Meditational State – What is the story and who is behind the YouTube channel?
Meditational State was created in 2009 by Dane and Adam, two brothers who had a media company making professional videos – clients included McDonalds and Waterworld and the NHS. They worked together for nearly 5 years, creating a strong working relationship, often doing videos for free for charities and churches and helping people with mental health issues.
Dane and Adam met Mo Choudry (the then owner of Waterworld) when he gave a motivational talk at a Young Enterprise Awards evening attended by over 500 students and teachers – and business people who sponsored the Young Enterprise teams. Dane and Adam were videoing the event and Mo was quite taken with their professionalism and asked them to create a video of Waterworld Aqua Park which went on the website and helped to promote the water park, turning it into a profit-making business.
Mo Chaudry is a philanthropist who devoted a lot of his time to helping young people (giving the after dinner talk at Young Enterprise for free). He also took part in Channel 4’s ‘The Secret Millionaire’ programme, living undercover, on a limited budget, in a poor community, volunteering alongside locals and finding people and projects that deserved his financial support.
Dane and Adam both enjoyed IT, media and business studies at school but never dreamed they would create such a successful YouTube channel. Dane’s media studies teacher told him he would never make a career in media! Despite this, Dane passed his exams with flying colours and went on to complete a Maine Media workshop in the USA.
After completing a media course at college, Adam was accepted by Young Foundation, an organisation set up by KPMG to help motivate disenfranchised young people from challenging backgrounds, bringing together people, businesses and influencers for locally-led social, civic and political change. He completed the course, learning about behavioural science, psychology and leadership, but chose not to join them as he was helping to home educate their younger brother, Kirt, creating meditation music which they uploaded to YouTube so friends and family could use them for meditation. Adam then went on to work in a mental health hospital educating patients in various subjects – including English, Maths and IT skills.
Both Dane and Adam have experience of mental health – with friends and family – with Young Enterprise and Young Foundation and Mind and other organisations they have worked with or supported. Following Mo Choudry’s example, they are passionate about helping people and this passion transcribes into the music and videos they create.
They conducted a lot of research into the healing powers of ancient Vedic music and experimented with the benefits of different Hertz incorporated into the music. They discovered the effects of music on the Vagus nerve, the secrets of the microbiome, how music affects hormones and cortisol and how EMDR and binaural beats can enhance the healing effects.
New scientific evidence is continually being discovered that proves this music really can help with many ailments, both physical and mental, and different hertz have been incorporated into the tracks along with EMDR and binaural beats to enhance the music’s healing powers. Dane and Adam still have a really good working relationship and speak everyday about things they have read and ideas to improve the channel.
But it’s the people – you – the subscribers – that make this channel so wonderful, for supporting us and for the amazing comments you take the time to write – so please continue to share with us your thoughts and thank you for making Meditational State what it is today – and helping us to help you!
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