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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the Show podcast.
You can subscribe, you know, anywhere that you want to
if if it's on the iHeartRadio app, great Apple podcasts,
great YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Wherever it searches there everywhere.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
This today, what I want to share with you is
something that it's it's interesting that it's a stress free
meditation with a huge bit of irony that happened at
the house the other day with you know, Jody and I.
So Jody knows the I say the Saturday routine. You're
not at home in the morning, You've already left whenever
I'm doing my quickie ten minute meditation during the week
before I leave her during the week right exactly, So
(00:35):
the house really is already quiet. My earbuds are in
and you know it's easy using the call mat, and
but on Saturdays when I first wake up, you know,
it's like three rings circus now. And Jody knows, Okay,
I'm going to say, I'm I just tell her in
advance because I don't want her talking to me and
not being able to hear. There's no response like, Okay,
I'm putting in my earbuds, I'm doing my meditation I.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Can always tell you sit differently when you're doing that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I really like I'm sitting up straight so.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Still and like looking at nothing or eyes closed. Yeah,
like I could totally sneak up on you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh my god, Well that'll make I won't. Yeah, that's
very relaxing this Saturday, No kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I have never never you need it more than anybody
I know, so I would never.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Hey, it works. But anyway, this particular meditation, and this
is so twofold here, this is something you can actually
use yourself that I'm about to explain to you, because
it really does work. There is an irony though, that
comes with this particular incident. For me, it's it's it's
a way to be stress using the five senses. And
(01:43):
you can do it different people meditate and do it
this different different ways. But basically it would be okay,
you start with your eyes open, five things you can see,
and you name five things that you can see at random,
you know, like in this room right now, Sam, Jody,
is this really camera? Microphone? You know? Speakers? Okay, so
(02:06):
you know, but you say these things out loud. What
you're doing is you're grounding yourself in the present. You're
not trying to get anywhere. That's the thing about meditation
is not a mission. Meditation. The end goal is not
for you to immediately land in peace. In fact, the
point is just be present, no expectations. So anyway, and
that this is part of that. It's grounding you in
(02:27):
the present because you're distracting yourself. So five things that
you see, four things that you can hear, and you
can close your eyes for that one if you want to.
It'll help you. You know, what did you hear? Three?
Three things? But three things that you can yeah, yes,
three things that you can I'm getting this all backwards now.
(02:49):
Five senses, all right. What you can see, what you
can hear, three things you can feel, that's touched right exactly,
Two things that you can smell, and one thing that
you taste. And the reason for that is because it
may be your chewing gum or maybe an coffee, maybe
a coffee or maybe there is no maybe just some
lingering whatever. So anyway, you're grounding yourself in each of these.
(03:10):
And the goal is you take your time and you
go through it. You're not going to be thinking about
other stuff while you're doing that. That's the reason it
roots you in the present. The irony of what happened
to me the other day is I get down to
the smells part and I'm used to. So there's a
candle that sits right next to me. It wasn't lit,
(03:30):
but I could smell that, and Jody was cooking something
with breakfast. I could smell that. But then a third
smell appeared all of a sudden, and it was our
dog Champ behind.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Me, sweet old boy with issues.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
He does have some sort of gay and it was
really ironic that I'm not joking. It popped up at
that moment and it was so distracting all attention, and
I took my earbuds out.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I told Tony said, well, I can't say what he said, but.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's like you can't. I can't remain in the meditation
with this smell going on, you know. I mean, it's
like you're supposed to be able to isolate yourself from everything,
and that just wound up just And maybe it's because
at that very moment I was already focused on smells. Anyway, yeah,
I'm sure it would have taken me out of the meditation.
Timing was impeccable, which was almost why I had.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
To, you know, to learn No, I'm sorry, I didn't
know you were doing that meditation. I just knew that
you were like out of it, like throwing the airbus
across the room like.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Man, right, I said, Okay, we're gonna have to start
this over again. But yeah, but that's one that's one
of the meditations that winds up being in sort of
a rotation of five four three two one. Although now
I'm worried the next time it comes up in rotation,
am I going to be bracing myself? It's he may
go in there too well, or I'll just laugh about it,
(04:49):
you know.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
So did you start over?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh? Yeah, you know, I had to, just because I
really wanted it to be a complete, you know, ten
minute meditation fragrance free, which which is what it was.
