The Super Power of Meditation

00:02 The power of meditation. Good morning, crew. It's the weekend. Team Super Dad. I have meditated for about 14 years. Not to sat there for 14 years. It's something I've done for about 14, 15 years. If you think it's about sitting on your ass with little bells and relaxing, then you're truly missing the point. And it's about creating the future or the vision and the energy within yourself to actually influence the world around you and to give you some clarity and motivation. So without further ado, let's do this. Welcome to Team Super Dad. Real dads creating their best lives ever.

00:47 More time, more money, more fun. You are not alone. You're on Team Super Dad. It's the weekend. Morning, morning. Saturday. A little bit dark here today, but you know, as welcome to all the dads in the Team Super Dad or the Super Dad Club group on Facebook here at LinkedIn, if you're listening on the podcast, welcome. Give us a review, remember that. And if you're on LinkedIn or YouTube on the live, you can comment. In fact, pretty much most places you're watching, you can comment and join in. I'll try and pick them up as we go along. Meditation. Meditation, right? People have a lot of strange ideas about meditation.

01:32 The first time I ever meditated was at the end of some yoga. Basically, we were living in London. A friend of mine started taking us to a yoga place in Balham or Clapham on Clapham Common. Quite, quite not Buddha, not Buddhist, but quite, I guess, I don't know. I don't know. I apologize to people that do know better. But, you know, they had the outfits on, right? And it was a pretty chilled out place. So it may well have been a Buddhist thing. I don't know. But it was, so then you, then you would, that you would do the yoga, and then there'd be the kind of the 15-minute bit at the end, the yoga nista or the chill-out bit at the end. And

02:15 it took me a few weeks to get past the fact that some people would fart during it. But, but, uh, but anyway, that, that, that was my first experience of getting into that real space of nothingness and not nothingness where nothing goes on, but where the rest of your mind kicks in and starts to process and wander off and generate new thoughts. And it's that that is the break from the everyday shit that you're going through. Welcome to the people dropping in. If you want to comment, then please, by all means, I should be able to pick it up. You should say, hi, tell me hello, let me know what you're doing this morning. I've got a lemon tea here.

02:59 We're about to go and have a birthday brunch with my good friend, Paul, and his gang. He's 50. Hilarious. We're going to have as many 50th birthdays in the next three or four years. It'll be like weddings when we're in our 30s. So meditation. Yeah. It was that I then started to have a little exploration into guided meditations and the use of it for more than just relaxing, but actually for sleep. I used it for use it and have always used it quite a lot as a tuned down at the end of the day before sleep.

03:41 But it was only really when I started to read or discover a guy called Dr. Joe Dispenza that I started to get interested in the power of meditation. I watched a movie called What the Bleep, which started to open up my mind to quantum physics and really this, you know, the energy that exists all around us. And if you find that a bit weird, as Dr. Joe Dispenza often mentions, it happens in everyday life around the placebo effect. If you give two sets of people, two sets, two groups of people medicine, tell them that it's going to make them better.

04:23 One of the medicines is nothing more than a sugar tablet and the other is the medicine. And the results come back and the percentage of people who got better with the non-medicine is the power, the persuasive power of the mind over the body. And then in regards to that, that quantum physics and the energy that is all around us, we can put that out to others. And you think, well, what the fuck does that mean, Johnny? Well, just this week, I was working with one of my dad clients, one of the Team Super Dad dads.

04:59 dads and a tremendous amount of opportunity has come his way in the last couple of months and this is off the back of a divorce right which you'd think would be a horrific time and of course it is a challenge there are challenges to overcome but quite often a divorce will come at the end of a really extended period of stress and strain so you're not really creating anything you're worried about things breaking you're actually focused on negative stuff then you come through the divorce excuse me

05:37 through the divorce and then in my work or in their work with me we start to talk about your vision boards your your goals you're actually the life you want to create for yourself what sort of time do you want to spend with your children what sort of money do you want what how's your job what what kind of relation new relationship would would you really love to have like instead of worried about what you don't want and blindly getting more of that you start to create what you do want and no surprise this guy is the latest example of it amazing opportunities start to come your way now this isn't this isn't like oh that's lucky you know it's it's even more than serendipitous you if you if you're familiar with the secret the law of attraction but the science behind that is as i mentioned quantum physics if you're religious you know it's in the bible ask and it shall be given it's it's it's an incredible element of of of

