if you watch bad news suddenly you're having a great day then you watch the bad news and then suddenly you're consumed with fear and then now like your state of your emotions and everything has changed and now you're in the dumpsters and you're stuck there and you're like you know so i feel it's like you know one thing that's very important
is to like witness to to to see where your attention is going like where is your energy check in with yourself [Music] hey everyone welcome back to on purpose the number one health podcast in the world thanks to each and every single one of you that come back every week so sincerely and deeply to learn listen and grow today's guest
is one of very few guests i believe one of three guests that we've had on the podcast twice uh that's because she's one of my favorite people her instagram is one of my favorites to follow i love seeing all of her updates her messages we've stayed in touch for the last two years since she came on the podcast for the first time
i'm talking about none other than giselle bunchen and for those of you that don't know for the for the two people listening the 0.2 two percent of people listening that don't know gisele bunsen is one of the most successful supermodels of all time she's a mother and author and this is one of my favorite parts about her that i see her
doing more and more today she's an incredible philanthropist and global environmentalist and over the years giselle has spoken in numerous places about the impacts of meditation helping her live a more conscious and joyful life even giving birth something we discussed last time and these key insights are shared in her new york times best-selling book
lessons my path to a meaningful life uh which is an incredible reader highly recommend you read it if you haven't and as a long time meditation practitioner giselle believes we're all divine beings and then when we quiet our minds we will find that most of the answers we seek are already there inside of us giselle welcome back to the
show and we've already started so we're all ready yeah thank you jason nice to see you and and always so wonderful to to share and to talk with you it's it's i wish it was in person but hopefully next time get to give you a big hug even your lovely lady we'd love that we'd love that but no it's it's so good to be back with you and just
you know what what we're just talking about naturally right now as well i think the world's had such a difficult year everyone's had a difficult 12 months no matter who you are everyone's had a challenging time and you were just saying that you've almost just reunited with your family after two years i mean that must have been such a
emotional feeling like what was that like to see your family after two years you know it was beautiful and i think that you know sometimes we take things for granted right like and i think when you don't get to see your parents for almost two years and the people you love the most and you just realize how you know what a gift
is every moment that you get to spend you know that every moment that we are alive every moment that we are we get to spend with the people that we love and that you just realize what a gift our family our loved ones and what what what a what a wonderful thing is to is to feel the the warmth of the hug and a kiss and to be able to to be surrounded by
you know by love and i think you know as humans we are people who are meant to be living in community we are meant to be you know touching and holding and loving and i think um you know that's essential for our well-being for our mental health for for our prayer life you know for us to so it was it was wonderful i i just i just have
so much gratitude and and and just having to you know having this time with my parents is extra time because in brazil it's winter right now and being able to bring them here with me and have them with me for the next i'm actually gonna be with them for the next two months i just feel like the luckiest girl in the world you know and uh so so i'm just gonna
hug them until they're sick of it they'll be like get away from me i'll be like i'm glad that we could give them a bit of a break by you coming on the podcast so they were probably really happy exactly they're like just get just get away from us for a second we can't take you anywhere no it was it's it's it's wonderful and just to sit
and talk with them you know it's like i think to to to honor them and to you know how often do we get to have deep conversations with our parents you know and and to listen to their life stories i think we're diving really deep into that and i think for my dad something came up where he felt the necessity i think he realized how
fragile like he was like oh it can happen at any moment you know something can happen and he felt like he wants to write his story about you know he was telling me things about his childhood and how he grew up and about his father and about his grandfather because you know we are also our ancestors you know like the only reason
why we are here is because of them so there's pieces of them in us you know and and to and to learn about those things that he never you know there was never an opportunity or that or never came up that he he had a desire to talk about those things and now he does so that was you know a gift that came from that you know because i think there's always two sides to
everything i think something is you know there's always the yin and the yang you know and and i feel that that was the something that came very strongly for my dad this deep desire to share more and and i'm grateful for that because i'm learning a lot more about him and why he is the way he is and which in some ways is why i am the way i am
you know and my mom because so it's it's amazing it's it's been kind of like a wonderful dive into into you know in a way a deeper relationship with my parents so i'm grateful for that i love hearing that i think you know i i often think that my parents as well they don't really tell me a lot about their childhood because they don't think
