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[email protected] Published by Superdrive Publishing Limited www.boldanddetermined.com ISBN-13: 978-0-9990261-9-9 contents PREFACE....................................................................1 1 THE BASICS OF MONK MODE...........................5 2 MONK MODE FAQs...........................................8 3 HOW TO CONTROL YOUR OWN MIND............14 4 RECONNECTING WITH NATURE.....................19 5 THE BASIC TRAINING OF THE MONK............22 THE MONK MODE ROUTINE............................................23 6 THE MONK MEAL............................................25 RULES OF THE MEAL........................................................27 THE BENEFITS OF BLESSING YOUR FOOD......................31 7 THE MONK STRETCH AND MOBILITY ROUTINE........................................34 THE MONK STRETCHES..................................................35 8 MONK MEDITATION........................................38 MORNING MEDITATION..................................................41 AFTERNOON MEDITATION..............................................42 EVENING MEDITATION....................................................44 CULTIVATING DETACHMENT..........................................45 9 BRAHMACHARAY THE PATH OF THE ULTIMATE........................46 10 OVERCOMING ADDICTION.............................52 11 MONK MODE DOPAMINE REBOOT.................59 12 MONK MODE HARD RESET.............................63 13 MONK MODE RECAP.......................................65 preface A man is climbing mount Everest. He has prepared for this moment for all his life. He has sacrificed everything to get to the top. On the mountain he is in a very harsh climate - seemingly denying himself the great pleasures of life. On the great mountain he has no comfort, he has no family, he has no girlfriend, he has no friends, he has no lattes or flat screen TVs. On the climb up the mountain he has absolutely nothing that most people in everyday life want to have. He denies himself all the comforts of the world so that he may climb the mountain. But is the mountain man really denying himself anything? 1 Monk Mode Or… Is he making another possibility happen? Climbing to the top of the greatest mountain in the world is something that average people can never imagine. They are all willing to settle for small things - phones, cars, sugary junk food, some apparent status in the community. When these average people see the mountain man in everyday life, preparing to climb the highest of mountains, these people see only a man denying himself. They cannot understand why you should ever deny yourself immediate pleasures. To them, the thought of delayed gratification is an alien concept. Denial to them is a horrible travesty. But what they never see is what the seeming denial has given the man who is on the path to the ultimate. What they cannot see is that it was not a denial at all. It was a sacrifice. The man gave one thing to get another thing. Anybody who has c