[Applause]
what if I told you that meditation is
not what you think and not because it’s
about emptying your mind or disengaging
from your thoughts what if it’s simply
not what you thought it was what if it’s
active inner an outer movement in your
heart and your guts and yes in your mind
but also in your arms and your legs in
your chest your throat in your mouth
what if it’s loud what if meditation was
what if meditation could move you to
tears
and what if meditation was not only
spiritual yes it began in spirituality
but what if like us meditation has
evolved the definition includes this
phrase for the purpose of reaching a
heightened level of spiritual awareness
and long-ago serious meditators would
travel to the mountaintop for extended
periods of retreat from worldly concerns
to go inward to find inspiration and
perhaps enlightenment which sounds great
right but who these days has the time or
the resources to go to that kind of
mountaintop I give to you another
definition a method for changing your
internal state an increasing awareness
to guide purposeful action meditation is
a tool that anyone can use at any time
in any circumstance no matter what they
believe for spiritual or material
movement my story is like so many others
I grew up I went to church I decided God
didn’t care if I loved him at 8 or 10 on
Sunday morning with those people in that
room or on Tuesday afternoon on a walk
in the woods all by myself that there
were many ways to love God and in fact
many other gods to love and so I
explored other traditions
I got overwhelmed I didn’t know how to
choose for myself so I threw my hands up
in the air
I checked out I went to sleep
18 years ago I woke up in another room
with other people as different from me
as I could imagine but United in our
desire for freedom for these were the
rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous I then
learned mindfulness in a childbirth
class and the birth my birth as a father
became a meditation of its own and then
exercise running the bike the woods a
cold shower I began to find my
mountaintops in the most unlikely of
places I loved what I thought of as
meditation the cushion and the breath
but I could not sit still my feelings
were not quiet and I was soon to learn
that meditation was not what I thought
this meditation was designed
specifically for this time with near
constant demand on our attention on our
emotions and yes very little time for
mountaintops the meditation occurs in
four parts opening the emotional body to
release whatever is in the way calming
the mind body and emotions meditative
thinking to access inner wisdom
and action because meditation can be
functional and it can be immediate
because see like so many of you I’ve got
a big full life with my wife our
combined family girls in high school and
college a career that I love clients
volunteering a yappy little dog it’s a
demanding life and a demanding schedule
and it’s very very easy for me to say
well I don’t have time to meditate the
truth is I only have the quality of life
that I want when I do meditate because
taking even a short time to open calm
think and then act makes you more
present more available for your life and
for the people who are in it and who
there’s one more thing this meditation
takes place to music I am in fact a
meditation DJ yes a meditation DJ and
though I don’t have my hands on the
decks right now I did mix this music
so I’d like you all to close your eyes
and get in touch with a desire something
that matters to you deeply more love
more prosperity the answer to a deep
question
feel the feeling of that desire and rate
it on a scale where one is stuck and ten
and now like you saw me do we’re going
to scream together
we’re going to scream into our arms the
point of the scream is not to make a big
noise or to call attention to yourself
is to move
anger fear frustration move these
feelings as you scream now everyone
together with me right now into your arm
from your belly one two three
happened
you feel like something boom let’s try
it again one more time and if you want
you can stand up you can stand up and
scream with me and let it all come out
this time really shoot something then
let’s not feel good doesn’t that feel
okay now now that you’ve freed up some
energy if you’re able and you want to
stand up and let your body move just let
your body move a little bit move your
head from side to side sway back and
forth just feel the freedom in that food
that’s right all right good table folder
this feels how good that can feel
all right now take a few deep breaths
[Music]
take a few deep breaths and allow
once you’ve calmed a little bit you can
and see
[Music]
now ask yourself what is one action I
can take one thing
that will get me closer to that which I
one thing it may be the next thing the
answer may come right now it may come
later
don’t worry trust the sincerity of your
desire and now see if your number
changed do you feel more confident do
you feel unstoppable see whatever change
occurred because you just meditated we
live in a world that’s full of triggers
and when we’re triggered what do we need
a mountaintop
so find yours make a playlist do this
meditation you can do it for ten minutes
or thirty for one song or for one minute
in the midst of a day but whether it’s
this meditation or any other make it
your own and put it to work for you our
actions define us and so use meditation
to open calm think and then take
purposeful action what if you did this
every day what if you spent less time
worrying about what to do and more time
doing it and what if everyone did this
what kind of a world would we live in
and what if that world was just one scream away thank you
what if I told you that meditation is
