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welcome to the a to z english podcast my name is jack and i'm here with my co -host social and today we're going to do a topic talk and social why don't you introduce this topic this is this is going to be really interesting and it's probably going to be a continuous thing for the next several months.
So why don't you tell us about that?
M -I -D -I dot com Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast.
My name is Jack and I'm here with my co -host Sochal.
And today we're going to do a topic talk.
And Sochal, why don't you introduce this topic?
Because this is where we can try doing different things for a week, like doing yoga for a week or morning meditation for a week or eating vegan food for a week.
All kinds of stuff like that, I think mostly in the vein of self -improvement.
yeah which is an interesting thing and um i think it'll give us some cool perspective and some new stuff and new vocabulary to talk about on the podcast like if we're talking about morning meditation we'll have a lot of new vocabulary to share with you guys around meditation and our experiences or if we're
doing like vegan or plant -based food for a week we'll have a lot of um vocabulary for you guys around those experiences so i think it's cool for the podcast because it allows us to share kind of vocabulary and situations that might be a little bit different from the norm or what we usually do or what other
podcasts usually cover so it gives you guys like it helps these are great so what are you thinking for next week like what do you want to do this week um I think it depends I know Jack was on a special diet so yeah I'm eating like 600 calories a day something like that's so bad I don't know how you
even handle that but um are you still on your diet or are you quitting diet no no I'm still on I'm going strong I've lost like I think I've lost maybe seven or eight kilograms so wow that's a lot I mean you're basically starving yourself so I mean you are starving yourself so it makes sense but yeah
yeah it's like all muscle mass that he's eating destroying your metabolism anyway I'll I'll leave you alone on that but I'm not doing it the right way that is true yeah I am bullying Jack a lot but so I think it's interesting actually so that's what I think is so cool about this idea and there's there's
so many things we could do I mean you've got uh number one was eat a balanced breakfast for a week which is it sounds simple but you know sometimes we skip breakfast sometimes i eat like just a protein bar or something like that um you said doing yoga i used to do yoga uh regularly but i quit so maybe
this would help me kind of get started and back into the routine again um which would be awesome i used to meditate but um i i quit doing that and uh that would you know could get me back and started doing it again so um i i love these ideas these are these are great so what do you think these are great so what are you
thinking for next week like what do you want to do this week um i think it depends i know jack was on a special diet 600 calories a day that's so bad i don't know how you even handle that but um are you still on your diet or are you quitting diet no no i'm still on i'm going strong i've lost like i
think i've lost maybe seven or eight kilograms so wow that's a lot i mean you're basically starving yourself so i mean you are starving yourself so it makes sense but yeah it's like all muscle mass that he's eating he's destroying your metabolism anyway i'll i'll leave you alone on that but i'm not doing
it the right way that's true yeah i am bullying jack a lot but so i think it's interesting actually because i think these will also give us a chance to compare like american culture with other cultures and so i'm interested like if ours and so i'm interested like if listeners want to do any of the challenges
with us and comment down below or shoot us an email or we check groups and share about their experiences with us i think that'd be really cool because i know some of these things are really different like for eating a balanced breakfast i think that that's a huge part of cultures outside of the u .s
but for the u .s we're like we never eat breakfast i i literally posted on my facebook group asking like what do what do you guys typically eat for breakfast to all my American friends because I'm curious about making like a video.
We're having a podcast episode about that.
And everyone said, I feel like Americans don't eat breakfast.
I don't eat until like 2 p .m.
I skip breakfast. I feel nauseous in the morning, so I don't eat breakfast.
I have coffee and a cigarette.
I have Red Bull and a cigarette.
Don't eat a cigarette that's not healthy.
Yeah. It's so unhealthy.
And it just makes me think like you know I feel like as Americans healthy and it's not just about like the obesity epidemic but I feel like we really struggle with depression um we struggle with a lot of job stress I feel like we struggle with low energy I feel like we have a lot of gastrointestinal
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Interested in finding out what happens, and finding out what happens, But we'll have to save that for another episode because Jack is still on.
I'm going to say, how about we start with yoga?