it's that interesting or important or they just see it as normal and as i've gotten older i've realized that actually hearing about your parents and how they grew up and what made them what they are is such an important activity and exercise in the development of the children yes and and for their own healing and development too so i'm so
glad you raised that because i'm hoping that listings that people are going to ask their kids sorry ask their parents a lot more questions and kids are going to go up to their parents and say hey tell me about this or tell me about that yeah yeah i feel that it's definitely been like a wonderful experience for me and
and i think it also definitely makes me feel like you know the impact that we have in our children really without knowing like you know them sitting here and looking back and saying like wow we wish we would have done better and i think it's not about judging ourselves but it's about you know recognizing that we are all learning because i think when you're a
kid you look up to your parents and you figure like they know everything right and and they don't they're trying to figure it out i go to my kids often and i say i'm sorry you know sometimes i lose my temper or i'm rushing about something or i'm not listening as with with with the presence that that that i really want to at that
moment and then i you know and then i i judge myself for that and i feel really bad and and and i think judging and you know you know being it's not i think it's about looking at it and saying how can i do better so i go to my children and i say i'm sorry you know it takes me a second i'm like i'm sorry mommy wasn't here
fully when you needed me at that exactly exact moment but i'm here now and i'm sorry you know mommy's learning too this is the first time i'm a mom and i'm i'm doing the best that i can but i would i would love for you to help me to to point something out you know whenever there's something that is that you wish that mommy could do better or you or you see that
that you know like express your feelings to me tell me how you're feeling about this because if you can tell me and we can have a conversation then we can work through it and i you know i by no means i come in like i'm your mother and i said so so this is why you have to do this no i'm like i invite them to say you know hey you
know i i i'm doing my best and i'm learning so so let's learn together you know let's let's do this together and and i think it's been amazing because my kids talk to me which with my parents i didn't feel like i could you know speak with them about anything i felt like there was definitely more like it is because i said so when you do it as i you know
and i think with my children you know coming from that and feeling like i didn't really have a voice right um i want to give my kids a voice and and and you know of course there is things like you're not going to jump from the second story you know there's limits you know we got boundaries here we got we got to have healthy boundaries
but i think it's it's really important to to for me to listen to them and listen to their feelings most importantly because i think if we can teach them to open up and talk about their emotions and talk about their feelings the chances are they're going to grow up to be adults who are going to be able to really connect to their feelings and
understand that is that is this beautiful rainbow of emotions and that's all part of it and it's all beautiful and it's all just here to inform us something and to show us like oh why am i feeling like this why is this trying to show me what is this emotion trying to show me not to repress the emotion but to look at it in
a nourishing way in a lovingly way and saying and look for going deeper within and asking why am i feeling that way right now and it's only right now right because at every moment we are moving and we are changing and we are flowing and that's what life is right yeah it's just a moment so yeah i love hearing that i love hearing that i i think it's
so refreshing to hear it i think everyone right now needs to hear it the most because we're all feeling so much and experiencing so much we've never we've never probably felt this many as you said emotions on the rainbow as we do now because it seems like all of our our internal conversation is just alive right like we're reflecting more
we're thinking more we're experiencing more because we've been in this position and i i wonder for you one of the things that you speak about very emotively and beautifully is your love for the environment and even when we started our conversation today you were like i'm close to the environment right now and i feel so like i could hear the birds and look
at my cacao tree right now that's my living room that's a cacao tree you see that one in the back right there i love cacao yeah have you ever eaten a cacao the actual fruit that's no heat of it oh no yeah he's like a white meat that comes from inside of it and it's very i mean it's delicious it's really sweet and then from the meat you
take the seed and you can dehydrate it and put it in your smoothies or you know make chocolate and cookies but the actual fruit of it is this white gooey that is around the seed and it's delicious so it's right there so it makes me happy i mean that sounds amazing i want some now okay next time i i'll go see you i'll bring you some from over here for my
plantations but but yeah i mean i think nature i mean quite frankly like i don't like i feel like we are nature i don't think we are separate from nature i i think um i think when when we forgot that we were nature is when we start creating all the problems that we are living today i think when we we thought that we were separate and more powerful
how we could control nature um or we could just or the nature was here for us to use you know it's it's i think when we we got out of balance you know i think this this i think to be if we can go back to this to this respect and this love and this and this feeling of connection to nature we can then really find this connection and this
