What's here everybody in today's video , we're going to talk about how to meditate .
And I'm putting out this video today because what I honestly feel is that even from a health and fitness perspective , today's video is that one video that can absolutely turn your life around and be by myself .
I keep talking about becoming the best version of yourself .
And what I honestly feel is that meditation has a very crucial part to play in that journey of you reaching your maximum potential .
A lot of successful people all over the world , Steve Jobs , Hugh Jackman and even Shane Watson have turned to meditation in order to enhance the rest of their lives , Shane Watson , one of cricket's greatest all rounders in the modern era has actually said that towards the end of his career , meditation is what helped him cope with injuries , injury recovery , muscle recovery are just a few of the benefits of meditation .
And if you're the kind of person who believes only in scientifically backed studies and articles , that's exactly what I'm going to link in the description box .
If you're more interested in these topics , make sure you give it a read but I'm going to go over the benefits .
Super briefly , a recent study done at UCL A showed that people who meditate have a high a level of G in your brain .
Gur means the folds in the cortex of your brain .
And these enhanced amount of folds are actually linked with a fast of processing power .
You are essentially becoming smarter and your brain is becoming faster and more active through meditation .
What's even cooler is that long term meditation was linked with more gut education .
The more you meditate , the more your gut education and the more your processing power .
So essentially , you can think of meditation as some kind of a brain workout where you're enhancing the power of your brain by just meditating for 10 to 20 minutes a day .
There have also been studies that show that meditation changes certain parts of your brain .
It increases the size of those parts that are linked with happiness , linked with the ability to learn to memorize and to focus even cooler is that meditation has been linked to decrease those areas that are linked with depression and stress .
Essentially , you're just enhancing your overall state of being through something as simple as meditation .
But forget all the signs for a minute .
If you want to know more about these studies , I'll link them down below .
Let's talk a little bit about my personal experience .
Personally , I just took up meditation initially to help me cope with my muscle soreness from the gym .
I read this article about how meditation helps you deal with your muscle soreness , how it increases your recovery .
And that's how I got into it .
But I felt all these other effects because of my long-term meditation .
All I do is that I meditate for 20 minutes a day , every day before I go to bed .
That is all and just like gym .
This is one of those things where you have to kind of create a habit to actually see the benefits .
You're not gonna see any benefits .
If you just meditate once in a while , the actual benefits of meditation , this increased level of happiness will only happen after you meditate every single day .
Now , coming to the actual tutorial , how do you go about meditation ?
The first thing you need to understand is that everyone's got their own definitions of what meditation is .
It's a very subjective concept .
Now , I'm not a Yogi , I'm a life coach and I'm a fitness coach and I do help people with their meditation and I've been able to help people successfully with their meditation .
So in today's video , I'm just gonna give you my opinion on how to go about this problem .
But what I do promise you is that if you follow the guidelines , I'm setting down , it will make a difference to your life .
Now , the theoretical definition of meditation is that it's a disconnect .
People say that when you meditate , you're just supposed to disconnect from your real life .
Don't think of too many things .
You're just supposed to concentrate on your own breath , which for the average person is kind of hard to do .
You can't just sit in one place and meditate and disconnect from everything else .
Obviously , you're gonna have a lot of other thoughts in your head .
What you need to understand is that this is completely normal , it's human nature .
So I'm going to go about a step by step guide of how to meditate and try kind of minimizing these thoughts in your head .
The first is that you sit down in a quiet place ideally in complete darkness and you fold your legs , you sit cross legged and you just keep your arms comfortable .
However you want , you can even sit down on a chair if you find that comfortable and then you can begin your meditation process .
Mindfulness , meditation is essentially you're taking deep breaths , you inhale completely and exhale and all you've got to concentrate on is your breath and you do this for about 20 minutes .
Now , the trick here is to avoid thinking about 20 other things .
So you consciously try focusing on your breath and do this for 20 minutes every single day .
Even if 20 minutes seems like a lot , you can start with doing it for about 10 minutes a day .
But the key is to just get yourself to doing this every time you open your eyes after a meditation session , I promise you , you will be a lot calmer and the world will feel different .
What I just spoke about is something called mindfulness meditation , where you just focus on a single thing and distract yourself from every other thought .
And in this case , it's your breath .
But from what I've observed and from my own personal experience , I couldn't go about doing mindfulness meditation , especially as a beginner .
So the meditation that I practice and that I teach my clients is something called home chanting meditation .
Now , this has nothing to do with Hinduism or God or religion .
What you've got to understand is that home is kind of a tangible distraction for your mind when you're chanting home .
It's that same distraction that helps you disconnect from your real life .
That's all it is .
In order to go about home chanting meditation .
Once again , you've just got to sit in a comfortable place ideally in complete darkness and take a deep breath and just let out .
And o so for 75% of your breath , you're gonna to chant the o and for 25% of the breath you're gonna chant the mm That's all you have to remember .
Once again , don't worry too much about the technique .
It's not about how you sit or how you chant it .
It's just about getting yourself to chanting home every single day .
That's what's going to make a difference .
You know how , when you go to the gym and you just get disconnected from life and you feel great after the gym .
Thanks to all those feel good hormones .
Meditation is just another way of releasing all those feel good hormones .
After a point after you make it a habit , it becomes your disconnect , it becomes a source of recreation and that's where you want to reach .
But rule number one is that you just create a habit , push yourself to meditate and make sure you meditate for at least 10 to 20 minutes every single day .
That's all you need to know .
Hey guys .
So that was the video for today .
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Recently , I put out a video on this past Tuesday about my own journey with respect to meditation .
What I've gained out of my meditative journey .
I highly recommend you watch it .
If you're more interested in learning about meditation .
If you like this video , I really want to know what other videos you guys would want to watch .
So make sure you drop that in the comment below .
And until next time guys from when we see you .