423: What You've Never Been Told About Meditation

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Self-improvement, Education, Business

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If you're someone who meditates, your practice probably entails taking 10-20 minutes out of your busy day to sit in silence.

Does that time give you a sense of peace, calm, and clarity? Most likely—for those 20 minutes.

But what happens when you end your meditation? Do you continue to go through your day with those same levels of peace, calm, and clarity? Or do you become reactive to the outside forces and succumb to your inner turmoil?

"Meditation will get you nowhere. Meditativeness will give you the keys to your inner kingdom. The unserious man puts in his obligatory 20 minutes of meditation, in order to fulfill his daily quota, but the one who is truly serious transforms every single thing that he does into a meditation. In short, he becomes meditative." —Kapil Gupta

In today's episode, I'm excited to start by reading a short chapter from the book, Atmamun: The Path to Achieving the Bliss of the Himalayan Swamis and the Freedom of a Living God, written by Kapil Gupta, MD, and then sharing how I implement it, including asking a simple but powerful question that you can begin using immediately.

You'll learn how to reframe your world, approach every moment of your life in a meditative state—and discover how it feels to live in a heightened state of being and awareness.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Why meditating to fulfill a daily quota doesn't permanently eliminate stressors.
What meditation is really about and why it doesn't work for the overwhelming majority of people who practice it.
How emotional optimization meditation works and why it's one of my favorite forms of meditation.
The question my former coach asked me that unlocked the door to inner freedom.
How approaching everything from a meditative state brings joy to everything you do.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.3	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you
0:23.9	a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.1	Ready?
0:29.1	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast.
0:39.7	This is your host, Hal Elrod, and it is great to connect with you today.
0:43.7	Thank you for listening and we've got a show for you today that is short.
0:49.2	It's an actual short one.
0:50.6	I think for years I always say, we're going to keep this one short and it's rarely short,
0:55.1	but today is actually like a 25 minute podcast, maybe less, and I think we'll enjoy this.
1:00.3	It's unique and then I'm going to read a chapter, a very short chapter from a book that I
1:03.5	am loving on how to make your life a meditation, like every aspect of your life a meditation.
1:10.0	In fact, I was just eating lunch, I recorded the podcast, ate lunch, and now I'm recording
1:14.6	the introduction to give you a full behind the scenes look here, but I was eating lunch
1:18.8	and as I took a bite, I closed my eyes.
1:22.4	I remembered the podcast today and each bite I would close my eyes and I would fully
1:29.1	immerse myself in the experience of that bite.
1:33.7	And after you listen to the podcast, this will all make a lot more sense right now.
1:36.3	You might be like, dude, you're kind of a weirdo.
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