Slowly Mastering the Art of Living with Barron Hanson

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Australia down Under, and we're going to journey on the
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Are we ready to go prospecting? I know that I
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After reading his bile and what he's doing and the
inspiration that he's putting out into our world, I think
you're going to enjoy today's episode where we are all
slowly mastering the art of living. But as Socrates reminds us,

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the unexamined life is not worth living. So today we're
going to prospect deep on a few different topics, including meditation,
including awareness, including the present moment.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
And Baron is joining us for the first time today
to the show.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
He's new to the show and he is a multifaceted
creative meditation teacher and entrepreneur committed to mastering the art
of living. As a Vedic meditation initiator and co founder
of Convicts NYC. He brings together through transformative experiences, purposeful storytelling,
and community driven products like be Here Now Run and

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we'll talk more about that.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
He is.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
He is deeply committed to making the world a better
place through his work in various fields. Like I said,
he has co founded Convicts NYC, a creative studio with
the mission of quote troublemaking for a better world end quote.
And he also advises startup companies, mentors, individuals and businesses.
And he's also an authorized celebriant. In addition to his

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entrepreneur endeavors, Baron has currently working on a film about
his hometown and we're going to talk more about this
with the just the horrible fires and everything that took
place down in Australia and conducting research on the collective
efforts of meditation and what that looks like. His passion
for storytelling and creating films that matter reflects his desire
to promote a positive voice in our culture. We need

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more of those positive voices and more of that inspiration.
He's also the co also the founder of be Here
nowt nare, a community happiness project dedicated to fostering connection
and well being. You can learn more about him, not
through just our social media pages that has his link,
but you can go to Barnhanson dot com and you

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can learn more about this gentleman who is coming on
Inspired Living for the first time, all the way from Australia. Barren,
Welcome to Inspired Living. How are you, my friend?

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Good morning, Mark. Great to be connected with you. Thank
you for that intro that was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
You're welcome. And I might pronouncing the town right, Is
it now ray or now raw?

Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's now rah. You're very close.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Okay, okay, okay, And that you know up here in
the United States where you sometimes don't get it right,
so now rah now rah.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
It's actually Aboriginal for black cockatoo. So there's a whole
dream time story about the black cockatoo flew over a volcano.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
It was a white cockatoo and fire.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
And these black cockatoos, if you've ever seen them, they
have a beautiful red dash on their tail. And so
the whole idea is that they, you know, a white
cockatole who flew over the volcano, caught on fire and
then it flew over now.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Now nowurah, okay, all right, Well that's that's why I
do radio because I get to learn new things every
day talking with people all around the globe.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
So welcome to Inspired Living.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Tell Us, tell us in my listening audience, a little
about your journey, your background, and let's let's explore Vedic
meditation because some people may not be familiar with that
concept and what you're trying to do from a community
level and that one percent that you talk about on
your website at Barnhanson dot com.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, thanks Mike.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
So yeah, I'm a Vedic Meditation initiator, which is a
style of meditation. There's obviously a lot of lots ofation.
This one is considered a automatic self transcendent technique.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
So it's a mantra based practice.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
You get given a mantra, you use the mantra to
go to that least decided state to go beyond. And
so my journey started actually when I was living in
New York City, so a long way from now, pretty
much as far away as you can get from Narra,
and I was really stressed.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Like.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
And I had to do something.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
I was burning the candle at both ends, trying to
start a company.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
I was using lots of drugs and alcohol.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
I was running long distance is long distance marathon running,
and I came across betic meditation as a way to
kind of manage my own levels of stress and find
balance in that crazy place of New York City. And
over the years of many years of practicing this, people

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started to ask me, you know, what's your secret?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Why you're so happy all the time? Why are you
so relaxed? And mainly it was for me, it was
from the meditation, and so I.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Started to become do the steps to become a teacher.
It's about a two thousand hour training course to become
a Vedic Meditation initiator, and during that time I was
inspired to actually leave New York and go home to
my hometown of now to teach there rather than teaching

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New York City.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
So yeah, if there's any details of that that we can.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Start to fill it in a little bit. But that's
the wide story.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Well, like I opened the show with the Dolly Lama
talking about happy people build their inner world and unhappy
blame their out of world. I'm sure there's a lot
of unhappy people in New York blaming the outer world
for their unhappiness. But as zecho, it totally reminds us
when you know, when you realize that you're not your thoughts,
you begin to waken spiritually. Something drew you back to Australia.
But I also talk about the devastating events that also