feeling of love for ourselves because i i think it's it's it's intertwined you know i think that uh nature is here uh as the highest frequency of a living being right nature it's our biggest teacher because she just she's in balance if it wasn't for human activity right she's perfect like there's in nature everything works out exactly
as it needs for all of life to thrive you know for every living being that that that is that we're sharing this planet with and and and she's perfect in the way that she knows you know and is when he must reign when he must it's just that you know we as humans um i think unfortunately greed and this desire for control and to conquering you know it's
i think it's i think hopefully we're shifting more to uh to a time of collaboration and and i think we need them more than ever now you know of coming together in unity and community and and and i think if we can do that um we can really live much happier lives that's what i think i think you're right i loved what you
said there about how nature knows exactly what to do when and and it's all entertaining connected because i often think like everything in nature is serving like everything everything in nature is always giving like a trees giving shade and a fruits giving taste and a flowers giving a scent and like everything in nature's giving giving
serving serving and when you said about humans like it is true that humans are about getting and holding and keeping and yeah that greed that you mentioned like we're not in line with nature because we're not serving anymore uh when we're serving we're aligned with nature when do you how do you think people who feel like nature's not really like
they feel disconnected from it or they don't they don't really quite understand like when you said we are nature how do you think someone experiences that in a simple way like what's been what's been your way of helping people experience and understand that i mean i think being present i mean for me it's it's it's just like everything
right because since i was a little kid like i grew up in a small village so being their feet in nature and and climbing a tree to pick up a fruit or you know just the sun rises every day and sets every day the opportunity to just witness it you know the beauty of it is amazing to to hear the birds sing it's just it's it's just
i feel like it's it's always it's always here reminding us be present be here the wind in our face the you know it's just feeling the sun like you know even when it's freezing outside and it's snowing outside you can feel the sun in your face like how is is like a warm kiss you know it's it's it's all these elements everything it's here it's like
the grass on your feet feeling the earth the coolness of it feel like how he supports you feel like i don't know for me everything about nature is the gift you know everything i mean every moment i look at the food in my plate i'm like wow look at the variety of look at the variety of fruits and flavors and colors and
i mean you know like you know just in a salad you can have like 10 different colors of greens and the oranges and carrots and beets and i don't know it's like it's it's it's abundant you know that's the thing i think we have to remember like because you understand that we are co-creating our reality and and and we are basically like little
radio frequencies right we are like antennas and the universe that doesn't understand better good is he understands frequency so if we are vibrating in this frequency of love of gratitude of connection we just create we attract more of that in our life more of those things just come into our life and then you're noticing it
you can eat a plate of food just swallowing without like appreciating and and that's not going to bring a joy or you can eat it with like gratitude for every litter for the farmer who made it possible to be here for the sun who nourishes for the for the soil who nourishes it for the for the bee who paul and i you know for all of this and then suddenly that
thing that could be sewn so like when i'm eating a plate of food becomes like i'm eating a plate of food like hi it's just as a and then life becomes magical you know it's just a it's just a perspective it's just a way of looking at life in a state of awe and like wow like it's it is because that's what it is is abundant and
if we can be in that state we're gonna just create them more in our lives and in the life around us is just how it is because as we become brighter everything becomes brighter around us as we become more love more filled with love more filled with gratitude more wonderful things happen in our life and more we can expand that and more
in our families in our communities and i think that's how we transform the world you know i think it always starts with us and it starts with us you know having the moment to to to really look at at the gift that life is and and and at every moment nature is on on on everything right is it's literally i mean it's everywhere no that is such a beautiful answer
because actually just hearing you speak about it that was infectious and contagious like it was just you have to be around someone and you when you were doing that you and my wife radhi when you talk about food in nature you're literally this on the same frequency because rather the other day we were driving and she was like oh my god
oh my god i was like are you okay like what's wrong like i'm driving safe like what's going on she was like look at the moon look at that yes you see but to live in that is to live like a child right yes because then you're like oh my god it's like and i love that about her like i see her videos and when she's cooking and she's
he's so beautiful it's so like it is joyful because it is i mean how amazing is that we have food in our plate how amazing that we have this this this abundance and then i think nature is abundant really that's the natural state of of nature and i think for us to as humans i think that's where where we who we are if we are in balance if we are connected
to our spiritual essence and not to all these different things from outside because usually i don't know if you notice but like if you watch bad news suddenly you're having a great day then you watch the bad news and then suddenly you're consumed with fear and then now like your state of of of your emotions and everything
