So the big question is this, how do young men like us who didn't listen to society
who are on our own, how do we grow and improve ourselves so that we can live a
better tomorrow? That is the question and this show will give you the answers. My
name is James Radzinski and welcome to the Ascend Momentum Show. Welcome back.
Alright, so first thing, today I just before this episode I actually went
through a meditation and if you guys haven't been keeping up with the past
couple episodes, I just started this thing called the Gateway Experience which
is basically you listen to a CD and it's like you can get an MP3 or
whatever but I got the CD and you basically put headphones on and you
listen to it and it's like a guided meditation and it allows you to get
into deep meditation or it gives you the tools to get into deep meditation. So I've
been following that and so far I'm on, I started with Wave 1 and Wave 1 is one of
eight so there's eight waves in the whole thing and I bought Wave 1 and it
came a few days ago so I've had maybe four or five sessions with it and I've
there's three discs so three CDs came with Wave 1 and in each of those CDs
there are two tracks so there's six different like six different meditation
sessions, six sessions and so far I've only gotten through the first two so the
first one which was like the introduction I did once and then the
second one I did all of the rest of the time and my rationale is the first one
was just an intro and it was teaching like the a few different exercises that
you would do throughout the Wave 1 but it only got into Focus 3 and the second
one was the introduction to Focus 10 which is what I really wanted to
get into and I felt that I was fairly comfortable getting into Focus 3 fairly
easily even without the CD's and so I've been focusing on that Focus 10 and
it's the introduction to Focus 10 and it just takes you through first you do the
you do your energy conversion box which is basically a chest kind of thing that
you place all of your worries anxieties and fears and physical matter into and
then you say the gateway affirmation which starts I am more than my physical
body because I'm more than physical body or because I'm more than physical
matter or and I don't remember I didn't memorize it but you say that and then
after that you do your resonant tuning which is basically where you breathe in
with your eyes open and you imagine all of the energy flowing up your body up
into your head and then you hold your breath and run it around in your head
and then close your eyes and exhale with your mouth open and say a mantra so you
like sing or hum and you go oh like that and then you repeat and then after that
he takes you to Focus 3 which is basically you will he just counts up one
two three and then you get into Focus 3 and then after that you start with I
think after that you start with Focus 10 and basically the way you get into
Focus 10 is you go through all of the different like body parts and you just
relax them and just put them to sleep so you start with your jaw you put your
jaw to sleep and then you go to I don't remember the exact order but so make
basically you start with your jaw and then you go to your eyelids and then
your lips and then your cheeks and then like the top of your skull or something
like that and then like your forehead and I'm pretty sure that's it for the head
and then once you do that you imagine it all sinking in like that that that
feeling sinking into your brain and then your brain goes to sleep and then you
basically now that your brain knows what it feels like you transfer it to all of
the different body parts so you start with your feet with like your toes and
then you go up to your legs and then your hips and then your I don't remember
what's next I think it's like your abdomen like for the past few sessions
around this time where you're like putting your abdomen to sleep and like
chest I've like blanked out and I like I don't know if I fell asleep but they
say there's a thing called clicking out where you just you are still like awake
but you just don't have any like memory of that specific part so I kind of click
out around then and then eventually you but like your whole body is asleep but
I haven't been able to actually achieve focus 10 yet I don't think I've gotten
to the point where I'm like extremely relaxed but I'm pretty sure focus 10 is
where you're like in sleep paralysis but I've also heard that there's like
different levels to focus 10 kind of and like you can experience oh like focus
10 but not necessarily have sleep paralysis like I think I was looking at
online and someone said that you get sleep paralysis once you're in like a
very stable and strong steady focus 10 and so that just told me that I may have
achieved focus 10 but it's kind of a weak focus 10 and after my session today
that was like the best I've ever done like that was the deepest I've ever
gotten so I I'm definitely gonna move on to the next disc which is called advanced
focus 10 and it basically I read the description of it and I think it just
adds in one more exercise which is your rebel which is like resonant energy
balloon I think it's called that resonant energy balloon I'm pretty sure
and I'm not sure exactly I remember reading about it in the CIA document and
a few other places but I I kind of forgot what it was and that's pretty much
what I'm at right now I switched the CD in my CD player to the second CD so I am
I think I'm done for now with the first CD possibly forever because I I can't see
myself going back because the more advanced I get like I'm pretty sure the
third CD has just a free flow focus 10 where it's just like a playground mode
