September 18, 2023 • 28 mins
If you have ever been curious about meditation and wanted to try it yourself, are interested in learning about different types of meditations, or are a seasoned meditator and want to hear about a fellow meditator's journey - this episode is for you!
There is incredible power that lies in silence and stillness, and I embarked on a transformative journey for the last 10+ years that led to self-discovery and helped navigate big life changes. As your host, Nina Elise, I invite you to join me as I share personal experiences about my meditation journey, marked with challenges, breakthroughs, and profound transformations.
Remember how daunting the thought of sitting still and quiet for a couple of minutes, let alone hours, seemed? Well, I do. I threw myself into a journey of meditating every day for two hours, navigated the rough terrains and high tides, and came out on the other side with wisdom and revelations about myself. We will explore various meditation forms, my experiments with the Triple Flame app, and a riveting 3-day silent meditation experiment. These practices, all unique in their ways, have helped maintain a steady meditation journey.
Finally, let's explore the subtle shifts meditation can bring into your life. Like the butterfly effect, these small shifts can create significant changes. Drawing from my experience with multiple forms of meditations, I share how meditating one to two hours daily has led to transformative periods in my life. What started as a challenge ended up molding my personal and professional life, proving that the time you invest in meditation isn't as important as the quality and intentions set forth in your practice. Join me on this enlightening journey, and let's explore how meditation can transform your reality.
Joe Dispenza Meditations: https://drjoedispenza.com/
Transcendental Meditation: https://www.tm.org/
Short Pauses - Free Triple Flame App: https://genekeys.com/resource/the-triple-flame/
Insights from a 3-day Silent Retreat: https://www.instagram.com/p/CvhZs9as5-p/?img_index=1
Where I learned to meditate in Columbus, OH: https://columbusktc.org/
Kyle Cease: https://kylecease.com/
About Nina
Nina is an author, artist, musician, Human Design Specialist, and podcast host of Receptive Impact. Open & curious to adventure and change, Nina Elise navigates the path of self-discovery, inviting you to explore the boundless opportunities that arise when we step out of our comfort zones.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Receptive Impact Podcast.
I'm your host, nina Elise.
Hello, hello.
For anyone who is interested inmeditation or are just kind of
getting into meditation, ormaybe you've been doing it for a
while and you're curious to seehow other people are meditating
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or other types of meditationthat are out there, then this is
the episode for you.
So in this episode I'm going totake you through how I got into
meditation and the differentforms of meditation that I have
tried and the ones that I havefound that are working for me in
this moment in time, and kindof take you through the journey
of like the highs and the lowsand you know, when I stopped
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doing it, when I started doingit, what shifted, what changed,
how I changed, and just to giveyou an idea of what it is and to
kind of release anymisconceptions about it or
stigmas or like fears or ideasof like how it should be,
because there are, honestly, somany different types of
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meditations and ways to meditateand there's no like honestly
right or wrong way to do it,unless you're like doing a
specific meditation, but,honestly, at the end of the day,
it's your intention behind whyyou are meditating and that is
what you're going to get out ofit, which is why I believe that
there are, like you know, a lotof different types of
meditations that you can do.
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That will work for you orsomebody else and may not work
for somebody else, because it isthe underlying intention behind
it and what you're looking toget out of it and like who you
are and where you're at in yourlife.
So, to get started, I just wantto give you this background of
like.
In my 20s I'm 35 now I think itwas like my early to mid 20s, I
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was just kind of starting onthis like spiritual path of
seeking something different andreally starting to come out of
my shell, and not reallyrealizing at the time, but just
knowing that there was somethingmore to life than just like
working my job, being in arelationship, eventually going
to get married and have a housewith a white picket fence, like
all of that stuff.
Just there was just like thisstirring inside of me.
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That was like this is notenough, like this is this can't
be the end, all be all.
And so this curiosity is whatled me to bigger and bigger
things.
And so, in my mid 20s, Istarted to I don't know exactly
how I was introduced tomeditation, but maybe it was
from going to yoga classes andsitting more in that stillness
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and it helped kind of like prepme to be more open to the idea
of meditation.
Basically, it was when I livedin Ohio.
I went to this I think it waslike some Buddhist temple or
something in downtown Columbus,ohio, and I just I wanted to
take a class on the weekend tolearn about meditation, the
origin of it, the roots of it,and to understand if I was
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meditating correctly at home,because I started to meditate at
my house and because I heardabout all these benefits to it.
So I went there and that waskind of like my first
introduction to like more of thetraditional sense of like this
is what meditation was.
And I went to a couple otherlike events and meditations that
they had there, like walkingmeditations, and I participated
in that and experienced that andit was really fun to experience
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.
And the way that I work is Itypically like watch a video or
go immerse myself in somethingand get a feel of like how to do
something, and then I kind ofgo do it my own way, and so this
is how it was for me with, withmeditation, and around this
time period I had gotten reallyinto I don't know if you're
familiar, if anyone is familiarwith the comedian Kyle Seese,
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but he was kind of like comedianturning into like the spiritual
, like speaker, and I ended upgoing to one of his events and
I'm trying to remember the exacttimeline around this, but
basically right before I went togo, I went to one of his events
.
I had set this like thesechallenges up for myself where I
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was like, okay, I'm going tostretch for five minutes every
single day and I'm going tomeditate for five minutes every
single day from month and I'mgoing to see what happens.
And this was before I got intoyoga and I was like, not
flexible, and so I would likeliterally stretch for five
minutes every single day, likeyou know, when I was watching TV
or just like sitting andhanging out with with my partner
at the time that I was datingand living with, and then I
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would meditate, I think when Iwould get up in the morning.
And after that I went to a KyleSeese event and in that event
it was like the three or fourday event in California had
flown out.
For that there is basicallylike this challenge that was
presented to us.
That was like, okay, I'm goingto do these things that could
have an impact on my life, andif I don't do them, then I have
to go do something that I reallydon't want to do.
So I think at the time I waslike I'm going to meditate for
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two hours every single day, andif I don't do this every single
day I think it was for like 30or 60 days because it's
something to do around, like thetime period it takes to
implement a new habit orsomething, and if I didn't do it
, then I would have to go eatlike a Big Mac meal on
McDonald's, and that was like soawful and terrible to me, like
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I couldn't even comprehend it,because I was like so into my
health and like taking care ofmy body, and so every day I
showed up and I'd meditatebefore I go into work in the
morning.