has changed and now you're in the dumpsters and you're stuck there and you're like you know so i feel is like you know one thing that's very important is to like witness to to to see where your attention is going like where is your energy check in with yourself am i am i vibrating in what frequency am i vibrating in fear am i vibrating in love
maybe put post-it notes in your house in your mirror in your fridge some places in your house just asking yourself this question and what it what frequency am i connecting with right now and then just just to be be aware of that because i think the only people is like the way you shift the channel right you switch the channel in the
radio station as you're driving and suddenly you listen to an awesome song and then like some like what's that you just it was just my vibe you changed my vibe you switch the channel and now you go back and you find a vibe you want to be in right you're not going to sit there listening for two hours to a song whatever however long this song that is
like you're like oh this horror is giving me a headache right you're gonna change the station and you're gonna tune into a new song that vibrates with the frequency that makes you feel good so you can be in your car singing you know and having fun so i think that's the same thing in our life right we are experiencing something at every moment
things are coming at us you know situations you know we are experiencing a variety of emotions and feelings and situations throughout the day and i think if we can check in with where our frequency is and and decide then consciously being present to understand where it's taking us and if we want to be there then that's okay but if we don't want to
be there to shift that and change you know that um that frequency so when did you discover meditation as a tool is it something you always had is it something that was new and and where did it develop because i know you've meditated for a long long time now and you know we we spoke about that at length last time and we connected over
it but please tell our audience like yeah where did it start and and what path have you taken with it what role does it play in your life i mean meditation is like one of those tools that i'm very grateful i have in my toolbox you know we go through life and we go through different challenges and then we we acquire different tools
to deal with whatever situation we are going through at that moment and i think meditation was one of the most precious tools i i acquired throughout my my journey here um you know over almost 20 years ago in my early 20s you know i had severe panic attacks and depression and and i didn't really know what was going on with me because i looked at my life
and i was like everything is perfect and and but i was feeling depressed and i and i you know and and i developed a very intense anxiety for like over a year i was dealing with it and and uh and meditation just came into my life then and and not only meditation it was actually yoga at first and i started practicing yoga and then
because i was having this depression and and um severe panic attacks i share with the teacher i was going through she's like actually the best thing for you would be let's start with pranayam to you know alternate nostril breathing mostly specifically to help you get back into your body and balance your left and your you know it's so good to like just get you
centered and and then we're gonna do some meditation and then we're gonna do the asanas which is the movement so my hour class was like about 15 minutes of pranayam 15 minutes of meditation and 30 minutes of of uh you know the asanas and and that's how i started my meditation practice um yeah almost 20 years ago oh my god i can't
believe like lord wow yeah i know time flies and um and and since then it's been an incredible tool in my life because you know i went to every doctor everything to to try to to believe i was going through but after about two three months of practicing daily you know is it the commitment you make to yourself it's like
nothing is going to happen if you do it once in your life and you're like why it didn't work right it's like it's like everything else in life if you want to achieve something it takes focus it takes dedication it takes commitment right and and i committed myself to that because my other option was to feel i mean i didn't really have another
option i felt like either i was gonna die of a you know or or um that was my that was my my way my i chose life i chose to to to do something for myself um every day that every day i felt better and a little better and a little better and then after that i to be honest with you i cannot leave without it so i would say it's an essential part
of my life i wake up um especially after becoming a mom you know where like your time is no longer yours there's a part i say is like after you become a mom is a rebirth because there's a part of yourself that dies for this new you to to to be born because before it's all about you know what you want to do and you want to do it yeah sometimes you
make you know you let your husband decide or but mostly you know you kind of do what you what you know what time you want to eat what time you're going to go to sleep and then when you have kids it's like it's becomes all about this little ball of love and and and you don't sleep and you know so so it becomes even more important i think to
take care of ourselves because how can you give from a from an empty vessel right if your glass is empty uh how are you gonna drink from it how is anyone gonna drink from it so i i just meditation you know i wake up at 4 4 30 in the morning i i meditate every day for 20 minutes just you know it's just part of like feeling my glass
you know start the day nourishing myself so then i can give nourishment to my kids my dogs my husband my family the world like everyone that that i want to share my my love with you know and but i noticed that that it really gives me a lot of energy you know just to have this practice of of meditation and then i do 30 minutes of yoga usually asanas