where you can just do whatever you want and you get into focus 10 so if I want
to ever get back like once I get advanced and get to like focus 12 15 21 and
I want to go back to just experience focus 10 I just do the playground mode
the free flow I wouldn't necessarily go back to the first disc but who knows
things could change and I'm gonna keep all the discs just in case and I might
as well because I'll start a collection because it'll be cool to have
eventually once I get to that level I'll have like all eight packets and then
that's like 24 CDs with like 48 different exercises and that'll be cool
and pretty much what I'm doing right now is I'm just doing two meditations a day
one in the morning and one at night and because that's basically what I've been
doing for the past couple months where I meditate after my cold shower after I'm
done cooking in the morning around like five because I wake up at four and I
meditate around five till 540 and then at nighttime I meditate around like 540 to
6 and then like I start around that time and then actually lately I've been
starting at like 530 or 5 yeah 530 or 540 because these CDs are a little bit
longer than I used to meditate I used to only meditate for like 30 minutes at
nighttime and 40 minutes in the morning but now these CDs last a lot longer so
I have to allocate a little bit more time these CDs are like 45 minutes so far I
think and so I pretty much do it for the past couple days I've been doing only
one in the morning one at night but today I'm I added in one right before this
podcast and I'm gonna try and maintain that I'm gonna try and get home around
2 30 so that I can have a meditation session right before the podcast because
I definitely feel a lot better especially because that's three practice
sessions every day so I'll get better quicker but it's also like very good for
me like it's just really good especially if I do it right before the podcast it's
basically like priming my mind to be like extremely focused perfectly for this
podcast and that's pretty much where I'm at with the gateway process and honestly
I'm I'm really looking forward to it and I might even go ahead and buy wave 2 like
right now because wave 1 took about a week to get here and so I may or may not
be ready within a week but at least it'll be in my closet so I might go ahead
and buy wave 2 after this we'll see but that's pretty much where I'm at with that
and also I wanted to talk about something that I was trying to remember
yesterday so if you guys were listening to yesterday's episode it may have been
a little frustrating because I kept on saying that I'm trying to remember this
one thing to say and because for some context I was talking about something and
then I needed to I like sometimes throughout the episode I say let me get
some water if I lose my like if I finish my train of thought and then I don't
know what to say next so I like get some water and then try and think of what I
was gonna say so yesterday I did that and then instantly once I grabbed my
water I remember I thought of something really important to say and then when I
was drinking my water I forgot it and it slipped my mind and then I was kind of
left with nothing to say and then I said like there's something on the tip of my
tongue and then throughout that rest of the episode I wasn't able to remember it
but I kept on like reminding you guys that there was something that I wanted
to say and the funny thing is literally one second after I clicked stop
recording like there's a button that says stop recording on my recording
software so literally one second after I finished recording yesterday's episode I
remembered what I was gonna say and so I instantly wrote it down so and I was
planning on telling it in today's episode and that's that's where I'm at
right now so the thing I wrote down is don't tell people your plans now let's
get into that for some context I have been like a lot throughout my life I've
been pretty goal-oriented kind of I I'm not actually I'm not really sure if I
have been but especially over the past couple years I've been pretty goal-oriented
like in when I first started going to the gym around two years ago I didn't
really tell people that I was going to the gym and also a little over two years
ago when I when I was going into sophomore year so freshman year actually
right for context I'm a senior right now and freshman year in high school I
I like I was into soccer so I was always playing soccer all my life and there was
it was a big deal to get on the high school team and so it and it was a very
competitive so a lot of people were really good and there was very limited
spots and there was a lot of people trying out as well so everyone like I
think everyone was training like that's what I just assumed and everyone was
training and on their own time especially and I didn't realize that very
much going into freshman year and then I got absolutely obliterated during tryouts
and I got cut and so I was like okay that like they're all training on their
own time outside of so I started like going on runs and just training my cardio
and then I but I wasn't telling anyone anything I was just I didn't even like
telling my parents and I didn't really like talking about it either I just did
it I never really talked about it and that's just kind of like was an
instinctual thing for me to do I didn't want to tell people my plans and then I
kind of ramped it up going into sophomore year trained a little bit more
and then I got cut again so then I realized that I needed to actually
practice my soccer skills so I started lifting and then I also started
