Day 0. About Mindfunginess
Hello. I'm Aurora, and for a year, I will be your personal coach in Mindfunginess, a meditative technique to help you unlock your mind in order to transform your life and reality over 365 days.
This Mindfunginess training is designed for people who want to make a turnaround in their lives, or who are in prison, or feel trapped in a mental prison, or are unhappy in their jobs, or have had setbacks in health, money, or love, or who are sad, or suffer from anxiety, depression, or stress, or for humans who only live for “Doing and Having” and want to live more focused on “Being and Presence”.
The Mindfunginess is an innovative technique for personal transformation and growth, allowing you to change the crappy rules that govern your life, beliefs, and habits while connecting with tour own spirituality. With this goal in mind, I will gradually unravel the tools advocated by Vishen Lakhiani, the founder of Mindvalley, in his wonderful book "The Code of the Extraordinary Mind", which serves as the muse for this training along with us, the mushrooms. I highly recommend reading this book while undergoing this training to ensure your immersion in Mindfunginess is complete.
The fact that I am your Mindfunginess coach is due to our species' extensive experience in achieving the extraordinariness Vishen Lakhiani talks about in his book. Since we are born from germinated spores released by mushrooms of our species, we can choose, like you, our path in life. In a first phase, we all move at the subsurface level, where the mycelium has decided that we will develop as fungi, which humans call hyphae.
As I suppose you know, as fungi, we live with the exclusive and alienating mission of seeking water and nutrients for the beings of the plant kingdom, who in turn feed us with the sugars they generate via photosynthesis in what constitutes the greatest symbiosis on planet Earth. We live, like many humans, abducted by the system.
But if we want to leave the life of fungus-hypha and become mushrooms, in order to know the light and live the extraordinariness of the earth's surface, we also have to train in Mindfunginess to be able to leave the crappy rules that govern the subsurface. And when we have achieved the goal and flourish from the mycelium tree of the subsurface, we mature and return our spores to the earth so that the cycle can begin again.
The hyphae that manage to see the sunlight and transform into mushrooms owe the transformation exclusively to our inner work to recode our beliefs and habits for this mission and become absolutely unbreakable mushrooms so that we can understand the enormous potential of the God Particles, which connect us to all living beings in the Universe, including you.
And the same goes for you, humans. If you want to achieve extraordinariness, the first thing you have to do is to abandon the ground-culture to which society and its bullshit rules drag you, which generation after generation govern your lives, and thus be able to train to awaken, recode your minds, and fly, as if you were spores, in order to give back to society what it has given you.
And above all this, this is what you and I are going to talk about in the next 60 sessions, so that you can put into practice everything learned in the following 300 days, so that in 1 year, you have been able to transform your life and achieve extraordinariness.
In this App version, during the first 2 months, you will learn theory and practice about Mindfunginess in 20-minute daily sessions, which include different exercises that you solve in your field notebook. And also, throughout the training, you will find interspersed different sessions of "The 6-Phase Meditation," designed by Vishen Lakhiani. Meditation, which is much easier to practice than Mindfulness and traditional meditation, as you don't have to concentrate on not thinking. Meditation sessions that are accompanied by very special music, generated by the waves of mushrooms that contribute to having a better connection with the Universe while meditating.
And during the remaining 10 months, we help you manage with alerts and statistics, the effective monitoring of all the goals you have set within the context of Mindfunginess training, in order to put your new habits into practice.
Happy journey
Day 1. Levels of personal growth in Mindfunginess
I welcome you to this Mindfunginess training where, over 60 days of theoretical classes, exercises, and meditations, you will make your way towards extraordinariness.
This journey, like all journeys, has its ups and downs. In level 1, the idea is for you to reflect on the cultural backpack you carry, burdened with many bullshit rules that society has gradually implanted in your head.
In level 2, the awakening level, you will learn to practice engineering with your own consciousness, while you learn how to update your reality models or beliefs and your life systems or habits, as if they were upgradeable hardware and software.
In the third level, with the knowledge acquired in the previous 2 levels, you will learn to recode your mind, training yourself to bend your reality with a methodology based on 2 new disciplines for you, Blissipline and Futurcipline. Disciplines that will show you the way to be happy in the present while you pursue your future goals and dreams, without your happiness depending on achieving those goals.
