Talk : How To Become A Meditation Guide

This is a recording of an IT Live I did in July 2021 on how you can become a meditation guide on Insight Timer. In this live session, I take you back in time and share my journey of how I became a meditation guide on the app, kind of by accident. If you have a message to share, this app offers a special place to make a difference in the world.

Transcript

Hi everybody,

I'm Tom Evans and this is a recording I did on 23rd of July 2021 on how to become a meditation guide.

And this is very specifically for people who want to be a meditation guide on Insight Timer.

Fabulous app www.

Insighttimer.

Com.

This session,

Unlike other sessions I've done,

Is going to be very light on meditation.

I'm hoping that what I do at the end is get a suggestion from you and I literally make a meditation up on the fly using some of the techniques I'm going to share with you.

So hi Halka,

You're in Bhaal now,

I think that's how you pronounce it,

Which is great,

Good to see you.

Yeah,

So we're going to share with you a bit of background really,

How I ended up doing this stuff in the first place.

Hi,

Very excited.

So am I,

I've never done this sort of thing before.

I've never actually told people the story about how I'm here and doing this right now.

And so I'm going to go right back 12 years to kick this off while everyone gets it,

Just to tell you what happened,

How this guy who,

I've never been trained in meditation by the way,

So I've not done the classic mindfulness training whatsoever.

And like many people on Insight Timer,

We all had different journeys to get where we've got.

My journey started when I wrote a book by accident about 14 years ago.

And then people started to approach me saying,

Could I help them write a book?

And so as a kind of useful chap,

I became an author's mentor.

And I thought,

I really need a book that supports the work I'm doing now.

So I didn't have any skills at all in mentoring and coaching.

I'm an engineer,

I come from a high tech background.

So I went and studied a bit of NLP.

I studied some hypnotherapy.

So I learned this thing called hypnotic language,

Which I'll talk about a bit later on.

And I learned past life progression.

And I became really,

Really good at getting people that were stuck creatively unstuck.

Every single case of writer's block I came across was actually a life block masquerading as a writer's block.

So I wrote a book,

I wrote this book called Blocks.

Funny enough,

It's out of print now,

The contract ran out last year.

So if anyone wants a copy of it,

Just get in touch and I'll send you a PDF of it,

That's fine.

And but I thought rather than explaining how to get out of blocks,

Because I've done a bit of the therapy training,

I put some meditations with it so that you actually get you from the state of being unblocked to blocked.

This is 2009,

Remember.

2010,

I published what flavors of thought,

Talks about three different states of mind,

The ethereal state when we're connected with our inspiration,

The unconscious state,

And also then the self-aware mind state.

I put some meditations together with this as well.

In those times,

What you do is you'd have some free meditation,

Someone would buy a book,

They'd come online,

Put their email address in an exchange for getting something free.

And I was just giving the meditations away free for nothing.

And then a year later,

I published this book,

The Art and Science of Lightful Moments.

This is how you get into the state where you have an idea literally off the top of your head.

So I put a load of meditations together with that.

And this is 2010,

So I thought nothing of it at all.

I thought I was an author who happened to have some meditations on the side.

2015,

That all changed when Maddy Gerard of Insight Timer got hold of me and said,

See,

You've got some meditations,

Do you want to upload one to the app?

So I uploaded it.

And by the way,

We might go slightly over the hour today.

I hope that's okay with everybody,

If we do.

And I uploaded it to the app.

And then a month later,

She got in touch and said,

Have you looked at your stats?

Well,

I didn't know that the app had this thing called a back end.

I realized you could upload in this back end.

But I didn't know it had reviews.

I had 6,

000 reviews to my first meditation.

It was called Be Calm.

And they're from the British accent and the fact I don't take things too seriously.

And it was kind of accessible.

And then I just passed the 4 million listens mark about a month or so ago,

Which is just incredible.

And so I morphed from being an author with meditations on the side to being a meditation guide who had never been inside an ashram with books on the side.

And now I've morphed again into being a novelist and a composer.

I'll talk about that a bit later as well.

And what's happened,

And I don't mind sharing this with you,

Is that Insight Timer,

I met the guys from Insight Timer.

They came into the UK some time ago.

They've always wanted Insight Timer to be a place where people that have got really good quality meditations and music and that sort of stuff could share it with the world and their onus is to get the people in,

All you lovely people,

And then you find the guides that you resonate with.

Now it's a bit difficult to find stuff at the moment,

So it's difficult to get started as a guide to come out of the noise floor.

But I'm going to talk about that as well as we go along.

And I've helped loads of people get on the app and get recognition for it.

And very significantly now,

Now they've got a very good database of people,

They're actually sharing some of the revenue.

You know the $60 you pay every year?

That gets divvied up and shared half between Insight Timer themselves because they need to fund themselves to keep going and half between the guides.

And they pay on a per listen basis.

So let's say I get half the listens of another guide,

I'll get half the amount of money for those listens.

They also pay you for the amount of interaction.

So any one of you that leaves a review for me,

You'll get an answer because I get a micro-payment just for giving you that answer.

I don't do it for that reason,

I do it because I love communicating with people.

And you also get paid revenue from your courses.

These are groups of meditations.

But I just got approached this week to do a third course which is going to be out extra special fast.

Because they're launching Insight Timer for business soon.

So the subscriptions are largely to fund the community.

And what's interesting about the Insight Timer,

They don't count themselves as a publisher but I think they're the top publisher of good meditations on the planet.

They don't count themselves as a community.

And loads of you,

I know we interact offline and if anyone wants to get in touch with me I've got a group on Facebook called the Soulways group and stuff like that.

And I interact with everybody.

I love the community as well.

I keep getting called to go and do meditations for other apps and I keep getting tempted.

I went over to this meditation,

What was that called?

Not Khan.

I've forgotten the name of it.

Aura,

Yeah.

And I dabbled with other ones and then I always keep coming back home to Insight Timer and I'm now just completely locked in with Insight Timer.

I'm going to let the other ones kind of fade away.

So I'm going to talk to you about the journey.

If you're interested in doing meditations,

What it is,

What I found by mistake,

By accident,

How I can guide you down this road of becoming a meditation guide.

Now the first thing,

The first thing you must do is,

It's a long journey.

So it's taken me from 2009 when I started recording my first meditation to now.

Now as it happens,

It's also starting to provide a significant income which means I don't have to trade time for money as much as I used to in the past.

And so it's a long term journey.

Don't give up.

You've got to keep going.

And the way it works is the more you give out,

The more you get back.

That's the general principle in the world that we live in anyway right now.

So the more you get out there for free,

The more you get back and you do get paid on Insight Timer and micropayments for your free meditations.

But also I'd recommend everyone at some point puts the course together and there are more things coming as well soon.

The ability to do like one-to-one mentoring sessions,

I hope to be featuring that soon,

And the ability to do one-to-many workshops,

That's coming as well.

So they're coming on in leaps and bounds.

And the technology that we're using now is the same technology that we're using to do broadcasts and this sort of stuff.

Now the way this works,

This is free,

And then they keep saying,

I've got to mention doing donations three times.

I find that really hard.

So if you want to donate today,

That's fine.

But I'm not doing this for the donations.

And I'm going to make a free offer to all of you as well.

If you want to use ambient music in any of your meditations,

Just get in touch through my website and I've got three or four really,

Really good tracks.

I know some of you have used it already like Alka,

Whatever.

I've got three or four really good tracks that seem to work with any voice and what have you.

And I'm very happy for you to provide those to you free of charge to help you get your meditations out there if you want to use background music.