If I couldn't do the full twohours, like all at once, I would
split it up into like 15 minutetime increments.
So I think at the time I wouldactually go into the bathroom at
work and I would sit on thetoilet and meditate for 15
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minutes and that was like how Igot my meditation time periods
in for that one or two monthsthat I was doing it and I didn't
realize it at the time, but itwas like I was basically setting
myself up to become morecomfortable with being in that
stillness.
And so after I did all of that,it was like really profound for
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me and during that journey itwas like something started to
shift within me.
I was starting to shift andchange.
I was starting to see where Iwas out of alignment with my job
and my partner at the time andaround that time period I
realized that, like, the partnerthat I was with was not for me
and so I ended up ending thatrelationship after I had started
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meditating for two hours everysingle day.
And that was kind of like thebeginning of meditation and the
effects that it had on my life,because it was, like you know
again, I didn't realize it atthe time, but like getting in
that stillness, it was like Iwas tuning everything out
external and I was starting tokind of listen to the whispers
of my heart, the whispers of mysoul that was saying, like you
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know, you're ready to move on tothe next level.
You have something bigger.
You have a bigger mission andthis is not where you're going
to ultimately land.
And obviously it's hard whenyou're dating someone for three,
four years and you're in thisrelationship for the song and
then you realize you wake up oneday and you're like this is not
, this doesn't feel rightanymore, and so that was a
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really big leap for me that myintroduction to meditation
really helped with, and so myjourney after that I started to
get into more like structuredtypes of meditation where I
wasn't just sitting still andjust trying to silence my mind.
So my dad actually introduced meto someone who is into
transcendental meditation and Iremember sitting in the parking
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lot of Whole Foods.
We met up at Whole Foods and Igot into his car and he taught
me transcendental meditation.
He didn't give me the actualmantra, because with
transcendental meditation youbasically you go through this
like weekend or maybe it's aseries of weekend, I can't
remember because I actually didthe training but you're given
this specific mantra that youcannot repeat to anyone else,
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you can only use it in yourmeditation.
And he gave me a word that wasdifferent.
That's actually a mantra orlike a chant that's associated
with the lower chakras.
So we sat in his car for likefive or 10 minutes.
He showed me what to do with myhands and how to sit, and like
we sat there and we justmeditated in his car and it was
like my hands felt like theywere floating.
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It was like so cool.
It was such a cool moment toexperience to have this guy who
was teaching me how to becomemore still and start to shift my
attention from my mind into myactual body, and that wasn't
something that had actually beentaught to me before.
Once I started doing that, Icommitted to doing
transcendental meditation everyday, twice a day.
So I'd meditate for 20 minutestwice a day and I would do it in
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the morning and then I wouldsometimes do it at work or after
work.
And I stuck with it for monthsand months and months and things
really started to shift for me.
I believe I met the partnerthat I was in a relationship
with for like five or six yearsaround that time period and I
ended up leaving my job andmoving to Florida during that
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time period.
Like all of these shifts kepthappening, basically, and it was
because I was doingtranscendental meditation.
And then, when I moved toFlorida.
I went and actually did thetraining with the actual like I
don't wanna say the company, butwhoever runs the whole
transcendental meditation.
I went and did the training andgot my mantra and everything
and it was honestly like areally sketch experience.
Like the people looking back onthat experience, the people
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were not kind, they were notopen.
It was just like vibrationallyit was like not a match.
But I was pushing through itbecause I wanted the
certification for it and ithonestly like really turned me
off to that type of meditation.
So I actually stoppedmeditating like a month after I
did that training and I didn'tmeditate for a while.
I actually went through.
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I lost my job.
I really struggled for thefollowing year and I wasn't
meditating during that timeperiod.
I was like really reallydepressed.
And that was when I got intolike plant medicine and then I
had my cousin introduce me tosomeone who was part of
self-discovery, which is kind oflike, kind of like landmark or
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like the self-improvement, likecourse or like community, and I
hired a coach and she basicallytaught me like present breath
awareness and I learned how touse my breath in conjunction
with sitting still and allowingemotions and things to come up,
without trying to attachanything or attach any meaning
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to it, and learn how to like sitwith that.
And so that was something thatwas really helpful for me and
that next stage, to kind of likebecome more aware of my body,
to become aware of mysurroundings and to kind of go
inward and be more in tune andin touch and aware of my actual
body and to use my breath inconjunction with that stillness
and that meditation.
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So, while that's not, like youknow, exact meditation to me as
a form of meditation, and aroundall this time period in my late
20s, I was learning differenttypes where I learned how to sit
and just observe my thoughtsand not do anything with them.
There were times where my Iwould want to come to complete
stillness in my meditation.
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So when thoughts came up, Iwould just bring it back to a
central point which would eitherbe my breath or I would like
literally just have like thisblack screen in my mind where I
would come back to that, wherethere would be like nothingness,
and so I would experiment withthese different types of
meditations and they were hard,like my mind was crazy, it was
all over the place, and I'msharing this because meditation
isn't necessarily like easy.
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It's something that you have totrain yourself and it's this
process of coming back toyourself and going into deeper
and deeper layers within yourbody to bring out how open you
are, and it actually helps openyou up more and become more
tapped in and tuned intoyourself.
And so as I got older, into my30s, I'm doing other types of
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meditation, like movingmeditation, which can literally
be anything like yoga wasmeditation for me, where I would
allow my mind to wander duringclass without attaching anything
to it and then have releases atthe end in the form of crying
or shaking or whatever.
And you can meditate when you'regardening or when you're like
going for a bike ride or justany type of activity that
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basically clears your mind.
Like that is a form ofmeditation.
And so those are all likedifferent ways that you can
approach meditation and you canmeditate from anywhere from one
minute to five hours if you want.
And I think it really is justasking yourself like where do I
wanna start and what is myintention with this and what I
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get out of it, and so all ofthese different meditations that
I have tried to me when Ichoose to meditate, it's I have
that like experience with allthose different ones, and so
it's like these tools and a toolbelt that I can reach into and
say, okay, today I'm gonna focuson my breath, or today I'm
gonna sit in stillness, or todayI'm just not going to move my
body and I'm just going to behere and not try to change
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anything.
So I think it really depends onyour intention and when you
start to tap more into yourselfand to your intuition and what
you feel is best for you, thatis how you're going to know,
like, what is the bestmeditation for me in this moment
.
So recently I have been gettinginto just in the past year.
