Better Wellness
The “Better Wellness” podcast is about the discovery of the many different aspects of human wellness, including innovations in such topics as meditation, mindfulness, yoga, nutrition, stress, sleep and the effects of depression and anxiety on the human body. The podcast also gives equal importance on the body and mind.
Guests include World Class experts and visionaries in the world of wellness. The show is hosted by Roland Perez, author and award-winning PBS Executive Producer of the “American Health Journal” and “Healthy Kids” and Janet Walker, writer and producer for the “American Health Journal” and “Healthy Kids” and host of the podcast "Healthy Cells Healthy You with Janet Walker".
Better Wellness
Change Your Life Through Meditation
Embark on a soulful excursion into the tranquil realm of meditation with wellness expert David Delrahim and host, Roland Perez. This enlightening exchange will lead you through the transformative potential of this ancient practice, where David imparts his wisdom on achieving a harmonious state of being. Grasp the simplicity of finding serenity within, as we reveal the secrets to harnessing meditation as your steadfast ally amidst the everyday tumult, from the hum of traffic to the buzz of your office. Unlock the power to dwell in a constant state of mindfulness, enriching your focus and elevating your presence in every slice of life.
From the producers of PBS's American Health Journal and Innovations in Medicine. Thank you for listening to Better Wellness.
Welcome to Better Wellness. I'm your host, roland Perez, and we're listening to a podcast that explores the newest innovations and true wellness. As the executive producer of the American Health Journal for more than 25 years, I produced over 500 30-minute award-winning television shows that air nationally on PBS with an audience of over a hundred million viewers. But Better Wellness is more than all that Not only keeping your body healthy, but developing a mindset and balance that prevents illness. Our guests are experienced experts in the world of staying healthy, young and well. And let's start. Our first guest is David Delrahim , a friend and a visionary, and an expert in wellness. I wanted to talk to you today about meditation First. What is meditation and what is the purpose?
David Delrahim:Meditation is a way to control the mind, calm the mind down, because the mind is just working really hard and is racing, you know what, from the past to the future, back and forth. And while we are in the present, the time the clock is ticking, we're not here because we're either in the past or in the future. We don't see the experience that we are in it. When we are angry, for example, we're not present. We're. Either we are getting triggered something from the past or the anxiety that we have about the future, the uncertainties that we have, is what is really troubling us. But being present right now, we're at peace. We should be at peace, but we don't experience that because we're not here. So the meditation we are resorting to divine to calm our mind down, kind of a control, that analytical power that we are blessed with.
Roland Perez:Where do you personally meditate every day?
David Delrahim:I meditate in my own body. You know, wherever I am, believe it or not, I'm meditating in the traffic. You know, just calming the mind, you can do that. You know what? Do not allow anything to bother you. You're in a state of meditation.
Roland Perez:So you actually drive down the street.
David Delrahim:I just drive down the street and I'm stuck in the traffic. Rather than allowing the traffic to start bothering me, I go deep inside myself and connect with the love that traffic doesn't bother me. I'm in a state of meditation. How simple it is. You can do it in an elevator.
Roland Perez:Can you do this around other people? If you're in an elevator, how do you separate yourself?
David Delrahim:You separate with your mind because you're trying to be mindful. Everything is just playing with your mind, you know, but you go inward rather than outward. That's really all it is. It's just a practice to go inward. All of our troubles in life is outward. There's nothing going on inward. Inward is only love. So if you go inside, the wisdom is from inward, not from the outward. The love is inward. So everything happening inside of you, that is where your soul resides, you know. But outward is chaos. It's about going inward. You know, I had a conversation with one of our potential architects. I said I understand and I see all the credentials on the wall Came from an amazing university, this, that, the other, he's done all of these skyscrapers. I said but every time you went outward. This is one time that I need you to go inward. By going inward is when you're connecting with the outward, with your creativity, with the creation, with your souls, with everything that comes from love, not chaos. Allow the love to guide you on the path of creativity.
Roland Perez:The decorator and designer have got to be very important.
David Delrahim:Tremendously in order for us to get to the healing sanctuary. Remember healing. Where does it happen? In world. Healing doesn't happen out world. Out world is chaos. How could you experience healing in a chaotic environment Then? Where does it happen? Inside in world?
