June 1, 2022 • 16 mins
From Chelsie Ward.....
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I never intended to share this story. I did it because I saw so many others who desperately longed for the answers I had. As I looked around, I saw the energy depleted faces that I once knew so well. I knew I had to share this information with others. It was my gift back to a world of hurting people. It wasn’t fair to keep this knowledge to myself.
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Colton Cockerell (00:04):
Hello and welcome to a another exciting
episode of Bridge the Gap. Wherewe're balancing life through
health, wealth, business andrelationships.
All right, hello everyone andwelcome to another exciting
episode. My name is ColtonCockerell. And with me every
single Wednesday, I have thelovely and trying to think of
(00:25):
another adjective Trish, Ican't, so I'm just gonna go
ahead and throw it to you. Mywonderful co host, Miss Trisha
Stetzel, what's going on?
Trisha Stetzel (00:30):
Thanks, Colin.
You could call me cute or sweetor times thoughtful. I
Colton Cockerell (00:35):
don't think Dennis would appreciate that.
Trisha Stetzel (00:37):
Hey, everyone, Trisha Stetzel here Results
Xtreme Business Solutions. Andwelcome. This month on the show,
we are focused on health andwellness. And today we're going
to talk about meditation andrelaxation. And we have back on
the show my favorite friend,Miss Chelsea Ward to talk with
us about meditation andrelaxation. Chelsea, welcome to
(01:00):
the show.
Chelsea Ward (01:02):
Thank you both so much. I'm thrilled to be with
you here again.
Colton Cockerell (01:06):
Yeah, and we're excited to have you and I
sadly wasn't able to be with youlast time. So this is the first
time for me. So I'm excited.
Well, excluding the first timehe came on me years ago. Anyway,
enough wasting time. I do wantto jump in and ask some
questions here. I think thefirst thing that we think of,
Trisha Stetzel (01:22):
hey, don't we have a sponsor?
Colton Cockerell (01:25):
Oh, my goodness. And and it's the best
sponsor? It's Sharer McKinleyGroup, LLC. My goodness. How did
I forget that? Thank you,Trisha. See Trish's On top of it
Chelsea, as always, but no, whatI want to jump into is the idea
of meditation. A lot of peoplethink it's a waste of time. They
don't think that it's worth the10, 15, 30 minutes. So tell me,
what do you what do you say tothose people.
Chelsea Ward (01:46):
So we waste a lot of time doing things that are
not very productive things likescrolling through social media,
things like you know, we couldprobably list millions of things
we waste time on. But I will saythat meditation is not one of
those whether we think it is ornot. I used to feel like I could
meditate and walk. And whilethere is such thing as like
(02:06):
walking meditations, you can getin more of a meditative state,
when you're working out, you cando a lot of different things
where you're just kind of likefocusing inward getting present
in the moment. The big thing toremember is where you enter into
a parasympathetic state whenyou're meditating is that rest
and relax state, it is notsomething that we do very often,
(02:31):
because we live in this fastpaced society, we're running
from one thing to the next,we're, our hair is on fire half
the time, right? We're pickingup the kids, we're we're
managing our businesses, werejuggling all the balls, we're
trying to cook dinner, we'rethinking, oh, I need to get
healthy. You know, you know whatlife brings us every day.
(02:52):
Meditation is a way to reallystep away from that and enter
into a brainwave state calledtheta, which is one that we
never really enter into. Andthat is the most relaxed state
outside of sleep that we couldpossibly enter into. It's a
place where creativity comesfrom, we need that as business
owners, we need to take thattime to sit back and allow our
(03:14):
brain to just be in that stateof reception where we are
receiving. And that's one of myfavorite things about meditation
that most people don't talkabout is that we we can use it
as a time to receive the thingsthat we need to really go into
our day and be very productiveand very creative. And a lot of
(03:34):
times you'll have visions, andyou'll see things during a time
of meditation that you justdon't see in other times because
you haven't given your brainspace to actually think about
those things. And a semi wakingstate outside of you know, like
your dream state, which half thetime we don't even remember our
(03:55):
dreams. Right? So it's justreally is a time for us to be in
reception mode and to createthat space for creativity to
Trisha Stetzel (04:05):
I was reading something the other day Chelsea
take place.
came across my feed probablyright that said we spend we
spend so much time scrolling isyou mentioned that a minute ago,
that we don't leave time for thecreativity so our brain isn't
actually able to relax becausewe're looking at all this junk
on social media. And the mindsetThe thing that I hear people say
(04:29):
is I'm just gonna scroll myphone to relax and chill. And
it's doing the opposite. Right?
