I want to learn to meditation..my new job....actually made our unit relaxed and meditate yesterday and they got all of us 30 minute massage. I have never been cared for by an employer this way before. I feel so blessed. They even had us watch a movie called butterfly circus. To teach us how to turn things around from neg to positive. I am loving my life rite now.
Ah, you have enriched my life tremendously, Brian. Every video you post, every book you share. I wish you as much success and happiness as what you have done for us
Meditation is not about controlling the mind. You can't control it. Control is ego. What you want to do is not let the thoughts affect you and instead find the source of stillness that you are at your core. True meditation is about relinquishing all control, accepting / watching everything as it is, and to just be.
I meditate for many years now but consistently the last 2 years (never missed a day). And I have to say that I experience all of the benefits you mentioned today!!! Pure delight!
I do 2x 20 minutes a day, results are incredible, stress and worries disappear, notice things normally not noticed because your mind was elsewhere, appreciation of taste, clear uncluttered view of everything, living in the moment...
fantastic as always brian! i love the correlation of ideas you bring about from other books to reinforce the idea. Identitt - action - feeling concept was powerful!!
I am confused about pulling plant segment. Is it possible for you to explain that or comment on it here? Thanks a lot. Great channel and amazing guy! Thanks a lot Brian.
Yes I can. Don't rush your progress. you can't make your plants grow faster by pulling on them. Check out the PN on Be quick but don't hurry for another example. www.optimize.me/search/hurry -Zak | Team Optimize Optimize is now free! Sign up/tell your friends! www.optimize.me
Hi Brian, great video and thanks for putting time to enlighten the world. I really liked the water bucket illustration. Could you make a video on Mastery by Robert Greene, I am currently reading this book but it seems to contain a lot. It would be of great help if I could get a summary video on it. Thanks again.
Hi Brian! Your commitment to bring 10 ideas in a digestible form has been a great blessing to me . It helps me on various dimensions : brings clarity, helps review, and motivates the budding author.. Thanks once again. Brian, where can i find your philosophers notes . I want to learn how you go about composing them . Thanks in advance- Advait
Hi again :) In your website Optimal living 101 series (awesome series by the way) you said that you did 1,499 days of meditation then skipped one. Would you mind telling what happened? I'm just being super curious.
PauliusGe Yes! I had a busy (poorly planned) morning when I needed to be in LA and planned to do it in the afternoon and TOTALLY forgot. Woke up the next morning in shock and grief. Laughing. :) Haven't missed a day since. That was a few years ago now. :)
Thank you. Do those. So, I meditate in several ways for several reasons... one is to enter a purer Stream of Spirit. "Open the doors of your hearts. He Who is the Spirit verily standeth before them." ~ Tablets of Baha'u'llah, Baha'i Faith
The range of what we see and do Is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice That we fail to notice, There is little we can do To change Until we notice How failing to notice Shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing Found in the Foreword of, Prisoners of Our Thoughts, Pattakos
1. Ultimate Reason: To serve others and to be at peace! It will help you transform and change yourself. 2. Mind is like water. Water mixed with cyanide become poisonous and the same water mixed with medicinal herb can save life. Meditation is like that. It allows your consciousness to be aware of present moment. Good or Bad. 3. How to meditate: Mood swings! Don't worry about those. Just start the meditation. Don't judge how it is. Recognize and focus on your feeling and thoughts, good or bad. 4. Mindfulness. More you are mindful about your thoughts, more you will be able to change them to be positive. Changing your thoughts will change your behavior and bring more clarity. 5. Do NOT pull plants. It takes patience to grow a crop, steadiness is indispensable for the practice of meditation. It does no good to pull your plants to make them grow faster!
