1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Jay Sheddy. Welcome back to the YouTube channel. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: If you haven't subscribed yet, make sure you do so 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: that you never miss a video mindfulness. Meditation can reduce 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: quartisole levels by up to twenty five percent, decreasing stress 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: and inflammation. Long term meditators have brains that are on 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: average seven point five years younger than non meditators. Meditation 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: can reduce the experience of pain by forty percent, which 8 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: is greater than morphine, which reduces pain by twenty five percent. Now, 9 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough to practice meditation for nearly two decades. 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: It's a deep part of my practice. It's a part 11 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: of my daily commitment. It's something I turn to for 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: greater self awareness, alignment and to really tap into my intuition. 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: But at the same time as knowing the benefits of meditation, 14 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: I also recognize it's something that a lot of people 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: struggle with. Most people today have heard of it, but 16 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: a lot of us don't know if we're doing it right. 17 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: We're judging ourselves, questioning ourselves. And maybe you've been wanting 18 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: to try meditation but you don't know where to start. Well, 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: then this videos for you, or maybe you want to start, 20 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: but you're worried you're not going to be able to 21 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 1: shut off your mind. Well, this videos for you too, 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: Or maybe you're someone who's completely skeptical about meditation all together. 23 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: Research shows that meditation can actually reduce stress and anxiety, 24 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 1: It can improve sleep, enhance brain function, and help with 25 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: emotional regulation. In my own time as a monk, I've 26 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: seen firsthand the power that meditation has over your reality. 27 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: And in this episode, we'll hear from top experts about 28 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: how anyone can harness that power for themselves to improve 29 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: the quality of their lives. I think for so many 30 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: of us today, we're always on, always on the go, 31 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: we're always on the move, we're always on top of everything. 32 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: Meditation can be that reset, that break, that moment of 33 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: the day that is just for you. It's that schedule 34 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: time to give yourself a little bit of a break, 35 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: to give yourself a little bit of a reset, and 36 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: to give yourself a moment of peace and calm. It's 37 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: something I know I turn to all throughout the day 38 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: just to get ready before a meeting, just before I 39 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: walk on stage, or just before I go to bed, 40 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: to make sure that I maximize and improve that moment 41 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: of my day, So let's get into it. The number 42 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: one health and wellness podcast Stay Shed. In this first clip, 43 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: Dr Joe Dispenser shares data backed insights about how meditation 44 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: affects the brain and body and the incredible healing power 45 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: it can have. He explains that lasting transformation happens when 46 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: you consistently train to shift your internal state with focus 47 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: and intention. Doctor Joe Dispenser shares how meditation helps shift 48 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: the body out of stress and survival mode and into 49 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: a state of healing, acting like your body's own medicine 50 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: by calming the mind, balancing emotions, and supporting physical recovery. 51 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: He shares powerful stories of people reversing chronic health conditions 52 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: through consistent practice, proving that when you change your inner state, 53 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: you can actually influence your biology and immune system. Whether 54 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: you're feeling stuck in stress, burnt out, or emotionally overwhelmed. 55 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: Dr Joe Dispenser explains how even small, repeated moments of 56 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: mindfulness can rewire the way you think, feel, and show 57 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: up each day. Change might not happen overnight, but that 58 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's not happening. Meditation helps you stay in motion, 59 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: create new patterns and build a new reality from the 60 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: inside out. Let's take a listen to what Dr Joe 61 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: Dispenza has to say. 62 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 2: We've done the largest studies on meditation that have ever 63 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 2: been done, just because we have a community of eighteen 64 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: hundred people that come to an event that are going 65 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 2: to be getting up at the same time doing the 66 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 2: same thing, pretty much eating, making the same food choices 67 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 2: in pretty much a big laboratory, right, And so our 68 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 2: discoveries in working with eighteen hundred people in measuring brain waves, 69 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 2: their brain function before and after the event, measuring their 70 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 2: gene expression before and after the event. We're measuring eight 71 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: and eighty two metabolites in their blood. We're measuring DNA expression, 72 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 2: We're measuring urine, we're measuring saliva, we're measuring the energy 73 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: of the room, We're measuring everything. And meditation in a 74 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 2: sense that it's not in the traditional way. What we 75 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 2: do is we look at what really works, you know, 76 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 2: we're actually looking to say, well, that's something that we 77 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 2: can actually see it change in So we teach meditation 78 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 2: three ways to become familiar with your own self and 79 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: to become familiar with your new self. That's what the 80 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 2: word meditation means familiarization, to become familiar with so we 81 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 2: use that model for change. So slow your brain weighs 82 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 2: down and get beyond your analytical mind is meditation, and 83 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 2: you teach your body how to do that. And we've 84 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: discovered a formula that simply makes it very easy for 85 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 2: people to do it. You practice it, you'll get good 86 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 2: at it, just like anything else you practice. So so 87 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 2: to get beyond the analytical mind, there's another way to 88 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: reprogram ourselves. And then meditation is really about getting beyond 89 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 2: your body, or disconnecting from your body, disconnecting from your environment, 90 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 2: and forgetting about time. And that is that eye of 91 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 2: the needle where we begin to make the most significant changes. 