Some people don't.

So hope I'm not going too fast.

Is it all clear so far?

Lovely,

Lovely.

Right.

Okay.

So first thing is when you do this work,

You've got to think about what it is you want to achieve by it.

Now my aim from day one is to awaken people to higher levels of consciousness.

That is my thing.

So to take somebody who is basically self-aware,

Maybe okay in their world but not thriving,

And to awaken nascent aspects of their consciousness.

So all my meditations will have that as a theme.

Now in the early days,

I was like a Trojan horse.

So the meditation wouldn't necessarily say it's about awakening consciousness.

As I got more confident in my work,

As I'm producing higher level work,

I'm actually being blatantly saying now this will awaken your consciousness.

You'll even find one called tapping into super consciousness or something like that.

My Soul Paths series is all about that stuff as well.

And I'm doing even more and more of that as we speak.

And Andrea,

You say it's very generous of me.

It's the way I work.

It's the way to work in this age,

You give stuff out and it comes back full circle.

And what's interesting,

This is why I'm not comfortable with donations.

I'd rather give something to you and then the universe gives something back to me from somebody who isn't you.

So I'm an anti-donation person.

I'm actually doing myself down today.

But you want to do it,

That's fine by you.

But I'd much rather give you a gift for nothing and it'll come back another way.

So what you've got to do is decide what it is you want to do.

Now some of you will be maybe experts at helping people through some sort of trauma or something like that.

Some people might be good at,

I don't know,

Kids and this sort of stuff.

And Insight Timer,

I love meditations for kids.

So you've got to decide what your niche is.

But more importantly,

What is the gift that you want to take to the world?

And you use Insight Timer,

Think of them as being a publisher.

I think I've got 18 million people on there.

Now these people are like-minded.

So the great thing about Insight Timer is once you get out there and once you get yourself just above the noise floor,

Which is really,

Really interesting,

Then you start to get traction.

And the reason you get traction is people like you then put other people in their playlists and stuff like that and recommend it to other people and this sort of stuff.

So what I'd recommend that you do is,

I don't know how we're going to do this,

But if we can get some sort of sense of community together and I can get as many of you on Facebook to come to the Soul Waves group,

I encourage anybody that's put a new track on Insight Timer to publish it inside the Soul Waves group.

We've got 300 people that love this stuff and then they are your sales force to get more and more people to come your way,

Which is great.

And Anna,

You're absolutely right.

Trusting the energetic cycle is difficult,

But it takes trust.

And actually I've got a meditation on that,

Would you believe?

It uses the mantra,

Mona,

Oha,

Which means I trust in the light level.

So what do we get above the noise level?

There are over six,

Maybe six,

Maybe 10,

000 coaches on Insight Timer.

New stuff getting there every single day.

So how do people find you?

How do they know you're a meditation guide?

In the early days,

I was one of maybe,

I don't know,

500 guides,

Over 1,

000 guides.

I'm sorry,

Roxanne,

The subject today is,

I thought if you clicked on the link then that's what you'd know that,

But I've not been patronizing,

Is how to become a meditation guide.

That's what you want to do.

Okay.

So I've just been talking about my journey.

I hope that's all clear.

So the main thing is you find your niche and what gift you want to take to the world and how you want to help people.

And then what you decide is how best to do that.

Now there's loads of ways of doing meditations.

Most of my early meditations,

If I'm absolutely honest,

Are really guided visualizations.

That's what they are.

But the bog standard meditation you get in all the sort of mindfulness-based eight-week courses and stuff like that are what I call procedural.

So breathe with me,

Breathe in,

Breathe out,

Pause,

All that kind of stuff.

Now let's go to this place,

Take your consciousness to this place and all that kind of stuff.

Now let's pause for a minute and what have you.

These are procedural things.

Now I'm not trained in the procedures of meditation,

But what I do do is reverse engineer the things that I like to listen to.

So I've used loads of tips.

I used a guy called the Barefoot Doctor.

He helped me out a lot initially.

Sadly he's not with us now,

But I hope that you're listening,

Stephen.

You really were influential on my path and I use a lot of your scripts and the stuff that I'm doing.

So I'm holding and carrying the baton for you.

And so I also use the stuff I got from my hypnotherapy course,

Which is invaluable.

So there's procedural meditations,

Which are do this,

Do that,

And then you get to an end result.

The Stephen Russell,

The Barefoot Doctor.

He used to have a TV program on Channel 4 in the UK years and years ago.

Amazing guy,

But he passed away a few years ago.

Yeah,

And all right,

This,

IG aren't recording these right now.

But I've had loads of people that can't make it to this.

So I'm actually doing a side recording here.

If anyone from Insight Time is listening,

Sorry about bending the rules,

But that's what I've always done all of my life.

So I'm going to put it on my Soul Waves podcast.

And again,

If you join the Soul Waves group on Facebook,

You get details of that.

Or come via my website and use the contact form and I'll give you details of it as well.

So I'm recording this as audio only,

And then it'll be an hour and a bit longer,

And I'll be bringing it out there.

So the first type of meditation,

Procedural.

So you learn a mindfulness meditation technique,

And there are loads of them out there.

There are loads of yoga techniques.

I'm not skilled in them,

Not trained in them.

And that's how you then put your spin on it.

So you might use a breathing technique to help mothers in childbirth,

For example,

If that's your thing.

You're a doula or something like that.

You might take a.

.

.

I take a meditation technique and say,

Right,

How can you have a light bulb moment with it?

How can you bend and stretch time?

All that kind of stuff.

So as I'm an engineer,

I'm interested in practical applications in meditations.

And then,

Yep,

Hypnobirthing,

Absolutely all that kind of stuff.

So then you've got guided visualizations.

Now,

A lot of mine are guided visualizations.

All my Just For Today series is Just For Today,

Think That,

And what have you.

They're a little bit like stories.

And in fact,

I've got lots of stories on there.

You could listen to the German Atrix playlist.

There's 22 short stories on the app you can listen to.

And what these guided visualizations do,

What the stories do,

Is take the person's mind from A to B.

So they've always got to have a meta level to them.

So if I'm saying Just For Today,

I mean,

Just think about this today.

If I'm saying Just For Tomorrow,

I'm just saying now just focus on tomorrow.

If I'm saying Just Breathe,

It's just focus on your breathing.

If I'm saying something like,

I've got one called Just Imagine.

How do you imagine things?

Just be.

How do you just be?

I've also got meditations like Letting Go.

So the title kind of gives away what the meditation's about.

Until you get into my later stuff,

Where I'll say some bonkers stuff and what have you.

So then you've got talk,

Lectures,

And podcasts.

I did this very early on.

I put my interviews with mindfulness,

Experts in mindfulness,

And other guides on Insight Timer.

I started putting them onto the app as well.

And if I've got a guide on the app,

I'd say,

Can you do,

Either send me an MP3 file and I'll edit it in,

Or you want to do one live.

And what I did is,

The way of getting me out of the noise floor,

I went around all the top guides on Insight Timer and I interviewed them all.

As many as wanted to be interviewed by me.

So they would then tell their tribe to listen to this interview with me,

And then their tribe would find me.

And it's a great way,

Again,

Of pulling everyone up by their bootstraps.

So Roxanne,

You asked what sort of engineer I was trained in.

I started life as a BBC television engineer.

Had a fantastic time just out at the university.

Then I got headhunted by Sony.

I became the camera expert in the whole of Europe.

Then I formed my own company when I was about 25.

By the time I was 30,

I'd got my own business that was shipping stuff around the world.