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drew you back to start getting involved with your community,
because I think that's really important, especially at a global
scale and all that we're seeing with global warming, fires
all around the world, the flooding, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
Exp Yeah. Yeah, so if people remember back, it was
before COVID, Australia was on fire. Yeah, twenty nineteen, we
had the worst bush fires in living history. And where
I live and where my family's fires and so I

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was living in New York and he's smoke and fire,
but fourth our house was meant.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
To burn down.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
And so I actually flew home that night from New
York to Naura. And when I was I didn't know
when I was going to land whether my house would
still be standing, my family home that my dad built
with his hands. And when I landed, I found out
that the winds had changed direction and our house had

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been spared. But maybe twelve of our neighbors lost their
house that day. And you know, in that I came
back to town to help with the cleanup, but what
I noticed was a lot of stress. And you're absolutely right,
there's stress everywhere, and there's stress in New York City
that people can use meditation everywhere. But I realized in

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that moment that was maybe I can be of more
service here in my town than I can be effective
in New York. And so that was the real event
that kind of triggered the cascade of effects, which meant
leaving my company, leaving my high paying job in advertising
in New York City, and moving back to a town

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of about twenty five thousand people, so a relatively small.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Town. And then I've been teaching meditation and I've got
this project that I launched.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
It's called bhi Anaa, which you mentioned earlier, and the
whole idea was, I'm trying to teach one percent of
the town to meditate. So you know, it's an achievable
goal to two hundred and fifty people, but there's some science.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
And research to show that if you can teach.

Speaker 5 (12:10):
One percent of a given population to meditate, it can
have a seismic effect throughout the whole the whole geographic region.
And there was a lot of research down about this
in the nineteen seventies, in the nineteen eighties, about this
thing called the Maharishi effect.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Have you heard of it or are you familiar with
it at all?

Speaker 5 (12:29):
I have?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
And this goes back to a keep bringing back to
Dali Lama. But he had talked about if we.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Could teach our younger generations to meditate, a lot of
the violence and a lot of the chaos we experienced
today would be gone within a generation. And so that
effect that you're talking about is along those same lines,
maybe a little bit different, but the same concept of
growing consciousness through the meditative practices, whether it's vedic or
or some other meditation.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 (12:59):
And you know, it was really interesting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
he was a you know, spiritual guru in the sixties
seventy eighties, I think he passed away into that and
eight he proposed that, yeah, if you get to this
one percent of people who are experiencing you know, relaxed
state within their physiology through something like meditation, that it

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has this this kind of like tipping point effect, you know.
And we know that this kind of effect exists in
nature in different places. You know, one percent of birds
in like a sparrow colony lead the rest of these
sparrows when they turn. Or in our heart, we have
one percent of our cells, our pacemaker cells that actually
keep the rhythm of the heart going. And you know,

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he proposed the few. It's the few who lead the many,
you know, And if we could get four percentage of
people to de excite the nervous system, it has an
effect in the collective consciousness. And so he actually did
a number of experiments, and there's fifty five published studies
about this effect. The most prominent one was in nineteen

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ninety It was published in nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
But in the nineteen.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
Eighties they took about four and a half thousand meditators
to Washington, DC or summer, and during that summer, the
in Washington, DC dropped by twenty three percent compared to
you know, towns of similar sizes where nothing changed the
cities of different sizes. And the chief of police came

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out and said, you know, the only thing that could
possibly cause a twenty three percent crime would be three
foot of snow. But this experiment was done in the
middle of summer, so you know, it's really interesting, and
that's what I'm trying to recreate in my town and
film a documentary about it as well.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
No, I think I think it's great work, and I'm
glad that you're sharing your journey, like I said, a
true spiritual prospect that is out there prospecting for the
diamond within and the many diamonds all around through the
art and practice of meditation.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
And going back to the fires.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
I do remember because it's like, you know, COVID kind
of gives us that short term memory. A COVID kind
of changed everything in our world. But I remember those
fires also had an extinction level for certain animals and
species down in Australia.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
I remember, correctly? Is that is that right? Right? It was?

Speaker 2 (15:23):
I was a stud of how many animals that those
fires actually killed. I want to say I may be
wrong here, but I want to say over a billion
is what I remember.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
But correct me if I'm wrong? Is that is that true?

