Sam talks with Danica Patrick about meditation and mindfulness. Patrick shares a technique from Think and Grow Rich about connecting to higher consciousness, and the two discuss their personal experiences with different meditation practices.
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Does normal meditation work for you?
Here's no.
So it doesn't, does it?
No, I'm. I mean I have done plenty of it and I was pretty consistent for about, I don't know, eight months. And recently, and I'd say the last month I haven't been. And. And you can see I'm just chaos over here, right?
Not.
So here's the thing. I think it, it's. There should be like mindfulness modalities. There should be a book on all the modalities because what works for one doesn't always work for another. Just like a diet, you know, there's certain things that work for one, not for another because everyone is uniquely individual. And so, you know, there are things that are good and are bad, but like what really, really feels good for you and is something that you keep going back to that works and you can be consistent with. I think really varies. So I find that with me meditation, like I sit down and I can get to the point where I can literally leave my body and be. I can't remember time anymore. I'm like, how long was that? And. And then there's other times where it's just thoughts. But what I'm really, I think, good at is this sounds woo woo. But I just can speak to anyone at any time and anyone, I mean like anyone alive or anyone dead. Anyone, like I literally just start speaking into the conscious collective, into, you know, the web of the universe and just, I mean anybody.
Did you ever read Think and Grow Rich?
No.
Okay.
Heard of it?
It's probably the most famous personal development businessy book ever from like 1920s. I read it when I was a teenager and it was, it was really transformative and probably three quarters of listeners have read it or know about it. But he describes a technique, I think he calls it a virtual. Maybe virtual is the wrong word for his time, but an imaginary round table. And one of his biggest performance techniques is he said, okay, you sit down. And this is totally weird for 100 years ago. He's like, okay, you sit down or lay down and take some deep breaths. And then what are the people throughout history who you most want to know from? And have an advisory table, an advisory council, and like sit them at the table and have a conversation with them and ask them anything you want and they'll actually talk back to you. He's like, everyone can do this. We just never thought of it. So you, did you just figure that out yourself or did someone teach you.
That I just kind of figured it out.
Well, there you go.
And because it's like, when you do that, like, I can connect with my higher self. I could connect with a person that's alive. I can. And so I guess what I ended up feeling like, I feel like it started with myself. But, you know, when you go into these spaces, like, there's either an answer or there's not. So the fact that there's usually almost always, like, an answer every now and again, there's not. But, like, on answer, it's very clear, it's very direct, it's short, it's concise. The information is really very. That's streaming and flowing. That's why I know it's real, because I'm not forcing it. It's like, actually, the more I think, the worse it is. It's like, you know, you want to connect with someone telepathically, like, or something like that. You close your eyes, and if something doesn't come to you quick, then you're starting to make it up. You have to get before the mind behind. Before the thinking mind. Sam.
