443: All Your Meditation Questions Answered- And Living Your Dharma As a Teacher with Manoj Dias
Highest Self Podcast®
Sahara Rose
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
"Just close your eyes, breathe and try not to think of anything." Easier said than done! Have you ever wondered how meditation actually works? If the goal is actually to have no thoughts? And what if you more resonate with breathwork or movement? In this conversation with meditation teacher and Open co-founder Manoj Dias, we dive into all your meditation questions including "If I am not my thoughts, what are they?" and "Is there a certain amount of time I need to meditate to feel the benefit?" We also dive into his dharma (purpose) journey on going from a young boy in Sri Lanka infatuated by monks, to forgetting it all and focusing on marketing, then coming back into it to create his meditation studio and now the Open App. This is an inspiring conversation for any aspiring entrepreneur who is wanting to create a mission that is in alignment with their spiritual selves!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm so excited to share with you the downloads and revelations that you've been through |
| 0:22.7 | and I truly feel like a different person on the other side. I'm so excited to share with you the |
| 0:28.6 | downloads and revelations and contemplations that I had on this sacred and mystical and wondrous |
| 0:36.2 | journey. And I will be doing a recap episode with everything from how I traveled there where I stayed |
| 0:43.2 | to the downloads that I got deep in the Sahara Desert. Yes, Sahara, which is my name, was in the Sahara, |
| 0:49.0 | so it was beyond magical to be there. And life has its dualities while I was in this beautiful |
| 0:56.5 | experience. I was very saddened to hear the overturn of Rovers Wade the last week that I was there. |
| 1:04.9 | And for someone whose work is around empowering the feminine, for someone whose grandmother was in |
| 1:12.0 | a forced child marriage and all of her grandmothers before then, for someone who believes in women's |
| 1:18.0 | rights more than anything. That is why I'm here in this lifetime to help heal us from the patriarchal |
| 1:25.0 | wounds and uplift the feminine in all ways and beings and especially in our political system. I |
| 1:34.2 | was and still am shocked that this is happening in our country at this time. And I know that |
| 1:41.1 | every step backward can bring us into a leap forward if we take this opportunity and do not remain |
| 1:50.5 | silent and do not remain apathetic. And I think that sometimes that happens especially in spirituality. |
| 1:56.8 | Sometimes we use spirituality as a way to become numb of the pain and suffering of this world. And |
| 2:02.7 | that is not what spirituality is about. Spirituality is to open your heart so you can actually not just |
| 2:08.7 | feel it more, but also see things from a higher and fuller and more nuanced perspective to be able |
| 2:16.4 | to bring about the healing. So meditation is such a powerful practice to help you come back into |
| 2:23.2 | your power, into your center when it feels like the world is falling apart whether it is politically, |
| 2:28.4 | socially or interpersonally, familiarly 2022. And you know, life and these things can definitely |
| 2:37.0 | knock us off our camel saddles per se. And we need to have our practices to help us find our |
| 2:43.6 | footing again to help us come back into center because this is not a sprint. This is a marathon. |
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