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• Hi Sara. I have used this method both on and off medication. I've been off medication for the last three or four months and I'm doing quite well.

  December 2, 2021 at 10:34 amDavid Cain

• Thanks Rama. It's the same for me as a reader. Make it concrete and sense-based and I'm interested. Keep it general and conceptual and it just drifts through my head.

  December 2, 2021 at 10:31 amDavid Cain

• Haha microhits are like mindfulness spinach! I'm going to keep that analogy in mind. Shinzen's methods are another good example of making things specific. "Be aware" isn't very actionable, but he tells you exactly what to be aware of, in terms of concrete sensory events. He is explicit in a way...

  December 2, 2021 at 10:30 amDavid Cain

• Writing down tasks is a subtle way of making the your own self-admonitions more specific. Until you write down the tasks, it just feels like generic "work to be done," which is really hard to act on. "Take recycling out" has a clear starting point.

  December 2, 2021 at 10:27 amDavid Cain

• David: I meant to write this a long time ago. One of your unique talents is the specificity not just of your advice but of your "mundane" examples as well. For e.g., "the threadbare armrest on the basement easy chair, the sun-discolored cassettes that lived on your sister’s windowsill,...

  December 2, 2021 at 7:02 amRama Ramakrishnan