The fourth and final level of this training is the level where, with all the wisdom acquired about Mindfunginess in the previous levels, you become an absolutely unfuckable being in order to embrace your own cause and fly.
Throughout the journey, the idea is that you dedicate one day out of every three to train in the 6-phase meditation, which, like the rest of the training, is inspired by Mindvalley philosophy and Vishen Lakhiani's book "The Code of the Extraordinary Minds." And every day, let yourself be carried away by the magic of us, mushrooms.
Happy journey
Day 2. The Soil-Culture and Ancestral Language
Exercises: Reflect in the next few minutes on the societal rules you think have held you back in life. And if you can, describe them in your notebook.
Day 4. Welcome to the Soil-Culture
Exercises: Reflect and describe in your notebook the relative truths in your life that you are willing to change.
Day 5. How to Escape the Soil-Culture
Exercises: Reflect on whether you want to escape the soil-culture or not, and if so, how you would do it. Describe in your notebook which rules you would like to leave behind.
Day 7. Why is Living Safely Overrated?
Exercises: Attention. Before continuing with the training, it's very important that you are aware of the consequences of changing your life rules. Write in your notebook which of the following factors you think may affect you the most.
Day 8. Throw B Rules to Trash.
Exercises: Reflect on these B rules. They are just examples. You may have other rules to reflect on in your life.
Day 10. Absorption Systems of B Rules
Exercises: Reflect on your interpretation of actions of others in the past 24 hours, and analyze now that you know your capacity to generate meanings around the actions of third parties, if they can or cannot correspond to the reality behind those actions. You will be surprised at the number of times you could potentially have been wrong.
Day 11. How to Differentiate Between Rules and B Rules
Exercises: Choose one of the rules of your life that you are most uncomfortable with and put it through the 5 filters.
Day 13. Life Beyond B Rules
Exercises: Reflect on which rules do not contribute to your happiness at this time in your life. And better, if you can, write them down in your notebook.
Day 14. Practice Engineering with Your Consciousness
Exercises: Reflect on models of reality or beliefs that you would like to change in your life. And if you can, jot them down in your notebook.
Day 16. Your Software and Your Habits
Exercises: Reflect on the habits you want to change in your life. If you can, write down the changes in your notebook.
Day 17. The Limits of Reality Models and Life Systems
Exercises: Reflect on what conscious practices you would like to undertake. And if you can, make a note in your notebook.
Day 19. The Tree of Life
Exercises: Rate yourself in your notebook from 1 to 10 in each area, from very weak to extraordinary, honestly. And don't think too much about the answers. Let yourself be guided by your impulses and your heart.
Day 20. Rewrite Your Reality Models
Exercises: Analyze your reality models by comparing them with the first four areas of your tree of life. To help you define your own reality models, here are some ideas and examples of possible beliefs to reflect on. You may have different reality models, so be sure to write them down in your notebook.
Now, explore
Day 22. The Reality Models of Your Inner Life
Exercises: Here is the second block about the tree of life, so you can reflect calmly on the different areas. And add your reality models in the third column. And if you want, write down your reflections in your notebook.
Day 23. The Reality Models of Your Outer Life
Exercises: Analyze your reality models confronted with the block of the last 4 areas of your tree of life. Here are some ideas about your beliefs to reflect on to define your reality models, but they are not the only ones. Explore yourself.
Day 25. About the Evaporation of Reality Models
Exercises: Reflect on 3 areas of the tree of life and their respective reality models, gathered throughout the exercises of the past few days, on which you want to focus your energy to change these areas of your tree of life in the short term. And if you can, not only write down what they are but also why and how to modify them for the better in your notebook.
Day 26. Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Hygiene
Exercises: Take some time to reflect on the adjustment points in relation to your life systems that you want to work on regarding the first 4 points of your tree of life, and please describe the habit changes you want to make in your notebook.
Day 28. Steps to Work on Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Hygiene
Exercises: Reflect on these 4 areas of your tree of life, and if you have your notebook handy, write down your conclusions to facilitate the identification of which life systems to work on. And remember that these questions are only indicative and that you may have other priorities.
