 let's check this out cool and that's us coming in live and the notifications should go out and we are recording this and we are going to be uploading this to both bit shooting youtube so just to give you guys a lowdown of what we just did we just finished the current events live stream well for we're doing it for a couple of hours and yesterday we did a meditation live stream where we talked about I sort of shared a sort of a shigong standing meditation that I learned like 20 years ago 22 years ago or so that a friend of mine was a tai chi shigong instructor sort of incorporated that those lives showed me this meditation technique and I learned how to do it about 20 22 years ago or so and every now and then in the last couple of decades I've tried to start up again I do it for a few days and I stop and whatnot and it's sort of a meditation that you want to incorporate into your life and do on a daily basis so we did the live stream on it yesterday and we liked it it was fun and it felt really good doing it and we had a current events live stream set up for today and we just finished our current events live stream and I mentioned that we're going to just follow this up with another meditation live stream just a quick one so what we're going to do is wait until the notifications goes out on discord and twitch and as soon as people start rolling in I'm going to give a little quick recap intro of how this standing meditation is done and I'm tweaking a little bit based on what I did yesterday right there was something that was mentioned Cheryl mentioned that my elbow should have been a little bit lower and the chin you're going to be sort of tucking in it lifts your head and I'm just going to go through the posture again just making sure that the people that roll in because we had a whole bunch of people that were there during the current events live stream and know some people wanted to come down for this so let me see where we're at let me see where we're at we see if notifications go out nice view chill space and it's a phenomenal meditation technique style to do and yesterday I actually went around and show people the lanterns as well that we have we had a little downtime discussion on what the meditation was like and we have another angle here as well that we're going to turn on I'm going to turn on right now let me just check the chat yeah people are slowly rolling in so let me turn on this as well that that that that elder god I got a discord notification you got the discord notification awesome good let's turn on this guy as well this angle as well we'll give it another couple of minutes two or three four minutes because I know some people were planning on coming here Cheryl ride a long time don't see awesome awesome long time don't see I really looking forward to I was like seriously I wanted to do the meditation earlier today but there's nothing wrong with doing it twice in one day but I wanted to do it as soon as possible but I'm glad we're doing it now chicho the gold the gold tea the gold tea chicho your calves I know dude they do I need to I need to do my I need to do I need to get into doing weights I played a lot of soccer so I've been riding that wave for last few decades and I did a lot of weights but I need to hit the gym I need to start doing weights yeah I bet brother I bet I bet actually I need to kick it up a notch I've been lazy I've been lazy I was surprised I was able to hold this this standing meditation for as long as I did but gang should we do let's do this meditation okay I'm gonna go through the intro for it speedy Gonzales stop okay so for those that were here don't know what I'm gonna go through it's gonna be pretty quick for those that weren't there isn't much to this look it's a it's I believe it's called a shigong standing meditation I don't know if there's an official name for it so what you end up doing is you're gonna stand in this position you're gonna point your toes forward with your knees right you're not going to stand like this you're not going to stand like this you're not going to stand like this you're not going to stand like this you're standing straight with your toes pointing forward and you want your feet to be as wide as your shoulder so you're you're not going to go wide like this right that's too wide and you're not going to stand tight like this. What you want to do is position your feet like there as wide as your shoulders. Okay. Then what you need to do is you bend your knees slightly and basically the general just is we're going to bring our arms up like this and you're going to hold this position. Okay. Now sideways when you look at it you're going to point your toes forward and you're going to bend your knees. Now when you're bending your knees make sure your knees don't go past your toes. You don't want to do this right. You want to bend your knees but be solid enough right that you're going to do this basically. Now what you're imagining is that you're hanging from the top of your head by a string. Okay. Now when you're hanging by the top of your head by a string you're visualizing your spine extending right and this standing meditation is really about extending the spine right and when you're doing this when you're down like this if you're lifting weights you push your bum out because you need to protect the core you tighten up the core you push your bum out you get the strength from your thighs your legs and stuff right and you can do dead lifts and whatever weight lifting you want to do. You don't do this one that way because you're not lifting weights right you're trying to