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On this week's Wellness Wednesday episode, Evan shares 4 major takeaways from his 30 days of meditation challenge. While Evan has been practicing mediation for over 5 years now, he decided to challenge himself to 30 minute meditations every morning for 30 days. As with many things in health consistency is key, and meditation is no different. When we are consistent with a health practice the results begin to show. Evan found that with doing 30 days of meditation his stress levels were improved, he was more calm and less likely to be triggered, and felt a sense of control in his thoughts and emotions. In this episode Evan will break down his four big takeaways with you and hopefully inspire you to start or continue your meditation practice.

As always, connect to your elements and do everything with good intentions.

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This podcast is for educational purposes only, it is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified medical professional. Evan Roberts is not a medical professional and this podcast is provided on the understanding that it does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. Statements and views expressed on this show are not medical advice, this podcast, including Evan Roberts and any guests on the show, disclaims responsibility for any possible adverse effects from the use of information contained in this episode. If you think you have a medical problem please consult a medical professional.

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Thank you so much for joining me today and for tuning into

the elemental Eben podcast.

Super excited to have you all here as I'm going to share some very beneficial.

, health knowledge specifically regarding mental health today,

we're going to be really diving in to the topic of meditation.

As I did a 30 day meditation practice where I meditated for 30 minutes

every morning for 30 days straight.

Now I do practice meditation aside from just this little

challenge that I gave myself.

I've been meditating for.

About five to six years now.

And especially within the last three years, I've been

meditating more than I used to.

So roughly on average, I meditate about three to five days out of the week.

And sometimes more, uh, but for this practice, I decided to go ahead

and do a 30 day straight meditation practice, uh, no breaks at all,

every single morning, waking up and doing 30 minutes of meditation.

My meditation is varied in their practice, so it wasn't just the

same meditation every morning.

Uh, some mornings, it was a stillness meditation, which is just bringing

awareness to the present moment.

And really trying to quiet the thoughts, you know, silence the mind and just

be present with your body and the meditation that I'm, uh, that I'm doing.

Uh, the other kinds of meditations that have done were guided meditation stuff

on YouTube from other practitioners and also, uh, some yoga style practices,

which kind of move energies in the body.

Uh, so those were kind of the types of meditations that I was doing,

but nonetheless, a had to do, I had to do 30 minutes of meditation

for 30 days straight, which I did.

And after doing the 30 days of meditation, I really had a few takeaways

that I feel are extremely valuable and, you know, we can really learn a

lot from them, at least I think so.

And I, and I hope you feel the same way.

Uh,

But basically that's what I'm going to be sharing with you today

is the takeaways that I had from meditating for 30 days in a row.

And just kind of what were some reoccurring.

Either thoughts or epiphanies that I was happening.

So to start this all off, uh, the first.

Take away that I had from meditating for 30 days straight.

Was this quote that is obviously not my quote, uh, but it just rings

really, really true for me, which is your brain is an incredible tool, but

it is a terrible, terrible master.

And I really.

Full heartedly believe in this.

And a few examples that I could give you are simply, you know, how often

have you been, uh, at work where you're supposed to be doing work, but maybe

you're on Instagram or Tik TOK and just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling away.

Right?

You have focus, but your focus is not on what you need it to be on.

Uh, for another example, you know, have you ever read a book and then

got to the end of the page and realize that you did not understand.

Like one word that you read in that whole page, because your mind was off

wandering somewhere else and you were just absolutely consumed in that thought.

Once again, her mind is thinking it's doing its job, but it is a terrible

master and it is really, really bad at.

You know, Putting your energy and focus in the right areas, unless it is like a

life or death situation, that's kind of a whole other topic, but yeah, your brain

is in, it truly is an incredible tool.

If you think of, you know, solving these complex math problems or physics

problems or chemistry or whatever, right.

Like it's really good at solving problems.

It's great for that.

But it is a terrible master, which is basically leading me

to my next takeaway, which is.

You are the master of your brain, right?

Your brain should not be the master.

So I really believe in this.