It really is kicking our braininto high gear because we were
looking at all the junk as wescroll scroll through. I'd like
to ask you Chelsea about whenpeople think about meditation, I
believe most people think ofthis you know, sitting in the
(04:50):
middle of the floor with thecandles in the om and the cross
legs and you have to sit therefor 30 minutes. Is that the only
kind of meditation there is,because that's hard,
Chelsea Ward (05:01):
it is hard, it's really about getting
comfortable. So that's probablythe easiest way to do it. Some
people will say lay down, somepeople say set up, I'm not a fan
of laying down and meditating,because I'm gonna go to sleep,
I'll be honest with you, I'm notreally good at that, I will do
anything I can asleep, I'm asleeper, but if you will sit up
(05:23):
and get in a semi uncomfortablestate. So that's why people
cross their legs, because maybetheir legs could fall asleep.
But you really want the body tofeel stimulated in some way so
that you're in that wakingstate, but you're relaxed. So
that's why they say sit upstraight. Because you're, you're
having to use your muscles tosit your body up straight,
(05:43):
right. So those are the reasonsbehind some of those practices.
And it's really just gettingyour body still so that you can
still and quiet your mind andfocus in and there's really not
a lot of rules to it. A lot ofpeople say quiet your mind, I
find that men feel like they canquiet their mind a lot easier
than women do. Women sittingtend to have these thoughts that
(06:07):
are going going all the time.
And men are just like, you ask aman what they're thinking about
nothing, like that's alwaystheir their thought. And I'm
like, Oh, they must meditate allthe time, right. So that's kind
of the difference. And womentend to have a little bit more
difficult time calming downbefore meditation. So one thing
I like to say is, if you cankind of change the frequencies,
(06:31):
music brings in a differentfrequency, and it can literally
change our atmosphere. So I willuse instrumental music, you may
play different tones and thingslike that. They're very specific
tones that are great formeditation, great for sleep,
helping you enter into thosebeta brainwaves. The beta
(06:53):
brainwave, so whatever brainstate you're looking for, you
can choose, just literally geton YouTube, and play something
and you can enter into thatmeditative state just by doing
that. Some people prefer to usea guided meditation where
someone's leaving them through arelaxed state, talking about,
you know, creativity, and kindof helping you helping guide you
(07:18):
into that just freeing up yourmind where you're just kind of
envisioning space, or that's onething that Joe Dispenza talks
about a lot is really justseeing yourself in space, seeing
each body part in space, likewhat could you experience what
your throat would be like inspace. And that really just
(07:39):
gives us something different tofocus on outside of ourself,
that it really helps kind ofrelax us, and get us into that
different brain pattern. So thatwe can really focus on those
positive emotions. So it doesn'thave to be anything specific. It
can just be it's really moreabout entering into that state
(08:01):
of rest.
Colton Cockerell (08:03):
Yeah, no Chelsea, I know exactly what
you're talking about my brain, Ican tell when I'm in bed, I'm
thinking about a ton of stuff.
Immediately, I can turn it off,and I'm going to bed my wife is
like, how does it how can youjust fall asleep so fast? Like
what what I'm, I'm gonna get sofunny, I didn't know that there
was a man, woman thing. Ithought that was just Colton
Madison thing. So that's good toknow. But hey, let me ask you
this. With meditation. I knowit's not, you know, clearing
(08:27):
your mind, I get that howimportant is breathing as well
with that.
