Monkey mind getting the better of you? Check out this short podcast on why that may be the case… And also what you can do it about it – Both in the short and long term.
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(00:02 – 01:21) Introduction to the Podcast
(01:22 – 04:19) The Mind and Body are NOT separate (How Trauma Contributes to the Monkey Mind)
(04:20 – 06:23) The Soul Star Chakra & How This Relates to the Mind-Body
(06:24 – 08:21) How Consciousness Gets “Stuck” in your Head
(08:22 – 09:33) How Purification & Healing have Deepened My Meditations
(09:34 – 10:56) What you can do to get out of your head (short & long term)
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Overview
In the latest episode of the Awakened Living podcast, hosted by Robbie J. Bone, the discussion centers around the theme “How to Not Get Stuck in Your Head” during meditation, originally created for Insight Timer. Robbie explores the interconnectedness of the mind and body, highlighting how trauma and emotional blocks can hinder deeper meditation experiences. He delves into the esoteric aspects of consciousness, particularly the role of the Soul Star chakra in facilitating energy flow. Addressing obstacles to embodied meditation, Robbie shares personal insights from his journey of emotional purification that allowed him to access deeper states of consciousness. To aid listeners, he offers practical solutions, including body-centered practices such as stretching, yoga, and deep breathing to prepare for meditation. The episode encourages engagement through subscriptions, likes, and feedback, while also promoting Robbie’s guided meditations available on Insight Timer, emphasizing the value of an integrated approach to meditation.
Notes
️ Introduction to the Topic (00:02 – 01:21)
- Robbie J. Bone hosts the Awakened Living podcast
- This episode is a talk originally created for Insight Timer
- The topic focuses on why people get stuck in their head during meditation
- Request for listeners to subscribe, like, and comment on the podcast
Understanding Mind-Body Connection (01:22 – 04:19)
- Common complaint: Getting stuck in head during meditation often prevents deeper practice
- Trauma and pain exist not just in physical body but also emotional and mental bodies
- The mind is not separate from the physical body but infused throughout
- Mind and body are interwoven systems, different but not separate
- Comparison: blood and veins are distinct but unified within the body
Esoteric Perspective on Consciousness (04:20 – 06:23)
- Discussion of the eight chakras, including the Soul Star chakra (12 inches above head)
- Soul Star chakra is an expression of higher self and soul
- Light from Soul Star descends through crown chakra and down through all chakras
- Ideally, light flows freely through central channel to feet in an integrated energy system
- Trauma, limiting beliefs, and negativity create blockages in this energy flow
Obstacles to Embodied Meditation (06:24 – 08:21)
- Consciousness gets stuck in upper centers due to energetic blockages
- Modern lifestyle is head-focused (heavy use of eyes, ears, mouth)
- Trauma, emotional stagnation, and limiting beliefs prevent full embodiment
- Purification and emotional release are necessary to access deeper meditative states
- Deeper meditation requires sinking into the heart and body
Personal Experience and Growth (08:22 – 09:33)
- Robbie shares personal struggle with getting out of head during meditation
- Went through phase of deep emotional purification to release past traumas
- After purification, found greater ease in accessing deeper meditative states
- Altered states of consciousness became accessible (joy, bliss, love, peace)
- These states are available to everyone with effort and discipline
️ Practical Solutions (09:34 – 10:56)
- Get into your body before meditation: stretching, yoga, qigong, tai chi
- Try body shaking, qigong tapping for 5 minutes before meditation
- Deep breathing helps clear mental body and allows deeper meditation
- Begin healing work and energy clearing
- Robbie offers guided processes for energy clearing on Insight Timer
Transcript – How To Stop Your Monkey Mind | How To Meditate
Hey everyone, welcome today’s episode of the Awakened Living podcast. I’m your host, Robbie J. Bone, and today’s episode is actually an A talk I did for Insight Timer. I am a teacher on Insight Timer and I have a variety of guided meditations and tracks on there which I highly encourage you to check out. And this is just a simple talk I did for Insight Timer. I thought going to throw it on my podcast because it has a lot of great information about meditation, about getting out of your head and into your body, and I think it’ll give you a fresh perspective on what it means to be stuck in your head. So enjoy. Please leave me a comment, subscribe, give a Like it makes a huge difference for this podcast and it would mean so much to me to receive your support.
So have a beautiful blessed day. May this information touch you and inspire you in beautiful ways. Thank you so much. Welcome everyone. Robby J. Bone here. Today we’re talking about why people get stuck in their head when they meditate and why you may be getting stuck in your head when you meditate. Now this is a common complaint and problem that many people face, especially early on in their meditation practice, which sadly can prevent many people from going deeper into the practice. You may have noticed that you’re always stuck in your head when you meditate, and you may have noticed that at some moments it’s more intense than others. So we’re going to talk about all that today and I’d like to share from my own experience with my own meditation practice as well as experiencing other people in my life.
