Name: WHY I STARTED LIFTING (Visualization and Speed Meditation Techniques)
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stretching my cerebral cortex right now my left my left brain it's a little bit

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more stiff than my right brain because I'm naturally just more like right brain dominant

actually I don't think I need to start stretch the amygdala it's

overactive.  "How did sculpting your body bring up the mental aesthetics"?

PLATO.   At that time when I took my first philosophy class I was

still really into just the physique and power in athletics and the body

but I took a philosophy class because I need to fulfill my credit so I just

picked philosophy. It's the best intro to philosophy class ever because it's an

ancient Greek an Rome philosophy and and the main character the main person

that was being studied was Plato and then Plato the the reason why they called him "Plato"

back in ancient Greece is because he has broad shoulders he was athletic he was

a good wrestler and this Plato means broad shoulders and the fact that

back then in the days of Ancient Greek they're very non dual It's not like you have the body and the mind

would go to like the wrestling room and they would lift weights and do gymnastics

talk about philosophy during their training because they realize that

there's no separation between mental and physical aesthetics. The soldiers and warriors back in Greece

took music and dance classes because it helped with their kinetic intelligence

if you look at music music is completely "physical"

00:03:39,690 --> 00:03:43,520 like the way that you play violin and piano  really fast

your neurons firing really fast very punctual and that

the contraction and expansion of you know that loudness the softness of the

music and and the different notes and film too, film is very kinetic

I think the imagination is one of the most important but overlooked factors in

athleticism the ability to visualize motor skills clearly and distinctly the

mind is essential for the mind-muscle or body-world connection required in

athletic events I think some of the most explosive and gifted athletes are

right brained dominant if you believe in the left right brain the dichotomy so the

right brain dominant people are the creative types who can hold clear images

to the minds of what they wish to become and accomplish. See when you visualize

yourself playing basketball or lift weights or sprint what you're

essentially doing is creating an avatar of yourself to be exported into real

life or onto the court see the better you are at engineering or generating and

manipulating the program of your hologram internally the more efficient

your meat suit who will move externally see from the non-dual perspective when the

line or duality between mind/body/self and others and the world is erased there

is no difference between the avatar in the athletes mind and the athlete in

real life who is visualizing that avatar and inside a television or in your mind

when you're perceiving that image see the whole universe is just an avatar within

avatars where the parts contained whole and vice versa in the sense were already

born into VR our everyday conscious experience is nothing more than a mental

construct representation and we become so identified with the protagonist or

the main character which again is just an avatar that we forgot we're

actually the screen and I think the world is waking up to

itself as the difference between the virtual and the real is now almost

indistinguishable from the neurobiological and the human dimension

athletes practice movements over and over again mentally the neurons are

already firing and priming and synchronizing to the physical muscular

patterns of their bodies see there's a little difference to me between creating

a sculpture or creating a painting or performing a vertical jump or a

scrapyard Australia psychologist Alan Richardson made a little experiment he

took a group of athletes basketball players to be exactly divided them up

into three groups and tested each player's ability to make free throws the

first group who practiced 20 minutes every day the second group only visualized

themselves making free throws but no real practice was allowed the third one

would not practice or visualize the results were astonishing there were

significant improvements on the group that only visualized there were almost

as good as the guys who actually practiced.  The same experiment was

conducted for piano players. See some of the most explosive athletes tend to

display explosiveness also in an emotion and temper you would literally have the

guys stillness that's right meditating that's

right turns out that the best way to get into flow state is to get into this

state of non-duality. See I got into lifting ten years ago because I wanted

to jump higher and run faster ten years later things come full circle as

consciousness work it's almost exactly the same in terms of programming and

mindset as plyometrics, vertical jump strength, and explosive training but the

last portion of this video I'm going to show you a new meditation technique that

I picked up called speed meditation or mental plyometrics.  When I first started

lifting weights the only thing I care about was speed and quickness

I just wanted to be fast since I was a kid I was just obsessed with big cats especially

the cheetah and I just wanted to be really fast then I realized as I got

older I started to observe sprinters I realized I couldn't really be a

cheetah I just wanted to be the fastest like

organism in the world and I realized I was a human so then I started to

observe and inquiry and do research on sprinters and I was like

whoa so they'll have really like incredible and strong physique and

really little body fat a lot of muscles especially the deltoids because when you

sprint the deltoids are one of the most important muscles group

along with your posterior chain your glutes and hamstrings because I realized form

and function are the same thing so you don't want to be fast like the sprinters

will run like a sub 10 100 minutes - I have to at least look like them so I

just kept eating and keep eating I went from 120 pounds 160 pounds because all

the sprinters are around hundred sixty pounds so I started

lifting because I want to be fast I only care about speed you could say I only

care about the body but at the same time speed is the intrinsic quality of the body

almost like the mind, not really physical...

speed is like the creativity or the intelligence and the

body's is like the brain and I was always more interested in the software

But then I realized the soft and hardware are one and the same thing.

00:09:36,949 --> 00:09:44,639 so despite what people think meditation is all about speed and quickness you

know when people think of meditation they think of being calm and being slow

and you're just kind of like lost in this trance but from my experience

meditation it's all about agility of the mind how fast can you catch sensations

or thots.   See in the beginning when you start practicing you can only catch

maybe one thought every 10 seconds and when I talk about thoughts and

sensations they are the same thing thoughts, feelings, body sensations, emotions, the

voice in your head all those are just sensations arising and passing and see

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