[Music]
imagine your insight of really old dirty
dusty house it’s pitch-black inside the
windows are covered with a thick firm of
crime you want to clean the house and
you start with a thick brush on the
windows it doesn’t take you long under
the first bits of light to stream in and
you uncover the enormous mess old dusty
furniture everywhere sometimes even
stacked on top of each other the windows
are still dirty but they’re just windows
so you go ahead and work on the rest of
the house takes a lot of work much more
than you originally expected and much
more than the initial window cleaning
after a while you know you notice that
the house got dark again some of the
dust settled on the windows again so you
go back to the windows with the finer
clean more light shines in and now you
uncover all the little things in the
corner the whole decorations and so on
so you start getting rid of the stuff
and redo this process over and over
until the house finally starts feeling
comfortable and spacious now it’s a
house you enjoy being the host is your
mind in cleaning the windows is
meditation practicing meditation has
changed my life more than any other
habit I’ve ever built when I was 18 I
went to India to study yoga and
meditation I was very young and I was
very naive I’m very curious for myself
up to education in north of India where
state and local ashram you can picture
an ashram as a very basic monastery so
limited electricity no showers just
buckets of water food was always soft at
the same times
always the same food was physically
physically tough in the first month
alone I lost 10 kilograms but apart from
the physical struggle I was really also
mentally one of the toughest experiences
of my life it was I still to this day
remember very vividly when I was sitting
there cross-legged on my meditation
pillow eyes closed and I realized all
the madness going on in my mind was that
moment when the first bits of light
shine into the house and you uncovered
this enormous mess that moment is
everything but Pleasant you know I pride
myself of being in control of
controlling my own destiny but yet my
mind I had seemingly zero control over
that was a tough moment but but still I
believe it fundamentally made me who I
am today and I’m extremely grateful that
I embarked on this journey of meditation
but fondant
fundamentally I’d like to share a
thought today with you on how many
patient infected me and I think there
are many things we can all share about
them or can be said about meditation and
with many we don’t even know what the
real impact is so I’d like to focus on
one specific aspect that changed me the
most
meditation can truly show you what you
what you really want in life it enables
you to bring some light into this house
and it enables you to to look past all
the distractions and to strip away the
background noise
the study I’d like to mention which made
me which I was particularly fascinated
about was conducted at the Harvard
Medical School was a study that focused
on the changes in the physical structure
of the brain 16 people meditated for 56
days every day for 30 minutes on their
breath the results were astonishing
after only 56 days all participants saw
a significant reduction in the size of
the amygdala an area of the brain that
is related to fear the amygdala is also
known for our survival response in acute
stress situations the so called
fight-or-flight response the
fight-or-flight response was designed to
protect us from the proverbial Sabbath
Tigers that once looked around in the
woods and fields around us to threaten
our physical survival back in a day at
times when our physical survival is
threatened there’s no greater response
to have on our site than the
fight-or-flight response it causes the
search of adilyn and other stress
hormones to rush through our body and
this search is the force responsible
behind mother’s lifting cars of their
tribe children of firemen heroic ly
running into blazing houses to saved
endangered victims it boozes with
heroism and courage at times when we are
called upon to protect and defend the
lives and values we cherish
today’s saber-toothed Tigers a
non-physical feeis such as missing a
deadline needing to meet certain
expectations having an argument with
your bars and so on basically they are
all around our intense daily lives they
produce toxic stress hormones and
fundamentally limit your thinking you
are focused because of adrenaline
because of deadlines because of stress
and not because you can control your
mind
nevertheless nevertheless I think the
fundamental fight I had always was um it
meditation brought me to this moment
where I thought I really knew what what
I was really about it it gave me the
feeling that um that I could look past
this and I could get to the point where
I could focus on a way that there was
not driven by stress or more that after
these 56 days the physical side of the
amygdala decreases meaning you’re more
independent of these stress hormones and
this focus by and this focus through the
outer line I’d like to I’d like to share
one moment I had personally on this
meditation journey I said it helps me to
truly show me who I but practically it
means whenever that’s a big decision
coming up in my life it enables me to go
one step deeper to look past these short
term worries to judge without all of
these hidden fears that are so
predominant in our lives but this it
fundamentally impacted my life but it
was not only in a positive way and I’ll
give you an example for example I’m a
big believer in that environment and the
people around you shape significantly
who you are at times it was very obvious
to me I was in the wrong wrong
environment however changing this is a
whole nother story
and if you don’t change it then you get
constantly reminded of this discrepancy
between your life and what you think is
right for you it is is if you shine
light into your house without cleaning
up the mess however I believe it is
fundamentally the right journey it is
fundamentally the journey to a cleaner
house it is fundamentally a journey to
life another life driven by fears and
that’s why I’d like to challenge you
today I’d like to challenge you today to
go on this journey with you I’d like to
challenge you today to start this
journey now how often do you think you
breathe in one minute I’d like for the
next minute to just focus on your breath
please stand up and try to keep a slow
but natural flow of your breath you may
close your eyes now and you may start
counting now
[Music]
you may open your eyes again you can sit
down again how easy was it to just focus
on one thing
deep breathing usually only means four
to five breath in one minute in the
beginning it is usually more but soon
five breath for one minute will be you
new normal I’d like to invite you to
join me on the journey fifty breath ten
minutes every day for the next 56 days
the stage is yours
you
imagine your insight of really old dirty