06:32 of christianity right but people don't really they just say the prayer or they read the thing they don't really understand that ask and it shall be given is about yeah in religion it's about prayer but it's also about the action that you put in place to support that and meditation is is very very um the same in that regard you can't just lay there and decide oh i want a i want a five bedroom house and a wonderful relationship it's not that magic okay but it is about creating the thought in your mind and in in times of meditation to be able to go to that future that you're looking to create and actually

07:17 wander in it you know enjoy the the the enjoy it basically okay um and it's then that you start to engage your brain around the idea of having those things of creating that life that you want of meeting that person and so your prefrontal cortex and your raz your reticular activating system starts to process its actions and observe people around you in the world and what you read and what you notice it all starts to it all starts to uh focus in on that goal on that intention and that is the wonder of of meditation as a creative

08:02 process now you don't have to sit quietly although um you know dr dojo spent dr joe de spenzer's uh meditations are a very guided process some other meditations like um famous ones wayne dyer's i am code right it's it's actually it's more just peaceful music but it's it's on um it's um on alpha and beta waves like different different told you i'm not the guru right but on different levels the sound levels what um what are they called ah

08:40 like the beta alpha and beta waves of the music i'm doing a terrible job on explaining that but but it in in um it takes you into a more meditative state a more relaxed state where your brain starts to have different thought patterns um walking walking can be a very meditative process okay so if you're not comfortable with the sitting down and listening to things going for a walk i don't mean go necessarily for a walk down the flipping oxford high street in london or somewhere really busy you need to get out into nature and feel and observe the world around you but when you do that and then you consciously

09:19 create this space in your mind for yeah i'm i want to uh i'm going to go for this walk and i want you my brain to work on the new house vision the new business vision the new relationship vision so youtube's full of meditations um insight timer is an incredible app where people post their meditations and and yoga stuff and all that kind of wellness um audio audio, wellness tools. There are literally millions of recordings there. So it's about finding a flavor that works for you.

10:03 I'm in the process right now of creating some meditations that will be going to go into the Hero Academy and will be on the YouTube channel that are based on some of my favorite styles. Whether that's the silver method, whether that's Dr. Joe Dispenza, some of Wayne Dyer's on methods. So it's, it's, like I said, it's very much about finding something that works for you, whether you do it on your own or whether you do it with other people. But going back to the magic of it, the actual power to create. When you sit down and start to work on your goals, you might write it out as a perfect day, like when I've got the life I want, it will look like this.

10:47 You might make it as a vision board of the different areas of your life and what you're going to have in those areas: the home, the holidays, the family days out, the clothes, the dog, the maybe you're helping people. You know, you start to create triggers so that you're going back to that picture on a regular basis. And that is the real magic of creating time in your life, in your day, in your week for these kinds of practices. So it is for me about meditation. In fact, fitness, I find my fitness quite a meditative process as well.

11:24 But without the vision and goals, then you don't really have somewhere to send your brain off into, to send your subconscious mind off into. So starting as you create using that as your starting point is absolutely key. And we can have some fun doing that. We do some of that in the Team Super Dad five-day challenges. So watch out for the next one of those coming up. And of course, it's a core part of the power code, which is our formula inside the Hero Academy. If you've got any questions about meditation, if you've got a flavor or style you like doing yourself, a favorite person or an insight timer, then I'd love to know what they, what that is or share a link

12:09 so we can spread the love, so we can share it around inside the community and to other people. If you think meditation is a load of shit, then tell me, tell me why. And I will challenge you to actually try it. Okay, not try it for one day. You've got to put it in place for like a 30-day practice. But at the very least, you will feel calmer, more motivated. You will have a stronger sense of clarity about the direction you're headed. And you'll be able to manage the ups and downs, the slings and arrows of everyday life in a much stronger way, in a much more resilient way, because you have given your space to process and to create.

13:00 Sorry, I just stopped there to really realize that. It really is a process to create, to create the life that you want, to create the day that you want. So I hope this has been a value. Come on over to the teamsuperdad.com forward slash group and we'll welcome you into the free community. If you are interested in working together, then there's all sorts of links. Go to teamsuperdad.com forward slash dad call and I will set you up with a free 30-minute session with me. Have a great weekend. We're off for brunch. Take care. Team Superdad out.

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