Hey guys.
Today I'm going to be sharing some lessons that I'm relearning
and ingraining in myself.
I've been doing this new meditation called the Liberation Kriya
and it's a meditation for a fresh start.
I first heard about it from Gabrielle Bernstein.
She's a YouTuber.
I'll put her video here.
But, actually, her video wasn't super clear
so I found a better video taught by this other woman who gives a better explanation
on how to do this meditation.
I'm not going to teach you because I don't feel qualified to,
but check it out.
This meditation is Kundalini yoga, so you basically have to hold a pose
kind of like this.
You hold it for nine minutes and you do this meditation every day for forty days.
If you skip a day, you have to start all over again from day 1.
The first thing you're going to notice when you try to do this meditation is that it's
hard.
It's hard to physically hold your arms up for a long period of time, and you're trembling
and you're trying your best not to give up, and you realize it's all mental.
And what I love about the video with the old woman teaching yoga is that she says,
"If you feel like you want to put your arms down, my best advice is: don't."
Basically she's saying: "If you feel like you want to quit, don't.
Just don't quit.
Just keep going,"
because it's mind over matter and you can do it.
So that's what been pushing me
to continue this commitment.
I'm on day 16 today, and I've definitely learned a lot
over this two week period of doing this meditation.
Over the course of these many sessions, I've developed these mantras to tell myself
to get me through to finish these meditations.
Most importantly, my main one is:
"Patience and perseverance."
I just have to be patient and breathe through it.
Nine minutes is a matter of time, so it's only a matter of time before the nine minutes
is up
and it'll all be over.
So I just have to be patient and sit through it.
And perseverance is simply to keep pushing to not give up and to be mentally strong.
It's basically being strong up here so that your body can take it down here,
and it really works.
Patience and perseverance.
Another thing that I've been telling myself that's been extremely powerful is:
"You're not going to die."
This is not going to kill me.
Sitting here for nine minutes
with my arms up is not going to kill me as bad as it hurts, as hard as it is to stay
still, everything.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?
I tell myself that I'm not going to die
in these nine minutes, so the only outcome is that I'm going to be stronger from this
and I'm going to grow.
And that's pretty exciting that I know that, at the finish line,
I'm going to gain something, I'm going to take a little step further and improve myself.
And I have.
Over these fifteen days, I've definitely developed muscle.
This muscle, whatever it's called, is like rock hard now.
More and more,
you become stronger and stronger physically and mentally.
And now, when I do this meditation, it doesn't hurt and I don't have trouble with it physically.
Now it's more about mental and it's about being patient now, and just sitting through
the nine minutes of time.
I feel like I've gotten over the first hurdle with this meditation.
And I feel like maybe every quarter, every ten days, you'll learn something new from
it.
But it's been pretty cool to try this out and experience it, and learn new things
from a simple 9-minute exercise that you do every day.
I guess the main things
I wanted to share today were the points: patience and perseverance.
If it's not going to kill you, it's really going to make you stronger.
It's a very exciting thought that if you don't give up, then the only outcome
is that you're going to grow, and you're going to keep getting stronger and stronger
and stronger every day.
So it can only go up from here.
Don't give up,
because if you give up, then you have to start all over again, right?
I think it's pretty cool.
I just wanted to share that bit with you, my journey,
what I'm going through right now.
Let me know if you guys thought that was interesting.
Let me know if you're going to try out the meditation in the comments.
But check it out.
Do your research.
I'll put some links in the description box
for what I read or the videos that I watched.
Thanks for watching!
I will be uploading a video every Wednesday
so check back next week for another video.
Have a beautiful day.
Bye!