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Jay Shetty Podcast

Big Sean ON: How To Manifest ABUNDANCE, SUCCESS, & HAPPINESS Into Your Life | Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty sits down with Big Sean to talk about personal growth and dealing with relationships. In order to be of service to others, we all need to take care of our needs first.

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Mar 28, 20221h 27mWatch on YouTube

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Welcome Back and Stillness in the Chaos
Jay Shetty introduces the most requested part two in the show's history and welcomes his friend Big Sean. They talk about the response to the first episode, and Big Sean describes trying to be the stillness amid chaos and the movement amid stagnation, with the external starting internally.
- •Jay says this is the most requested part two the podcast has had
- •Big Sean describes the impact of the first interview on his fans
- •Both thank each other's communities
- •Big Sean uses the yin and yang to describe balancing stillness and movement
- •He says most external things start internally
Meditation Practices: Breathwork, Visualization and Mantra
Big Sean asks Jay what meditation does for him. Jay explains his three types, and Big Sean describes how he changes up his own practice and why it sets up his day.
- •Jay uses breathwork for the body, visualization for anxiety and mantra for connection to the universe and service
- •He visualizes the perfect process rather than the perfect outcome
- •Big Sean varies between mantra and guided meditations
- •Meditation is compared to taking a shower for your consciousness
- •Jay likens meditation choices to a menu
Being Rich Beyond Money and Not Getting Too Specific
Big Sean explains that the richest thing you can do is prioritize yourself and keep your intentions open rather than overly specific. He notes that wealth in money doesn't guarantee wellbeing, and says the things you can't change can't change you.
- •Rich doesn't just mean money; people can be rich in money and broken in other ways
- •The blue mug example shows how specificity closes out better possibilities
- •Everyone is going through something
- •Working on the internal acts like armor against the storm
- •He meditates for whatever is best for his happiness and joy
Desire vs. Want and Chasing vs. Pursuing
Jay picks up on the idea of not being too specific and says his own goals would have been too small. Big Sean says he swaps "want" for "desire" or "intention" so he doesn't match the vibration of lacking, and they contrast chasing with pursuing.
- •Jay says a projector screen in your head can make you miss what's in front of you
- •Big Sean suggests adding "and more" when being specific
- •Wanting something acknowledges the lack of it
- •Chase feels desperate while pursue does not
- •Small wording changes matter when manifesting
Practicing Gratitude and Dropping Expectations
Big Sean asks how often Jay practices gratitude. Jay explains that expecting things to go well removes gratitude, and they discuss expectations in relationships, praising people, and how making people feel guilty backfires.
- •Jay says we tell people when things go wrong but not when they go right
- •Expectation creates unhealthy relationships with ourselves and others
- •Big Sean tells his engineer and team they're doing a great job and means it
- •Jay shares how criticizing his wife over birthday gifts made her more fearful
- •Communicating what you want is necessary instead of expecting mind-reading
The World's Problems and Why Self-Care Is Service
Big Sean shares what Sadhguru told him about soil, population and famine, and Jay asks how people avoid feeling paralyzed by global problems. Both say that working on yourself is the starting point and that self-care is the opposite of selfish.
- •Big Sean relays Sadhguru's points about soil depletion and population growth
- •Jay asks how to process overwhelm and helplessness
- •Jay says the point of internal purification is to help cleanse externally
- •Big Sean says self-care is a service to the world
- •Faith that everything will be okay is the thing to rely on
Developing Faith and Perspective Through Life Lessons
Jay asks how Big Sean developed his faith, and he answers it came through life experience and learning to move at God's speed. Jay shares Edith Eger's perspective from the Holocaust, and they talk about paying attention to the lessons life teaches.
- •Faith can't be faked or avoided; Jay cites a study on false hope versus long-term faith
- •Big Sean flipped his mindset to ask what's the best that could happen
- •He talks about the pleasure of simply breathing
- •Edith Eger realized the guards were prisoners of their own conscience
- •Big Sean says you must acknowledge the lessons you experience
Trying New Things, Natural Highs and the Rage Room
Big Sean says people can't know their passion until they try things, and describes natural highs from life. Jay discusses the higher taste and shares the story of an unsuccessful visit to a rage room with his wife.
- •We lease our bodies for a limited time and must go figure out what that means for us
- •Big Sean tried things like skydiving and hiking to find his passions
- •He says there are ways to get high off life that drugs can't give