I was being very entrepreneurial.

And then I got into the internet and formed an internet company.

And in my mid-40s,

I was really stressed out by all of this.

And someone said,

You look really haggard.

Can you start meditating?

You should start meditating.

That was kind of the prequel to me.

Ended up writing these books and starting to record meditations.

Now so talks,

Ledgers,

And podcasts.

And then music,

Ambient music.

There's loads of really good ambient music composers on there.

And I'm really thrilled now that I've joined that collective.

I've started to create my own music as of last year.

I'm really thoroughly enjoying it.

And a great way of me extending my tribe is to offer music to you.

Because when you post a meditation or insight timer,

It says,

Have you got any collaborators?

You say,

Yeah,

The composer's Tom.

And it all goes,

What goes around comes around,

Which is kind of great.

So there we go.

And then you can do any mix of these.

So right now,

You can do a podcast,

As I said,

With a meditation in it.

Right now,

This is off app.

Because I'm taking all my new fiction,

My fiction work is off app.

I'm writing my new book as a series of meditales.

So what it is is me doing the audio book,

But putting my music underneath it.

So you kind of mix of meditate and listen to the story and whatever you have at the same time.

So meditales,

Guided visualisation,

Storytelling.

Oh,

By the way,

Someone I love.

And if you want to get into this style,

Tony Brady,

He is amazing.

He's Irish.

And he says,

I'll try and do an Irish practice.

Oh,

Dear friends,

How are you doing today?

And then he goes and tells a story,

Which is just amazing.

And so he's funny.

So if you want to learn about guided meditations,

Then the people that are top of their craft are Sarah Blondin,

Bethany Hagen-Oriel.

She's just amazing.

So Roxanne,

A television engineer,

A sound engineer.

But I'm very well trained in sound,

Which is why I find it easy to pick all this technology up and create all of this sort of stuff.

So Tony and I,

We get on really well.

And he's just written some fantastic books,

By the way.

One that he should call Just For Today,

Which you should.

So part of your craft,

Part of your journey is to listen to other guides and cherry pick the bits that you like and the styles that you like.

In my case,

What I like doing is mixing the whole lot together.

Dasha,

This is about making you a meditation guide,

Getting you into being a meditation guide.

If you really want something on practical mindfulness,

Then the new course I'm putting together that'll be out in about two or three weeks time,

It's called The Business of Mindfulness.

And I wrote a fantastic book.

You're not supposed to self promote on these things,

But there's a book called The Authority Guide to Practical Mindfulness.

And that's got loads of really good techniques in it.

Okay.

Yeah,

So where are we?

Okay,

So let's talk about the structure of a meditation now.

What are the elements of a meditation?

So the first element is what you call the induction.

And this is getting people into that relaxed state.

So if you listen to some of my meditations,

I might say something like,

You know,

Just sit down,

Make sure your feet are flat on the floor,

Make sure your arms aren't crossed.

And sometimes I take you through a whole body and tension thing.

So take the tension out of your forehead,

Let the little muscles in the cheek loosen,

Slacken your jaw,

Take the tongue through the roof of your mouth,

Wiggle your shoulders around.

And you're sort of doing this on camera,

So you won't get this on the audio only.

Drop your shoulders,

Wiggle your fingers,

Let the tension slow down your body through your thighs.

I'm doing this very,

Very quickly.

You wouldn't do it quick as this.

And then through your knees and all the way to the floor.

And then I probably lead into a breath.

Take a big in breath.

And this is one I got from Bethany,

Which is then breathe out,

Because if you're letting all the stale air leave your body and what have you,

And you're just getting someone into that relaxed state.

You might also put some conditions on it,

Say don't listen to this if you're driving.

And you can lie down or you can lie down or you can sit up for this.

If you fall asleep in the middle of it,

Don't worry about it,

Because that's better.

If I say breathe in and out five times but you lose count,

Don't worry.

It doesn't mean you're not getting it right.

It means that you're actually into that state.

Andrew Johnson,

Great guy,

NLP,

Treatment therapy and what have you.

All good tools to do if you want to get into all this stuff.

What was the name of this process?

Sometimes your voice is breaking.

I don't quite know what you mean by that.

This has got the induction.

This is getting people into the state.

So then once you get people into that relaxed state,

And there's an art of how much time you take and all this sort of stuff.

What I always do when I'm doing the sound engineering and all of this is a bit technical.

I use this thing called Audacity and I've got a course on how to use Audacity,

Which is free.

You can get it through my freebie section,

Through my website.

It's got loads of videos in it so I can't put it onto Insight timer.

But you record something,

Then there's a little techie thing you can do in Audacity which slows everything down by about one or two percent and that really does help.

Also you can put lots of gaps in and all that sort of stuff.

I've got a whole course on that if you want to sign up for that.

When I say sign up,

It's just free.

Just put your email address in and you'll get access to my free resources section.

Then after the induction,

You've got the body of the meditation.

This is the core of your message.

It might be the story that you're telling.

It might be a procedural thing.

For me it might be,

Okay,

I'm going to awaken you to a higher level of consciousness.

This is the sequence you go to to activate your nascent heart rate or to open your crown to get ideas coming in or to get the left and right brain in sync so you change the speed of time.

Oh,

B,

Thanks for that.

Kenosaurus,

Another level of energy.

I want to talk about that in a minute because the energetics are really important.

And then once you've done the induction of the body,

Then you do the awakening process.

This is getting people back to this state.

So I'd do something like I'd say,

Okay,

So hope you enjoy this,

Blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Until the music fades.

Open your eyes slowly,

That kind of thing.

At this point,

By the way,

I know I'm speaking quite quickly now because I'm in a different state.

I would be slowing my voice down and getting people into this relaxed state.

I sometimes use a bell at the end,

Sometimes I don't use a bell.

And so I might say,

Well,

Until the bell rings,

Just relax with the music and actually refer back maybe to the body as well.

Just say,

Well,

Think about some of the things that we've done and see how they might affect you.

One of my favorite endings,

And you're more than welcome to nick this,

If I ever do use a bell,

I've used it on one called Just Let Go.

I say,

Don't see this as the ending bell of the meditation,

But the starting bell for the rest of your life.

And I just,

I loved that when that came in.

Now,

This is important.

So this is,

I write very naturally.

So only recently have I,

More recently have I started to script them and then record them off the script.

Often my very early ones,

I just do them literally off the top of my head.

So what I would do,

And this is what Kenneth Sorrows does,

Something like that.

Kenneth is,

And the top meditation guides,

Which I'm including all of you in this because you're all good meditators.

You're in the meditative state when you're recording the meditation.

So what happens is whatever state I'm in when I'm recording the meditation,

That comes through,

Not in the words,

But in the gaps between the words and the music that I'm currently creating as well.

I'm in the meditative state while the music's being created.

So you just listen to one of my music tracks,

You'll get into that state.

There's one called Return to the Void.

And listen to that,

You'll know exactly what I mean.

That's just,

That'll get you into that lovely,

Heavenly,

Floaty state without any words of induction from me at all,

Which is kind of interesting.

So you,

If you're going to write and script it,

You write it in trance.

And if you're going to record it,

Then you record in trance as well.

And then there's lots of techniques.

I'm not going to do a course in hypnotic language,

I'm checking the time,

We've got plenty of time.

But hypnotic language is all about repeating.

So the idea of follow the in-breath,

Follow the out-breath,

Follow the in-breath,

Follow the out-breath,

That's like counting sheep at night.

That gets you into a hypnotic state.

