Unpack Your Mind - The Method

 

Unpack Your Mind offers an approach to life that combines observation of your mind's habits and programming with a short daily meditation. Once you start seeing that everything you feel, prefer, do, plan, fear, basically all you do, is the result of thinking, you create the space inside your head for deep 'mind blowing' change.

 

In the Inspiration section, you find a topic that you take into a short meditation. There is a new topic for every day of the year.

 

In parallel, you can find spiritual insights, stories, and themes that humanity has uncovered, compiled and taught for centuries in the Blog section. This will help you provide the set and setting for the unpacking process of your mind.

 

Let the combination of meditation and insights gently guide you through your day and slowly but surely awaken you in today's hectic and demanding environment.

 

The overarching questions the UYM method addresses are:

 

 

In the book with the same title, you unpack your mind chapter by chapter.

 

You learn to observe, contemplate, and act: 

The daily micro-meditations allow you to get grounded. Once your mind is in a slightly more spacious state, the observation, contemplation and act principle will guide itself.

 

 

Once you start the micro-meditations your mind is likely to go through seven phases that are outlined in the book as follows:

 

1. The unconscious thinking mind

You live your life based on the programming you receive. You suffer, have no idea how to change anything, and complain a lot.

 

2. The concerned mind

Your suffering is consuming you, and you have started to talk to others about it. You have some pointers towards awakening, spirituality and living in the present moment. But for now, probably, skepticism reins

 

3. The curious mind

You have opened up to questioning your suffering and wondering where it comes from. You are beginning to understand that some, if not all, of it results from your thinking. You have started to explore spirituality, awakening, and enlightenment.

 

4. The receptive mind

Your curiosity has transformed into taking action. You are gathering information, reading books, and listening to podcasts.

 

5. The attempting mind

You are now ready to take the first steps. This is the phase where some try yoga or meditation and immediately feel that it is a daunting task to not think and focus on something and not think. You feel it as an act, more than an activity you do regularly, which resembles training, which is the next state.

 

6. The training mind

You continue your exercises and slowly get the hang of them. This is also the phase where most people feel they have reached a ceiling. Awakening seems close yet unattainable.

 

7. The awakened mind

You can spend time not thinking through meditation or body awareness. Your mind is awakened, it is unpacked.  When you use your thinking mind, you know it is doing this and you can observe it. You are free of fear and detached from your past and future.

 

To start your daily micro-meditation, go to the Your Daily Now section.