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From Breath to Body: Practical Tips to Deepen Your Meditation · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone. Welcome back to EyeOpener Society's Guided Meditation Series.
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  And this is a special episode that I'm doing because, like I said,
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  I don't always want to give guided meditations.
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  I also wanted to give some tips, tricks, you know, stories, whatever the case
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  may be, to help you with meditation.
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  And one thing I've learned is there's so many different types of meditations.
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  Pick and choose what works best for you. These guided meditations are the easiest
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  to do online because everything else, it's quiet and there's really nothing else to do.
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  So in order to introduce some new things, I wanted to bring on Hannah Rose,
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  who has the podcast, The Sound Within.
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  And most of you know her. I'm sure everybody heard her show.
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  If not, You better get listening.
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  She's got some amazing things, but Hannah Rose does intentional breathing,
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  and I figured we could work this in.
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  So let's introduce Hannah Rose. Hannah, how are you doing today?
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  Thank you for joining us on the Guided Meditation series. Yes, thank you.
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  I'm happy to be here. It's always obviously a pleasure to do an episode with you.
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  And so I'm excited to chat more about the guided meditations,
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  which I personally love Gary's guided meditations.
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  If you guys haven't listened to them yet, he's not only, you know,
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  the man behind the face of Eye Opener Society, but he's also amazing at.
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  Guiding people through meditation. So definitely check that out.
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  And I'm excited to talk a little bit more about that and incorporating the breath with that too.
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  Well, it's much appreciated. Thank you so much. It's always nice to hear that from you.
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  Yeah, I, like I said, guided meditations is just something I like to do because
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  they're very easy because the listener just gets to sit back and I get to paint
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  that picture for them and it helps.
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  And like I said, there's so many other the ways to meditate,
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  but when you're doing a series online, it's just the easiest one to do.
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  So that brings me to the intentional breathing because it's something I think
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  we can incorporate in meditation.
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  If not for anything, at the very beginning, when you want to clear that space,
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  you want to clear your own intentions. And I believe that intentional breathing
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  is powerful enough to actually do that.
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  So before we even go any further with that, why don't you, Hannah Rose,
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  just explain a little bit about the intentional breathing and,
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  you know, how you do it and how you learned it and all.
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  Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I have kind of talked about this a bit on The Sound
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  Within about my experience with the intentional breath and my best friend,
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  Amber June, She's the one that introduced me to the breath, and we actually met on TikTok,
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  just like I met you there as well.
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  And, you know, I really was just...
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  Being open-minded that day, I really had no idea what it was about.
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  Yeah, it kind of looked a little crazy and sounded crazy. It was against the
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  norm of what you would think when people say to breathe.
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  You would think that you want to slow down your breaths, which is an amazing
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  breath pattern for people that do enjoy slow inhales and slow exhales.
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  But you could also achieve just as much mental clarity and relaxation with fast-paced patterns.
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  And I know some people might automatically think that breathing fast like that
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  is going to create a hyperventilation state in the body,
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  which in a way it does.
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  But it's also releasing so much of what we carry in our bodies,
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  in all of our energetic centers throughout our life without sometimes even realizing it.
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  And so when we're able to just kind of shut the logical mind off,
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  which is what intentional breathing is supposed to be for.
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  You're not really supposed to put a lot of thought into it, which is why I would
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  suggest not even really worrying about the patterns.
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  You can just play with your own inhales and exhales and find out what feels
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  good for you and move with your body so that you can move any stuck energy within that.
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  And so it's good to even start getting familiar with your inhales and exhales
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  before a guided meditation, which is a lot of the time suggested.
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  Do we always take the suggestion or no, I don't know, but it can be hard to.
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  Commit to it. Actually sit down and do it.
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  It's really easy to, of course,
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  take it all in and see how good it looks and sounds, but if you're not really
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  taking the intentional time with yourself,
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  you're going to have trouble achieving that mental clarity that you're trying to achieve.
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  So, for me, it has changed my life in more ways than I can count.
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  And I like to use the breath when
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  I'm experiencing happiness and when I'm experiencing sadness and anger.
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  And it has allowed me to have an outlet for things that can just get overwhelming for the human body.
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  You bring up some really good points and, like I said, the comfort level of
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  where we all are when it comes to meditation. There's a lot of people,
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  they're not really comfortable yet with just meditation.
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  And usually I start it off where I just tell everybody, just concentrate on your breathing.
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  It doesn't have to be deep inhales or strong exhales. It's just concentrating
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  on your breathing because it's something to focus on.
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  And I know you scolded me, too, on this as far as intentional breathing and
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  breath work, where you don't ever want to use the word breath work because it's not work.
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  This is what we do normally, and it makes complete sense to me.
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  And that's what people don't understand. When I say just focus on your breathing,
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  it's not focus on actually doing it because we do it regardless,
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  and we just focus on that in and out.
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  But now when it comes to intentional breath work And like you said the patterns
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  of it The sound of it Many people are not comfortable with it Because it's just more or less the.