If you listen to my Just For Today meditation,

Which I think is one of my most popular on the app,

My sleep meditation is nearly a million listens,

Would you believe?

Which is quite incredible.

So a million people have fallen asleep with me,

Which is,

My mother would probably have a joke about that,

That you should send people to sleep.

All you had to do was find a trance,

I'll come back to that one if I may.

So in Just For Today meditation,

I say,

Just For Today,

Do this.

Just For Today,

Do that.

Just For Today,

Do something else.

My repeating of the phrase,

Just For Today,

Or Just For Tomorrow,

Is a trance-inducing phrase.

The other thing,

Counting is good.

I've got a meditation called Journey to the Akashic,

Where I take you into a six-sided room and then it becomes a pentagon-less five-sided room,

And then a three-sided room,

And then a two-sided room,

Which there isn't one,

That's a circle,

And it's got the inside on the outside.

And I say,

Are you on the inside looking out or the outside looking in?

Now that phrase,

Are you on the inside looking out or the outside looking in,

Is a hypnotic induction in itself,

Because it makes the brain go into another mode.

It doesn't make sense.

There's another lovely one I use called Phonological Ambiguity,

When a word is the same thing,

But it means something else.

And a good example of that is I've just done two versions of the Just For Today meditations and the Just For Tomorrow meditations,

And I call them Just For,

Number four,

F-O-U-R today,

Just For Tomorrow.

And inside the meditations are loads of references to the magic of the number four,

So that's why it's a kind of phonological ambiguity.

Now – oh,

How could the sleep one?

Thanks for that,

Sleep one.

Now that sleep one,

Some people it's like Marmite,

Because I invoke two big hands that breathe you up and down.

Some people love the hands because it makes them feel good,

And some people hate them,

And I was tempted to edit them out,

But more people seem to like them than don't like them.

Sleep meditations,

And I think this is really,

Really ironic,

Are the most listened to ones on the app.

So an app which purports about awakening,

Spiritual awakening,

Seems to have lots of people listened to,

Which is great.

So if you do do a – if you want to be a guide,

I recommend that you – whatever your thing is,

Whether it's a hypnobirthing or whatever,

You have a sleep-inducing version of one of your tracks,

And or you do a bedtime story,

They're very popular as well,

And bedtime stories for kids are really popular.

They really want more of that content on the app,

Which is great,

And they promote it.

Every so often you'll get an email saying,

We just made you a featured guide for today or this week or something like that,

So they're very good at promoting you.

And also getting – if you get on social media and you retweet and hashtag and tag Insight Timer,

They'll always give it a like or a retweet as well,

So Facebook and Twitter seems to be their most popular platforms,

Which is interesting.

Now the other thing you do is you open loops and close loops.

So I might say something at the start of a meditation which is – and this meditation's about this.

I'll tell you what the meditation's about.

I'll even say at the end of it – I'll say at the beginning what you might really like at the end of it and then refer back to the beginning at the end of it.

This is a – I could do a whole section just on hypnotic language,

But I'm not the world's best,

But I did.

I just love it.

So open loops,

Closed loops and nested loops as well.

And often I've even got series of meditations in my playlists where one meditation refers to a meditation later on in the series as well.

So I do that in my writing books and this sort of stuff.

And there's loads and loads of stuff to do with embedded commands.

And mine are pretty obvious really.

I don't use it in a sort of nefarious way,

But when I've got a meditation called Be Calm and it uses a mantra of Be Calm,

So be on the in-breath and calm on the out-breath,

I'm actually saying to somebody,

I'm saying to you,

Please be calm.

When I've got a meditation called Just Relax,

I'm saying,

Just relax.

When I say I've got a meditation called Just Imagine,

I say,

Let's just imagine this.

And one of my favorite ones I used before is Mona Oha.

I use some Sanskrit or Elohim mantras now and again.

I always explain what they are and I'll often spell them.

I'll do that right now.

So Mona is M-O-N-A and Oha is O-H-A and it means I trust in the light language.

And while I'm talking about that,

I often get people to do what they call a mudras.

I might say,

Touch the pad of your thumb and your middle finger together on each hand,

Turn your hands up to receive so they're facing the ceiling and that sort of stuff.

And imagine the breath is coming through the hand.

So these are examples of procedural stuff.

And the best meditations by far aren't just procedural or just storytelling or whatever.

They're mixing all of these things together as I'm doing right now.

Oh,

Another big one.

Engage with all senses.

So this classic thing that some people are visual,

Some people are auditory,

Some people are kinesthetic.

You might say,

Especially if you're doing a guided visualisation,

I might take someone through a field and say,

Walk into this field.

Yeah,

I've got one called the well of emotions.

That's a really good one to listen to if you want an example of this art.

You're walking through a field.

The grass is nice and dry under your feet.

So the field thing is a visual thing.

The grass is dry under your feet,

It's kinesthetic.

It's called an NLP.

That's where you're feeling the grass.

Then you can smell,

I don't know,

Jasmine on the breeze,

Which is getting the olfactory sense and that kind of stuff.

So you typically use engaging all the senses in a visualisation one.

And now I'm going to breathe.

Just pause.

We're halfway through and I want to leave time to try and hoof on together live for you at the end of which will be interesting.

So I'll just make sure there are no questions.

Everyone following this up to now,

I hope I'm not bamboozling too many people.

Now,

A few things you're going to need to do this as well.

And this is the most important thing.

Oh,

Let's see.

Let me just show you my room.

So I'm really proud.

I've just for the first time I've actually got a new office.

Now in the office,

You'll find right on the back wall behind me are two sound baffling panels.

Now,

I put these in now.

Who do you connect to?

So I'm going to do meditation.

I'll tell you about that at the end.

I'm just going through the procedural stuff now.

So around me are the tools of my trade.

And really importantly in this room,

Because it's quite an echoey room,

I've got one dead wall and that stops it sounding too echoey.

Right now,

I've got proper acoustic panels in here,

But remember,

This is now my business.

All you need is some curtains.

All you need is a rug on the floor.

So when you get going,

You don't have to invest a lot of money doing what I'm doing.

It's become my profession by accident,

As I mentioned now.

But you don't need to have a proper sound booth or anything like that.

I'll talk a little bit about sound editing at the end as well.

But as I said,

There's a whole course on that on my website.

So you need a room which has got at least one,

If not two,

Dead surfaces because that stops the echo.

The other thing you'll need is a microphone.

So this one is the Blue Yeti.

I think it's around $100 or $120 or so.

You can also use,

And that's a USB microphone.

There's this one here,

Which is an iRig microphone.

I'm not a paid commissioner of this.

I use that because it's got a three and a half mil jack on it and it plugs into an iPhone or an iPad.

And this is my outside broadcasting mic.

So there's a meditation on there,

There's a podcast with Hugh Byrne.

And he and I met in London and the ducks were quacking and clapping around.

And so I can take my iPad out and a microphone,

Which is quite a nice microphone.

That's only about $30 or $40 or so.

So I think you should be thinking of spending,

Yeah,

All of that Suzanne,

You can do all these techniques.

You can put a microphone in a cold box filled with towels.

That's great.

So I'm just going to type these two in for you.

So the one I use and lots of people use is the Blue Yeti.

And then there's also the iRig mic and the iRig do loads of mics.

They even do a little plug in module mic for an iPhone.

You put a little plug in on the iPhone.

You can get little ones that go into the lightning connector as well.

And there's loads and loads of mics out there.

What have you.

What else?

There was something I was just about to show you.