92 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 2: So we're data driven, you know, we're really looking to 93 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 2: see what it is. And when we see brains respond 94 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 2: in the same way, it helps me enormously to teach 95 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: the material better. And so the more people understand what 96 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 2: they're doing and the more they understand why they're doing it, 97 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: the more naturally the how becomes easier and nothing is 98 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 2: left to conjecture. If nothing is left to superstition or 99 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 2: dogma or even in spiritual you know, traditional words, New 100 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 2: science says the contemporary language woul demystify that process, and 101 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 2: you give people numerous times to overcome themselves and numerous 102 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 2: times to connect. Sooner or later, you'll start watching transformation 103 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 2: right before your eyes. And so one of the cool 104 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 2: things that we've discovered is that we have so much 105 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 2: compelling data to suggest that you're greater than you think, 106 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: more powerful than you know, more unlimited than you could 107 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 2: ever dream. We have compelling data to suggest that your 108 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 2: nervous system is the greatest pharmacist in the world, that 109 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 2: it makes drugs that work better than any drug in 110 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 2: a drug store. A drug study is about eighteen to 111 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 2: twenty five percent cause and effect causality. Our data is 112 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 2: between seventy five in eighty five percent cause and effect. 113 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 2: This is a person creating their own pharmacy of anti inflammatories, 114 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 2: their own pharmacy of anti carcinogenic chemicals, their own pharmacy 115 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 2: of pain relievers, who are seeing this over and over again. 116 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 2: So we have this incredible data that says that this 117 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 2: is no longer pseudoscience, this is this is really science. 118 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 2: The side effect of a person's transformation is has changed 119 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: my belief in what's possible. I have seen people stand 120 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 2: on the stage with stage four cancers that were in 121 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 2: every single organ in their body that metastasized, and they 122 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 2: have no sign of cancer in their body. And we 123 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 2: have data that suggests that you put the blood of 124 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 2: an advanced meditator and an uterine cancer cell a pancreatic 125 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 2: cancer cell, seventy percent of the micro control function in 126 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 2: the cancer cells diminished the mitochondria stuff energy packet of 127 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 2: the cell. It's taking energy out of the cancer cell. 128 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 2: Works perfect with what we're seeing with the testimonials that 129 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:16,239 Speaker 2: people are telling around the world. We've seen blind people 130 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: see We've seen deaf people here. We've seen people with 131 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 2: spinal cord injuries walk again. We've seen als change, We've 132 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 2: seen all kinds of unbelievable health conditions change by a 133 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: person simply changing the way they think, the way they act, 134 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 2: and the way they feel. 135 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 3: How long have you seen certain things lost? 136 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: Like how much does the practice have to continue daily 137 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: to sustain impact? Because I feel that you know, this 138 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: isn't as you know, isn't a one off thing, and 139 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: that isn't what you're encouraging. Like this is the experience 140 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: of when someone's coming to a retreat or an event. 141 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: They're having this incredible experience, But then do you measure 142 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: how people continue to practice? 143 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 4: That's important. 144 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's super important for us, and of course we 145 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 2: have mounds of data. But let's see if I can 146 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 2: say this as clear as I possibly can. When a 147 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 2: person has that arousal where they're feeling that elevated emotion 148 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,959 Speaker 2: and their eyes are closed, they're in a room with 149 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: eighteen hundred people, there's music playing in the background. They're 150 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 2: not eating, they're not smelling, they're not tasting the moving 151 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 2: about and feeling on some level, they're having an inner experience. 152 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 3: Right. 153 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 2: The body is so objective that it's literally believing it's 154 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 2: living in a new environment, and so that elevated emotion 155 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 2: somehow tends to drag the body right out of the 156 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 2: past into the present moment. So many people with everything 157 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 2: from exhama to muscular dystrophe, when they have those events, 158 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: there's a biological change that takes place in their body 159 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 2: where they feel completely differently. Now, some people heal all 160 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 2: the way. Some people are out of their wheelchair and 161 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 2: they're walking again, but they're limping, and that doesn't mean 162 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: it's over. It just means they made contact where they 163 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 2: hit gold, and so there's varying. 