practicing my soccer skills as well so I got pretty good I got really good at
soccer because I was practicing like every day taking ice baths and then the
summer going into junior year I was training hard I was lifting weights I
was exercising cardio and I was playing soccer as well and after all those like
training sessions I was like taking ice baths my nutrition was decent my sleep
was good and pretty much all around a very well-rounded athlete at this point
and I wasn't telling anyone any of this stuff I was just training on my own
keeping quiet keeping to myself and then I got injured right before tryouts so I
ended up not trying out that year and didn't play so I've never played in
high school soccer even to this day and I decided not to try out I decided to
stop playing soccer because I wanted to focus on entrepreneurship and self
improvement so that's why I'm not playing senior year either and to be honest I
wasn't practicing at all during summer so because it just wasn't on my like mind
anymore I was focused on self-improvement now but with all that said even all my
self-improvement stuff like I wasn't telling people that I was reading and
when I did I regretted it like I regretted telling people that I read
books and I didn't tell I don't really tell people that I meditate and I didn't
tell so I've been waking up early since like freshman year I think and I never
really told anyone and I didn't really like to tell people people kind of just
found out naturally over time when I like slipped up inevitably and now
everyone knows that I wake up early but like I didn't choose I guess I did choose
but I didn't necessarily want it to happen like want everyone to know and so
that's the that's the whole thing I never told anyone what I was doing and I
never told anyone my goals or my plans and then once I met my friend who is
also on self-improvement Franklin we both started sharing with each other which
was good we both shared each other with each other a lot of the things we're
planning on doing and we shared each other our long-term goals and our short
term goals and all this stuff we shared everything and we got hype when we talked
about our long-term goals like we got excited and then like a couple days ago
I became conscious of the fact that I'm sharing a lot now like even to other
people like I'm sharing the fact that I'm not going to college which is okay
but I wasn't doing that at all until a few weeks ago and then I'm also telling
them that I'm like going into business like I'm gonna make my own business and
I'm like I'm I told this other person that I'm moving to Hawaii like there's
this is just my goal it's not even manifested yet like it's not even real
yet and I'm just telling people this stuff and so I kind of came I became
conscious of it conscious of it the other day and I actually became
conscious of it during one of my meditations and not my meditation but
after my meditation or I think it was during my journaling and I wrote down
like stop telling people my plans and I got to go back to being secretive
because that is like that's all like don't just lay low and it's also applies
in Transurfing so if you've never heard of Transurfing it's basically a
worldview and there's a book about it called reality Transurfing steps one
through five and there's actually a few books about it but though that's the one
I recommend because that's the only one I've read so far I plan on reading the
other ones eventually but now right now and that like the fact that you shouldn't
tell people your plans or your goal is also in Transurfing and that is like
one of the most important things like you should not tell people of your plans
and I was talking to my friend about that like my friend Franklin that we've
talked to each other about all the time and I we both realized like I was telling
him and then he was like oh yeah we got to stop doing that like I just realized
that and so I'm not even sure if I'm gonna be telling him my plans either
anymore like I got to get back to being secretive because I've kind of like
stopped I've I'm still growing and improving a lot but I feel as though my
progress is halted because I'm telling people my stuff like I'm telling people
I gotta just lay low and work on my business because I'm not even gonna lie
I haven't worked on business in a long time and I now I kind of think that it's
because I told people I was working on business even though I'm not even doing
anything for business I'm literally only making a podcast and yeah that's good
but like come on you know like I'm slacking off and I got to just stop
time I gotta lock in be quiet and stop telling me people my plans and I was
telling my friend Franklin I was actually saying we got to play the fool we
got to be a fool now because that's what I was doing before like I would always
hide what I was doing and just act like I was like playing video games or doing
something not like I was just acting like I wasn't doing anything like and
that's like playing the fool you present it present the fact that you're not
doing anything when in reality you're actually working your butt off and
making things happen behind the scenes and eventually once you actually achieve
that goal you'll be able to tell people that's pretty much like where I'm at
right now with that that's like one of the biggest things that I get a change
right now stop telling people my goal and I actually have started doing that
because people the people that I told that I'm graduating early are like
asking me today a few people asked me what am I gonna do after after school
like what am I gonna do second semester when I'm not there and I was just like I
