Joe Rogan & Tom Papa on Transcendental Meditation

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Tom Papa

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Comedian and writer Tom Papa is the host of the popular podcast "Breaking Bread with Tom Papa", and the co-host, along with Fortune Feimster, of the Netflix radio program "What a Joke with Papa and Fortune." It can be heard daily on Sirius XM.

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You only I really firmly believe you only have so much bandwidth in a day And this is coming from a person who pushes their bandwidth too hard all the time I think you only have so much in a day and when you get to a certain state You wind up diminishing a lot And then I think you want to diminishing a lot of the all the other things that you do like if you if you have like Seven things cooking in the background on your phone. It's not gonna move as fast right legily actually does worth it Some computers, but you people do that too you have too many things cooking at the same time Yeah, we all do all the time all the time and then you take 20 minutes of transcendental meditation and take your nervous system and put it on Restart and just let it wash out. Are you hypnotizing me bro? This thing in your hands freaking me out Let it wash out 20 minutes. Okay, because we're all under that all the time a hundred percent Frasal no matter how hard you're pushing or just coasting Three o'clock in the afternoon two o'clock in the afternoon four o'clock in the afternoon that nervous system shot, right? We're all the same. How do you do 20 minutes? What do you do? talk me through you take your nervous system and it's the result of it is you come out and you've rebooted the system and You can now Have a good part of the second part of your day. Do you have a technique used to use an app? Do you know I went to I I went to a transcendental meditation teacher and in without the hippie dippy That's the biggest part of it. It literally makes you realize just what you said We're all just frazzled and running out of steam at a certain point. Yeah, your nervous system is shot all that stuff that's happened just between Seven o'clock and three o'clock whatever would happen your that nervous system has been dealing with a ton of stimulus all day long that meditation Gives you a reboot and you can't it it's it's like a needed thing that's better than sleep that You that you're it actually yearns for hmm, I'm telling you since I really started dialing it in and and did it it It uh, the best way I can describe it is that it added another four hours to my day. Whoa. Yeah How so? Because I would just be limping across the finish line. I'd be exhausted I'd be trying to do and with motivation and I work really hard. I would push through and Get to maybe you know two hours more of what I needed to accomplish when you do this effortlessly without Struggle. I'm able to just sail like I did between nine and twelve that day really. Yes 100% do you think by using this practice you're alleviating tension? So you're more efficient with your energy like what makes you that's part of it But it really is it really is taking this nervous system that is dealing with the outside world all the time Mm-hmm and just giving it a real practical way to shut down Flatline and then come back on the grid. Yeah Yeah and it it Like your physical body needs a rest your things need to be rebooted Your nervous system is kind of this thing that operates all the time that we're not really that conscious of we're not really that aware that how hard it's working and this is a way to pay attention to it and give it a chance to Regenerate that's interesting and how long you've been doing this, you know, I meditated for like since college just out of reading books And then probably about three years ago My friend said he always did Transcendental meditation he said go just see if it dials you in It actually the stuff you're doing the way you talk about meditating. It sounds more laborious, it sounds like you're doing too much work Just go talk to this guy and I did for like three four sessions I went and just talked to this guy here in LA who's a transcendental meditation teacher and He just explained it and dialed me in on it and for the last three four years I've been just I haven't missed a day And three or four years yeah day every day seven days seven days no cheat day no cheat day How long no need for you? It's the opposite of what you want from a cheat day It's like 20 minutes where if you can get two in that's the best if you can get one in the morning and one in The afternoon then you're like Superman Wow, but if you can get one in I'm telling you start to finish how long 20 20 minutes 20 and you do this every day every day Every day maybe that makes sense man Because it's one of the things that people remark about you is how easy going you are like that like people said dude I love when Tom poppers on your podcast because it's so easy going like that. You guys gel so well together you flow together. Yeah It's like you're you're tuned in to we're just present together. We're just you know we're both you know yeah You're kind of not struggling right and that's what it teaches you you just cut this is a big roaring river Yeah, and it lets you just kind of go underneath catch your breath and then come back up into it Yeah, do you feel that way when you exercise? Do you feel like when you exercise that you get into like a zone and you reset your brain for sure? I feel less I feel less depressed when I exercise yeah like if I'm in a funk and I'm like And I go for a run. I'm like my days different. Yeah, it's weird It's almost like that funk is trying to hold on to control too. It's weird. Yeah, it's like it's tricking your brain Yeah, do you feel like shit today? I'm like let me just put these goddamn shoes on and go run Yeah, you know you feel so good, but the meditation is different the meditation is like the the run will give me energy I won't feel so shitty. I'm like I'm okay. You know I feel good. I feel alive and whatever But the meditation in a very subtle way five hours later When you're faced with a stressful situation you don't feel as stressed as you normally would yeah Because it's just you're never in your nervous system. Which is very powerful Has been rebooted is now able to go and deal with another situation Hmm you should go see him. Okay? I'll do it. I'll give you the name of the guy. He's a maze I mean, he's not amazing. It's not a guru. It's not the one sperm guy. It is not about him one million Not about a religion. It's not about a people drop of my sperm this guy does will not give you his sperm He's just delivering the message of this little practice. Which is very it's not hippie dippy. It's very Practical practical you can use it. Yeah, that's the best part of it Um would you be would have you tried to tank before the float tank? No, would you be interested in doing it? You know we have one here. You can use it anytime you want I would like I would like to hear what your take on it is yeah, especially yeah Especially if you wanted to practice those techniques in there. Yeah, I think that'd be really interesting It's crazy environment man. That would be great. Yeah, you should do it. I'll do it. Yeah for sure not today. I'm drunk But there's a there's also you know there's a bunch of big places around too There's the float lab down in Venice, and they have one wood at Westwood, and then what's the big place? That's in Pasadena has the biggest one in the world and people like I'm in like a gym Yeah, and go flow. Yeah, you sign up go in there and float I would do it got a giant just float