The Golden One - September 05, 2019


The Purpose and Practical Use of Meditation

Hosted by
Marcus Follin
Mentioned
Viking Jewelry
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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

160.45

Word count

777

Sentence count

42

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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In this episode, I talk about the benefits of meditation and why you should start practicing it. I discuss the benefits to your mental health and how it can help you focus more intensely on certain things. I also talk about how you can train your mind to be better at focusing on something for longer periods of time.

Transcript

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00:00:00.360 Greetings, my esteemed true friends. Today I want to talk a bit about the reason behind meditation, but first we have a message from my gallant sponsor Viking Jewelry.
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00:00:36.120 And again, thank you to Viking Jewelry for sponsoring this video.
00:00:40.620 Now, on to the topic of meditation. It is not primarily that we want to LARP as some Buddhist monks and sit around meditating all day because it's cool.
00:00:51.880 I think it's a cool thing, and I like the aesthetics of Buddhist monks and meditation and everything like that, but I'm not purposefully asking you to waste your time for no reason at all.
00:01:05.400 It has a more practical meaning, and that is it trains your ability to focus. It trains your ability to focus on something for a longer period of time.
00:01:17.860 So, for example, a thing you can try for yourself, if you read a book, think about how long it takes for your thoughts to start drifting in some other direction.
00:01:29.680 If you feel other thoughts coming directly onto you when you're reading or when you're trying to focus on something, then you need to train your meditation more.
00:01:39.320 But if you can read a book for 20 minutes completely uninterrupted, being completely in the zone, being completely focused, yeah, then you have a high level of meditation.
00:01:50.420 So when I say that you should meditate for 15 or 20 minutes each day, it's not to get some peace of mind or something like that.
00:01:59.600 It's for you to sharpen your mind so that you can focus intensely on something for a set amount of time.
00:02:07.140 And this is something I wish I would have done when I studied, so I could study more effectively, so I could spend less time studying.
00:02:15.760 Because if you think about, if you have an exam, for example, and you need to read for that exam,
00:02:22.860 you have one guy who reads completely uninterrupted for half an hour, and he absorbs everything because he has such a sharp focus.
00:02:30.340 And then you compare that with a guy who reads for an hour, but his mind is constantly being distracted by other thoughts.
00:02:39.520 So you see, you can get more effective by meditating.
00:02:43.440 And it's the same thing with physical training.
00:02:45.680 You will save time, money, and energy by training.
00:02:48.760 So you might say like, oh, is this a good investment of my time to train an hour each day?
00:02:53.880 And yeah, it is, because sooner or later, if you don't do it, you will have to take time out to deal with injuries and unhealth, etc.
00:03:02.260 So it is an investment.
00:03:03.800 And same thing for meditation.
00:03:05.300 For you to completely go in the zone, for you to completely go in the zone of whatever it is you're doing.
00:03:12.460 It can be in a grappling match or something.
00:03:16.280 There will be a lot of these situations where you have to be a complete sharpness in your mind.
00:03:21.340 And so on one hand, you can have a man who is very, very disciplined in his meditation.
00:03:28.020 And he can completely focus his mind on just one single thing or just completely shut off the rest of the world.
00:03:36.300 He can shut off his thoughts as well.
00:03:38.200 And you compare that with someone who constantly needs the visual stimuli.
00:03:43.320 And I usually take the example of if you scroll a lot through social media.
00:03:47.660 Now, don't get me wrong, I think social media is a great way to attain motivation and enlightenment.
00:03:54.120 But if you use it as a way to just scroll through and just get that short-term visual stimuli, then it's not a good idea at all.
00:04:04.380 So anyway, to conclude, why do I recommend meditation?
00:04:08.480 Yes, it's so you can, in other aspects, focus more intensely and be more effective with your time.
00:04:16.020 So instead of you having your thoughts drift off into whatever direction when you're reading a book,
00:04:22.320 you can actually read the entire book or read larger parts of the book without feeling your mind getting to other places.
00:04:31.620 Then, of course, this is also dependent on how much you've been sleeping, etc.
00:04:36.380 So it's not only about meditation, but view meditation as a way for you to be able to focus more intensely on certain things.
00:04:46.780 So, thank you for watching.
00:04:49.260 XOXO, boom! 0.84