I have many friends and family members who also meditate regularly and we all encounter this problem and it comes and goes. I’ve also taught many people how to meditate and of course, especially when someone’s new to it, they find that their monkey mind is bouncing around all the time and it can be a fairly unpleasant experience. So that said, you know, listen with open ears and an open heart and that which resonates, take it, that’s for you. And if something doesn’t resonate, then it’s not for you. So that being said, the primary reason I found beyond the mundane, of course, is that there’s trauma and pain in your body and not just in your physical body, in your emotional body and your mental body, because the mind is actually not separate from your physical body.
Unfortunately, in our world today, many people just assume that their mind and their mental body is in their head and. And that’s not true at all. Your mind is infused into Your aura and your mind is overlaid with your entire physical body. So unless you’re dead, you actually can’t separate your mind from your body. They are interwoven. They are. They are not separate. They are different. They’re different systems. However, they’re not separate. Similar to the blood and the veins. Right. If you think about your blood and your veins, they’re not separate. They’re one, you know, unified force of your being and your body. And yet they’re also distinctly different. You know, the blood is not the veins, and the veins aren’t the blood. Your mind is not your body, and your body is not your mind, but they are interwoven and interlaced.
So we’re sharing these esoteric blueprints with you to help you understand more deeply what’s really going on here when we say the mind and the mental. So there’s another esoteric teaching which is helpful to realize, which is that you have the seven chakras, which I’m sure you’re familiar with, and you have an eighth chakra. And the eighth chakra is called the Soul Star chakra. And it’s about 12 inches off the crown of your head. So it’s actually up above. It’s out of body. And the Soul Star chakra is an expression of your soul and your higher self. And it’s like this beautiful star or sun that shines above your head. I actually have a meditation about this. If you wish to connect deeper with it, you can see it on my Insight Timer tracks.
That being said, the light of your soul descends from the heavens. The light of your soul descends from this Soul Star and above as well. That said, it. It shines down into the crown of your head, which is why the crown is pointed upward and open like a beautiful flower. And the light, like. Like rays of light shine down through your head, through all the chakras. And ideally, in a tonified and integrated energy system, that light can shine clearly through each chakra through the central channel down to your feet. Now, that’s how we’re designed. That said, it’s. It’s fairly rare for someone to actually have attained that level of purification and clarity within their system.
That said, what happens is that the more trauma and limiting beliefs and negativity and fracture within the system and disassociation within the system, the less that light of the soul and light of consciousness can shine within your being and the more you get stuck in your head. So there’s literally energetic kinks and blockages within the system that prevent one’s awareness and consciousness, which are actually different, which perhaps we’ll do a talk on that at another point. That said, you know, your consciousness and your awareness gets stuck in this upper center. Of course we’re also very head focused. We, we use our eyes so much and we sit and just are using our eyes and our ears and our mouth a lot. And we’re not always in our body.
So all that being said, what stops us from being in our body is the trauma and pain and emotional stagnation and stuck emotions and the beliefs and stories we have about those emot. If you want to deepen your meditation practice, if you want to access deeper levels of consciousness and stillness and peace, it’s very important that you begin to purify, begin to release your emotions that are stuck, begin to work through your trauma, begin to heal your physical, emotional, mental being. And you will be able to go deeper and deeper. Because actually the deeper you go into your being, right? Like the deeper into meditation you sink deeper into meditation, you sink deeper into the heart, deeper into your body. Okay? And when that happens, you’re deeper in your meditation.
So what this means is that if there’s a bunch of pain and suffering inside of you, it’s going to keep pushing you up and out of your body because it has a built in mechanism to protect itself and you have a built in mechanism to not want to go there. That’s why it’s there and it’s uncomfortable. So when I started to meditate, I, I had a very hard time getting out of my head. And I still do sometimes, to be honest, because we live in a very mental world. That said, when I first started, I had trouble and then I went through a phase of really deep emotional purification where I began to deeply purify my system of past traumas and emotions.
And after that phase I was able to go much deeper, much quicker, much easier into my meditation and find states of altered consciousness that were very, that are very joyful and blissful and loving and peaceful and equanimous, which when you tap into that, you’re like, man, meditation is awesome. Like it is great. So that is accessible to you and every single human being. It just requires effort and discipline similar to a healthy, fit body is accessible to pretty much every single human being if they put in the effort and discipline. So the effort and discipline in this case is continuing to practice and purify, you know, the past. Now a few simple things that you can do right now to just support your daily meditation to sink deeper is get into your body before you meditate. So what does that look like?
Do some stretches, do some yoga, qigong, tai chi, even just shaking your body, doing some qigong tapping. You can find a lot of resources on YouTube where you just five minutes of tapping your body, activating your body, doing some deep breathing, shaking, putting on some nice music and just shaking your body up and down. And that will bring you into your body, it will cleanse your mind and your mental body and allow you to sink deeper more quickly. Now another thing you can start doing is start doing some healing work and energy clearing with your system. I actually have a variety of guided processes on my insight timer in the tracks of energy clearings. So all you have to do is search energy clearing on there and you can find some amazing resources to get started.
So I hope this was helpful. If it was, please let me know if you have more questions, please let me know because your questions inspire me to make more talks like this. So thank you so much and have a beautiful day and meditation.
