Your Success is 80% Psychology | How to Use Mindfulness and Meditation to Prime Your Nervous System for Peak Performance

The Tony Robbins Podcast

Tony Robbins

Marketing, Smallbusinessowner, Education, Tonyrobbins, Business

4.4 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Mindfulness and meditation aren’t just about spirituality or stress relief.

In today’s world of constant demands and digital distractions, mindfulness is about making your moments truly matter and living up to your full potential. It’s about your power to put your attention where you want it to be and not on what someone else dangles on a screen in front of you.

This is just one reason why Tony Robbins incorporates a gratitude meditation into his daily morning routine to prime his mind every single day.

If you’re familiar with any of Tony Robbins peak performance strategies, you know that your ability to maintain a peak state is a key component of living the life you desire. Your state is affected by the way you use your physical body, your ability to direct your mind’s focus, and the language or meaning you give to your experiences.

Knowing this, it’s no wonder that we aren’t able to be the best version of ourselves when we are in a stressed state. The incoherence of our head and heart, the jitters in our nervous system and body makes us less effective and less resourceful.

In this 1-hour episode you’ll hear from Tony Robbins, his wife Sage Robbins, and podcast host Mary B. as they discuss one of the most valuable skills to maximize your mindset and prime yourself for power, clarity, concentration, and focused attention.

SHOW NOTES

[0:00] Hi it’s Tony Robbins…

[1:15] I used to think meditation was a waste of time

[2:00] We don’t experience life, we experience the life we pay attention to

[2:39] Tony and wife Sage and traveled the globe together for 22 years

[3:30] A podcast on meditation? I’d be outta here. But…

[4:03] Twin hearts Sage and Tony Robbins

[5:30] Why does time go so fast?

[6:20] One of us is a meditator and one of us is not

[7:12] Meditation definition | What is meditation, really?

[8:20] Styles of meditation

[9:57] What’s your outcome?

[10:30] The science of meditation

[11:24] Be here now and notice

[12:24] Our attention is the most important commodity

[13:15] Self-judgement and imposter syndrome

[15:50] Ellen Langer Harvard mindfulness

[16:37] Just close your eyes for a minute

[17:28] I’m thinking about a grilled cheese sandwich

[18:23] Meditation is not something to achieve, it’s something to experience

[19:04] The throughline is gratitude

[19:30] Thoughts are like clouds floating by

[20:22] How do I stop the thoughts in my mind?

[21:25] There’s an entire universe inside of us

[22:22] Collective mind

[23:19] Sage and her baby in the rain

[24:25] In the busy-ness we miss the nuances

[25:00] Mary B: Meditation has gotten really trendy

[26:25] Story: Full Moon Meditation with Tony, Sage, Billy Beck and Mary B.

[29:13] We will never experience this moment of life again

[29:43] Profound knowledge

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Original Music by Abhinav and Sage Robbins

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Tony Robbins. Welcome to the podcast. Listen, for the last 45 years, yes, 45 years have been focused on the subject of how do you help people increase the quality of their life?
0:11.0	Whether it be increased the quality of their business or their relationships or their finances.
0:15.0	And one thing I've learned is that communication is the base of all relationships, whether it's business or personal.
0:21.0	And we're all great communicators when we're not stressed, but we live in a world where the demands are constant and we kind of get trained into having that part of our nervous system known as the sympathetic system.
0:32.0	If you don't know it, it's the part that makes you go, go, go, go. It's that adrenalized part kind of dominate our lives.
0:38.0	And one thing I've learned is in business, for example, you know, the chokehold on the growth of a business is always the leader.
0:44.0	It's the psychology and the skills of the leader. And in your personal life, the quality of your life really comes down to the quality of your communications, your relationships.
0:53.0	What makes somebody a great communicator is being able to hear what's not being said. But when you're stressed, you don't hear other people.
1:00.0	You're not even able to listen. You think you're listening, but you're really just trying to get the job done.
1:05.0	And so one of the most valuable skills is to manage our psychology. I always say psychology is 80% of success and skills 20%.
1:14.0	And I think meditation, for me, when I used to hear about meditation, my mindset was, it's a waste of time.
1:19.0	My meditation would be going on a run, which by the way is a form of meditation.
1:23.0	I like to be physical, I like to be in movement, kind of a dynamic meditation, what I do.
1:27.0	Sitting still to meditate just didn't seem real to me. I just felt like a waste of time and trying not to think thoughts, well, good luck with that.
1:35.0	But I started to create a way that worked for me, which I call priming and I do it every single morning. I'm like, how busy I am. I know a busy you work too.
1:42.0	And so you don't have to be a meditator. You don't have to have some giant spiritual outcome.
1:47.0	But if you want the best you to show up for your family, for your friends, for your business, and for yourself, I think it's important to find a daily practice.
1:55.0	A meditation comes in many forms. I mean, it's really important for us to realize that in life, you don't experience life. None of us do.
2:03.0	We experience the life we pay attention to. We experience what we focus on.
2:07.0	You know, the human brain is basically has three skills that distort the deletes and generalizes.
2:13.0	If you're really angry, you have to delete all the things you could be happy about.
2:18.0	If you're really, really happy, you have to delete all things you could be pissed off about.
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