The Secret Key to Meditation

Wild Entheology

In this episode, we go deep into the secret key to meditation that has been preventing you from really integrating this profoundly important skill into your life. From healing mental health issues, to forgiving yourself and those who have wronged you, to breaking through ruts of thinking that keep you from improving your life, this single key can help you in unimaginable ways. Listen to find out how you can finally take hold of this key yourself. We hope you enjoy!

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Exercise:

1. Open yourself to your body, briefly scan it from head to toe.
2. Identify a hot point in your body, it’s a point of tension or energy or heightened sensation of some kind. Maybe your gut, your chest, or your head. If you can’t find one that’s fine. Just pick some area and say that’s the point.
3. Then begin using your breath to move this "energy" or "heat" around the body
4. With the inhale, imagine that this energy is moving with the breath from that hot point down into one of your feet
5. With the exhale, imagine that this energy and the muscular tension within the leg are moving up your leg and out your mouth
6. Repeat this once with the same leg
7. Repeat this 2x with the other leg, your stomach, each side of your chest, each arm, your neck, and your head
8. Then, with each inhale imagine that the energy in the hot point is swelling, and with each exhale that energy exits your mouth
9. Repeat step 8 until you feel fully relaxed or your timer has gone off

Show Notes

00:50 - Meditation is one of the most important skills you can master

06:29 - Why do so many people misunderstand meditation?

10:27 - Bike accident that led to this episode

16:40 - This is what beginner meditation looks like

22:07 - Letting go does not equal nihilism or repression

28:31 - The 9 Dot Problem and the utility of letting go

36:57 - What is it about meditation that gets us outside the box?

40:03 - The Sangha and Science as protective mechanisms

48:31 - An exercise to learn how let go

50:36 - Don't get caught up in the use of the word, "energy," let visualization work

55:53 - We've disconnected ourselves from the somatic side of emotion

1:00:53 - The traps of emotional regulation and setting boundaries

1:09:10 - Don't conflate unhealthy emotional expression with being emotional

1:16:39 - Jealousy as an example of letting go NOT being the same as repression

1:22:30 - Very few people have a healthy emotional landscape

As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. This is not medical advice or professional counselling. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.