so you guys want to learn a little bit of meditation yeah let's do some meditation I'm gonna do it let's do it okay so we'll do the accent or meditation because it makes it more authentic okay so let's do so we will do the nadi shodhana pranayama okay so I want you to do this thumb this is okay put curl down the two fingers like this and we will do the nadi shodhana pranayama which in english is alternate nostril breathing you must focus that's why you can focus I'm going to use it so you must learn to focus so we are going to do this okay so I want to take the thumb block the right nostril and breathe in
switch and breathe out breathing through the same one switch and breathe out we then you switch breathe out in switch out you you shouldn't be smelling anything okay so let me just okay so what you want to do is block one also breathe in through one switch breathe out through the other and then breathe in through the same nostril switch and breathe out okay so I'm gonna
I'm gonna start demonstrating one yeah like so you guys need to stop [ __ ] typing and wall Xing on Twitch at and actually do it because I mean watching people meditate isn't gonna do [ __ ] for you like you have to actually have to meditate right like that's why we're here so yeah so one of your nostrils is going to be blocked right and it's okay if you do this you can do pinky if you need to so one of your nostrils is going to be more blocked than the other that's completely normal if you have a deviated septum you shouldn't do this case in point yeah if you have a deviated septum don't do this practice so I'm gonna I'm gonna demonstrate I'm gonna close my eyes so I want you guys to make sure you get the rhythm so it's in switch out in switch out in switch out in switch out it's not in switch out switch in switch out you see that that's
the same one every time so your spine needs to be straight that's the only important requirement you can stand or said it doesn't matter so now we're gonna practice so block the right nostril that's okay you get it so G you can just use the pinky you
go ahead and finish the round that you're on let your eyes remain closed and just sit with the natural slowing of your thoughts you EAL the slowness of your breath you now put your palms together in front of you to rub them together rub rub rub rub rub rub feel the warmth the friction and then cut them over your eyes
now I want you to take a deep breath in and as you exhale slowly open your eyes let your hands come down you okay so we'll pick back up I think on Friday so I'm going to be Co swimming with Devin Nash on Friday from three to five Eastern and okay could you explain what we just did yeah okay so I guess I guess we're not done streaming okay so let me explain a little bit about meditation so the first thing is yeah you should let your mind go wherever it wants to but the whole
goal of switching the fingers is is that it returns your attention to the present so as your mind starts to wander like this is what happens with your mind your mind has a thought and then you feed into that thought and it begets another thought and then the thoughts in your mind start breeding right and then soon you have like an infestation of thoughts and that's what anxiety is like if you think about people who suffer from anxiety they worry about one thing they're like oh my god like I was walking and like one of my shoes is muddy and then like what are people gonna think are they going to think that I don't know how to dress myself are they gonna think I'm dirty like one thought leads to another thought leads to another thought leads to another thought and so the thoughts will start to breed now thoughts are gonna have a certain energy or momentum they're kind of like you know if I if I like roll a tire down the street like the tire is gonna fall over at some point but it has some momentum and if I keep feeding the thoughts the tire is gonna keep going
and my mind is gonna keep going that's what happens in anxiety and then the thoughts become overwhelming when we meditate the momentum of your thoughts is still gonna be there but the advantage of doing a practice like this is that you have to return to the present and like you have to pay attention and every time you pay attention to switching your breath and focusing on your breath you stop paying attention to your thoughts and you start to stop feeding them so even though a thought may pop up if you return to the practice that thought will just drift away and you'll be back to square one and the longer you do the practice the fewer thoughts are gonna pop up and so the goal of this practice is to enter a no mind state which is consciousness without mental activity so we it's like a hard state of mind to really think about but it's it's like a very important like it's just a really simple principle which is that you know you you want to focus your attention on the present and let the thoughts go and the more you let
the thoughts go the more you're gonna enter closer to a state of mind where your consciousness without thinking so all you are is pure awareness and that's the growth goal now people ask me like what does this do that's the most fundamental thing there are a lot of there are a lot of specific attributes to the meditation that I teach and I can't really go into that but maybe what we can do is have a have a stream exclusively about like the science and theory behind meditation so we can cover like from a neuroscience and physiologic perspective like what does it do to your brain what does it do to your hormones what does it do to your cortisol level what does it do to your adrenaline what does it do to your sympathetic nervous system and the other side of that is like what are the Yogi's in India like say like why do they say this is good because they started doing this stuff before we had MRI scanners and before we had heart rate monitors so what is their theory behind why this stuff works so let me just focus on
meditation for a second so you want to do this for 3 to 5 minutes at a time and then you ideally want to do it every day but let's start with 3 to 5 minutes a day for 3 days a week and how do you keep track of time so there - what you can set a timer if you want to but the other thing that you can do is just do it until you're done doing it which I know sounds weird but you just start the practice you can count like a certain number of breaths like you can do nine breaths or 18 breaths or just like do it until you're done and I know that sounds weird but you'll be surprised you'll know when you're done for the day and that's ok don't be judgmental for yourself just just focus on on doing it