don't know we'll just have to see even though I know exactly what I'm gonna do
well I don't know exactly what I'm gonna do but I could have at least said like
I'm gonna keep recording my podcast like they don't know that I have a podcast
but I could have outed like I could have basically revealed that like there's a
lot of things I could have revealed but I chose not to I chose to be the secret
of fool and also another thing is yesterday some people were asking me
some other people were asking me about that because word spread and then they
were like what are you gonna do and I was like I don't know and then they're
like well are you gonna do business or what are you gonna do and I was like I
don't know if I knew I'd be doing it right now like that's me playing the
fool like that that's the new that's the old mindset that I have to put back on
because that's how you like grow and improve the fastest speak and I was
actually looking it up there's mixed studies about this I was looking up
should you tell people your goals and one of the things that I looked at they
said you're four times more likely to succeed but that they said if you tell
someone who you respect like someone who's like objectively better than you
who's like further along than you then you should tell them and they said you're
four times more likely to succeed because you value their opinion of you and
you respect them a lot and you don't want to let them down but then I looked at a
different thing and they said no don't tell anyone your goals until you achieve
them because you're gonna you're way less likely to succeed and so I think
that sure maybe tell someone who's better than you but I feel like it's just
better not to say just keep your mouth shut and that's something that I'm
pretty sure like since I started my podcast like I don't think I'm gonna
keep my mouth shut on the podcast because I'm documenting my journey
and it's different when you say it on a microphone like to a microphone basically
I'm right now I'm basically speaking to myself it's different when you are
speaking to yourself and you say it then if you say it to a person in real life
and you get that reaction because a lot of the times the reaction gives you like
gratification like right away and it's basically like oh I already
got rewarded for this even though I haven't achieved it yet so that's kind
of what I'm thinking about that right now so that's where I'm gonna be headed
moving forward now let me get some water so I've got a this weekend I think on
Saturday so today is Thursday in a few days I won't I will have my second time
where I don't record an episode so the first time was a couple weeks ago I had
a weekend where I was out of town and I think I missed two episodes maybe and
then but I recorded beforehand so I missed two days of recording but this
weekend is another weekend where I'm gonna be out of town and I'm gonna miss
one day of recording but it shouldn't be too bad and I'm actually gonna bring
my headphones with me and the CD player and try and do the gateway experience in
the car and also actually kind of I want okay so the gateway experience the
meditation thing they said you can do it laying down or sitting up and I always
do it laying down like on my tatami mat but I want to try it sitting up because
they said do it sitting up but if you do it sitting up then you have to have your
neck supported because you have to be able to like relax your neck completely
and if you relax your neck like right now if I relax my neck if I was sitting on
while I'm sitting on this chair then it would just like fall forward and it just
fall to the side my head would fall to the side but you have to get like a pillow
or some or some like support and I instantly thought of this like one of
the like the airplane pillow things which I might actually buy one of those so I
can try so I can use it in the car ride and also so that I can actually know I'm
not gonna do in the car ride because that's too much of a distracting
environment with like my family nearby but I'm gonna do it on the airplane for
sure and I'm gonna need like a pillow to support my neck on the airplane so
that's what I'm gonna do I might actually buy that right now after well
after this episode I'll buy wave 2 of the gateway experience as well as a pillow
to support my neck but that's pretty much where I'm at there and oh that is
another thing that I want to talk about last night during actually right after
I finish so my nighttime routine for context is I read my trans surfing
journal from the morning study while I'm icing my balls and then I journal for a
few minutes until I write everything I need to write down and then I put all
that stuff away and I meditate for like 45 minutes or however long the CD lasts
because I used to meditate just normal with no CD and I timed it I had like a
timer but now I'm meditating with a CD so I don't have a timer I just stopped the
meditation once they end it and I was gonna talk about the something that I
learned last night so I was going to bed actually after my meditation I put
everything away and then I was like laying on my bed sideways like actually
falling asleep so I was actually falling asleep and then this thought popped into
my head and it was the first thought about entrepreneurship and business that
I like strategic thought about business that I've had in like maybe months no not
months weeks because a few weeks ago I was reading I was actually reading
expert secrets and reality trans surfing at the same time I would study one in
the morning and one afternoon at night and then I realized that it would just
