Chris Sajnog: Hey guys, I'm Chris Sajnog, founder of the
SEAL training system. And in this video, I want to share with
you the different stages of meditation. Let's go ahead and
get started. Joining me now is retired Navy SEAL sniper, Chris
Sajnog All right, so when I teach shooting, I talk about the
importance of meditation. And I understand that it can be hard
and frustrating trying to learn how to meditate and understand
the importance of meditation and why you do it. Well, the
importance of meditation is being able to focus on what you
choose to focus on at any moment in time. For instance, if you're
in a gunfight, or you're in a shooting competition, there's a
lot of stress going on, there's a lot of noises and sounds and
different things happening. Well, that's what's going on in
your mind all the time. And that's why it can be frustrating
when you first start learning how to meditate. So what we want
to do is control that stress at all times. And slowly ramp up
the amount of stress that you feel even when you're
meditating. When you start off meditating, what you want to do,
or you may need to do to kind of quiet those sounds in your mind
is actually listen to some soft music, I listened to some
Japanese flute music, sometimes by oral sounds where there's
different sounds going in each ear, you can listen to white
noise, really anything to just kind of distract your mind and
those thoughts that you're hearing in the whole purpose of
meditation is taking those thoughts, acknowledging them,
and then choosing to focus on your breath. So you want to do
that in a quiet space with your eyes closed. Once you get good
at that, and you're starting to get better, you can take away
the music, because that's going to not wash out those sounds
with something that's outside yourself. So you're going to be
able to control that better, then you can start to meditate,
maybe with your eyes open. So now you have to take in this
visual input and still be able to focus on what you choose to
focus on, you can start to go to a busy street. Even as you get
better, you want to start introducing these external
stressors. And that's going to be kind of the same thing you're
going to experience in a gunfight or in a competition or
wherever you need to use your firearm. So you're slowly
ramping up the stress that you're experiencing, but still
using your mind and choosing to focus on what you want to focus
on. And in the end, you can even go to a gun range. If you have a
problem flinching or reacting just to the sound of gunfire go
in. Once you're at that level, meditate at a gun range. So it's
not all about always just sitting in a quiet place. And in
the end, you should be able to learn to meditate and do moving
meditations. I use this with my shooting app where I use the
Focus Band to teach you how to draw in fire your gun for
instance, while staying in a flow state. Start off slow,
maybe with some white noise that in your headphones that's going
to help you drowned out those random thoughts that we all have
in our minds. But then as you get better slowly ramp up the
amount of stress that you hear things you see still while
maintaining that meditative state. So that's all I have for
you today. I hope you're meditating and until next time,
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