- Think about it this way.
Is it weird that we're
brushing our teeth twice a day
but we're not meditating?
So we're taking care of our teeth
but we're not taking care of our mind?
It's just weird.
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Hey everybody, Sagi here
and today I'm gonna talk
to you about meditation.
First of all, if you like this video,
just know that we have a meditation group
going on basically on a daily basis,
especially like nowadays.
Right now as I'm recording this,
it's still kinda like corona times,
everybody's in quarantine, locked down.
So we are meditating daily,
every day at 2:30, right
now it's 2:30 p.m. EST.
We're meeting basically almost every day
and meditating together as a
group on Zoom, it's amazing.
So if you love this, I
invite you to join our group,
it's called The Entrepreneur Mindset,
we also talk about other things,
I drop some motivation in there
and we talk about building
personal brands, funnels.
We talked about those kind of things
that matter as well these days.
If you'd like, I'll put the
link here in the description
and you're just invited to join us.
All right, so meditation.
Meditation has been
proven to scientifically,
just improve your overall life,
productivity, reduce stress.
It's basically because when
you practice meditation,
you create a lot of
chemistry here on the brain,
the mind is working so hard
and basically what's going on is,
it affects the biology of your body.
This is something that
I think is so important
that it's kind of weird,
Think about this way.
Is it weird that we're
brushing our teeth twice a day
but we're not meditating?
So we're taking care of our teeth
but we're not taking care of our mind?
It's just weird.
So anyways, I've been meditating
for about 13 years give and
take, and also on and off,
I haven't been consistent
the whole entire time.
But I've been doing
meditation for a long time
and I would love to teach you
how to just do the most basic practice
that meditation offers us
in order for you to enhance your life
and hopefully you'll
be able to practice it
for about five minutes, 10 minutes a day,
that could really improve your life.
If you even can practice
it more than 10 minutes,
that'll be fricking amazing
because you can go deep.
When you go deep, there's
something about meditation
which basically opens a
gate between your conscience
and subconscious mind.
When you do that a lot of opportunities
just happen over there,
a lot of things come up.
They talk about it also in
spirituality in the Bible,
talk about like the connection
when you have God's presence
or when you are still.
People saying stillness is the key,
I think stoicism says that.
So anyway there's a lot
of talk about stillness,
about finding the here
now, and about meditation.
Now how do you meditate?
Meditation is very simple.
First of all, you have to sit down.
You can sit down like I'm
sitting down right now
and this is the basic lotus kind of seat,
you don't have to really be a yogi
and super flexible, I am not, all right?
And sometimes, I prefer
sitting on the couch
or even in my chair by
my desk just to meditate.
Just find a place that you can
sit with your back straight
that's the most important thing.
Now when you sit down,
what you wanna do is you
wanna close your eyes
and you wanna breathe.
That's the most basic
thing about meditation,
you wanna breathe because
the breathing is something
that we cannot stop.
We cannot stop our body from breathing,
it's the most basic thing, right?
So if you just pay attention
to it, that's awareness.
When we breathe, we concentrate
on breathing in and breathing out,
so basically you go like
this, close your eyes,
and you just say to yourself,
breathe in, breathe in,
breathe in as you breathe in,
and breathe out, breathe out,
breathe out as you breathe out.
It's very simple.
The only thing is once
you start breathing,
you'll see that even when you start,
you won't even be able to concentrate
on your breath at first
because the thoughts
just come and attack you.
Thoughts are going to come in,
they're gonna attack you,
it's gonna be brutal.
You're going to start thinking about okay,
wait what I need to do now?
What I need to do tomorrow?
What have I done this day?
Like everything attacks you,
like thoughts from all different angles.
It's called the monkey
mind and when it happens,
first of all just know that
it's natural, it's okay.
Even very experienced meditators,
it happens to them as well,
and I think that the more you practice,
the more you just understand not
to beat yourself up about it.
And when thoughts come,
your practice is this,
you have to stop the
concentrating on the breath
and you have to say
thought, thought, thought
and just say, just release the thought
and you say I'm back to meditation.
Breathe in, breathe in, breathe in,
breathe out, breathe out, breathe out.
It's all about the connection between
what you're thinking about to
what you're actually doing.
This is the connection.
Once you have a pure connection
between your thoughts and your actions,
this is where the
mind-body comes together.
It's mind-body connection.
