Meditation (not to be confused with medication) is the #1 way to reduce blood pressure, clear your mind, and get you on your way to a healthier body. Ron discusses the benefits of practicing meditation daily.

Hear that? That’s right, nothing. I’m going to talk to you today about practicing something brand new, 10,000 years old. Meditating. It is the number one way to effectively reduce your blood pressure. Mayo Clinic says so. It is the number one way to clear your thoughts in your minds, to calm yourself down. It is the number one way to start becoming a healthier person by reducing the amounts of cortisol you shoot into your body when you’re over stressed, which clog your arteries and make your head blow up and I think it makes your toenails fall off, I’m not sure.

But I want you to try this. Once you read this, for the next five days I want you to try this. Sit in a nice comfortable chair. By the way, I’m in China. I don’t know if you noticed that. See? China. I confirmed it. They got the incense, because you don’t have incense in America. China. I want you to just sit back straight, feet flat, hands flat, neck is straight. Quiet part of the house, before everybody gets up.

What you’re going to do is you’re just going to start breathing through your nose. Eyes gently closed. Expand your stomach, contract your stomach. And for ten minutes that’s all you’re going to think about. Expand, contract. Expand, contract. You’re going to breathe and exhale.

Now I’m trying to make this look interesting. On camera it’s a little tough, but I am in China. You’re going to wander away. Your mind’s going to drift. It’s going to go this way, it’s going to go that way. I’ve got to get the kids to here, I’ve got a flat tire in the car. For 10 to 15 minutes it doesn’t matter. There’s nothing you can do about it, so you’re going to breathe. You’re going to breathe in and you’re going to breathe out.

When you get into the rhythm of this, you’ll notice your gaze move along just a little smoother. Just a little calmer, just a little nicer. Your blood pressure will stay down a little bit. You’ll start becoming a more conscious and calm person.

Here’s what a conscious and calm person does when you have two teenage girls, like my director, who are freaking out simultaneously in the morning, you need to have that calm space to just act. Not react. You’re just going to act.

That’s the big difference between people who meditate and the people who don’t meditate. People who don’t meditate overreact. People who meditate just act upon the situation. “Mom, mom, where’s my socks!” “I don’t know, we’ll find them.” “Mom, mom, where’s my socks!” The non-meditator? They blow up, the kid blows up, everyone blows up and everyone’s pissed off.

Just breathe, man. Breathe in, and breathe out. This blog is worth watching again, I would. And remember, we flew all the way to China to do it.