You know, You can call it my second takeaway, which is.

You are not your thoughts or your brain now, of course, this is

debatable, but, uh, for me personally, I really truly believe in that.

I believe that we are not our thoughts.

We are not our brain.

It is a tool.

And then we are the master.

Now the master, you can call it your soul, your consciousness, the

observer, whatever you want to call it.

I really don't care, but I do believe that we are something

else aside from our thoughts.

And the reason I say this is because.

On the daily we have around 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts in one day.

And out of all of those thoughts, about 90% of them are repetitive thoughts,

meaning you just think the same thought day after day after day after day.

Well, if you're thinking those thoughts all the time, every single day,

eventually those are going to become kind of like a base or a platform on

which you really feel associated with.

Right.

And you can kind of form an identity around those thoughts and really

feel like you are those thoughts.

It only makes sense.

I mean, for, to a degree, I actually believed that, but through

meditation, What you start to realize is that you have this separation.

So a way that I will try to explain it in terms of meditation.

It's simply when I first start meditating, it's always the first, like five minutes.

That's really difficult where your brain is still.

Trying to fight your meditation and make you think, and yeah, just be, you know,

active with the brain, essentially.

So, what happens is when your brain pulls you into a thought and you are

like living in that thought, right.

You can consciously tap in and recognize that you are.

In a thought process and you can choose to say, I'm going to pull my attention

away from that thought and place it back on the meditation that I'm doing.

Maybe it's, you know, focusing on your breath.

So you can actively choose to take your attention, your awareness, your focus.

And redirect it.

Back to yourself, back to the meditation, back to your breath.

And there's something in you that's doing that, right?

Cause it's not your thoughts.

You just pulled yourself out of a thought, right?

So a thought didn't take you out of the thought.

Like something else did.

And to me it is.

That, which is truly us, is.

Basically the master of the brain.

Right.

But we just do such a poor job of becoming masters of our brain because we don't do

these practices where we learn to in a way kind of control or master our mind.

Right.

So truly, I believe we are the master of our mind.

And when I say we, it is the soul or conscious, or like I

said, whatever you want to call it, but we are not our thoughts.

And to me, when I really had that experience of polling, my attention.

Out of the thought and bringing it back to my current moment.

That really kind of hit me as, wow.

Okay.

Yeah.

Like thoughts are one separate thing.

And like, of course you can feel like you're in the thought, but at the same

time you can stop and let that thought go and pull your awareness out of that

thought, which is really, really powerful.

Uh, it shows you that you can truly master your mind to a degree.

And, uh, yeah, it's just a really, really great practice to have.

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And now that's going to now lead me into my third takeaway for

this meditation practice that I had, which is we are being.

Overstimulated and seeking instinct gratification way too often.

I mean, that is essentially.

In my opinion, how society is right now, uh, we really, really

seek everything to be, you know, right now, right here right now.

Um, if my food's a minute late, I'm going to be angry and say

something to the waiter or, uh, you know, be angry at someone

afterwards because of it, you know?

And, and it's like, we always expect everything to be right

now, right now, right now.

And I think it has a large.

Uh, or it's, it has something to do with our abuse of technology in

the entertainment field personally.

Uh, I think with.

You know, a lot of these social media platforms, they are designed in a way to

give you these dopamine hits as you're scrolling and constantly seeking this.

Little piece of gratification all the time, which in the

long run is actually not good.

We don't want to have that constant overstimulation of dopamine.

Right.

So I really think that it's so important for us to take a moment

and just be with ourselves.

Right.

I mean, there's actually people.

Out there who are always seeking some form of stimulation, whether it's from

being on their phone or watching TV, or even just having background noise.

Right.

I mean, how often do you see people at their house alone or maybe it's you

obviously, you can't see someone alone.

Um, but how often do you see someone when, uh, they just they're at

home and they have noise music.

Uh, the TV on whatever it may be, just so they feel like they're not alone.

Right.

And it's a very interesting concept, especially because, you know, if you went

back a couple hundred years ago, like before the radio was even invented, Then.