So I've come acrosscontemplation and I've heard of
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it before but I didn't reallyunderstand what it was.
And when I really got into JeanKeys, I moved through the Venus
sequence with that and Ilearned the art of contemplation
from Richard Rudd and this hasprobably been the most impactful
form.
I don't wanna say it'smeditation, it's kind of like an
in-between of like meditation.
So it's not like you're justsitting there and like turning
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your mind off, because it'sbasically like almost like this
active meditation, of like youcan do this whether you're
sitting in stillness or you'removing or going about your day.
You can contemplate it anytimethat you want, and I'm including
this in this episode because Istill feel like it's been
incredibly beneficial for me andwhere I'm at in my journey with
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my thoughts and connecting withmy body, because contemplation
is the art of basically allowingthings to come up in your mind
and being the observer of it andsaying, okay, like this is
coming up in my life, how can Ibe a neutral observer and let it
play out without attaching toanything or feeling triggered by
it, and then allow the answersto naturally unfold over time.
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So it's like you literally don'thave to do anything except for
observe something in completeneutrality, which is actually a
lot harder than it sounds,because we have all these
triggers in our life and ifwe're gonna sit down and we're
like, okay, I'm gonna sit hereand I'm gonna sit in
contemplation about Suzy and shereally ticked me off because
she did this and this and this,and it's like you're getting
lost in the attachment of likewhat that means to you, when in
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reality, it's something you cansit in contemplation with and
just say, huh, suzy did this,okay.
And then it's like you're goingfor a run five hours later and
it comes into your mind andyou're like huh, suzy did this.
What does this mean?
Can I look inside of me andmaybe look at?
Maybe this is actually an oldwound of mine and this is why I
am attracting this type ofperson and this type of behavior
into my life.
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And it's like over time, themore that you sit in or that
you're in contemplation withsomething specifically, you're
able to go a little bit deeper,and normally, with contemplation
a lot of things that I'vecontemplated on it's like it
normally just brings everythingback full circle to me in order
to resolve these things andbring it back to more of a
deeper connection to myself anda place of purity and
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sovereignty within myself.
And so, if just sitting instillness seems really
intimidating to you,contemplation might be another
route for you to go down, andsomething that I'm currently
doing right now is I use theTriple Flame app.
It's something related to JeanKeys, richard Rudd is the
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creator of it, and basically youcan sit in meditation from
anywhere from one minute to 10minutes.
It can be guided, you can havemusic in the background or have
ohms in the background or it canbe silent and you get to choose
your time of how long you wannameditate and then you can set
timers on your phone and the waythat they say to do is every
three hours on the hour, becauseyou know the power of the
threes and all of that.
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And what I really enjoy aboutthis is like they're described
as like a series of pauses, andso it literally takes you out of
your head at different timesduring the day and puts you back
into your body.
I just do it for three minutes.
Anywhere from three to fiveminutes is what I will do a
couple of times a day.
I don't hit it every singlethree hours.
Sometimes I'm missing it orwhatever.
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But the beauty of it is is youcan do it when you're driving.
You don't have to have the app,it's just like a reminder to
basically pause and just say,okay, where am I feeling tense
in my body?
Where am I in my head aboutsomething?
Where can I come back to myself?
And it's almost like you'retraining your nervous system to
just relax and to tune out theexternal and not take things so
seriously and put your attentionon worry or like anything and
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it calms you down and it bringsyou back to the state of like
okay, everything's okay, andover time it just gets easier
and easier and easier.
So I wanted to share that.
This app it's called the TripleFlame app is what I use and
it's free has been reallyhelpful for me and I think it
would be really helpful forpeople who are just getting into
meditation and they just wannalike, test it out or try it out.
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And, lastly, I will most likelydo a completely other episode on
this, but I did a three daysilent meditation in my home.
I didn't go anywhere and dothis because I feel like you can
do this anywhere.
Yeah, you can go somewhere andget guidance if you're new to
this or if you feel called to dothat.
But for me it was just more oflike I'm just gonna do this on
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my own and I set my own rules.
And it was again just kind oflike following my intuition of
like being like I need to tuneeverything out externally and I
need to sit with myself, becausethere were some pretty heavy
things that were kind of loopingin my mind over and over for
very long periods of time and Iwas like I just need to kind of
like battle this out with myself, and that was kind of the
intention behind sitting insilence and sitting in
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meditation.
So basically, I was meditatingfor five to seven hours every
single day for three daysstraight.
The rules that I had for thiswas like there were no clocks.
I had no idea what time it wasfor three days straight, which
was totally like like a wholenother experience and is
actually like integrated into myeveryday life of not being so
controlled by the clock.
But I would wake up and I wouldmeditate for an hour and then I
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would juice.
I only ate fruit and I juicedand I wanted to have my body
like not have as much likepressure on my body to digest
like heavier foods.
I wanted to be more like apurification process.
During that weekend I couldn'tconsume any information in any
way, so, whether that's throughhearing something or reading
something, I couldn't speak andI just sat in silence and I did
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yoga and I went for walks, andthat was what I basically
allowed myself to do for a threeday straight.
And so when I decided to do this, I chose different types of
meditations.
There were meditations where Ijust sat in stillness where, if
my thoughts went crazy, I wouldjust come back to that place of
stillness.
Another meditation that I didfor one or two hours was just
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sitting and allowing my thoughtsto run wild and not trying to
do anything with them.
And then another meditation Iwould do an hour long meditation
during the day where I justdidn't move my body at all.
So it was teaching you not tobasically have instant
gratification, where you're like, oh, you have an inch on your
nose, well, not in thismeditation.
Like you're basically teachingyourself to be like you know,
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everything is temporary,everything is passing and we
don't have to immediatelysatisfy everything.
And so it teaches you to bemore present with yourself and
to not have to rush to try tochange things.
And so that was really profoundto be in that type of
meditation.
And you know, obviously I'vebeen meditating for the past 15
years or so 10, 15 years.
So this was something that felta little bit more natural and
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easy for me to do, because, youknow, I've meditated for hours
and hours and hours at a time,and so it was something that,
mentally, I felt like I could do, and I felt mentally strong
enough to be in the space bymyself.
I had backups, like I hadpeople and my therapist that I
could call if, like, it got tobe too intense to be alone with
myself.
But it was actually a veryprofound weekend to really be in
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that silence and to bemeditating for that long every
single day and had some prettyprofound shifts about that.
