Ross Jeffries for years has been promoting yoga and meditation as one of the ultimate tools for inner game and self-development. I decided to start doing yoga based on the strong affirmations from him… and now I am also a strong supporter of yoga and meditation.
Someone asked me to explain how yoga and meditation helped me get rid of anxiety. I will share my experience: for the sake of simplicity, I will refer to all of this as “yoga”. What I’m actually doing is about 15 minutes aligning simple yoga movements with my breath (asanas), followed by sitting in the classic meditation posture and just focusing on my breath and being present in the moment.
How it helps:
1. When you constantly practice yoga, 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 up” by some emotion or thought.
2. Yoga weakens the emotional “grip” 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 arrest: 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 fixing your thoughts. When that clarity is there, you recognize a subtle cycle of emotion that leads to thought, leads to emotion, leads 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 do not stop your consciousness, you do not get caught up in negativity. Free of negativity and negative thought patterns, life feels pretty good!
4. Yoga gives you amazing inner clarity. And not just consciously: you’ll notice that your mind is clear and creative thinking is flowing 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 on a regular basis, I believe there is a lot of truth to this. You’ll also notice that because you have clarity and your emotions aren’t as “getting” you have the option of noticing your negative habits and patterns instead of automatically replaying 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 consciousness, so when someone does something unexpected or unwanted, your consciousness 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 build 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 of a situation. One person labels a roller coaster scary and is terrified; another labels it funny and is excited. Yoga gives you the option to simply experience, without labels, pure emotion. When you simply experience 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 Shinzen Young’s The Science of Enlightenment. Seriously, if you buy it, you’ll find it’s worth its weight in gold. If I were a dating/seduction coach, I would make listening to this course a must.
I’ve posted before about yoga and meditation, 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 “hot new inner game technique” or the “ultimate status generation technique”. Trying to find some high octane “secret” to break through 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 about how unnatural our modern lives are when we have NO 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 like a modern person… throw him on a crappy diet and it’s no wonder modern people are so susceptible to unhappiness, obesity, disease, etc.
I would love it if my journal could inspire people to adopt good habits like exercise and yoga. If nothing else, to complement your pickup/seduction game.
Someone said to me, “It’s great that yoga or meditation helped you get rid of anxiety, but can meditation or yoga help raise girls?”
From what I’ve been seeing… YES.
But there is one step missing. Let’s just say someone 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 the muscle, the 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 stable, not fidgety and nervous or confused and “unprotected.” And due to its enhanced presence, it will make you much more attractive to women.
I can tell you that when I do yoga daily, I get a lot more positive attention from women. But beyond that… my overall experience of life intensifies and improves.
