♪ Meditation (meditation, meditation) ♪
♪ Meditation, yeah we are meditating♪
- What are we even doing?
We are going to be meditating for 30 days.
- And that includes weekends too, right?
- [Zach] This video is sponsored by Headspace
and we're partnering with them
to see if meditation can change our lives?
- [Eve] Hi and welcome to the Wake Up.
It's Eve here.
Today we'll discuss how to move through
and let go of resentment.
Let's get started.
- Yeah, so my name's Dora Kamau,
and I am one of the mindfulness and meditation
teachers at Headspace.
- Already the voice is so. - The way you talk.
I'm like, I'm so loud and abrasive.
You're so wonderful.
- We all have to kinda adjust ourselves.
- How am going to astral project?
(laughter)
I'd really like to learn how to astral project today.
That's what I think meditation's supposed to be, right?
My soul flies out of my body
and hangs out with like,
I don't know, space Jesus. I don't know.
What is meditation?
- Simply put is just a training of the mind and awareness.
So training the mind to be here
and recognize what is going on in this present moment.
- Do we have a mantra?
- No, not today.
- You have to earn a mantra.
- I'm good at mantras.
- (laughs) There's no earning of a mantra.
- Are you a shaman?
- No. I wish.
- Will we be doing drugs?
- No.
- Will it feel like drugs?
- Maybe a little bit of euphoria,
but there's no expectations.
I like to just say like, stay open.
- I have a lot of expectations.
- I know.
- I really want euphoria.
- Dora, why are we on the floor?
- We are about to meditate.
- Can I take my shoes off?
- Yes please.
- Let's do it.
- I'm gonna keep mine on for everyone's sake.
(laughter)
- My shoes further away.
- Is it okay for flatulence?
- Yes. If that comes up, by all means release.
Don't keep it in.
- You know, it's funny that you mentioned that
cuz I also feel like my rectum is ready to.
- I don't have to fart at all.
For the, let the records show.
- What are the benefits?
- Meditation has been shown to help
with insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain.
Physically you get to lower your blood pressure.
You're able to be in your body to be present.
All right, so we're gonna close our eyes, only
if that feels comfortable for you.
I'm just gonna take a moment now to take a few deep breaths.
Breathing in through the nose
breathing out through the mouth.
- The idea of sitting alone with my thoughts is so scary.
- So the idea of getting rid
of thoughts completely from your mind is like impossible.
So you can't get rid of the thoughts.
You can learn to be with them, observe them
but they will never go away.
You just kind of learn to live
with them and be at ease with them.
- Sorry, I have another question.
- Yep.
- In yoga, we do ujjayi breath, where you like you
hear the breath.
Am I supposed to hear the breath or am I being distracting?
- You can hear the breath.
- Okay. - Yep.
- Also, this isn't yoga.
- Well I know, that's why I asked.
Making sure I wasn't doing the wrong thing.
- In Tai Chi, we do this.
(laughter)
- We actually did meditation as part
of the Try Guys' book that we wrote.
Now you're like, Keith, I bought the book,
you didn't do meditation.
That's because nobody else did it
and the chapter got cut, but I did it.
Day five was more of the same
and it just led to me being frustrated.
You know, that was four years ago
so I've probably forgotten everything I learned.
- Then breathing in
and then letting go.
Maybe the mind has already gotten distracted
and that's okay. If your mind wanders a thousand times.
That is like the training ground for meditation.
A lot of people get really frustrated and they're like
'My mind is so busy, it's so restless.'
But that's what you want is that going outwards
and coming back in, going outwards and coming back in
because that's how you train the muscle of mindfulness.
- This is the real problem.
I wake up and I'm with my kids.
I get us all ready for preschool and work.
I'm drying my hair in the kitchen
while feeding them breakfast and running back
and forth to get me dressed and them dressed.
I get 'em off to preschool.
Then I have 20 minutes to myself where I am getting coffee
and driving to the office.
When in the F am I gonna meditate?
- What I always tell people is do
and start your practice whenever feels
like you can be most consistent with that time.
So when I first started meditating
I tried to do it for an hour the first time
and that was like the worst thing I've ever done.
I didn't meditate for like three years after that.