wasn't working out that well so I only I switched to full-time trans surfing and
stopped expert secrets and then I after that I kind of just stopped like thinking
business strategies and stopped really I slowly gradually started to my business
like mindset kind of atrophy and then I mean which is natural I feel like
because that's what happened after I finished reading reality trans surfing
the first time and then so I'm not like very surprised that that happened but like
last night while I was going to bed I just had this like thought pop into my
head and it was the first time I'd thought about like a funnel and like the
copy I would write on it for a long time and I was thinking about this funnel
that I don't even let me think about what it was because it was basically oh it
was okay so I have this self-improvement guidebook that I wrote when I was first
getting into business and it was gonna be my squeeze magnet and I wrote like a
14 to 15 page long guidebook on basically six-step process on how to start
self-improvement and it just like was targeted towards people just getting
into into self-improvement and I don't think that I and I actually built a
whole funnel on it on click funnels and if you guys look up like self-improvement
guidebook.com you may or may not see it on that domain because I bought that
domain and set it up on click funnels but then I canceled the click funnels
account but as of today like when I'm recording on September 14th it is still
up but that may that may change because I did cancel the click funnels account
but on that it was basically like a squeeze page where you would I would
trade your like you would trade your email address for my guidebook so you
you'd basically get my guidebook if you gave me your email address and that was
basically me trying to build up a list so I can email people and like promote my
podcast promote like courses or some future products that I was gonna sell and
that was my plan I was gonna get people to get that like get as much name emails
on my list and then by the time I'm 18 I'll open my bank account and then start
selling like products and then I'll have an email list to email people to that
was actually my plan I didn't even go through with that but that's besides the
point I that thought that popped in my head is that guidebook that 14-page
long self-improvement guidebook is context so I had a thought to make a
funnel and it was basically the same funnel a squeeze page where I would get
your email for my guidebook so it was basically make that and then the copy
because the copy is what I was struggling with last time I made it and
the copy by the way is like the words on the screen that are trying to sell like
basically like the words like get now or are you sick and tired of this like
those the text on the screen is basically the copy and I was like I got in
like a I don't know if I should say epiphany or like an intuitive thought to
have copy and one of the most important things in your like funnel is your
market positioning and that's basically like what market like how you're
positioned in the market and who you're like advertising to who you're speaking
to through your copy and you can be positioned you can be speaking to one
of three people a diehard which is someone who has that so all three of
these people have your like opponents product so in my case my opponent is
like self-improvement videos on TikTok and YouTube and like the ones that are
edited and all that or even unedited self-improvement bit like any self-
improvement video that would be my comp competitor and basically there are three
different people one is the diehard now that person is like a diehard for
their that product so for me that person would be like an a person who is a fanatic
or addicted to the self-improvement videos on TikTok YouTube and all that
stuff so that is one of the person that you could market towards another person
is the satisfied so this is someone who is just satisfied for satisfied about
those you YouTube videos and TikToks they're just satisfied they're not really
necessarily looking for anything new and if they are they're just trying to
find something cheaper and then the third option is the frustrated and the
frustrated are people who are not happy with their current product so for me it
would be people who are not happy with the TikToks and the YouTube videos
they're not happy with that type of content or what they're receiving from
it basically like the addictive and like the mental destructive like the mind
destructive thing from that stuff and that is basically the three types of
customers my my issue my mistake is I usually was just advertising towards the
diehard and the diehard you're never gonna get you can only get the
satisfied if you have a cheaper price or some better
like option and so that just leaves one group the frustrated and those are the
best those are who you want to market towards because those are people who are
basically looking to give you money like the second you say you have a
different option they're base basically gonna give you money and so that's what I
like have come to learn like and actually realize now and last night I got
that epiphany where I like the copy that I was gonna think to create was I don't
remember exactly I wrote it down because last night when I was about to fall asleep
I got that like intuitive thought and then I was like should I wake up and like
write this down or not and that I just ended up writing it down and so I wrote
it down and it's in my journal but I forgot exactly what it like what the
copy is but the come like the person who I'm targeting towards is someone who is
