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Wednesday Night Meditation with Gary Dean | Understanding Signs, Symbols & Inner Guidance · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another EyeOpener Society's Wednesday night meditation.
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  Now, if you're listening to this in audio form, that's great.
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  But we can also be seen on video at bitshoot.com. Just search EyeOpener Society.
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  Or you can find us on YouTube as well. And you will see that I am outdoors during the day.
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  I think it's 30 degrees right now But I am doing this because I just had a sign
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  You know basically saying do your podcast outdoors And I tend to listen to myself
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  a lot more So let's focus on that,
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  When it comes to meditation What it does for us,
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  It triggers certain things within our own bodies Our own souls Where we're able
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  to listen to ourselves We're able to interpret signs We're able to hear things
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  That are telling us to do or not do certain things,
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  And this is important when it comes to meditation Because we want to focus on
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  that We want to continue to concentrate on how to take care of ourselves And
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  we cannot take care of ourselves If we are just sitting and not listening to ourselves.
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  The entire universe, nature, everything We are so connected with it People that we never met,
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  we're connected to them It's all quantum entanglement We have this ability to feel others,
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  It's just how tuned in are we to that?
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  That's the question and that's what meditation can help with The better we are
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  in tune to ourselves The better we are in tune to other people We also can learn.
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  To understand these sudden bursts of symbols.
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  And by symbols, I mean like signs. We could be walking through the street just
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  like today, just before the show.
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  As I drove out of my parking lot, there was a vehicle parked just kind of on
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  the side of the road by itself.
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  New, clean, wasn't abandoned or anything, but it had a whole saying on the back
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  window about compassion and how we need to be more compassionate towards one another.
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  And that I took as a sign because I was going through this myself over the past
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  few days, and I wanted to meditate on it to find out exactly what all of this means.
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  And we start to, it's like soup.
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  It's a bunch of ingredients that come to us, whether they be signs, symbols,
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  words, poetry, A song that
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  keeps popping up A shape of a cloud Anything It's just soup It's all the ingredients
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  that falls into this pot And we need to mix it all up And we need to determine
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  The type of soup that's going to be the outcome And that's what meditation to me is,
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  And by sitting quietly By thinking about these things,
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  Again we're asking ourselves questions internally And we sit and we focus on
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  those questions And we allow the answers to appear before us They may not make
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  sense right away They may sometimes be completely off topic However.
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  What they say depends on how we interpret them and then how we apply them to our practices.
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  Now, if you're just starting meditation and you've never done it before and
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  you're asking, how am I going to do this? How do I apply this?
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  This is what I'm talking about. It is going to be up to you to make those determinations.
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  The goal is to meditate. That's it. Take that 5 to 10 minutes a day if that's all you have.
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  And hopefully, eventually, it gets up to more, like an hour or more a day.
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  Because the longer you start to meditate, the longer you sit by yourself and
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  just listen to the questions that are being asked in your head,
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  you're going to find answers.
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  Even though they may not be so subtle, you might have to interpret them.
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  These are the things we learn through meditation And I really encourage you,
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  everyone To go out and learn about meditation Not just from me, because again,
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  I do not practice any one type of meditation I've learned about a few and I
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  never really studied it I'm not certified,
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  I don't believe there should be certifications in anything spiritual,
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  That's like asking Jesus, was he certified as a healer?
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  You know, that's just my thoughts But I practice meditation The very basics
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  of it What I get out of it and how I apply it That's my own thing And I like
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  to share it with people Because it might help you,
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  But I encourage you to explore further Go deeper Find the type of meditation that works for you.
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  The more you are connected to a certain style of doing things, the better it will be.
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  The better things will become.
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  But nothing will become if you're not doing it.
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  So you do. You need to sit, practice, meditate every single day.
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  Get stronger. Get better.
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  And then these little tips and tricks you'll see along the way start to come
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  in handy. and they start to give you a bigger idea of what is going on.
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  My name is Gary Dean. I thank you again for tuning into these Wednesday night meditations.
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  I hope to bring you some more guided meditations, but I'm kind of enjoying giving
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  these little tips and tricks because I feel it really helps people get into the mindset,
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  as far as where they should be with meditation and really what it is.
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  And then we could do some more guided meditations as well.
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  So again, I thank you again for tuning in. I'll look forward to seeing you on
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  my regular podcast every Monday morning, as well as every Wednesday for the
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  guided meditations. Thank you.