And you know, but seriously, I mean, that is one
of those some of the meditations that are the easiest
to do. They're not really saying they're not meditations, but
(05:12):
they're they're just grounding yourself in the moment. Yeah, exactly.
There's the there's different versions of this one too. You
if there's eight four four you inhale, inhale for four
seconds hold for four seconds, exhale for eight love it
and and if you do that, you know, ten times
you will relax. I mean, I'm telling you that.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
They're supposed to help you follow aside, right, square, bath whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Hold it and then let it out slowly and do
that repeatedly.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That can help calm you.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And there's also a good bit of that in yoga.
I know you guys don't yeah, do yoga as much
as I.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Do all of that time, because it's I mean, you're
talking about a lot of ancient philosophy here. The reasons
these things still work is they worked a thousand years ago,
they worked two thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
They're basic. Yeah, you can't beat the basics.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well, and they know and science now backs that they
didn't have science at that point, you know. But the
breathing exercise, the breathing, you know, you know, it activates
the slow breathing actually stimulates the vegus nerve, not last vegas.
I love this podcast, right, but I think I think
(06:23):
the vegas nerve or whatever whatever that is, it activates
the paras sympathetic system or something like that. I'm using
all these scientific terms that I really don't know, but
it has that effect on the body, so it actually
does work. So whether you do the five four three
two one with the senses or whether you do the
(06:43):
you know, the slow breathing, those are all fundamental when
you do your hot yoga, Jodi is there is that
part of it. The slow breathing is part of it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Breathing is part of every pose, even.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The hot air. You're breathing in one hundred and twenty degree.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I hold my breath in there for forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
No, No, I'm just saying that.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Breathing is very important.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
What does it feel like to deep breathe one hundred
and twenty degrees?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I think it feels great.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I'm just conditioned for it. I happen to love it.
It's not really for everybody. Hot exercise is not for everybody.
I don't think you would like it. And you don't
like me hot, yeah, and you don't like small spaces,
and it's getting really hot in a small space.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It's a small saun a room.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Do you ever have to deal with the vegas nerve?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
No, not that I know of.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Okay, have you tried any of these things, Sam, the
apps or whatever? I know that patience is a challenge
for you, which is the irony of the look. It
is for Jody too. Seriously, I've tried to send Jody
like the screenshots. It's like, you should totally try this.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But have my you know, I have mine. It's my
centering and grounding. Is yoga, any yoga, but hot is
my favorite. That's works for me. I find myself there.
In fact, if I have a lot of tension in
my life, I go in there and it is not
just a physical release, it is a mental I will
go in there with troubles and I will leave like
(07:58):
I feel like I left them in there. So that's
what meditation does for you, is what does for me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, the whole experience is that it's a very It
doesn't work the same for every one individual, and that's
why there's no wrong way to do any of it.
I'm just because I remember you saying at one point, Sam,
you were you were trying to experiment with it. I
don't I didn't know if it ever.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh, you're right, the patience didn't didn't work, So you
may not consider this meditation. But the thing that I
started about a year or so ago and listening to
books audio books, Yeah, because the way I do it.
Sometimes I listen in the car, but usually I have
these noise canceling headphones and I put those on so
I hear nothing but the person reading to me, and
(08:38):
that just brings me like that relaxes me like you would,
almost to the point of sometimes falling asleep. But I
get lost in that whatever I'm being told world in
that in that book. So to me, that relaxes me
more than anything else, more than watching TV, sitting on
the patio anything.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well, you've given up control and you're just you're allowing
yourself to be taken on a journey. So it does
take you out of your forward motion life. I'm always
thinking about what's next.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And well what it's also doing, because in meditation they
call it, you know, pick a home base. And so
while you're doing that, it could be the breath itself.
It could be holding your fingers together, it could be
the way your feet feel on the ground. And the
reason for that is because again it's all of it
is about just rooting in the present, which is what
those audiobooks are doing for you. You're not your brain's not
(09:32):
drifting to other things. That's where your home base is
that's where your moment is. So I agree, I absolutely
think that's the Yeah, the equivalent.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You know, it's funny is the drifting thing. That's probably
the only point in my day when my brain doesn't drift.
See those earphone, when those headphones come on and somebody's
talking to me reading the book. I actually I'm there.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, Well, we all can't have the experience that Murphy
had the other day with Champ his moment.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Unless Sam's cat does the same thing. I don't know
missed any part of the show.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Get it All on the Murphy, Salmon and Jody Podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the Show podcast.