164 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 3: Degrees that we see. 165 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 2: We've seen people for seven years work on a terminal 166 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 2: health condition, to them seven years to heal that health condition. 167 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 2: Some people it takes two years, three years. Some people 168 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 2: they do it in three months. There's no predictable menu 169 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 2: that we can say it's this way. Now, when people 170 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 2: have those more profoundly aroused states, it seems like their 171 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 2: change is much more immediate and much more permanent. But 172 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 2: for the most part, we see people's response pretty dramatic. Now, 173 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 2: it's also important to say that we have seen people 174 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 2: heal from terminal cancers stop feeling those elevated emotions and 175 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 2: return to responding to the circumstances and conditions in their life. 176 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 2: And we turn back to the same personality, The same 177 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 2: personality is the same personal reality, and their bodies believing 178 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 2: it's living in that same environment, and they're feeling the 179 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 2: same way, and they're in the habit of acting the 180 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: same way and thinking the same way, and lo and behold, 181 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 2: the condition returns. We've seen people heal themselves of Parkinson's 182 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 2: disease more than once, have one response to some very 183 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 2: serious event in their life. That produced a very strong emotion, 184 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 2: and in one hour their condition returned because they literally 185 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: went back to the world self. And we've seen that 186 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 2: person turn around and reverse the condition again again. People 187 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 2: do the best with what they think is available. The 188 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,359 Speaker 2: person standing on the stage, who we've had numerous physicians 189 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 2: and researchers stand on the stage, they're the four minute mile. 190 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 2: They're telling the community. I'm the example of truth. This 191 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 2: is no longer philosophy, this is no longer theory. Here's 192 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 2: my scans. We had someone with bilateral breast cancer just recently. 193 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 2: No evidence of cancer in our breasts or any lymph nodes, 194 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 2: no longer in our liver. I'm looking out at the 195 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 2: audience and everybody's leaning in. There's the formut a mile, 196 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 2: and that person's telling the truth, and they're telling a story, 197 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: and it's not pretty. It's not always rosy. They went 198 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 2: through a lot of dark nights, they went through a 199 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 2: lot of their condition getting worse. But every day they 200 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 2: had to show up for themselves. If they stopped showing 201 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 2: up and doing the work, they would really not believe 202 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 2: it was possible. But if they showed up and did 203 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 2: the work, it means that they believe it's possible. And 204 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 2: I think when you believe in possibility, you got to 205 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 2: believe in yourself. And you believe in yourself, you gotta 206 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 2: believe in possibilities. So it used to be a few 207 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 2: examples of that. Now we have so many great testimonials, 208 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 2: so many great stories that now people it's becoming infectious, 209 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 2: just like a virus or any bacteria becomes infectious. Now 210 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 2: health and wellness becomes as infectious as disease. And you 211 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 2: get a community of people starting to break through. When 212 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 2: you start seeing these changes where people stand on the stage, 213 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 2: invariably you're going to see a very strong shift in consciousness. 214 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 2: And consciousness is awareness, and if you're unaware that you 215 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 2: could actually heal yourself, you'll make the same choice once 216 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 2: you see it. 217 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 3: I think it. 218 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 2: Starts creating a brushfire, and that's really the exciting part. 219 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 4: So we've seen so. 220 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 2: Many great testimonials that are undeniably great stories of transformation, 221 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 2: and many many of those people still no longer have 222 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 2: their exsimus, still no longer have their parkins, still no 223 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 2: longer have their cancer. Life is an experiment. So if 224 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 2: your personality creates your personal reality, and your personality is 225 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 2: made up of how you think, how you act, and 226 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 2: how you feel. If you keep thinking the same way, 227 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 2: you keep acting the same way, you keep feeling the 228 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 2: same way, your life is going to stay the same 229 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 2: because you're the same. So the experiment is, okay, let 230 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 2: me begin to think differently. So I got to remind 231 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 2: myself how I do want to think, and I have 232 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 2: to remind myself of how I no longer want to think, 233 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 2: so I don't default and go unconscious. Let me remind 234 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 2: myself how I'm going to behave so that I could 235 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 2: actually get my behaviors to match my intentions, and let 236 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 2: me remind myself of how I'm going to feel. If 237 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 2: I'm able to succeed in that day, then there should 238 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 2: be some change in my life. This is experiment, and 239 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 2: if it doesn't change, that doesn't mean the law doesn't 240 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 2: work for you. It's just you're not that good yet. 241 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 2: It just you just got to keep practicing. 