So, again, I'll do anotherepisode on that later, but I
just wanted to share thatbecause I felt like this is the
progression of my journey withmeditation and you can see, it
wasn't like hey, I'm going tosit here for an hour every
single day and do this perfectlyLike no, I started out in the
beginning saying I'm going tocommit to five minutes of
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stillness every single day, andI explored a lot of different
types of meditations and theyhave all impacted me in a lot of
different ways and I know thatit can be sometimes intimidating
for people to say like, oh what, what types of meditation can I
do?
What's right?
And then we get overwhelmed orwe think we're doing it wrong
and it's like, of course you'regoing to think you're doing it
wrong.
It's something different thatyou haven't done before, and
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it's just between you and you.
We don't trust ourselves and wedon't know if we're doing it
right.
Are we sitting in stillnessRight?
Is it okay if our mind runs?
Are we going to get punished?
Are we doing this wrong?
Is it not going to bebeneficial?
If you know, a thought comes upwhen I'm meditating and it's
like we're so hard on ourselvesbecause we think that there are
all these roles.
And it's like the point ofmeditation is is you set your
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intention about what it is thatyou want to get out of it?
And I think as you progress,also along with it, you learn to
let go of the expectations andyou just do it because,
intuitively, you know this isjust how you connect with
yourself.
But in the beginning it's likewhat is your intention?
What do you want to get out ofthis?
You want to feel peace, youwant to feel relaxed, and so
when you set that intention,your mind and your body and your
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unconscious is going to movetowards that goal, and maybe not
.
It's not going to happen on thefirst day, but it's something
that will happen over time whenyou continuously set that
intention for your meditation.
So what I'd recommend for anyonewho is getting into meditation
is to just explore the differenttypes.
You know there's so many freeresources on YouTube and you
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know I'll list out in the shownotes what, what types of
meditation that I have exploredin the past and what I'm
currently doing.
And again, it's just likethere's no right or wrong.
It's like you know if you wantto try this, why are you doing
it, what's your intention behindit?
And again, no right or wrong,no judgment.
It's just, it's your journeyand it's your world.
So you get to decide what youwant to do.
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And my only recommendation, ormy only advice with meditation
is just to not be so hard onyourself.
Just know that you're going inwith the pure intention of
having this experience and it'sgoing to turn out and in the way
that you need it best, likethere's a reason why you're
feeling guided to go intoexplore meditation.
So I think that is all that Ihave to say about meditation
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today.
I don't believe that there isany one best way to meditate.
There is.
There are just thousands ofdifferent ways to meditate and
it really is just about findingwhat works for you and it really
can just be simple of just likesitting in silence and allowing
your mind to run withoutattaching anything to it, you
know.
And again, meditation can benot just sitting with your legs
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crossed, like it can be layingdown.
And oh, actually, one morething I do want to mention Joe
to spend some meditation.
This is actually something Igot in really heavily into last
year and really changed my life.
I'm not sure about to mentionthis, but if you're familiar
with Joe to spend, he goes,takes you into meditations into
the quantum space to makechanges in your life, to your
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health and like all thesedifferent things, to heal trauma
and basically bringing theseemotions up to look at and to be
healed and to be felt and torelease and to create a reality
for yourself.
And so, if you're familiar withJoe D'Spenza, he does these
week-long retreats where you'remeditating for hours and hours
and hours every single day andthey're guided meditations.
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So the guided meditations areactually very beneficial for
people who struggle to sit inthe silence.
So obviously recommend that asa starting point if you're
interested in that.
But you can also read JoeD'Spenza books if you're just
getting into meditation andyou're curious about what
exactly his meditations are.
But basically, I went throughhis entire course online and
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went through and was starting todo his meditations for one or
two hours every single day, withmy intention of this is a
future that I'm heading towards.
And basically, during that timeperiod, over the course of a
couple months of meditating forone to actually two or three
hours every single day, I woulddo a meditation in the morning
and at night, and then sometimesin the middle of the day, and
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at the end of that, I ended uplosing my job and I bought a
one-way ticket to Mexico and myentire life crumbled, which is
actually like a really amazingthing.
You know, at the time it waslike, oh my god, this is awful.
I knew what was going on at thetime, but this is actually
something that happens.
You know, when I first startedmeditating in my 20s and I ended
up leaving a relationshipbecause it was an alignment with
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me, and then last year, when Istarted meditating deeply again,
my entire life kind of crumbledunderneath me because it was
like I was shifting into adifferent version of myself and
I had different intentions goinginto my meditation, saying this
is how I want my life to be,and so that means, you know,
having to let go of things, andso your external reality begins
to shift and to change and youbegin to perceive it differently
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.
And that is the power ofmeditation.
Later on last year, you know,after I got back from Mexico, it
was like I kind of went.
I went through this spiritualawakening and I leaned very
heavily on Joe Dispenza and whenit was meditating for three
hours every single day with withhis work, because I needed that
support, I needed that space,because I was moving through
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really, really heavy stuff, likeI had just had core belief
systems and ideologies and justidentities crumbling within me
and was experiencing so manydeaths.
And so having the support ofyou know, having these guided
meditations, was actually veryhelpful for me to do.
And I say this I'm not sayingyou need to go meditate for
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three hours every single day.
I'm only sharing this becauseat the time I wasn't working and
it was easier.
But even when I was working Iwas still making time for
meditation because it was apriority that I was making in my
life.
It was something I wasexperimenting with and that I
felt was beneficial that I madetime for.
So anyways, my point ismeditation can produce very
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subtle shifts in your life.
It can shift your perception oflife.
It can shift your perception ofyourself.
It can start to change thingsinternally within yourself, and
so when you meditate, theremight be things that start to
shift and change in yourexternal world and it can feel
very bumpy and crazy and that'sactually really normal, and I
don't know that people reallyare aware of that or or know
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that, and so that is like.
The last thing that I wanted toshare is because I have had this
experience, especially when I'mmeditating for longer hours
during the day, I'm having more,bigger and profound shifts that
you know shifts my externalreality, and it takes time for
that to settle and for newnessto to start, and so, if you're
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going that route, just be awareof like this is a potential
potentiality of what may playout in your life and it's not
necessarily a bad thing and thatis where you need to kind of
like buckle down on themeditation, because it will give
you that space of groundednessand stability when you're moving
through those changes.