And when mind-body connection happens,
it's way easier to also
connect to the heart,
like everything's aligned
and then you can really get in the zone.
The thing about meditation is this,
it works on different brain waves.
In our day-to-day,
our thoughts are basically
running on alpha and beta waves.
And again, I'm not an expert in this.
Dr. Joe Dispenza is a great source
if you wanna learn more.
When we do meditation, it
starts working on gamma,
sometimes we get to gamma waves.
And gamma waves is where
a lot of magic happens,
it's what Dr. Joe Dispenza
and a lot of scientists are talking about.
That's where a lot of
interesting things happen,
that's when healing
comes into the picture,
healing both the mind and the body.
That's where actually
the biology is starting
to shift in your body and that's amazing.
So what you have to do,
is just try not to think about anything,
just think about the breathing.
Breathe in, breathe in, breathe in,
breathe out, breathe out, breathe out.
All right so now that
we've practiced this,
please try to practice
it one session at least,
maybe even a couple,
and then after that try to do this.
Try to think breathe in,
breathe in, breathe in,
breathe out, breathe out, breath out,
and then if you get to a
point where you have thoughts
and you say, thought, thought, thought,
try to understand is this thought
giving you a good feeling,
a bad feeling, or a neutral feeling?
Because most of us,
what we do is we run on
these feelings, always.
Something either bothers us
or we're delighted or we're neutral,
so think about it,
think about the thoughts
that come to your mind.
Are you delighted, are you bothered,
or are you neutral?
All right, so you can say,
okay bothered, bothered, bothered.
And you can also say,
maybe you can give it the feeling
that you're actually really feeling.
I mean you can say pressure,
pressure, pressure.
The more you are aware of the thoughts
and then the connotation of the thought
that connect the thought to the feeling
that it gives you in the body,
even try to think, where do you feel it?
Do you feel that thought in your...
The thought creates a feeling,
is that feeling something
you feel biologically
in your chest, like do you feel it,
really physically in your chest,
in your stomach, in your head?
Like where are you feeling
the thoughts that come up?
If they're negative.
If they're positive, maybe also,
where are you feeling it?
In the heart, in the stomach, where?
And then if you're neutral, just neutral,
but just be aware that it's
neutral, that's neither.
So if you can be aware of the thoughts
and you can release your thoughts,
let's talk about how it
actually applies to daily life.
Daily life is simple.
In your day-to-day life,
we have negative thoughts
that rise up every once in a while.
Those negative thoughts,
especially now with all
the uncertainty of things
where's the market going,
are we gonna have like,
maybe client cancels, stuff happen, right?
So when that stuff happen to us,
what we tend to do is we
try to get it away from us,
we try to move from negative feelings.
But the thing is this, we
have to be aware of it.
Once we are aware of our
feelings and thoughts,
we can basically discharge them.
It's just a simple thing and
I'll give you an example.
So when you're really,
really angry at something,
the thing is this,
it's not that you're
angry all of the sudden.
Sometimes it feels like it but it's not.
What happened was you had lights,
you had candles light up
until there was a fire.
So for instance if my
kids maybe annoyed me
and I got mad maybe and
I snapped or something,
and I started yelling or that
happens rarely but it happens.
Something happened there,
the candles lit up.
Maybe I heard something
that made me feel something
and then I thought another thought, right?
Oh that's rude of him to
say, why would he say that?
Why would he not respect my authority?
And then I have the urge to reply
or the urge to react.
We all have this, think
about the road, right?
People cut you off in the road,
you're like, oh, that?
All of a sudden in fire
but candles happened.
First you saw something, right?
You saw someone cutting you off,
then you felt danger, fear came in,
then you had this fight-or-flight
mentality like instinct.
So instinct operate, gas,
okay now anger comes up right?
So anger, you have
criticism towards the person
that's in the other car.
Although you don't know him,
you don't know what's going on with him,
you don't care, right?
You criticize, oh my god
those people, freaking drivers
and then all of a sudden,
so many candles are lighting up
and then you wanna react, you
wanna chase them down, right?
I mean, most of us don't
chase the people down
but some do and you've got to admit,
you want that feeling,
you wanna chase them down.
So basically what happens is
you have the need to react,
the want to react, to retaliate.
So basically all those candles light up
and then you have a big fire.
We don't notice it but it
happens in a moment, snap second.
