Hello! How are you guys? So I wanted to talk a little bit about meditation.
I did some today - I did more today than I've done in a long time.
Meditation's an interesting one - Hi Carl how are you doing? Hello surfboard oak tree! how are guys?
Hi Kerrie!
So I try to meditate as often as I can and I come in and out - I think this is all part of it you know -
- trying to have healthy routines, we come in out...as you can see I'm in the gear that I meditated in!
I did some yoga and then I did some meditation.
So we all know, meditation -kind of like yoga actually - has you know gone through being a bit of a buzz thing
which can make a come across as a bit "faddy"
and it can make it easier to sort of write it off or write off why we should do it.
Hi "Irish Steve"!
It can make us write off why we would actually would meditate or why we would bother.
So just to talk about what it is for a sec for those of you who maybe don't partake and so we
So we think a lot - I know me in particular, I think in words. We think in thoughts and
it's not always healthy for us to be constantly stuck in our thoughts and we
also kind of in our digital age there's always a notification on Facebook or an
Instagram or a streak on snapchat or something that we're trying to do or
something that we're trying to keep up with and it means that our brain doesn't
get a break and it also means that we don't...we're not getting our thoughts
from inside of here we're not getting our impulses from inside of here we're
kind of relegating our impulses to our devices, if you like. So when we
create space to just be in our own heads for a sec or be in our own bodies
it's a relief for the brain and it's a rest for the brain
so that's kind of why it's good to meditate and there's a couple different
ways to do it I mean one of the things I found very difficult when I
started meditating a couple years ago was I would do a lot of guided
meditations because I was like "oh I'm gonna do it wrong, I don't know how to meditate!"
there's a really great little video by a...what what religion is he at all...
He's a monk and he talks about how meditation is bringing your
attention to the breath it's taking your mind away from your thinking brain and
meditation can be as simple as sitting like obviously this position is one of
the reason this one as good is because it makes your spine straight but like
you sit in a comfortable seat. So you can just sit in a normal chair like
straight back up in a chair. The reason is that your breathing is more effective
when your spine is like right basically and so you don't really need to sit in a
particularly fancy way to do it and it's basically...you just breathe
You breathe in; ideally a low breath is good but like just observe the breath
become an observer of the breath and you do that for a certain number of minutes
and every time you think a thought - and you will! You'll think ALL the thoughts
because thoughts are a normal part of meditation - you bring your attention back.
You say "Great!" and come back to it. So that's basically what meditation
is and you do that for as long as you want or as long as you can and there's
different types you can get like guided meditations that we'll do like where
you'll kind of do like a body relaxation so you instead of focusing on the breath
you focus on sensations in different parts of the body and relaxing them or
instead of focusing on the breath you might focus on a candle or instead of
focusing on the breath you might focus on a chant or instead of focusing on the
breath you might focus on particular pranayama practice which is like
different ways of using your breath so there's like Kapalabhati breathing which is like...
...or there's...I don't if you seen this breathing technique
where you breathe in through one nostril ...and out through the other.
They're all pranayama exercises, but they're all basically just ways of focusing the mind
and that's what yoga is supposed to be for by the way
Yoga isn't about being able to be flexible or being able to do fancy
postures it's about that as a really great instructor I was with when I was
in New York talked about finding that corridor a focus so that's what it's
about its focus and over the years I have so
that's what meditation is and what it can be like my experience with it myself
is that over the years when I am doing it regularly as in every day every
second day, I'm just harder to knock down and I get less hung up on stupid
things because a few things going on for me at the moment that my mind is just
clinging to certain issues and it just won't let me get away from them you know
It plays the tape over and over and over again the same thing the same
"what if I said this?" "what if this person said this?" "what if they did this?"