Chelsea Ward (08:32):
So breathing is used to kind of calm your
nervous system. So it helps usto enter into that
parasympathetic state. So it'sone of the physical things that
we do to help relax the body. Soit's almost impossible for
people like I was saying earlyearlier to just like, stop the
mind, turn them on off and justsit there and pause and enter
(08:53):
into this relaxed state. Butbreathing is something that we
can do to help us so I loveusing different patterns. And
there's a whole different talkabout breath work in general,
just using the breath to enterinto certain states. But if you
want to calm the nervous system,one of my favorite ways is to
just use slow breathing or boxbreathing. So slow breathing,
(09:15):
for someone who hasn't reallyused breathing techniques
before, you would just kind ofbreathe into the count of four,
and breathe out maybe to thecount of seven. And that really
helps you get rid of all theextra air. And you're you're
kind of breathing out and you'recalming down, slowing down the
heart rate. The more that you dothat, see what just straight
(09:38):
into the count of four. And thenout to the count of seven is
that mainly just doing that outbreath a little longer.
Colton Cockerell (09:47):
So it's just getting you in the in the state
to prepare yourself formeditation. And I think let's go
ahead and like give it like a 10second pause, give people a
chance to just try it because Iknow that everyone's like
thinking oh, I need to do thatneed to do that. So give them a
chance.
Chelsea Ward (10:00):
Yeah, so let's breathe in. And then breathe
out. And then after that youwould breathe in and out. And
the other form is box breathing.
And I know this is Trishafavorite. And this really helps
you enter into that relaxedstate as well. And it's more
focusing on the hold of thebreath, where the other is just
(10:22):
breathing in and out. And thisis more holding between the
breath and the breath out. Soyou would breathe in for a count
of four. So in 234, hold yourbreath, three, four, breathe out
234 And hold 234. And you can dorounds of this for like two
(10:51):
minutes. And even as I'm talkingabout this, do you not just
spill the state like literallystarted to calm over this whole
call, I mean, it's just, there'ssomething about the breath is so
magical, like, we think we don'tthink about it, because we do it
all day, every day. But we cando so much with a breath just to
help relax the system, becausewhat we're doing is we're
(11:15):
forcing that parasympathetic, orthat rest and relaxed state,
because it's impossible to be ina state of stress if we're
physiologically in a state ofcalm, right. So as we calm down
the nervous system, we slow downthe breath, we calm down our
entire system, and we're forcingthat relaxed state. So then
(11:35):
you've entered yourself intothis very calm state. And
meditation becomes a lot easier.
Now you start to receive in thatstate of meditation.
Trisha Stetzel (11:48):
So I would suggest that everyone trade
scrolling through their phonefor relaxation to breathing, for
relaxation, right? That issomething very simple that we
could all do. So when you feellike picking up your phone and
scrolling through all the junkthat is there, stop and just
breathe, right one of thesemethods that Chelsea just talked
(12:09):
about. So Chelsea, if one of ourlisteners decides that they want
to try meditation, what arethey? Where do they go? What do
they do? So I love
Chelsea Ward (12:19):
starting off with like a, it really depends on
where you are in your brain, ifyour brain is always on, like,
if you are, the very next thingyou think about is picking up
your phone and scrolling. If youcan't pay attention for longer
than just a few seconds, ifyou're on one thing and then on
to the next, then it might bedifficult for you to just sit
(12:41):
and listen to some instrumentalmusic in the background to calm
yourself down. Like your yourbrain is gonna say, You better
get busy, you need to startdoing something like you're
being lazy, or whatever, youknow, so you gotta meet yourself
where you are. I didn't startmeditating for long periods of
time, I'll do an hour meditationthese days, you know, and
(13:03):
sometimes that's withoutguidance. And sometimes that's
with guidance. And sometimes I'mmeditating multiple times
throughout the day, if it's forenergy, I want to meditate and
then go for a walk instead ofdrinking a cup of coffee because
I know my sleep is going to bedisrupted if I drink a cup of
coffee, where if I meditate,it's not. So that said, meet
(13:24):
yourself where you are. I lovejust getting on YouTube.
Honestly, my favorite instructoris right now I'm so hooked on
him is Joe Dispenza. And he haslike 15 minute meditations. And
they're all guarded. So he'llwalk you through and help you
enter into that relaxed state.
