This video explains how to actually start meditation and make it your habit – no frills, no dogma, no pretzel legs required.

🚫 Candles/playlists

🚫 Sitting like a pretzel

🚫 Special robes

🚫 Needing a "zen den"

🚫 Mantras/visuals

Timestamps

00:00 Opening & why you SHOULD meditate UNGUIDED

01:05 4 myths about meditation

02:28 Brain upgrade science (amygdala shrinkage = less stress!)

03:36 Step-by-step: Sit → Breathe → Notice wander → Repeat (chair/toilet-friendly!)

09:00 "Failures" are bicep curls for your brain

Forget Tokyo—this is Japan’s wildest island! Join me in Kochi Prefecture for samurai history, mountains above the clouds, and fish cooked with fire. ✨🗺️

KEY SPOTS FEATURED

📍 Kochi Castle (高知城)

📍 Shikoku Karst (四国カルスト)

📍 Ryoma’s Birthplace (高知駅前・坂本龍馬像)

📍 Hirome Market (Bonito Tataki spot!)

❓ WAIT... WHY NO SUSHI?Kochi’s coast is a BONITO (katsuo) paradise! Their fire-seared Tataki is so iconic, eating sushi here feels criminal. 😉

Timestamp

00:00 Why Shikoku is Japan’s BEST kept secret

00:45 Kochi Castle - One of Japan’s ONLY original castles

01:44 Sakamoto Ryoma - The rebel samurai who changed Japan FOREVER (RIP legend)

02:19 Shikoku Karst - Japan’s "Alps in the Sky"

03:28 BONITO TATAKI - Why you shouldn’t eat sushi here!

JAPAN’S TWILIGHT ZONE: Where mascots are citrus, shrines are run by cats, and villages are full of dolls.

In this video, you will watch the dance that saved local people from the trauma of WWII, Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage (and why pilgrims fear "barrier temples"), what is Japan's mascot culture that can generate BILLIONS...

Dive into Tokushima’s surreal soul:

✅ 300+ SCARECROWS guarding an empty village

😾 A shrine where CATS avenge injustice

💃 The dance that resurrected a broken city

🍋 Sudachi-kun: Citrus samurai saving farms

NOT a conventional Japan trip. NO CHERRY BLOSSOMS. NO CROWDS. JUST REAL SHIKOKU.I hunted Japan’s most forgotten prefecture to bring you:

✅ 5 NATURE SPOTS that’ll electrocute your soul

✅ 5 LOCAL EXPERiences that feel like stealing Japan’s WiFi passwordhighlights

⛰️ 85m waterfall with secret shrine

🌊 Fishing god’s sea cave

🌉 Samurai vine bridge

🏖️ EMPTY beach with 0 tourists

🍢 BEST oden eaten on a bridge?!

☕ Karaoke grandma’s fried rice miracle

Timestamp:

00:00 opening

00:48 nature's big 5

05:09 My personal fav sunset in Tokushima

06:37 Local shopping town

09:12 Mysterious oden

10:13 Grandma's cafe

WHY THIS ISN’T A TYPICAL JAPAN TRIP:

Ate convenience store gourmet like a hobbit

DIY-obsessed husband in a hardware wonderland

Prioritized sunset over work emails (worth it!)

Missed the most famous spot... and loved every imperfect second

👉 NEXT UP: TOKUSHIMA’S CULTURE EDITION (Scarecrow villages! Vengeful cats!)

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