The power of meditation and mindfulness
If you’re familiar with any of Tony Robbins’ peak performance strategies, you know that your ability to maintain a peak state is a key component of achieving success. In this one-hour episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast, you’ll hear from Tony, his wife Sage Robbins and podcast host Mary B. as they discuss one of the most valuable skills to maximize your mindset and prime yourself for gratitude, power, clarity, concentration, focused attention and a life of meaning: meditation.
The gift of meditation
We aren’t able to be the best version of ourselves when we are in a stressed state. Your state is affected by the way you use your physical body, your ability to direct your mind’s focus and the language or meaning you give to your experiences. Meditation can help you do all of that and more. This is just one reason why Tony Robbins incorporates a gratitude meditation (known as his priming exercise) into his daily morning routine to center his mind every single day.
As Sage explains in the podcast, “The gift of meditation is that it brings us here now. It calls our attention back to this moment.” In life, it’s easy to miss the beauty and simplicity of the moments that life shows us. Meditation tunes our awareness and attention to this moment, here and now.
In a world of constant demands and digital distractions, mindfulness is about making your moments truly matter and living up to your full potential. It’s about your power to put your attention where you want it to be in the present moment, and not on what someone else dangles on a screen in front of you. Your attention is a valuable resource – don’t squander it.
Silencing the dictator in your head
Meditation can also help you change your self-talk, transforming your limiting beliefs into empowering ones so that you can overcome what’s holding you back. Sage explains, “To come back to the moment, question your thoughts, notice what you’re experiencing or what you’ve missed, that broadens your perception.” You realize that the chatter in your head disconnects you from the moment.
When you listen to the narrator in your head, you’re letting it run the show. Sage says, “We all have that voice, and it’s only a dictator if you listen to it.” Even she experiences that chatter, that narrator, but the gift of the practice is to learn to disentangle yourself from it.
Anyone can meditate
In the podcast, Mary B. discusses a common roadblock: She doesn’t think of herself as someone who meditates. But as Sage explains, we’re all meditative in certain moments. Walking on the beach, watching a dog play, being with a child, there are moments when life slows down. That is meditation.