"Why aren't they doing that?" "Why amn't I doing this?" why I'm so
experiencing that um the brain can just play the tape over and over and when I
meditate I can find a spot where the tape stops playing for a few minutes and
I think that gives me a foundation for the rest of my day for the rest of
whatever it is I'm doing. And I've tried different forms of it, and I've tried - Hi Keith! -
I've tried the breathing ones I was talking to you about before
talking about for pranayama ones I've tried some of the Kundalini ones I like
for things like Prosperity and stuff where you have like these things to do
with your hands I'm like different things I thought again just there things
that focus your mind and but I had a strange experience with it this weekend
so I sat on Saturday to just just I think it was ten minutes not very long
and I've tried done some yoga and I just found this sadness
I just found the sadness and I think if I just push through my day without
taking a space of time I wouldn't have realized I was sad and I would have been
irritable and I would have been annoyed with myself and I had a few nice things
on site you know st. Patrick's Day with my first impact Rick's day away from
home and I had a few nice things that I was gonna be doing so I knew it was
gonna be okay but it was really important to acknowledge that I mean I
just come home from two weeks come back from tubes of being at home and um
seeing everybody and seeing friends and new babies and gigs and everything and
it's important to feel the loneliness that that can give you sometimes you
know when you just you just come back and you've been surrounded by picking
you been moving and even here and you've been there you've been there you've been
there and then suddenly you're back I'm you to think about your day-to-day
routine and plan for the next bit of things that are coming up and I just
felt low and then coupled with the fact that nobody here knows on st. Patrick's
Day is I just felt alien and I haven't shit I haven't been able to shake it
since at a and today I didn't matter Tate yesterday I was in file form really
should have taken the cue there that that was what that was but then today I
sat down and said right we need to look at this because normally when I get into
a bit of a loan we don't tend to come up again quite quickly so being in a low
mood for a couple of days isn't usual for me and you know it's because I do
things like meditation do yoga that I even realize that about myself I have I
do morning pages as well so I'm doing the artist way and at the moment and
I've done another video on that that you can check out if you like and if you
don't know what that is and that's been bringing up things as well and like I
said today okay right today 20 minutes let's just sit there for 20 minutes
let's breathe let's put on some nice sand music and let's just see what comes
up today and if it's more sad then it needs to be more sad
it's not so much sad then that's maybe good as well so when I did it today I
managed to find a calm just like thank you I needed a bit of that I find a bit
of calm and just that window of it has been really good to have so you know I
would really I would say that like you know don't put pressure on yourself to
be a perfect meditator I don't either there's a goal for like a week or two
where I don't do it all but I come back I think it's not coming back that
matters and that makes it a part of your life that makes you someone who does it
it's not like I did for three hours every day or it's it's about deciding
that something that you want to do want to continue over like a longer period of
time so I would really recommend getting into it if you're not into it already
and there's some really good apps and things you can get that are helpful and
I would say you know take the apps use the apps they're not a less pure form of
meditating there's no such thing something that gives you space and calm
and gives you a break from your thinking mind is a form of meditation however
whatever gets you there do it so if it's a run if there's a meditative aspect of
running for you Yoga is designed to be meditative it's designed to put you into
postures and things that are that demand your body to focus yoga's good if that
class at the gym is what does it for you if reading a book is what does it for
you those are all meditative exercises for you then and they're important to do
and but you can find guided meditations at a lot of places online I use an app
called mine family that was sort of my gateway in and they have some really
good meditations on there some guided ones and there's a really good book by
Gabrielle Bernstein called miracles now where she essentially like guides you
through the first 21 days of meditation and sort of like introspection practice
that's good too and
then yeah yoga with adriene mentioning yoga yoga with adriene top class channel
and that one's really really good Keith's hair is recommending headspace
yeah I've heard really good things about headspace
I haven't actually checked it out though and keith has a guided meditations and
if so what kind of guided meditations are they do they focus on breath do they
do body relaxation those kind of things and if you google the words yoga nidra
and ID or a you'll get some nice ones there and if you just look up Kundalini
meditation que un da Li and I if you if you need something more active for your
brain the quantity new ones could be good because they come with chants and
things and really key as well to meditating is I know that we can all get
a bit thinking that if we meditate in a particular style we're prescribing to a
particular religion it's just not the case like you have one body you have one
mind it's important to take care of it and if chanting in a language that is
different to you or that originates from a religion that is different to
something you practice then use it you know religion at its best
is designed to be tools for good living so if you find something that works for
you and helps you to live good and live well then do it so I wouldn't shy away
from Kundalini stuff just because the chanting I know for me when I started
the chanting was a bit weird was the first bit like praying at Mass but you
know um I would just you know didn't you take you take your peace of mind where
you can get it I'm so keith is saying and it's guided using breathing
techniques in general therapy Oh interesting