Oh,

Let me just turn this round again.

So you see my microphone's on an arm.

So if I bash the table,

It doesn't induct through it.

So that's on a floating arm.

But you know,

If you look at this investment here,

I haven't spent even four or five hundred pounds to get to this level.

So you haven't got to spend thousands and thousands of pounds.

But remember,

I'm recording audio books.

I'm doing podcasts.

You know,

This is my kind of my environment now.

So in a business context,

I've not spent thousands and thousands to do this.

You're talking tens and hundreds of dollars to get into it.

So you need a software editing program as well.

You can use GarageBand,

Logic Pro is one.

But I use Audacity.

It's free.

And it's got so many free features.

It works on Mac,

On iPad.

It works on Mac,

On PC and even Linux.

For the iPad,

I use one called Ferrite.

So I'm going to type that for you.

Yeah,

Adobe do one.

I've never got my head around it.

I'm very happy with Audacity.

Ferrite is a good iPad application.

Don't ask me about Android.

I've got no idea what's on those.

But Ferrite is a good one for that.

And if you want to use background music behind your meditations,

Then you need to pay a license to somebody.

Now,

Ollie said,

Oh,

She likes all the music on my meditation.

Now,

I know you've been feeding back on different meditations,

Ollie.

You've actually got loads of different snapshots of how I did my music.

So the very first ones,

Remember,

This can't be promotional.

So this is not me promoting these companies.

It's just to explain to you who I've been using.

I use a company called Thought Sounds.

And it shows you how long ago this was.

They sent all their stuff out by CD.

So Thought Sounds have got some good music.

And then I subscribe to Eternal,

Ludwig Sumbrellius's stuff.

He likes to know what you're about first.

So he doesn't license it to everybody.

He's got a very nice model where you pay him a certain amount of money every month,

And you get access to his stuff.

And I love his music.

But then earlier last year,

I started composing my own music.

And my licensing thing to you is,

As I said,

It's there for free as long as you use it and quote me back on it and that sort of stuff.

Having said that,

If you make millions out of it,

Then I'd like to know.

And I'd like to get a percentage.

So there you go.

So a bit of royalty-free music in the background.

Having said that,

Tony Brady doesn't use any music whatsoever.

So feel free.

And there are some other people out there as well.

Oh,

Christopher Lloyd-Clark.

I think he's called Enhanced Audio or something like that.

I did a series of chakra meditations some time ago.

And chakra meditation,

By the way,

Very popular on the app if you want to do them.

They are really good things to do.

People love tuning into different chakras.

He does a set of seven different tracks.

And I still use them today.

I'm doing it specific on chakras.

Each of them is in a different key,

Which is important.

He's a much more advanced musician than I will ever be and want to be.

And his tracks are fantastic.

And you just choose that track.

You'll be working on the throat.

You choose the one that goes with the throat,

The one with the seful,

Et cetera.

Not cheap.

But you pay him a fee,

$100,

$150,

Something like that.

And then you're allowed to do that.

You're allowed to use that.

Rev,

I'm just going to find that link for you.

Because I'm Christopher Lloyd-Clark.

So you can buy his music just to listen to yourself.

And then it's one amount of money.

But if you want to use it in your own stuff,

Then Christopher Lloyd-Clark.

Here we are.

And I keep encouraging him to get on the app as a meditation guide,

But he hasn't listened to me for some reason.

So that's his actual website itself.

And then music licensing.

He's got a whole section on music license.

Enlightened audio.

Sorry.

Enlightened audio.

And then so you could buy an album from him for,

Let's say,

$10 or $15.

But if you want to use that in your own stuff,

Then royalty free,

Then you pay about $100,

$150,

That kind of thing.

Other people like Eternal,

You give them a subscription every month.

And then as new stuff comes out,

You get access to it as well.

And there's a really important caveat on this.

You can't just go and put his track in entirety out,

Either free or whatever.

This is for anyone that's licensing stuff.

You have to add value to it by adding your voice to it,

Which is really,

Really important.

So honing your craft.

So let's talk about honing your craft.

And I've got two other sections here.

We're going to talk about honing your craft,

The recording process itself,

How you publish it.

I'll come back to how you actually publish it.

And then we might have time for me to do a quick demonstration on the hoof,

Which I've never done before.

So that'd be a bit of fun.

So the first thing to do in honing your craft is to listen to other people.

So when I first got an Insight timer,

I'd spend every single day,

I'd be listening to other meditation guides and lifting little bits from them and that sort of stuff.

I'd never copy a script of anybody's,

But I'd say that's a nice technique.

I'll use that.

So plagiarize by all means,

But enhance.

Now another thing I'm going to offer to you and Hal Kerr has done this for me already.

If any of you want to get any of my meditations,

I mean any of my meditations other than the ones that are inside the courses and translate them into another language,

I'll do three things for you.

One,

I'll provide the script for you.

Two,

You send me your recording of the script and I'll put the music,

I'll edit it and finesse it and compress it and do all those sort of fine production things.

I'll then add the music to it and I'll then send it back to you so then you can upload it to your profile.

And so this takes me into,

And then the other thing you need to do is say,

When you publish it just say Words and Music by Tom Evans and that sort of stuff.

So this is a free gift to any of you who've got a non-English language who'd love to get started because that'd be a nice way to get one or two meditations up without.

.

.

Oh wow,

So Hal has just translated another one just for this morning and just need to record it.

How to connect the translation.

My website,

Tomevans.

Co,

That'd be great.

I'd love to,

That'd be fantastic.

And Andrea,

Great that you're here.

I'm in the Swiss-German,

Let's do both shall we?

And French,

Yeah.

I've just had the Just For Today one's been translated already into Chinese,

French,

Spanish,

Portuguese,

Norwegian and I think it's been done in German,

Probably enough,

So that'd be a nice one to do.

And so what we could do also,

And check,

Yeah that's right,

Of course,

I would have to check,

Yeah.

So what we could do as well,

I don't know quite the rules on this,

But I'd rather feed you the script to give you something to get going and get your profile up there and we'll do it that way around.

That'd be fantastic to do.

And I think what I might do as well,

If enough of you get in touch through my website,

I might do a little Zoom thing in a few weeks time where we all get together and talk about this and I can do screenshots and show you some of the other bits and pieces as well.

So the website's probably the best way to get in touch and we'll kind of go from there.

So yeah,

Listen to other people,

Play,

Rise but don't enhance,

Translate and then if you do your own scripts,

This is really,

Really important and this comes from the School of Hypnotic Language,

Really avoid negativity.

Now the Just For Today meditations that I recorded,

They're all based on the Reiki precepts,

Anyone that's Reiki trained,

I did Reiki 1 and 2.

And the Ten Commandments,

Most of those are written in the negative,

Don't rock with your neighbour's wife and don't murder the husband at the same time.

And they're all about dos and don'ts,

Right?

And the Reiki precepts,

They've got loads of don'ts in as well.

So in Just For Today,

Right,

Great to see so many people Reiki 1 and 2 trained.

And then if you're Reiki 1 and 2 trained,

You're more than halfway down the line to be in a meditation guide because you know about energy,

You know about it.

Before you start recording your meditation,

You tune into Reiki energy.

Reiki energy isn't just healing energy,

It's the creative life force as well as the chi which I know that Andrea will tell everyone about.

So yeah,

Loads of,

There's no coincidence that we've all come through that kind of lineage,

Which is kind of interesting.

Yeah so don't,

Don't,

I'm using the negative to tell you don't use the negative.

You could say,

If you wanted to say,

You could say avoid negativity.

