in this video I'm gonna teach these two kids focus what is up everybody this is
Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the
solution and I have some guests today these are my beautiful girlfriends
little brothers do me a favor and introduce yourself real quick well Vinny
and what's your name yes so something that a lot of kids deal with my son
deals with it too and it's just part of human nature is that our minds tend to
wander so in the natural resting state of the mind is just such creating
stories and bouncing all over the place and as you probably know in school
that's not too good or when a parent is trying to tell you something or even a
big sister you know when your mind's wandering not good so last night I have
been you over here write down some notes and let me do a pop quiz real quick
Vinny how many thoughts on average does the human brain have each day 50,000 to
70,000 boom 50 to 70,000 so I do a little experiment today I told him to
write down and see if he could track how many thoughts he noticed came up what
number did you come up with fifty one fifty one thousand meditation a lot a
lot of people think that it's meant to stop thinking but it's about noticing
thinking so guess what you already did some mindfulness today yeah so like I
said this is about training the brain to kind of notice when our thoughts wander
this is a point so my man Joseph was yesterday Joseph yes it was just
birthday hello Joe all right so you turned 11 you got a bunch of Xbox gift
cards started playing the heck out a fortnight so Joseph let's talk real
quick so let's say you're playing for a night with your friends
you get a porn afford or whatever you got and and all of a sudden you're
planning your friend needs you to cover his back and build a wall or something
and all of a sudden the cats running by and you're like oh hey cat what happened
to your friend
so you see some even in a video game if your mind wanders and you're not paying
attention bad things can happen in video games but Vinnie you were doing this
experiment in school like how how did you notice thoughts wandering in class
or when did you notice them so it was mostly during lunch because you know
it's like free time really focused on the lesson of teaching so it's like
you're just answer me yeah so what kind of problems could that come up with in
school if you're not paying attention you could get a bad grade that's no good
way yeah exactly so there's a million different reasons why it's important to
Train online so there is actually a part of the brain that is responsible for
focus and attention and every time we practice mindfulness just present moment
awareness it actually strengthens that muscle all right so I'm gonna teach you
guys a very simple mindfulness lesson all right
so in mindfulness what we talked about is having an anchor okay so Joseph so
what is an anchor do for both mixes stop yeah beautiful beautiful so what happens
if the anchor isn't down keeps going so think about the brain like the boat okay
so if we don't have an anchor that mind just drifts out to sea and it gets lost
so you're like in class you're chillin you listen to teacher and you're like oh
I can't wait to get home play some for now
like oh I wonder who's gonna be online oh I wonder if my friends are gonna play
oh I wonder if I'm gonna get more feedback oh the next thing you know
class is over your failure fast to get bad grades that's not fun right yeah
okay cool so today we're gonna be using our breath
as an anchor so this is really easy it's so simple you guys please bear with me
alright so all we're gonna do close our eyes in a second I'll tell you when to
start and you're just gonna focus on your breath they're in and out and your
mind is gonna want to drift out to sea and every time that happens just say the
word thinking in your head and after you notice the thought just bring it back to
the breath alright the more that we do that it's kind of like a game a little
bit in the game thought breath breath breath breath every time you do that
that muscle gets a little bit stronger and you're gonna be buff they're gonna
be buff Joseph alright okay so just sit up straight alright and just take a deep
inhale in through your nose and as you exhale just gently close your eyes let's
just take a few deep breaths just notice how your stomach rises and falls I'll go
ahead and just bring your breath back to a normal rhythm
you can either focus on your belly going up and down or your chest you can even
use an anchor of your mouth or your nose where you notice the air coming in and
out
and just that every time a thought comes up you want to get up from your seat and
start thinking about videogames or even school just bring it back to your breath
as the air comes in and out see if you can see like what the temperature is is
it hot or cold
all right so let's take a deep inhale in through the nose and exhale and gently
open your eyes all right how was that how was your breath yeah
was that was a hard to keep bringing your attention back to your breath yeah
it was hard yeah how about you Benny oh good it felt good yeah yeah so now it's
a lot easier to see how it's fifty to seventy thousand right yeah yeah no and
that's the key our brains are constantly going that's what I try to teach people
when they're like oh I want to stop my thoughts
you ain't never stopping your thoughts right like a bus I hear right now and
said don't think about ice cream guess what you're gonna think about it just
happens yeah so like I said this is just a muscle that we're training so all you
got to do I'm letting you know right now all you gotta do do this five minutes a
day five minutes you got five minutes yeah yeah sometimes what I do in between
deaths cuz I die a lot of video games as you know they're between deaths I'll
just take a few mindful breaths and get myself back in the moment all right so
can you guys do that maybe five minutes a day when you remember beautiful all
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