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Exactly? This the scale of these fires. Would I even
look back on it because I have a screenshots on
my FONEI on apps because I was kind of watching
and the fire that arrived at my house started four
hundred miles away.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
It was a continuous fire.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
That builds its way and to six weeks to move
along those four hundred miles. And I think, you know,
one of the things hard to comprehend is just how
big Australia is. You know, Australia is the size of
continental US, not including Alasta and Hawaii, and it has
the population of just over Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh my goodness. Well, I know.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
One of the trivias I've heard about Australia is you
have so many beaches around the continent.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
If you were to visit every beach in Australia would
take you twenty nine years. So there's a lot of
beaches there too, from what I remember.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
And the thing about Australia is a lot of people
do live on the coast because you know, the inside
is quite arid and dry.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
That I think there's something.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
Another statistic is it's something like eighty percent of Australia
there's no one in the middle.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Wow. Interesting, Well, it's definitely my bucket list to come
down and visit someday.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
So that and also New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
But let's talk about some of your background, because you know,
under your leadership you're working on this documentary called Convicts, and.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
You've produced work for you know, places such as John.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Hopkins, an Heiser, Busch, Alwity, Nike, Heineken, the Surflage, Grey Goose,
among other clients.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Tell us a little bit about Convicts.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Why is it named Convicts and currently the agency that's
on record for quantas USA?

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Yeah, yeah, great question.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
So you know, I moved to New York City in
twenty fourteen and I don't know what I was chasing.
I think, you know, everybody's chasing something and I was
chasing something different. I was kind of trying to get
away from NAWA and Australia and just don't make something
of myself. And you know that when people say you

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get New York, I do you make it in New York?
You can make it anywhere a lot that they're trying
to make it. And I met some other Australians who
were on the ground already in New York and we
started making films. So we started making little short films
about people who we thought were trouble makers for.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
A better world.

Speaker 5 (18:17):
You'd be one of those people, Mark actually a trouble
maker for a better world. You know, they're people who
were making the right kind of trouble. They're doing things differently,
but they have this kind of undertone of better world,
you know, trying to make the world a better place.
So we started making these short documentary films about interesting people.
And the reason we called our company Convicts is that

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we're all Australians in New York City.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
And as you might know, the.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
History of Australia was founded by convicts, at least the
white history of Australia.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
The British sent a lot of their.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
Australia to basically build a new nation in the seventeen
hundred and eighteen hundreds, and so we were kind of
thinking about ourselves like the new convicts, you know, exploring
new territory and prospecting.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Ourselves out in New York City.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
And so yeah, we started making these documentaries and what
it led to was a lot of working with brands,
so helping brands to tell their story in you know,
a way that is positive. And so a lot of
purpose driven storytelling was what we were doing. And we
were making films for ourselves, but we're also making films

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for these brands that were you know.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Quite prominent. And I learned a lot.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
I learned a lot about how the world works, and
I learned a lot about how to show up and
how to tell a story in a short amount of time,
and that led us into making longer form documentary I'm
working on down under here in Australia on behin Ara.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
When I first read the content, when it came up
from my team, I was like convicts and of course
the label you know, in your mind, you're thinking conflict
from you know, jail or prison. And then I saw
the Troublemakers for a Better World and I was like, oh,
I love that because yeah, I would definitely fit right
in that that wheelhouse for being a troublemaker for the
better world and use it.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know, one thing we need to talk about.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
As we move forward is the planet has over eight
billion people now. Right when I started this show eight
seasons ago, the opening is seven point three billions.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
In just that time, we've now gone over eight billion people.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
And with all of the chaos and all of the
global warming and the technology and the science it's today
is a good day to start meditation because it's going
to help you on that journey. And you became a
meditation teacher take us through some of that training and
the application, and maybe after our break, we can get

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in a little bit more of maybe an example of
how you do your meditations, if you're open to do that,
because again, the power of our community, we're so connected,
more than ever in the history of our world. But
at the same time, we're more disconnected than we ever
have been. And meditation helps you to connect not so
much to the outer world, but the inner world of

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who you are.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Absolutely, you know, vading meditation has been such a powerful
tool for me to really help to release stress from
the physiology. And you know, if I have to sum
up what vedic meditation does, it provides deep levels of
rest for the physiology.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
And so I.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
Think one of the things that's causing a lot of
distress in the modern world is our lack of arrest.
You know, I think that we're very We're told that
to be successful, you've got to hustle and you've got
to work hard, and I think a lot of us
forget that we need to rest. And you know what

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the stat doing is that more people than ever are stressed.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
The Gallop World Global Emotions poll.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
Last year said that forty three percent of people around
the world experienced stress on a daily basis, which was
the highest ever recorded. And the number one way that
we release stress is through deep rest. And what the
statistics are showing about rest is that people are sleeping less,
we're staying up later on our devices, experiencing higher levels