stretch your spine so when you go into your position here I'm going to go here when you go into your position right what you want to do is visualize yourself hanging from the string and what's that going to do is going to push your chin in a little bit right you're not going to be like this you don't want your head to be out like this right you want to be like this right your arms up and your hips you want to drop as Cheryl told us that's a good term for it you want you don't want your hips to be like this right you want them to be like this right you want it to drop and you're going to be standing sort of stretching out your spine hanging from a string right and you're going to drop your elbows you don't want your elbows to be here like this you want them to be comfortable okay and your hands you're going to be sort of chilling on the same level as your shoulders right you don't want to go up too high you don't want to be too low you sort of want to be within this range okay and that's basically a standing meditation we're going to do and it's difficult at first okay a lot of people when I first did this 20 years ago 22 years ago I could barely hold it more than three minutes like two minutes three minutes four minutes yesterday I was able to do it more I think mainly because I've done it before in the past and some of those muscles are still there right so what you want to do you want to make this meditation do this meditation on a daily basis okay I've been told it's good to do it in the morning because it energizes you so it's a good way to start your day right for me I mainly did this meditate this meditation at night before I was you know during the time when I was winding down from the day and just before I was going to sleep so do this meditation in general and then just do the nightly stuff and go to sleep right and for me it really amplified my dreams a lot it did energize me but it calmed me down and it rejuvenated me and I woke up very energetic okay so it's really up to you when you want to do this but one thing you want to do is you want to do this on a daily basis for as long as you can all right the longest I've lasted is like 35 days okay and holding this posture for anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour you want to go you want to ideally do this meditation for at least 100 days an hour a day right and what you're going to find is that you're going to start you're going to be able to hold this position longer and longer and longer and that's exactly what you're going for and slowly what you're going to feel is your spine your body doing adjustments little minor adjustments you might get shakes happening in different places okay and if you want a more detailed explanation of this meditation we did the live stream yesterday and that video will be up so this is just a follow up because what I'm going to I'm going to modify my posture a little bit and it's going to be trying to do this the first time getting the proper posture is going to be difficult but so don't be too hard on yourself if you miss posture and if you're filming yourself fantastic you can replay the film you can take a look at yourself and go oh yeah I was doing this wrong I was doing this wrong so for me the adjustment I'm making to my posture from yesterday I had my elbows a little too high so I'm going to drop my elbows and I'm going to make sure my chin is tucked in not like this but just enough that it does feel like that the top of my head is I'm being I'm hanging from a rope from the top of my head okay okay now that's the instructions okay and what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold this for as long as I can and I'm not going to when I break my stance if you're still doing your stance continue your stance okay and I'm just going to chill and just pull up a chair and just relax a little bit we're not going to go extremely long in this live stream we're talking about too many other things just want to have a routine where we're doing this okay so don't break your stance if you're holding it longer than I am keep it going keep it going now what you want to do is focus on a point ahead of you and if you're this is your first time doing this or second time or the first few times you're doing this don't necessarily close your eyes because you may lose your balance okay and you should feel burning on your thighs here and a few other places I just read the app when I come in 13 minutes I've never been in live chats before what is he doing he's uh it was a shigong practicing shigong standing meditation love the widespread bookshop thank you I built it okay gotcha never heard of that before dang I had to pause like three times but I jumped back and gg awesome awesome dr. p now free a saunch free a saunch free a saunch so how long did we go 14 minutes 44 seconds I broke sweat yeah I'm sweating as well for sure but maybe I was sitting really low in my stance yeah the lower you go in your stance the harder it is right like I'm I'm going like my leg is shaking right now right so today I went a little lower than yesterday okay longer than yesterday awesome it happens um Cheryl ask for your question um it felt better it it felt looser with my elbows down more so I had my my weakness is my the right shoulder right so it was a little bit less shaking um and it didn't feel as tight so it was nicer lowered down and I did try to go down with the knees a little bit lower uh this time I played defense and ice hockey for 10 years awesome yeah it was better so yesterday's when I was my elbows were higher it was too much and they needed to