Day 29. Adjustment Points in Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Hygiene Processes
Exercises: Reflect today on the last 4 areas of your tree of life and write down your conclusions to facilitate the identification of which life systems or habits to work on. And remember that these questions are only indicative and that you may have other priorities. And, as always, if you have a pencil and your notebook handy, even better.
Day 31. Recode Your Mind
Exercises: Review and reflect on what you have learned about the previous 2 levels, the Ground-Culture level and the Awakening level. It will be much easier for you to assimilate the following sessions well. If you see that there are things you don't remember well, review the previous sessions or your notebook.
Day 32. Bend Reality
Exercises: For this exercise, take your notebook, and rate among several alternatives, such as not true, or true only sometimes, or true always.
If you answered true to the first 4, you are in harmony with the state of being happy in the now. If you answered true to the last 4, you are in harmony with your future vision.
Day 34. Don't Condition Your Present Happiness on Achieving Goals
Exercises: Reflect on 3 specific goals that you have or have had in life, with which if something happens or happened, then you were or will be happy.
Day 35. How is Reality Bent Perceived?
Exercises: Choose and reflect on three current models of reality of yours, regarding which you would like to bend reality.
Day 37. What is Felicipline?
Exercises: Reflect on and define in your notebook 3 current models of reality of yours, which have to do with each of the 3 states of happiness discussed in this session.
Day 38. Felicipline and Gratitude
Exercises:
Day 40. Felicipline and Forgiveness
Exercises: Practice forgiveness, including it in your 6-phase meditation, integrating your new knowledge acquired in today's session, with what you learned in the session dedicated to gratitude and with the wisdom derived from your 6-phase meditations.
Day 41. Felicipline and Giving Happiness
Exercises: Now, I'm going to suggest a series of steps for you to practice the technique of giving to others.
Day 43. What is Futurciple?
Exercises: Can you define in your notebook what your goals, dreams, visions, and aspirations are that make up your launchpad to the future in the different areas of your tree of life?
Day 44. Futurciple and Ultimate Goals
Exercises: Redefine your goals again. Go back to yesterday's exercise and classify the goals you entered yesterday as mid-term or ultimate goals in the third column, which you left blank.
Day 46. Futurciple and the 3 Essential Questions
Exercises: Now think about these 3 concepts in the form of questions related to your life. What experiences do you want to have throughout your life? How do you want your personal growth to be? How do you want to contribute to society? For which, now it's your turn to filter each of "The 3 Essential Questions" with the 12 areas of your tree of life. And in each block, add the questions or answers you want to ask and give yourself, to define your ultimate goals in depth. And remember to use your notebook to answer yourself.
And, here are some practical tips to make the most of this exercise. First, start by keeping questions and answers as simple as possible. Use your notebook. For each of the 3 Essential Questions, establish a time. Three minutes is a good measure for each one, less is also fine. More is not advisable. If you use more time, your creativity or your logical mind may play tricks on you.
Second, I advise you not to rethink the answers you give yourself. Don't worry about grammar. Let your answers flow. If you want to use graphics, even better. That's why the maximum period of 3 minutes per question helps, as it prevents your logical mind from imposing on your intuition.
Third, to differentiate between mid-term and ultimate goals, the best tool is to pay attention to your feelings and let yourself be guided by your heart and by what that goal will bring you in terms of happiness.
1. Essential question 1. What experiences do you want to have?
In this "Experiences" territory, ask yourself the following question: "If time and money were not the problem, not the goal and no one's permission was needed, what kind of experiences would my soul crave? Maybe the questions collected here will inspire others. Follow the path of your heart
2. Essential Question 2. How do you want to grow?
When you see the ease with which children absorb information, you understand how deeply human beings are linked to learning and personal growth, as learning should not only occur when you are a child but throughout your entire life. The key question in this section is: "To carry out the experiences described above, how do I need to grow? What kind of woman/man do I need to evolve into?"
Now reflect on the following questions related to the 4 areas of your tree of life that have to do with your personal growth.
3. Essential Question 3. How do you want to contribute?
This question serves to deepen your ultimate goals and better understand how you want to contribute to society based on your experiences and personal growth. The question in this area would be: "If I have the experiences mentioned above and have grown personally based on the ultimate goals established, how can I contribute to the rest of the world?
Day 47. Practical advice on how to ask yourself the 3 essential questions.