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of exposure to stress, and also that we're not getting
the same quality of sleep that we used to. So
meditation is kind of this thing that can supplement more rest.
And I think that is one of the reasons why
I'm out there kind of teaching this because it had
a profound effect on me and it allowed me to

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rest a little bit in the city that never sleeps
in New York City.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
That allowed me to rest, And.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
That's that's why I'm out there teaching at the moment.
And Yeah, I'd love to chat a little bit more
about the mechanics of how vadic meditation work and and
I can talk you through a little bit about like
how how we teach it and and a vadic meditation
teaches all over the world as well.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, And I think just as we move forward as
a species, as a culture, you know, the spiritual pathway
has definitely become more popular, including you know, the mindfulness practice,
the manifesting practice, the visualization practice, the meditation practice, and
we're seeing this at all levels where we even see
you know, famous athletes, famous Olympians say, you know what,

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I need to take a time out from this. I
need to get back into my mind. I need to
take a mental health break, if you will, you know,
I'm thinking of Simone Biles. I'm thinking of the swimmer
his name is I'm forgetting his name right now, but
he Phelps, Michael Phelps, and they talked about you know,
you're seeing them as ambassadors now for not just the

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physical journey, from just athletes and olympians, but just everyday
people on the importance of meditation, right, And I think
that's important. And if you know, we're going to go
to our first break here in just a few minutes,
but I think when we come back from the break,
if you'd want to take the listeners through maybe a
five minute you know, just basic fundamentals of you know,

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how to turn off.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
This noise because we're so surrounded by just noise.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Right there's just so much going on from news cycles,
social media platforms, your smartphone, the alerts, you know, and
that's just not even including your day to day life
interactions with your career and your relationships.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
And who you are in the world.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
But I think that would be I think that'd be
fun for the show and our listeners to get some
of that experience based on your teachings.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
But so what I.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Was thinking before we go to our break, because we're
going to go to break here in just about two minutes,
I was thinking the movie Contact. Have you seen the
movie Contact with Jodie Foster. Carl Sagan had wrote this
years ago. And there's a quote that I pulled up
when I was getting ready for today's show, and it's
from Palmer Jos and he says, quote, this is the
world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology.

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We shop at home, resurf the web. At the same time,
we feel emptier, lonelier, and more cut off from each
other than any time in human history.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
End quote.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
And doctor Ellie Airway played by Jodie Foster responds with quote, Ironically,
the thing people are most hungry for is meaning, and
that's the one thing science hasn't been able to give them.
And now with COVID and with our digital transformation and
more people working from home. I personally believe that meditation
helps us to achieve that the meaning for who you

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are and why you're here, in which your purpose at
this point in time on the planet.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
What do you think about that?

Speaker 4 (25:59):
Absolutely?

Speaker 5 (26:00):
I think the number one thing that we're facing now
and especially with the increase and rise in things like AI,
is a lack of meaning. You know, what's our place
and where do we belong? And I think that's one
of the beautiful things about meditation is that we start
to realize that everything is inside of us. Everything we

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need to know, everything all about all the tools we
need for survival are actually inside there. And it's a
subtle shift, and it happens slowly with meditation. But what
starts to happen is we start to turn inside.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
And as we start to turn.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Inside, we realize there's a vast ocean of bliss available
to all of us.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
We just have to be able to access it.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
So I think that's a great topic to talk about
after the break.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, we're going to go to our break and we'll
talk about AI as well. That's another thing that's coming
up for us. You heard it here first from Baron Hampson.
Everything is inside of us. We're going to go to
our first break. We'll be right back here in two minutes.
You're listening to Inspire and Red podcast will.

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And welcome back to Inspired Living. Walt Whitman reminds us
do anything but let it produce joy. And today our
special guest Baron Hanson, coming in all the way from
down Under in Australia, a true spiritual prospector trying to
slowly master the art of living. And one of the
things that I enjoyed about your website, Baron, is you

(30:26):
talk about a master in the art of living draws
no sharp distinction between his work and his play. This
was a quote from Ip Jacks that you had posted
on your desk above your desk in high school. And
it's like a great question, am I working or am
I playing?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
And we are the judged of that right.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
And Walt Whitman reminds us that do anything but let
it produce joy. So whether you're working or whether you're playing,
do it with joy. In the world becomes a much
different place, and I believe that meditation can be that
bridge to help you get there.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
What's your thoughts on.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
That mark You really do your research. I appreciate how
much you look into your.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Guests, of course, of course.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
Yeah, I think this quote is really has shaped the
way that I wanted to live my life.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
And so many people get stuck in the idea that.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
You know, we need to we need to be always
kind of working and hustling. And I think that like
work and play can If what we're doing as work
doesn't bring us joy.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Why are we doing it?