So you can use the word avoid as opposed to don't,

But don't is not a good thing to use.

And then the important thing,

Always act on feedback,

Right?

So thank you Algier,

Positive language,

Very important.

Act on feedback.

So the first thing I got when I started doing meditations,

I thought nobody wants to listen to me for more than 10 minutes.

I also thought that,

You know,

Some people haven't got,

Want to get into meditation,

Don't think they got more than 10 minutes.

The first feedback I got on my Be Calm meditation,

Which was the first one I uploaded was,

Could we have a longer version?

So on the app you'll find Be Calm and one called Be Calm for longer.

Now I just cheated.

I just put more gaps in.

So I just,

Instead of saying something and then waiting for 10 seconds,

I said something and I just put a thing in for 20 seconds and that was it.

So longer,

I've got more minutes of mindfulness is twice as long version of 10 minutes of mindfulness.

Someone said can I have a longer version of Just For The Day?

So I got one called Just A Little Longer and they can coexist.

You know,

You can have a three minute version and a seven minute version and that kind of thing.

In fact,

They did that when they had the daily insights,

They asked us to do a five,

10 and 20 minute version and that kind of stuff.

So longer versions could be a thing to do as we just discussed translated versions.

And when you translate,

You might not use exactly the same words.

You might put your own spice into it.

You might put your own induction into it and your own awakening process and just use my script in the body.

That's fine.

You can take it into a different context to say well actually that thing,

When you have this meditation called Just Let Go,

That might be quite good for somebody who wants to let a fetus into the world,

For example.

I've been scurrilously,

I'm not a kid so I don't know if that totally would apply.

And then the other thing is unclear words,

Especially when you're working into different languages.

I guess I'm English so some Americans might find my accent hard to type.

So clarity of word is really,

Really important.

And avoid as much as you can a complex word.

So if I use the word,

For example,

Which is quite complex,

Mona Oha,

I'd say and this means I trust in the light language.

So I wouldn't just go into something without giving it some explanation.

I've done two meditations called Hypnagogia and Hypnopompia.

Hypnagogia is the time between being awake and being asleep and Hypnopompia is the time between being asleep and being awake.

And there in the title of it and then I will explain what that term means inside that meditation.

So that's honing your craft.

Now I'm going to talk about the recording process.

So the first thing is be noise free.

So if you know that someone's about to come home or you've got a delivery person or whatever coming then that's no good.

Or you know that the neighbour cuts his hedge on a certain day of the week,

You've got to find at times to do it when you're noise free.

I'm not in a recording studio,

This is just a shed in the garden literally.

We have helicopters coming over behead,

Tractors coming out and that sort of stuff.

So being noise and disturbance free is really,

Really important.

And what I do is I record a paragraph at a time.

So on Audacity you press the record button and then stop and then I go,

Because I'm on a Mac,

I go command S which means save because I've recorded whole sections of meditations and the computers crashed,

I've learnt the whole lot of it.

So the worst that you can lose is a paragraph's worth of recording,

Which is kind of interesting.

Oh,

Have some water around and that sort of stuff.

It helps if you meditate first.

So I do most of my creative work in the morning anyway so I'll meditate before I do the writing of the meditation and I'll be in the meditative state as I record it as well so I'm staying trance.

If when you've written something you can't say it in three takes,

Rewrite it.

Because if you can't say it out loud,

People won't be able to hear it in loud.

Sometimes you might need a pause and a rest or something like that.

If you've,

I had one,

What was it now?

I had this phrase in this audiobook about if you've got a set of syllables,

It's called a syllabary.

And I wrote this into my last audiobook I published and I couldn't say it.

So I re-translated to say if you've got a set of sounds,

That's why I said it,

I rewrote it so I could say it.

And I don't think I got it right now.

I'm saying syllabary,

Syllabary.

There you go.

Right,

Then production.

So when you record on anything,

Whether it's Logic Pro or Adobe,

The first thing that I do is I do a noise reduction on it.

So any environment's got background noise.

The noise reduction program on Audacity is great.

I mean,

My Honor 9-Matic's got a slight hiss that it pops on every single recording.

Take the noise out.

When you get to see the waveforms,

You can see your breath.

I take any extraneous breaths out.

If I'm saying breathe in and out,

I'll leave the sound of my breath in to help with the breathing.

But if I do a pause between a sentence,

I'll edit that out as well.

Any clicks and pops,

I've got one of these pop filter things,

They help.

If you've got one of these things,

They're kind of useful.

I put gaps in,

So I'll record in pretty much real time.

So let's say a 10-minute meditation in recording will be two minutes long.

And it might take me five minutes to record it with a couple of double takes and things like that.

And then you insert the gaps after to spread it out.

And then there's two techie things.

I'll tell you what they are now.

Learn about compression and learn about making the amplification the same as well.

So typically on Audacity,

You noise reduce it,

You take all the clicks and pops out,

Insert gap,

Compress it,

And then reduce it.

And I might do one final noise reduction at the end as well.

But that's a bit techie to make a note of that.

Oh,

There you go.

Lovely theory,

Especially the guitar sound.

That was great theory.

That's actually a mix of my old album and new album.

And using set guitar,

You can see in the background as well.

It's great.

Now,

Oh,

Then so you asked about publication before.

So the first thing is,

It keeps moving around on the app.

Somewhere you'll say,

Become a meditation guide.

I wouldn't click it until you've got three meditations ready to go.

And then when you're ready,

You go through this form.

It's quite,

It's about four pages,

Four web pages long.

You give it a title.

You say what sort of sector,

What it falls into.

Is it waking meditation?

Is it about sleep?

Has it got music in,

Not music?

Has it got a bell at the end?

All this sort of stuff.

Five hashtags.

Find an image.

And there's a great site for images I use all the time now called Unsplash.

If anyone's come across that,

I'll just put a link in for you.

Little nuance.

They don't like having any letters and words in the things.

I don't like illustrations.

So Unsplash is the best place to get an image.

You upload an image.

You put some descriptive words in there.

You upload the MP3.

And typically nowadays it takes between one and three days to get published.

When I first started it was about two or three weeks,

Even a month sometimes.

So if you could get three or four meditations together,

Let's say in the month of August,

You will be a published meditation guide by September.

There's a goal for you.

Oh,

How do you calculate the timing to tape you of that?

Great question.

I would give people between 30 seconds,

About 30 seconds to bring someone back.

Sometimes though,

Sometimes I will.

.

.

It depends on the type of meditation.

So if I got someone into a very,

Very luscious state,

There's a lovely word,

Isn't it?

Luscious state.

I will say there's three minutes of music.

Just stay in this state until the music fades.

And leave three or four minutes of music there.

So you don't want to break out of the state.

You don't have to.

Thank you,

Deborah,

For being practical.

That's my engineering background.

I'm an engineer and a nerd and a geek at heart.

I can't help it.

What else have we got?

So have three tracks before you start.

And then I would do,

If you can,

At least two tracks a month.

This thing about noise floor I mentioned before,

You can give up easily on Insight Timer because you don't get noticed.

It is harder to get noticed now.

But if you use Insight Timer as a social network,

And if you want to,

If anyone wants to interview me and put an interview with me on their site,

That's another offer I'll do as well.

We'll do that.

So you can use that.

And you can use that inside and outside Insight Timer.

And any other people,

Someone like Tony Brady loves being interviewed.

Might be difficult to get Sarah blonde in.

She never responded to me.

But I did get hold of Bethany,

But that was in the early days.

