let's talk about the three m's
what are the three m's
mindfulness
meditation
and manifesting
and these three m's have really become
the trifecta that is the ziva technique
which is what i teach
so mindfulness i would define as the art
of bringing your awareness into the
present moment
beautiful right practice that right now
right and let's just do it right just
close your eyes you don't even have to
put your pens down just close your eyes
just take a big delicious inhale
and exhale
so good and this time as you inhale i
want you to actually feel the breath as
it enters your nostrils
and as you exhale i want you to feel the
tactile sensation as it exits your
nostrils
really good and open your eyes
so that was like a mindful moment right
that was one mindful breath where we
brought our awareness into this moment
is the right now so anytime you are
directing your focus
any time you are doing a guided
visualization anytime you're focusing on
your breath counting your breath
visualizing your chakras imagining a
waterfall i would put that in the
category of mindfulness right waking
state left brain practice
and you're directing your focus
now this is an interesting time to be
alive because neuroscience is catching
up to what these indian dudes have been
saying for 6 000 years
and
uh now not only can we prove that
meditation is good for you but now we
can start to prove how different styles
of meditation are impacting the brain
differently
so in mindfulness where you're directing
your focus a smaller part of the brain
lights up very very bright right which
is sort of indicative to how mindfulness
is helpful to you if you practice
mindfulness you notice that you get very
good at like focusing on tasks you're
very good at
like
putting one foot in front of the other
and being very present where you are
right here right now
let's talk about the second m
meditation
and i want
for a moment i'm going to ask you guys a
favor and i want you to take everything
you've ever heard about meditation and i
want you to throw it out the window just
for these next few minutes that we have
together meditation as i would define it
is basically when we're accessing a
verifiable fourth state of consciousness
so different than waking different than
sleeping and different than dreaming
when you start to cultivate a meditation
practice you actually move into a fourth
state of consciousness okay and in this
state of consciousness the right and
left hemispheres of the brain start to
function in unison
and this is important because your left
brain is in charge of the past and the
future and your right brain is in charge
of the right now
left brain critical thought right brain
creative thought
left brain i suck i suck i suck on a
dial with cats eating my face
right brain
write that book
okay so we actually want to have both of
these guys functioning at the same time
right brain and left brain so when we
start meditating we're accessing this
fourth state of consciousness um and
when i say that it's like a verifiable
state of consciousness what i mean is
that if you were to hook your brain up
to an eeg machine which is electro and
topography hardware there are eight
classic points on the right brain and
eight classic points on the left and in
waking sleeping and dreaming states of
consciousness the right and left
hemispheres of the brain are functioning
separately
but in this fourth state of
consciousness all 16 leads of eeg rise
and fall in unison
and that starts to increase something
called neuroplasticity and
neuroplasticity is the brain's ability
to change itself it also increases
something called neurogenesis which is
the brain's ability to generate new
brain cells okay and that's happening
because you have this whole brain
cohesion happening when you're doing
this practice mindfulness very good at
dealing with your stress in the now
meditation very good at dealing with
your stress from the past
now let's move into the third m
manifesting manifesting as consciously
creating a life you love
it's amazing to me how many people i
meet in a day
and i ask them well what's your dream
job how much money do you want to be
making what do you want your
relationship to look like how do you
want your relationship with your body to
feel and they're just like
i just i'm not making enough money right
now and my husband doesn't understand
any of this stuff and so it's like they
immediately go to the complaint
when i ask them what they want it's like
they can't even articulate it without
starting with the complaint but what i
have found is that the combination of
meditation and manifesting is infinitely
more powerful than either one alone
right because you can meditate all day
but if you're not clear about what it is
that you want then it's very hard for
nature to give it to you and conversely
you could make vision boards all day
long but if you don't believe that you
deserve your dream
it ain't coming
you