The Fourth Step to Self Improvement

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,280 The number one habit to cure your internet addiction is meditation. If you do this habit 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:14,080 every day, you will enjoy a much fuller and rich life. I suspect you can guess this video is about 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:20,640 meditation, but keep watching till the end because this video reveals so much more than just meditation. 4 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,840 I used to come home from school and watch YouTube for the rest of my day. I would watch 5 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,920 YouTube all day every day. Then I started meditating, but I was not consistent. I would just do it 6 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:37,360 after the gym, after I was done working out. And on days where I didn't go to the gym, I didn't 7 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:46,240 meditate. But it wasn't until I saw Hamza video and on that video he said that you can actually 8 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:53,600 cure your internet addiction with meditation. But he also revealed that I had been doing it all 9 00:00:53,600 --> 00:01:01,040 wrong this whole time. So in order to get the results from meditation, you must do it consistently. 10 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:07,040 And I realized that my old method of sporadically meditating after the gym was not working. 11 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:13,280 I didn't start being consistent at meditation until I added it to my morning routine. That's 12 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,920 what Hamza recommended. He said add it to your morning routine so then you're guaranteed to 13 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:23,280 do it every morning. Just follow the routine and then you'll make sure that you get the meditation 14 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:30,880 every single day. And that was my flaw. I didn't have it in my morning routine. It was at the gym 15 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:37,040 and on days I didn't go to the gym, I wasn't meditating. I connected the meditation with the gym. 16 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,760 But if you just meditate at your house or wherever you sleep, that is a guaranteed way 17 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:51,120 of getting consistent as long as you actually do it. I realized I needed to meditate in my room 18 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:57,200 if I wanted to be consistent. But my room had nowhere comfortable to meditate. So I did the 19 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:04,240 only rational thing I could think of. I bought a tatami mat, which is a mat made of rush grass 20 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:12,240 that the samurai slept on. Then I removed everything else from my room. The only thing in my room now 21 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:18,960 is my mat, a couple of fans, an alarm clock, and everything else is in my closet. I also wanted 22 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:24,320 to make it as dark as possible so I could sleep better and also so I could get dark meditations. 23 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:32,160 So I nailed blackout curtains over the window and my door. This keeps all of the light out and 24 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:38,560 makes my room pitch black whenever I want it to be. But I can also open the window if I want. 25 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,240 However, I found a lot more benefits to doing this to my room than just consistent meditation. My room 26 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:51,360 has nothing in it, so my mind reflects the emptiness more. When my room is empty, my mind is empty and 27 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:58,480 I found that I was able to focus a lot more and I didn't have as much distractions. I also sleep 28 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:05,280 on my tatami mat and after a short adjustment period to get used to the toughness of the mat, 29 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:12,560 I actually found that my sleep has radically improved. There are countless of secret benefits 30 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:18,720 to turning your room into a dojo as my dad likes to call it. The best benefit in my opinion is that 31 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:27,600 it is my space and I can be in solitude without distractions. If I were you, I would do exactly 32 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:35,040 what I did and completely remodel your room and make it optimal for meditation. But I know most 33 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:41,120 people are not going to want to do that, so I recommend buying a tatami mat or a straw mat 34 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:46,720 because these are made of non-toxic materials. I know most people are not going to want to 35 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:52,320 completely get rid of their bed and completely get rid of their dresser and all that stuff. 36 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,760 I know most people are going to want to keep all these things. 37 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:04,800 So what I would recommend you do is get a mat that you can sit on so you can meditate in your room. 38 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:12,960 A tatami mat is what I recommend. It's like $150 on Amazon, but if you don't want to spend that 39 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:19,520 much money, a straw mat is another thing I would recommend, maybe like $20 to $50 on Amazon. 40 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:26,160 And I recommend these because they're not made of toxic materials and I actually don't like 41 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:33,200 having toxic materials around me. And so if I'm going to be sleeping on something I want it to be 42 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:39,040 natural and not bad for my health. That's why I did not recommend a yoga mat because most yoga 43 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:45,200 mats are made of toxic materials that I would not want to touch. So go out and figure out how you 44 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:52,720 can remodel your room or at the very least add in meditation to your routine and make it as simple 45 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:59,680 as possible for you. Make it as easy as possible by just getting a meditation mat so you can have 46 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:05,680 a spot to meditate every single day.