almost like Dai had cognitive behavioral therapy cognitive behavioral therapy yes
yes and you know so many of the journaling processes that are out there
that have and I would say they've got like a meditative aspect to them but one
that's grounded in looking at your thoughts so like there's two ways to
detach from your brain to me and that's to like calm the thinking mind or to
really look at it but just see it from a new perspective to like
see it from the outside and detach a little bit from us and just to see it as
something that's passing so like journaling can help with that
on CBT really helps with that that's cognitive behavioral therapy if you have
a lot going on and you're looking for something to help you get through CBT
googled some of the basic exercises if you can't afford to go to CBT therapist
because they're they're really worth doing and I'm sure he keep experienced
that if you've been if you know that what cognitive behavioral therapy is
enough to know that headspace is diet cognitive behavioral therapy that leads
me to believe that maybe you might have done a little bit of it and I've kind of
done a bit of it just myself unfounded unbelievably helpful like anything that
can give you a vocabulary on how all of this is working I think is really
helpful and hey the chanting gets fun after a while though I really enjoy the
chanting I really enjoy the chanting I did this great and yoga classes at one
of the guys on Instagram was just kind of it like the chanting gets to be
really fun and you know what it is it's really joyful
but if you've ever gone to a proper yoga class where they start off with the
chanting and meditation and it's not about like abs it's about you know
breathing hello Brian it's about breathing and kind of like getting that
like the corridor a focus and I was really lucky hey Graham I was really
lucky when I was in New York friend of mine brought me along to one for classes
and absolutely like it was just it was a blessing it was a blessing and it was in
the gym operty Center in New York and the teacher I was late for class because
I was trying to negotiate the subway with all my bags and my guitar and
everything I was so stressed when I arrived there I was incredibly stressed
and I thought I was in the lift on the way everyone there was another woman in
the lift with me she was the instructor for the class and she had like so she
had this and she had sheets out for everybody and she picked a chant from it
so like she'd obviously designed like a larger course that I was just dipping
into a class her where she would focus on different aspects of and the body
Isana sauces like the posing aspect of yoga where you're doing like this on
your arms or something with that and and she did this chant I'm like she taught
it really slowly first and she had one of those an instrument that you you play
and you pull and there's like a bellows it was just beautiful and we all
traveled in the room chatter together and it was just like it was so such a
happy experience and like it got faster and faster and faster and then I got
slower again and it was just so jovial and like communal it's like chanting I
feel like having knows I'm chanting on my own and having done some chanting in
a group that like the group is such a powerful way to do it because it's such
there's something so powerful about letting your voice just be expressed
into a room and hearing other voices partaking in the same way so I would
save chanting is a little bit out of your comfort zone it's worth going
beyond your comfort zone and so give it a give it a lash why not
and Kundalini is a good place to find some kind of chance and stuff like that
and who is that who recommended the chanting here on instagram if you've got
any tips on where to go to find some good chanting stuff do share with the
class that would be good to know um for me anyway so yeah I think I'll just wrap
up I mean I really I'll post some of the links and some of the stuff that I've
been mentioning in the description and for those of you who are watching on
Instagram I'm also recording this on Facebook so if you want to go back
through any of it again and find any of the links I'm talking about and you can
check them out there so as soon as the video kind of like gets posted up it'll
be links up there with them I'll link you to that Gabrielle Gabrielle
Bernstein she's got lots of guided meditations on her channel and also is
like just generally like I'm going off been on tangent again but like we have
so much noise in our diets and so much negative thinking in our diets and
doomsday thinking it's really healthy and good to inject more positive stuff
into our daily diet because what we watch is part of what nourish
Jesus and or what doesn't you know what makes us thicker makes us on well in our
minds is what we imbibe every day so am Gabrielle Bernstein has lots of really
good talks and stuff on her YouTube channel and I quite like just hitting
play on a video first thing in the morning so that the first thing I'm
listening to something that's really positive and I'm just kind of lifting me
up a bit out of my and to-do list you know it helps me to stop gripping so
tightly on everything so um yeah I'll put those links up for you guys and if
you have any links that you think are helpful to share on this topic please
please please throw them into the comments and on the facebook video as
well and because they're just this stuff is invaluable and I don't know why it's
not being taught in our primary schools but I know why systems are so master
systems of Education or SLOS check things on but if we can be sharing and
talking about our meditation practices and mentioning them casually to each
other and that kind of thing then it creates normalcy around them and they're
not so taboo and they're not so fat you know and so let's do this shit let's go
forth and to borrow from meditation practice as a Buddhist meditation
practice I wish you all to be happy I wish you all to be well I wish you all
to live with ease and I wish you all to be filled with feelings of kindness and
feelings of love for other people and love for yourself and I hope that
genuinely that you figure that coming off the screen for me I want that for
you I want that for myself and I think it's something we should all go around
pushing on each other and especially when we maybe don't feel like it
so namaste guys have a really great day and I'll catch you all next time bye
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