Ross Jeffries for years has been pushing yoga and meditation as one of the ultimate tools for inner game and self-development. I decided to start yoga based on his strong statements… and now I am also a strong advocate of yoga and meditation.
Someone asked me to explain how yoga and meditation helped me get rid of anxiety. I’ll share my experience: For the sake of simplicity, I’ll refer to all of this as “yoga.” What I’m actually doing is about 15 minutes of aligning simple yoga movements with my breath (asanas), followed by sitting in the classic meditation pose and just focusing on my breath and being present in the moment.
How it helps:
1. When you practice yoga consistently, you gain a greater awareness of your consciousness. When you do yoga, you are doing your best to focus your attention on your breath and be fully present in the moment. In everyday life, you begin to notice when your attention is fully present and when it is being “swallowed” by some emotion or thought.
2. Yoga weakens the “grip” of the emotions of negative emotions. Negative emotions can have a powerful and striking effect on consciousness. Have you ever been caught in a bad mood and couldn’t get out of the funk? That’s what I mean by arresting: you don’t have the option to stop the inner negativity because you don’t have the inner clarity to recognize what is driving and pinning your thoughts. When that clarity is there, you recognize a subtle cycle of emotion leading to thought, leading to emotion, leading to another thought, etc. This acknowledgment gives you the power to choose whether or not you would like to participate in the emotions.
3. Yoga improves your general mood. Since negative emotions don’t stop your awareness, you don’t get caught up in negativity. Free of negativity and negative thought patterns, life feels great!
4. Yoga gives you amazing inner clarity. And not only consciously: you will notice that your mind is clear and that creative thought flows freely. I think this is because yoga gives your mind the space to (in Shinzen Young’s words) resolve countless microscopic conflicts in our subconscious mind. Having had the experience of doing yoga regularly, I think there is a lot of truth to this. You’ll also notice that because you have clarity and your emotions aren’t as “grabbing,” you have the option to notice your negative habits and patterns instead of automatically reproducing them.
5. Yoga makes you more present in this moment. It makes sense: since you are aware of your awareness, you will naturally be present in the moment, since that is what you are practicing while doing yoga. Most people are unaware of their conscience, so when someone does something unexpected or unwanted, your conscience flows into your head or into negativity.
6. Yoga makes “bad” emotions feel “good,” in a way. This is hard to explain if you haven’t experienced it, but I’ll try to capture it. When we experience an emotion, it has a flow of feelings in our body. It has a relatively short duration of time. But when we think about what is happening, it can increase the power of that emotion very quickly, prolonging and intensifying the emotion. One way this can happen is simply through our beliefs, frames, and interpretations about a situation. A person labels a roller coaster as scary and is terrified; another labels her fun and is excited. Yoga gives you the option to simply experience, without labels, pure emotion. When simply experiencing an emotion (without the added resistance of thought), even “bad” emotions can feel “good”… Sort of like a Swedish massage.
If you are interested in learning more about meditation, how to meditate, and its benefits, please purchase The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young. Seriously, if you buy it, you will see that it is worth its weight in gold. If I were a dating/seduction coach, I would make listening to this course a must.
I’ve posted about yoga and meditation before, but most people seem to think a) it’s fruity or too new, b) it sounds like a good idea, but they “don’t have time” or c) it’s boring.
And yet, these same people are endlessly searching for the “new hot inner game technique” or the “ultimate state generation technique”. Trying to find some high octane “secret” to break some limitation they have decided is real (energetically, emotionally and mentally).
But really, yoga and meditation (as I see it) is a participation in being natural. As yoga teachers have said, “it is a participation in life.”
I was thinking about meditation and exercise this morning. She was thinking how unnatural our modern lives are when we do NOT have meditation or exercise. Can you imagine a caveman sitting in one place, all day, but not being present at the time? That’s pretty much the same as a modern person… throw a crappy diet on them and it’s no wonder modern people are so susceptible to unhappiness, obesity, disease, etc.
I would love for my diary to inspire people to adopt good habits like exercise and yoga. If nothing else, to complement your pickup/seduction game.
Someone said to me, “I’m glad yoga or meditation helped you get rid of anxiety, but can meditation or yoga help you pick up girls?”
From what I’ve been seeing… YES.
But one step is missing. Let’s say some people asked me, “Can exercise help you lift things?” Yes, indirectly. If you exercise and strengthen your muscles, your muscles will help you lift things. Exercise gives you muscle, muscle does the work.
In the same way, yoga and meditation will develop your ability to be present in the interaction. Your presence will be calm and steady, not fidgety and nervous or confused and “unprotected.” And because of your enhanced presence, you will be much more attractive to women.
I can tell you that when I do yoga on a daily basis, I get a lot more positive attention from women. But beyond that… my overall experience of life intensifies and improves.