INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You don't technically need a saddle to tame a horse. You do need a saddle to ride the horse after you've tamed it, though. If you skip this step, you'll still be able to lead the horse around and breed it, and sit on its back without controlling it. Saddles cannot be crafted. You can find saddles in naturally appearing treasure chests, get them by trading with villagers. You can find them by fishing as well, but they will show up only about 1 in 120 tries with an ordinary fishing rod. Horses will only spawn in Savanna or Plains biomes. These are mostly flat, grassy areas with a few scattered trees. Horses come in several different colors and have slight pattern differences as well. Donkeys are found in the same locations. They are smaller than horses and have longer ears. They are tamed in the same way, though there are other differences explained below. Select an empty spot on your hotbar, so you are not holding anything. Right-click the horse to move onto its back. On consoles, use the basic control for interacting with objects. The first time you try to ride the horse, it will almost always buck and kick your character off. Just keep getting back on; each time you try the chance of succeeding is higher. Eventually, a swarm of hearts will appear around the horse. This means it is tamed. Keep reading to learn how to control the horse. You have roughly a 5% chance of taming on your second try, and can usually tame a horse within six attempts. You might get unlucky and have to try several more times, though. This is usually unnecessary, but try it if the horse keeps throwing you and you get frustrated. Just hold the food in your hand and right-click the horse. This will use up your food, but make future taming attempts easier. Each unit of sugar, apple, and wheat helps a little, adding another 3% to your chances. Golden carrots add another 5% chance, and golden apples add a 10% chance. You might want to save these for breeding, however, as described below.

SUMMARY: Find a saddle (optional). Find the horse. Interact with the horse with an empty hand. Repeat until the horse is tamed. Feed the horse to increase the chance of taming it.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Turn off your phone, television, music devices and anything else that makes sounds or is visual. Distractions are called distractions for a reason. It's because they distract you from yourself. This can be challenging to do, though, in the modern-day world, because stimulating, distracting activities are addicting. But, like any addiction, you have to cut it at its core to get anywhere. In order to start to fully hear the thoughts from your mind, you need your personal space to be completely quiet. If you have the TV blasting and the phone ringing every five minutes, it will be virtually impossible to tune into yourself. You don't need to live a silent life for the rest of your life but only until you see that you have cleared out the troublesome thoughts, many of which have been stored in there for a long time and are now just on repeat. It could take anywhere from three months to one year of practice, but it will definitely be worth it in the end when you see that your mind is crystal-clear and trouble-free! For instance, you may see anxiety, stress, guilt, resentments, grievances, sadness, tension, and worries. An unexamined mind is usually an out-of-control mind filled with negative thoughts. Many mindfulness teachers state that this kind of thinking is from the psychological part of the mind and serve no helpful purpose other than being hurtful and damaging to you and sometimes in how you may see others, too. It's helpful to think of awareness as a kind of fire, and it is through this fire of observation that you burn out old, trapped thoughts and begin to dismantle the much lower frequency, psychological part of the mind. The majority of meditation teachers believe that awareness is the most effective way to achieve lasting peace in the mind versus having it in pieces for so many of one's waking hours. It usually comes as a surprise to those new on the mindfulness path as to how much time is actually spent in the past and future. Many even think that they are being constructive by going back and forth between these two time zones. However, all it really does is consume unnecessary mind energy with very little being accomplished. For the most part, focusing anywhere other than in the present moment is a waste of time. If you try to fight them, they will only grow in power, and you will have fallen victim to the mind's clutches once again. The key is to just watch them without giving them any commentary. Other than the power of observation, you will not need to do anything else because this is, in and of itself, the true power. By guiding your mind into the present, it has no choice but to do exactly that, where you will see that most of the time, everything is more or less okay in your life. You begin to see that many of your thoughts were just phantoms, meaning completely imaginary based on fear and worry. If you think about it, these two states of mind do absolutely nothing except scare you and make matters worse because of how draining they are to your psyche. You will see that, indeed, they try to pull you away from a satisfactory time in your life through an endless stream of unnecessary, negative mental chatter. Thus, you can clearly see how preposterous the mind is when left to its own devices. Until examined closely, many people believe that the majority of their thoughts are useful and constructive. When, in actuality, they are bringing you down. So this particular experiment is a highly effective way to prove that the psychological part of the mind, until one becomes more conscious, consists of a lot of derogatory thinking.

SUMMARY: Reduce as many distractions around you as possible. Notice the different types of thoughts in your mind, many of them painful. Observe how most thoughts relate to the past or future and rarely to the present. Don't resist or judge your thoughts, just observe them impartially. Test how inaccurate the thoughts in your mind can be when everything is going fine in life.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: At first, it's generally easiest to grip the needle between the thumb and forefinger of your non-dominant hand. Hold the thread comfortably between the thumb and forefinger of your dominant hand. Raise the needle and the thread up to your eye level, about two inches apart. Make sure that there's plenty of light to see everything clearly! Consider pinching the thread between your fingers so that only the tiniest tip is visible. If you're having trouble, this technique might help you steady the thread.

SUMMARY:
Hold the thread in one hand and the needle in the other.