Weekly Insights - 23 November

Welcome to the weekly insights for Sunday, 23 November.

I post a Weekly Insights article each week. Each article is a roundup of the insights that I've posted the previous week across all my social media platforms. Each insight is a micro-learning post offering practical guidance on mindfulness, meditation, and resilience.

This week's Topics

• Introducing the Barriers & Portals Microlearning Series
• Barrier to Meditation 1 – Your Mind Isn’t on Your Side
• "My Mind is Too Busy!"
• The Portal to Calmness
• Too Busy to Meditate

✨ Introducing the Barriers & Portals Microlearning Series

Over the next few days, we’ll explore why so many people struggle to build a consistent meditation practice — and I will teach you how you can move past these obstacles.

⚠️ The Barriers

Barriers are those things that intervene in your meditation, your calmness, focus, and mindfulness: your mind is super-busy and you get distracted; you feel you should be completing some task; you don't know if you are doing it right, and many more...

🔑 The Portals

The Portals are easily learned techniques, knowledge, and skills that help you break through those barriers so you can finally build a meditation practice that gets your mind on your side.

Master your mind and master your life.

🗓 This series runs until 29 November
👀 Stay tuned to learn more...

Barrier to Meditation 1.

Your Mind Isn’t on Your Side

The problem isn’t that your mind is *too busy* — it’s that your mind isn’t *working with you*.

If your thoughts were calm, supportive, and encouraging, you’d have no problem sitting quietly with yourself and your breath.

🧘‍♂️ Meditation isn’t about *silencing your mind*.

It’s about becoming *familiar and comfortable with your mind*, exactly as it is.

✨ Your mind doesn’t have to be quiet — it just needs to be on your side.

💬 You can learn to sit with your mind, calm your mind, and get your mind on your side with meditation. We will cover this in the Portals part of this series*, *so stay tuned.

The Portal to Calmness

For most of our lives, unless we learn otherwise, our minds will be filled with a constant flow of narrative stories. Good and bad, right and wrong, fair and unfair, truth and lies, heroes and villains, continually chasing each other. This is our culture running its narratives in our minds.

The search for inner peace and calmness is universal. But our mind does not follow the same rules as the external world. If we want to create an effect in the external world, we take an action. And if we want a greater effect, we take a more intense action.

But in the mind, this strategy doesn't work. We can't force our minds to be silent, which is why a large part of our economy is distractions and activities, hobbies, entertainment, music, talk shows, and any background noise or sound that will distract us from the narratives running in our heads.

The undistracted present moment is the place of calmness. But for most of us, without distraction, we suffer from our inner narratives and the emotions that accompany them. We have a name for this: it's called boredom.

Start to become aware of the undistracted experience of the totality of the present moment. Start with just one moment, then one minute, then five minutes, then half an hour, and, in time, the boredom will drift away as your mind becomes as clear, still, and calm as a forest pool.

This is called meditation.

Too Busy to Meditate?

I get it.
Life gets in the way – even when you want to meditate.

This is why I created The Frictionless Way.

➡️ The Frictionless Way is a set of meditation practices designed for people who struggle to maintain consistency because life keeps happening.

The practices allow you to integrate meditation into your life without needing to put it on hold, even for 30 minutes.

• 🌀 No guilt. No pressure.
• 🧘 Just practical approaches that actually work.

Throughout December, I’ll be sharing these practices in bite-sized micro-learning posts across all my channels.

These are not shortcuts or workarounds – They are meditation aligned with your life.