#844: Be Still — Guided Meditation with Zen Master Henry Shukman

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. This episode is a brand new experiment called Meditation Monday. That means in addition to my long form interviews each week, every Monday, I will be bringing you a short ten minute or so meditation, which which will help you for the rest of the week. Over this four episode series, you'll develop a Zen toolkit specifically to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life. The teacher, Henry Shookman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few dozen masters in the world authorized to teach what is called Sambo Zen, and I have found this particularly interesting and effective. And now he'll be your teacher. I've been using Henry's app, The Way, once, often twice a day, and it has lowered my anxiety more than I thought possible. As a listener of the show, you yourself can get 30 free sessions by visiting thewayapp.com/tim. So if you like what you hear in these meditations, which will be valuable in and of themselves, you can get 30 free sessions by going to thewayapp.com/tim. And for the time being, please enjoy this meditation Monday with Henry Shookman. Hello, and welcome to this meditation with me, Henry Shookman. I'm really delighted and honored and quite humbled to be offering this to you. This is the first of a little set of four meditations, and it's designed to help you find a moment of peace in the midst of a busy day, or possibly at the end of a long tiring day, or before your day starts. Anytime you feel a little intervention to help your nervous system would be a good thing for you. So we're just gonna do a simple body scan, basically, which grounds us, centers us, brings us back into the heart of our own being, which then helps us to function, and perform better in the course of our day with more peace and a better regulated nervous system. So come into any comfortable seated position. If you wanna recline, no problem. Lie down. If that's available to you, that's also just fine. I'm gonna assume that you're sitting in the guidance that I offer. So just get comfortable. Close your eyes or lower your gaze. Let your hands rest in your lap or on your thighs or perhaps by your side. We're gonna start with a little very short poem just to bring us in. Only be still. Only be still. It doesn't matter where you've come from. It doesn't even matter where you think you want to go. For now, all that matters is your being still. Whatever catastrophe or grief or yearning or hope or promise has brought you here, to this very seat, just now, put them aside, Set them aside. For now, all that matters is your being still. So let your body …