♪ [music] ♪- [Jeffrey] If you're a skeptic, if you're not sure about energy work, it's
okay.
I actually recommend that you question the things that you learn.
So for me, the reason I have the beliefs that I have is because of the experiences that
I've had.
When I share those experiences with you, hopefully you get some ideas, and you'll go and have
some similar experiences to base your beliefs on.
But I actually think that it's a little bit naive or a little bit foolish to just listen
to my experiences and then base your beliefs solely on my experiences.
So if you're skeptical, I just want to say I got you.
I'm that way too, but these are my actual experiences that built these beliefs up.
All right.
So I'm going to tell you that because this one might be a little far out for some people,
a little bit of a stretch.
Now this technique that I use, this is so powerful, and what I use it for is helping
me to manage complexity.
So when I'm trying to scale up my business and I'm getting overwhelmed by the amount
of things I have to do or the amount of ideas I have or the number of students coming through,
I found that this technique is the one thing that I can do to kind of take the heat off
and make that easier.
I'll give you two ways to do it.
So the geometry we're going to work with is called an octahedron.
When I say geometry, I'm not talking about a physical object.
I'm talking about a three-dimensional construct that you can create using your mind.
Now sometimes it helps if you have a visual.
So maybe we can get a little visual and put in here so you know what I'm talking about,
but the...I'll just walk you through a quick exercise because that's the easiest way to
get it is for you to have that experience for yourself.
Does that sound good?
Do a quick exercise?
Okay.
All right.
So this is very simple.
So just close your eyes, and I want you to imagine that there is a flower, like a rose,
that's right out in front of you, maybe about arm's length out in front of you.
Maybe you can visualize that.
Maybe you can just kind of feel it.
What we're doing is we're working on that point that's straight in front of you.
The rose is actually not the important part.
Okay.
So now that you got that, I want you to imagine you can place a rose directly behind you at
about the same distance, so kind of about arm's length behind your body.
So you've got these two roses.
Then imagine that you're going to create one on the right side and on the left side of
your body.
So just kind of imagine.
Just visualize this.
Feel this around you.
Okay.
Good.
Now you want to...You're going to connect those roses to each other.
It's going to make kind of like a diamond shape around your body.
So just in your mind, just visualize this line of energy, straight line from one, from
front to the right, from the right to the back, back to the left, and the left to the
front.
So you've got this diamond around your body.
Okay.
Looks good.
Now I want you to create a rose up above your head and connect that rose to the rose in
front, to the right, behind, and to the left.
If you're getting this right, you're noticing, "Ah, now I'm inside a pyramid."
It's kind of like a four-sided pyramid, and I'm sitting in the middle of it.
So just kind of focus on that until it feels real.
Okay.
Good.
Now imagine that there's a rose down below you, beneath your feet, and connect that rose
with straight lines to those points on the front, the right, behind you, and on the left.
So now you've got a pyramid pointed up and a pyramid pointed down.
As you do that, I want you to notice what starts to happen to you right now because
you've created a very powerful container for energy.
This is one of the fundamental geometries of how space/time divides.
I've done some scientific research that's, you know, outside the scope of this talk,
but if you want to read more about that, you tune into
[inaudible 00:04:36] and these teachers that are very in-depth scientists in this field.
But for now, just have the feeling because it's the experience, not the mental experience,
the actual experience that's going to change you.
Okay.
Very good.
All right.
So now that you understand the geometry, I want you to think of a project.
Think of something that you're working on that might feel a little bit overwhelming.
It might feel like you've sort of become your project.
Right?
So for me, if I'm teaching, sometimes I can't stop thinking about the next class.
I can't stop thinking about work.
But I need to sleep.
I need to have a personal life.
So just imagine a situation like that for you.
Okay.
Now what you're going to do is I want you to notice where is that thought.
Where is that activity where you're thinking about that project?
Is it inside that container that you created?
Inside that geometry?
Is it inside your body?
My guess is yes.
If you're feeling it, if you're thinking about it, it's inside of you.
You've become the energy of your project.
Now, very simply, you're going to just imagine that you can create the same geometry.
It's a very simple, little octahedron with a pyramid pointed up and down.
Then you're going to create one out in front of you, maybe, you know, 20, 20, 30 feet,
maybe 10 meters out in front of you, and that geometry, that location is where all that
project excitement is going to go.
So you're just going to feel it leaving your personal space, moving out into something
just as powerful, but that's going to give you a little bit of private space for you.
