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Gratitude Unlocked 7/7: You're Not Behind. You're Right on Time. #SlowDownSunday · Dr. Derek H. Suite MD - The SuiteSpot

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  SPEAKER_00: Every once in a while, you have to give yourself permission to stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: To look up, to breathe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the sweet spot.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Derek Sweet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am a student of the intersection of science, soul, and success.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes, I'm a board-certified psychiatrist and a performance strategist, and I work with elite athletes and executives and all of that stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what's more important is that I want to live a life I love and I want you to do the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to be the best version of yourself, and I want to do the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today on Slowdown Sunday, we have an opportunity to do that.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: Slowdown Sunday is a day for returning to rhythm.
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  SPEAKER_00: The kind that doesn't rush or force.
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  SPEAKER_00: The kind that knows that creation moves on its own time.
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  SPEAKER_00: When astrophysicists look into space, they see a universe that's still expanding, still growing, still creating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Galaxies are moving apart at thousands of miles per second, and yet there's a rhythm to everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: A silent pulse of order underneath all that motion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stars are born in clouds of dust and pressure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Planets are cool, oceans form, and life awakens.
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  SPEAKER_00: All because the universe is taking its sweet time.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no hurry in the heavens.
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  SPEAKER_00: We rush around.
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  SPEAKER_00: But everything in the universe has a time and a rhythm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every sunrise we see is eight minutes old.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how long it takes light to reach us from the sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let that land.
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  SPEAKER_00: The light that warms your skin left the sun before you even woke up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And still it arrived right on time.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a lesson.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the wisdom of the cosmos, my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Patience built into power.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes, the ancient wisdom has been teaching that same truth for thousands of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm forty six, ten, one of my favorites.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be still and know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be still and know that I am God.
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  SPEAKER_00: What this tells me is that stillness is not the absence of movement here, it's the awareness of presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be still and know I'm God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That requires awareness.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you slow down, you don't fall behind, you fall back into alignment with the divine rhythm that's been holding on to you all along.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we slow down, when we be still and we get in touch with the divine, we're aligning ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the fastest way to get to where you want to get to in life is to be still.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let that sink in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in Isaiah 40, verse 31, it also has some wisdom there for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you an athlete?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you a high performer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you a business person?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you a tired mom or tired dad?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you a student?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you grinding?
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  SPEAKER_00: Put your hope in God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Renew your strength in the divine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Begin to soar on wings like an eagle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Run and not grow weary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Walk and not go weak.
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  SPEAKER_00: How's that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Scripture giving us energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope and gratitude are the twin engines of renewal.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you remember how much you've already been carried in this life, you stop forcing yourself to do things, you stop forcing the future, and you start trusting the timing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just like the universe has its timing, just like the sun knows when to rise and when to set, you start fine-tuning your own timing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Astrophysicists call it the fine-tuning of the universe, the way gravity, light, and energy exist in perfect balance to make life possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude is the same principle inside the human heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: It fine-tunes your perception, it keeps you balanced between ambition and peace, between doing and being.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something's not working out, it's not ready.
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  SPEAKER_00: You practice gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: You take a breath, you be grateful for what's already working.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you practice gratitude, your brain's stress circuits begin to calm down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your body returns to coherence and your awareness widens.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's as if you have a personal orbit that finally matches the universal creations orbit.
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  SPEAKER_00: You begin to align with what's going on, and that's good for performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're an athlete, that's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are a mission critical individual, police officer, maybe, a fireman, an airline pilot, a doctor, a lawyer, these are important messages to understand that the practice of gratitude will create in you coherence.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not just poetry, that's physics, meaning faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a deep breath with me now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And think of the vastness of above you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And exhale and whisper thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think of the dot that we are in the universe and be grateful.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the same air the stars released billions of years ago, the same oxygen that fuels the heart right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are literally breathing in the universe and breathing out the universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: So on this slowdown Sunday, don't measure your worth by what you produce.
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  SPEAKER_00: Measure it by how much wonder you can still feel.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are a miracle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what it took for you to be born?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you know how many people are not born into this world?
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  SPEAKER_00: Millions and millions did not make it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look up to the sky tonight and remember, the light that left the star 10,000 years ago is just now reaching your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how long creation has been trying to get your attention, my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I want you to leave with a special feeling inside of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to read Melody Beattie's poem.
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  SPEAKER_00: A poem that I've been giving to you in bits and pieces all week.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've been exploring it all week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the poem.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna read it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It turns what we have into enough and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gratitude makes sense of our past.
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  SPEAKER_00: It brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wasn't that a beautiful poem?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's end where we began.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's end with gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the pulse beneath everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the quiet law of motion that keeps the galaxies turning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's what keeps the heart beating, it's what keeps hope alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I gotta tell you, I'm grateful that we had this week together on gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is just the introduction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next week we're going even deeper into gratitude.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: This is just the appetizer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The entree is yet to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't miss next week, my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't miss it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if this brought you peace today, share it with someone who needs to breathe again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as always, stay amazing, stay powerful, and continue to be thankful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take care.