Jai Dev Singh, Kundalini yoga teacher and founder of Life - Force Academy, joins Cheddar News for World Meditation Day.

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and between balls back everyone with Manitoba and baker machado, roll out your yoga mat and find your cheeks because today is world meditation day, you might find yourself constantly moving all day everything of course, from commuting to work, thinking about what's for dinner, it's so stressful. It really is however, make it a habit today or every day to find a little time to focus on yourself and your wellness need a little assistance. One company is aiming to help people connect to their inner confidence and they're genuine purpose joining us. Now to discuss is kundalini yoga teacher, everyday specialist and founder of Life Force Academy Teacher Gi Dave Singgih, I welcome to the show, we're so excited to have you, What's the mission behind Live Force Academy, it's just really to help folks be happy. It's really simple, is that like you're saying there's So much stress that we all have and just living in a body being on planet Earth in the year 2022, the amount of pressure and stress on all of our minds and nervous system can be tremendous. So having some way to help help release a little bit of that stress off the nervous system on a regular basis, so you can feel genuinely yourself, you can feel your state of inner confidence, genuine inner confidence and then from there everything tends to flow a little better. Absolutely, and giant somebody who meditates on a daily basis. I I definitely say it's definitely made my life so much better, but obviously focusing on your mental health easier said and done. So what sort of tips do you have for our viewers out there to achieve more mental high mindedness here? Well, I think the first thing is if you can create a little bit of time on a regular basis to do a little bit of meditation, a little bit of yoga exercise or something of that sort to where to where your it's creating some prioritization of your mind and your body. Because the one we we all have a sense of purpose and we all share a certain sense of purpose and that's you and I and everyone watching, we all have the purpose that we all want to have happiness that you can't find a human being on this planet that doesn't share that same purpose, but in order to have real happiness that has a lot to do with our mind, it almost has everything to do with our mind. And so the only way that we're actually going to make some sort of substantive change in the patterns of our mind is if we create some prioritization with it. And for in realistically, the only things that have real priority in our life are things that are are making our schedule. And so I always recommend if you can get up just even a little bit earlier. So do you could you could you say I'm gonna devote 15 minutes a day to just taking care of the body and the mind so that the rest of my day that's gonna overflow and benefit all the other activities in my life. So let's talk about today, it's national meditation day, it's yoga day. Why are today days like today so beneficial, So important for us to know? Well I think any day where you're bringing awareness to meditation because the thing about meditation, it's not religious, it doesn't require anything. If you have a mind, you can do it if you can breathe, you can do it. People say I'm bad at meditation and there's no such thing. Everybody's bad at meditation at first when you haven't tried it. If you go to the gym for the first time, you don't know how to do the exercises at the gym. You have to learn. It's the same with meditation. Anyone can do it. It's simply about getting the mind to learn how to relax, allowing the mind to learn how to be less in a judgmental, to be less critical of ourselves, to get that inner critic of our mind to be able to to chill out and to relax. To be able to observe more the impulses of the mind to understand them for what they are, to know that the impulses of our mind and all its desires and all its fears and all our worries and all our anxieties, they're not the substantive part of who we are. But if we don't take some time to meditate on a regular basis, You can be easily hypnotized to believe that this is the substantive part of ourselves. And so then we become insecure or we've we get locked down into some sort of depression or chronic anxious nous and this type of thing john when would you suggest people to fit meditation into their schedule? Is there usually a time that maybe would be the best for people to try this? Well, I always say the best is first thing in the morning because then, you know, it's going to happen and there is some some evidence that early in the morning is an ideal time. But really any time there's no bad time to meditate. So anytime that you can create some rhythm is what I would say, anytime that you can create some consistency in your life. So, so it could even be a lunch break if it can't be early in the morning. And like we mentioned, people's everyday lives are so crazy. I have to attest here when baker meditates, he comes out so calm person. But I can't, I've tried to meditate AJ and I actually end up falling asleep to be honest. I know. So can you demonstrate some work exercises that baker and I can do right now, let's just do something real simple and maybe you won't even sleep. So so you can you can have your hands in your lap or what you can do is you can take your five fingers of each hand and you can put all the fingertips together and hold it right in front of your heart. And that can kind of just make a little bit of almost like electrical circuit connected but try to make sure you're keeping your heart held up high that that's like a straightened spine and then pucker your lips almost like you're gonna kiss. So you just a little puckered of the lips and then you take a slow long inhale through puckered lips and then you exhale through your nose and try it again, just slowly inhaling through lips and exhale through the nose and one more time with the eyes are closed. And so even just doing that a few times you'll feel an effect. But what what could really be effective if you if someone takes their for instance the timer on your phone, set it for just three minutes and do that simple exercise for three minutes and and just just three minutes. But within three minutes it's a substantive amount of time to do something like that and watch how it affects your mind. Your body feel a little better. Everything tends to benefit when you can just get the seeds, you feel better actually. I've had a tough morning and I do feel better and honestly that tip just do that for three minutes. J I can do that. I can do that jay really quickly before we let you go. How you sort of hoping that life Force Academy looks like in the future? Where do you sort of see this going down the road? We'll just continue to grow. We have members in over 60 countries of throughout the world, thousands of members. We do live webcasts all the time, but there's just countless things in the life force academy that people can use it just 15 minutes a day. Just push play. It just guides you, it's super easy. Anyone can do it and just continue to grow. Hopefully help more and more people. I love it. Thank you for making us feel so much more than we needed that. Thank you so much, kundalini yoga teacher, Arabic specialist and founder of Life Force Academy J. Dave Sing, Thank you so much.