Okay, I feel like that is thelast thing that I wanted to
share, and so I hope this washelpful for anyone who is
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interested in meditation orgetting into it or are curious,
like what the journey is like orif you're struggling with it
and I just wanted to share mystory and my journey with it,
because it has been a very upand down, bumpy journey of like
highs and lows, and just knowthat that is completely normal
and that it doesn't have to beperfect and you can jump around
and try different things andexplore and what finds, what
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lands with you and differentseasons of your life, because
there are time periods where Ididn't meditate for a year or
two and the thing is to beconsistent even with even if
it's just, you know, a minute ortwo every single day.
You know and it's, it can bereally really that simple.
So, yeah, again, I hope thiswas helpful.
If there was anything thatreally stuck out to you or you
felt like, you know, kind ofshifted something inside of you
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or you had kind of a light bulbmoment, feel free to share this
with your friends or your familyor on social media or leave a
review about something that youreally loved about this episode.
I really, really appreciate allof that.
The reviews really help boostmy podcast to have more and more
people come and find me.
So thank you so much and Iappreciate your time and all of
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you for tuning in and I will seeyou on the next episode.
Bye.
Welcome to the Receptive Impact Podcast.
I'm your host, nina Elise.
Hello, hello.
For anyone who is interested inmeditation or are just kind of
getting into meditation, ormaybe you've been doing it for a
while and you're curious to seehow other people are meditating
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or other types of meditationthat are out there, then this is
the episode for you.
So in this episode I'm going totake you through how I got into
meditation and the differentforms of meditation that I have
tried and the ones that I havefound that are working for me in
this moment in time, and kindof take you through the journey
of like the highs and the lowsand you know, when I stopped
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doing it, when I started doingit, what shifted, what changed,
how I changed, and just to giveyou an idea of what it is and to
kind of release anymisconceptions about it or
stigmas or like fears or ideasof like how it should be,
because there are, honestly, somany different types of
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meditations and ways to meditateand there's no like honestly
right or wrong way to do it,unless you're like doing a
specific meditation, but,honestly, at the end of the day,
it's your intention behind whyyou are meditating and that is
what you're going to get out ofit, which is why I believe that
there are, like you know, a lotof different types of
meditations that you can do.
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That will work for you orsomebody else and may not work
for somebody else, because it isthe underlying intention behind
it and what you're looking toget out of it and like who you
are and where you're at in yourlife.
So, to get started, I just wantto give you this background of
like.
In my 20s I'm 35 now I think itwas like my early to mid 20s, I
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was just kind of starting onthis like spiritual path of
seeking something different andreally starting to come out of
my shell, and not reallyrealizing at the time, but just
knowing that there was somethingmore to life than just like
working my job, being in arelationship, eventually going
to get married and have a housewith a white picket fence, like
all of that stuff.
Just there was just like thisstirring inside of me.
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That was like this is notenough, like this is this can't
be the end, all be all.
And so this curiosity is whatled me to bigger and bigger
things.
And so, in my mid 20s, Istarted to I don't know exactly
how I was introduced tomeditation, but maybe it was
from going to yoga classes andsitting more in that stillness
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and it helped kind of like prepme to be more open to the idea
of meditation.
Basically, it was when I livedin Ohio.
I went to this I think it waslike some Buddhist temple or
something in downtown Columbus,ohio, and I just I wanted to
take a class on the weekend tolearn about meditation, the
origin of it, the roots of it,and to understand if I was
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meditating correctly at home,because I started to meditate at
my house and because I heardabout all these benefits to it.
So I went there and that waskind of like my first
introduction to like more of thetraditional sense of like this
is what meditation was.
And I went to a couple otherlike events and meditations that
they had there, like walkingmeditations, and I participated
in that and experienced that andit was really fun to experience
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.
And the way that I work is Itypically like watch a video or
go immerse myself in somethingand get a feel of like how to do
something, and then I kind ofgo do it my own way, and so this
is how it was for me with, withmeditation, and around this
time period I had gotten reallyinto I don't know if you're
familiar, if anyone is familiarwith the comedian Kyle Seese,
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but he was kind of like comedianturning into like the spiritual
, like speaker, and I ended upgoing to one of his events and
I'm trying to remember the exacttimeline around this, but
basically right before I went togo, I went to one of his events
.
I had set this like thesechallenges up for myself where I
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was like, okay, I'm going tostretch for five minutes every
single day and I'm going tomeditate for five minutes every
single day from month and I'mgoing to see what happens.
And this was before I got intoyoga and I was like, not
flexible, and so I would likeliterally stretch for five
minutes every single day, likeyou know, when I was watching TV
or just like sitting andhanging out with with my partner
at the time that I was datingand living with, and then I
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would meditate, I think when Iwould get up in the morning.
And after that I went to a KyleSeese event and in that event
it was like the three or fourday event in California had
flown out.
For that there is basicallylike this challenge that was
presented to us.
That was like, okay, I'm goingto do these things that could
have an impact on my life, andif I don't do them, then I have
to go do something that I reallydon't want to do.
So I think at the time I waslike I'm going to meditate for
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two hours every single day, andif I don't do this every single
day I think it was for like 30or 60 days because it's
something to do around, like thetime period it takes to
implement a new habit orsomething, and if I didn't do it
, then I would have to go eatlike a Big Mac meal on
McDonald's, and that was like soawful and terrible to me, like
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I couldn't even comprehend it,because I was like so into my
health and like taking care ofmy body, and so every day I
showed up and I'd meditatebefore I go into work in the
morning.
If I couldn't do the full twohours, like all at once, I would
split it up into like 15 minutetime increments.
So I think at the time I wouldactually go into the bathroom at
work and I would sit on thetoilet and meditate for 15
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minutes and that was like how Igot my meditation time periods
in for that one or two monthsthat I was doing it and I didn't
realize it at the time, but itwas like I was basically setting
myself up to become morecomfortable with being in that
stillness.
And so after I did all of that,it was like really profound for
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me and during that journey itwas like something started to
shift within me.
I was starting to shift andchange.
I was starting to see where Iwas out of alignment with my job
and my partner at the time andaround that time period I
realized that, like, the partnerthat I was with was not for me
and so I ended up ending thatrelationship after I had started
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meditating for two hours everysingle day.
And that was kind of like thebeginning of meditation and the
effects that it had on my life,because it was, like you know
again, I didn't realize it atthe time, but like getting in
that stillness, it was like Iwas tuning everything out
external and I was starting tokind of listen to the whispers
of my heart, the whispers of mysoul that was saying, like you
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know, you're ready to move on tothe next level.