frustrated with like the YouTube tiktoks and the YouTube shorts and like the
edited YouTube videos that are like addicting to watch all about self-improvement
so I was thinking of creating my funnel with the copy speaking towards that
frustrated person and then having the what's it called having like buying ads
on YouTube that would show up on the search list when someone searches for
like an unedited full-length YouTube video on self-improvement so that would
basically be my customer even though I'm not sure if that would even be my
customer because I would still like die-hards and satisfied would still click
on that because there are people who are die-hard and satisfied on those types of
videos so I don't know I don't know like exactly where I would put the ads
towards but that's kind of just something that is on my mind right now that
kind of came up last night but I'm I don't have any intention on acting on it
right now at the moment right now I'm just focused on podcasts and
meditation the gateway process and that's also one thing right now would be a
prime time to act because right now everyone just thinks that I am only
working on my podcast well not everyone like my family only like the only thing
they think I'm doing is my podcast so that is what I'm talking about about
being secretive if they like only thing I'm doing my podcast then I can be down
here like a little bit longer every day or a little bit longer once a week and
then crank out that extra work that needs to be done then I can actually be
secretive and actually work towards my goal without any social things inhibiting
me or any like mental blocks or any like expectations from others like basically
that so that's all about working secretive I really think that it's huge
let me get some water so I want to talk about the gateway process a little bit
more and for some context I've been talk I've been reading a lot about it and
there's actually a few PDFs like from a few from the CIA and then one from a
few I think they're all from the CIA actually maybe there's one from the
Monroe Institute and then one from this one guy who went to the Monroe Institute
like though went to the actual retreat retreat at the Monroe Institute so I've
read all the ones from the CIA like all the mainstream ones from the CIA and
then the one from the Monroe Institute the four-page long one I read and then
there's another one that I found the other day which is basically like my
experience at the Monroe Institute and it was basically a block like kind of
like an article written by a guy about his experience at the Monroe Institute
and it was very interesting reading about it because first of all like the
context he gave I don't really feel comfortable sharing some of the
specifics right now at the moment but there are some awesome things like for
example one of the things is a bunch of the Monroe Institute graduates are able
to get out of body consistently and so they all on Tuesday nights they get out
of body and then meet up at the Monroe Institute in front and kind of just
hang out like while they're out of their bodies like they're literally in their
so their souls are all hanging out so that's cool and there's some other stuff
that is very interesting that he was saying but I want to talk about how he
actually went to the he actually went to their retreat like right now I'm just
doing their at-home training course they're at-home like like at-home
practice course and they like he that that guy actually went to their retreat
because they hold a retreat at the Monroe Institute with a couple like I
think he said there's 12 or 24 people at a time and they honestly like it sounded
really cool they basically all fly in or drive in and it's just like a very chill
experience where they're all just like hanging out having a good time and then
they like there's I think he said there's like I'd have to check but there's
like four or six or three sessions a day where they would just meditate and the
the place they meditated in is they all have their own individual booth like they
had their own booth which was cool and it was just like a bed headphones and like
a dial to adjust the volume and also there are speakers like they could choose
between using the headphones or using the speakers and they and then there was
also a like high-tech control panel in the other room where the actual trainers
would be sitting and feeding them their like noises and then they would also
speak in into their microphones and speak to them while they're in the
meditation and train them and so I just thought it was a very cool like vibe and
then there was actually this one woman who he met there who was able to get out
of body who is able to do all kinds of things like all kinds of awesome things
and then she and then once they all left the guy the guy who is like wrote this
story he was he actually didn't he said he was thinking to himself that he
actually didn't get that much out of that week because he didn't grow that much
as much as he was hoping because he was kind of trying too hard but then he
actually like started this smell and mind you they were set like they were all at
their own homes at this point he smelled like this ladies perfume and then he
called her and asked her if she had visited him out of body and she said
yes so basically she visited him out of body but he was able to sense that like
and he wrote down that he actually did get a lot of that week because his like
perception to settle these in the energy field like subtle energies like that
he's able to actually perceive many different things than that he wasn't
before like if that woman had visited him before then he probably wouldn't have