He what I love is that he'lltake the first couple minutes,
and he'll explain, you know,something, he'll give a little
(13:47):
teaching for about two minuteson, you know what you're doing
as far as the meditation goes,and then he'll go into the
guidance, and then you'll pauseand you'll have to look through
and scroll through some of hismeditations but it's probably
some of them are like an hourlong, but some of them are
really short. If you havemeditated for a little while
(14:08):
then you can really just useinstrumental music, and I kind
of I LOVE EAST forest. He's oneof my favorites. So I'll use
some of the just east forestinstrumentals our inner myself
into a relaxed state just byusing the instrumentals and
breathing and you know, for acouple minutes breathing out,
(14:28):
sometimes I'll do longer breathholds. And then I'll relax that
out. So you can kind of getdeeper into some of those
practices, but then you justwant to set you know, set the
timer or pick a song that's foras long as you want to meditate,
maybe 10 minutes and then sit insilence for 10 minutes. Just
(14:49):
relax. You're gonna havethoughts come up, and you're
gonna think about your day butwhat you really want to focus on
is as I was kind of going intothat or earlier where Joe talks
about the space, you know,seeing yourself and space, you
really want to see yourselfbecome that nothingness. You
know, what if you were nothingmore to what if you weren't
(15:12):
attached to anything here inthis present world your work or
your spouse or your problems? Orwhat if there were none of that?
What if you weren't sick? Whatif you didn't have cancer? What
if you what if you just let thatexist? What if you just
coexisted with this chair? Like,what if you just literally
(15:33):
coexisted with everything hereand you just freed yourself from
any attachment whatsoever, andcould just be present with who
you are?
Colton Cockerell (15:45):
Well, Trisha, I don't think we've ever done
this before. But let's go aheadand give a challenge to all of
our listeners. I think everyoneshould spend just next week,
just take three days, Monday,Wednesday, Friday, wherever you
want. Take 10 minutes, twominutes or breathing, eight
minutes, just turning your brainoff and just just go into a
place of meditation. Just seeingwhat happens. You know, it could
start your day off or intradayon a great note. So
Trisha Stetzel (16:08):
yeah, we appreciate you and anybody who
takes that challenge, post yourcomments on how it felt in the
comments below. All right, inclosing, again, thank you to
Chelsea Ward, Chelsea WardWellness, and her contact
information will be in thecomments below if you guys want
to connect with her and please,as always tune in next week for
(16:31):
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Hello and welcome to a another exciting
episode of Bridge the Gap. Wherewe're balancing life through
health, wealth, business andrelationships.
All right, hello everyone andwelcome to another exciting
episode. My name is ColtonCockerell. And with me every
single Wednesday, I have thelovely and trying to think of
(00:25):
another adjective Trish, Ican't, so I'm just gonna go
ahead and throw it to you. Mywonderful co host, Miss Trisha
Stetzel, what's going on?
Trisha Stetzel (00:30):
Thanks, Colin.
You could call me cute or sweetor times thoughtful. I
Colton Cockerell (00:35):
don't think Dennis would appreciate that.
Trisha Stetzel (00:37):
Hey, everyone, Trisha Stetzel here Results
Xtreme Business Solutions. Andwelcome. This month on the show,
we are focused on health andwellness. And today we're going
to talk about meditation andrelaxation. And we have back on
the show my favorite friend,Miss Chelsea Ward to talk with
us about meditation andrelaxation. Chelsea, welcome to
(01:00):
the show.
Chelsea Ward (01:02):
Thank you both so much. I'm thrilled to be with
you here again.
Colton Cockerell (01:06):
Yeah, and we're excited to have you and I
sadly wasn't able to be with youlast time. So this is the first
time for me. So I'm excited.
Well, excluding the first timehe came on me years ago. Anyway,
enough wasting time. I do wantto jump in and ask some
questions here. I think thefirst thing that we think of,
Trisha Stetzel (01:22):
hey, don't we have a sponsor?
Colton Cockerell (01:25):
Oh, my goodness. And and it's the best
sponsor? It's Sharer McKinleyGroup, LLC. My goodness. How did
I forget that? Thank you,Trisha. See Trish's On top of it
Chelsea, as always, but no, whatI want to jump into is the idea
of meditation. A lot of peoplethink it's a waste of time. They
don't think that it's worth the10, 15, 30 minutes. So tell me,
what do you what do you say tothose people.