You have something bigger.
You have a bigger mission andthis is not where you're going
to ultimately land.
And obviously it's hard whenyou're dating someone for three,
four years and you're in thisrelationship for the song and
then you realize you wake up oneday and you're like this is not
, this doesn't feel rightanymore, and so that was a
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really big leap for me that myintroduction to meditation
really helped with, and so myjourney after that I started to
get into more like structuredtypes of meditation where I
wasn't just sitting still andjust trying to silence my mind.
So my dad actually introduced meto someone who is into
transcendental meditation and Iremember sitting in the parking
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lot of Whole Foods.
We met up at Whole Foods and Igot into his car and he taught
me transcendental meditation.
He didn't give me the actualmantra, because with
transcendental meditation youbasically you go through this
like weekend or maybe it's aseries of weekend, I can't
remember because I actually didthe training but you're given
this specific mantra that youcannot repeat to anyone else,
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you can only use it in yourmeditation.
And he gave me a word that wasdifferent.
That's actually a mantra orlike a chant that's associated
with the lower chakras.
So we sat in his car for likefive or 10 minutes.
He showed me what to do with myhands and how to sit, and like
we sat there and we justmeditated in his car and it was
like my hands felt like theywere floating.
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It was like so cool.
It was such a cool moment toexperience to have this guy who
was teaching me how to becomemore still and start to shift my
attention from my mind into myactual body, and that wasn't
something that had actually beentaught to me before.
Once I started doing that, Icommitted to doing
transcendental meditation everyday, twice a day.
So I'd meditate for 20 minutestwice a day and I would do it in
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the morning and then I wouldsometimes do it at work or after
work.
And I stuck with it for monthsand months and months and things
really started to shift for me.
I believe I met the partnerthat I was in a relationship
with for like five or six yearsaround that time period and I
ended up leaving my job andmoving to Florida during that
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time period.
Like all of these shifts kepthappening, basically, and it was
because I was doingtranscendental meditation.
And then, when I moved toFlorida.
I went and actually did thetraining with the actual like I
don't wanna say the company, butwhoever runs the whole
transcendental meditation.
I went and did the training andgot my mantra and everything
and it was honestly like areally sketch experience.
Like the people looking back onthat experience, the people
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were not kind, they were notopen.
It was just like vibrationallyit was like not a match.
But I was pushing through itbecause I wanted the
certification for it and ithonestly like really turned me
off to that type of meditation.
So I actually stoppedmeditating like a month after I
did that training and I didn'tmeditate for a while.
I actually went through.
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I lost my job.
I really struggled for thefollowing year and I wasn't
meditating during that timeperiod.
I was like really reallydepressed.
And that was when I got intolike plant medicine and then I
had my cousin introduce me tosomeone who was part of
self-discovery, which is kind oflike, kind of like landmark or
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like the self-improvement, likecourse or like community, and I
hired a coach and she basicallytaught me like present breath
awareness and I learned how touse my breath in conjunction
with sitting still and allowingemotions and things to come up,
without trying to attachanything or attach any meaning
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to it, and learn how to like sitwith that.
And so that was something thatwas really helpful for me and
that next stage, to kind of likebecome more aware of my body,
to become aware of mysurroundings and to kind of go
inward and be more in tune andin touch and aware of my actual
body and to use my breath inconjunction with that stillness
and that meditation.
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So, while that's not, like youknow, exact meditation to me as
a form of meditation, and aroundall this time period in my late
20s, I was learning differenttypes where I learned how to sit
and just observe my thoughtsand not do anything with them.
There were times where my Iwould want to come to complete
stillness in my meditation.
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So when thoughts came up, Iwould just bring it back to a
central point which would eitherbe my breath or I would like
literally just have like thisblack screen in my mind where I
would come back to that, wherethere would be like nothingness,
and so I would experiment withthese different types of
meditations and they were hard,like my mind was crazy, it was
all over the place, and I'msharing this because meditation
isn't necessarily like easy.
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It's something that you have totrain yourself and it's this
process of coming back toyourself and going into deeper
and deeper layers within yourbody to bring out how open you
are, and it actually helps openyou up more and become more
tapped in and tuned intoyourself.
And so as I got older, into my30s, I'm doing other types of
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meditation, like movingmeditation, which can literally
be anything like yoga wasmeditation for me, where I would
allow my mind to wander duringclass without attaching anything
to it and then have releases atthe end in the form of crying
or shaking or whatever.
And you can meditate when you'regardening or when you're like
going for a bike ride or justany type of activity that
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basically clears your mind.
Like that is a form ofmeditation.
And so those are all likedifferent ways that you can
approach meditation and you canmeditate from anywhere from one
minute to five hours if you want.
And I think it really is justasking yourself like where do I
wanna start and what is myintention with this and what I
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get out of it, and so all ofthese different meditations that
I have tried to me when Ichoose to meditate, it's I have
that like experience with allthose different ones, and so
it's like these tools and a toolbelt that I can reach into and
say, okay, today I'm gonna focuson my breath, or today I'm
gonna sit in stillness, or todayI'm just not going to move my
body and I'm just going to behere and not try to change
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anything.
So I think it really depends onyour intention and when you
start to tap more into yourselfand to your intuition and what
you feel is best for you, thatis how you're going to know,
like, what is the bestmeditation for me in this moment
.
So recently I have been gettinginto just in the past year.
So I've come acrosscontemplation and I've heard of
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it before but I didn't reallyunderstand what it was.
And when I really got into JeanKeys, I moved through the Venus
sequence with that and Ilearned the art of contemplation
from Richard Rudd and this hasprobably been the most impactful
form.
I don't wanna say it'smeditation, it's kind of like an
in-between of like meditation.
So it's not like you're justsitting there and like turning
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your mind off, because it'sbasically like almost like this
active meditation, of like youcan do this whether you're
sitting in stillness or you'removing or going about your day.
You can contemplate it anytimethat you want, and I'm including
this in this episode because Istill feel like it's been
incredibly beneficial for me andwhere I'm at in my journey with
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my thoughts and connecting withmy body, because contemplation
is the art of basically allowingthings to come up in your mind
and being the observer of it andsaying, okay, like this is
coming up in my life, how can Ibe a neutral observer and let it
play out without attaching toanything or feeling triggered by
it, and then allow the answersto naturally unfold over time.
