The Rich Roll Podcast - Up Your Game

Episode Date: June 23, 2016

We’re back with what I like to call a mini-sode. Last week I posted a long-awaited installment of Ask Me Anything — RRP 232. That episode is about an hour in length, but the last several minutes were pretty great — pure gold. I realize not everyone has time to digest all the content I produce. So, in case you skipped it or didn't make it to the end — and because I didn’t want you to miss the best part — I thought I'd make it easy by excerpting the most impactful 7 minutes out of that conversation and repurposing it here as a brief mini-sode experiment. It's all about waking up, getting real and taking responsibility for your path, growth and evolution. It's about resolving imbalance so that you can fulfill your mission. And it's about devoting yourself to something greater than you — because we're not in kindergarten anymore. It's time to up your game. Enjoy the listen. Peace + Plants, Rich

Hey people, so last week I posted a long overdue Ask Me Anything edition of the podcast, RRP232. And that episode was about an hour in length, but the last several minutes near the end were pretty great. Pure gold. So, in case you skipped that episode or didn't make it all the way to the end, and because I realize and understand that not everyone has time to digest all the content that I put out, and because I didn't want you to miss it, I thought I would make it easy for you. Simplify things by excerpting the most impactful seven minutes out of that conversation episode and repurposing it here as a little mini-sode, I guess you could call it. So that's it. A seven-minute blast to hold you over till next week.

Enjoy it and talk to you guys soon. So it's all about yoga. It's all about yoga and meditation. And I think all of the bounty, the fruits of the pain that we've suffered, the hardships that we've gone through, are a result of that commitment. And you've been leading the charge. I'm the sort of know, complaining kid that gets dragged into it and then goes, Oh, why wasn't I

doing this all along? And then I'll relapse and revert back to my old default ways. And then I go, Oh yeah, I felt better when I was doing that. And then I go back in your, you're like a constant. And this is where we are like the yin and the yang because you're, you're the one who's always been, you've never wavered in that commitment. You're very, you know, your, your curve does not go up and down that much. It's pretty constant, right? You're able to hold that space. And that's a unique, I think that might be, uh, your most profound talent is your just consistency with this. I'm less consistent. And I'm, and it's that thing where knowledge will avail you nothing. It's like, I know what's right for me. Sometimes

I struggle with getting into that place of doing it consistently, but it's always drawing me back. And I think giving myself like not flogging myself and beating myself up for not being perfect or as consistent as you has been a struggle that, you know, I've been constantly, you know, trying to overcome to get to a place where I can be okay with myself, but also aspire and work harder towards that level of consistent practice. Well, I think, you know, I think along with, yeah, not beating yourself up and not being judgmental, there also comes a responsibility because, you know, at a certain level, when you've reached a certain level of maturity, you know, it's time to stand up and take responsibility basically. So I'm not, I'm less, I'm, I'm less in the energy of, oh yeah,

you know, um, it's okay to, to, uh okay to waver a bunch. It's like you- I'm not saying that. Yeah, but you have enough experience now and it's kind of like for all of us, and this is like a planetary thing right now. I mean, the game is getting amplified up. You're going to start to see everything get like a kind of more intense, more amplified. And spiritual practice is required of us. It's not a choice. It's not like a pastime or a hobby or a cute little idea of taking a picture of meditating. It is a necessity to be able to fulfill your mission. And I'm talking for all of us. It is a necessity to fulfill your mission. So if you don't know who you are, start practicing yoga so you can find out who you are, because we need you to be all of who you are,

everything that you were created in your divine blueprint. We all need you. We're waiting for you. We're waiting for you to come online so you can join us. So yeah, now things are getting a little bit more intense. Now it's like, no, you need to make a decision and you need to devote yourself to something greater than yourself. And one of the things in Jaya Yoga practice that I designed in there is the first thing we do is lie down in pranam, meaning lie down on the floor and offer your life over to something greater than you are because we're just not in kindergarten anymore.

You saw the mass shootings in Orlando this week. This world is not all unicorns and rainbows. It's just not all happening. I wish it was, but it's just not. So how do we manage? How do we maintain our light? How do we maintain our mission and keep our energy, you know, balanced and in a good place so that we don't get sick. We don't get disease. I mean, all this, all this going up and down and the extremes, it's hard on your body.

It's hard on your system. So it's affecting you physically. It's affecting you spiritually. And also it's affecting the environment because other people are receiving any imbalance that you're throwing off. And so again, it comes to us understanding that we are spiritual beings having a human experience and the spiritual practice is essential, right? Especially right now, especially right now. And so thoughts are things and emotions are things and our inner space

affects people around us. So it's not just about your own experience. It's about the greater experience. And so I'm going to be speaking up and sort of requiring and calling for and holding the space that we all up our game a little bit. I'm upping mine. So I'm not staying in this place. I'm going to another level. So my spiritual practice is heightened right now. You know, I have, it is very, very in the forefront of what my life is. And I'm sharing that on my podcast, Divine Throughline, and amazingly getting the most extraordinary letters from people all over the world

who are having real human life experience happen to them. You know, and I'm honored to be able to hold space for them and speak to those type of issues. But I feel like we've hit a tipping point. I feel like, you know, it's kind of a different game now, and we're all being required to step up and, you know, take action and make a commitment on a lot of those things that we've known for a while, you know, are kind of in the field, but we haven't really taken responsibility to step into them. Everybody has those things. Everybody has something that's in their blind spot

or that they're sort of semi-consciously aware they need to deal with. Yeah, and it's your life. This is your life right now. You don't know if you're going to be alive tomorrow. So what are you waiting for? I think that's a good place to close it down for the day. Okay. Thanks for having me on.

The powerful Julie Pyatt laying down the mad crazy truths at the end. Just got inspired a little bit there. That was fantastic. Thank you. I'm inspired.