Thank you for providing clarity on mindfulness. Because of your videos, I have learned to notice what is going on in my brain and spirit. I believe it was Gandhi who said he never permits anything to walk in his mind with dirty feet. In the Judeo-Christian bible, the books/epistles of Proverbs, Matthew, Romans, and Corinthians addresses mindfulness, in order to create positive transformation. I perform burpees/bodybuilders(SEAL AND Marine Corps terminology), on a daily basis. When you can perform one hundred burpees/bodybuilders, with proper form and technique, on a daily basis, you will have a lot of stamina. You could try Cleamon "Big Evil" Johnson's one thousand burpees per day program. I am positive one thousand burpees per day will produce incredible mindfulness!
Yehuda HaMaccabi Amazing, Yehuda! Love (!) this: I believe it was Gandhi who said he never permits anything to walk in his mind with dirty feet.Hit 75 burpees today. 100 this month. Keep the body healthy and 300 this year. 1,000 would be so great!! :)
I want to learn to meditation..my new job....actually made our unit relaxed and meditate yesterday and they got all of us 30 minute massage. I have never been cared for by an employer this way before. I feel so blessed. They even had us watch a movie called butterfly circus. To teach us how to turn things around from neg to positive. I am loving my life rite now.
31cristine That's awesome, Cristine!! :)
Amazing movie butterfly circus. Any more simular movies to recomand?
I am feeling very blessed to have found your channel Brian. I appreciate you and all your hard work. I am forever grateful (written after meditating!)
Ah, you have enriched my life tremendously, Brian. Every video you post, every book you share. I wish you as much success and happiness as what you have done for us
Navid Taaid Wow. Thanks, Navid!! Thrilled to hear and appreciate your kind words!
To truly appreciate this channel, one shouldn't watch more than one video per week.
Meditation is not about controlling the mind. You can't control it. Control is ego. What you want to do is not let the thoughts affect you and instead find the source of stillness that you are at your core. True meditation is about relinquishing all control, accepting / watching everything as it is, and to just be.
I meditate for many years now but consistently the last 2 years (never missed a day). And I have to say that I experience all of the benefits you mentioned today!!! Pure delight!
What's your meditation technique?
I do 2x 20 minutes a day, results are incredible, stress and worries disappear, notice things normally not noticed because your mind was elsewhere, appreciation of taste, clear uncluttered view of everything, living in the moment...
Gigsand Busking Awesome and amen!
Love this video Brian! thank you for the work you do. The way you tell your stories makes it easier to percolate the information!
melissageorgiou Awesome and thank you! :)
fantastic as always brian! i love the correlation of ideas you bring about from other books to reinforce the idea. Identitt - action - feeling concept was powerful!!
Karthik Santhanakrishnan Thank you, Karthik!! :)
Your channel is a gold mine!
I am confused about pulling plant segment. Is it possible for you to explain that or comment on it here? Thanks a lot. Great channel and amazing guy! Thanks a lot Brian.
Yes I can. Don't rush your progress. you can't make your plants grow faster by pulling on them. Check out the PN on Be quick but don't hurry for another example. www.optimize.me/search/hurry -Zak | Team Optimize
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Hey man. I love your videos. so clear, interesting and inspiring to watch. have a great day!
Leonsius Thank you!
Good morning my Great Mentor Much Love ♥️😀🎶
Love that Identity - action - feeling thingy! It Makes so much sense :)
Become Your Strength YES!!
Your channel is great! All my current interests are covered in your topics of talk)
Tremendous class, thank you for all you do Brian.
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Posting this one on FB. Thanks for all you do.
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100% commitment. Wild concept.
Hi Brian, great video and thanks for putting time to enlighten the world. I really liked the water bucket illustration. Could you make a video on Mastery by Robert Greene, I am currently reading this book but it seems to contain a lot. It would be of great help if I could get a summary video on it.
Thanks again.
Anjola Ilori Thanks for the kind words and rec, Anjola!! I've got it on the list!!
Hi Brian! Your commitment to bring 10 ideas in a digestible form has been a great blessing to me . It helps me on various dimensions : brings clarity, helps review, and motivates the budding author.. Thanks once again.
