August of Aurelius: Week 3, Day 2

Nothing compares to the joy I get from a good meditation.

Everybody says they meditate but nobody really does. It’s become a signaling thing.

Most people spend all their time grooming their fragile ego. They cover their insecurities with arrogance and narcissism. They allow modern society to brainwash them into mindless consumption. The consumption devolves into a virus until it overtakes the mind and becomes something they cannot live without.

Meditation will free you. It’s a superpower.

If you are just beginning the carnivore diet and adjusting to this new way of eating, meditation will prove especially beneficial.

Tomorrow, we will expand on 5 types of meditation that I practice.

At the highest level, meditation is the art of doing nothing. Through meditation, you will relinquish your tension. You will be able to bring your body into a state of relaxation, ease, and surrender. You will be able to let go of everything that is external. You will be fully aware and conscious of your breathing and only breathing. You won’t insist on anything needing to happen. You will just be. You will transcend your self and your thoughts.

People who don’t meditate claim they don’t have time. This is nonsense. If you think you don’t have time to meditate 15 minutes a day, then you should be meditating 30 minutes a day. The less time you think you have to meditate, the more time you should actually spend meditating.

Benefits of meditation

An important overlooked pillar for longevity is meditation. Other than diet, almost nothing has as wide sweeping effects In this study meditation:

– Reduced cortisol
– Lowered blood pressure
– Lowered heart rate
– Lowered inflammation
– Lowered TNFalpha
– Epigenetic changes
– Reduction in inflammation
– Increase in size of hippocampus
– Reduction in activation of amygdala (fear center)
– Increase attention spam
– Improvement in cognition
– Happier, better relationships
– Summon elk to you with your mind

This study below is a meta-analysis investigating the neurobiological effects of meditation, including focused attention, open monitoring and automatic self-transcending subtypes, compared to an active control, on markers of stress and found that meditation is effective in mediating stress-reactivity.

Tomorrow, we will expand on the 5 types of meditation I practice:

• Breathing meditations
• Mindfulness meditations
• Focus meditations
• Mindful walking meditations
• Progressive muscle relaxation meditation

Onward.