In today's meditation, you're going to be guided in a walking meditation, and this is part

seven, the final part of a 7 part series on productivity and living your life in a way that's true and honest to who you are so that you can get more done and

simply be happier.

And we're following the book of five rings by Imyamoto Musashi, who was an ancient samurai.

And he lived in Japan in the 1600s. and he wrote a book to share how he was able to remain undefeated at every single battle.

Now in those days, he wrote a book to share how he was able to remain undefeated at every single battle.

Now in those days, of course,

being good with your sword was very important.

And so, Miomoto Musashi wrote a book detailing how he was able to accomplish this amazing feat of being

undefeated in battle after battle and dual after dual.

He was always the victor and so he used a lot of unscrupulous ways many people would consider his way to be a little bit

unfair or literally stabbing people in the back,

but he did whatever it took to win.

And of course during those times,

it was important to be good with your sword and if you are a samurai that's what you did you

fought in battle and it was a matter of life or death and so that's what he talks

about and I've applied some of his principles to how you overcome modern day I'll even go out on a limb here and say that stress kills because stress is often

the underlying factor of many major disease and illness of today our modern times. So we may not be

battling other samurai, but we are battling our own obstacles such as overwhelm and stress and especially

distraction. In fact, heart disease, which one of the main underlying factors to heart disease is stress.

That is the number one killer for both men and women in the United States and also it's a top killer for other men and women in modernized nations.

And so it's so important to take your stress seriously.

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