Exercises: Review your answers to the 3 essential questions from the last day, applying the filters and advice that I have given you today, for which it is best to use your notebook and the notes you have incorporated.
Day 49. The Path of Unfuckwithability.
Exercises: Hello. Today I want to introduce you to laughter yoga and teach you to laugh at yourself and with yourself, so you can use this technique whenever you need to stop and provoke some laughs in life. With that goal in mind, I'm going to guide you through four simple steps to learn laughter yoga and prepare yourself to become absolutely "unfockable."
Follow me and let yourself be taken to the fascinating world of laughter where we, mushrooms, reign.
Step 1. Stand with your feet slightly apart, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and imagine a moment that brings you good memories. Some happy situations you have experienced. It could also be a funny event you witnessed. Breathe in happiness and let out a good laugh remembering that moment, or simply put a smile on your face, even if it's not spontaneous at first. Keep thinking of funny or happy memories and breathe and smile with each one. Over time, you will see that your mood starts to improve and your laughter becomes more authentic, realizing that life has given you these happy and fun moments.
Step 2. In the same posture and relaxed attitude, take three complete breaths. Inhale slowly, hold the air for a moment, and then exhale slowly, without feeling suffocated or uncomfortable.
Step 3. Place your hands at abdomen level. Then, inhale deeply, taking in plenty of air. And as you exhale, laugh out loud emitting the sound hahaha. Repeat three times. Do the same with hehehe, then with hihihi, with hohoho, and finally three times with huhuhu…
Step 4. Repeat the previous exercise but this time raising your arms to the ceiling and letting them drop abruptly to try to touch the ground, inhaling and exhaling while emitting the different laughter sounds, until they are genuine.
Day 50. How to be unfuckwithable?
Exercises. The exercise we propose today is a very simple one. Look in the mirror. Look at yourself, not to laugh as in the exercise from the last day about laughter yoga, where you sought to lose the fear of ridicule, but look at yourself deeply and show yourself love. Say loving phrases to yourself. Talking to yourself in front of the mirror is like talking to your soul. You can practice it daily, after you finish brushing your teeth.
Day 52. How to be Unfuckwithable and Self-Propelled Goals.
Exercises. Hello, today we're going to work on gratitude towards yourself. So that, along with the power of laughter to lose the fear of ridicule and the power of the mirror to connect with your soul, practiced in previous sessions, you strengthen your arsenal to lose the fear of what others will think or say and become absolutely Unfuckwithable.
Simply reflect on what you, as a human being, like about yourself and thank yourself for how well you do certain things. How you have surrounded yourself with love. Your ability to organize experiences for yourself and others. Your focus on enjoying the small things in life. Your wisdom to live for being and presence, rather than doing and having. Your level of self-awareness. Your ability to recover from failure or disappointment or situations. It doesn't matter if you identify qualities that are big or small; the important thing is that you identify between three and five things to be grateful for about yourself every day. It doesn't matter if you do it when you wake up or before going to bed. The important thing is that you do it daily and always remember that when you exercise gratitude, dedicate yourself to a few reflections of gratitude.
Day 53. How to be Unfuckwithable and Self-Sufficiency
Exercises: Hello, to be Unfuckwithable, you already know how to consider yourself enough; create self-propelled goals, lose the fear of what others will think, using laughter yoga, mirrors to reflect your soul, or the power of self-gratitude. In this exercise, we're going to take it a step further, and you're going to practice being present. Do you remember when we talked about being and presence, and the difference with doing to have, or the enormous potential of being happy in the now? Now it's time to put all of that into practice.
The idea is for you to be aware of the power you have, to stop when your mind is racing. Stop, inhale and exhale deeply through your nose, and observe and focus your attention on something around you,
Begin now. Stop and observe carefully what you have around you: a table, a plant, a color, a window, a view, or the sky... Breathe and smile at what surrounds you.
Let your mind wander again for a minute and repeat the previous exercise while looking in another direction: Stop, inhale, exhale, and smile.
Think of us, the mushrooms, masters of laughter, and repeat the exercise until you become a master at activating your mental stop.