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So it's like you literally don'thave to do anything except for
observe something in completeneutrality, which is actually a
lot harder than it sounds,because we have all these
triggers in our life and ifwe're gonna sit down and we're
like, okay, I'm gonna sit hereand I'm gonna sit in
contemplation about Suzy and shereally ticked me off because
she did this and this and this,and it's like you're getting
lost in the attachment of likewhat that means to you, when in
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reality, it's something you cansit in contemplation with and
just say, huh, suzy did this,okay.
And then it's like you're goingfor a run five hours later and
it comes into your mind andyou're like huh, suzy did this.
What does this mean?
Can I look inside of me andmaybe look at?
Maybe this is actually an oldwound of mine and this is why I
am attracting this type ofperson and this type of behavior
into my life.
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And it's like over time, themore that you sit in or that
you're in contemplation withsomething specifically, you're
able to go a little bit deeper,and normally, with contemplation
a lot of things that I'vecontemplated on it's like it
normally just brings everythingback full circle to me in order
to resolve these things andbring it back to more of a
deeper connection to myself anda place of purity and
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sovereignty within myself.
And so, if just sitting instillness seems really
intimidating to you,contemplation might be another
route for you to go down, andsomething that I'm currently
doing right now is I use theTriple Flame app.
It's something related to JeanKeys, richard Rudd is the
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creator of it, and basically youcan sit in meditation from
anywhere from one minute to 10minutes.
It can be guided, you can havemusic in the background or have
ohms in the background or it canbe silent and you get to choose
your time of how long you wannameditate and then you can set
timers on your phone and the waythat they say to do is every
three hours on the hour, becauseyou know the power of the
threes and all of that.
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And what I really enjoy aboutthis is like they're described
as like a series of pauses, andso it literally takes you out of
your head at different timesduring the day and puts you back
into your body.
I just do it for three minutes.
Anywhere from three to fiveminutes is what I will do a
couple of times a day.
I don't hit it every singlethree hours.
Sometimes I'm missing it orwhatever.
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But the beauty of it is is youcan do it when you're driving.
You don't have to have the app,it's just like a reminder to
basically pause and just say,okay, where am I feeling tense
in my body?
Where am I in my head aboutsomething?
Where can I come back to myself?
And it's almost like you'retraining your nervous system to
just relax and to tune out theexternal and not take things so
seriously and put your attentionon worry or like anything and
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it calms you down and it bringsyou back to the state of like
okay, everything's okay, andover time it just gets easier
and easier and easier.
So I wanted to share that.
This app it's called the TripleFlame app is what I use and
it's free has been reallyhelpful for me and I think it
would be really helpful forpeople who are just getting into
meditation and they just wannalike, test it out or try it out.
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And, lastly, I will most likelydo a completely other episode on
this, but I did a three daysilent meditation in my home.
I didn't go anywhere and dothis because I feel like you can
do this anywhere.
Yeah, you can go somewhere andget guidance if you're new to
this or if you feel called to dothat.
But for me it was just more oflike I'm just gonna do this on
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my own and I set my own rules.
And it was again just kind oflike following my intuition of
like being like I need to tuneeverything out externally and I
need to sit with myself, becausethere were some pretty heavy
things that were kind of loopingin my mind over and over for
very long periods of time and Iwas like I just need to kind of
like battle this out with myself, and that was kind of the
intention behind sitting insilence and sitting in
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meditation.
So basically, I was meditatingfor five to seven hours every
single day for three daysstraight.
The rules that I had for thiswas like there were no clocks.
I had no idea what time it wasfor three days straight, which
was totally like like a wholenother experience and is
actually like integrated into myeveryday life of not being so
controlled by the clock.
But I would wake up and I wouldmeditate for an hour and then I
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would juice.
I only ate fruit and I juicedand I wanted to have my body
like not have as much likepressure on my body to digest
like heavier foods.
I wanted to be more like apurification process.
During that weekend I couldn'tconsume any information in any
way, so, whether that's throughhearing something or reading
something, I couldn't speak andI just sat in silence and I did
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yoga and I went for walks, andthat was what I basically
allowed myself to do for a threeday straight.
And so when I decided to do this, I chose different types of
meditations.
There were meditations where Ijust sat in stillness where, if
my thoughts went crazy, I wouldjust come back to that place of
stillness.
Another meditation that I didfor one or two hours was just
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sitting and allowing my thoughtsto run wild and not trying to
do anything with them.
And then another meditation Iwould do an hour long meditation
during the day where I justdidn't move my body at all.
So it was teaching you not tobasically have instant
gratification, where you're like, oh, you have an inch on your
nose, well, not in thismeditation.
Like you're basically teachingyourself to be like you know,
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everything is temporary,everything is passing and we
don't have to immediatelysatisfy everything.
And so it teaches you to bemore present with yourself and
to not have to rush to try tochange things.
And so that was really profoundto be in that type of
meditation.
And you know, obviously I'vebeen meditating for the past 15
years or so 10, 15 years.
So this was something that felta little bit more natural and
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easy for me to do, because, youknow, I've meditated for hours
and hours and hours at a time,and so it was something that,
mentally, I felt like I could do, and I felt mentally strong
enough to be in the space bymyself.
I had backups, like I hadpeople and my therapist that I
could call if, like, it got tobe too intense to be alone with
myself.
But it was actually a veryprofound weekend to really be in
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that silence and to bemeditating for that long every
single day and had some prettyprofound shifts about that.
So, again, I'll do anotherepisode on that later, but I
just wanted to share thatbecause I felt like this is the
progression of my journey withmeditation and you can see, it
wasn't like hey, I'm going tosit here for an hour every
single day and do this perfectlyLike no, I started out in the
beginning saying I'm going tocommit to five minutes of
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stillness every single day, andI explored a lot of different
types of meditations and theyhave all impacted me in a lot of
different ways and I know thatit can be sometimes intimidating
for people to say like, oh what, what types of meditation can I
do?
What's right?
And then we get overwhelmed orwe think we're doing it wrong
and it's like, of course you'regoing to think you're doing it
wrong.
It's something different thatyou haven't done before, and
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it's just between you and you.
We don't trust ourselves and wedon't know if we're doing it
right.
Are we sitting in stillnessRight?
Is it okay if our mind runs?
Are we going to get punished?
Are we doing this wrong?
Is it not going to bebeneficial?
If you know, a thought comes upwhen I'm meditating and it's
like we're so hard on ourselvesbecause we think that there are
all these roles.
