I Did An 8 Day Meditation Retreat To Rewire My Brain For Joy—Here Are My Biggest Takeaways

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Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What actually happens on a silent meditation retreat? In this conversation, my husband and I discuss our experiences on a week-long Jhourney meditation retreat. The retreat attempts to teach participants how to reach a jhana state, which is a state of deep relaxation and bliss. Spoiler alert: one of us was able to reach it, and the other wasn’t! The intentionally slow pacing of the retreat allowed us to reflect on our relationships with social media and technology more generally. Learn how we plan to change their behavior based on the retreat’s structure and teachings. 00:00 Introduction 1:04 Retreat Day-to-Day 2:29 Yoga As A Tool 4:30 Overcoming The Boredom Hurdle 6:11 What Are Jhana States? 10:52 Personal Growth 15:45 Managing Emotions and Tears 18:01 Meditation’s Biggest Impacts 23:10 Our Individual Takeaways 29:18 Tracking Feelings Intentionally Learn more about this retreat at www.Jhourney.io. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s new book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody, or subscribe to her newsletter by visiting www.lizmoody.com. If you like this episode, listen to: Ask The Doctor: Happiness Edition. Feel More Content Regardless of Life Circumstances with Dr. Rick Hanson, PhD The Seven-Minute Secret To Happiness That No One Is Talking About The Ways We’re Being Manipulated Online + How To Tell What’s True In The Wellness World & Beyond This episode is sponsored by: ARMRA: go to tryarmra.com/LIZMOODY or enter LIZMOODY to get 15% off your first order. Cymbiotika: use code LIZMOODY on cymbiotika.com to get 15% off plus free shipping on subscription orders. Osea: get 10% off your first order at oseamalibu.com with code LIZMOODY10. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 279. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Liz Moody podcast, where every week we're sharing real science,
0:04.8	real stories, and realistic tools that actually level up every part of your life.
0:09.2	I am your host, Liz Moody, and I'm a best-selling author and longtime journalist.
0:12.8	And today I'm joined by a very, very special guest, my husband, Zach.
0:17.3	So Zach and I just got back from an eight-day silent, mostly silent. We will talk about
0:22.4	that later. Meditation retreat. And in this episode, we are going to talk about what that was like,
0:28.4	what our days looked like. I feel like meditation retreats are so mysterious. And before I went on
0:33.2	one, I was like, what are people doing every single day? And also how it changed us, how it impacted us,
0:39.1	if we would recommend it. And things that we learned, I think that anybody can take advantage of
0:44.0	whether or not you feel like going on a meditation retreat or not. We meditated. So if you don't want to,
0:49.0	you don't have to. Although I actually do think there's a lot of value in this type of retreat environment, which we'll get into down the line.
0:56.4	But let's just start off with what is it like to be on a meditation retreat?
1:00.3	Like what is the shape of every single day?
1:03.2	And that is a lot of meditating.
1:06.7	This retreat had a lot of meditating.
1:08.2	A lot of meditating.
1:09.1	And I think that is the norm on meditation
1:12.0	retreat. And the way it worked in this retreat was we would meet as a group after breakfast
1:18.1	every single day at 8 a.m. We would work together as a group from 8 to 930. That could be a Q&A
1:23.8	session. It would be a guided meditation session. It would be explaining some sort of
1:28.4	technique. And then they set you loose. And you actually are instructed to design your own
1:33.5	schedule for the day. And that's part of this process. This particular style of retreat,
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