Hi, welcome to my video blog. My name is Tony factory. Thank you for joining me as part of the life principles series, which I've posted up on my Tumblr blog. Today I'm going to be talking about meditation, the power of meditation and getting into stillness in silence, and how that relates to health and well being. You've probably noticed that in your busy schedule your busy day to day life and things just happen really quickly. You're operating from your left brain, you know, that analytical mind that conscious mind that that 93% which is constantly processing, analyzing, it's what I call the monkey mind.

It's this inner dialogue, this chatter which constantly needs to feed itself. It's Also what we call the ego as well. If we examine different religions, different principles, such as the eastern principle, aspects of Hinduism as well, we see that there are different variations on how we view the ego. And we look back at, you know, the likes of Freud and cow, human so forth, you know, these great psycho therapists, which have talked about the ego and the ego and so forth. But without the risk of delving deeply into that, let's examine the perspective of meditation and how getting into stillness and silence benefits you on a day to day basis. So the idea of getting into silence is really to access that in a in a world it's to know what what is going on inside of you and effectively, the analogy I often like to draw is you becoming the observer the witness.

And in becoming the witness, imagine yourself standing at the edge of a shoreline watching the waves crashing in. And that's a great analogy because if you examine it, you'll notice that sometimes waves tend to come crashing in quite ferociously. Other times, they're quite peaceful and sambar as well. Now you're not judging the waves, all you're doing is just noticing. If you take that same example and apply it to your mind, you notice that there's a same consistency or same ebb and flow to your thoughts. Some days you might wake up and your thoughts are raging and, and and effectively what tends to happen is that your thoughts start affecting your physiology.

You know, it starts charging your emotions and your body starts becoming out of sync and out of character. You notice that you react instead of take a silence and take moments where you contemplate things that happen. So one of the things that begins to happen for you, when you go into regular silence is this sense of peace, you. You raise your consciousness to such a level that you become this, this witness or this watcher that resides over things happening before them. And once you continually do this over time, you'll begin to notice that you don't react to it because see, you state is one of a witness. So if you're constantly witnessing, then how can you be reacting to things?

Now I know people are gonna write in and challenge this and say, Oh, hang on, how do I react to a scenario where my loved one leaves me? I'm not suggesting that By becoming the witness that you're devoid from these situations, but what you're doing is acting from a higher purpose you're acting from the right brain, you know, that creative, that intuitive self, as opposed to the analytical mind, which breaks down everything. So how often do you need to go into silence? I suggest to clients and people alike is to start with 20 minutes a day is a minimum. Now you don't need to get into yoga postures and, you know, get your body into all these different states. The only thing I'd suggest is being upright and seated, work on some breathing strategies.

I'll talk more about breathing cues in the coming weeks in terms of how to activate your diaphragm and really start getting your physiology into what we call a parasympathetic response. And that is, you know, that rest that at ease The nervous system is quite relaxed. So 20 minutes, a day or night I like to do mine at both the morning and the evening, where I find my conscious mind tends to be quite low and inactive, particularly at night before bed. And just notice what's happening. Notice what forces are coming in. Again, don't judge the thoughts.

Just notice. Are they coming in quite fiercely? Are they slow thoughts are repetitive thoughts? Are they asking you to do anything? In fact, you'll notice most of the time, the thoughts aren't asking you to respond. They're just analyzing the situation.

So becomes a watcher. start feeling those thoughts. Thank you once again for joining me. I trust that you've enjoyed this little clip, please have a little surf around the other videos. There's a number of them. I'm producing these a number of the A number of days awake, in fact, and also on my Tumblr blog.

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