242 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 4: Right. 243 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 2: So the act of disconnecting from your life long enough 244 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 2: to remind yourself of who you do want to be 245 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 2: and who you no longer want to be. That experiment, then, 246 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 2: is the experiment called life. 247 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: Our next clip is from The Rapper Big Sean. Now, 248 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: if you answered my question earlier that you want to 249 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: start meditating, but you're worried you won't do it right, 250 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: this next clip is for you. Big Sean challenges the 251 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: idea that there's a right way to meditate, whether it's sound, healing, 252 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: a walk, or even a quiet What matters most is 253 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: finding what works for you and showing up consistently. There's 254 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: no wrong way to meditate. The intention matters more than 255 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: the method. Over time, consistent meditation deepens the connection to 256 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: self and increase his impact. Big Sean describes his meditation 257 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: practice as a deeply spiritual experience, using visualization, energy work, 258 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: and body awareness to realign himself. For him, it's not 259 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: just about stillness. It's how he sets the tone for productivity, creativity, 260 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: and emotional balance. 261 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 5: That practice, I am is so much power. So I 262 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 5: am grateful, I am this, I am happy, I am confident. 263 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 5: I am happy that I get to sit down and 264 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 5: talk to my friend Jay today. You know, I'm happy 265 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 5: I get to whatever the case is right. 266 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 4: So that's what I do. 267 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 5: And then at the end of it, of the journal 268 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 5: of this, when I do the gratitude stuff, and there 269 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 5: are times where I write how I feel, not as much. 270 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 4: I also speak out loud by myself. You know. There 271 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 4: are a lot of processes I do. 272 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 5: But when I do that journal, I sign it at 273 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 5: the at the bottom of it like a contract, and 274 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 5: I like, sometimes I put it is done, or I 275 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 5: put like, so be it because it's a declaration. When 276 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 5: I do that, and I sign it because it's that 277 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 5: important to me. I have to sign my contracts. I 278 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 5: have to sign things that will be upheld as an 279 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 5: important thing. And that's how the level of importance even 280 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 5: more that I hold that too, So I sign it 281 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 5: every time. 282 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: That is so good, man, I've heard that before. I'm 283 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: going to start doing that. 284 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 4: It's powerful. 285 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never signed it. That's done. 286 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 5: It's powerful. And jad does everything I write down come 287 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 5: to fruition. No, sometimes it does, a lot of them do. 288 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 4: And then I. 289 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 5: Realize that I'm also on God's time. So the things 290 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 5: that I've always wanted and things that I've desired may 291 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 5: not just be the right moment in my journey for that. 292 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 4: But that's the beauty of it. Man. 293 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm still here, I'm still able, I'm still inspired, 294 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,120 Speaker 5: I'm still passionate, you. 295 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 4: Know, yeah, so that's how I that's how I do 296 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 4: my journaling. 297 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 5: I also have like a there's a book I have 298 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 5: of like poetry too that I like write poems and stuff. 299 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 5: I've only I only write a few a year, honestly, 300 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 5: but like I'll like fully write and draw around the 301 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 5: poem and like it's really like a beautiful art. 302 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 4: It's just some something I do for fun. 303 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,959 Speaker 5: I haven't actually I've only written one this year, and 304 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 5: last year I wrote a few, so maybe I maybe 305 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 5: inspired me to write one today. 306 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 4: But that's kind of all it is. 307 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 5: But I don't spend too much time on It takes 308 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,479 Speaker 5: me about five to twelve minutes. 309 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 4: That's great, max. 310 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 5: And then I meditate after that because it's kind of 311 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 5: like it's kind of like a good transition to like 312 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 5: the energy is set for me to like to meditate, 313 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 5: because when I meditate, I feel like I'm attracting these 314 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 5: things more and giving myself the best shot of being 315 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 5: the most productive, the most impactful that I can be, 316 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 5: you know. So that's kind of the first thing I 317 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 5: do when I wake up if I can being a dad, 318 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 5: though there are times where I get if you're woken 319 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 5: up and I have to go immediately, you know, and 320 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 5: so I come back to it later on. That's not 321 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 5: preferred that way, but it's a good trade off. 322 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: I can't wait to dive into the next part. But 323 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: first short break for our sponsors. Hey, it's Ja Shetty 324 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,879 Speaker 1: and I'm so excited to share We're launching a brand 325 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: new subscription on Apple Podcasts. 