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Stop. Breathe. Reset: The Power of a One-Second Pause · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Eye Opener Society, and welcome back to my
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  shorter attention span podcast.
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  This quick little podcast that hopefully brings you a little bit of thought,
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  some inspiration, or just to spark some new conversation for your daily needs.
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  Don't forget, Mondays still are regular episodes.
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  Tune into them when they come out. There are full-length episodes and you can
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  join me and my co-host Lizzie and we can have good conversation together with new perspectives.
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  What I wanted to talk about today is really just how do you find that moment of peace?
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  And since I work with meditation, I know a lot of people think you got to clear
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  your mind and that's such bullshit because you don't.
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  It's such a myth, but you have to be in a right spot to do it.
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  So listen, here's what I'm gonna teach you if I teach you nothing else.
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  Stop.
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  Just stop. It's kind of like a red light that pops up in front of you. You just stop.
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  And all of a sudden, everything that's going on around you, you close your eyes
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  and everything goes black and everything is silent.
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  Even if there's noise around you, even if you're in traffic or in a zoo,
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  whatever the case may be, it stops.
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  Just one second. Everything stops for a minute, no matter of where you are.
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  Just focus on the way you breathe. And then it's kind of like,
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  you know, it's kind of like electronic devices.
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  A lot of them, even though you turn the power switch off, takes sometimes around
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  30 seconds before everything shuts down.
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  A car does that. You shut it off. A lot of systems are still running.
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  But when we shut off our system, we got to picture everything shutting down in stages.
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  And that's all you need to do. The moment you stop, that's one stage.
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  Closing your eyes, everything goes black. That's another stage.
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  All the sounds around you quiets down.
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  That's another stage. And little by little, you start to shut down each little system.
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  And then what's left is just you. And again, no matter where you are, I don't care.
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  No matter how much noise, how much confusion is going on around you.
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  If you're sitting there in your own little space.
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  You have achieved that moment where you're ready to accept meditation,
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  whether it's to accept calming of yourself or just to accept your soul for what it is in that moment.
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  Because we matter at all times,
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  but we never really recognize that because we're not taking that moment to stop
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  and realize that we are just a beautiful soul that's stuck in a system that's
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  trying to kind of take us apart.
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  So put yourself back together by shutting down. And once all of our systems
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  shut down and we find that peace, we turn ourselves on and we reboot.
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  And as each system turns back on, we're now running smoothly again.
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  It's so wild how we can just relate to things like that, like electronics and all. It's a reset.
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  You know, life mimics us. So just reset, reboot, recharge and you'll be much better.
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  My name is Gary Dean. This is Eye Opener Society and you've tuned into one of
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  the short attention span podcasts.
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  I appreciate you joining me here. Don't forget to tune in every Monday when
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  we have our full length episodes. I'll talk to you soon.