Transcript excerpt of a conversational video where two speakers outline an evidence-informed morning routine to maximize wellbeing. Key recommendations: wake before dawn (Brahma Muhurta), perform substantial physical activity early (an hour-long outdoor walk without devices), and pursue practices that cultivate transcendence (e.g., Mass, vipassana meditation) to align body and soul.
If you were to create an.
Evidence based morning routine. Yeah, maximizing wellbeing, what would it look.
Like? Number one is the Brahma Muhurta, which is in Sanskrit means the creator's time. The whole idea is if you get up before dawn, you've already won the day because that actually gives you better concentration, better focus and better creativity. If you get up when the sun is warm, you've already lost the first battle. The second part of that is what you do first thing and that's substantial physical activity. Exercise is really important. So a lot of guys will write to me, 22 year old guys graduate from college, feel aimless, don't know what to do, feel really depressed. Living with mom, whatever I say, okay, you don't have to go to the gym and pick up heavy things and do something insane. I recommend getting up a half hour before dawn and walking for an hour without devices outside. Walk not on the treadmill outside. Hear the crunch of the gravel under your feet. No devices. This will give you a sense of transcendence. It will wake up the right hemisphere of your brain, which is what you need for a sense of meaning and mysticism. Then I clean up and I go to mass every day. And that's important to me. And these are my religious beliefs. The whole point is not Catholicism. The point is transcendence. And transcendence by getting smaller and making the universe larger. For some people, vipassana meditation works really, really well. But that's, that's getting soul in line with body first thing in the morning. Those are the dolls and doing this alignment really works.