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What about your meditation? What does your practice 336 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: look like? 337 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 4: It depends. I love doing goid in meditation. 338 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 5: Sometimes I love doing I kind of have my own 339 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 5: process where I like and visualize the light of creation, 340 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 5: like the light of the sun, and it like really 341 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 5: filling my whole body up and literally everything that doesn't 342 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 5: align with that, anything that isn't that light and bright, 343 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, immediately leaves my body and 344 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 5: goes back into the earth. And like so you know, 345 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 5: there are times where I if I'm not in nature, 346 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,360 Speaker 5: I imagine myself in nature and like things going back 347 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 5: into the earth, and I like surround myself. You know, 348 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 5: from my I forgot the word the esoteric body. I 349 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 5: think it's like one inch off of you, then your 350 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 5: emotional body, then your mental body, and like I just 351 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 5: do the same thing. Like it's like a shower of light. 352 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 5: It's like hopping in the shower after you work out, 353 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 5: like but of light and whatever it is, I kind 354 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 5: of like cater to how I'm feeling. So from there, 355 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 5: I'll like if I have like somewhere on my stomach, 356 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,239 Speaker 5: I'll like for some reason, I associate green with healing energy, right, 357 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 5: and this comes from years of like practice, or I 358 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 5: associate royal blue with power, you know, the power of 359 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 5: the universe. I associate like red with the love of 360 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 5: the universe, the love and support of the universe, and 361 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 5: like I represent like the violet flame of Saint Germaine, 362 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 5: like to cleanse things that are holding me back, right, 363 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 5: So I do. I have like quite a process and 364 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 5: I break it down in a book and afterwards I 365 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 5: feel just it really makes a big difference. And you know, 366 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 5: I read this book The Hidden Messages in Water, I 367 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 5: believe it's called, and it talked about, you know, there's 368 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 5: like itty bitty microscopic crystals in water. And they one 369 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 5: of the parts of the book they experiment of like 370 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 5: how positively when you speak to water, like hey, you're amazing, 371 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,959 Speaker 5: I love you, keep going like you're beautiful. And then 372 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 5: they had another water a glass or container of water 373 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 5: where they said, like you suck. It's never that, you know, 374 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 5: real negative And you look at the crystals and one 375 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 5: is like a beautiful snowflake looking crystal, and then the 376 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 5: other one is like distorted and all damaged, and we 377 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 5: are seventy eighty percent water. So these things, when you 378 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 5: write these affirmations down, or when you say them out loud, 379 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 5: or when you journal, these things have a real effect 380 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 5: on you tremendously, Like scientifically, it's not even like a 381 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 5: woo woo type of thing. It's not even like it's 382 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 5: not even up for debate, you know what I'm saying 383 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 5: it's literally scientific for the people who are more or 384 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 5: you know, need the proof as opposed to it, you know, 385 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 5: more analytical than like opinion based. So I just want 386 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 5: to stress the importance of it. 387 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 4: It really is. 388 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 5: And by the way, the most the most honorable people 389 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 5: that I've met and like what I consider to be 390 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 5: successful and I don't mean richest, I just mean successful 391 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 5: in like the impact what they're doing, how they. 392 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 4: Are they meditate. 393 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 5: They are you know, from my favorite rappers down to 394 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 5: my favorite down to you, you know, down to anyone 395 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,719 Speaker 5: who I just really admire and and and you can 396 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 5: meditate in your own ways. They're like, I know, like 397 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:43,239 Speaker 5: Janey does different meditations, you know, through sound healing or 398 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 5: mirror meditations. I know people who do shower meditations, walking. 399 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 5: There's no wrong way to meditate either. That's another misconception. 400 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 5: There's no wrong way to do it. The fact that 401 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 5: you take the intention out or if you focus on 402 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 5: your breathing, the fact that you take the time out 403 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 5: to be that conscious or yourself. Over time, you will 404 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 5: get more and more into it. It's like anything you 405 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,959 Speaker 5: do and you will see the effects of it. 406 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: Next up, Michael Acton Smith, the founder of Calm reflects 407 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: on how much the perception of meditation has shifted. 408 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 3: And I remember these days. 409 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: It used to be met with a lot of doubt, 410 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: a lot of scrutiny, but now it's widely seen as 411 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: a practical, effective way to support your mental well being. 412 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: Early on, people thought meditation required robes or lengthy silence. 413 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,360 Speaker 1: Now it's understood you can start with just one conscious 414 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: breath in a well designed to distract you. Focus is power. 