You can subscribe, you know, anywhere that you want to
if if it's on the iHeartRadio app, great Apple podcasts,
great YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Wherever it searches there everywhere.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
This today, what I want to share with you is
something that it's it's interesting that it's a stress free
meditation with a huge bit of irony that happened at
the house the other day with you know, Jody and I.
So Jody knows the I say the Saturday routine. You're
not at home in the morning, You've already left whenever
I'm doing my quickie ten minute meditation during the week
before I leave her during the week right exactly, So
(00:35):
the house really is already quiet. My earbuds are in
and you know it's easy using the call mat, and
but on Saturdays when I first wake up, you know,
it's like three rings circus now. And Jody knows, Okay,
I'm going to say, I'm I just tell her in
advance because I don't want her talking to me and
not being able to hear. There's no response like, Okay,
I'm putting in my earbuds, I'm doing my meditation I.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Can always tell you sit differently when you're doing that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I really like I'm sitting up straight so.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Still and like looking at nothing or eyes closed. Yeah,
like I could totally sneak up on you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh my god, Well that'll make I won't. Yeah, that's
very relaxing this Saturday, No kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I have never never you need it more than anybody
I know, so I would never.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Hey, it works. But anyway, this particular meditation, and this
is so twofold here, this is something you can actually
use yourself that I'm about to explain to you, because
it really does work. There is an irony though, that
comes with this particular incident. For me, it's it's it's
a way to be stress using the five senses. And
(01:43):
you can do it different people meditate and do it
this different different ways. But basically it would be okay,
you start with your eyes open, five things you can see,
and you name five things that you can see at random,
you know, like in this room right now, Sam, Jody,
is this really camera? Microphone? You know? Speakers? Okay, so
(02:06):
you know, but you say these things out loud. What
you're doing is you're grounding yourself in the present. You're
not trying to get anywhere. That's the thing about meditation
is not a mission. Meditation. The end goal is not
for you to immediately land in peace. In fact, the
point is just be present, no expectations. So anyway, and
that this is part of that. It's grounding you in
(02:27):
the present because you're distracting yourself. So five things that
you see, four things that you can hear, and you
can close your eyes for that one if you want to.
It'll help you. You know, what did you hear? Three?
Three things? But three things that you can yeah, yes,
three things that you can I'm getting this all backwards now.
(02:49):
Five senses, all right. What you can see, what you
can hear, three things you can feel, that's touched right exactly,
Two things that you can smell, and one thing that
you taste. And the reason for that is because it
may be your chewing gum or maybe an coffee, maybe
a coffee or maybe there is no maybe just some
lingering whatever. So anyway, you're grounding yourself in each of these.
(03:10):
And the goal is you take your time and you
go through it. You're not going to be thinking about
other stuff while you're doing that. That's the reason it
roots you in the present. The irony of what happened
to me the other day is I get down to
the smells part and I'm used to. So there's a
candle that sits right next to me. It wasn't lit,
(03:30):
but I could smell that, and Jody was cooking something
with breakfast. I could smell that. But then a third
smell appeared all of a sudden, and it was our
dog Champ behind.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Me, sweet old boy with issues.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
He does have some sort of gay and it was
really ironic that I'm not joking. It popped up at
that moment and it was so distracting all attention, and
I took my earbuds out.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I told Tony said, well, I can't say what he said, but.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's like you can't. I can't remain in the meditation
with this smell going on, you know. I mean, it's
like you're supposed to be able to isolate yourself from everything,
and that just wound up just And maybe it's because
at that very moment I was already focused on smells. Anyway, yeah,
I'm sure it would have taken me out of the meditation.
Timing was impeccable, which was almost why I had.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
To, you know, to learn No, I'm sorry, I didn't
know you were doing that meditation. I just knew that
you were like out of it, like throwing the airbus
across the room like.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Man, right, I said, Okay, we're gonna have to start
this over again. But yeah, but that's one that's one
of the meditations that winds up being in sort of
a rotation of five four three two one. Although now
I'm worried the next time it comes up in rotation,
am I going to be bracing myself? It's he may
go in there too well, or I'll just laugh about it,
(04:49):
you know.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
So did you start over?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh? Yeah, you know, I had to, just because I
really wanted it to be a complete, you know, ten
minute meditation fragrance free, which which is what it was.