What do you think about that?
Yeah, I was thinking yoga or meditation.
What do you think? Meditation would be nice.
I feel like meditation.
I was thinking that's like an easy one to step into, like 20 minutes meditation every day for a week.
Yeah, I think that's good.
Let's try that. Let's try morning meditation to kick it off.
What kind of meditation are we talking about?
Because some people say, like, I meditate while I walk, you know, while I'm on the running machine or something like that.
But for me, it's like you have to be sitting patient.
What do you think? Meditation would be nice.
I was thinking that's like an easy one to step into, like 20 minutes meditation every day for a week.
Yeah, I think that's good.
Let's try that. Let's try morning meditation to kick it off.
And what kind of meditation are we talking about?
like um because i because some people say like and then you know i set my timer and uh sometimes do you use like a mantra or whatever like do you do you ever i don't i don't i'm not i'm not too familiar with meditation i don't think i've i've really ever meditated consistently or anything um so jack
you'll have to to be a lead here because i yeah i'm not too familiar with meditation you can look up i i used i did but i can't remember what it was i think it was like um or something like that there's also like positive affirmations you can tell like some people count those as like a type of meditation yeah
um yeah i think i think i'll i'll have to look it up and see um what there's no there's no there's no wrong way to meditate because i i heard deepak chopra the the author he said uh if you're meditating you're doing it right that's basically his you know so you can mantra no mantra just listening to
your breath you know just breathing and and it's it's just about like kind of emptying your your head uh stopping the the the monkey the monkey brain you know what i mean like the the kind of uh you know that go go go, go, go.
Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, especially in the modern world, it's very fast paced and we're always like on the go with thoughts and busy and things we have to do and tasks that are like, just for me, tasks just pop into my head.
Like you gotta do this.
Oh, you almost forgot that.
Oh, you gotta do this.
Oh, you gotta do that.
And he does, it gets very stressful, I would say.
And when you first meditate the first couple of minutes, your brain is just firing.
Like you won't be able to stop having thoughts, but what you want to try to do is focus on the breath and then empty your mind and it takes you know some practice so I think a week of meditation will be really useful I might be in a 10 times better mood come next week so I'm excited about it yeah me
too I think it'll be really good I've seen a lot of purported benefits and I'm excited to see like like what they are, well, how it starts affecting me on a personal level.
And I think we can talk more about it in the meditation episode, but I'm curious about – I feel like meditation is built into a lot of cultures through different ways.
Absolutely, yeah. I feel like in American culture it's like it's been lost on us because I feel like a lot of us maybe were Christian or Catholic, and I feel like prayer is a type of meditation in a way.
Catholics with the rosary beads, the whole point, the point of that is to focus on, to empty your mind by, by rubbing those beads.
It's like, it's pulling your focus away from your brain, you know, your, your mind.
And so allowing you to empty your, yourself and kind of, yeah, I agree with you.
I think you're right.
In Catholicism, quiet contemplation is their word for meditation.
same thing yeah yeah and so i think it's it's a it's a part of a lot of traditional cultures maybe even like religions or just like cultural cultures and so for us in the u .s i feel like it's kind of been lost um yeah and so i'm excited to reconnect because i feel like it might improve my quality of life
so that's definitely what i'm looking forward to how about for you i think all all of these are like life, like improving for improving the quality of life.
I think, I think that's, and I, I would encourage our listeners out there to do the challenge with us.
Like, and, and send us a message.
Let us know how it went.
Like what did a week of meditation do for you?
So we'll talk about it next week.
Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Go ahead, Jack.
Sorry. No, no, no. I'm sorry.
I'm done. Oh, okay.
I was just going to say, yeah, I'm really curious for our listeners.
Let us know what it's like in your culture.
Like, do you meditate?
Is there something similar to meditation in your culture, in your religion?
Let us know in a comment down below at A to Z English podcast .com.
Shoot us an email at A to Z English podcast at gmail .com and shoot us a message on the we chatter WhatsApp group.
We would love to for you guys to follow along with us on this week's challenge, which is a week of meditation and we will see you guys next time.
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