Studies show that people when they're buying a car, if they decide like what car they want and they just go and buy it

versus if they do a day of research and look at all the attributes of the different cars and their lifestyle and then make a purchase,

can you guess which one?

Three months later or six months later is more satisfied with their purchase?

The Impulse Purchase or the Research Purchase? Impulse, it's strange, but the impulse is often the first one.

In my case as well, my best ideas come during meditation,

not when I'm in the waking state. The more you practice, the more you learn

discernment to understand an emotion versus an intuitive impulse.

I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers

and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit and work.

So let me tell you what we're going to be covering today.

Today, you're going to learn why in the Western world we get tricked into seeing the world from a particular lens

and that is the lens of the physical world that everything that is real is that which we can touch.

But in indigenous cultures of the world,

they don't just function in the physical world.

They have practices and rituals that help them go deep

into the world of spirit, of mind, of soul.

For example, I once went to spend a week with the Aichwa people in Ecuadorian Amazon,

and there we sat with shamans who would give us Iajowaska and we

would go on these incredible trips in our head and medicine like that can awaken you to this whole different parallel universe that often

the Western mind isn't aware fully exist.

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