If I run it's because I'm being chased and that is not about today's topic, which is meditation and how it'll help with language learning.

Now I'm going to start with what meditation is.

Um simply because I think if you don't understand it, you might think it doesn't have anything to do with language learning.

But it's a great tool to help you learn.

Um let's get started, shall we?

Alright, so what is meditation?

Meditation is a tool that we can use by focusing our thoughts on one object or to allow ourselves to be more aware of things around us so we can end up getting more control over our brain on ourselves.

Um especially in today's modern age where we're looking and seeing everything.

We tend to have many, many thoughts and we have very little control over them when we meditate, which is to take that time to focus on one thing.

Maybe your environments, like how many sounds you can hear or to focus on our breathing.

We close down the noise.

But I don't want to go too far because that's part of my lesson.

But it helps us get more control of ourselves and makes us much more efficient in everything we do.

Now let's see how it applies to language learning.

I'm going to give you five ways that meditation can help you with language learning.

Are you ready?

Let's start with number one.

Oh sorry.

Before I do that, I've got to do something with you.

I'm gonna do what's called a test retest.

And I've done this for all of these videos I've done, which are not specifically about conversation, reading and writing and grammar.

It's more along the lines of helping you get better to make yourself make yourself better so that you can learn in a more efficient and effective way.

So the test retest we're gonna do is right now what I want you to do is tell me how many sounds you can hear.

Okay, stop.

That's it.

Don't worry about it.

We're gonna come back to that.

So that was very quick.

What I was trying to sell you or get you to notice is I know birds were in the forest what you expect.

It's Canada eh um, what I wanted you to do is see how aware you are of your environment.

Okay.

Um, when you're not conscious or you're not really thinking about it, what's going on?

What do you think?

All right.

So our test retest was, how many sounds did you hear?

If you heard one, you heard five, maybe six?

Maybe.

You heard nothing like just this guy on Youtube and I'm about to turn it.

Don't turn it.

It's about to get good.

So what's the first thing you're gonna learn when you do meditation or how it helps with language learning.

Well remember I went, it quiets your mind.

Have you ever been in an environment like this one?

See those people talking.

Yeah.

Sometimes there's even more people talking if you've ever gone to a movie theater or a really crazy bar or something.

There's so many people talking, you're like what?

Hey, what was that?

Were you trying to say?

That stuff goes on in your brain all the time?

Lots of messages are coming in, especially in the modern day where we have, oh my God, that's beautiful.

You woody woodpecker, Hi, sorry, love being outside.

Anyway when you have all that noise, it's hard to concentrate and that makes it hard for us to think, okay well meditation because we're concentrating on one thing, we actually quiet those voices just like those people disappeared in my bird disappear, it gets quieter so you can concentrate.

It's easy for you to take in information.

That's number one.

Why do we do meditation?

What would be another reason why we do meditation?

Well, we've got quieting the brain.

The other thing we've got is something called the prefrontal cortex.

I know big words, prefrontal cortex, you can think pre is before front is here.

And as part of your brain well, meditation helps to strengthen that area of the brain.

And when it does that it allows us to concentrate more.

So not only is it quieter, we actually build it up so we can get better concentration, which is exactly what we need when we're studying.

Okay, that's pretty cool.

I think he's getting something out of the tree now we're gonna go to number three, What else does meditation do for us?

Well it reduces stress in reducing stress?

What happens?

It's funny about stress.

Stress is something we do need.

We get a little bit stressed when we're actually doing any activity and it helps us remember things.

That's why we get stressed because we get emotional when you have emotions and you mix them with something you're doing.

You tend to remember remember that great party you went to last week?

It's a great party.

Oh that's beautiful.

It's a great party because you had fun.

So you recall all the information, you remember where people were standing, what was going on?

Okay.

But if you have too much stress like you're driving and cars are coming anywhere.

It's hard to remember anything We call it a blur.

You don't remember anything clearly because it was too much.

Well meditation helps to reduce that stress so we can improve our memory.

Cool.

Nice.

Another thing it does is it helps us with energy production and you might say how energy.

Well that's another thing about stress which we've done 123.

This would be number four.

Um It helps us because it helps us release stress from the body.

So we have more energy when you are stressed out you get really tight when you release you allow your blood to move a little bit more efficiently goes through the body better which carries energy for us and oxygen which we need to supply our brains with so we can think better.

Okay number five, which is really cool, meditation helps you sleep.

What well if you meditate during the day, you will get to bed foster at night.

Sleep is sorry.

That's number five by the way.

In case we lost count.

Sleep is incredibly important for almost everything we do.

People don't talk about it enough because some people are on what we call the grind and they're trying to work really hard all the time saying I get two hours sleep.

So I work so hard.

It's like, no, you want to get some sleep actually because if you don't sleep, your body doesn't rebuild itself and during sleep we actually get our memories are made better.

Um We can actually take things we've done from today and yesterday and they're put together two for greater understanding and what's language.

If you go, man and hand french hand.

Boom, right, We need to put two things together that we actually don't really.

There's no direct association.

Uh the sword son, son, we put it together when you're sleeping, This is what happens.

So you need that.

And meditation helps you get into deeper rates of sleep.

Pretty cool.

Huh?

Okay, so now look, I've given you five ways that meditation can help you learn and in case you didn't put it together, giving you more energy relaxes the body less stress in the brain so that the brain can actually concentrate prefrontal cortex strengthen that region of the brain.

That actually helps us focus quiets the mind so we can take in the information and then it gives us that great night's sleep.

All of these things are required for learning, learning anything and especially languages.

Now I gave you a test retest before.

Right?

Well what I'm gonna ask you to do right now is you don't have to sit like this like you're the buddha but 30 seconds I want you to be very very quiet.

I want you to close your eyes and I want you to listen and in case you can't hear anything in your environment.

Listen to mine.

I'm gonna be back in a second back so I want you to think about something now.

How many times did you catch this time?

Probably not one, maybe five, maybe 6 37.

All you have to do is sit down and just listen, listen to your environment.

This is a form of meditation.

What I'd like you to do for the next 30 days as your homework is.

Take five minutes and go outside and just listen Here are the keys.

You have to remember.

No one listen to everything.

I know it sounds weird but I'm being yes listen to everything.

Even things you don't like which leads to number two don't judge any sounds.

Sometimes people say I like the sound, I don't like the sound.

Don't judge them.

They're just sounds okay.

Number three tell that voice in your head to shut up, that's the one telling you what's a good sound, what's a bad sound?

If you can do that and don't say shut up, just say thank you very much and then just go back to listening until eventually all you hear is sounds nothing else.

If you keep doing this, you're gonna probably notice something and it's listening, it's gonna help with your listening skills.

Cool.

So now you're working on something you want to do for english anyway and you're making a stronger mind so you can learn more english alright, Five minutes for 30 days if you're a superhero, like well if you're normal five minutes if you want to be really good students do it twice a day and if you want to be a superhero, I don't have a batman shirt, but you know what I'm saying, try it three times today, after 30 days you'll make a significant difference in just in your own language when people are speaking to you, but you're learning in english capacity will just go through the roof.

Okay, so the buddha has a quote on on meditation and he talks about minding your thoughts because you become now it's not a direct quote, I'm sorry, on that one he said, minding your thoughts like be careful of how you're thinking because what you think you become and the value of meditation is you get to choose what you're going to think.

You get to choose how you're going to think and then you get to choose who you're gonna become.

In this case the language learner and an english language learner.

I'm proud to be your teacher James from Ingrid and what's that?

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