And it's like the point ofmeditation is is you set your
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intention about what it is thatyou want to get out of it?
And I think as you progress,also along with it, you learn to
let go of the expectations andyou just do it because,
intuitively, you know this isjust how you connect with
yourself.
But in the beginning it's likewhat is your intention?
What do you want to get out ofthis?
You want to feel peace, youwant to feel relaxed, and so
when you set that intention,your mind and your body and your
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unconscious is going to movetowards that goal, and maybe not
.
It's not going to happen on thefirst day, but it's something
that will happen over time whenyou continuously set that
intention for your meditation.
So what I'd recommend for anyonewho is getting into meditation
is to just explore the differenttypes.
You know there's so many freeresources on YouTube and you
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know I'll list out in the shownotes what, what types of
meditation that I have exploredin the past and what I'm
currently doing.
And again, it's just likethere's no right or wrong.
It's like you know if you wantto try this, why are you doing
it, what's your intention behindit?
And again, no right or wrong,no judgment.
It's just, it's your journeyand it's your world.
So you get to decide what youwant to do.
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And my only recommendation, ormy only advice with meditation
is just to not be so hard onyourself.
Just know that you're going inwith the pure intention of
having this experience and it'sgoing to turn out and in the way
that you need it best, likethere's a reason why you're
feeling guided to go intoexplore meditation.
So I think that is all that Ihave to say about meditation
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today.
I don't believe that there isany one best way to meditate.
There is.
There are just thousands ofdifferent ways to meditate and
it really is just about findingwhat works for you and it really
can just be simple of just likesitting in silence and allowing
your mind to run withoutattaching anything to it, you
know.
And again, meditation can benot just sitting with your legs
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crossed, like it can be layingdown.
And oh, actually, one morething I do want to mention Joe
to spend some meditation.
This is actually something Igot in really heavily into last
year and really changed my life.
I'm not sure about to mentionthis, but if you're familiar
with Joe to spend, he goes,takes you into meditations into
the quantum space to makechanges in your life, to your
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health and like all thesedifferent things, to heal trauma
and basically bringing theseemotions up to look at and to be
healed and to be felt and torelease and to create a reality
for yourself.
And so, if you're familiar withJoe D'Spenza, he does these
week-long retreats where you'remeditating for hours and hours
and hours every single day andthey're guided meditations.
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So the guided meditations areactually very beneficial for
people who struggle to sit inthe silence.
So obviously recommend that asa starting point if you're
interested in that.
But you can also read JoeD'Spenza books if you're just
getting into meditation andyou're curious about what
exactly his meditations are.
But basically, I went throughhis entire course online and
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went through and was starting todo his meditations for one or
two hours every single day, withmy intention of this is a
future that I'm heading towards.
And basically, during that timeperiod, over the course of a
couple months of meditating forone to actually two or three
hours every single day, I woulddo a meditation in the morning
and at night, and then sometimesin the middle of the day, and
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at the end of that, I ended uplosing my job and I bought a
one-way ticket to Mexico and myentire life crumbled, which is
actually like a really amazingthing.
You know, at the time it waslike, oh my god, this is awful.
I knew what was going on at thetime, but this is actually
something that happens.
You know, when I first startedmeditating in my 20s and I ended
up leaving a relationshipbecause it was an alignment with
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me, and then last year, when Istarted meditating deeply again,
my entire life kind of crumbledunderneath me because it was
like I was shifting into adifferent version of myself and
I had different intentions goinginto my meditation, saying this
is how I want my life to be,and so that means, you know,
having to let go of things, andso your external reality begins
to shift and to change and youbegin to perceive it differently
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.
And that is the power ofmeditation.
Later on last year, you know,after I got back from Mexico, it
was like I kind of went.
I went through this spiritualawakening and I leaned very
heavily on Joe Dispenza and whenit was meditating for three
hours every single day with withhis work, because I needed that
support, I needed that space,because I was moving through
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really, really heavy stuff, likeI had just had core belief
systems and ideologies and justidentities crumbling within me
and was experiencing so manydeaths.
And so having the support ofyou know, having these guided
meditations, was actually veryhelpful for me to do.
And I say this I'm not sayingyou need to go meditate for
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three hours every single day.
I'm only sharing this becauseat the time I wasn't working and
it was easier.
But even when I was working Iwas still making time for
meditation because it was apriority that I was making in my
life.
It was something I wasexperimenting with and that I
felt was beneficial that I madetime for.
So anyways, my point ismeditation can produce very
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subtle shifts in your life.
It can shift your perception oflife.
It can shift your perception ofyourself.
It can start to change thingsinternally within yourself, and
so when you meditate, theremight be things that start to
shift and change in yourexternal world and it can feel
very bumpy and crazy and that'sactually really normal, and I
don't know that people reallyare aware of that or or know
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that, and so that is like.
The last thing that I wanted toshare is because I have had this
experience, especially when I'mmeditating for longer hours
during the day, I'm having more,bigger and profound shifts that
you know shifts my externalreality, and it takes time for
that to settle and for newnessto to start, and so, if you're
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going that route, just be awareof like this is a potential
potentiality of what may playout in your life and it's not
necessarily a bad thing and thatis where you need to kind of
like buckle down on themeditation, because it will give
you that space of groundednessand stability when you're moving
through those changes.
Okay, I feel like that is thelast thing that I wanted to
share, and so I hope this washelpful for anyone who is
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interested in meditation orgetting into it or are curious,
like what the journey is like orif you're struggling with it
and I just wanted to share mystory and my journey with it,
because it has been a very upand down, bumpy journey of like
highs and lows, and just knowthat that is completely normal
and that it doesn't have to beperfect and you can jump around
and try different things andexplore and what finds, what
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lands with you and differentseasons of your life, because
there are time periods where Ididn't meditate for a year or
two and the thing is to beconsistent even with even if
it's just, you know, a minute ortwo every single day.
You know and it's, it can bereally really that simple.
So, yeah, again, I hope thiswas helpful.
If there was anything thatreally stuck out to you or you
felt like, you know, kind ofshifted something inside of you
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or you had kind of a light bulbmoment, feel free to share this
with your friends or your familyor on social media or leave a
review about something that youreally loved about this episode.
I really, really appreciate allof that.
The reviews really help boostmy podcast to have more and more
people come and find me.
So thank you so much and Iappreciate your time and all of
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you for tuning in and I will seeyou on the next episode.
Bye.
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