Day 55. Be Aware of What You Already Know and Embrace Your Cause
Exercises. Reflect on the steps you have taken at each level before reaching this point:
Day 56. The Beautiful Destruction on the Path to Embracing Your Cause
Exercises: Reflect on your own cause and ask yourself 3 questions, and while you reflect on them, write down in your notebook what the answers suggest to you. When you do, remember that true ultimate goals tend to be feelings, so also note the emotions that those answers generate in you.
Day 58. The Theory of God Particles
Exercises: Today I propose an exercise to train your intuition. Take some time to meditate, and when you finish, try letting your mind wander after meditating with only your intuition as your compass. You will be surprised by your intuition's ability to open your mind to new ideas and opportunities in that moment.
Day 59. Step by Step.
Exercises: Try inhaling and exhaling through your nose more slowly than you normally do and focus your thoughts for periods of 2 or 3 minutes each on a single thematic area of the six themes that you choose, trying not to deviate your thoughts to other topics. It doesn't matter which area you choose. If your thoughts don't let you concentrate, lovingly return them to the original point.
Day 61. Instructions Mindgymness.
Hello. For your training in Mindfulness to be successful, it's not enough to have attended the initial 60 sessions to learn personal growth and meditation techniques. It's crucial that you also start the process of transforming your habits over the next 10 months—a process we call Mindgymness.
With this goal in mind, we will share with you tips, forms, and statistics on Drive, daily alerts on WhatsApp, and communications about your progress and setbacks with your environment, as well as a methodology based on 10 tips that will facilitate the path of change. But for all this to become a reality, it is important that you are aware of the steps you need to take.
Step 1. Choose and prioritize, after finishing the first 60 sessions, the habits you want to change based on your tree of life, if you haven't done it during that part of the process. Remember, they don't need to be drastic challenges. Changing your habits regarding the ingredients of your meals is one thing; reducing the amount of salt or beers you consume is another. Go to the Drive we've set up for you and schedule and collect the new habits you want to incorporate into your life systems.
Step 2. To be driven by success in achieving your goals, it is advisable to follow a series of tips, which we include in this session and also in your drive to facilitate success in your mission.
Step 3. Schedule your goals. We propose the formula 1-2-3-4 changes per month and maintain a habit change per week, but you are in command. Just 1 in month 1, 2 in month 2, 3 in month 3, and 1 per week starting from month 4. If you want to change the scheduling formula, just let us know via email.
Step 4. Define your priorities on which habits to change first or later. We recommend choosing easy habits at the start of the process. You can modify the priorities as you go, for which we will send you alerts and statistics about your evolution throughout the process.
Step 5. Fill out the forms we provide you weekly for your self-assessment on incorporating new habits. Without these forms filled out, you will not be able to access statistical information about your evolution in the transformation process.
Step 6. If you do not meet your expectations regarding a habit in any period, do not get frustrated. Continue on your path, go back. After the uphill, comes the downhill. It's not easy.
THE MUSHROOM APPEARS
Advice
Now we will leave here a series of tips, which you can also find in your field notebook.
Advice 1 “Choose your habits to change in tune with your new models of reality.” As you have seen during your first 60 sessions of Mindfulness, it is key that to be unstoppable and reach extraordinariness, you have a clear ability to transform habits and that these are in consonance with your models of reality in the different areas of the tree of life you have decided to focus on.
For example, if in the health and fitness area you have decided to become a much healthier person, make sure you change your eating habits. If your new reality model in the financial area is to generate more income to have new travel experiences, make sure you start saving, or if in the spiritual area of your tree of life you have decided to approach your consciousness via meditation, make sure you gradually transform this technique into a habit.
Advice 2 “When you start a new habit, it should not take more than 2 minutes.” Suppose you have identified the first habit you want to change. To implement it, it is appropriate that you create a version of this habit that lasts less than 2 minutes. It's about associating a specific action with that habit.
Following the example of the 3 areas of your life tree from the previous point, suppose your goal is to change your diet and increase your doses of vegetables, fruit, and nuts at the expense of processed foods. Start by ordering vegan food by phone. Or suppose you want to save for travel, make a transfer to your savings account every time you go out to dinner with friends and transfer the same amount. If your purpose is to meditate, identify this new habit, with putting on comfortable clothes. As you can see, the examples of action versions associated in each of the 3 previous examples do not last more than two minutes.
