#121: Enlighten Your English with Meditation
Are you looking to have less anxiety? Improve your general well-being? Who knows, maybe even improve your learning potential?
In this episode we talk about some of the benefits one can get from a simple meditation practice, how meditation has had an effect on our lives, and more importantly, we break some preconceptions people typically have about meditation in general.
Ohmmmmm Yeahhhh!!!!!
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Words You Should Know
- dopealope – very informal expression meaning cool (derived from slang term ‘dope’).
- hula hooping – dance performed by maintaining a circle gyrating around your waist, performed typically by young girls and Justin.
- shooting hoops – term to talk about playing basketball
- Aww yeah! – a RealLife term meaning everything is AWESOME.
- sore – to be experiencing pain an a certain area. Justin’s legs were sore from playing basketball.
- soar – to fly though the air (for a bird), or to be very successful (idiomatic term) >> he is soaring in his new job.
- chill out – to relax, take it easy.
- look within – to reflect about your actions, and what it really means to be a human, or you.
- on and off – sporadically, now and then.
- honk – noise made by a car horn (also used as a verb: to honk)
- bumper – protective barrier surrounding area of a car.
- bumper sticker – adhesive label put on bumper, usually with some kind of funny message or picture.
- honk if you’re horny – common ‘funny message’ which people put on bumper stickers.
- shake someone loose – to break someone’s rigid beliefs with by telling them some impactful information.
- to get stuck – to get contained with no means of freeing yourself. >> my friend got stuck in an elevator for 3 hours.
- transcendental – a place beyond the ordinary range of perception.
- ohm – a noise often made when meditating, believed to be the sound of the universe.
- over and over again – repetitively.
- wandering – to be walking or moving with no real destination.
- shift – to change.
- tune – to change the string tension of a guitar so they are the correct musical notes. >> Man, that guitar sounds horrible, you should tune that thing.
- get into the zone – to enter into a state of consciousness where you become much more productive
- kick some butt – to do a really good job, or to beat someone in a game or competition. >> He is kicking some butt at work! (he’s doing a good job)
- you snooze you lose – to say that if you wait to long, you will miss the opportunity.
- flow state – the state of getting into the zone (see above).
- pioneer – to be one of the first to do something.
- trigger – an initial event that causes another series of events.
- porridge – a wheat based mix eaten for breakfast, known as oatmeal in American English.
- ping – noise made when messaging people. This has now become a verb. >> If you want to meet up just ping me after work.
- enlightened – to have reached a transcended state of consciousness.
- man crush – a non romantic affection from one man to another.
- bromance – when two male friends are so close they act in a nearly romantic way.
- rat race – term used to talk about the way humans act, working all day, not spending time on things they like.
- distain – to change color, to stain.
- break loose – to free yourself literally, or from certain ideologies or conditioning you may have.
- grease the wheel – to lubricate in order to make something flow much easier.
- douchebag – a very arrogant and/or ignorant person (generally a man).
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Thanks mate! this could be very helpful to everyone especially to those individuals who are starting to learn and proper subjectives to every sentences
Glad it was useful Kelly! Thanks for listening and sharing your thoughts.
A genuinely enlightening episode guys, thanks for talking about this subject. I downloaded the Headspace app as a result and I’m now using the paid version (which is a great motivation to do some meditation every day!). I’ve just started the level 2 part and they mentioned how meditation can help us relate better to others, which was one of the reasons I started. I want to be less reactive – not that angry person stuck in traffic. Lol! Thanks again.
Hey Cara, I really appreciate your nice words, and that’s so cool that you’re getting into meditation. I want to recommend another cool meditation app that I started using recently called Insight Timer. Way to go with your meditation and keep up the great work!
Hey Cara, I really appreciate your nice words, and that’s so cool that you’re getting into meditation. I want to recommend another cool meditation app that I started using recently called Insight Timer. Way to go with your meditation and keep up the great work!