 So I wanted to discuss meditation and why when you meditate you don't want to itch yourself You know how you sit still and try to meditate you get these Itches or you know you just just need to move suddenly or you need to think about something You know or physically it's like oh my god. I have to scratch this shit. No, no, I have to scratch it Whenever you have these itches again be mentally or physically Your brain is essentially signing an alarm. It's saying, you know, you have to do something you have to do something You have to do something in my opinion in my experience. That's actually where the biggest benefit You get the biggest benefit from meditation. It's in not reacting to these itches Because your brain is like oh my god your air is scratching you have to scratch it Oh my god, you have to scratch it and then you you catch yourself and you decide not to do it consciously The moment you fully decide not to do it like a hundred percent I'm not gonna do it no matter what the exact moment that happens the itch disappears Okay, it's like the weirdest shit ever and that happens with mental shit like oh I need to think about this you're like No, and then you don't need to think about it anymore What's like? Oh, no, I need to move I feel like like my body hurts, you know my back hurts and then you're like no I'm not gonna move Bam, like the pain disappears immediately. Okay, or almost immediately But but again a moment later you don't feel anymore and where you were sure that it's gonna be there forever You know because your brain the way it works. It tells you everything is forever Okay, and when you feel anxious, it's like, oh no, this is forever when you feel good It's like oh my god. This is amazing. This is amazing. This is forever so You learn to Basically not be a puppet to your brain and then you realize that basically your life is Like this continuous cycle of Reacting, you know, oh I need to do this and this and I feel like this I need I want to eat this now and oh I don't feel good So I'm not gonna do this and oh I want to do this now So yeah, I'll do it and then oh no I feel bad You know you just keep being like this like like you get you know a message from the brain And then you react and then a message and then you react and like it's like where's the outflow? Where's the power where you decide what to do consciously from a place of you know grounded like identity? So again when you get these itches or when you feel like you need to move during meditation Don't move don't change location. Don't don't scratch Don't think about like whatever it is when you feel the the reaction when you can catch yourself feeling the stimulus Stop okay, and you'll see that it it passes and when you see that it passes You're going your brain is you're gonna learn to doubt your brain basically and not listen to everything it says be it as a sensation or or a feeling or whatever, you know an emotion and That's where your strength is gonna come That's where you know the the willpower is gonna come from it's gonna come from you know Well, that's where the the identity is gonna come from you know the the happiness from realizing you're not your mind You know you're not all these thoughts and reactions and actually they're not even real You know your brain makes them feel real because it has to the control to create the illusion of pain or the illusion of Emotional Emotional pain or even the illusion of feeling good. That's also an illusion. So you learn to disconnect from it and just being this state of conscious presence just You know like that kind of state and now you're here now that you're here It's like a different person So when you feel like scratching or moving Now when you feel that itch Don't listen to it