Chelsea Ward (01:46):
So we waste a lot of time doing things that are
not very productive things likescrolling through social media,
things like you know, we couldprobably list millions of things
we waste time on. But I will saythat meditation is not one of
those whether we think it is ornot. I used to feel like I could
meditate and walk. And whilethere is such thing as like
(02:06):
walking meditations, you can getin more of a meditative state,
when you're working out, you cando a lot of different things
where you're just kind of likefocusing inward getting present
in the moment. The big thing toremember is where you enter into
a parasympathetic state whenyou're meditating is that rest
and relax state, it is notsomething that we do very often,
(02:31):
because we live in this fastpaced society, we're running
from one thing to the next,we're, our hair is on fire half
the time, right? We're pickingup the kids, we're we're
managing our businesses, werejuggling all the balls, we're
trying to cook dinner, we'rethinking, oh, I need to get
healthy. You know, you know whatlife brings us every day.
(02:52):
Meditation is a way to reallystep away from that and enter
into a brainwave state calledtheta, which is one that we
never really enter into. Andthat is the most relaxed state
outside of sleep that we couldpossibly enter into. It's a
place where creativity comesfrom, we need that as business
owners, we need to take thattime to sit back and allow our
(03:14):
brain to just be in that stateof reception where we are
receiving. And that's one of myfavorite things about meditation
that most people don't talkabout is that we we can use it
as a time to receive the thingsthat we need to really go into
our day and be very productiveand very creative. And a lot of
(03:34):
times you'll have visions, andyou'll see things during a time
of meditation that you justdon't see in other times because
you haven't given your brainspace to actually think about
those things. And a semi wakingstate outside of you know, like
your dream state, which half thetime we don't even remember our
(03:55):
dreams. Right? So it's justreally is a time for us to be in
reception mode and to createthat space for creativity to
Trisha Stetzel (04:05):
I was reading something the other day Chelsea
take place.
came across my feed probablyright that said we spend we
spend so much time scrolling isyou mentioned that a minute ago,
that we don't leave time for thecreativity so our brain isn't
actually able to relax becausewe're looking at all this junk
on social media. And the mindsetThe thing that I hear people say
(04:29):
is I'm just gonna scroll myphone to relax and chill. And
it's doing the opposite. Right?
It really is kicking our braininto high gear because we were
looking at all the junk as wescroll scroll through. I'd like
to ask you Chelsea about whenpeople think about meditation, I
believe most people think ofthis you know, sitting in the
(04:50):
middle of the floor with thecandles in the om and the cross
legs and you have to sit therefor 30 minutes. Is that the only
kind of meditation there is,because that's hard,
Chelsea Ward (05:01):
it is hard, it's really about getting
comfortable. So that's probablythe easiest way to do it. Some
people will say lay down, somepeople say set up, I'm not a fan
of laying down and meditating,because I'm gonna go to sleep,
I'll be honest with you, I'm notreally good at that, I will do
anything I can asleep, I'm asleeper, but if you will sit up
(05:23):
and get in a semi uncomfortablestate. So that's why people
cross their legs, because maybetheir legs could fall asleep.
But you really want the body tofeel stimulated in some way so
that you're in that wakingstate, but you're relaxed. So
that's why they say sit upstraight. Because you're, you're
having to use your muscles tosit your body up straight,
(05:43):
right. So those are the reasonsbehind some of those practices.
And it's really just gettingyour body still so that you can
still and quiet your mind andfocus in and there's really not
a lot of rules to it. A lot ofpeople say quiet your mind, I
find that men feel like they canquiet their mind a lot easier
than women do. Women sittingtend to have these thoughts that
(06:07):
are going going all the time.
