Well Intentioned: Jay Shetty On Making Mindful Moments, Monotasking, and Re-setting With a Good Cup of Tea – Vogue

From mantras to meditation, mindfulness to manifestation, Well Intentioned offers an intimate look at how to make space for self-care in meaningful ways, big and small.

I first learned about Jay Shetty about five years after he launched his mission to make wisdom go viral, via an extremely credible source: Jennifer Ansiton. Thats so awesome, Shetty says with a laugh, flashing a warm smile across our shared Zoom screen. Shettya business school grad-turned-monk who has leveraged his motivational speeches and self-help philosophies into a coaching career that has attracted CEOs, celebrities, and millions of people who seek weekly guidance from his YouTube channel, podcasts, and speaking eventshas logged on to drop some knowledge about yet another way you, too, can be mindful and stay present: drinking tea.

One of my earliest memories is getting picked up from school by mom and wed have a cup of tea and shed ask me how my day was, says Shetty, 34, who just launched Sama, a line of four adaptogenetic teas, with his wife, Radhi Devlukia-Shetty. My parents were very busy, they were both immigrants working extremely long hours, but I started to equate love and presence and energy with tea time with my mom. When Shetty and Devlukia-Shetty got married five years ago, they started their own tea rituala few minutes every morning to connect over a bespoke herbal potion Devlukia-Shetty would blend before their days took them in different directions and just as the pandemic hit, Shetty had a realization: Ive always wanted to make mindfulness, presence, stillness, wellness easier for people. And I thought, How can I make people more aware of how to do this in a way they will remember it?

Tea is very British and very Indian," concedes Shetty, who grew up in London with Indian parents, and now lives in Los Angeles. But its metamorphic significance can be applied across borders, even in a country where coffee is king: You cant rush tea. You have to sip it slowly, he points out, noting the way the soothing elixir forces you to slow down and just...breathe. This is precisely the kind of simple hack that informs many of Shettys extremely relatable lessons on lifeand wellness (below), a juggernaut he prefers to approach with mini moments of reflection versus anything too unattainable and unrealistic. Case in point: even just pivoting away from that episodic TV series you (and I) rely on to relax can do a world of good for our ability to actually wind down. Something to consider the next time you queue up 30 Rock. Again.

I used to spend hours trying to find something to watch. Watching something dissatisfying. Then going to sleep. Or uploading cliffhanger chemicals into my mind and body. The simple answer to how to not do this is to make simple changes: make a really small switch and choose a documentary instead of that TV show. You don't want to read? Listen to an audiobook. It's starting with a small, mini replacement. People want deeper rest but when youre watching something thats flooding your mind with anxiety before going to bed of course youre going to have trouble sleeping. But Ive found that if youre learning something, it can also help your mind settle. A lot of us are numbing our creativity and numbing our own rest by activating ourselves with something external that isn't fueling or feeding us. If youre watching a TV show, why not take notes on something that blew your mind, or something youd like to research more about? Ask yourself, What lessons did I learn? What reference is in there? We can turn our entertainment into a healthy growth mindset. Its not that there isn't a benefit to entertainment. I love watching Ted Lasso! I just think there is a step further that we haven't explored.

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Well Intentioned: Jay Shetty On Making Mindful Moments, Monotasking, and Re-setting With a Good Cup of Tea - Vogue