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Creating Luck In Your Life - Yogi Explains

Summary

, 17 min

How gratitude interrupts the threat-hunting prefrontal cortex, which keeps modern people living in imagined fears, and so protects the positive momentum that creates luck. Covers a daily five-minute gratitude list, meditative skills as spiritual treasures that cannot be taken away, and Tad James's airport story of a couple whose jealousy derails their resolve.

In this video

Teaches
GratitudePrefrontal cortexLuck
Discusses
AnxietyTad JamesEnvy
Mentions
HRV ResonanceSitting Very Still (SVS)Freeze ResponseFour Proofs of MeditationParasympathetic nervous systemNavi KriyaLeft amygdalaRight hippocampusRumiSerge Kahili King

Key moments

00:00Thanksgiving: counting our blessings01:27The prefrontal cortex throws you into the future03:09A safe modern world with a brain still hunting threats04:47Callers worried about imaginary future problems05:52Gratitude for HRV, sitting very still and the four proofs08:02Spiritual treasures that cannot be taken away09:18Make a five-minute gratitude list every day10:42Tad James's story: the couple in the flight line12:59A run-amuck prefrontal cortex interrupts your own luck14:11Rumi and Serge King on planting seeds for the future15:08Ask whether the fear is real or just in your head