And you know, but seriously, I mean, that is one
of those some of the meditations that are the easiest
to do. They're not really saying they're not meditations, but
(05:12):
they're they're just grounding yourself in the moment. Yeah, exactly.
There's the there's different versions of this one too. You
if there's eight four four you inhale, inhale for four
seconds hold for four seconds, exhale for eight love it
and and if you do that, you know, ten times
you will relax. I mean, I'm telling you that.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
They're supposed to help you follow aside, right, square, bath whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Hold it and then let it out slowly and do
that repeatedly.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That can help calm you.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And there's also a good bit of that in yoga.
I know you guys don't yeah, do yoga as much
as I.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Do all of that time, because it's I mean, you're
talking about a lot of ancient philosophy here. The reasons
these things still work is they worked a thousand years ago,
they worked two thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
They're basic. Yeah, you can't beat the basics.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well, and they know and science now backs that they
didn't have science at that point, you know. But the
breathing exercise, the breathing, you know, you know, it activates
the slow breathing actually stimulates the vegus nerve, not last vegas.
I love this podcast, right, but I think I think
(06:23):
the vegas nerve or whatever whatever that is, it activates
the paras sympathetic system or something like that. I'm using
all these scientific terms that I really don't know, but
it has that effect on the body, so it actually
does work. So whether you do the five four three
two one with the senses or whether you do the
(06:43):
you know, the slow breathing, those are all fundamental when
you do your hot yoga, Jodi is there is that
part of it. The slow breathing is part of it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Breathing is part of every pose, even.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The hot air. You're breathing in one hundred and twenty degree.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I hold my breath in there for forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
No, No, I'm just saying that.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Breathing is very important.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
What does it feel like to deep breathe one hundred
and twenty degrees?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I think it feels great.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I'm just conditioned for it. I happen to love it.
It's not really for everybody. Hot exercise is not for everybody.
I don't think you would like it. And you don't
like me hot, yeah, and you don't like small spaces,
and it's getting really hot in a small space.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It's a small saun a room.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Do you ever have to deal with the vegas nerve?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
No, not that I know of.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Okay, have you tried any of these things, Sam, the
apps or whatever? I know that patience is a challenge
for you, which is the irony of the look. It
is for Jody too. Seriously, I've tried to send Jody
like the screenshots. It's like, you should totally try this.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But have my you know, I have mine. It's my
centering and grounding. Is yoga, any yoga, but hot is
my favorite. That's works for me. I find myself there.
In fact, if I have a lot of tension in
my life, I go in there and it is not
just a physical release, it is a mental I will
go in there with troubles and I will leave like
(07:58):
I feel like I left them in there. So that's
what meditation does for you, is what does for me.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, the whole experience is that it's a very It
doesn't work the same for every one individual, and that's
why there's no wrong way to do any of it.
I'm just because I remember you saying at one point, Sam,
you were you were trying to experiment with it. I
don't I didn't know if it ever.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Oh, you're right, the patience didn't didn't work, So you
may not consider this meditation. But the thing that I
started about a year or so ago and listening to
books audio books, Yeah, because the way I do it.
Sometimes I listen in the car, but usually I have
these noise canceling headphones and I put those on so
I hear nothing but the person reading to me, and
(08:38):
that just brings me like that relaxes me like you would,
almost to the point of sometimes falling asleep. But I
get lost in that whatever I'm being told world in
that in that book. So to me, that relaxes me
more than anything else, more than watching TV, sitting on
the patio anything.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well, you've given up control and you're just you're allowing
yourself to be taken on a journey. So it does
take you out of your forward motion life. I'm always
thinking about what's next.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And well what it's also doing, because in meditation they
call it, you know, pick a home base. And so
while you're doing that, it could be the breath itself.
It could be holding your fingers together, it could be
the way your feet feel on the ground. And the
reason for that is because again it's all of it
is about just rooting in the present, which is what
those audiobooks are doing for you. You're not your brain's not
(09:32):
drifting to other things. That's where your home base is
that's where your moment is. So I agree, I absolutely
think that's the Yeah, the equivalent.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
You know, it's funny is the drifting thing. That's probably
the only point in my day when my brain doesn't drift.
See those earphone, when those headphones come on and somebody's
talking to me reading the book. I actually I'm there.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, Well, we all can't have the experience that Murphy
had the other day with Champ his moment.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Unless Sam's cat does the same thing. I don't know
missed any part of the show.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Get it All on the Murphy, Salmon and Jody Podcast.
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