So just feel that energy moving out and really let yourself see that geometry that you're
putting it into, because if you can see it, it's more powerful.
When I say, "See it," remember you can think, "Imagine."
You can think, "Create."
It's not a...It doesn't have to appear physically.
Okay.
Very good.
Then the next step on that is when you think about your project, I want you to do two things.
Okay.
I want you to remember where did you put your project.
Right.
so maybe I wake up in the morning.
I've been feeling great.
I need to get to work, but I'm kind of thinking more about something else.
Not thinking about that project anymore, but I really need to focus on it.
Because I've separated it from my space, I feel a little distance.
So what you do is you just remember, "Where did I put it?
I put it out here.
I put it that space out...I put it on the left side.
I put it far out."
You just grab that geometry, and you just bring it back around you.
Essentially what you're doing is just, just like this, you'll notice that, "Boom.
It's back on.
I'm tuned into the students.I'm tuned to the class."
That fast activity that was happening in my mind, that I wanted to stop, is now back on
because now I want it.
Now I'm going to go back to work.
What's so cool about this is when you start getting used to this, you start to have multiple
projects in the space around you, and you can tune in very quickly.
You can just take one kind of off the shelf, fire it up in your body, energize it, and
then you know how to take it out and let it kind of go on its own.
[inaudible 00:07:58] for you, Vishen, that you probably do some style of energy work
like this, whether it's conscious or not, because you're managing a tremendous amount
of projects and people and a tremendous amount of energy.
So you're doing something like this, whether you know it or not.
- [Vishen] I am.
I am.
I can give you a couple of examples of how I work with energy.
Well, many people who are listening are not familiar with my six-phase meditation.
Right.
So phase one of the six-phase meditation is the compassion phase, and that's where I picture
love.
I start with a simple exercise, visualizing my two-year-old baby daughter because that
generates the feeling of love.
I want to know what that feels like, and thinking of her, Eve, generates that.
Then I project that through a series of layers from my family to my team at Mindvalley, to
our customers and everyone here, and then our subscribers, and then the entire planet.
So that's one way, and it generates compassion and love.
Another way is forgiveness.
I always forgive someone or something every single morning.
I start my day with forgiveness.
So those two things are two examples of using that which we cannot see to help shift my
days to be even more better.
- Yeah.
So that's great.
What I was talking about, though, is like you're actually using geometry, whether you...
- In what way?
- Whether you know it or not, you're using...Like when I watch you work...I remember the first
time we met, and I was doing a kind of...You know, my trick that people really enjoy was
tuning in and telling you a little bit about your energy.
I noticed that your energy looks different, geometrically, than other people that I have
seen.
The way your...Your energy is in motion in a way that allows you to sort of...If there's
a barrier in the way, it sort of just kind of gets crunched up and dissolved.
If you...So you're working very powerfully with geometry, even if it's not something
you consciously do.
- I see.
See that.
So that's unique to me.
I'm not doing anything conscious.
- Right.
Yeah, but it's part of your spirit imprint that you came in with.
When you move from life to life...Because I also notice this isn't your first time around.
You've been here before, and you've been making impact before.
So this is kind of a little part of your personal technique moving forward.
- I see.
- Yeah, but there's a...I want to talk a little bit more about the geometry, just to kind
of ground it into...make it a little bit more real for people, because I know that you've
had the experience, and I mentioned that this geometry is actually a fundamental part of
how space/time divide, is how things actually work on an energy level.
You're just visualizing something that's close to that, and that gives you a lot more power
in your visualization.
What's fun is just even this simple visualization with the octahedron.
If you look around in kind of sacred texts, you'll find this exact geometry.
The example that I really like is I used to do sweat lodges occasionally with the Lakota,
so a Native American tribe, and they really have some beautiful geometric meditations
that they teach in the sweat lodge, and even the very simple one.
They'll say, "We're going to honor the north.We're going to honor the south.
We're going to honor the east and the west and above and below and within."
It sounds like a really sort of beautiful land-based meditation, but it's actually creating
that geometry.
Right?
So, we're going to honor the north, the point in front of you, the south, the point behind
you I had you create, the west and east, to your sides that I had you create, above, above
your body, below, below your feet, and within, which is that center point in the middle,
which is your heart space, that sacred heart space.
So when they tell this story and use the land as a metaphor for describing where you're
going with your attention, what they're really doing is they're just creating an octahedron
around the body, because that's the fundamental geometry that's going to ground you and bring
you more present into your body.