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The Kris Gethin Podcast

138. How to Survive a 10 Day Retreat

The Kris Gethin Podcast

Kris Gethin

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9598 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The road to achieving great mental and physical health can be difficult when our heads are filled with noise!

In that journey, having the focus to maintain hard work and dedication is of utmost importance, but that's what most of us fall short of. It can only get easier when we develop discipline and start "seeing things the way they really are" – the very definition of Vipassana!

Vipassana meditation is a technique taught at 10-day residential courses. Participants go on retreat in order to learn basics of the method, and immerse themselves in practice in order to experience its benefits.

This is a great method that fosters mental and physical health, but is no means a "magic bullet". It requires hard work and dedication, and participants are known to drop out of the course. People second guess the program, underestimate the value of it, or overestimate themselves believing they can easily master the course on their own without the difficult challenges.

This begs the question, why go through with it at all? Why bother finishing the program?

A few benefits of the Vipassana Meditation course:

It teaches discipline (which most people lack) needed for achieving great mental and physical health – no books, no cellphones or gadgets, just pure meditation.

You get to eat clean food – plant-based diet is served twice a day in the camp. It's a great way to kill cravings and manage food instability (like your snacking tendencies).

It's completely FREE – 1000s of meditation centers across the globe offer the same program, free of charge, to anyone and everyone. These programs continue through the donations of people who finished the course and experienced the extremely powerful benefits.

It took time to build bad habits and it's also going to take time to replace them with good ones. It's going to be a challenge but it's definitely worth it, and highly achievable with meditation retreats.

You can take whichever course you want but when your health is on the line, why not take the proven and effective route that comes free of charge?

What are other benefits of meditation courses? How do you SURVIVE in such unfamiliar environments and methods? How does this work together with my other health and wellness programs?

Check out this episode to learn more about tips and techniques to survive in a 10-day Meditation retreat, and the benefits you come out with!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Chris Gethyn and I've been voted the world's number one trainer on platforms such as

0:07.6

bodybuilding.com, the governing body PT Academy. I am the co-founder of caged supplements. I am the co-founder

0:16.6

of the Chris Gethin Jim's franchise and I'm the co-founder on my online coaching platform.

0:23.8

I'm also a hybrid athlete, a pro natural bodybuilder, competed in many different events,

0:29.9

such as Iron Man Triathlon, Ultramarathon, and what I aim to bring to you with this podcast is inspiration, motivation from clients, testimonials, biohacking, anti-aging, everything that will allow you to evolve as a human being.

0:49.6

Hello, everybody. My name is Chris Getten and welcome back to the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast.

0:55.7

It's been quite a while since I've done this podcast. I had to trim the fat there for a little

1:03.0

while. Got very busy, very much overwhelmed. So how to trim the fat, how to put the knowledge of mileage podcast on a shelf for a little

1:12.9

while.

1:13.4

But now we're back.

1:14.7

That's the main thing.

1:15.8

And speaking of trimming the fat, this episode that we're starting with is going to talk

1:20.7

about my recent retreat, 10-day Vipasna retreat, because as I mentioned before, I was a little

1:27.0

bit overwhelmed. So I needed to I was a little bit overwhelmed.

1:28.3

So I needed to go there and kind of detox the brain of a lot of stress, anxiety, overwhelm,

1:36.3

and, you know, put my hands together and I hope that everything that I did within those 10 days

1:42.3

would help me put me on the right track

1:44.4

when I come out. So I did a little video on YouTube a couple of days ago. That was basically

1:50.2

part one. This video is going to be, and this podcast is going to be kind of like part two,

1:56.4

but I'm also going to talk about if you are to do a vipassana, how would you survive?

2:01.7

So first of all, I want to address one thing.

2:05.2

Should you do a vipassaner?

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