I've now meditated over 10,000 times, which is more than 8,000 days in a row without missing one

single practice. And if you add up all that time together, it equals about a year of consistent

meditation 24-7. And I've had a lot of benefits since I became consistent in my practice.

And today I want to share with you those benefits that I've

learned over these years. And I think you're going to find point number five about soulmates

to be the most surprising. Here are the insights where takeaways about life that I've learned

after sitting in meditation over 10,000 times in over 8,000 straight days.

First takeaway is you actually don't have a monkey mind.

Monkey mind is when you feel like your mind is all over the place while you're trying to

meditate or even while you're just living your life with your eyes open and it can lead to

a feeling of

anxiety or panic or overthinking or obsessive-compulsive behavior. And what I learned from all of

my experiences of meditation is that the monkey mind effect is really a byproduct of stress in your

body. In other words, if your body does not have an outlet to release stress

on a daily basis, it accumulates, and it causes the thinking in your mind to accelerate

and to go to all these different places, and you don't really notice it as much until you

close your eyes and go into a meditation practice. And this is why a lot of new meditators

will describe their mind as chaotic. But after giving yourself a release valve for the daily

accumulated stress, you start to see that, oh, my mind is actually not chaotic like I thought.

It's just that my body became more like a pressure cooker when it came

to stress. And that stress causes you to have a lot of fight, flight related thoughts and

emotions and feelings. But once you start to release that stuff through your practice, you find

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