CHAPTER 4Thinking into and out of an Insight-State of Mind

As newcomers consider the modes and methods we have described, they relate them to their personal experience and realize that this is the way that they already operate. They become curious as to how they can adjust the way they live to get into an Insight State of Mind with greater regularity.

Here is where things get interesting. It turns out that trying to get into an Insight State of Mind is a bit of a fool’s errand. This insight state is actually our natural, default state. In an Insight State of Mind, our brains are not being overworked. Rather, they are relaxed, and nothing is more natural than finding your way to a state of relaxation. It is where most of us find ourselves right ...

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