Speaker 5 (31:38):
And I was, you know, I was, I was finding
that a little bit in New York City.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
I was having that realization.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
Even though I got to meet great people just like you,
you know, making interesting stories about interesting people, I.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Wasn't getting the joy.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
And so it sometimes can be hard because we're so
embedded in what we do, right, We're so attached to,
you know, what we do for a living, sometimes it
can really hard to kind of let it all go.
And so that was, you know, looking at that quote
was one of those things of like, Okay, you know,

(32:13):
it's time for me to move to the next thing,
and where is the joy?

Speaker 4 (32:17):
And follow the joy.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
And when that happens, as you probably know, start to
open right, you know, you start to get opportunities or
you get these green lights, and it's a beautiful idea
of kind of like following, following that joy, and when
you do that, like things just happen.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, it's that flow, it's that manifestation. It's funny and
my listeners know this, but I don't think you know this.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Baron is.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
I actually went to I was in graduate studies here
at the University of Washington, and this is where I
actually learned how to meditate. I was taken my Sports
Medicine and Human Performance certifications and the class was actually
focused on visualization, manifest station, and meditation for the professional athlete,
and it was about how athletes get into the zone.

(33:03):
You know, think Michael Jordan, think some of the greats
from you.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Know, sports past. How do they get into that zone?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
What is the what is the visualization, what is that
how do they manifest that energy to see some pretty
amazing things, you know. I you know, I watch the Olympics,
the two weeks of Olympics and the things that we
can do as humans just from a physical standpoint, was
just amazing. But I actually learned how to start meditating
in college, which I think is funny, which then of
course opened up my spiritual pathway and the intuitive prospector

(33:32):
and what.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
I do today.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
But you don't need to go to college to start meditating,
right And one of my favorite quotes is from Marcus Aurelius,
and he talks about you know, quote, you have power
over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you
will find strength end quote. And that's always stuck with
me about the journey is within, and if you believe
that and you start to go within through the power

(33:55):
of meditation, things will start to change. It's like doctor
Wayne DIYer in mind is the you know, if you
change the way you look at things, the things that
you look at start to change. And I personally believe
that now.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
But you know, you can't.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
You know, you can't make my listeners hear what we're saying.
They have to experience that on their own right. You
can lead a human to knowledge, but you can't make
them think. And that's true free will and choice. And
so I think it would be great. Again, we don't
have any script here, but I was thinking it would
be great for you to take us through as a
teacher and share with the listeners, because we have listeners

(34:29):
all around the globe, and whether they're listening live or
they catch us on a replay or an encore, or
you know, twenty years down the road, you know, with
our technology that we have. But let's talk about maybe
a five minute meditation some basics, just to help maybe
people who've never meditated before or don't know how to
get there. As a teacher and not having to go
to college, take us through your foundations of how to

(34:53):
find this source of knowledge and peace and wisdom that
we're all talking about today.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
Absolutely, yeah, I would. I would love foremost.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
I'd like to mention that the way that Vedic meditation
is taught is actually quite.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
A rich experience.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
So you know, when you would when you would learn
vedic meditation with a teacher, it would usually be over
four consecutive days. And the reason for this is that
we want to practice. We want to practice the technique
and then be able to be in the presence of
a teacher who can kind of give us that feedback.
Another thing about Vedic meditation is we always teach in

(35:29):
person because we have a belief that there's an in
person transference molecule to molecule.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
But I would love.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
To run everybody through a simple like coming to the
senses exercise. And you talked at the start about being present,
and if you're happy for that, I can lead a
bit of a guided meditation. It's not Vedic meditation per se,
but it's something that people can take away right away
and use every single day to help them to bring

(35:56):
them into more presence.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Does that sound like a good idea.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Let's go do some prospecting and see what diamonds and
gems we reveal through this process.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
It's all yours, beautiful, all right, Mark. So what we
do in this practice, this is as a coming to
your sensors meditation.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
And if you've ever been watching a movie.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
And there's someone who's a bit out of whack and
then someone grabs them and they go come to your senses, man,
and they kind of shake them, that is what we're
going to do here.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
We're going to come to our senses.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
And this is so simplistic, but it's so powerful, and
it's such an easy way to come back to the
self and the way that we experience the world is
through the senses right our hearing, our taste, our touch,
our smell, and our sight.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
And what it's really easy to do.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
You know, so much of our anxiety and when we're
overthinking is too much thinking. We're overthinking, overthinking, overthinking, and
the easiest way to come back to the presence is
just to observe our senses. So I'm going to run
us through about a four minute meditation that you can do.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
If you're listening, feel free to do this.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
If you're driving the car, you can still do it,
just don't do the closing.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Your eyes part.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
But what we're going to do is for anyone who's
not driving, and about'm just going to close our eyes
and what we're going to do is we're going to
observe the five senses. So the first thing I would
like you to do is I would like you to observe,
even with your eyes closed or if your eyes are open,