dusty house it’s pitch-black inside the
windows are covered with a thick firm of
crime you want to clean the house and
you start with a thick brush on the
windows it doesn’t take you long under
the first bits of light to stream in and
you uncover the enormous mess old dusty
furniture everywhere sometimes even
stacked on top of each other the windows
are still dirty but they’re just windows
so you go ahead and work on the rest of
the house takes a lot of work much more
than you originally expected and much
more than the initial window cleaning
after a while you know you notice that
the house got dark again some of the
dust settled on the windows again so you
go back to the windows with the finer
clean more light shines in and now you
uncover all the little things in the
corner the whole decorations and so on
so you start getting rid of the stuff
and redo this process over and over
until the house finally starts feeling
comfortable and spacious now it’s a
house you enjoy being the host is your
mind in cleaning the windows is
meditation practicing meditation has
changed my life more than any other
habit I’ve ever built when I was 18 I
went to India to study yoga and
meditation I was very young and I was
very naive I’m very curious for myself
up to education in north of India where
state and local ashram you can picture
an ashram as a very basic monastery so
limited electricity no showers just
buckets of water food was always soft at
the same times
always the same food was physically
physically tough in the first month
alone I lost 10 kilograms but apart from
the physical struggle I was really also
mentally one of the toughest experiences
of my life it was I still to this day
remember very vividly when I was sitting
there cross-legged on my meditation
pillow eyes closed and I realized all
the madness going on in my mind was that
moment when the first bits of light
shine into the house and you uncovered
this enormous mess that moment is
everything but Pleasant you know I pride
myself of being in control of
controlling my own destiny but yet my
mind I had seemingly zero control over
that was a tough moment but but still I
believe it fundamentally made me who I
am today and I’m extremely grateful that
I embarked on this journey of meditation
but fondant
fundamentally I’d like to share a
thought today with you on how many
patient infected me and I think there
are many things we can all share about
them or can be said about meditation and
with many we don’t even know what the
real impact is so I’d like to focus on
one specific aspect that changed me the
most
meditation can truly show you what you
what you really want in life it enables
you to bring some light into this house
and it enables you to to look past all
the distractions and to strip away the
background noise
the study I’d like to mention which made
me which I was particularly fascinated
about was conducted at the Harvard
Medical School was a study that focused
on the changes in the physical structure
of the brain 16 people meditated for 56
days every day for 30 minutes on their
breath the results were astonishing
after only 56 days all participants saw
a significant reduction in the size of
the amygdala an area of the brain that
is related to fear the amygdala is also
known for our survival response in acute
stress situations the so called
fight-or-flight response the
fight-or-flight response was designed to
protect us from the proverbial Sabbath
Tigers that once looked around in the
woods and fields around us to threaten
our physical survival back in a day at
times when our physical survival is
threatened there’s no greater response
to have on our site than the
fight-or-flight response it causes the
search of adilyn and other stress
hormones to rush through our body and
this search is the force responsible
behind mother’s lifting cars of their
tribe children of firemen heroic ly
running into blazing houses to saved
endangered victims it boozes with
heroism and courage at times when we are
called upon to protect and defend the
lives and values we cherish
today’s saber-toothed Tigers a
non-physical feeis such as missing a
deadline needing to meet certain
expectations having an argument with
your bars and so on basically they are
all around our intense daily lives they
produce toxic stress hormones and
fundamentally limit your thinking you
are focused because of adrenaline
because of deadlines because of stress
and not because you can control your
mind
nevertheless nevertheless I think the
fundamental fight I had always was um it
meditation brought me to this moment
where I thought I really knew what what
I was really about it it gave me the
feeling that um that I could look past
this and I could get to the point where
I could focus on a way that there was
not driven by stress or more that after
these 56 days the physical side of the
amygdala decreases meaning you’re more
independent of these stress hormones and
this focus by and this focus through the
outer line I’d like to I’d like to share
one moment I had personally on this
meditation journey I said it helps me to
truly show me who I but practically it
means whenever that’s a big decision
coming up in my life it enables me to go
one step deeper to look past these short
term worries to judge without all of
these hidden fears that are so
predominant in our lives but this it
fundamentally impacted my life but it
was not only in a positive way and I’ll
give you an example for example I’m a
big believer in that environment and the
people around you shape significantly
who you are at times it was very obvious
to me I was in the wrong wrong
environment however changing this is a
whole nother story
and if you don’t change it then you get
constantly reminded of this discrepancy
between your life and what you think is
right for you it is is if you shine
light into your house without cleaning
up the mess however I believe it is
fundamentally the right journey it is
fundamentally the journey to a cleaner
house it is fundamentally a journey to
life another life driven by fears and
that’s why I’d like to challenge you
today I’d like to challenge you today to
go on this journey with you I’d like to
challenge you today to start this
journey now how often do you think you
breathe in one minute I’d like for the
next minute to just focus on your breath
please stand up and try to keep a slow
but natural flow of your breath you may
close your eyes now and you may start
counting now
[Music]
you may open your eyes again you can sit
down again how easy was it to just focus
on one thing
deep breathing usually only means four
to five breath in one minute in the
beginning it is usually more but soon
five breath for one minute will be you
new normal I’d like to invite you to
join me on the journey fifty breath ten
minutes every day for the next 56 days
the stage is yours
you
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