Svensson: People stay constantly busy to distract themselves from unsettled minds
Glen Svensson · 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 4 | Glen Svensson | Meditation and Mindfulness · Jul 15, 2019 · at 20:09
Meditation teacher Glen Svensson explains the underlying psychological reasons why modern professionals fill their schedules and claim they have no time to meditate.
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“One reason is that often in the modern world, it's felt like if you're not doing something, you're not being productive. So therefore just do something. And then the other reason that we often fill up our day is that with things is if we're not really doing anything and we're sitting quietly there, It often forces us to look at the state of our mind, which is often a mess, and we don't like to see what is going on in our mind, so we just busy ourselves to distract ourselves.”
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