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Jay Shetty PodcastWillow Smith & Jahnavi ON: The Law Of Vibration EXPLAINED (Raise Your Frequency) | Jay Shetty
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Willow Smith and Jahnavi Harrison on Devotional Music, Healing, and Purpose
- Willow and Jahnavi describe how their first studio session, the night before Jahnavi flew out of LA, produced the song Surrender and began a collaboration built on trust and shared intention.
- Their differing styles, with Willow fast and exploratory and Jahnavi slow and intentional, balanced and stretched each other, and they worked through COVID-era long-distance stress by returning to their shared purpose.
- Willow shares how leaving her pop-star life led to a dark period of depression and self-harm, and how finding that her music could help others gave her a sense of purpose rooted in service.
- Jahnavi recounts growing up in the bhakti tradition, resisting a public musical role, and gradually accepting it as yoga and meditation became mainstream.
- Both describe practices that help them, including daily mantra meditation, reading, yoga, mirror conversations, free writing, and time in nature, and Willow explains her belief that spirituality and science meet in the idea of vibration.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasShared intention lets differences strengthen a collaboration.
Willow and Jahnavi say that when they disagreed or felt stressed, they returned to why they were making the music, which kept their contrasting approaches from becoming conflict.
Service gave Willow a reason to keep going.
Willow says she emerged from a dark period because people told her that her voice helped them through similar struggles, and she now wants her music to be in service to others.
Sanskrit and mantra carry an ancient vibration beyond the individual.
Willow says devotional music differs from her earlier modern-language lyrics because it comes from generations of spiritual people, and Jahnavi says she doesn't take credit when mantra moves someone.
Purpose tends to unfold through a meandering path.
Jay observes that both artists found their calling over time through getting lost, refining, and questioning, and Jahnavi describes repeatedly turning away from music before it kept coming back.
Daily practice acts as an anchor.
Jahnavi likens mantra meditation to a chain held in a rushing river, and Willow says consistency and repetition make practices like reading, yoga, and meditation habitual.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThe language is very modern, and what I love about Sanskrit is that it, it's deeper than language.
— Willow Smith
I just really realized that I just wanna be in service. The only thing that makes, you know, having this lifestyle, um, worth it, and for me to feel like I'm, I have a purpose at all and to not fall back into that dark spiral, was making music that I felt would inspire people and that I felt would be in service to others.
— Willow Smith
I see the, the mantra meditation, um, as this sort of like this chain to hold onto in the rushing current of life
— Jahnavi Harrison
I just wanna continue to just get more intelligent and, and more intelligent while also losing my ego
— Willow Smith
If your pursuit was only to become intelligent, you'd get bored.
— Jay Shetty
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SPEAKERS
Willow Smith
guestSinger-songwriter and recording artist collaborating with Jahnavi Harrison on devotional-influenced music.
Jay Shetty
hostPodcast host and interviewer of On Purpose with Jay Shetty.
Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
hostWellness-focused co-host and interviewer alongside Jay Shetty.
Jahnavi Harrison
guestBhakti/kirtan and mantra musician known for devotional music and spiritual practice.
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