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🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this episode of The Talk, we both go through our experiences with meditation. Eddie discusses his twenty years practicing martial arts and how he was able to reconcile his spiritual practice in the Dojo with his medical practice at the hospital. Who knew Eddie was a black belt?! Juna tells the incredible tales of what it's like to go on two ten-day silent meditation retreats. Plus, there's a pretty epic Buddhist dad joke in there at the end!
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0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the talk. Today, we are going to be talking about something that we got a lot of questions about after our last episode, which was meditation. |
0:19.0 | Sorry, I can't stand meditation. I really, I can't stand it. |
0:23.0 | I'm sure you can. I mean, you've done it for like 10 days at a time. You're just like to blitz it. |
0:28.0 | Yeah, but Eddie, this is why I can't stand it. I can't stand it so much that I have to force myself to go to a place where that's all you do for 10 days. |
0:36.0 | Then like, okay, well, I've had it here. Let me let me like step in here and invite all of the listeners, all of our foodie fam to join us for a 30 second meditation. And here's how it works. You ready? Yeah. |
0:49.0 | Breathe in your deepest breath of the day altogether. |
0:57.0 | And let it out slowly. |
1:04.0 | That's the beginning. If we do it again, you're going to have to take an even deeper breath. So I hope you saved a little bit of space for the air. |
1:11.0 | Oh, my God. Okay. Is that it? |
1:13.0 | That's it. That's it. When I go in front of an audience, and they're just a little bit like on edge, or I just want to get their attention, I just ask them. |
1:24.0 | And I do this online, take the deepest breath of the day. And then go in through their nose, out through their mouth, and all of a sudden, |
1:34.0 | things just sort of slow down just a little bit, not falling asleep, although. |
1:41.0 | Wait, but on this deep breath thing, I have to say, when I'm really stressed, you know, I've noticed that you, I don't breathe. |
1:48.0 | And I notice this. I don't know if you notice this too, but I'll be at my computer, right? Working. And like, I will have not breathed. |
1:56.0 | I will have not have taken a breath. It just shows you where my brain is. |
2:01.0 | Taking a breath for like 45 seconds, like I'll just be like sitting there immobile. And then like, |
2:06.0 | I have to remember to breathe. You know what I mean? And my breathing gets so shallow. And like part of the reason I exercise is because if you get out of breath, |
2:13.0 | you have to breathe deeply. And so it's like one of the only ways I have of like making myself breathe when I'm stressed is to go exercise. |
2:21.0 | But I'm starting to realize the point of meditation is to also make yourself actually take deep breaths. |
2:28.0 | Well, so some forms of meditation, that's true. Not all. And we could we could get into that. |
2:34.0 | But first off, just back to the sitting in front of the computer, we blink about half the number of times in front of the computer. |
2:41.0 | And people get dry eyes from that. You stop moving. One of my favorite things that I work in one office where there's one of those motion sensor lights. |
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