every morning before the sun rises and then i just sit in silence and i just look at the sun rising and then i just take in that energy and i just you know one more day i get to be here and i think to start the day with that kind of um intention and gratitude is like it changes everything right because then you already start the day and if
everyone is like mom i want this mom i want that the dog is screaming the cat's fighting and like you were like okay like you know your your glasses also like you can start emptying little by little and i think yeah it started at that you know like almost 20 years ago but but yoga and pranayam and meditation they're still tools that are very much a part of
my life and very essential i feel for my well-being and for my for my sanity to be honest with you for my for my uh they're just essential they're just tools that i'm never you know i'm never giving back they're mine i i really i really use those tools a lot and i'm very grateful i have them so yeah well i think anyone who's done
something for 20 years yeah is it proof that you know it's like you don't let something last for 20 years if it's not really improving your life i wonder i'm asking this as advice for when me and radhi have kids uh how do you introduce your kids to meditation do you do you wait because it feels like sometimes children feel forced into
these things and they feel like you know it's not obviously creative for them have you introduced them to it i wonder you know it has been very natural it's not is i agree with you 100 i don't think it's something you're forced because i i think for anybody right if you force something to a child if you force something to an adult like
you don't want anyone forcing you anything i think it's it's i think force is never the way i think the example is always the way so for example my kids i have a picture is so funny of my daughter when i was because i was practicing yoga obviously with my kids when they were in the belly and when they were babies i have this funny picture my sister
actually took it i was so happy she was there i was doing you know i was just practicing meditation my little my daughter came she was like crawling she came into the same position as me i mean she was less than a year old so it's just how they witness or like i'm sitting in meditation just in silence and my kids will wake up and
go sit in my lap like they know because they've seen this for all their life right and they don't say anything they just come and they sit or next to me or on top of me and then they just stay there sometimes they stay for five minutes ten minutes i don't know sometimes you know they just kind of come on their own time and um
and i think that's how has always been you know or sometimes you know they see me like doing my asanas and they come and they want to do it with me they usually don't stay around for a long time you know they never complete the the practice but they're always you know not always but i would say a lot of times there was exposed to it and they will
come and do it as they please like i said sometimes they will come and sit for 10 minutes sometimes for one minute sometimes they will do three hours on us and they leave you know so it's it's just and then it's just part of their life and then whenever they're ready and they feel they want to do more then i'll be very happy to do it with them but it's
but it's not something that i you know it's just something that is around their life and they're used to seeing and they walk in and out of it let's say it that way yeah well what i love is that recently uh you're giving everyone the opportunity to meditate with you because you've created this beautiful series with insight timer you
partnered with the app to create these meditation sessions so now you don't have to be your kid or or your husband to meditate with you everyone gets an opportunity to meditate with you which is really special tell us a bit about why you felt now is the time for you to create some of these recordings and meditation so
that people can meditate along with you what was it about them tell us about the themes and what you hope people are going to get out of them you know i like i said you know meditation has been um really a a very very important tool in my life and has brought so much uh so much like i can't even explain you know has given my life back in so many ways right
from depression and anxiety to to having this appreciation and this and just this life that i have today i don't think it would have happened without these tools and and i feel and i wanted to share that especially when you know we were this is what we just experienced this past year is is you know it's like i it's not something that
none of us were prepared for we can be prepared for is and you know unprecedent like we never experienced something like this before and all i wanted so much was to was to share some love and and to and to try my best to and what it is like you know i anything that helps me i always want to share with people that i love like you know i
want to share with my sisters i want to share with my friends and and i feel like meditation it was such a powerful tutu that transformed my life more than anything else and i felt how can i share this with as many people as possible and i and i chose in the whole idea with inside timers because it was a free pla it was for free right so
everyone could access it and i was like but it was also a you know it was also a challenge for me in some ways because i was coming from this deep desire of how can i share but i usually meditate in silence right i just use i have used inside timer for years just a bustle you know and then i usually like to choose the monks the sound of
monks or the sounds of nature but then i just use the timer and everybody had done a guided meditations but then my friend said said gisele you know you always meditate why don't you do that and they this opportunity came up and i say well i'll try and then my first one was hope in times of uncertainty because that's