Advice 3 “Choose the right moment and place to practice your new habit.” The idea is to maintain a temporal and spatial routine concerning the habit to transform. If the habit is to change your diet, change the space where you usually eat and advance a few minutes the time you normally have breakfast, lunch, or dinner to prepare your new healthy viands. If you cannot change the space, change your position at the table. If it's about saving, the space to make the transfer to your account can be your home, always upon returning from dinner with friends. If the habit change refers to meditation, the space should be quiet, and you should wake up 20 minutes earlier each morning to execute it.
Advice 4 “Design an inducing scenography so that it is easier to undertake the habit change.” If the new habit consists of changing your diet, put up a blackboard or pad in the kitchen and describe your shopping list with healthy ingredients. If the new habit consists of saving, put a photo of the paradise you want to visit as the wallpaper on your mobile phone. And if the new habit is to meditate, accompany the meditation with music that generates serenity and dim lighting.
Advice 5 “Automate your habit change, assimilating the change to a new environment.” So that the implementation of the new habit is in friendly environments. In the case of changing your diet, it is better to eliminate processed foods from your pantry or refrigerator. If this cannot be done because you live with more people, find another space to eat outside the home until you have managed to regularize that habit. A park? In the case of saving, visit your travel destination via the web frequently, to make the transfer to your savings account a happy moment. In the case of meditation, download motivating applications like this Mindfunness one.
Advice 6 “Accumulate positive sensations and habits in the same experience to succeed in your challenge.” The idea is that your brain associates the habit change with a pleasant experience. For example, in the case of healthy food, reward yourself with your favorite music while you eat. In the case of saving, try to frequent with your friends tempting restaurants specializing in the food of your future travel destinations, to facilitate the subsequent transfer-donation to your savings account. In the case of meditation, treat yourself to a lavish breakfast after finishing it, to reward that you have meditated.
Advise 7 “Create commitment mechanisms.” Mechanisms that induce you to put that habit into practice. In the case of healthy eating, make a commitment to yourself to eat slowly to savor what you ingest. In the case of saving, set an alarm on your mobile phone when you close the dinner hour with colleagues, so you do not forget to donate the money to your savings account. In the case of meditation, your commitment mechanism is the alarm clock, in the case that you practice meditation when you get out of bed.
Advice 8 “Reward yourself when you meet your habit change.” With prizes that generate satisfaction and involve positivity in the rest of the habits you want to change. For example, in the case of changing habits with healthy food, if you meet your goals for a week, you can reward yourself with a massage, a bubble bath, or an excursion to a forest. The savings for your trips already have a prize at the end of the road, but perhaps you can reward yourself with reading books about your destination. And your advances in meditation can be rewarded with sunsets or sunrises.
Advice 9 “Antidote against failure: Work on your adjustment points.” As you saw in the session on day 28, the idea is to establish adjustment points in the practice of your habits. The points of your belt or scale, in the case of healthy food. The level of your savings account. Or the frequency of your meditation times. And if you fail, don't worry. If one week you do not meet the goal, increase it the following week. For example, if you had found your balance point at x kg, the next week try to reduce 100 more grams than planned by consuming fewer calories or making more exercise, or doubling your donation to your account if you did not do it on the occasion of your last dinner or dedicate 5 more minutes of meditation in the next session, if you fail one day. It's about turning a failure into a challenge, not a punishment.
Advice 10 “Historicize your advances.” Tell yourself how you have advanced from the start of the habit change process, rating from 1 to 10 in the appropriate document in your drive, week by week, your advances or setbacks. For which we provide you with a weekly questionnaire that we transform into statistics weekly, so you have a complete follow-up of your challenges.
Advice 11 “Share your challenge.” Your people can help you meet your challenges. If you let us and give us their data, we will share your goals with them and keep them informed week by week of your evolution and setbacks. Choose up to 3 important people in your environment, who care about your habit changes. We will take care of the rest.
Advice 12 “Meditate on your habit change”. To be able to face your challenges, it is important that you practice Mindfunness frequently and if possible daily. And, during phases 2 and 5, you have a good opportunity to review your advances. In the case of phase 2, it is advisable that you thank yourself for your advances in terms of habit change when you practice gratitude. In the case of phase 5, when you create the perfect day, it is advisable that you introduce your new habits in your review of your future day.
Happy journey.