noticed because he wouldn't have been so perceptible to that energy and like this
stuff may sound weird and crazy but honestly I kind of feel weird saying it
like but I'm starting to actually believe this stuff and I'm gonna prove it
over the following weeks and months because I'm doing the training and I'm
gonna be consistent at it I have been for the past couple days now I haven't
even achieved the first like real state of expanded awareness yet but I'll get
there it just takes time like you wouldn't you wouldn't expect to get jacked
in the gym like within a week like that's just not how it it just takes time
and consistency and practice and that's it I feel like that's the same with the
meditation with the gateway process like you're not gonna be able to get out of
body consistently after a week of practice it just takes time and practice
and consistency and I am gonna have all of those because I added it to my routine
and I do it two times a day and I'm gonna try and get three times a day
because I feel like the morning and nighttime are kind of hindered because
I'm like tired I'm still a little like tired in the morning and then I'm also
tired at night because I'm about to go to bed so sometimes I fall asleep and so
that's why I want to do it add another one before the podcast for many reasons
for one of that reasons of the tiredness but also because if I can get
the meditation and get that focus level during the podcast then it's gonna be so
much better and I actually feel like this episode was a lot better and actually
yesterday over the past couple days I was talking about how for context if you
haven't heard on my podcast editing software there's this one option to
remove the silence like remove all of the silences and it when I first started
recording like on episode 15 is when I first started using that software I was
getting like 800 to a thousand silences I'm pretty sure and then I think it's
around there but I was getting a lot of silences and then recently I was getting
like below 500 and then I wouldn't have the marker of below 500 is like a very
good episode and then I've gotten better and then below 400 is a good episode like
in the 300 range and then I never broke 300 like I was never able to get below
300 silences and then yesterday's episode I got 299 silences so that's my
record and I actually think that maybe this episode will be better like maybe
I'll get even less silences in this episode because I think that this episode
was a lot better simply because I have a lot more focus so because I just got
done with that 45 minute deep meditation session so my mind is very clear and I'm
very I have a lot of clarity and my focus levels are higher and so it's I'm
like able to get into the zone a lot easier a lot easier so I don't know
only time will tell in like 11 minutes once I'm done with this episode I'll be
able to well actually it's gonna take a little bit longer actually yeah around
around like 15 minutes I'll be able to see how much silences have been in this
episode so that'll be interesting to see but I want I want I have one more
thing to talk about so a couple days ago I think yesterday actually was my first
one either yesterday or two days ago but yeah I think it was yesterday but the
over the past couple weeks I've been trying to improve my breathing and I
never was able to consistently improve because well I at the time I didn't know
and then a couple days ago I became conscious of the fact that I wasn't
consistent and so what do I do when I want to get consistent I add it to my
routine like that's what I've done with everything and then I so I decided to add
to improving exercises in my morning routine and I basically my though
easiest okay here's one thing for context successful people know how to like
make things as easy as possible and so I know that I'm not gonna be able I'm not
gonna stick with getting myself to do the hard breathing exercises like right
away and so I know that I have to build a positive feedback loop like I have to
get some results before so I just decided to do the easiest breathing
exercise in my opinion which was the only one that I was willing to do and it is a
nose on blocking exercise which basically you breathe in and out normally
and then on the exhale you hold your breath so you have nothing in you and
then you start walking and count your steps and then once you have a strong
desire to breathe then you breathe in through your nose and try and control it
as like trying calm and control your breath instantly and get it under control
and that's basically the breathing exercise that I chose to do and so I
decided to add it to my routine and I wanted to get a walk in because you're
supposed to do it while walking so I decided to add it into my routine after
my shower so I wake up get a glass of water and then shower and then and then I
decided to add in a walk and by the way I wake up at 4 so I'm done in the shower
around like 4 25 so around like 4 30 I'm walking around my block at 4 30 a.m. and
it's actually a very cool vibe there's no cars out and there's no people out I'm
just out alone and I live in the city but I'm kind of like in the suburb a
little bit it's like a mix between the city and a suburb the town is called
Oak Park if you are interested it's in Illinois and it's right outside of
Chicago and if you go on Google Earth you'll be able to see the vibe but I live
there and that's basically like very cool because there's like animals that
roam just like city animals like there's a bunch of bunnies this morning I
probably saw like 20 rabbits or I don't know if rabbits and bunnies are the same
