 You know what I love about all of you, all of you keep asking me questions about meditation and how to do it. So I want to show you that meditation can be fun and interesting. So let's do this thing. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewire Excel where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. And what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community, try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So yeah, I'm always telling you guys, meditate, meditate, meditate, meditate, meditate, right? And the specific form of meditation that I practice and that I teach is mindfulness meditation. So I put up a poll over on my community tab saying, hey, I'm thinking about doing like little meditation tips over on Instagram. A lot of you said yes. A lot of you say you don't use Instagram. So check it out. Here's just me. This is just me real quick. But with my channel, I prefer to provide you with tools rather than making videos about those tools. What I mean by it, I might tell you to journal and then I might provide you with some resources or give you some ideas for journaling, but I'm not going to make an entire video on journaling, right? My mom is going to start doing some of that stuff on her channel. But when it comes to meditation, I would rather give you tips to kind of just teach you like, hey, meditation isn't what you think it is. Go download an app. But a lot of you have asked me. So some of you on the poll said you don't use Instagram, so you prefer if I did it here. So this is going to be a test. This is going to be a test for all of you. All right. I'm going to teach you a meditation, which is going to be kind of fun. I've wanted to do this for a long time. But if this video bombs, I'm just going to do it on my Instagram. So make sure you go follow me and I'm just going to be giving you tips. But this is a loving kindness meditation. All right. This is a meditation that's going to help you with depression, with anxiety as long as you practice it, but it's also going to help you have more empathy towards others. It's going to help you not react to people in the same way that you usually would. And it's something that somebody like me with anger issues has needed to do and it's been a great meditation for me. So something I always say, which you'll probably understand by the end of this meditation is, I don't like everybody, but I love everybody. All right. So there's a big difference. So even though some people, you know, question my motives on my channel and everything like that, like I know my motives on my channel. I know what I'm trying to do. I know that I don't have any, you know, malicious intent, you know, whatever it is, no matter what people think or say about me. And this meditation is one of the reasons why. So sure, there's a lot of, you know, people out there who I don't like, who I don't get along with, whatever, but I still wish the best for them. All right. So with this meditation, we're going to be using YouTubers and you're going to see what I mean in a minute. So what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to take this meditation, turn it into an audio file. So if you want to download it, anybody at the $5 tier up over on Patreon, I'm going to keep doing these and upload them over on Patreon. I think that's a cool little thing I can do for Patreon. Since I'm going to do some of these videos. All right. Sorry, my head. It just, all right. Anyways, so pause this video. If you have to lay down, sit down. When I teach meditation, I don't want it to be too formal or anything like that. I've just found that it scares people away. So if you want to sit, if you want to lay down, pause the video, just get comfortable. I don't care if you're like folded up in a pretzel, just be comfortable. All right. Pause the video if you have to come back. All right. But anyways, for me, I'm going to be sitting. So let's get started. All right. So start by taking a deep breath in. As you exhale, gently close your eyes and inhale in and exhale. So right now, just bring some awareness to your body. Just notice maybe your feet connecting to the ground or the way your hands are rested on your lap or the way you're sitting on your chair or laying down. Just bring awareness to what your body feels like right now in this moment. So what we're going to do with this meditation is we're going to bring different YouTubers to mind and we're going to send them kind thoughts. So the first YouTuber I want you to bring to mind is a YouTuber who you just absolutely love. Anytime they upload, you get a smile on your face, you get excited or maybe whenever you watch one of their videos, you just feel great afterwards. Maybe that's just because they made you laugh or smile or they inspired you. Bring this YouTuber to mind. So I'm going to say some phrases and just repeat these into your head in your head as if you're sending these thoughts to that YouTuber. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. Just go ahead and repeat that in your head. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. And as you're repeating these thoughts and sending them out. Just imagine that the YouTuber is actually receiving these messages as you're sending them. And every time you repeat the message, they get happier and happier and notice in your body how it feels as they begin to get happier as you send these thoughts. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. Now I want you to bring a YouTuber to mind. You're kind of indifferent about. You watch their videos. You don't love them. You don't hate them, but. You watch their videos sometimes or maybe they just pop up on your feed. You don't really have any strong feelings either way towards them. And what we're going to do is do the same thing and send them these kind thoughts. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. And again, as you're repeating these thoughts of loving kindness in your head. Imagine this YouTuber who you're indifferent about receiving them, getting happier and happier every time you send these thoughts out. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. And now we're going to bring to mind a YouTuber. Who you don't particularly like. This one may be a little bit more difficult. It's often hard to send thoughts of loving kindness to someone that we don't like. So as we go through this, if you notice that your mind starts judging or going through stories or remembering something bad they did. Just try to return back to the present moment. And repeat the phrases. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. And may you be loved. And imagine this YouTuber who you don't particularly like. It's starting to feel a little bit kinder and generous as they get happier as you send these thoughts. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be loved. It's many of us struggle with self love and send these same thoughts to ourselves. And see how that feels. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I be free from harm. May I be loved. And just notice what it's like to send yourself some kindness. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I be free from harm. May I be loved. And now just sit and bring your attention back to your body. Just notice how you feel in this moment. Notice if you feel tense. Or if you feel relaxed. You feel warm and open. You feel cold. Just notice how your body feels in this moment. All right. And we'll end this meditation by taking a deep inhale in and gently open your eyes as you exhale. How does that feel? I feel great. And hopefully right now you're like oh dang. No wonder why this dude Chris keeps telling us to meditate. Right. So yeah this is a loving kindness meditation. This is legit the best meditation you can do. Just analyzing what I'm not supposed to analyze here is that it helps to transition these thoughts of loving kindness for someone I like to someone that maybe I don't like too much. Right. Because we're all humans. We're all people. We're all going through our own struggles. You know what I mean. And some of you might have the experience where when I show kindness to someone who I don't necessarily like sometimes that makes them a little bit nicer as well. Now we can't expect that but sometimes that is a result but either way when we hold on to anger or resentments or whoever it is toward whoever it is right. It hurts us more than it hurts them. So that's why we need to learn to start trying to send these kind thoughts but most importantly I know a lot of you struggle with self love. We need to send these thoughts to ourselves as well. All right. So let me know down in the comments below how you felt after doing this meditation. And if you would like if you would like please be tame. I hope you I hope you will be after this nice meditation. Tell me the first YouTuber you thought of when I asked you a YouTuber that you love that you smile every time they upload you get excited you get inspired whatever it is. Let me know who that YouTuber is. I do not want to hear about who the last YouTuber was. All right. But again anybody over on Patreon at the $5 tier up I'm turning this into an MP3 download it on your phone do this meditation anytime you would like and again based on the engagement I get on this video if this video does well I'll do more if not I'm just only doing it on my Instagram so make sure you're following me on there. All right. Anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon you are all amazing and if you would like to become a patron and get access to meditations exclusive videos other perks you can click the top on that patreon icon right there. All right. Thanks so much for watching a little bit kinder today and I'll see you next time.