Why Twenty Minutes Twice a Day Can Reset Your Entire Nervous System | Your Soul Wisdom | Ep 196

Nic Monteforte lost everything once, rebuilt from nothing, and then lost it all again three days before the world shut down for COVID. What she found in the wreckage of that second collapse became the foundation of everything she teaches today. Nic spent over two decades helping high performers, emerging leaders and the fiercely ambitious unlock their full potential, and she is the author of How to Calm Down Before You Blow Up and Infinite Capacity. She is also the Vedic meditation teacher of our own Lauren and Rachel, both of whom credit the practice with genuinely changing their lives. In this episode Nic explains what Vedic meditation actually is and how it differs from the concentration and chanting based practices most people have tried and struggled with. She walks through the extraordinary history of the practice, from ancient India through centuries of hiding and protection to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi bringing it to the West in the 1960s, where the Beatles famously learned it. She explains why the practice is twenty minutes twice a day and not a moment longer, what the bija mantra actually is and why it has no fixed meaning, and the color fasting metaphor she uses to describe what the practice does over time. In traditional Indian dyeing, cloth is dipped in color, hung in the sun to fade, then dipped again and faded again, over and over, until the color finally stops fading and holds for good. Nic compares this to the nervous system being dipped into deep rest twice a day until calm becomes the body's permanent resting state rather than something that wears off. Nic also shares her own story honestly and in full, the decade of setbacks, severe hormonal illness, the loss of a quarter billion dollar business, and the second collapse that finally broke her open enough to find this practice. If you have ever tried to meditate and felt like you were failing at it, this conversation will change how you think about that completely. Tell us in the comments whether you have tried meditation before and what your experience was like. Find Nic at nicmonteforte.com or on Instagram @nicmonteforte. Her book Infinite Capacity is available at infinitecapacitybook.com JOIN THE COLLECTIVE MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP: https://yoursoulwisdomshow.com/ Connect with Us: If you are interested in booking a reading, a healing, a guided meditation session, a Lightbody activation or simply just want to say hello, head on over to yoursoulwisdomshow.com Follow us on Instagram:   / yoursoulwisdom   If you love the show, please like, share and comment. It is the best way to support this podcast!