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🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we get real with Light Watkins about meditation and why it’s so hard to get your body and your thoughts comfortable doing it. You’ll learn there’s no “right” way and no “wrong” way to meditate—just the way that works for you and keeps you coming back to it.
Light has been immersed in the meditation space for nearly two decades, first as a practitioner, then as an apprentice to his Vedic Meditation teacher, and finally as a teacher himself. But in the beginning, he spent several years sitting in uncomfortable positions with whirling thoughts and feeling like he was failing at meditation. He couldn’t settle his body or his mind.
He had to find his own sweet spot of comfort: “When I did that, it completely upgraded the quality of my experiences, and that's where I first had the tangible experience of bliss,” he says. And you can, too. Light explains how to put meditation in your life’s “rest” category, so it becomes both relatable and a practical application.
Another life category that’s a feature of today’s podcast is happiness. Light travels the world giving talks on happiness, inspiration, and meditation, as well as leading meditation trainings and retreats. He’s been featured in major media, taught celebrity clients and written two popular books. So, prepare to get comfy—with meditation and happiness—and learn how to incorporate more of both into your life.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
0:16.2 | Today's cool fact of the day is that microwaved grapes make plasma fireballs. |
0:22.8 | To make your own homemade plasma, you just cut a grape in half, leave the two sections |
0:26.7 | connected at one end by the grape's thin skin. |
0:30.6 | You heat it in a microwave for a few seconds and then boom, an actual small plasma fireball |
0:36.7 | will erupt from the grape. |
0:38.3 | This is a mixture of electrons and electrically charged atoms, also known as ions. |
0:45.1 | People are wondering why this actually happens. |
0:47.9 | They've said it's about the connecting skin, but when you put two whole grapes together, |
0:53.0 | you can get it to happen as well, which is kind of cool. |
0:58.4 | Similar size waterlogged beads called hydrogels will also do it. |
1:01.9 | What's happening here is way cool and something we didn't understand is that grapes act as |
1:06.2 | resonators. |
1:08.8 | A single grape is just the right size that the electromagnetic wave gets trapped in |
1:12.3 | the fruit, bounces back and forth. |
1:14.9 | We basically pull together some heavy-duty physics, I say we being humans and scientists |
1:21.0 | figured out that it's the size of the grape that does it. |
1:23.8 | Number one, you're not supposed to try that home. |
1:25.9 | Of course, number two, you will because that's how humans are, especially if you're my kids. |
1:31.9 | Number two, I actually have a microwave, those in my house, but I use it to store plates |
1:37.1 | because microwaving your food really doesn't make it the lip-proof. |
1:40.9 | Microwave food doesn't taste as good and it has weird heat pockets that form 10,000 degrees |
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