Roland Perez:Okay, I know you meditate. What do you get out of meditating? And once you stop meditating, what do you get out of it?
David Delrahim:I used to meditate a couple of times a day, became three, four times and then I brought myself into the state of meditation. So while I'm walking, I'm meditating. While I'm driving, I'm in a state of meditation, I'm being present, I'm being calm and collective and I can focus on what is being transpired right now, right, this second. So when I'm even in a conversation because often happens when we are either listening or we are talking If we are listening, we are having an inner dialogue with ourselves. We are preparing that next sentence or that next thing. If we are listening, we are probably preparing the rebuttal. If we are talking, we are thinking about that next sentence, about how to tie up the whole thing. So we're not being present. By being present, you are connecting with your own truth right now, right, this second. No agenda, nothing is driving you, nothing is controlling you, no preconceived thoughts or about the past or about the future.
Roland Perez:David, are there levels of meditation?
David Delrahim:I believe the level of meditation is about the level of connectivity that you would have Even when we are meditating. For example, we are meditating for 10 minutes. Are we really meditating for 10 minutes? Or in that 10 minutes our thoughts go in and out? So if you think about the 10 minutes, really that the net, net, net. Maybe it was 2 minutes. The rest of it we were just trying really hard to bring our thoughts back into the present. So the level of meditation is about the depth of the connectivity for that period that we are in.
Roland Perez:Okay, how do you get into meditation? You're sitting here today, right now, in the moment. Now I go and put you over there and say meditate. How do you do?
David Delrahim:that I go into the meditations. Of course there are many channels of meditation, but I believe the purest one would be that you sit in a quiet and you collect your thoughts and you put yourself in a loving state and you're automatically connected.
Roland Perez:How do you start it? How do you do it?
David Delrahim:So here's what we do. Let's do it. A quiet place. I close my eyes. Why would I close my eyes? Because 80% of the information that goes to my brain comes from my eyes, so I'm shutting that down. I want to quiet my mind, so I close my eyes and I would sit and I would put my hands on my knees and I can breathe.
David Delrahim:So the easiest one to be about breathing. Why breathing? Because in the normal circumstances, we are not breathing correctly. We're only using 30% of our lungs, so our organs, our cells are suffering from lack of oxygen. So we are putting more oxygen into our body and by having more oxygen into our brain, it will calm us down. That's a great place to start. That is your meditation. But to start, just quiet place, close your eyes down, put your hands on your knees and just breathe, just fill your lungs with oxygen. All right, all you have to do is just breathe. You don't have to read anything, you don't have to listen to anything More importantly, and be breathing the oxygen in is breathing out, emptying your stomach, emptying your lungs. So inhale is very important. Exhale is even more important.
David Delrahim:How long do you meditate? For you know when you are starting. You might meditate for two minutes, we just fine. Then you want to go ahead, do it for three minutes, four minutes, you know. If you can do it twice a day, 10 minutes each time, it would be lovely. You know, I do meditate before I go to sleep, you know, and I always have a great night's sleep, peaceful sleep. That's what you want. It's not only about the sleep, it's about the quality of sleep.
Roland Perez:Is there a good place to meditate? Do you need a temple or shrine? Do you need a quiet, dark room? But for us novices, where is a good place to start?
David Delrahim:A place to start is whatever comes you down. Wherever comes you down, Some people will like to close their eyes, go into the state of meditation in a dark room.
Roland Perez:Right.
David Delrahim:Some people they like to be by the ocean, hear the waves, Some people want to hear some kind of music. Now, music is frequency and we are frequency, so there's a frequency that really elevates you. That's so weird, but you know, I really believe that our body is our temple. This is where our soul resides and if you go inward, you are in your temple. You don't have to be in a physical temple or you know, synagogue or church or mosque. You just have to go inward and by closing your eyes and going into connecting with your soul, you can meditate anywhere, anywhere.
Roland Perez:Thank you, that was very interesting. It's always great to speak to you, David. Unfortunately, time's up. And remember Better Wellness is available just about everywhere, including Spotify, Amazon Music and iHeart Radio. So once again, thanks for supporting Better Wellness. I'm your host, Roland Perez. See you next time.
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