415 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: Meditation can help you improve your attention and reclaim the 416 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: power within you. When you're not aware of where your 417 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 1: attention goes, it's easy to slip into autopilot. Meditation can 418 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: help you stay present, avoid distractions, and make more intentional 419 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: choices with your time. 420 00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 6: In the early days, when we'd go to parties and 421 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 6: tell people we were building a meditation app, we'd get 422 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 6: one of two reactions. One is that they'd back away 423 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 6: from us and make any excuse to go and talk 424 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 6: to someone else. The second was that they'd be like, oh, 425 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 6: I've heard of that, I've tried it, but I can't 426 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 6: do it. You know, my mind is far too busy. 427 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 6: And it has been extraordinary how that has shifted over 428 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 6: the last decade. Again, this is connected to mental health. 429 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 6: Do you remember how stigmatized it was. No one talked 430 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 6: about it. Could you imagine telling your boss you were 431 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 6: struggling with your mental health years ago. It wouldn't have 432 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 6: been a good move. And for most organizations now that 433 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 6: has changed dramatically. I think it was because people did 434 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 6: have so many misconceptions about meditation, that were so many 435 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 6: myths associated with it. I think they thought it was 436 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,199 Speaker 6: either religious or connected to the counterculture. They thought they 437 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 6: might have to dress up in robes, or go to 438 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 6: a different country, or sit for hours and hours in 439 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 6: an uncomfortable position, And we just wanted to let people 440 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 6: know that that is not true. You can literally start 441 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 6: with one mindful breath. If you don't have time to 442 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 6: meditate for a minute or ten or longer, literally start 443 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 6: with one conscious, mindful breath and then build your practice 444 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 6: from there. 445 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 1: In this next clip vision Lakiani, the founder of Mind Value, 446 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: shares how meditation has helped him heal physically and stay 447 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: grounded through life's ups and downs. His story is a 448 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: powerful reminder that meditation isn't just about calmness. It's about growth, 449 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: resilient and finding your center When life feels chaotic. Vision 450 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: shares how he used meditation to heal severe acne as 451 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 1: a teenager and how that experience sparked a lifelong fascination 452 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 1: with the mind body connection. Through the Silver Method, he 453 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: discovered active meditation, a structured form of inner work that 454 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: turns life's challenges into step by step problem solving opportunities. 455 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: He explains the difference between daily meditations that keep you grounded, 456 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: like his six phase method, and more tactical techniques used 457 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:07,719 Speaker 1: to solve specific issues. For Vision, meditation isn't about escaping problems. 458 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: It's about engaging with them directly and using your mind 459 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: to heal, grow, and create real world results. I think 460 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: everyone can remember or has a distinct memory of their 461 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: first meditation experience. What was your first meditation experience ever? 462 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,479 Speaker 1: Do you remember it like the first time you were 463 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 1: ever introduced to any form of meditation? 464 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 7: So the first time it happened to me, I was 465 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 7: fourteen years old. I was a young kid in Malaysia, 466 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 7: and I decided to try a form of meditation that 467 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 7: I learned from a book called the Silver Method, a 468 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 7: really all nineteen sixties nineteen seventies book. Back then, I 469 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 7: was fourteen, so must have been like nineteen ninety. There 470 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 7: was no internet in Malaysia. We had four television channels, 471 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 7: so really to pass the time by, all I did 472 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 7: was I would browse all of the books in my 473 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 7: father's bookshelf, and I discovered this book called the Silver Method. Now, 474 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,199 Speaker 7: the book activated me because it spoke about how the 475 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,399 Speaker 7: mind can heal the body. What was happening with me 476 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 7: back then is I was having a really horrible skin problem. 477 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 7: My face was covered in acne. I had very little confidence. 478 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 7: I considered myself ugly. I had difficulty making friends at school. 479 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 7: You know, even if I liked a girl, I had 480 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 7: no confidence to even talk to her. And so when 481 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 7: I read in this book that the mind can heal 482 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 7: the skin, I was game on. I want to figure 483 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 7: this out. So I tried practicing. Nothing happened. I continued practicing. 484 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,439 Speaker 7: Nothing happened, and there was very little results. But I 485 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 7: read and re read and reread that book over and 486 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 7: over and over and over again. Then I started picking 487 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 7: other books, from Bob Procter, from A. Wayne Dyer. I 488 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 7: started reading these books. It became a passion, and slowly 489 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 7: things began to click. And one day applying the silver method. 490 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 7: At this point, I was seventeen years old. Things that 491 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 7: finally started clicking. I begin to understand it's not just 492 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 7: about hoping and wanting your skin to heal. There was 493 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 7: a process, there was a method, There was a psycho ecology. 