[Discipline | MEMBERS' LIVESTREAM](https://www.youtube.com/live/rUA6xYRYcdw?si=vPo3x1cmYO8lGnBQ) - Discipline: desirable, consistent behaviour. - Principle: a focused mind will produce disciplined action over time. - For people with highly focused minds (minimal distracting thoughts). Focus is relatively easy. - Willpower - Needed when desire in opposite direction. - ACC (anterior-cingulate-cortex) + frontal lobe - Brain monitoring conflict = willpower. - Same part of brain. - Don’t run out of willpower. Monitoring internal conflict SAME as exerting willpower. - Need to wait it out (urge surfing) - Desire - Discipline is a VS game (against desire). Reducing desire makes discipline easy. - NAcc (Nucelus Accumbens) - Rush of pleasure from dopamine. - Behavioural reinforcement. - Increases anticipation. - Activities involving discipline: don’t savour rewards. - Need to learn to SAVOUR the hard things. This helps reinforce them. - Reflect and enjoy challenging activities. - Indriya's: Sensory organ. Desires are born of sense-organs. - EG: can't fall in love with someone you haven't seen. - Limerince: Can fall in love with ficticious characters because let through indriya. - If there's a sensory input, we can want something. - Advertising attacks sensory organs. - Control indriya input - Reduce negative indriya input. - Notifications. - Social Media: (which is unhelpful) - Manual log-in for shitty things. - Create barriers to negative stuff. - Indriya-Thalamus - Thalamus received 100% of input. Thalamus lets 1% through to your attention. - Brain subconsciously processing 99% of stuff you're not aware of/filtering out. - Reducing clutter makes it easier to focus. Load on thalamus reduced. - Sensory smell powerfull trigger for memories/experiences. - Reducing inputs reduces desire, reducing desire enables more positive behaviours. - Positive Indriya - Some sensory input required for some brains (ADHD) to increase focus. - Right level of sensory input? - Cultivate grounding inputs. - Community/sangar: - Detachment - Learn to care less about desires. - Controlling attachment to desire - Neuroscience: intensity of desire makes more difficult to control - EG: vulnerability GABA transporter for alcohol - A disciplined mind requires very little willpower (unhelpful desire's strength is reduced) - Action: analyse unhelpful desires. Cannot enjoy and analyse at the same time. - When analysing, NAcc switched off, analysing part turns on. - A strong Indriya allows us to lose ourselves in it. - What do I really enjoy about this? How is this going to make me feel in the long-term? What will my life be like tomorrow? What am I signing up for? - Like before, during, after?  - Brain functions in homeostasis: if you urge surf (wait it out) desire will drop. - EG: in a siege, they will run out of food before you do. - Desire will give intellectualisations and cravings in attempt to sway you. - Trataka practice: fixed point gazing - Staring for long period, can’t see anymore. Pigment gets exhausted. - Teaches relaxed focus: not stressed - Summary: yogic practice of steady gazing at a single point, often a candle flame, to improve focus, calm the mind, and enhance concentration by training the eyes and mind to remain steady. To practice, sit comfortably, gaze at the object (like a candle flame) without straining, and when your eyes water, close them and focus on the afterimage in the center of your brow. It's known for relieving anxiety, improving memory, and strengthening eyesight, but should be avoided with certain eye conditions like glaucoma or epilepsy and taken in short sessions (5-10 mins) - Antra Trataka Practice: - Closing eyes after. Get negative image. - Yantra Trataka: Staring at beautiful image. Closing eyes. - Mandela Practice: sublimating desire. - Practice of taking action with no benefit. - Separating self from the outcome. - Mind will delay productivity to future. - Discipline not about efficiency. It’s about “come hell or high water, I will do this” - Commit for 2-4 weeks. - Sources of motivation - Desire: benefit internal, gain, not a loss. - Duty: internal, loss - Should: external, loss - Values: external, gain. - Developing discipline= increasing duty + values. These don’t fluctuate. - Desire / should's are not good motivators. - Action: tunnel down into things that you care about. - Loss= costs me something. - Motivated people kindle the right emotions over time. - Action without effort = habit. - People like habit because they don’t require effort. - Take 2-4 weeks to form. Create a situation where easy to stick to for this period. - Biggest mistake can be being too ambitious. - Aim for 25% rule: 1/4 of what your overall goal is. - Anchor habit to another habit. - Smooth the path. - Study the habit.  - Habit in endo cannabinoid system. Taking cannabis interferes with habit formation. - Accountability - Accountability only applies when P doesn’t want to be accountable. - Instead: recreate the person (positive action) you are today / when you make commitments. - The actions you take today will make the person you are tomorrow.