Cindy Hobson I've interviewed a few other people I've interviewed as well.

But in general,

People love it.

Yeah,

I've got a recording.

I'm doing a separate recording.

You're not supposed to do it.

So don't tell anyone at Insight Timer.

And it's going to be on my podcast,

The Soul Waste podcast.

And the best way to get that is to come into me through our website and I'll make it available to you.

Right.

So then produce at least one a month.

So three,

Three rates start producing at least one a month.

And then this is really,

Really important.

Apply to every single review because the people that listen to you are your amplifiers.

They're your sales force.

Right.

And don't just say thanks for listening.

Each single review I do is personal to that person.

So I don't know what I might say is,

By the way,

If you enjoyed this one,

You might find this one takes you to a different place.

I've got several sets of playlists now as well.

So someone listened to one of my German atrix short stories.

I'll say,

Oh,

By the way,

You might not know this,

But there's 21 others of these search out the German atrix playlist and you get all of them.

And then you see a two or three days later,

You see the same person coming back.

What have you.

So see it as a social network.

What have you?

Social media,

When you put,

When I've got a new meditation now,

You'll see,

I always say new meditation,

Free meditation Insight Timer to help with this,

That and the other.

Thanks Insight Timer.

Thanks at Insight Timer for making this available.

And then if someone retweets that,

Thank them for it and follow them back.

So if someone retweets,

If Insight Timer likes you or retreat you,

Somebody on Twitter might retweet it and they might not be your follower,

But you go and follow them back so that you make this connection.

Oh,

And I've set down the bottom here.

Yeah.

Interview with other guides.

One of the best way to get out of the noise floor is to get yourself into the community,

Especially if there's a connection.

So don't just say,

I want to interview Kenneth Sores because he's a really popular guy.

It's got to be some sort of connections.

Do I.

T.

Accept all requests to publish meditation?

You get rejected now and again.

I've been rejected recently.

They said the image wasn't clear and the image was a hand with a light bulb on top of it.

And they thought that I'd photoshopped it together.

And I was,

The whole meditation was about receiving light bulbs.

So I thought having a light bulb on top of your hand was a good metaphorical thing.

So yeah,

Sometimes they reject it because the audio quality isn't good enough.

That's never happened to me as it happens.

But then again,

Remember I'm very techie.

Image wise,

If it's an illustration or black and white or it's got text in it,

Then they'll reject it.

But generally they tend to accept most of the stuff that's on there.

Obviously,

If you were to say something nasty on there or put something which is not appropriate,

I don't think that's the sort of person that's on Insight Time and shouldn't happen.

Heidi,

I don't know.

You've got to be,

Okay,

This is important.

This is about energetics,

Heidi.

And there's loads of stuff I've got on heart rate.

The more you get in conscious control of your heart rate,

And there's one called activating your heart rate on the website,

The more you stop that sort of behaviour.

And I'm not going to give that too much explanation,

But just take this on trust,

Take this on the Mona O'Hara thing.

I don't have liability insurance for work.

And this is really important because I hold absolutely no fear anything is going to go fair-shaped.

And I don't tend to get people scamming me because energetically I'm at a state where that just doesn't happen.

Now I'm trained,

Even though I said I'm not trained in meditation,

I have done years and years of esoteric training.

So I know about energy management.

I know about all sorts of weird and wonderful alchemical things,

Some of which it makes the Insight Time out,

Others which is not necessarily for that.

So the management of your energy is really,

Really important when you get into this world because you can equally manifest the desirable as well as the not so desirable,

Which is really important.

What do you mean?

I thought there'd be an interview process.

Oh no,

There's no interview process.

So long as you look at a good person,

Especially if you.

.

.

I think you just apply as far as I know and I don't know whether you have to put in why.

.

.

I used to,

In the early days,

I had to refer people,

I say to Maddy who was a publication manager,

Oh,

There's a good person you want on the app.

But now I think it's just a form and you just fill it in.

Ah yeah,

And by the way,

To turn off brain requests,

That solves the problem as well.

Do I have any meditations on my page about managing energy?

I got loads and loads of meditations on that.

Managing energy,

How does that work?

What was the best one?

I would follow,

Yes,

I'd dig out my meditation on.

.

.

My series of meditations is called The Soulful Path.

It's a playlist you'll find and that effectively,

They're not explicitly about energy,

But they're about connecting with your soul.

Once you and your soul are absolutely bonded,

The energetic connection stops all of those things.

Mindful is good because of why I use mindful.

Again,

Lots of my meditations have a title on which is a bit obscure compared to what's actually in it.

This is my Trojan Horse approach.

It's important you have a good photograph and all that sort of stuff.

Make it write a nice bio and this kind of thing,

Don't make it too long.

Now I said,

If you don't mind,

I think I'd like to do this because I've never done it.

We're 58 minutes,

I'm just going to go slightly over by about five minutes or so.

I'm going to do this on a kind of,

I'll do it part first come first served.

I'll do it part which one intrigued me the most,

I think might be the most fun.

Give me a topic,

Any topic you want me to do a meditation on the fly to demonstrate all these principles to you.

Right,

Okay,

Thanks.

Stop there.

There's some really good ones.

Fantastic,

Right,

Okay.

So I'm going to go,

Reb,

Release for you.

I've just put a meditation on there called becoming fearless.

But two people have put intruder syndrome,

Someone's put imposter syndrome which is kind of great.

What else have we got?

Warmth,

Find your muse,

Awakening,

Good vacation,

Happy vacation,

Generational trauma.

I've got no experience in that.

I'm sorry,

I don't think I could do that.

That's a good example.

If that's your thing,

Then that's right.

So imposter syndrome seems to come up a lot.

Let's be honest about it.

For years and years,

Until I got to a million listens on Insight Timer,

I thought I was an imposter.

Thank you,

P.

So let's do imposter syndrome.

Now I haven't pre-thought this,

I've never done a meditation on it.

And then we'll just go through it.

So there's going to be three sections to this,

There's going to be the induction,

Then there's going to be the body,

And then there's going to be the awakening.

And Heather you sound so brave,

But if you don't try,

You never learn,

That's why I want to say to all of you,

If you're not a meditation guide,

And I've given you all these techniques and trips how to do it,

Then this is the time to do it.

And just lead a bit of bravery,

You've got to put your head above the parapet.

And then once you put your head above the parapet,

You get better and better at it.

So what I'm going to do is,

I'm going to do this,

And this is,

I'm going to do this as a guided visualisation storytelling thing.

This is the way to do it,

Right?

And if Heather had not said,

You're so brave,

You wouldn't have reminded me about this story,

I'd do a Tony Brady style meditation,

There you go.

And Heidi,

I might well do a whole course on this,

Who knows what's going to happen.

We've got enough people that get in touch with me from our website,

I'll take you through a guided journey of how to do all this techie stuff and what have you.

So dear friends,

Let me tell you a story about this little cheeky chappy called Tom Evans.

You know,

If you go back about,

I've got to give up with the Irish accent,

So just relax.

Just imagine you're sitting down by the fireside with me.

The embers are crackling.

We've had a glorious day,

The sun is setting,

And we're all sharing the story of how we came to that fireside.

What brought us here today?

So our souls,

As like-minds,

Meet on our path.

So just to deconstruct that,

I've just done the introduction,

And I did a little bit of sitting around the fireside,

The feeling of warmth in the day,

All that kind of stuff,

That's the kinesthetics,

And you might hear the fire crackling.

You could go on and on and extend that as you walk into it.

So let me tell you about how I came to be this meditation guide on Insight Timer.