but I saw like 20 bunnies like walking around at 4 30 in the morning and that
was just super cool and then I also saw one coyote like I saw a coyote which was
awesome I was just walking around vibing and then I saw a coyote also enjoying
himself like vibing and the funniest thing he was walking on the sidewalk like
civilized and I was like oh that's cool he's walking on the sidewalk and then he
did something like that I like laughed at he wanted to cross the street so he
like looked both ways and then he crossed on the crosswalk and I was like
that is one civilized coyote so that was that was something pretty cool that
happened this morning and I think there's gonna be a lot to come with that
kind of thing because I'm adding that I added that to my routine my morning
routine so I'm gonna be going on a walk every single morning it's like a 10-minute
walk it I record I timed it the first time I went yesterday and it was like I
think it was like less than eight minutes it was like seven minutes and
30 seconds and basically I just go on a walk and do I try to get eight sets of
that nose and blocking exercise so I basically just hold my breath walk into
like can't until I need to breathe and then I breathe control my breath and then
I rest for like a couple seconds and then I hold my breath again and I've only
gone like twice and so I'm I don't have like the timings correct yet but over
time I'll be able to see like exactly the spot like the location so once I pass
like a certain bush or once I get to a certain house I start the exercise so
I'll be able to like make it more effective and optimal to the point where
I can actually get eight eight sets in with like equal amounts of rest in
between all of them but that will just happen I mean I could figure it out like
right now but I'll just figure it out over over the days because the days will
pass and I'll like as the days pass I get more and more experience in progress so
that's and I actually definitely feel like my breath has gotten a lot better
and my breathing has gotten a lot more effective now my bolt score has not
necessarily reflected that this morning I think I got 11 seconds but it's
definitely gonna improve now that I have consistent consistency in the practice
but now I want to talk about one last thing so there's this energy exercise so
I've been practicing my energy improving my energy over the past couple weeks with
this meditation that I'm doing trying to get into focus 10 and like you do the
resident breathing where you imagine all of your energy flowing up and then you
and then on the exhale you imagine it all going out out your feet so naturally
I've gotten a lot like I'm able to feel my energy in my hands a lot better now
so that said I've been practicing this one thing and yesterday I was doing this
where I I activate my fountains where it's basically you activate your energy
flowing up and down your body creating a fountain shape and then it's like a
sphere of energy around you and then I imagine that fountain that sphere
widening and so I imagine it widening and engulfing everyone and all of my
surroundings in it and then once it's big I pop it and then with that what I
imagine that happening is all the energy flowing on everyone else and that
actually works like first of all I kind of sense that my energy levels are
slightly higher now like just because I've been practicing a little bit more
and they'll get higher and higher every single day every passing day but also
people treat you so much better like subconsciously they realize that there's
a lot of energy coming from you but they don't really know this consciously but
they just treat you a lot better and I've definitely experienced that like
yesterday when I was doing this at the in the auditorium and I had my like even
while I was walking around I had my energy around and people were like saying
hi like people who I was kind of familiar familiar with were even saying
hi and saying my name like that was like an awesome experience and there's also
one thing that I heard where like the goal is to have everyone in your town
know your name like that would be awesome if everyone knew your name like as
you were walking by everyone knew your name but to be able to do that you have
to know everyone else's name which is also awesome you just say hey John hey
Joe hey Bob hey like that'd be so cool like and then everyone just says hi to
you and that's kind of like what I'm experiencing at school I've built up
like like a lot of people know me and I know a lot of people now I'm that
doesn't necessarily mean that I'm like hanging out with a lot of people I don't
hang out with anyone except for my friend Franklin but it's just cool to be
friendly with and it's also very rewarding like a lot of people it's
very like nice and makes me feel happy and it makes other people feel happy
especially when you just say hi to them in the hallways so that's that's pretty
much it for the episode and honestly I'm like time is flown I'm on episode 58 I
remember when I was first starting a cup I was trying on like episode 20 or
something and I was doing the math and I was like oh I'm gonna get to like episode
I'll be on like episode 65 or something I don't remember the actual number but
I'll be on like episode 65 when we're at funnel hacking live and I'm already on
episode 58 funnel hacking live is on like we're leaving on the 26th and that is in
12 days as of recording and I believe like seven days no six days after once
that's posted I think on the 26th so it's gonna it's it's a long where I've
like we've we've gone a long way but to wrap things up don't forget to download
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