493: A Former Monk’s Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Controlling Your Mind | Dandapani

<p>Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: <a href= "https://bit.ly/493dandapani" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://bit.ly/493dandapani</a></p> <p>Dandapani (IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dandapanillc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@dandapanillc</a>) is a Hindu priest, entrepreneur and former monk of 10 years.</p> <p>He’s a highly sought-after international speaker and leading expert on leveraging the human mind and the power of focus to create a life of purpose and joy.</p> <p>Dandapani and his wife are currently creating a thirty-three-acre spiritual sanctuary and garden in Costa Rica to further their mission of inspiring self-transformation and positively shifting humanity’s relationship with nature.</p> <p>You’re going to learn all about mastering awareness in your mind and how this leads to manifesting your life.</p> <p><strong>In this episode, we discuss:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Focus on your purpose & priorities</li> <li>Life is finite</li> <li>Mastering awareness in your mind</li> <li>Learning to focus is exhausting</li> <li>How to manifest the life you want</li> <li>You attract people of a similar frequency</li> <li>Developing willpower helps control awareness</li> <li>Finish what you begin</li> <li>Smartphones are a distraction</li> <li>Dandapani recalls wanting to becoming a monk as a kid</li> <li>The aspects of self-realization</li> <li>The fringes of enlightenment</li> <li>The philosophy defines the required tools</li> <li>Does your lifestyle support a meditation practice?</li> <li>Navigating the superconscious area of the mind</li> <li>Defining the three areas of the mind</li> <li>Our subconscious mind is cluttered with information</li> <li>Learn how a mentor can help you along your journey</li> <li>Put what you learn into practice</li> <li>How do you know if a guru is a good one or a dodgy one?</li> <li>Dandapani's experience of giving up everything when he joined the monastery</li> <li>A typical day of eating at the monastery</li> <li>What possessions are you allowed to keep