exactly how i felt that we were living i said and i feel like hope is is the most important is the spark of life that can never die that's what pushes us forward that's what keeps guiding us to to to create and to be the creative beings that we are so hope is essential like so i the first one was hope in times of uncertainty and it was just about
i just started writing about how i felt about hope you know and and what i wanted what i you know it was just about how can i share this this feeling how can i send my love out and and maybe this will make someone who's feeling alone and who is not feeling hopeful to feel love and to feel hoping to feel connected so it came from that place
of wanting to share to to to to just help in any way that i could and i felt like i couldn't see quite frankly any other way to to help so i thought maybe i'll try this and so so i did that meditation and then i did one for children which was actually very helpful to me because my daughter she's going through this phase where she's afraid of the dark so
she never can sleep in her room alone she shows up in my my bed like four times a night to the point that now she's my roommate she's sleeping in my bed because i'm like i just need to sleep but i was actually i created the meditation um for kids and and when she's afraid like initially when she starts in her bed i put it for her
and when i leave it she listens to the voice and is very suiting so she falls asleep so he actually has been working for me because then i can leave the room and i can just put the meditation and i go back like 10 minutes later and she's like and she's sleeping right i mean she still wakes up sometimes in the middle of the night but
but at least she falls asleep you know instead of like two hours getting her to sleep became like 10 minutes so it was helpful so i i just i just kind of he was very intuitive you know whatever i felt like oh i want to write about this or i feel like at this moment it was just very like it just kind of came up and then i thought i'll
do a meditation you know like now my next one that i'm gonna do is gonna call um i want to do one about stress and anxiety because i feel like that's really present right now in the collective i think that's a lot of people are going through a lot of you know um a lot of a lot of stress in so many ways you know and and
so my next one i already start writing it is going to be about you know how my take on how i can i can um hopefully alleviate that in some way that's my intention at least i hope it it works so that's beautiful i'm sure it will work i mean it sounds so wonderful and and i love hearing about it and you know after this i'm going to go
straight on and listen in and i can't wait for the new one to come out as well there's already i believe you've already recorded five up there and there's more coming out yeah there's already plenty of uh incredible recordings you've done and yeah i can't wait to listen to that one and you know i know that you recently also hosted a um hour-long live stream
about starting a meditation routine and one of the most amazing things i saw and that live stream was on insight time of the app and i when i i've had a meditation routine now for probably around it's been about 16 years now that i've had a meditation routine and it's been one of the biggest the best commitments of my life
and also last year i saw so many people starting a meditation routine during the pandemic to help them cope tell us a bit about how you recommend it to people how to start a meditation routine and also i guess the good thing is that your meditations on insight timer can be a part of people's routines as well they can listen to them at the beginning of the
day at the end of the day whenever they need it so yeah tell us a bit about how to start a routine for me personally you know like i said like i like to do my routine early in the morning when i know i'm not going to be interrupted when everyone is at sleep because i know for sure there's going to be no dogs barking no kids scream you know nothing
is going to take that that moment of silence because i think especially as you start silent to be in a silent space it's it's it is helpful right meant to be in a place so so um but but i love the inside timer and even the different types of meditations i created like for example hope in times of uncertainty you can listen
to any time but i did one that is reflections like before going to sleep so it was more focusing on people they were having they were tossing and turning in bed and they were having a hard time sleeping that was more focused for that and then i did a morning meditation which was more about you know starting your day with the
sense of like let's go get it right the state of gratitude and presence and so each of them had a different focus but inside timer doesn't have just the meditations i created the great thing about them they have so many different types of meditations for people who enjoy having a guided meditation which i do think is very helpful for someone who has
agreed the monkey mind you know i think when you are you know you know a lot about the monkey line too right he's like we we all have it so i think when when you have the monkey mind all the time and especially in the times you know we are overload with information and this information right now i think it's hard to shut off the mind so
i would suggest finding a time during the day i would suggest the same time every day like everything in life right if you can create like a i'm big on schedules because i feel like when i have a schedule it's like this is what's happening at this time at this time at this time i feel like i can get a lot more in and i feel like it gets organized within
the schedule there is flexibility but it's nice to kind of visualize and write it down and organize it okay at this time is the best time because then you also give yourself better chance of succeeding right because you know like for myself i know that the best time for me to be early in the morning because that's in my life what works
best but i think every person um has a different lifestyle so i think it's about really being honest with yourself and when you are writing down your schedule of your day to figure it out what's the best time for you and then i would suggest to do it at the same time every day and i think um you know if you can start with a guided