It's 4 million listens.

It all started when I took a plane to the Caribbean.

I was sitting in first class,

Treated ourselves to a really fancy holiday,

And I wrote a book for my accident.

It was called 100 Years of Ermitrude.

I came back and I published it,

And it was written in poetry.

And I found that people really liked the story,

They liked it.

So I popped my head just above the parapets,

And my eyes were just poking above the parapets.

And do you know what happened?

Nobody shot me down.

In fact,

I got stunning reviews for this book.

One man said to me,

He said,

I only have six words,

Stunning.

I cried,

That's all.

So I went,

Ooh,

Maybe there's an author in me.

So then I wrote another book.

So now I'm putting my chin above the parapets.

So I wrote this book called Blocks,

Which is me now writing a nonfiction book.

I tried a different style of book.

And the Blocks book seemed to go down very well,

And I started to put some meditations of it.

So then I let the parapet go lower.

Now I'm a bigger target,

Because my whole head is sticking above the parapet.

So I could somewhat take a real pop shot.

You know what happened?

I just got loads of really good hours and reviews.

People said,

Could you write about this and that?

So I wrote another book about the different thought styles that we have.

And now I've been really brave,

Because I wasn't just writing a procedural book.

I was writing a book about what I thought and about my esoteric research about the flavors of thought,

About the major arcana,

The tarot.

So I was telling the world not just what am I doing in workshop,

But what Tom thought.

And you know what?

Nobody shot me down.

So I went and wrote another book,

And another book,

And another book.

And after I'd written about three or four procedural books and theory books,

I wrote two books on philosophy.

And this is what I really thought about the world,

Projecting out into the future.

And these were amazingly well-received.

I got the most ever reviews on it in some time.

So then by this time,

My whole heart body is above the parapet.

And then Maddy Jarrad got in touch with me and asked me to perform one of the meditations on the app.

And then for,

I'd say,

This is 2015,

For three or four years,

I was an imposter.

Who am I to be a meditation guide when I've never been trained in?

But finally,

I got to one million lessons on the app.

And I got onto the parapet,

And my whole body was exposed.

The archers could take a shot at me.

Anyone could take a shot at me,

And I'd fall off that parapet.

And I've been standing on top of that parapet ever since.

So my friends,

Says he going into Tony Brady's Irish,

Today I'm going to throw the gauntlet down to each and every one of you just to pop your head above the parapet.

I'm going to make this really easy for you.

If you want a script of my meditations,

You can have it,

You want me to produce it for you,

Then I'll produce it and add the music for you.

If you want to learn how to put the music behind you,

I can guide you through that as well.

And just,

Let's say,

Before the year's out,

Let's not be too demanding on when this will be,

You're just aiming to have three meditations on Inside Timer.

This is in 2021.

So when we speak again in nine years time,

You can look back on this time and go,

Look,

My body's fully now exposed above the parapet.

I'm here,

I've arrived,

I'm making a difference in the world.

And very subtle thing,

I went in the world.

You slow down,

You soften the voice at the end,

And that's the end of the awakening.

So when you're ready,

Come back all around the fireside and I'm going to throw the gauntlet to the person to my left to tell me their story about how they got to the fireside today.

So Tom Evidence.

Co,

You'll find me at.

Listen to any of my work on Inside Timer.

You'll get to know that I'm being braver and braver.

There's some really good stuff coming up shortly on there.

And yeah,

Inside Timer,

Not too keen on classic hypnotherapy for some reason,

Which I find a bit strange because there's loads of people who do it on there.

So I don't use the word on there.

I'm not actually that trained as being a hypnotherapist anymore.

I only did a one week course.

So I'm going to thank everybody for attending today.

If you get in touch with me,

Then I can show you the recording.

And if we want to do any more deeper stuff,

I'm sure we can do that.

And how do I make the time for it all?

Well,

The clue and the secret is in the art of time for this,

Which is on the app and other works as well.

So I can't wait.

This is like dropping a massive pebble in the pond,

Rippling out to you so you can take stuff and then ripple it on.

And this is how we collectively make a difference in the world.

And Grace Ann,

It's funny you should ask,

How about business consciousness as topics here?

I've just been asked to put a course together on the business of mindfulness.

Inside Timer,

We're launching a new thing,

IT in Work.

First of all,

I put three new meditations together on there.

And they're up there called Mindful Meetings,

Only three short ones.

And they've asked me to put a course together in next to no time at all next week,

Which I'm going to do a 10 day course,

Which is how you use mindfulness in business.

Now that might be a micro business if you're a one person band,

Or it might be if you're a 10,

000 employee company as well.

It doesn't matter.

It's the same sort of principles.

So thanks everyone for attending.

It's been absolutely amazing.

Oh,

By the way,

Next topic,

I'm going to do something in or around the full moon in August.

Any ideas,

Any suggestions what you'd like to do next?

I suggest it's not easy to do the follow on for this one because I need to do share screenshots and stuff.

We'd have to do that over Zoom and what have you.

So I couldn't do anything on here more on this topic.

The Mindful Business course,

They're asking me to produce it next week.

And I think they want to publish it really quickly early in August.

Thanks for the donations,

By the way.

Why don't I do that next time?

I'll tell you what,

Let me do mindfulness in business as an introduction next time.

And then we can do that.

We can look and see again to the course,

Which should be live on the app.

So I'll do a little introduction to mindfulness in business.

That'll make a lot of sense.

So thanks everybody.

Enjoy the weekend.

Enjoy the good weather.

Beautiful harvest.

Suzanne,

That's a great,

Can we do that in September?

Because that's the harvest time over here,

The autumn.

We'll do that around the autumn equinox.

That's a great suggestion,

Suzanne.

Thank you for that.

So,

And actually if you think about it,

What we're doing with this whole process is harvesting our knowledge,

Putting it into bales and then making it so other people can take it and do things with it.

So the topic for next month will be mindfulness in business and the topic for the moon data will be about harvesting.

And I always do that.

I always produce my stuff in spring,

Harvest it in autumn and then use it over winter and then it comes into the next season.

That'd be great.

Thanks for all the donations everybody.

I said,

That's not what my motivation is.

Even though insight time,

You asked three times for it,

But thanks for everything.

And let's hope this is the start of something really big altogether.

Take good care.

Oh,

Thank you.

Yeah,

Now I thank everybody.

And then I,

And actually what will happen after this as well is that in the donations tab of the backend,

I'll also thank everyone individually to that as well.

Cause it's really important that you do that.

And it's really silly by doing that.

It just,

It creates a connection between you and I just don't say thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'll make something absolutely relevant to that person,

Which is important.

So see you all next month,

Everybody.

Keep well,

Keep safe.

And look forward to hear all the wonderful productions.

Moza is,

I'll just have to type my website in www.

Tomevans.

Co.

And I think it's about 213 meditators,

Suzanne attended,

Which is great.

See you all soon.

And as I say,

I'm really,

Really,

Really looking forward to hearing what you all come up with and hearing me in loads of different languages too.

That's what's to do the case.

Take care.

See you soon.

Bye.

Reviews

Thank you Tom, so wonderfully generous as always xx

I love this talk, thank you so much for sharing this that level of humbleness and for your encouragement. I loved the way you speak, share and comitting to colectivelly co-create working as one team of the Universe. Thank You.
Melina

Glad to sit and listen to this again. You have helped me so much with your variety of meditations, and this really helps me break down what i love about them.

Thank you Tom! That was very helpful. I will be in touch with you after the new year. I’m looking forward to working with you!