not what you think and not because it’s
about emptying your mind or disengaging
from your thoughts what if it’s simply
not what you thought it was what if it’s
active inner an outer movement in your
heart and your guts and yes in your mind
but also in your arms and your legs in
your chest your throat in your mouth
what if it’s loud what if meditation was
what if meditation could move you to
tears
and what if meditation was not only
spiritual yes it began in spirituality
but what if like us meditation has
evolved the definition includes this
phrase for the purpose of reaching a
heightened level of spiritual awareness
and long-ago serious meditators would
travel to the mountaintop for extended
periods of retreat from worldly concerns
to go inward to find inspiration and
perhaps enlightenment which sounds great
right but who these days has the time or
the resources to go to that kind of
mountaintop I give to you another
definition a method for changing your
internal state an increasing awareness
to guide purposeful action meditation is
a tool that anyone can use at any time
in any circumstance no matter what they
believe for spiritual or material
movement my story is like so many others
I grew up I went to church I decided God
didn’t care if I loved him at 8 or 10 on
Sunday morning with those people in that
room or on Tuesday afternoon on a walk
in the woods all by myself that there
were many ways to love God and in fact
many other gods to love and so I
explored other traditions
I got overwhelmed I didn’t know how to
choose for myself so I threw my hands up
in the air
I checked out I went to sleep
18 years ago I woke up in another room
with other people as different from me
as I could imagine but United in our
desire for freedom for these were the
rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous I then
learned mindfulness in a childbirth
class and the birth my birth as a father
became a meditation of its own and then
exercise running the bike the woods a
cold shower I began to find my
mountaintops in the most unlikely of
places I loved what I thought of as
meditation the cushion and the breath
but I could not sit still my feelings
were not quiet and I was soon to learn
that meditation was not what I thought
this meditation was designed
specifically for this time with near
constant demand on our attention on our
emotions and yes very little time for
mountaintops the meditation occurs in
four parts opening the emotional body to
release whatever is in the way calming
the mind body and emotions meditative
thinking to access inner wisdom
and action because meditation can be
functional and it can be immediate
because see like so many of you I’ve got
a big full life with my wife our
combined family girls in high school and
college a career that I love clients
volunteering a yappy little dog it’s a
demanding life and a demanding schedule
and it’s very very easy for me to say
well I don’t have time to meditate the
truth is I only have the quality of life
that I want when I do meditate because
taking even a short time to open calm
think and then act makes you more
present more available for your life and
for the people who are in it and who
there’s one more thing this meditation
takes place to music I am in fact a
meditation DJ yes a meditation DJ and
though I don’t have my hands on the
decks right now I did mix this music
so I’d like you all to close your eyes
and get in touch with a desire something
that matters to you deeply more love
more prosperity the answer to a deep
question
feel the feeling of that desire and rate
it on a scale where one is stuck and ten
and now like you saw me do we’re going
to scream together
we’re going to scream into our arms the
point of the scream is not to make a big
noise or to call attention to yourself
is to move
anger fear frustration move these
feelings as you scream now everyone
together with me right now into your arm
from your belly one two three
happened
you feel like something boom let’s try
it again one more time and if you want
you can stand up you can stand up and
scream with me and let it all come out
this time really shoot something then
let’s not feel good doesn’t that feel
okay now now that you’ve freed up some
energy if you’re able and you want to
stand up and let your body move just let
your body move a little bit move your
head from side to side sway back and
forth just feel the freedom in that food
that’s right all right good table folder
this feels how good that can feel
all right now take a few deep breaths
[Music]
take a few deep breaths and allow
once you’ve calmed a little bit you can
and see
[Music]
now ask yourself what is one action I
can take one thing
that will get me closer to that which I
one thing it may be the next thing the
answer may come right now it may come
later
don’t worry trust the sincerity of your
desire and now see if your number
changed do you feel more confident do
you feel unstoppable see whatever change
occurred because you just meditated we
live in a world that’s full of triggers
and when we’re triggered what do we need
a mountaintop
so find yours make a playlist do this
meditation you can do it for ten minutes
or thirty for one song or for one minute
in the midst of a day but whether it’s
this meditation or any other make it
your own and put it to work for you our
actions define us and so use meditation
to open calm think and then take
purposeful action what if you did this
every day what if you spent less time
worrying about what to do and more time
doing it and what if everyone did this
what kind of a world would we live in
and what if that world was just one scream away thank you
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