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You Are Not the Voice in Your Head: — Sanskrit Psychology How to quiet the voice in your head Why you overthink and how to stop What is the default mode network? Training your brain to find peace The neuroscience of daydreaming and anxiety Meditation fo...

The voice in your head isn't you.

It's your Default Mode Network — the brain’s inner narrator,

When trained, it helps you reflect.
When untrained, it steals your peace.

You Are Not the Voice in Your Head
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#SelfAwareness #Neuroscience #MeaningAndMayhem

The Power of Breath: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Anxiety — Sanskrit Psychology Discover how conscious breathing can help you manage anxiety, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with meaning. From ancient myth to modern psychology, learn how breath is the bridge between c...

You can’t always control your thoughts or the world around you — but you can control your breath.
From ancient myth to modern science, breath is the bridge to presence.

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#Breathwork #MentalHealth #Mindfulness

Pause. Quit. Wait. (Without it Costing an Arm) — Sanskrit Psychology Quit my PhD after years of sacrifice. Here's why pausing, quitting, and waiting can lead to real clarity — and what Zen taught me about commitment.

After years of chasing a PhD, I walked away. No logical analysis, just a deep feeling it wasn’t right. I feared I’d failed until I realised I'd followed a 3-step plan.

Here’s what a Zen monk taught me about cutting your losses or maybe an arm:

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Gut First, Excuse Later: How Your Brain Writes Stories to Justify Your Instincts — Sanskrit Psychology Discover how your brain makes decisions, invents stories to explain them, and why you're not as logical as you think. Neuroscience meets meaning.

You knew before you knew.
The voice whispered “Go,” and you listened.
The story came later.
Trust that.

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Your logic’s the narrator. Your instinct’s the main character. But the story only makes sense afterwards. www.philipjgrant.com/blog/snowsho...

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The mind is more than just thoughts. Yoga psychology teaches us how to reshape perception itself. Learn how 👉 philipjgrant.com #YogaPsychology

If you make a fist, it exists. If you relax it, it disappears. The same applies to the self—it’s not a thing, but a pattern of actions. This simple insight changes everything. #SanskritPsychology

Modern psychology often assumes you’re an individual, making choices in a world that happens to you. Sanskrit psychology sees you as part of the universe itself—more like a wave in the ocean than a separate drop of water. #SanskritPsychology

I'm not sure the yamas and niyamas relate to light and dark - they're not commandments, rather things to do or not do or challenge yourself on if you want to make progress towards the true self. The true self transcends light and dark not your actions towards it.

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Forget pop-psych clichés—ancient Indian thought offers real insights into the mind, identity & transformation.

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#InnerScience

Your identity isn’t fixed. You’re not just a name, a job, or a personality type—you’re a shifting interplay of body, mind, environment, universe, and relationships. That’s the starting point of Sanskrit psychology. #SanskritPsychology

What if the mind isn’t in the brain but part of the whole body? What if "you" aren’t separate from the world at all? Sanskrit psychology asks us to rethink the self—not as a ghost in a machine, but as the universe, humaning. #SanskritPsychology

Touching the toes is not the goal of Yoga. Frankly speaking- It’s quite a stretch. Pun intended.

It was always the stretch, never the toes. It was always the philosophy, never the pose. It was always the person, never the technique. It was always the context, never (just) the content.

#asanas

When I worked with prisoners that was all of my afternoons and it was brilliant and awful all at once ❤️

Yoga also has injury, ego, entrepreneurship, cultural piracy, exclusion... we have to accept the light with the dark. The lotus flower needs sun, water and lots and lots of mud ❤️

Sanskrit Psychology: The New-Old Way to Understand Yourself and Others — Sanskrit Psychology There is a new kind of psychology growing. It’s partly a response to the kind we’re used to, and partly a much older, much more tested, psychology that came from a place we don’t like to acknowledge…

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What if the key to self-understanding isn’t in therapy or mindfulness apps—but in Sanskrit psychology?

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#BeyondTheSelf

Western psychology says you’re a mind in a body. Sanskrit psychology says you’re a verb, not a noun—an unfolding event, not a trapped self. What happens when you see yourself as a process, not a thing? #SanskritPsychology

Sanskrit Psychology: The New-Old Way to Understand Yourself and Others — Sanskrit Psychology There is a new kind of psychology growing. It’s partly a response to the kind we’re used to, and partly a much older, much more tested, psychology that came from a place we don’t like to acknowledge…

Our relationships are as much a part of us as our own bodies. #SanskritPsychology delves into the profound impact of our social connections.

Ready to rethink the self? #SanskritPsychology combines modern science with ancient Indian philosophy, offering a fresh perspective on who you are.

Sanskrit Psychology: The New-Old Way to Understand Yourself and Others — Sanskrit Psychology There is a new kind of psychology growing. It’s partly a response to the kind we’re used to, and partly a much older, much more tested, psychology that came from a place we don’t like to acknowledge…

Curious about the mind? 🤔 Western psychology is just one piece of the puzzle. Explore the ancient wisdom of #SanskritPsychology and discover a new-old way to understand yourself and others.

Here's today's reminder that what you call common sense is far more local than you can possibly imagine
#commonsense

Yes good response, i obviously don't believe in assertions of such simplicity but the quote marks hopefully point to an acknowledgement of the views that some people hold and that I've genuinely heard.

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The Western world sells yoga as self-improvement. The original texts describe it as self-dissolution. What are we really teaching? Explore deeper yoga 👉 philipjgrant.com #YogaHistory #YogaTruths

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“Let go of the ego” is a misleading phrase. The real work isn’t losing the ego—it’s understanding it. Explore yoga psychology 👉 philipjgrant.com #YogaWisdom #InnerWork

What I Talk About When I Talk About “I” — Sanskrit Psychology Who am I when I say, "I am"? It’s a question that has haunted philosophy, psychology, and mysticism for centuries. In both Eastern and Western traditions, from Descartes' cogito to the Buddhist…

What do you mean when you talk about "yourself"? Here's what I mean:

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#TheSelf #selfpsychology

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Sanskrit Psychology sees happiness as transient and linked to a deeper reality beyond comparison and accumulation. #Joy #Fulfillment #SpiritualGrowth

Mental illness isn’t just in your brain—it’s shaped by economics, history, and power. But psychiatry tells us it’s just a chemical problem. #NikolasRose #Psychiatry #MentalHealth

Well-being is now a commodity, sold in apps, supplements, and coaching programs. But what if true well-being isn’t for sale? #WellnessIndustry #SelfHelp #Capitalism

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The wellness industry wants you to be calm. Yoga wants you to be awake. Which are you teaching? Challenge the system 👉 philipjgrant.com #YogaBeyondCapitalism #TrueYoga