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  And then you have a pattern to it Like you said based upon Whatever you feel
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  is most comfortable for you It's loud But on the same token There's primal screaming,
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  Drumming and all this Where it's a complete release It's primal It's strong
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  It's supposed to be loud It's not supposed to sound normal It's energy It's
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  energetic And it's powerful,
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  And that's why I would like to incorporate a little bit of this Or at least
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  encourage someone to try doing this Because it might work for them You tried
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  it It's changed your life This could very easily change somebody else's life.
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  Most definitely. And I have gotten a lot of feedback on the breath.
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  As some of you might know who are listening, I typically do sound baths with
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  the crystal sound bowls, and I like to practice with sound healing.
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  But what really matters is that I'm going to be.
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  Inspired me to start that was the breath.
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  The breath is really kind of where I started, like from the ground up.
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  And I didn't need any tools or supplies or anything for that.
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  I even had a broken phone at the time, which I couldn't really even type on
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  because it would glitch.
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  So I'd be in there breathing and trying to just communicate in the chat my experience,
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  and it wasn't quite working, but it just goes to show that you don't need to
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  put a lot of thought into it.
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  You don't need to have a lot of money. You don't need to have a lot of things.
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  And it kind of brings you back to the source of it all.
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  Where you're not relying on external things to be a source of your happiness
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  and you can just sit with you and yourself.
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  So I am also really excited to kind of just share that experience that not only me,
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  but a lot of people in the collective have had when it comes to the power of breath.
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  And it just seems a little, I always like to joke because sometimes I think
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  back to in the past when people have told me, just breathe, like when I'm upset.
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  And people tell me, just take a second and breathe.
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  And I would get so pissed off at that because it's like, what do you mean just
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  breathe? I am breathing. I'm upset.
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  But now there's a completely different meaning to that because I opened my mind
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  to something that was not typical of me.
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  And I focus on my breath now, I just still have taken that with me throughout
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  my experience, and I can use that modality for the rest of my life.
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  That makes total sense. And yeah, it's true.
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  People do always say, hey, just breathe. And if you can imagine yourself at
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  your most emotional state, like the most upset, and it's very difficult in that
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  moment to actually catch your breath.
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  So if you can just picture going into that intentional breathing and just snapping into it.
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  Because even just a while ago when I did just a few of the, you know,
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  intentional breeze, I was just, ah, just a couple of them.
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  And all of a sudden I'm feeling a little bit more energy.
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  It's an exchange of oxygen. I mean, it's, it's all scientific too.
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  When you think about it, um, not really hyperventilation.
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  If you're doing it on a rhythmic pattern, you're allowing Larger amounts of
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  air into your body Filling your lungs And it's oxygenizing the blood.
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  That scientifically, medically Changes your body To where it's able to cope
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  Or basically like a coping mechanism For whatever situation that you are in So yeah,
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  just doing that quick breathing like that It does,
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  it changes everything Physically as well as mentally,
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  And so that's why I like when people say, yeah, just breathe, just breathe.
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  It's difficult in that moment to accept it. But if you did do the practice of
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  intentional breathing, then yeah, it does.
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  It makes perfect sense. And you could be so angry.
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  And that intentional breathing, correct me if I'm wrong, I mean,
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  everybody's different, but it'll probably sound very angry.
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  If you're very sad, it might sound sad, but at the same time,
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  you're doing something to help the situation.
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  Sometimes I surprise myself with the sounds that come out when I'm breathing.
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  It's like, whoa, where did that come from?
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  But it is also empowering to know that I have the power to release that and not hang on to that.
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  And I say that a lot, but I still struggle with that.
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  I'm not always able to fully release all of my anger and the negative emotions
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  that I might experience.
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  But it's with the practice of it, incorporating it into my daily life,
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  rather than just taking 20 minutes to breathe on a random Saturday,
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  and then, you know, going back about my life,
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  taking the time to actually retrain my nervous system so that,
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  yes, that experience is still there. I had that experience.
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  I'm a human, so yes, I have that memory.
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  The memory might not ever go away, but it's the feeling that is attached to
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  that memory that we're focusing on,
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  reframing our nervous system so that when we think about that memory or that
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  thing that is really upsetting to us, the more and more time that we work on
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  it, we're able to feel a different way in our body when we think of it.
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  It happened, but it's okay now. It wasn't okay then, but it's okay now.
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  So it's just like that present moment, momentum that you got to get into.
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  Yeah. I'm hoping people are not scared to take the first place.
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  Breaths you know because yeah i know
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  it's brought up so often it doesn't sound i
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  don't know i hate to say normal but what is normal um you work with sound bowls
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  as well it's it's a continuous sound and sound is frequency and that frequency
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  changes us the sound bowls that you have i love them i i'm always so drawn into any type of sound,
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  especially like wind chimes and certain bells.
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  And I practice with binaural beats. It's all sound.
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  So when we're going into intentional breathing, it's not bells.
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  It's not chimes. It's not a sound ball.
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  It is your own body resonating a frequency that's coming outwards.
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  And maybe doing it in church or school might be, you know, weird or odd.
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  But when you're sitting alone and you're doing a meditation and you start that
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  intentional breathing, that sound is between you and your thoughts, really.