Brian, where can i find your philosophers notes . I want to learn how you go about composing them . Thanks in advance-
Advait
clearpond Thank you, Advait! Here are the PhilosophersNotes: brianjohnson.me/philosophersnotes/the-books/
thanks brian
clearpond Hope you enjoy! :)
Great video
Love your channel!
Thanks for sharing all these great videos! New subscriber here!
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Hey Brian,*Top off the Charts* & can it get any better? Really Enjoyed, Thanks Bro:)
Chonky112 hahah and thanks!! :)
Watched this twice great stuff on this vid
psyenergy1 Awesome and thanks!
psyenergy
Hi again :) In your website Optimal living 101 series (awesome series by the way) you said that you did 1,499 days of meditation then skipped one. Would you mind telling what happened? I'm just being super curious.
PauliusGe Yes! I had a busy (poorly planned) morning when I needed to be in LA and planned to do it in the afternoon and TOTALLY forgot. Woke up the next morning in shock and grief. Laughing. :) Haven't missed a day since. That was a few years ago now. :)
Great video,
Costas Plassaras Thanks, Costas!! Burpees! Origin of the word: cl.ly/image/252z1C0F0G35
Many thanks! :)
Great vid brian ,can you do one on mindfulness?! thanks
ILLADELPH HALFLIFE- Yes!! Here's a little sample: brianjohnson.me/philosophersnotes-tag/mindfulness/
Thank you. Do those. So, I meditate in several ways for several reasons... one is to enter a purer Stream of Spirit. "Open the doors of your hearts. He Who is the Spirit verily standeth before them." ~ Tablets of Baha'u'llah, Baha'i Faith
:)
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thanks for the insights (:
The range of what we see and do
Is limited by what we fail to notice.
And because we fail to notice
That we fail to notice,
There is little we can do
To change
Until we notice
How failing to notice
Shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
Found in the Foreword of, Prisoners of Our Thoughts, Pattakos
1. Ultimate Reason: To serve others and to be at peace! It will help you transform and change yourself.
2. Mind is like water. Water mixed with cyanide become poisonous and the same water mixed with medicinal herb can save life. Meditation is like that. It allows your consciousness to be aware of present moment. Good or Bad.
3. How to meditate: Mood swings! Don't worry about those. Just start the meditation. Don't judge how it is. Recognize and focus on your feeling and thoughts, good or bad.
4. Mindfulness. More you are mindful about your thoughts, more you will be able to change them to be positive. Changing your thoughts will change your behavior and bring more clarity.
5. Do NOT pull plants. It takes patience to grow a crop, steadiness is indispensable for the practice of meditation. It does no good to pull your plants to make them grow faster!
Nice notes! -Zak | Team Optimize
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What are those few more powerful ways than meditation?
Depends on how we want to measure that power.
Other important factors besides meditation are definitely quality sleep, proper nutrition, and exercise.
awesome
Gorflaxsack Thanks!
Thank you for providing clarity on mindfulness. Because of your videos, I have learned to notice what is going on in my brain and spirit. I believe it was Gandhi who said he never permits anything to walk in his mind with dirty feet. In the Judeo-Christian bible, the books/epistles of Proverbs, Matthew, Romans, and Corinthians addresses mindfulness, in order to create positive transformation.
I perform burpees/bodybuilders(SEAL AND Marine Corps terminology), on a daily basis. When you can perform one hundred burpees/bodybuilders, with proper form and technique, on a daily basis, you will have a lot of stamina. You could try Cleamon "Big Evil" Johnson's one thousand burpees per day program. I am positive one thousand burpees per day will produce incredible mindfulness!
Yehuda HaMaccabi Amazing, Yehuda! Love (!) this: I believe it was Gandhi who said he never permits anything to walk in his mind with dirty feet.Hit 75 burpees today. 100 this month. Keep the body healthy and 300 this year. 1,000 would be so great!! :)