Cause I was like, this is impossible.
So for me, I started to notice the effects
and benefits of meditation when I was able to do it.
I started with three minutes every single day
for like two months.
Something I like to do that helps with focus
just beginning to count the breath.
So as you breathe in, that's one
and as you breathe out, that's two.
Just continuing to 10 and starting back at one again
letting go of any judgments, any stories or expectations.
Seeing if you can just simply follow the breath.
- This could be really challenging.
The thing about any practice and staying disciplined is
consistency and things get in the way of like self growth.
- And when you're ready in your own time
slowly and gently opening your eyes
- My leg is dead now.
(laughter)
- Feel free to stretch the legs out.
- What you're looking for is asleep.
- What's up, sexy people.
Today's day one of meditation with Head Space.
- [Eve] I try to remind myself that I'm speaking to a friend
someone I care about, and this often helps to shift the tone
and the kindness that I show towards myself.
- Okay, day one, meditation.
Here's the thing.
We were supposed to start yesterday.
Whoopsie.
- What's gonna be something that we struggle with?
- Finding the time to do it. Yeah.
- I have not been meditating. I'm sorry.
- I didn't meditate yesterday.
I'm gonna be completely honest.
- It's day whatever.
And finished work.
Going to bed for the night, and guess what?
I forgot to meditate.
So turn back around, go back downstairs
meditate for about 10 minutes and then go to bed.
- I'm worried. So that's why you're going
up against what everyone is going up against, right?
We can either be completely distracted
because our minds are always stimulated
or we can take the time to sit
which is the challenge of meditation.
- [Head Space Voice] It's so great to have you
back on this Head Space journey.
This is basics two.
Session one.
- I arrived to work a little early
so I could do some meditation in my car.
- [Head Space Voice] We're training the mind to let go
of any hostility to let go of any anger.
- I got coffee, I got some matcha that they're testing out.
Yum. I don't know how people do this
at like 5:30 AM with no caffeine in their system.
- I tell you what
I just meditated and it really made me sleepy.
I should not have meditated at 2:30 in the afternoon.
- I have my nephew and niece for 48 hours.
I don't know how Rachel meditated with children.
Can you teach a three year old how to meditate?
- Great question.
It's time for meditation.
Got home, kids are here.
Okay.
(kids chattering)
- [Head Space Voice] Try sitting down or lying down,
just beginning with a nice big deep breath
in through the nose and out through the mouth.
- What is that?
- [Head Space Voice] Or just letting go.
- You know what?
My colleague Samantha, is like a kid's expert
and she is the one that works
with children and she's amazing.
- Okay, let's do a kid's one.
- [Head Space Voice] So it's time to go to sleep.
- It's almost time to go to sleep.
Go ahead and lie down on your back.
- [Head Space Voice] And we're just gonna say goodnight
to all the different parts of the body.
- Okay. I didn't meditate yesterday, but I just meditated
and I don't know if I had a breakthrough
but I had some, I don't know, some interesting things.
You know, we're focusing on the breath, right?
But I today realized I was never focusing on my breath.
I was focusing on the idea of focusing on my breath.
But today I focused on every breath.
- Even when I travel
we've still gotta find a time to meditate.
I'm somewhere in Sacramento with White Strips in my mouth.
I'm gonna get into my meditation.
Today is gonna be a beautiful day.
- Today is a particularly
active day on the Try Guys Reddit.
If you know, you know.
I am stressed and my brain, I. (sighs)
It's the night of Monday, September 26th
not sharing that date for any particular reason.
Hey, Keith, you wanna meditate?
- Oh, sure. Zach. I'd love that.
- It's been a stressful time at Try Guys HQ.
How can this help us not be stressed?
- Yeah. As I said, stress is inevitable
so the stress will be there.
I'm not gonna say it's completely going to go away
but you'll be able to work with it.
- (singing) Today is the most stressful day of my life.
- [Rachel] Did you guys meditate?
- No. Oh, no Rachel, I don't have, no!
- [Rachel] I didn't do anything.
- No, I don't have the mental space to
calm my brain right now.
- [Rachel] You gotta find it.
- I brought in all my sound toys.
- Did you meditate?
- [Rachel] No.