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  And once you sit and accept it.
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  For just what it is, it's beautiful.
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  And especially the fact that it's doing something for you. Like I said,
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  I'm going to do it again. Ah.
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  Ah. Ah. It's strong. It's powerful.
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  And I feel something with it. Does it sound normal? To me, it does.
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  Yeah. Again, it's just heavy, deep breathing, but it's very intentional.
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  And you're focusing on something.
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  So a lot of people are uncomfortable with the breathing and the panting-like
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  state because it probably reminds them of a sexual nature,
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  probably because as we have discussed in previous episodes between me, you, and Lizzie,
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  the over-sexualization of the human race in general.
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  So when people hear that, it could make them uncomfortable for a lot of different
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  reasons. And there's no shame in that either.
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  We're not here to make anyone feel uncomfortable for feeling uncomfortable when these feelings come up.
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  It's more about feeling the feelings and letting them be and knowing that it's
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  okay, you know, to be uncomfortable.
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  And it's okay to be comfortable, too. Yeah, and listen, sexuality too as well
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  is another form of energy exchange as well.
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  There's nothing to be uncomfortable with that.
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  So, yeah, just relating the sound to one thing is incorrect.
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  It can be related to so many different things. And once we focus it on our state of health...
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  Our state of meditation we realize it's just completely normal and there's really
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  nothing wrong with it especially once you give an explanation hey this is what
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  intentional breathing is this is what it sounds like it's no different like i said than going to a,
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  primal screaming you know group and they're going to sit there and they're just going to scream,
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  it's completely out of the ordinary but there's a focus to it and there's reasons
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  behind it so So everyone should just take some time, learn it,
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  listen to the sound within, especially the earlier episodes.
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  You know, Hannah Rose did talk and explain it, and you could hear her doing it as well.
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  You follow her on TikTok, too.
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  It's there, and it might actually be something that you're comfortable with
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  and you actually get some benefits from.
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  And that's why I'm bringing up this whole episode, because I like to bring things
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  that might help. And like I say, it helps me. And I actually learned this.
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  I knew, and again, I knew this in the past, but I knew it as breath work.
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  And again, I don't want to be scolded. It's so, it really is so,
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  like, it's hardwired in my brain now. It's intentional breathing.
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  And again, it makes sense. There's no work to it. It's just breathing.
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  And I learned that through Hannah Rose When I started, you know,
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  seeing her TikToks And hearing her sound bowls and all And then hearing her
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  actually performing the intentional breathing,
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  It gave me something else to put in my toolbox You know, from,
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  okay, I'm not, nothing's really working right now So let me try the intentional
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  breathing And it did work, and it still works And that's why I appreciate Hannah,
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  because you did You bought something new to the table and hopefully this could
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  reach a lot more people for their meditation.
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  I hope so. I hope it does, too. And I'm really glad that you had me on today to discuss it,
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  because it's always fun to just talk about an experience that has been really
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  helpful in my life and that has made not-so-good experiences better.
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  And so I'm hoping that anybody out there that is hearing this is inspired to
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  take the time to breathe.
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  Yes take the time to breathe take the time to meditate that's what it all boils
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  down to i'm hoping everybody that's following this series has done the meditations
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  and rather than always just tuning in to me you should be doing this on your
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  own sitting aside that 10-15 minutes a day,
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  find that space and no matter what you do whether it's a guided meditation a
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  focused meditation a transcendental meditation, intentional breathing,
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  whatever it might be, that you're actually doing it.
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  The more we do it, the more practice you do at it, the more regular it becomes,
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  the more regular it becomes in your body.
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  So Hannah, real quick, where can you be found? What's your handle again on TikTok?
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  So my handle on TikTok is Hannah Rose.
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  One four six that's it and yeah
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  i'm like oh hopefully i i gave
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  that right there might be an underscore in there or something but
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  but you should be able to find me it's just a picture of
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  me with uh black tribal paint on my face and
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  i am also on i open society which my
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  segment is called the sound within and how
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  and you can find me there on youtube bit
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  shoot pod bean and i believe some
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  other listening platforms yeah yeah i know since i went to straight video um
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  it's harder to find so if you search eye opener society um you'll find us and
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  obviously if you're tuning in now you know where to find us and if you just
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  if you just scroll through and just look for hannah's logo the.
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  Sound Within logo And listen to
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  a few of her episodes And we're always looking forward to more episodes From
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  her so when they do come out We usually release those on Friday Whenever Hannah
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  gets us some episodes So Hannah again thank you so much It's always a pleasure
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  to talk to you I really enjoy you coming on here And you know helping out with
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  the show Thank you and thank everybody Here for listening as well,
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  Absolutely thank you for tuning Into the series and look forward to more on
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  the Guided Meditation series by EyeOpener Society.
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  Don't forget to check out our regular Monday episodes with Lizzie as well as
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  some other pop-up episodes that come on.
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  And don't forget Anlon's Haunted and Waiting, Sunset Child's Out There Podcast,
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  and Elaine's Arcane Oracle.
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  Thank you for joining us and we'll see you again soon.