Henry Holtz

Used mindfulness to engineer billion-dollar data centers. Harvard-trained in brain & consciousness. I serve disoriented seekers to end chasing & live as clarity

[Henry Holtz @theOptimalHenry]

The most poisonous, draining, yet overlooked problem in the world:

Negative thinking.

It’s why you’re always tired, distracted, and can’t sit alone with your thoughts.

The 4 lessons from Eckhart Tolle that fixed my mind forever:

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@atsohom You got it 🎯🎯

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Overthinking is a huge problem.

But the only thing that thinks thought is a problem is another thought.

So it's not really a huge problem.

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@itsdangoldfield booooom

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@venusasaflytrap Strategy is spontaneity with extra rules.

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@itsdangoldfield Yes but I don’t think I could make it 💔

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Some excellent deep self questions for your Thursday:

1. What in life makes me feel confined or trapped?
2. What gets me in touch with freedom?
3. What’s stopping me from doing more of 2?

[Henry Holtz @theOptimalHenry]

There’s a lovely type of intimacy in being alone.

And there’s a lovely type of aloneness in being with others.

[Henry Holtz @theOptimalHenry]

The 1 skill you need to make difficult transitions effortless:

The willingness to not know anything.

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@jamessimulation I ❤️ doomscrolling

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Letting go is impossible.

But when I realized that everything that was given to me will be taken away (and only everything…) letting go happened on its own.

[Henry Holtz @theOptimalHenry]

The fastest cure to the ‘nobody understands me’ wound is to see that nobody needs to understand you.

You don’t even understand you. (I don’t understand me and I don’t even try anymore)

The cure is fully embracing the pain as a total mystery, without any judgement whatsoever.

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@venusasaflytrap Same place as when you’re awake, but different rules

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Behold, the anatomy of suffering:

1) invent a mental story
2) treat it as real and important
3) try to escape or fix it

What do you think?

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What most people forget about spirituality…

Having a realization is not something you store your back pocket.

It’s something that lives you on a moment-to-moment basis (especially including THIS moment) that can seem to be covered up if you believe old viewpoints.

[Henry Holtz @theOptimalHenry]

Spirituality is about un-doing your sense of estrangement from reality.

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@LeighStJohn33 YouTube shorts for the win! Just subscribed

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@NikHuno Agreed, my trip was amazing there. it’s in my plans to go back. Plus they have a great metro!

Have you ever been to Valencia?

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Even anxious people still know that freedom is the natural way of things...

Freedom not something that has to be added, it's the removal of restriction.

[Henry Holtz @theOptimalHenry]

Your interactions with people improve when you can find connection in yourself.

Your relationships improve when you can find love in yourself.

Your arguments improve when you can find sanity in yourself.

Your life improves when you start from the goal.