494 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 7: When it clicked, in five weeks, I completely healed my skin. 495 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 7: Five years of skin disease healed in five weeks. Today 496 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 7: science talk about this as a thing. It's called psychodematology, 497 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 7: how your mind influences your skin. But that was my 498 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 7: first evidence that we can use our minds to influence 499 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 7: our bodies. Now, the next thing I did was I 500 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 7: decided to see can I use my mind to accomplish 501 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 7: a really big goal for me. That was qualifying for 502 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 7: the US Open Taekwondo Championships. Taekwondo is Korean karate. I 503 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 7: was really into it and I managed to qualify. My 504 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 7: first ever trip to the United States, which was my 505 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 7: dream land. Since I was like a kid, I wanted 506 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 7: to go to America. My first ever trip was to 507 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 7: the US Open to represent my country. It was in 508 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 7: Colorado Springs in nineteen ninety three. My first time I 509 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 7: fell in love with America, but it became because I 510 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 7: visualized that in my mind and that was my beginning, 511 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 7: the beginning of my fascination with the human mind that 512 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,959 Speaker 7: would later lead to me starting Mind Value and writing 513 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 7: this book. 514 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: That's amazing. I I love that story for so many reasons. 515 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: A Because, well, let me just break this down for everyone, 516 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: you had an intention that was very clear, even if 517 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: it was to save your skin or to impress a 518 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: girl or whatever it was, you were clear of why 519 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: you wanted to meditate. The second thing was you were 520 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: happy to read the book again and again and. 521 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 7: Again again and again. 522 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: And I think that takes a lot of resilience because 523 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: most of us, when we try something once and it 524 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: doesn't work, we give up. And the third thing is 525 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: you didn't just test on something small. Once you saw 526 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: a small result, you were like, well does this apply 527 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: to something bigger? And I think those three lessons in 528 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: and of themselves are so powerful. What has changed in 529 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: the benefits to you of meditation today? At that time, 530 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: it was solving your skin, it was getting focused around 531 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: the Taekwondo championships. How do you view meditation like? What 532 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: is its use in your life today? Because I feel 533 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: like so many people keep telling us to meditate, and 534 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: there's so many benefits, but for you personally, what's the reason. 535 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 7: So I grew up in a Hindu family in Malaysia, 536 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 7: meditation was never what I was thought. The style of 537 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 7: Hinduism I was thought was very dogmatic. You had prayers, 538 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 7: you had chance, you had mantras, and I found it, 539 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,719 Speaker 7: Oh God, so boring and irritating. I hated being dragged 540 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 7: to temple to listen to a pre speak in Sanskrit, 541 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 7: a language I didn't even understand. So when I was nineteen, 542 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 7: I gave up Hinduism. I decided the religion was not 543 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 7: for me. I read a quote by Gandhi that said, 544 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,959 Speaker 7: I'm a Hindu, and I'm a Muslim, and I'm a Christian, 545 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 7: and I'm a Jew and I'm a Buddhist, and I 546 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 7: thought that's it. I want to study and unite ideas 547 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 7: from all of these different spiritual practices, and so that 548 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 7: was my beginning. I got obsessed with spirituality. I started 549 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 7: reading books by Esther Hicks, by Neil Donald Walsh, and 550 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 7: I became particularly captivated by the spirituality that was emerging 551 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 7: from the United States from everyone from Paramahansa Yogananda, who 552 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 7: was an Indian who crossed over over here to Neil 553 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 7: Donald Walsh too, especially Jose Silva. Now, a lot of 554 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,719 Speaker 7: them spoke about spirituality. What made Jose Silva's work different 555 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 7: was that he broke it down into actionable steps, and 556 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 7: that's what fascinated me most. So a lot of people 557 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 7: spoke about meditation, about sitting still, about going within. Jose 558 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 7: Silva would teach the method you're gonna do, this method 559 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 7: to reduce your brainwave frequency to the alpha level, this 560 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 7: method together down to the data level, this method of 561 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 7: positioning your eyes to activate alpha frequency in your brain, 562 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 7: this method to reprogram your subconscious, this method to manifest 563 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 7: a goal, this method to do healing, and that structured 564 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 7: approach captivated me. Now we call that active meditation. That's 565 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 7: the word Jose Silva use or show use the same 566 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 7: word active meditation. This means it's different from passive meditation, 567 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 7: which was more than meditation from Hinduism, from Eastern cultures, 568 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 7: where you focus on your breath or you go within, 569 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 7: and there's a usefulness in that. But what I loved 570 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 7: about active meditation is, in the words of Jose Silva, 571 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 7: you use it to solve problems. You do not push 572 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 7: your problems away. You turn your problems into a project. 