Thought Tweet #452 Here's a paradox - we must learn to relax if we want to improve our faculty of attention.

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Meditation guru B. Alan Wallace introduced it this way: “Before we can develop attentional stability, we first need to learn to relax.” 

And, as an introduction to his meditation instruction, he wrote: "Our minds are bound up with our bodies, so we need to incorporate our bodies into meditative practice. In each session we will do this by first settling the body in its natural state, while imbued with three qualities: relaxation, stillness, and vigilance."

Source: B. Alan Wallace 'The Attention Revolution', (2006)