meditation and once you feel very comfortable with that um you can you know like i really enjoy just sounds of nature or you know just put a timer uh so you know that you know that for the next 10 15 20 30 minutes however much time you you you decide you're gonna do and i don't think there's any right or wrong you know how much time you do it i think
the longer you do it the more benefits you will feel you know but i think more important than the length is the consistency i would say yes yes because i say it's more about it's like you brush your teeth every day right it doesn't work if you brush your teeth 10 times tomorrow but if you didn't brush it for like 10 days i mean
imagine the situation of your teeth so it's kind of like the same thing it's like it's like if you don't sleep every night you don't get to recharge and i think in the same way i see meditation it's almost like the same benefits that sleep gives to your body which is allowing it to rest in your mind and to recharge meditation best for your brain for your
spirit it allows it to like release all that chatter and and and and i think that's what um the bet you know that's it's as important as sleeping it's as important as eating i mean to me it is and i feel like when you find you know that's why i'm doing it for almost 20 years and i think that um if people commit to it they will
pretty soon find out the same thing that you and i have found out about the power of meditation you know i love that that's such great advice i love what you said about consistency uh versus the idea of lent the idea of doing it at the same time every day and for anyone who's listening or watching and of course wants to go and listen to those
meditations right now you can go and download insight timer and and take the experience for yourself and i always said that to everyone you have to experiment you have to try it out like you won't know until you do it and for people who've been meditating for many many years it's because someone made us try it and experiment with it and that's why
it's become a part of our lives so you've been so generous and kind with your time today i'm so glad we got to steal you away from your family and and your children and everyone else but we're gonna end with our final five which is our rapid fire fast five round so every question has to be answered in one word or one sentence maximum that's it okay
one word in one sentence let me try that okay yes all right are you ready giza this is your final five all right okay what is the best advice you've ever received don't take things personal ah that's really good i like that what is the worst advice you've ever received oh my god you blocked it out i probably blocked it out i don't know
what's the worst advice i guess i didn't listen to it i was like no i'm not gonna listen i'm not gonna remember that's not worth it i love it question number three uh what is your current purpose how would you define your current purpose in life to be the best version of myself i love that all right question number four what's
something that you're trying to learn right now everything uh whatever comes my way no i'm trying to learn how to the most impactful and fastest way to regenerate our planet yeah i love seeing you share about that i'm excited to see what you uncover uh fifth and final question if you could create one law that everyone in the world had to
follow what would it be when you give is when you receive i i want to say like how can i say this the best way it's like when we can give from like this place of our open heart right i know it's one word but it's hard to say that it's i guess in one word it's giving is really receiving right it's like i think the more like
the joy that comes from giving is the gift right it's the biggest gift so when we can that was not one word well it's like one word no it doesn't need to be one word that's right there was just one one law if everyone had to do one law so you were right that it doesn't have to be one word one sentence fine discovering that the receiving isn't
giving right like does that make sense like i want to say like giving is is the actual gift is when we can just give from our hearts the joy that comes from that it's the most is the biggest gift we actually give ourselves i feel it makes perfect sense it makes perfect sense and that would be that would be an amazing amazing lore
giselle you've been so wonderful and gracious again with your time and i literally your your energy is infectious like through the screen i'm like it's so contagious i feel like i feel like there's no way i can't not love the environment now there's no way that i can not meditate you've removed all excuses and i love seeing you po i saw you post on
instagram the other day about how your you and your children rescued a baby hummingbird and and it was just so beautiful to see like i love what you share and i'm just so grateful that you exist and i'm so happy that you share so openly and abundantly with the world your your energy and what you're sharing with your children so
thank you so much i i appreciate you and your time so much thank you jay and i appreciate you and all you do thank you so much and have a beautiful day lots of love to you and um lots of love to everyone listening and i hope you all uh try meditation if you haven't yet thank you gisele thank you so much i want to thank you when you get
when you came on my podcast last time we were just we were very early days and i wanted you know this was such a wonderful connection so i look forward to seeing you again and giving you a big hug too uh give my love to the family yes and i wanna know when you guys are doing planning a growing family please it's gonna you guys gonna have the best
babies we're coming for tips we're coming for tips bye take care if you want even more videos just like this one make sure you subscribe and click on the boxes over here i'm also excited to let you know that you can now get my book think like a monk from think like a monkbook.com check below in the description to make sure you order today