If you were at home alone, you were at home alone.

It's like the most entertaining thing you would have is yourself or

a book, or if people came over right.

But I really do think there's a lot of value in that if we can take

time to just be with ourselves, even if it's five minutes, like not

even a long period of time, I think there's a lot of benefit in that.

And there was actually a study done or they took people and they asked

them, would you rather sit in this room by yourself with no stimulation

of any kind for, it was like five or 10 minutes, like nothing long at all.

And, uh, or the other option was to receive.

Uh, electrical shock from a device.

Uh, and that's all you had to do was just get shocked and then you wouldn't

have to go sit in the room and I'm almost positive that it was more people

chose to get shocked than they did to just sit in the room for, you know,

five to 10 minutes by themselves.

Which is really, really crazy.

It just goes to show that we are very uncomfortable with

being alone with ourselves.

And we really shouldn't be, you know, I think actually having that solitude and

time to reflect, even if you are allowing your brain to process thoughts, there's

still a lot of benefit to be had in there.

And then I think if you take it one step further and start to quiet the

mind and learn to control, uh, these thoughts, you know, or not even control

the thoughts, but control when and if you want to give them attention.

I think there's a lot of power in that.

And, um, as someone who's practiced.

Uh, yoga and meditation for a while now.

There is this point that I have personally achieved where.

You actually can quiet the mind completely.

And it's a really interesting thing because there's a point

where you start to withdraw your attention from these thoughts.

And when you start doing that more and more and more, and you you're getting very

good now at noticing when you're getting into a thought and able to withdraw

your attention back to the meditation.

That's a very cool process because then at some point.

You do it so many times that your brain actually just kind of goes

quiet for a little bit, and then you're just sitting in this blissful.

Quietness in your mind and your body.

And it is.

Really really wild.

It's actually something that's kind of hard to sustain for a long period of time,

unless you're a very, very well-practiced, uh, meditation practitioner.

Um, but even just having like 10 seconds of that is really, really beautiful.

It's, uh, something that.

Yeah, I don't think you can really achieve.

In, in, you know, most other things, you know, it's, it's really just

with meditation and learning to master your mind and getting to

this place where you go quiet.

And then you're just kind of sitting with yourself.

It's really.

Uh, yeah, hard for me to explain, but it is a really, really pretty practice.

And, um, I highly recommend that you guys do meditations and stillness

practices to try to achieve that state.

So then you can see what I'm talking about.

Uh, and then that's going to lead me to our very last.

Uh, takeaway for today's episode, which is that.

Basically.

Meditation can help you to choose your response.

So.

When I say that.

What I'm saying by that is.

When you choose your response instead of just reacting.

You will just do so much better.

In everything in life.

You know, there's a lot of people out there who are.

Not in control of their emotions, not in control of their

thoughts and they just react.

Right.

And I'm sure you probably know one of these people it's, you know, that

person that just kind of says whatever comes to their head, you know, if

they have a short fuse, someone says something that rubs them the wrong

way and boom, they're just set off.

Right.

But you can choose how you react and respond to pretty much everything

aside from, you know, like.

Uh, car that's coming at you and you naturally running out

of the way or whatever, right?

But in terms of speaking with people, you can choose your

reaction and you can choose how you wish to respond to that person.

Now through meditation, the reason I'm relating these two is because when you

start doing this practice of taking your attention away from your thoughts,

you're truly mastering your mind.

You're training your mind, and you're being able to decide if you want to

place your attention in these thoughts.

Now, a lot of the times, our first thought that comes up is

usually a pretty crappy thought.

Right.

Like, they're usually like, not our best thought.

It's a, it's usually attacking it's, you know, it's some, something bad.

So if we always just acted on that first thought that came to our mind

things, wouldn't probably go very well.

But if you're able to consciously just allow your thoughts to happen, but

you don't have to be attached to them.

You don't have to get stuck in them.

You can.

Allow them to happen.

You can observe the situation that's happening with you and this

other person that might be angering you, and you can choose how you

wish to respond to that person.

