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Taming the Beasts: Overcoming Your Body and Environment

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 35

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Have you ever found yourself amidst 1,600 people in deep meditation, only to be jolted out of peace by a woman screaming? That's exactly what happened to us, Jana and Jason, at an advanced spiritual retreat led by Dr. Joe Dispenza at Marco Island, Florida. This journey of ours unravelled into a fascinating exploration of mastering the chaos of our minds, and we're here to share it all with you.

Our experience takes us through a room humming with the energy of collective meditation, where we had to overcome the unexpected and tame our inner 'beast.' We've learned that maintaining control of thoughts and feelings is quite like driving a car, demanding focus and consistency, even amidst chaos. It's about conscious choice-making, every single day. We delve into the intriguing concept of 'living lucky,' a realization that extends beyond the spiritual retreat, and share our insights on taming the beast within. Whether you're a meditation enthusiast or a seeker on the path of self-improvement, this episode will help you navigate your journey.

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky Good morning. Good morning, I'm Jenna, I'm Jason and we are living lucky. We are on Dayton.

Speaker 2:

We are especially lucky today because we're coming to you live from Dr Joe dispensas retreat.

Speaker 3:

What an amazing couple of days.

Speaker 2:

In Marco Island, Florida. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3:

Paradise.

Speaker 2:

How many times have we heard that word? I feel like when we checked in, they were like welcome to paradise. And then we, when they open the retreat, they're like welcome to paradise.

Speaker 3:

How many times have we heard somebody stopped me in the elevator?

Speaker 2:

That seems to be a buzz phrase as well.

Speaker 3:

That is Dr Joe's thing.

Speaker 2:

Oh Okay. So I don't know if any of you have ever been to a spiritual retreat before, because that's what this is.

Speaker 3:

It's new for me.

Speaker 2:

It has been very awesome In so many ways. First of all, the community of people are just off the charts because they're so loving. In fact, people will come over to me and they like stop. And they're like, hey, how you doing? Yeah, oh, sister, I'm like, do I know them?

Speaker 3:

Should I know them.

Speaker 2:

Are they from Kansas? That's what I always think. Are they from Kansas?

Speaker 3:

I got goosebumps. Now, one of the things that's really new for me is as many conferences as I've been to and as many educational type seminars that I've been to, I've never been to a spiritual retreat and I wasn't prepared for the amount of meditation that we've done.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so we did three meditations today, and that's what I wanted to talk about, because have you ever been to a spiritual retreat where people are literally laying on the floor? Everybody brings their pillows and their yoga mats, their blankets or a mattress, and people are wearing their pajamas and their yoga pants or their dresses and high heels.

Speaker 2:

It starts at 6 am every morning. One morning starts at 4 am, and I mean when they say starts at 6 am, that means doors open at 5 30. Yeah, and so that means we have to be on the elevator by 5 because there's so many wheelchairs.

Speaker 3:

There's 1,800 people here.

Speaker 2:

Anyway, yeah, so it's kind of very casual in that sense, but it's a little weird. It's like a big slumber party is what it is. And then, once you start meditating with 1,400 people, that can be a little weird because, like this guy beside me started snoring.

Speaker 3:

Well, and then you've got people with their shoes off, and that was very disturbing to me.

Speaker 2:

I wanted to say dude, I'm in the middle of my meditation.

Speaker 3:

Nudge him a little bit.

Speaker 2:

Can you please stop snoring?

Speaker 3:

Honey, you're asleep.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, if Jason starts snoring at night.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I get the punch in the ribs.

Speaker 2:

I'm like honey you're snoring Like I will wake him up and talk to him.

Speaker 3:

Wake up. I'm trying to sleep, I'm like I am sleeping.

Speaker 2:

You're snoring, stop.

Speaker 3:

Your sleep is not important. Wake up.

Speaker 2:

But that is part of meditation and that's part of Dr Joe's teachings is you have to tame your beast. And when he says your beast, he's talking about, not your vagina.

Speaker 3:

Not my penis.

Speaker 2:

He's talking about your body and when you're meditating, if you are agitated at somebody else for the noises that they're making, then you are not in control of your thoughts and your emotions.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you've got to overcome your body to heal it, overcome your environment to change it and overcome time to not have to deal with it, to not have to manage it.

Speaker 2:

I'm glad you remember that because I took so many notes. But that that's.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and it's, and I really had to overcome my body during the meditations because it's there to our meditations they are, and I'm used to a twenty five to maybe a forty five minute meditation. Twenty minutes and twenty to twenty five minute is like my sweet spot. I know it is. That's where I was, like I want to get in it, get out of it and get on with it.

Speaker 2:

I know you do, I know you do Men.

Speaker 3:

Are we there yet?

Speaker 2:

I finished first it's not a race.

Speaker 3:

You're not winning.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and so back to you know other people making noises and things. You know the guy snoring that was. That was agitating me, but what?

Speaker 3:

the screamer yes, screamer was coming up you did? It was a. It was either a murder or one of the loudest orgasms I've ever heard okay, so I'm just gonna say I didn't have crap on her.

Speaker 2:

I'm just gonna be real with everybody right now, and I don't mean to be snarky, I don't mean to be me. I'm just gonna tell you we're all like an hour into this meditation. I was out, like I not when I say out I was really, really into my meditation. Where I was, I was feeling about it.

Speaker 3:

I yes you are right there on the cusp of opening that door.

Speaker 2:

I like, I felt like I had sleep paralysis. You know where your body is, just heavy. You always couldn't move anything from this restaurant down exactly, and I mean I was in a really good place and then all of a sudden, this woman is like making these blood curdling screams right from from 1200 people away and I don't understand why, because it was a very loving meditation. We were in a loving space, we were talking about our heart.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that time to your heart and all of a sudden she's like she just goes off and I'm like you know.