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what do you see and very simply just scanning the
back of your eyelids.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Now that we've observed what we.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
Can see with our eyes closed their eyes open, the
next thing I want you to observe is what can
you hear? And just for thirty seconds, we're going to
just place our awareness on anything that we can hear.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
Very good.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Now we're going to place our awareness on what we
can touch or feel. So maybe it's the inside of
our toes, on our socks, or perhaps it's the feeling
of sitting in the chair or the air temperature on
our face.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
What can you feel?

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Next, we're going to see what we can smell, So
we're going to smell through our nose, we smell. And lastly,

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we're going to see what we can taste. What can
you taste? Any lingering tastes or nothing at all, perhaps,
but we're going to just focus on what we can taste.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
And now, if you have got your.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
Eyes closed, slowly open the eyes and come back to yourself.
And you see that it's such an easy little presence.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Exercise that you can do. That you can just automatically
get you.

Speaker 5 (41:00):
Out of the monkey mind, get you out of the
thinking about the past, thinking about the future, and just
really bring.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
You to what is important, and that is the heat.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
It's just such a simple way to come back to
the senses and just remind us that we experienced the
world through our senses and that there's this beautiful, rich
vibrant environment all around us, and it only takes a
few minutes to come.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Back to that and bring us back to presence.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Give us a little bit of a tone to end
the meditation. Thank you so much, Breham. That was awesome,
And that's just five minutes of tuning into our senses,
you know, to see it, taste it, touch it, here
it smell it.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
I had some very interesting.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Reveals through that meditation, and I hope the listeners out
there gave that a go, and we'll stick with that
because you're right once we you know, I go back
to Nikola Tesla who was talking about this in eighteen
sixty five.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
If we want to unlock secrets.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Of the universe and open up doorways to the universe,
we have to think in terms of energy, frequency and
vibration and.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Meditation a lot with other modalities.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
There's a lot of different things that we haven't even
talked about today that the body, the mind and bridges
that can help us get to that deep spiritual pathway.
But I was thinking of Eckart Tootally as well, where
you talked about quote, I'm not my thoughts, emotions, sets, perceptions,
and experiences.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
I'm not the content of my life.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
I am life, I am the space in which things
all happen. I am consciousness, I am the now, I
am the end quote that's for Macartoli. And there's a
lot of power about the present moment, and that's for me.
That's what meditation does. It helps bring me back to
the present moment and it gets me out of what
you had referred to as the monkey mind, because at times,
based on our material world and the effects that the

(42:56):
material can have on us, I get a lot of
monkeys in my mind that are running around, you know,
trying to get whatever banana or chaos, are trying to ego, opinion, judgment,
you know, whatever it may be. But the breath and
the power meditation really quiets those monkeys down. So I
appreciate you doing that for the listening audience.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Yeah, I think you know what you're touching on market
here is something that is really relevant to the effect
that meditation has.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
And you know, I think one of the biggest lies
that we're told is that the object world things will
make me happy.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
Right, and we're all born into the Western world where
we're told that, you know, the accumulation of things accolades relationships, awards,
all of these.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Things money will make us happy.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
And when I was in New York City, you know,
I got two of the most successful, some of the
wealthiest people in the world. And I can category we
tell you, and from my own experience, is that accumulation
of more things does not bring more happiness.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Yet so many of us are out there striving.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
To accumulate, accumulate, accumulate, and so that's called object referral happiness.
And there is actually a second type of happiness. And
that second type of happiness is called self referral happiness,
and that is happiness that you cultivate from within. And
by doing you know, these presence or you know, vadic

(44:24):
meditation happens is we start.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
To go within. And when we go within, I think
I mentioned this at.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
The start, we start to realize that everything was inside
of us and we start to cultivate that self referral happiness.
And I think about this analogy sometimes it's like it's
like a flag on a flagpole. Right when we're obsessed
with object referral happiness, It's like we're like a flag
on a flagpole when the wind's blowing our direction.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
When we're getting all of the things, life is good.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
But as soon as that wind stops and it's taken
away from us, life isn't good anymore, and we're you know,
we're we suffer. And then the opposite is like self
referral happiness. It's kind of like the flag that's rigid
in the ground. You know, it's the ground is all pervating.
No amount of wind and no direction of the wind