So what we can do with
meditation is basically,
meditation, if we
practice 10 minutes a day,
20 minutes a day, maybe at
nighttime and in the morning
when you wake up, whenever you can,
please just take it for yourself
and practice it whenever you can.
What happens is, we try
to understand our thoughts
and give awareness to our thoughts,
and when thoughts arise
but when we're trapped
in a loop of thoughts,
we say, oh, okay, wait, I was trapped
in a loop of thoughts.
Three minutes went by, I'm in a meditation
and I was like trapped in thoughts
and they're like okay, wait, stop.
Thought, thought, thought.
Release the thought, thank
you, okay, back to breathing.
So when we practice it
and the practice is hard,
practice is not easy,
meditation is super, super hard.
It gets boring, your back hurts sometimes,
maybe you hear noises outside,
and your thoughts are
bugging you like crazy,
maybe you're in a really bad states
or like thoughts with attitude.
Like it's hard, that's why it's practice,
it's harder than push-ups,
you gotta understand that before you try
because some people just try meditation,
and they're like, oh, it's
supposed to make me feel good.
No it's not, it's supposed
to make you feel like shit,
especially at the beginning.
That's what people don't understand.
So if you feel bad, don't
beat yourself up about it
and be there to be
tough and practice more.
It's exactly like
push-ups, like working out.
It's working out for your
brain and it pays off, why?
Because next time someone
cuts you off in the road,
you'll be mindful and you won't
get mad, and you won't snap
and you you actually can
prevent very bad things
from happening to you.
When negative thoughts
rise up during the day,
and they happen a couple times
a day for every one of us,
you can discharge them
quicker than anybody else.
Most people get trapped in
a loop of negative thoughts.
You can, with practice, you'll understand
that you're like oh, okay,
wait, thought, thought, thought.
It's just a thought, it
passes, nothing stays
and I don't have to make it stay.
I choose to have this thought stay
and get into this loophole of
negative thoughts, that's me.
It has nothing to do with
anything external, t's just me.
So I can understand and be aware of that,
okay, negative thoughts,
all right, pressure, right.
Where do I feel the pressure?
Okay, in my chest, all right,
I'll give it a second,
I'll acknowledge it, okay.
Okay, I'll give it a couple
of seconds and feel a thought.
Okay, back to what I was doing.
That's it, so freaking simple, right?
It's hard practice but once you do it,
you will find it affecting
your whole entire life.
So I recommend you do it.
I also recommend you do it with your kids.
It's just amazing to do with your kids.
I do it with my daughter.
My daughter actually comes up to me
and she asks me to do it
with her, it's amazing.
We do it in the group.
So right now, as I'm recording this video,
we have the meditation
group, we're doing it daily.
I don't know what happens in
a year from now, whatever,
but you can definitely join the group
from the link over here.
And if there's any change,
I'll change that link,
don't worry about it.
You can join our group,
it's a WhatsApp community,
it's called The Entrepreneur Mindset,
and you're welcome to join it,
and we meet daily for meditations
and you don't have to be
there every day, don't worry,
it's not making you commit to that,
but just join a group
of like-minded people
that are interested in
changing their mindset
and their mindfulness for
life and for their business.
I think that affects my
business almost entirely.
And I'll make more
videos about other things
that are very, very relevant
like The Noble Eightfold Path maybe
and other things that
are very, very important.
So be sure to first of all,
get a proper app to practice.
I use my Oura Ring app.
Oura Ring is something I have
to make a different video about it
but it's like the ring I'm wearing here.
It measures my HRV and all kind of stuff
that helps me get more
data on my practice.
You can use Calm.
Calm is amazing, I love calm.
And you have a Headspace
and you have Insight Timer,
and you have...
Dr. Joe Dispenza has an app called
You Are the Placebo on the App Store.
There's another app by Sam Harris.
Sam Harris Waking Up, I think
it's called, it's amazing.
So there's a lot of great
meditations out there.
There's meditations on YouTube.
The meditation I just talked
about is called Vipassana
It's the most basic meditation.
It goes back to India, to
the days of the Buddha.
So basic, everybody teaches
it the same fricking way.
I've been to a couple
of meditation retreats,
everybody teaches it the same way,
everybody practices it
in the same way, why?
Because it's just like the
most basic form of meditation.
It's hard, it's ruthless, it's brutal
but you know what, it
will change your life.
So thank you everybody, I
hope you enjoyed this video.
If you have any questions,
please post it in the description
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