- You know what?
Actually, instead of meditating, come with me.
I think I have an idea that's like kind of
a meditative thing.
- [Rachel] Are we going to eat cookies?
What's happening?
What is this?
- Why meditate when you can.
Hold on. It's not on.
(laughter)
Okay. Okay, here comes, Daddy.
You want to play with that one?
- [Zach] Yeah.
(celestial music)
(random crazy beats)
(funky hip hop beat)
♪Yeah we are meditating, yeah. Let the music fill your soul♪
♪ You are meditating, whoa. ♪
♪ Head Space! ♪
- What? What?
- Some of us work here.
- So it's really important to just acknowledge
that the thought is there
because we can try to get rid of it.
Try to be really angry, really tense.
Like why am I having this thought? Fight against it.
♪ Meditation. ♪
- But just saying in this moment I'm experiencing a thought
and just labeling it as a thought without judgment
full of curiosity and compassion,
and coming back to the breath.
- It is time to meditate.
- The instructor said to let your mind think
about whatever it wants for a minute.
Let go of the focus.
And I kind of
in my head asked myself, What do you want to think about?
- Being able to understand your thoughts
and not being so controlled by them.
Because believe it or not
the lifespan of an emotion is only 90 seconds.
That means that an emotion lives
in our bodies and minds for 90 seconds.
But what keeps them alive is our thoughts
and feelings surrounding that emotion.
How we're responding relating to that emotion.
So as we meditate, we're able to stop that cycle
of the thought that feeds the feeling
and the feeling that feeds the thought.
And for me, that's been revolutionary.
- We meditated.
- We did. - Meditated.
It was brief, but nice.
- I feel so much calmer after I do it.
- Should we try advanced meditation?
- Like Jedi level.
- [Head Space Voice] Only with compassion
we connect with the world around us.
- I already feel better.
- The simplest part of meditation is really just
focusing on your breathing, dude.
- Yeah. - That says like,
are you breathing?
Part of the fun I'm meditating is finding
a nice, peaceful spot.
And like, look at this
look at this peaceful spot back here.
Look at that nice 10 minute meditation.
- [Wife] You seem real calm after.
- Yeah.
My wife said, I'm calm after I meditate.
Am I not calm throughout the day?
- [Wife] Well. (laughs)
- You know, I haven't really found
there's a time of day that I don't like meditation.
It's nice in the middle
of a busy work day that feels really hectic.
It's such a like fun break.
It's nice in the morning.
As long as I've had at least three sips
of coffee and it's really relaxing at night.
Am I getting good at meditation?
- I've been doing every day
and hopefully it continues to become easier.
But you know, I'm in my little meditation zone.
- I find that meditating is like
it's like brain flossing, you know?
Like you get the gunk out and then you
you feel nice and fresh afterwards.
I was really, really, really struggling to make any time
for this even, you know, five minutes.
And then I said,
This is stupid.
Like if you're stressed out, just go into the other room
and starting my day with breathing, it's like you can
like I have physical changes, my voice changes.
It's wild.
- It's wild how much it's like exercise where you
don't wanna do it.
Every cell in your body is like, I don't have time for this.
And then if you do it, you're like, Oh wow
this is how humans are supposed to live.
I feel better.
- In this time that we're dealing with right now.
I think we all need some meditation just to
get our head space together.
You see what I did there?
I said head space. - Yeah.
- Coming to your meditation practice and seeing it
as something completely new.
You may have great meditations.
The meditations may suck, but it's about seeing
the possibility in every moment.
I just want to leave you all with this idea of being patient
and compassionate with yourselves.
Again, this isn't easy.
It may sound simple, but it's not easy.
(synthesizer tune)
- Mmmm.
Such a weird little instrument, huh?
Anyway, that's the other thing I do to try to calm myself
down is play with fun synthesizers.
But right now
(crazy synthesizer tune)
it's time to meditate.
(ethereal music)
*mystical noise*
Think I fully just daydreamed...
That the Headspace App
Was, like, *laughs*
a lady, and she was like, “Here take this,”
then she handed me something and I was supposed to reach up and grab it.
And then at that point my mind was like, “No, you’re meditating,
you can’t move your hands!”