Lets speak about any course (product) or sessions(service), they both are time bound and will end. The only way you can have a sustained improvement in your life and at least maintain the gains or insights that you got from the timebound practice is "reflection and course correction" as part of the routine.
Lets say you learned something and you want to make it as a habit to improve your life. The trap of habit is a habit without a score card or a review and feedback may be mechanical and may not give the benefit associated with conscious intentional action.
You need to know why you do what you do, did you did that well, did doing that improved your life. Do you need to increase the intensity or totally drop it and try some other thing. For this we need data points and reflection time.
Entropy kicks-in if we don't supply external energy, so be vigilant, track it, reflect on it and course correct it. Does not take a lot of time but gives you immense benefit.
Almost any self-help product is good we keep on scouting for the next product because of 2 reasons.
The first reason is we lacked the discipline of tracking and reviewing our progress. For example every new mediation we stop doing it after few weeks and after several months we go back to another meditation from another guru. In this way we will never get the long term benefit and remember self-help is like a marathon a very long term game. So trying something and throwing it and trying something else in random way serves nothing.
The second reason is that product is not for you, but here again if you track you can realize that you are leaving it not because of laziness but because of compatibility.
Some gurus especially the "spiritual ones" will say don't think just do it with faith
My take is no need to have faith, you are rational enough to understand that any change needs sustainable action. But if you don't see any benefit after a month I think you can call it off isn't it?
What we need to understand is some higher level practice will not work for a person in lower level. A person cannot understand calculus if he does not know simple arithmetic.
May be the course that you joined is having a very high benefit if you are in certain level , if you are in a low level you may have to take another path and you may never know you can come back to the original product later when you are ready.
We are not saying this product is inferior, we are just saying not compatible to me right now
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