How I Meditate - Brian Rose

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Brian Rose

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🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Meditation is fast becoming a mainstream practice. For a long time it was the mystic discipline of Buddhist monks, the religious and western hippies. These days, however, you’re as likely to find a professional businessman or sportsperson taking time out to find ‘focus’ and be ‘mindful’.

It’s not about finding an ecstatic nirvana and bliss as much as nurturing a sense of self or direction, becoming mindful and seeking calm in this manic technological age of ours. Science backs the practice up, meditation will increase your clarity of thought, lower your stress levels and help you manage the madness.

Brian is a big advocate of meditation. Today, he’s sharing some of his top tips on stepping back, self-knowledge and finding some stillness.

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0:00.0	A lot of you have been asking me about meditation.
0:03.2	Now, meditation gets a bad rap in certain circles because it's usually associated with
0:08.6	spirituality and it really has nothing to do with that.
0:11.2	The term mindfulness is being used right now is as kind of a
0:14.6	euphemism to get you over the bad connotations that are associated with that word.
0:19.7	So I get it, whatever you want to call it, it's all about quieting your mind at some point during the day.
0:24.6	Some people say that cardio or running or heavy cardio are cooking as a form of meditation, and I do believe
0:30.1	that's true too.
0:31.1	So if those things are working for you, then great, do them and recognize them.
0:34.7	I played around with meditation now for about five years. Funny enough, a funny little-known
0:39.7	fact is that I started meditation about six months before I resigned from my position
0:45.0	in the city of London in the world of banking.
0:48.0	And that whole story is covered in my TED Talk
0:50.0	that's coming out soon.
0:51.0	But if I look back, I actually started meditating
0:54.3	about five months before I resigned.
0:56.3	And so, I don't know, correlation, causation, not sure,
0:59.8	but it might have something to do with that.
1:01.5	And the way I started was I went the TM route,
1:03.7	which is Transcendental Meditation,
1:05.4	and you go and pay for a course,
1:06.8	and I think I paid quite a good amount of money.
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