hell to think about nothing.

Did you try hard or did you try a little?

You tried very hard. You tried like hell. You tried like hell. You tried very hard.

You tried like hell to think about what?

You tried like hell to think about nothing.

But in three seconds you were thinking about work, your girlfriend, your boyfriend or balancing the checkbook. Darn it!

What did you say?

You said darn it!

So how did you feel?

You felt frustrated.

You felt frustrated so you said what?

Darn it!

Then you tried to go back to thinking about nothing. Then you thought, what about dinner? Should you go to the workout or to a yoga class? What the heck are you doing here? You have too much work to do. Forget it, you’re are out of there.

According to this author, did you quit suddenly, did you leave suddenly after trying meditation?

Yes, yes. Most people quit suddenly after trying meditation.

And what do they say?

They say I’m out of here. I’m out of here. Or in the essay it says, you are out of there.

That about sums up everyone’s first few attempts at sitting alone and trying to think of nothing. It is hard, but don’t fret.

Should you fret?

No, don’t fret.

What does don’t fret mean?

It means don’t worry, don’t worry.

He says don’t fret, I am here to both sympathize with you and to help.

Does he feel angry with you?

No, no, no he doesn’t feel angry with you he what? Sympathizes with you. He sympathizes with you.

Does he feel kindness and compassion for you?

Yes, he feels kindness and compassion for you. He sympathizes with you.

He says, I have been down that road.

Has he experienced the same problems with meditation?

He has. He has experienced the same problems with meditation. He has been down that road.

Who has been down that road?

The author, the writer has been down that road. He has been down that road. He has experienced the same problems.

He says, I can attest to the challenges and benefits of sticking with it.

Does he deny the benefits of meditation?

No, no, no, he confirms.

Does he confirm or deny the benefits?

He confirms them. He says I can attest to. Attest to means to confirm.

I can attest to the challenges and the benefits of what?

Of sticking with it.

Does that mean quitting?

No, no, it means not quitting. It means continuing to try.

Is it beneficial to stick with it, to continue doing it?

Yes, it is beneficial to stick with it.

To stick with what?

To stick with meditation, to keep trying meditation.

He says, it is worth it. You must control your mind if you want to develop an unbeatable mind and an uncommon level of peace, happiness and success.

Okay, that is our lesson. Listen to all of the audios in our unit every day. Repeat them every day for two weeks or more. Learn deeply and use a lot of energy and positive energy. Charge your mind with positive energy. Smile, move every time you listen to the lessons.

I’ll see you next time. Bye for now.