- •Jay describes the higher taste with the popsicle and diamond example
- •The rage room left them stressed, but became a funny shared memory
Not Judging, Money as Conditional, and Putting Morals First
Big Sean says money is conditional and that his family was rich before they had money, while time and love are the real currencies. They talk about the waste of judging others, chasing validation online, and not acting at someone else's expense.
- •Everyone is going through something, so we have no right to judge
- •Money is conditional, while time and love are the true currencies
- •Judging gives a quick boost but wastes valuable energy
- •Big Sean says morals come first when seeking attention online
- •Jay says he learned to stop judging people who judge
Make It Fun and Prioritize Deep Rest
Asked about his most recent life lesson, Big Sean says it's to make everything fun, and he talks about wanting to write a book on his journey inward. Jay's lesson is prioritizing deep rest, such as sensory deprivation tanks and watching sunsets, and Big Sean admits he used to feel he didn't deserve rest.
- •Big Sean says real success is being happy, so make whatever you do fun
- •He wants to write a book as one of his missions for humanity
- •Jay finds deep rest in a sensory deprivation tank and in looking at the sky
- •Big Sean says he once felt he didn't deserve rest
- •Ideas and inspiration can come through during deep sleep
Deserving Rest, Listening to Yourself, and Disciplined Joy
Jay highlights that we don't give ourselves permission for what we feel we don't deserve. He then asks how to do good things even when you don't feel like it, and Big Sean answers with a bare minimum, listening to yourself, and being disciplined about joy.
- •Jay asks listeners what they feel they don't deserve
- •Big Sean says people may feel they don't deserve love, rest or fun
- •He keeps a bare minimum routine such as a two-to-three-minute meditation
- •Listening to yourself and asking why you don't feel like it
- •Having fun is a serious thing; be disciplined about your joy
Impact, Service and the Next Mountain
Jay asks about Big Sean's new dreams, and he says he's focused on how to impact the world with his platform through music, a book and live experiences. Jay contrasts this with people who keep climbing mountain after mountain.
- •Big Sean wants to use his platform to change the world
- •He got his radio song without limiting himself with specifics
- •He looks forward to starting a family at the right time
- •Jay notes that many people keep climbing one mountain after another
- •Big Sean wants to keep what makes him happy while serving
Clearing Blockages and Breaking Generational Patterns
Moving into conscious partnership, Big Sean says he needs to touch on clearing blockages and inherited traumas. He explains how people inherit fears, beliefs and pain from parents, how he broke a money-scarcity block, and why healing matters for family and community.
- •Big Sean says you can inherit fears, beliefs and pain like physical traits
- •He describes breaking a family block around scarcity of money
- •Doing the work on yourself affects your family and the people around you
- •Jay adds that we inherit how we think about women, men and others
- •Big Sean wonders how we'd treat extraterrestrials given how we treat each other
Balancing Distance and Closeness in Marriage
Big Sean asks Jay how he balances distance in his marriage. Jay shares how he and his wife handled time apart and warns against idolizing couples, saying compromise shouldn't become torture, and he offers an ideal week split between alone time, couple time and friends.
- •No perfect couple exists; avoid idolizing or demonizing
- •Big Sean says you can't sacrifice yourself to the point of torture
- •Jay says early distance led to disconnection, and they've since grown healthier at it
- •Love in separation is described through the Bhakti tradition
- •Jay outlines a week with alone, couple, own-friends and shared-friends nights
Energy Exchange and Loving Someone for Who They Are
Big Sean says it's crucial to be with someone you energetically match, and Jay connects this to the Sanskrit word brahmacharya. They discuss how to tell by feeling, and Jay explains that his wife loves him for who he is rather than his achievements.
- •Big Sean says matching energy is the most important thing in a relationship
- •Jay explains brahmacharya as the proper use or direction of energy
- •Big Sean says you can only know through feeling, which requires being in tune with yourself
- •Jay's wife didn't care about his achievements but loved who he is
- •Validation is conditional while being valued is lasting
Closing Messages and What's Next
Jay asks what hasn't been covered, and Big Sean closes with encouragement not to give up on yourself, a message of love for those in crisis, and news of new music, Coachella and a planned book. They mention a possible future episode and Jay wraps up the show.
- •Jay says this conversation went deeper than the first
- •Big Sean says you only lose when you stop
- •He urges listeners to accept their miracles
- •New music and Coachella are coming, plus a project with Jhené
- •Jay says there will be a part three and hopes the episode sparks deeper conversations

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