The Ancient 4-Step Method to Clear Your Mind | Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi

Lewis Howes (0:01)

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You have this four-step method you call Rain to help you clear your mind and overcome these hindrances.

Can you share what this four-step method is?

Shi Heng Yi (3:28)

For example, once you are, once you know or have understood about yourself, what type of mental states these hindrances, for example, represent, yeah, the way how we just try to explain to them. Every time one of these mental states pops up into your mind, which means positive emotion, negative emotion, ill will, you feel depressed, you feel weak, you feel that lack of power, you have this restlessness inside of you, or you have, yeah, what was the last one?

Lewis Howes (4:13)

The skeptical doubt.

Shi Heng Yi (4:14)

Yeah, or the skeptical doubt coming up. So, most important is you need to realize it. Realize that it is just there.

Sometimes you realize it, sometimes you recognize it. This is the idea why it's a very, very nice simile to remember those four methods later on, what we regard as RAIN, R-A-I-N. And we are at the moment with the R, meaning you recognize and you realize that apparently at this moment in time, you are finding yourself in one of these mental states, which are representing hindrances. Okay. Now the next step, what are you doing after you have recognized that you are in it? Now starts the point where it becomes very helpful if we start to analyze. And analyzing meaning you do everything that is in your possibilities to just ask questions about why did it come up?

What did it trigger?

When did it exactly come up? How actually did this feeling in the first place get into yourself? When was for example the first time that you realized that you are having this type of mental state? So what analyzing means is you try to look into your past also. Is it something related to the education of your parents? Is it something related to an idea that you caught up from? I don't know from where. So analyzing means that you make an investigation. Investigation means this time you go deeper. This is where we are at the I already.