Unlock The Secrets Of Your Mind, Boost Productivity & Reduce Stress! - Yung Pueblo | E255

People don't understand their capacity. You don't need to hit rock bottom to be the best version of yourself. What you just have to do is-

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Yung Pueblo, the expert in unlocking your true potential. He's a meditator and best-selling author whose work has impacted the lives of millions.

The world is incredibly challenging. The demands are intense. And whether you've experienced serious trauma or not, hard moments get accumulated into the mind. We're trapped in this tight little bubble by our past. It keeps us in a loop. You react very intensely with anger, with sadness, you feel anxiety, stress, but healing and letting go are possible.

How?

The best tool that we don't access is meditation.

If there's someone listening to this now and they go, "I don't meditate. I've tried it, didn't work," what is the pitch you'd make to them?

Steve Jobs and Sam Altman, high-performing people cultivate their minds and meditate. They stay cool under pressure, make more creative decisions. I can do more with less stress. It's essential for your mental health. When I grew up, I didn't want to admit to myself that I didn't feel good. Constantly trying to cope myself in pleasure by drinking as much as possible, doing tons of drugs where I almost lost my life. Everything was going terrible. But when I started meditating, everything changed. Requires this application of self-awareness to really unlock your happiness. You gotta see what you're doing to yourself. Meditating has been the biggest investment that I've made in my life.

In a specific way, how does your meditation look?

There's two main things. One is...

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I think the mission is really hoping to raise self-awareness around the fact that healing and letting go are possible. So, I got into this world really early on. I think, uh, it was 2011 when I started realizing that healing was even possible, and this was before wellness was even a giant sort of this giant world that it is today. And, um, to me, it was a shock. You know, when I grew up, I thought that if you were sick physically or mentally in some manner, you just had to deal with that for the rest of your life. You couldn't really fix that in any way, and when I started changing my habits, when I started changing what I was eating, when I started reassessing my friend group, and then eventually when I started meditating, the changes were so massive that I was so shocked by them that I wanted to really check in with myself and see that, is this real? And it was real. So, that just kind of pushed me into writing where I felt this sort of creative pull to- to share the little bit of that I- that I know, you know? And it- it was interesting because I know that I don't know everything. I'm not fully healed, I'm not fully wise. I have a long way to go. But hopefully some of the things that I'm reflecting on could inspire other people to do this serious work as well.