And you can choose to deescalate the situation you can choose to.

Understand that that person might be having a very bad day today.

And they're not meaning to take this out on you, but it's just happening that way.

And you can choose to not allow it to affect your day.

You can be kind to that person and maybe even turn their day around.

So that is a very, very powerful practice that I've gained from meditation.

Uh, is simply just.

Kind of keeping a cool about yourself being able to.

Not get worked up about things.

Um, it's really wild when I stop meditating for let's say a week or

two, I actually noticed that my sh my fuse is a little bit more short.

I'm a, I'm a little bit more reactionary to people.

Uh, I'm not as just kind, uh, like upfront.

So, uh, when I do meditate, especially over these last 30 days,

It's been wild.

I mean, uh, I've been very calm in stressful situations.

I haven't been getting very, worked up at all by anyone

which has been really awesome.

Um, and also just stress levels are so much lower.

It's it's really, really incredible.

Um, I already knew the power of meditation because I've done long meditation

practices, especially in my yoga.

Uh, Path with becoming a certified yoga teacher.

But this 30 day practice really, um, just showed me a lot.

And I think it was because I was paying attention to really what I was doing and

what the effects were of this practice.

I was really.

Taking note of it every single day.

Like what kind of a change am I seeing?

And, uh, yeah, that was one that I really was super happy to see was just

how it really rolled over into my life and my daily actions being able to.

Get out of my meditation and then go into my Workday and just have a great day.

I wasn't getting mad at people, emails that might have.

You know, set me off did not set me off.

And it was just really, really nice to feel that kind of sense of calm.

So anyways, I'm dragging this last one out and I'm sorry for that,

but it really was beneficial.

And, uh, I feel like if there's any reason to practice meditation, you

know, you could pick any of these, but definitely that last one is incredible

and it can help you out in your personal life as well, can help you to show up as

a better person to everyone around you.

And I think that is massively beneficial.

So anyways, guys, that is going to.

To do it for today's episode.

Uh, yeah.

If I can give you any piece of advice, it is to go meditate or

develop a meditation practice.

It's very simple to get started.

You can literally take five minutes or even three minutes.

If you just are really freaked out about sitting down with

yourself for a long period of time.

Right.

So at a minimum three minutes and, you know, you can go

up to as long as you want.

But three minutes is definitely going to be the minimum and just

find a comfortable, seated position.

It can be on a chair, it could be on the ground.

However you want to be seated.

Just feel comfortable.

And at the minimum, you can just do a stillness practice

and focus on your breath.

You can, uh, just watch your breath, come in, watch your breath flow out.

You can expand your belly on the inhales, contracted on the exhales

and just try to constantly keep your awareness on that breath.

And you'll be surprised at how hard it can actually be.

Uh, some days your mind will be very active and you'll want to.

Just flow into these thoughts, but the practice here is recognizing

when your attention is being taken away by these thoughts.

And then actively recognizing it and pulling your awareness back

into the meditation and allow that thought to just fade away.

That practice in itself is incredible.

And if you can dedicate, like I said, even just three minutes to it.

You will be amazed at the difference that you will feel now.

Three minutes is pretty short.

Um, they recommend, I believe it was 10 minutes is where the real benefits occur.

So if you're up for the 10 minutes and you've never done a meditation

before, go ahead, give it a try.

Um, and you guys will see the benefits now, remember as with anything.

You do have to be consistent.

So.

Go ahead and you don't have to do 30 days straight if you don't want

to, but go ahead and give it a week, maybe two weeks and, uh, try to be

consistent every single day, 10 minutes.

Right?

Uh, everyone has 10 minutes in their day or can make 10

minutes in their day for this.

And it's going to pay back a tenfold what you're putting in.

So go ahead and give that a try.

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Everyone.

I appreciate you for listening so, so much, and I hope you

received some benefit from.

Me blabbering on here about my takeaways of a 30 day meditation practice.

And I hope it inspired you to maybe start your own meditation practice.

All right.

Y'all much love to everybody.

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