Welcome to TMP chats. This is Jesse Stern with the Meditation Podcast. Hi, everybody. I'm running a little behind this week, and so I'm thinking we will combine this TMP chat with the meditation. I've been thinking a lot over this holiday weekend and the upcoming holidays that often this season comes with a break and routine.

A lot of time spent possibly traveling, maybe in busy or inconvenient ways, possibly seeing people that we don't

see regularly, and eating food that we don't necessarily eat on a regular basis.

So there's a lot of breakup from routine over holidays for many of us.

It also includes time, changes in work schedule, and so on. So what I've been thinking about

this week and today in particular is the idea of resetting back to our routine.

And this kind of reset is really common in meditation and movement practices.

It's the idea that you introduce some stress

in the form of holding a weight

or taking on a shape that's challenging

that requires strength

or any kind of introduction of stress

followed by a period of rest

so that you can reset your baseline

so that your breathing and heart rate return to a

a slowed down, relaxed, restful state, and same with the nervous system, and so on.

There are a lot of ways to approach this kind of reset.

We're going to focus on two things. One is a physical

technique, and the other is a mental technique or a meditation technique. And so we'll start

with the meditation technique. This technique was first taught to me in the 90s by a musician named Brad

Hauser. He called it ninja self-acceptance. Now this is an ancient meditation technique rooted in

as far as I know Tibetan Buddhism and it's most commonly called relentless self-acceptance nowadays.

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