Speaker 3:

I don't get in there.

Speaker 2:

I had my eye mask on. Luckily I had my eye mask on, otherwise I probably would open my eyes and I would have been like, oh my gosh, did somebody just get shot? But luckily I had my eye mask on and I was telling myself stay in it, jenna, stay in it. But as soon as you say stay in it, stay in your out of it.

Speaker 3:

Right so I had a similar experience with a rocker that was close to me okay so just probably three a row over and a row in front. Okay, was someone that was in one of the conference chairs and she was just the conference chairs have these backs that are very flexible. Okay, and she was just rock crazy.

Speaker 3:

When you say, rock like she was, she was rocking back and forth, like she was in a southern front porch, going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and which is fine if you're in something that doesn't go. And I was going what in the heck is that noise? Because it brought me out immediately and I kept saying get back in it, get back in it. And I was like what is making that noise and why is it making that noise? And I had to pull my eye mask up and go who is wrecking my meditation? Hold your mask. Of course I did, you were that. What's funny, though, is, when I pulled my mask up, she stopped, and so I didn't know who it was, and I was like maybe it was in my meditation, maybe.

Speaker 3:

I was getting downloaded and I messed up my meditation by getting back into myself.

Speaker 2:

Oh, and then you beat yourself up. Then you're like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3:

And then it started again. I lift my eye mask up and I was like it's you, it's you woman.

Speaker 2:

And then you like, have resentment toward her.

Speaker 3:

So then I got so far away from my heart and love and all this stuff.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, because then you're like damn you. I mean we're just being real. So then I get we don't mean to be rude, we don't mean to be bullied, so so taming the beast there's so much in this taming the beast and overcoming your body, because we, we, we get affected by the outside world. Right, because we put an hour into this meditation and we're right at the cusp of really having a breakthrough.

Speaker 3:

But if we let the outside world affect the way we feel, then it affects the way we act, I know, and that affects the results that we get. So and that and that doesn't. That shows itself so well in meditation. So, by staying in the meditation and just getting more comfortable in it, it's just like tying your shoes. When you're learning how to tie your shoes, or even learning how to ride a bike or learning how to drive a car, when someone talks, let's go with the top, the driving the car.

Speaker 3:

When you're learning how to drive a car and someone's trying to have a conversation with you, it takes your focus away from the driving the car Right and it you can have an accident. Now, the more familiar you get with driving the car, you can start having a conversation with people. Now, when things get hectic on the road, you turn the radio down, you stop the conversation and you get focused on the outside world. Because things, things just got scary on the outside, because you need to focus on that. But otherwise you can still maintain safety and all that and and and have the conversations and allow the outside world to just happen while things are going on. Yeah, so you don't let the outside world affect how you're feeling, how you're interacting with it.

Speaker 2:

I understand the analogy. I'm just not sure that every safety policeman would agree with with. It's not the best time to go introspective Right While you're driving.

Speaker 3:

What I'm saying, though, is that the more you get into the meditation, the more you practice introspection, then you're going to get, you're going to be able to not allow the outside world to affect that.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 3:

Which, when we can, when we can, tame our bodies and tame, tame our emotions, tame our feelings, tame the way we think, because controlling our thoughts is our thoughts and our feelings is what's going to overall correct. So much.

Speaker 2:

It's the secrets yeah, that's the secret is realizing. You know what. My higher self is in control here and I actually I have a say in what I think and I have a say in what I feel. I can actually choose the feelings. I mean, I understand that the feelings come up, but I can choose whether or not to let go of a feeling or to live in it, stew in it, ruminate in it, or if I choose a different emotion and how often do we grab hold of one of those negative feelings?

Speaker 3:

We become addicted to that like if you're going to a break up and you're like get me this I know I talk about this all the time, but that's. I remember that so well from like high school or like you go through that break up and you're like Put on the saddest song that I can find so I can cry in my car that's probably why that lady screamed is is we were going through the heart meditation?

Speaker 2:

she probably remembered a break up. She was probably like Were you heard.

Speaker 3:

It sounds like you are the one over there doing that now it wasn't.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, one of the things that I wrote down was the hardest part about change is not making the same choices you made the day before and that I, I have often, often, felt that, especially sometimes the little things of you know, when I get stuck in a low energy state and I know, don't get on the couch, don't get on the couch, don't get on the couch, and that next day comes and that one o'clock dip happens and I think, oh, you know what ten minute nap.

Speaker 2:

That seemed like it made me comfortable before it's just ten minutes right, I have it well, ten minutes turns into thirty, and thirty minutes turns into an hour, and then next thing you know you're falling asleep and you've been there for half the day, right?

Speaker 3:

yeah and so then the next day, then you feel guilty and shamed and embarrassed and disappointed in yourself it's kind of like the same way of thinking is it gonna get you out of the problem that got you in the problem?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and so it's a downward spiral, and then the next day it's even harder to make that decision because your brain is going to janna. Who are you trying to kid? I know that yesterday you gave in. You're gonna give in again today hello that beast you gotta tame the beast. I'm the lady in the meditation. Alright? Well, if you have a chance, a spiritual retreat with dr joda spends a it.

Speaker 3:

We're on day two and it's already been life changing and it's just getting started.

Speaker 2:

So you're probably gonna hear about this again on Wednesday or Friday yeah, on Friday so stay Right before our walk for the world yes, have a great day, guys. Thanks for joining us. We so appreciate you lucky.

Speaker 1:

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