Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this video, I'm going to tell a very foundational video.

I want this to be a very foundational video that gets you to actually practically start meditating in your life.

And we're going to talk about here is why meditation is important, how to actually meditate the technique, and at the end

we're going to cover some of the common pitfalls and traps that people experience with meditation

which prevents them from building a consistent meditation habit, which is so important to actually get the benefits of meditation.

You can't get the benefits of meditation by just meditating once or twice, you have to make this a habit.

So I'm going to tell you a lot of important nuances

that you need to understand to make this a habit successfully.

Because when I try to meditate and make it a habit several years ago, I stumbled around and I tried to make it happen and I was always falling off track.

I did a couple of 30-day challenges with meditation.

I was able to stick through those 30 day challenges but in the

end it didn't stick and I wasn't seeing the benefits. Right now though this is getting

towards the end of 2014 and I've been meditating consistently for one hour

every day since the beginning of 2014.

So I started in very early January at the beginning of the new year.

It's kind of my new year's resolution.

And I meditate for one hour every day, and I did that consistently without missing a single day

this entire year. So right now I'm on day 250, probably something.

So I'm getting into the 300s in a row.

And that's what you want, is you want that kind of very steady consistency.

And now it's pretty easy for me,

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