573 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 7: You have skin disease, You're gonna heal it to achieve 574 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 7: a business goal. You're going to make it happen. And 575 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 7: you would apply different tools to solve these problems. Now, 576 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 7: when I was in Silicon Valley, I applied the Silver 577 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 7: Method and it completely transformed my career. I was able 578 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 7: to hold down two jobs. I got promotion after promotion 579 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 7: after promotion. At the age of twenty six, I was 580 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 7: vice president of a booming dot com and I was 581 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 7: meditating using the Silver Method and other practices I would 582 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 7: combine with it, and one day I certainly had a calling. 583 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 7: I realized that meditation was the most powerful thing I'd 584 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 7: learned in life. It was the reason why I was 585 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 7: successful at my career. Yet my university degree, for which 586 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 7: I paid almost a quarter million dollars for, taught me 587 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 7: jack it wasn't really helping me. So I decided I 588 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 7: wanted to do something that could help the world. I 589 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 7: decided to quit and become a meditation teacher. Now, as 590 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 7: I started becoming a meditation teachers, I started compiling all 591 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 7: of these methods. I needed something for myself and I 592 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 7: look at meditation from as a two. Okay, so a 593 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 7: lot of people say, all right, meditation is a form 594 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 7: of self awareness of prayer. Yes, yes, yes, But meditation 595 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 7: is also a tool. The point of meditation, in the 596 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 7: words of the great teacher Emily Fletcher, is not to 597 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 7: get good at meditation. It is to get good at life. 598 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 7: And so I use two different types of tools. Now 599 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 7: let's think about our home. We have coffee makers and 600 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 7: we have electric drills. We use a coffee maker every 601 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 7: single day or a teakettle every single day to put 602 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 7: ourselves in a good state to start our morning. An 603 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 7: electric drill is a power tool. You don't use it 604 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 7: every day. You use it when you have a problem, 605 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 7: when you have to drill a hole in a wall 606 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 7: or threaten someone. I guess. So in meditation, the style 607 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 7: that I teach, there are two types. You would use 608 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 7: a power tool, like the Silver method, which now sits 609 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 7: on Mine Valley for a really tactical problem, for example 610 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 7: healing right. The Silver method has been proven by doctor 611 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 7: Okyle Simonton as a very effective form of imagery therapy 612 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 7: for accelerating healing. You're sick, you want to do it 613 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 7: if you are suddenly feeling like you have a mica. 614 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 7: You want to use it to help reduce your migraine. 615 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 7: The six phase is what I developed as not the 616 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,600 Speaker 7: electric drill, but the coffee maker, something you use every 617 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 7: single day, even if your life is amazing. You use 618 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 7: it every single day because it helps put you in 619 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,320 Speaker 7: a peak state for work, for happiness, for human connection, 620 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 7: and it puts you in this beautiful state where it 621 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 7: almost feels as if the universe has your back like 622 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 7: you have, you know, the tinker Bell ferry following you around, 623 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,919 Speaker 7: blessing everything you do and making your life magical. This 624 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 7: is how I view meditation. It's an active approach to 625 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 7: tackle the most complex problems in life, but also as 626 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 7: a daily approach to put you in peak states of humanness. 627 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: This is why I love talking to you, because I 628 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 1: love that explanation, and I think that that breakdown of 629 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,919 Speaker 1: how meditation can be used differently for different challenges is fantastic. 630 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 1: And I love the analogy with that with the tea 631 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 1: kettle we'll go with and the drill, because I do 632 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: think you're right that we've made meditation. What you just 633 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,719 Speaker 1: said is about becoming good at meditation, which is absolutely 634 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 1: irrelevant to life. I hope this episode serves as a 635 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 1: reminder that there's no single way to meditate and no 636 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: perfect practice. What matters is that you start. Whether it's 637 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: to heal, focus a line, or simply breathe, meditation is 638 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 1: a tool that can meet you wherever you are in life. Remember, 639 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: the goal isn't to get good at meditation. The goal 640 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: is to improve your life. So whatever form works for you, 641 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 1: a guided practice, a moment of stillness, or a walk 642 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,879 Speaker 1: in nature. I hope this episode inspires you to make 643 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 1: it your own. And if you've ever told yourself I'm 644 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,359 Speaker 1: not the meditation type, I hope this conversation helps you. 645 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 3: Realize you already are. You just have to begin. 646 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,840 Speaker 1: If you love this episode, you will also love my 647 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: interview with Dohig on how to hack your brain, change 648 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: any habit effortlessly, and the secret to making better decisions. 649 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 2: Look, am I hesitating on this because I'm scared of 650 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,720 Speaker 2: making the choice because I'm scared of doing the work, 651 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 2: Or am I sitting with this because it just doesn't 652 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:16,320 Speaker 2: feel right yet