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Arianna Huffington on Meditation | StarTalk


when you’re creating when you’re writing
when you’re coming up with your theories
are your theory of everything that
you’re going to come up with in the
bathtub nation the bathtub naked it’s
not going to be while you’re processing
your email or while you’re dealing with
all the distractions of modern life it
is inevitably going to be in a moment of
quiet I mean and if you look through
science you know Newton came up with a
theory of gravity while in a
contemplative mood yeah he was 19 his
god partying he wasn’t doing email right
and we have so many examples like that
so it’s not that we should all just
meditate is that this aspect of
introspection should be I mean that way
we can still event the Internet in a
moment of meditation
of course if all we did was meditate
nothing gets in fact in the book I have
these twelve steps of how to live nobody
has eleven steps no it’s so disappointed
by this eleven is a perfectly good prime
number not if you want to make it clear
that you believe that we are addicted
okay so that’s why I pick 12 because I
wanted to meet them to evoke a
vocational location of hey guys were
addicted to this but we need we can
change it and the and I recommend for
example starting with five minutes of
meditation like everybody has five
minutes just kind of beginning to have
that experience that there is something
else going on and you know we both love
technology
we are both geeks and nerds you
card-carrying geek and Mike Donnelly
card we go yes record here but I also
recognize the need to disconnect from
technology and reconnect with ourselves
and then return to technology and here’s
the big paradox that I love that now
there is more and more technology that
helps us disconnect from technology
inaudible me like because I have a my I
have on my on my smartphone now
I have the sound of the beach you have
the sound of the beach I’m sure you have
a feature that Apple has put out called
do not disturb yes there is an app
called anti-social that can put all your
incoming communications on hold while
you are coming up with a theory of
everything so there are so many that
they are having in thrive I have an
appendix of 12 meditation apps one of my
favorites is called headspace which is
really but literally can you create some
more headspace so that you can create
you can think you can connect with
yourself
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