And men are just like, you ask aman what they're thinking about
nothing, like that's alwaystheir their thought. And I'm
like, Oh, they must meditate allthe time, right. So that's kind
of the difference. And womentend to have a little bit more
difficult time calming downbefore meditation. So one thing
I like to say is, if you cankind of change the frequencies,
(06:31):
music brings in a differentfrequency, and it can literally
change our atmosphere. So I willuse instrumental music, you may
play different tones and thingslike that. They're very specific
tones that are great formeditation, great for sleep,
helping you enter into thosebeta brainwaves. The beta
(06:53):
brainwave, so whatever brainstate you're looking for, you
can choose, just literally geton YouTube, and play something
and you can enter into thatmeditative state just by doing
that. Some people prefer to usea guided meditation where
someone's leaving them through arelaxed state, talking about,
you know, creativity, and kindof helping you helping guide you
(07:18):
into that just freeing up yourmind where you're just kind of
envisioning space, or that's onething that Joe Dispenza talks
about a lot is really justseeing yourself in space, seeing
each body part in space, likewhat could you experience what
your throat would be like inspace. And that really just
(07:39):
gives us something different tofocus on outside of ourself,
that it really helps kind ofrelax us, and get us into that
different brain pattern. So thatwe can really focus on those
positive emotions. So it doesn'thave to be anything specific. It
can just be it's really moreabout entering into that state
(08:01):
of rest.
Colton Cockerell (08:03):
Yeah, no Chelsea, I know exactly what
you're talking about my brain, Ican tell when I'm in bed, I'm
thinking about a ton of stuff.
Immediately, I can turn it off,and I'm going to bed my wife is
like, how does it how can youjust fall asleep so fast? Like
what what I'm, I'm gonna get sofunny, I didn't know that there
was a man, woman thing. Ithought that was just Colton
Madison thing. So that's good toknow. But hey, let me ask you
this. With meditation. I knowit's not, you know, clearing
(08:27):
your mind, I get that howimportant is breathing as well
with that.
Chelsea Ward (08:32):
So breathing is used to kind of calm your
nervous system. So it helps usto enter into that
parasympathetic state. So it'sone of the physical things that
we do to help relax the body. Soit's almost impossible for
people like I was saying earlyearlier to just like, stop the
mind, turn them on off and justsit there and pause and enter
(08:53):
into this relaxed state. Butbreathing is something that we
can do to help us so I loveusing different patterns. And
there's a whole different talkabout breath work in general,
just using the breath to enterinto certain states. But if you
want to calm the nervous system,one of my favorite ways is to
just use slow breathing or boxbreathing. So slow breathing,
(09:15):
for someone who hasn't reallyused breathing techniques
before, you would just kind ofbreathe into the count of four,
and breathe out maybe to thecount of seven. And that really
helps you get rid of all theextra air. And you're you're
kind of breathing out and you'recalming down, slowing down the
heart rate. The more that you dothat, see what just straight
(09:38):
into the count of four. And thenout to the count of seven is
that mainly just doing that outbreath a little longer.
Colton Cockerell (09:47):
So it's just getting you in the in the state
to prepare yourself formeditation. And I think let's go
ahead and like give it like a 10second pause, give people a
chance to just try it because Iknow that everyone's like
thinking oh, I need to do thatneed to do that. So give them a
chance.
Chelsea Ward (10:00):
Yeah, so let's breathe in. And then breathe
out. And then after that youwould breathe in and out. And
the other form is box breathing.
And I know this is Trishafavorite. And this really helps
you enter into that relaxedstate as well. And it's more
focusing on the hold of thebreath, where the other is just
(10:22):
breathing in and out. And thisis more holding between the
breath and the breath out. Soyou would breathe in for a count
of four. So in 234, hold yourbreath, three, four, breathe out
234 And hold 234. And you can dorounds of this for like two
(10:51):
minutes. And even as I'm talkingabout this, do you not just
spill the state like literallystarted to calm over this whole
call, I mean, it's just, there'ssomething about the breath is so
magical, like, we think we don'tthink about it, because we do it
all day, every day. But we cando so much with a breath just to
help relax the system, becausewhat we're doing is we're
(11:15):
forcing that parasympathetic, orthat rest and relaxed state,
because it's impossible to be ina state of stress if we're
physiologically in a state ofcalm, right. So as we calm down
the nervous system, we slow downthe breath, we calm down our
entire system, and we're forcingthat relaxed state. So then
(11:35):
you've entered yourself intothis very calm state. And
meditation becomes a lot easier.
Now you start to receive in thatstate of meditation.
