You've been lied to:

Meditating 20 minutes a day won't fix your bad moods.

But the answer isn't doing more...

Here's how to be happy without a single moment of meditation ↓ I spent 5 years studying with a senior Buddhist monk.

The most important question he ever asked me was this...

I studied with a monk for 5 years.

Here are 27 inner circle secrets few people will understand: If worrying were useful...

People with anxiety would be billionaires.

I spent over 100 hours with a monk discussing this key point.

But he couldn't give me all I needed. So I went through:

- 30,000 hours of practice
- 100s of spiritual teachings
- 1000s of hours with a psychologist

Here's what you really need to know about mindfulness: Meditating for 20 minutes in the morning and expecting it to carry you through the rest of your day is like zapping the clouds out of the sky and expecting that no more will appear.

Here’s the problem with formal meditation...

73% of UK adults have regular anxiety.

Until 2016, I was one of them.

Then I practised mindfulness for 23,000 hours and cured my anxiety for good.

Here's why meditating once a day isn't enough: Most people who meditate think that doing it for 20 minutes in the morning will magically fix the rest of their day.

This is nonsense.

There's only one way a 20-minute meditation can affect the rest of your day...

Your mind has been tricking you your entire life.

This controversial monk spent 66 years proving it.

The 4-step subconscious process controlling your thoughts (and how to destroy it): 🧵 At just 26 years old the monk, Buddhadasa, spent 3 years in total solitude training his mind.

But when he started teaching what he learned, the monastic order didn’t like it.

They wanted people to follow superstitious rules.

But Buddhadasa wanted to help people with real problems…

This monk is known as the happiest man on earth.

When scientists scanned his brain, they were speechless.

Here’s what 50,000 hours of meditation does to your brain: 🧵 Meet Matthieu Ricard.

In 2007, Ricard and a team of scientists had a wild idea: study the brainwaves of a meditating monk.

Most of the scientific community didn't believe the benefits of meditation could be measured. But these brain scans changed everything…

if you want a fulfilling life, your relationships are everything.

once you harness their power, the shift happens.

here's the science on human relationships (and how to apply it): in 1938, Dr. Robert Waldinger at Harvard began tracking the lives of two groups:

🔹Harvard students
🔹boys from Boston's poorest neighborhoods

this became the world's longest study on happiness.
the biggest finding is unexpected ↓

i'm a mindfulness teacher and I hate to break it to you but...

the reason you have toxic and abusive relationships isn't because you're broken.

it's because of childhood trauma.

here's everything you need to know about it (and how to stop it ruining your relationships): 🧵 66% of kids have experienced at least one traumatic event by the age of 16.

and 70% of adults in the U.S. have experienced trauma in their lifetime.

but what is trauma?

trauma isn't the event that happened, it's how your body "remembers" the event.

Nondual Mindfulness is the best way to dissolve built-up stress, undo habitual anxiety, and unlock your hidden creative power.

here’s what it is and how to do it: 🧵 16,153 research papers have been published on mindfulness.

it's the easiest, cheapest, safest way to improve your mental health. but not all mindfulness practices are equal.

i'm going to teach you how to do the most powerful one. but first, here's why you need it...

my wife is a therapist.

she helps people who had one more bad day than they could handle.

here's 10 EMERGENCY steps for when you're stressed out, worried and too tired to do anything about it: 🧵 1. STOP

you have to create some space or you'll never get out of the cycle you're in.

cancel on friends, cancel on family, call in sick and sell your sh!t to cover bills—do what you gotta do.

i’m a business coach and i hate to break it to you but

making money is easier than you think (you’d just rather play it safe).

here’s how: 🧵 i used to charge $40 an hour to clients who wanted me to do everything for them.

i now charge $400 an hour to clients who want to do everything for themselves.

i’ve taught over 1,000 people how to make more money ASAP. and if you read this thread, you’re next…

the woman who awakened in 14 days:

candice o’denver.

she found the direct path to enlightenment out of sheer desperation, then was authorized to teach by a tibetan master.

here are her 14 most potent teachings: 🧵 candice knew nothing about spirituality when her life fell apart.

at rockbottom, she found there was just one way to get relief. she didn't meditate, she just did one simple thing in every moment.

that's how she knew it would work for everyone...

i studied with a monk for 5 years, married a hot psychologist, then made $100K on X.

it’s proven: mindfulness is a cheat code for life.

here are the 4 steps you need to unlock elite performance, limitless wealth and genuine, lasting happiness: STEP 1: understand you don’t have to change yourself to be successful.

society trained you to think you’re not good enough... but millions of people have let go of that toxic idea and realized they're MORE productive.

but how?

most people are quietly unhappy.

i’ve taught 1,000s how to overcome anxiety, stress & depression.

here’s 10 things they all wish someone told them sooner: an oxford university study found that depression reduces life expectancy by 7-11 years.

this is as dangerous as smoking 20 cigarettes per day.

let’s brighten your day while you have days left…

i’m 37.

i’m obsessed with fusing spirituality & business.

so i spent 8 years studying enlightened masters and self-made millionaires.

here’s what I found on how to get rich without selling your soul: first, the most important lesson:

earning money in the 21st century is about helping people.

and the best way to help people is to guide them through a problem you already solved in your own life.

here’s how to build wealth without screwing anyone over…

i’ve read 100’s of spiritual books…

this is my #1.

here’s 10 profound insights (not for the narrow-minded): this book is the most powerful teaching i’ve found on realizing peace, clarity and effectiveness as your default mode.

spiritual masters in tibet carry it around with them 24/7.

keep screwing around with lesser teachings if you want… or read on for the real sh!t.

Jordan Peterson once said:

"unless your life is perfect, what you know is not enough."

here are 10 things i learned from him (that most people misunderstand): recognizing your mistakes is essential, but you shouldn’t beat yourself to death because of them.

as an infant, you fell on your ass countless times learning to walk.

but as an adult, you try to avoid failure.

that’s why your growth has slowed down.

i’ve lived with a psychologist for 4 years.

here are 10 mental health mega-hacks few people know about: 970 million people suffer some form of mental disorder.

the best way to stay on the right side of this statistic is to start addressing your mental health NOW...

this is the buddha.

the wisest man who ever lived.

he left his palace to become a beggar, then gave 17,000 teachings on how to perfect your mind.

here are his top 10: 4 out of 5 people will face a mental health issue at some point in their lives.

the average wait for treatment is 11 years.

but the buddha gave the real cures 2500 years ago…

monks are the happiest people on earth.

here’s one thing they’re taught early on…

The Law of Surrender (how to get what you want by letting go): first, before you say “monks don’t want anything, dan!”

they do: they want enlightenment (which is the hardest thing to get). because to “get” it, you have to let go of everything.

here’s how to use use the power of surrender to get what you want in your own life...

in 2017 my mother attempted suicide.

here's 27 life-changing insights i gave her (that most people ignore till they hit rock-bottom): change is uncomfortable…

but so is staying the same.

the difference is that change leads to better days.