Hey Ella & Scott, I started watching your channel to improve my Chinese before my first trip to China in August this year. I started to explore more of your content and it turned out that you're two amazing human beings. I got inspired by your story and how you navigate your relationship. I also turned 30 this year so I can relate to so many things and thoughts our generation share...I'm doing yoga almost every day, I struggle with mediation (was also doing Win Hoff method for some time). I just can't find peace in my mind, anxiety kicks in the moment i wake up to run the mundane schedule. I spent 2 weeks in Beijing this summer and got totally mesmerized by China...I also met someone there and we found ourselves attracted to each other, which totally messed my return to Europe. I constantly feel I'm missing out something in my life now, and I'm growing so many doubts in my head. I'm living pretty boring life here, just bought apartment with my girlfriend (mortgage ofc.) and have an office job; it's stable but these things doesn't satisfy me nor bring joy. I just felt I wanted share it with you, don't know why, lol, probably because this video focus so much on inner self. Anyway... wish you all the best for your future endeavours, even though you have small audience, your content is top notch. Thank you for sharing your story🙏🏻
Sounds like our lives have some crossover :) I feel like getting good at life is getting good at making the right decisions, that’s all it is. And meditation has definitely helped both of us get clarity on what the right choice is sometimes, especially because it seems to help slow everything down when the world can feel like it’s spinning too fast. I’m happy our films could give you something and I’m sure you’re on your way to a better place, even if it feels winding. Live life for you!
Despite not understanding a word of what you said, I found that absolutely beautiful. The subtitles told me all about your experience but your voice and the language said it all. I have my first Vipassana meditation coming up in November and what I take from this is that everyone has their own unique experience. I am very much looking forward to it and go there filled with excitement and a little trepidation. I’m so glad you found it so enjoyable/useful. Thank you for sharing.
There's nothing to fear. You are not your thoughts, thoughts just come up without any will or our part. It is our awareness of them which gives us the power to decided what to do with them, and can always be ... nothing at all, just let it slide away
It’s literally the best vipassana story I have heard by now! So deep, sincere and inspiring! Thanks a lot for sharing and being so open ❤ I am going to my first vipassana in October this year, wish me some luck :)) 🎉
For real! They make these noises but I had to add that in afterwards as our microphone is pretty directional and didn't pick it up as wasn't facing it 😆
Another good video. This one has a very BBC docuseries feel. The emotional tones with a lot of B roll you clearly put effort into. Those guys waving at the camera, I could almost see a "guys, I wanted a candid shot" in your little smile after. Keep it up.
You have exactly the kind, beautiful eyes of someone who experienced something (trauma, separation or similar) very young. x Thank you for sharing your story.
Great job 👏 I also have the same back pain and I couldn’t sit for more than 10-15 mins at home in meditation. Not sure how will I sit for ten hours 😅 thanks for sharing giving me some strength
Was wonderful meeting you and Ella on the boat!! You guys are so lovely to talk to. Thank you for sharing this excellent content. I think Xav also found it relevant. I laugh so hard where you mentioned 'tomato and eggs' (a Chinese person living overseas or a foreigner living in China will def know what I am talking about ….) .
Hi Scott, thanks for sharing this entire experience of yours after Vipassana meaning all that you could heal inside you after doing this Vipassana. I want to know how have you been feeling after this? I mean did you get any trauma back again in your life? Now currently how are feeling as a human, did you attract all that you desired in your life? Please Please Please Reply to my comment.... I really want to know your complete experience now also..... I mean in current phase of your life......
No more trauma. Trauma free. Feel like I shed a lot of baggage and still on my way up to who I want to be. Can’t say I have achieved everything I desire but I’m very content with current lifestyle and relationships ☺️
@@EllaScott Wow That's great 👍 i am very impressed with your journey and you are very lucky to release from all your trauma in just one 10day Course, I dint have same experience but wish for it, but your experience is very very inspiring to me. I wish and pray for same for myself in my upcoming course. Thanks again for sharing that you dint get back all that and living a new life which is more Happier & Satisfied, truly you are an inspiration, I have shared your video to so many people as i myself know benefits of Vipassana but your experience is phenomenal. Thanks again for sharing, it's truly inspiring. Metta🙏 🙏 🙏
@sweetpooja5300 I hope you find peace in your trauma too! I feel that these things can't be forced, but at the right time it will find you, and you will be ready 🤘
@@EllaScott i totally agree with you.... I have been practicing Vipassana everyday at home and Do One Day Courses once a week in my city, feeling some difference but yet to release completely. Thanks for your inspiration 😊
Yes, it's call PITI (Pali) .Your meditation level up. Congratulations🎉...and your are the first I found in youtube for 10 day vipassana practice that touch PITI. Your meditation go fast. For Next level you need to know about "anapanasti". if you hear other people talk something like piti please let's them know.
