Podbit · The Shawn Ryan Show
A 21-minute daily practice raises bliss levels by 70%, triples BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factors), and produces a bliss state 23% higher than a sexual orgasm — based on studies from top universities. Sadhguru's point: bliss is not a luxury or a spiritual achievement. It is the natural chemistry of a well-run human system.
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After years of successful business and a nagging feeling that he needed to ride away, Sadhguru took a break between meetings on a hill he knew well. On a familiar rock, something happened that he had no framework for: he did not know which was him and which was not. The trees, rocks, and mountain had become him. What was contained in his body had spilled over everywhere. He thought it lasted 15 to 20 minutes; 4.5 hours had passed, his shirt wet with tears he had no habit of shedding. When he asked his own mind what was happening, it said: 'Maybe you're going off your rocker.' His friends assumed he had taken acid or found mushrooms. He knew he had hit something for which there was no context — neither in his own mind nor in anyone around him — but he knew it was a goldmine and he would not let it go. He began experimenting: closing his eyes for what felt like 2 minutes and opening them to find 7 or 8 hours gone. Memories of lives he had never lived, verifiable when he tracked them down. His voice changed. His gait changed. His eyes changed shape. He describes the insight that followed: a little distance between psychological activity and physiological process is all it takes to generate a wave of bliss. [1] — Sadhguru "At 25, sitting on a rock he knew well, Sadhguru suddenly lost the boundary between himself and the world around him. What he thought lasted…" 1:28:10
At 25, sitting on a rock he knew well, Sadhguru suddenly lost the boundary between himself and the world around him. What he thought lasted 15 minutes turned out to be 4.5 hours — shirt soaked with tears, every cell blissed out, with no framework to explain it. That moment launched 44 years of teaching.
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