be lower more natural and like again you can see it when this is higher and it's lower the I think the elbow socket is looser it's better it flows how can you meditate uh with standing and holding your arms up I thought you needed complete relaxation to let your mind kind of free up uh you actually what you end up doing is you're holding a position right in the right form and you're imagining yourself hanging from a rope from the top of your head so you're trying to elongate your spine and you're doing a little hip drop right and that elongates your lower spine as well now what you do when you hold one position you're putting your body into tension there's no doubt about it right but what you're doing is you're forcing your body to try to adjust right minor adjustments to balance out the weight of your body right so there's a lot of meditation for yoga as well when people are doing yoga you're not relaxed in yoga you're tight in yoga where you're tightening up certain muscles and you're getting into a position and you're holding that position now what that does it I don't know the technicals of it but it your body sort of does the minor adjustments it needs to to get the energy flowing in the right direction do let go of the body you do let go of the body you're hold you're you're holding a position are you letting the body adjust to that position right like there's a walking copy copy there's walking meditations that you can do as well so it's not just about becoming completely relaxed it's about getting yourself into a state of mind may it be just being rigid walking relaxing whatever it is right so almost 15 minutes for me how long there might be people still holding the position which is fantastic walking med is a busy area it's so fun walking meditation yeah so fun I love it dr. p you bring a whole different temp to the rhythm you bring a whole different temp to the rhythm I love walking meditation just it's amazing it's amazing and I went down lower this time for myself so I could feel the thighs burning very nicely very nicely my hate can keep me static for quite some time but it's a 2020 phenomenon you think ASMR is a form of meditation it can be yeah sure it's also a way to relax it's also a way to learn right it's it helps it relieves anxiety so once you relieve anxiety it's you're more receptive to information so ASMR is an amazing way a state of mind to be to to tune into if you want to learn something new especially mathematics right dr. p yeah I've been out of the yoga studios for about a month plus now uh due to a foot injury almost ready to get back also it's the only time I feel like I've ever been put into a trance cool in a better in better dancing as well dancing can definitely throw you into a trance there's no doubt about it and rhythmic walking rhythmic anything really gang how long we up time 37 minutes cool I think what we'll do is legs hot legs hot awesome feels good hey dr. p feels fantastic yeah yeah it felt good for me yesterday when I did it when I woke up this morning it was like at the body it it felt like I did a workout it it felt like I did a serious workout and by the way gang thank you for the follows thank you for the support so feels good awesome awesome good gang let's call the stream speedy gonzalez style and what we'll do is I want to try to do this on a daily basis and peace and love indeed and once I get into a rhythm I think we're going to do I might even set scheduled streams where we do this meditation because this was fantastic or I just do them randomly maybe this setup maybe other setups okay aside from that mods thank you for taking care of business gank thank you for the follows thank you for the subs thank you for the discussion thank you for participating in this meditation Cheryl thank you for the feedback in the direction really appreciate it really that would be excellent I think so too Cheryl I think it's it's something I want to incorporate into my life I know it's going to improve my life and if we can share fantastic I think that's one way of making you know supporting each other because it's the motivation aspect of it right so I think it'll be a good thing to do it'll be a good thing to do hello god actually chichou I started timing you when timing when you went completely still 15 minutes could be recorded on this dance okay thanks brother but that means I have to hold it longer on the next one right so it actually puts pressure on the next stance but I'm what I'm going to do is I'll record myself next time if we're not doing a live stream inspiration for sure accountability as well be here and do it be here and do it exactly right and I'll reach out to my friend who taught me this and see see what he's up to he's on the east coast so maybe we because he's he's talked about live streaming as well and trying to start off some kind of daily ritual thing so ritual meditation so all once I upload these I'll talk to him and see where he's at and see what we can do I gotcha tai chi streamer on twitch as well awesome awesome and he's a good instructor my friend I've learned a lot from him gang I hope you have a fantastic evening fantastic morning fantastic afternoon we're gonna do I'm gonna let you know right now most likely we're doing a live stream December 24th and one on December 25th okay one of them most likely is going to be jarring honey and the other one's going to be playing our 10 by 10 puzzle most likely but I'll let you know for sure in like two or three days once I get my rhythm in okay aside from that gang I hope you have a fantastic fantastic next few days bye everyone