I didn't face my stuttering until recently. I just started a new job, and it forces me to speak more. Every night after coming home, I practice reading out loud. Sometimes I get discouraged, but i will keep up the work.
This was a really nice travel video, makes me want to visit! Idk if its this case, but sometimes there are scams where taxi drivers will say your hotel dosent excist and then try to take you somewhere else to pocket the money... it sounds like you had a nicer experience because of it, but I'd be cautious about these things in the future! (I guess this kinda scam might not exist much in China? I've noticed the taxi drivers there can be quite honest)
Yay! Hope you can. This wasn’t the case for us it was unreliable airbnb. We have since learned to never book airbnbs without reviews or a host that replies because this wasn’t the only time it’s happened 😅
I grew up in the city! I can assure you there’s many places with wifi and hot water in the city. (You can boil your water if u want). I think most of the residents have those amenities. The whole “pee” scent comment was unneeded, next time please book a nice airbnb or a hotel where you’ll have those amenities. Just because you have been inside on resident doesn’t reflect the entire city. Let’s avoid the generalizations we are making here. UB is a modern city with inequality just like any other city in the world. There has been a strong move to rehouse the ger district into apartments but the rural to urban migration trend has been growing.
Hey! Thanks for your comment and I’m sorry if it caused offence. We try to travel as slow as we can to really get a sense of a place and help us get a more rounded view but a week is still only enough for general impressions. We shared our real experiences, nothing more, and I think it was the (enormous) gir district that left the biggest impression
@@EllaScottnot unlike rural parts of China that are dirt poor. I stayed for a night in a motel near the Beijing airport because it was convenient. It was one of the dirtiest, most disgusting places I’ve ever stayed at. I didn’t even take my shoes or clothes off to sleep because I was afraid of catching bed bugs.
Cool adventure, the ger looked more modern than I thought with a flat screen TV and a fridge. And the daughter's place looks quite modern like the interior could be a British home (albeit without the pee stains).
What an amazing, remarkable and memorable story. This is something I would like to experience. How long were you meditating for before you went on this retreat?
Then I’m sure you will 😁 I would casually meditate 5-10mins, usually with the Waling Up app, tried to do it daily but often skipped days. Ella recently completed the 10 days with virtually no meditation experience though. Will be sharing that not too long hopefully 😁
The photographer of the first shot had not "squeezed the image" he was just taking it from a different position, with a different focal length. While some photographers may go too far in processing images, in general, all you are showing in this video is your photographic skills are below those of your reference images. You are turning up to a spot on a random overcast day and expecting to get the same quality of light as someone who took their image on a day with better light, and probably woke up before sunrise to get nicer early morning light, and avoid having all the other tourists in their shot. Good landscape photography takes dedication and knowledge. They are both reality. Why should it be a surprise that a good photograph of a place is more flattering than a mediocre one?
We weren’t comparing photographic ability, nor was I trying to 1:1 recreate the images or even create a ‘better’ image. We were just having fun whilst seeing whether internet images created an expectation that fitted what we saw in real life. And despite your strange criticisms, I’m not in the least insecure about my own photographic abilities.
@@EllaScott I agree you weren't trying to compare photographic ability. I am just saying that was the difference between the images you saw and the images you took. The work the other photographers put into their images. They are both reality. That's what I am trying to say.
Thanks so much, Scott, for opening up and sharing these experiences with us. I'm entering my first Vipassana course in July and your stories and great details have helped me a lot. I've been thinking about the actual sitting, wondering about my back/knees. Your information has helped to settle my concerns a lot. All the best to you. Namaste
From what I understand, meditation generally isn’t recommended to a host of people, especially those susceptible to mental illness (not that this category necessarily represents your friend and I’m sorry to hear that they have suffered from this!). Always good to do your research and know your own limits I think