Trisha Stetzel (11:48):
So I would suggest that everyone trade
scrolling through their phonefor relaxation to breathing, for
relaxation, right? That issomething very simple that we
could all do. So when you feellike picking up your phone and
scrolling through all the junkthat is there, stop and just
breathe, right one of thesemethods that Chelsea just talked
(12:09):
about. So Chelsea, if one of ourlisteners decides that they want
to try meditation, what arethey? Where do they go? What do
they do? So I love
Chelsea Ward (12:19):
starting off with like a, it really depends on
where you are in your brain, ifyour brain is always on, like,
if you are, the very next thingyou think about is picking up
your phone and scrolling. If youcan't pay attention for longer
than just a few seconds, ifyou're on one thing and then on
to the next, then it might bedifficult for you to just sit
(12:41):
and listen to some instrumentalmusic in the background to calm
yourself down. Like your yourbrain is gonna say, You better
get busy, you need to startdoing something like you're
being lazy, or whatever, youknow, so you gotta meet yourself
where you are. I didn't startmeditating for long periods of
time, I'll do an hour meditationthese days, you know, and
(13:03):
sometimes that's withoutguidance. And sometimes that's
with guidance. And sometimes I'mmeditating multiple times
throughout the day, if it's forenergy, I want to meditate and
then go for a walk instead ofdrinking a cup of coffee because
I know my sleep is going to bedisrupted if I drink a cup of
coffee, where if I meditate,it's not. So that said, meet
(13:24):
yourself where you are. I lovejust getting on YouTube.
Honestly, my favorite instructoris right now I'm so hooked on
him is Joe Dispenza. And he haslike 15 minute meditations. And
they're all guarded. So he'llwalk you through and help you
enter into that relaxed state.
He what I love is that he'lltake the first couple minutes,
and he'll explain, you know,something, he'll give a little
(13:47):
teaching for about two minuteson, you know what you're doing
as far as the meditation goes,and then he'll go into the
guidance, and then you'll pauseand you'll have to look through
and scroll through some of hismeditations but it's probably
some of them are like an hourlong, but some of them are
really short. If you havemeditated for a little while
(14:08):
then you can really just useinstrumental music, and I kind
of I LOVE EAST forest. He's oneof my favorites. So I'll use
some of the just east forestinstrumentals our inner myself
into a relaxed state just byusing the instrumentals and
breathing and you know, for acouple minutes breathing out,
(14:28):
sometimes I'll do longer breathholds. And then I'll relax that
out. So you can kind of getdeeper into some of those
practices, but then you justwant to set you know, set the
timer or pick a song that's foras long as you want to meditate,
maybe 10 minutes and then sit insilence for 10 minutes. Just
(14:49):
relax. You're gonna havethoughts come up, and you're
gonna think about your day butwhat you really want to focus on
is as I was kind of going intothat or earlier where Joe talks
about the space, you know,seeing yourself and space, you
really want to see yourselfbecome that nothingness. You
know, what if you were nothingmore to what if you weren't
(15:12):
attached to anything here inthis present world your work or
your spouse or your problems? Orwhat if there were none of that?
What if you weren't sick? Whatif you didn't have cancer? What
if you what if you just let thatexist? What if you just
coexisted with this chair? Like,what if you just literally
(15:33):
coexisted with everything hereand you just freed yourself from
any attachment whatsoever, andcould just be present with who
you are?
Colton Cockerell (15:45):
Well, Trisha, I don't think we've ever done
this before. But let's go aheadand give a challenge to all of
our listeners. I think everyoneshould spend just next week,
just take three days, Monday,Wednesday, Friday, wherever you
want. Take 10 minutes, twominutes or breathing, eight
minutes, just turning your brainoff and just just go into a
place of meditation. Just seeingwhat happens. You know, it could
start your day off or intradayon a great note. So
Trisha Stetzel (16:08):
yeah, we appreciate you and anybody who
takes that challenge, post yourcomments on how it felt in the
comments below. All right, inclosing, again, thank you to
Chelsea Ward, Chelsea WardWellness, and her contact
information will be in thecomments below if you guys want
to connect with her and please,as always tune in next week for
(16:31):
another exciting episode ofBridge the Gap.
Colton Cockerell (16:34):
Thanks again for tuning into this week's
podcast. Don't forget tosubscribe and share this podcast
with the most important peoplein your life. Colton Cockerell
with Sharer McKinley Group, LLCis located at 820 South
Friendswood Drive Suite 207Friendswood, Texas 77546 phone
number to 281-992-5698.
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