(45:14):
is going to affect our internal experience. And so you know,
by going within, what happens is we start to cultivate
more of that self referral happiness. And you know, that's
when I see people who are who are self sufficient,
you know, where they're not requiring more things and importing
more happiness through the accumulatation of object.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
It kind of helps a little bit.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, and I'm not sure who said this, but when
you're when you're saying that, you know the concept that
the only way out is in again. It might be
you know, Laosu or a room. I can't remember who
said it, but it's always stuck with me. And you know,
the other wisdom that I've retained from meditation is, you know,
we talk about the greatest.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Illusion of the world is the illusion.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Of separation and with you and what you're trying to
achieve with this one percent within your hometown, right. But
you talk about also the power of community in this
ever increasing digital age, and we're not even talking about AI.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
It's funny because.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
You know, in my development group tonight we're going to
be talking about AI. We've got a masterclass that we're
going to be reviewing about the future and the ethics
of AI and how AI can be quite scary, but
at the same time it's going to be very transformative
for consciousness and a lot of things that we do
in our day to day interactions. You know, I'm pre Internet,
so I'm before I'm BC, as we like to say,

(46:41):
so before computers, before cell phones.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
So I'm dating myself a little bit.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
But you know, there was a lot of fear around
the Internet, but think about how the Internet is allowing
us to talk here today, you're in Australia, I'm in Seattle.
We're doing a podcast live and the power of technology.
But at the same time, this technology and soon to
be AI that is coming out listeners, whether you want
it or not, it is here, It is coming out
and it's.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Going to be very much a part of our lives.
Talk about the.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Power of community and the increasing digital age and the
separation and this, you know, maybe this loss of meaning
and people trying to find purpose and passionate meaning.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
In their lives.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Absolutely, Mark.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
I think like one of the interesting things is that
we're more connected than ever, but we're more lonely than
ever as well, which is quite a paradox when you
think about it. And you know, one of the things
of me returning to my hometown is to you know,
experience community and living in a place like New York City.
It's it's funny, You're surrounded by people, but it's the

(47:43):
loneliest city I've ever been in. You know, there's a
lot of people with their head down. There's a lot
of people who who are just trying to you know,
win the rat race, and they forget about you know.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
What's important, and what is important is.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
Moments with family, moments with friends, you know, being a
loving relationship, all of these things that bring us to
the present, you know, that experience of the present moment.
And so, yeah, I'm fascinated by AI and I'm watching
it very closely, and I think one thing that meditation
helps us to bring is it helps us to bring

(48:19):
discernment power. And so even just watching what's happening with
things like mid Journey and video production where the hyper
realistic videos and photos that AI is now creating, it's
very hard for us to discern between what is real
and what is not. And it's going to get more
and more wacky and weird in the coming years, and

(48:42):
so you know, a practice like meditation can help to
build that discernment power. You know, we have the ability
to make the decision between what is real and what
is not and who do we trust and you know,
what decisions do we make? And so I think, like,
you know, cultivating a meditation practice as we move into
this wild, wild world that we're moving into is such

(49:04):
an important thing.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
And then in terms of community, it's like, you.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
Know, that's that's where actually we got a lot of
our support from, you know, in we were where tribal
tribal people, we grew up in tribes, and having that
support network and people around us when things start to
get dark and blak, it's so important to have, you know,
community around you.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Yeah, I agree one hundred percent. I depend on my tribe.
Its would recalled the spiritual Devoma group. People are all
around the United States, Canada, the UK, and I depend
on my tribe because they help bring balance, they help
bring perspective, they help bring grounding in this world. It's
like every day we wake up, there's just something new, right,
and AI is going to add to that chaos of

(49:50):
is that real?

