everything what you think you become the
truth and this is debatable but it’s
worth consideration it is said that man
can live their entire life searching for
the answers but never give the time to
find it inside themselves in today’s
hectic world it can be easy to get
caught up in all the wrong stuff the
things we see as important are merely as
important as we make them because our
phones buzz frantically and our
notifications ring abruptly can be easy
to consider these as pressing situations
and put them at the top of our agenda
today I would like to address how man
has gone off course man has lived on
earth for 200,000 years yet electricity
was invented about 175 years from today
we have search for the solutions to our
problems through the outside world but
for centuries before us our our
ancestors have found the answers inside
the importance of meditation and
self-healing has been lost last summer I
was that frantic college applicant I was
just looking for a meaningful experience
to put on my resume being honest I am a
man who comes from a lot of privilege
and I saw others who needed help and I
decided to go on a volunteer trip to
Nepal I know you’re thinking
sounds pretty cliche yes but this was
even more than just a volunteer trip
yeah this can sound even more cliche but
they pause a country where the average
annual income is less than fifteen
thousand US dollars the water is dirty
the Wi-Fi is scarce and the toilets are
holes upon arrival I thought how can
these people live like like this
I see people washing their clothes in
rivers with more dirt in it and it has
cows and monkeys wander the dusty
streets and at recess the school’s the
children at schools played soccer with
goals marked by rocks and basketball
with a hoop with no rim but I was the
less fortunate one their understanding
of life was much deeper than my own the
country in fact is one of the happiest
in the world on on the road I could wave
to any one of the many Nepalese and they
returned with an ear-to-ear smile my
guides satish toward us around this main
city called Katmandu and he was laughing
and constantly telling stories with us
and it was only until the last day did
he tell us that he lived in a tent
outside the city with the rest of his
family I arrived to the country thinking
I was going to be the one lending a hand
but in the end it was them that helped
me today we walk fast-paced lives the
clock governs our every move and we
never seem to just be a friend of mine
once said we’re human beings not human
doings when was the last time you took
the time to reflect on the situations
around you the truth is meditation is a
technology with some 2,000 years of
research and development
a recent study challenged sorry I’m a
little bit sick challenges the
legitimacy of meditation in this
experiment there is a placebo group
which was given petroleum jelly and they
were told it was going to help reduce
pain and then there was a meditation
group and then there was a morphing
group all these groups were then
separated and put through a series of
painful events the end of the data
showed that the Plus that the placebo
group that was given the jelly reduced
pain by 9% the morphine group by 22% and
the meditation group surprisingly
reduced pain by 44% this thus proves
that meditation can pretty much benefit
anything from children’s math scores to
migraine length and even HIV management
while this all may still sound like a
bunch of hippy jibber-jabber the more
developments we make in the field of
neuroscience the more we see that
meditation is in fact the key to
happiness recently scientists have seen
meditators using different parts of
their brain that the fact of the matter
is that everything we do today requires
the left brain in simple terms the left
brain does everything analytically this
can include things like science math
reasoning language arts and then there’s
the right side of the brain this right
side and really we’ve neglected over the
past few centuries the right brain it’s
in charge of our creativity our art
skills our imagination and most
importantly our intuition probably the
greatest flaw in our society is its lack
of intuition the dictionary defines this
word as the ability to acquire knowledge
without proof evidence or conscious
reasoning it is intuition that is that
that animal inside of us it gives us our
natural senses it tells us where to go
without us really thinking about it
without it we are programmed number
crunching robots so where is it gone and
how do we get it back well the answer
could be simpler than you think I would
like everyone to stop right now and take
three deep breaths hold it hold on make
these breaths really clear I mean really
try take as long as as you can really
see that only took about maybe 15
seconds of our time yet
those 15 seconds may have seen like 15
minutes in our everyday time breathing
is the easiest solution to enlightenment
yet we never take the time to just think
and breathe a challenge everyone to take
three deep breaths at every red light
while they’re driving other helpful
exercises include pausing and feeling
everything that your body is currently
touching focusing on your pulse
listening to nature Yoga is a common one
listening to music playing music and for
those of you that are really edgy adult
coloring books there is even there’s
even meditation sessions every Tuesday
and a Wednesday right here in Fort
Lauderdale catch me after it’s talk I’ll
let you know about it if you’re
interested all all in all adding
meditation to one’s life improves an
overall state of well-being it can
reduce anxiety and even foster healthy
relationships it’s hard to believe that
much of what we do is merely a
distraction from finding peace inside of
ourselves
try relaxing and just being it’s
something we rarely do focus on your
breath and empty your mind once achieved
you will see how your whole life you
have been focusing on the wrong
perspective on all we are living on
earth together going through problems
together we are conquering obstacles
together we are one and only by
accepting that we only by accepting that
can it come to our senses and see our
true purpose
the Hindus call this opening your third
eye is the ability to see with your eyes
closed society becomes more and more
technological it will become harder and
harder to achieve it and it’s so easy to
get cut up to get caught up in all this
nonsense that’s getting shoved down our
throats at every turn the most beautiful
sound is silence only then can you hear
yourself and the only way to do that is
to go into nature and be yourself engage
your senses smell the air and open your
mind is by doing this once or twice a
week you will see the simplicity of life
and I guarantee a change of perspective
we are a society under stress immersed
in technology rushing rushing and
rushing in life struggling daily to find
balance between home work and family we
have invested exorbitant time money and
energy into tech into technology at the
expense of attending to our abilities to
attune to ourselves other people and the
planet our value virtues and purpose in
life all depends on what you make of it
thank you
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