7 Feb 2020 · 3 min
Lewis and Rich Roll discuss meditation as a daily habit. Lewis commits to 20 minutes of breath work each morning using Headspace. Both say regular practice cuts stress, sharpens focus, and gains back two hours of productive time.
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We've got an interesting guest on today. He's a good friend of mine. His name is Rich Roll. And he's got a new book out called the Plant Power Way. Now, for those that don't know who Rich is, I've had him on before about a year and a half ago. He's a graduate of Stanford University and Cornell Law School. He's 47-year-old, accomplished vegan, ultra-endurance athlete and former entertainment attorney, turned full-time wellness and plant-based nutritionist, advocate, motivational speaker, husband, father of four, and an inspiration to many around the world.
Well, meditation for me has been the biggest like watershed past year. Yeah, it's been a power. And, you know, I've been meditating on and off for the better part of 17 years, but I've always struggled with trying to find a way to make it stick and be consistent about it. and the busier I get, the more difficult it is to kind of- the.
More conversations and excuses you come up with.
Of course, you know, and like, look, you know, I got a bunch of kids.
I got a lot of- 20 kids.
You got four or five kids? Four kids, and my nephew lives with- yeah, like we got, there's a lot of energy in my house. Yeah, yeah. So it's very easy for me to say, I don't have time, but what I found, I've really made it a priority this year to do it every morning. So what's your daily ritual look like? So 20 minutes in the morning. Without fail and it's a simple breath practice and I've been playing around with the Headspace app which has really helped me a lot.
I have that but I haven't used it yet.
Yeah, it's great because it just kind of, I have it right on my iPhone. You know what I did? I put it down on the dock at the bottom is one of the four main apps. So I always see it and it's just, you know, I like the practices that they offer on the app. They're very accessible and there's not a lot of woo-woo in it. Andy Puddicombe who is the guy behind Headspace headspace records all of the meditation programs on there and they're very easy to follow.
Is that good, huh?
It just makes it easy and like it holds me accountable. So I think accountability is a huge thing with changing lifestyle practices. And so yeah, there you go. Yeah, but you haven't logged in yet. You gotta create your account. You got the app, but you haven't used it yet. I haven't used anything yet. Yeah, it's like anything. Like I have it, so I think.
That I'm doing it, but I'm actually not doing it. Well, I actually do a pretty good meditation for I think it's about 12 minutes in the morning and then at night. So you do 20 minutes using headspace. It's just a guided meditation basically.
The guided meditation, yeah, it's breathing, it's breath, there's some visualization, and they have all different kinds of programs depending upon what you like, if you're having problems with stress or sleep or whatever, you can pick and choose. But the point really is just that you're doing it, not that you're adhering to some, I think a lot of people are like, well, I need to this, the perfect practice. I need this to be right. It's the same thing with exercise. Well, I can't go out and run until I have the perfect pair of running shoes. These are all barriers and excuses to actually just doing it. And I've just noticed that it really has improved my life in every single way by just making it consistency is king.
In the last year, you started this right, 20 minutes in the morning. What's the biggest benefits you've seen since doing this?
Being able to navigate through a lot of stimuli coming at me, you know, like yourself, like I'm sure you get a million emails and you're like, you're doing all these podcasts and you're you're juggling a lot of different things, you're writing a book, these are all things that I'm doing as well and it's very, very easy for me to get overwhelmed and stressed. And stressed, and then I'm not productive because when I'm doing one thing, I'm thinking about the other thing that I'm not doing and it's allowed me to just ground myself and just focus better and be able to navigate relationships, phone calls, emails and all of that kind of thing with a little bit more grace and ease, right? And just, My interactions with people are better, I'm more present, I'm more focused. And as a result, like that 20 minutes that I spend in the morning turns into, you know, maybe two hours of saved time because I'm more productive throughout the day.
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