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Is that reality? Or is that fake?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
And I think you know, in the future, you know,
AI is going to be responsible for a lot of
misinformation and disinformation that we see through our social media platforms,
right because this is a new technology that we have
not gone through yet and we have to evolve through
our technology, and I think AI is going to be
very helpful with factual information.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Right.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
So social media is very like you said, wild wild West,
which is very true. But you know the other thing
that you said, Barren was I've interviewed a lot of
people over the eight season of Inspired Living, and I
hear this all the time. The most happiest people in
the world are people that don't have a lot of stuff,
a lot of things, a lot of belongings. You know,
when you buy stuff and you own stuff, that stuff

(50:33):
ends up owing you.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
And we call that debt.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
And at the end of the day, if you think
about it, you can't take any of this with you, right,
you know, and you get to go to I always
remind people that heaven is not a location. Heaven is
a frequency. But when my frequency changes out of my physical,
incarnated body, I don't get to take all the stuff
that I love, you know, my studio, my Star Wars collection,
you know, my books, you know my wife.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I don't get to take any of that with us.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
And I think that's a reminder that you be mindful
of the things that you're choosing and in spending time
with and purchasing, because at the end of the day,
it may end up owning you. And that's what we
call debt. And I think community can help us to
achieve that perspective. And I always say that that, you know,
the strength of spiritualism is our ability to shift perspective

(51:18):
based on our interactions with our community.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Absolutely, absolutely, and I think like you even look at
the reports of people who you know, when they're on
the deathbed, right they'll give up every possession they have
for one more day with their family. And then you know,
when people reflect on their lives, they're not remembering the
time they bought that.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Thing or the thing they lost.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
It's it's usually about moments that we have have with families.
So I think, absolutely right, And it's one thing to
think about it, but you know, it's another thing to
cultivate it. And you know, even what you're doing here
with this community of you know, cultivating spiritual people to
have you know, to hear other spiritual teachers that it's
a community as well. So it's I appreciate your approach

(52:03):
to community as well. Well.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Thank you, my friend, and you know, thank you for
coming on and sharing your inspiration and your positivity and
your teachings and the ripple effect. I truly believe that
there is a ripple effect that takes place and as
we proceed into this future. As a futurist, as a psychic,
I always talk about this great coming together that I
do see for our planet. I'm not sure if that's

(52:27):
internal external through nature, through you know, learning that we're
not alone in the universe. But I do see hope
for us in moving forward. And I do believe more
and more people every day are waking up to the
power of connection, the power of community, the power of meditation.
But also intuition. I think intuition. We talk about tuition
and investing money and institutions and schools, et cetera. But

(52:51):
listeners out there maybe start investing in yourself through your intuition,
your self care. And if you're you know you want
to get online, you want to work with Baron and
if you're down in Australia, you want to work with
them in person. Again, you can visit him at Baronhansen
dot com.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
It's a great website.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
You can get the links at all of our social
media platforms. And as we just start to close down,
I was curious for you, Baron, what or who inspires you.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
Oh, that's a great question, Mark, you know, it's it's interesting.
I've I've kept a diary of all the people that
have kind of have been mentors.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
And I think that mentors.

Speaker 5 (53:36):
Oughtn't And you know, in in in meditation, you have
a guru, you have a teacher, and I think, you know,
having people that you can learn from and constantly grow
from is so so important. And I think, like if
I if I have to go back to the og,
the person who's kind of like inspired me a lot

(53:56):
is my grandfather. He's ninety six, he's still gardens every
day and he's never he's never worked for anyone in
his life.

Speaker 10 (54:03):
He's just to see a life well lived, you know,
a person who has lived a good and full life
and not accumulated a lot of possessions, not had a
lot of accolades, but being a man of community and
a man of you know, high values.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
And he has a beautiful garden at ninety six.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
It's like, that's something that someone who really inspires me.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
So that's my that's my answer today.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
What's and what's your grandfather's name?

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Peter Hanson sthenya?

Speaker 3 (54:36):
All right, all right, we're.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Giving him a big inspired living shout out. And you know,
being ninety six and tend in the garden. Buddha talks
about this. He reached enlightenment. He did his garden before enlightenment,
and he went back out and did his garden after enlightenment.
So thanks Baron for being on today. We really appreciate you.
Keep up the great work.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Again.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
If you want to learn more about today's guest, you
can go to Barnhanson dot com. You just type in
the internet and you can work with him on so
many different levels. I want to thank our listening audience,
of course, and of course Baron for coming on and
sharing his wisdom and knowledge and his experience is his
sole adventures, if you will, so thank you so much,
my friend.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
Thank you Mark. I really appreciate what you do. And
the time for the chat.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
Yeah you bet well.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
I'm going to close this off with a quote from
Daniel Defote that says this quote, the soul is placed
in the body like a rough diamond and must be
polished or the luster of it will never appear. So
until our next soul adventure together, be kind, be caring,
be compassionate, and most important, wherever you're at in this world,
this fast changing world of ours, dare to dream, dare
to explore, Dare to live and discover the diamond within.

(55:43):
We'll see you next time here on inspired living no mistake,

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