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177. Stop this Train · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friends from all across the globe, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to your in rich Self podcast. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Milee Noir. I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach,
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  Speaker 1: now before we get started with this week's episode. If
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know Now. One of the things that
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  Speaker 1: every single second of the day. I am intentional to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy every single second of the day. I am intentional
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy every single second of the day. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: get ready for this week's episode of the Your Enriched
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  Speaker 1: Self podcast. Last year, I celebrated three years hosting this
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  Speaker 1: podcast and getting ready to embark on year four. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I would change anything about what this podcast
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  Speaker 1: is all about. My intention when I started this was
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  Speaker 1: to get people in a place of now, get people
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  Speaker 1: in a place of recognizing that we were given instructions
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  Speaker 1: to live a life that required us to go so fast,
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  Speaker 1: to get all the things done and to become all
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  Speaker 1: the things that everyone says we need to become, and
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  Speaker 1: not become who we were intended to be, not be
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  Speaker 1: this podcast and it will continue to be. And as
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  Speaker 1: I think of this new year, and I think of
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  Speaker 1: this time of year, right we are in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the month of January, and for a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that feels overwhelming because they may have walked out,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you walked out of the year not having accomplished
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  Speaker 1: all the things you wanted to and then here you
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  Speaker 1: are in the middle of the new year, the first
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  Speaker 1: of the new year, and that overwhelming feeling is coming
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  Speaker 1: back to you and you might be thinking to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: it's moving too fast. I'm already hearing that at work,
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  Speaker 1: where we're saying, wow, this year is going by fast.
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  Speaker 1: We tend to say that towards the end of the year,
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  Speaker 1: towards the third and fourth quarter, but it feels like,
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  Speaker 1: if you're being real with how you feel, life is
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  Speaker 1: moving fast. So today I want to talk about how
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  Speaker 1: do you slow it down? How do you slow down
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  Speaker 1: all the movement that's happening that right now may have
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  Speaker 1: you feeling a level of anxiety about what you have
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  Speaker 1: or haven't accomplished, because again, society has dictated to you,
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  Speaker 1: to us, how we are to live and so I
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  Speaker 1: want to make a pause today and say let's stop
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  Speaker 1: the train. And I know that's a big effort. When
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  Speaker 1: you think of an actual train and the movement, the traction,
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  Speaker 1: the velocity of that, it's rare you can get a
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  Speaker 1: train to stop. I mean, we've seen a lot of
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  Speaker 1: examples of videos where someone is stuck on a track
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  Speaker 1: and there's nothing really that can be done for that
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  Speaker 1: train to stop. The best thing to do is for
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  Speaker 1: that person to exit the vehicle or try and get
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  Speaker 1: that vehicle to exit off that track. Today, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about stopping the train because I want you
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  Speaker 1: to feel less about being out of control, more aware
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  Speaker 1: and in the face of life's relentless motion. What does
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  Speaker 1: that all mean, Well, let's talk about how to slow
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  Speaker 1: it down. That's what stopping the train means. How to
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  Speaker 1: slow it down. One of the things that I'll say,
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  Speaker 1: and I am a big firm believer in this. If
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  Speaker 1: you haven't adopted this, please adopt adding more nature to
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  Speaker 1: your day. We are so confined, especially this time of year.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. It's colder in certain areas of the country,
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  Speaker 1: it's colder in certain parts of the world. The seasons
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  Speaker 1: may not be ideal for being outdoors. But making nature
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  Speaker 1: part of your day doesn't necessarily mean taking a walk.
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  Speaker 1: It might be looking out the window. It may mean
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  Speaker 1: stepping out the door and taking a breath of fresh air.
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  Speaker 1: All that does is when you take a look at nature.
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  Speaker 1: When you're in nature, you can't do anything but admire
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  Speaker 1: what you see. I promise you, if you get out
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  Speaker 1: there for with the intention of maybe five minutes, you're
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna give yourself the gift of ten and twenty
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  Speaker 1: and thirty minutes, simply because it'll make you smile, it'll
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  Speaker 1: make you feel good, make you feel better, and it's
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  Speaker 1: so important to get up and move and so getting
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  Speaker 1: into nature. What that essentially means is you are in movement,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great part of enjoying the moment. Another
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  Speaker 1: way you can slow things down is to do new things.
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  Speaker 1: I always say that, and I've heard people say that
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  Speaker 1: new things are hard things. While they're hard, because they're
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  Speaker 1: still new, as you begin to work towards them, they're
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  Speaker 1: not going to feel as hard. All that means is
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  Speaker 1: you're getting out your comfort zone. When you are doing
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  Speaker 1: something new. That means you're going to be uncomfortable for
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  Speaker 1: a while, and instead of feeling the anxiety of the
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  Speaker 1: days going by, you're going to be more focused on
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  Speaker 1: how do you overcome how do you get better at
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  Speaker 1: the thing that you're doing. Your focus, essentially is going
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  Speaker 1: to be shifted from what seems to be time passing
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  Speaker 1: by and more on look at what I'm doing with
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  Speaker 1: my time. I just learned something, I'm being challenged by something,
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  Speaker 1: and it really really helps you get out of your
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  Speaker 1: own way and get into a new space. The next
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  Speaker 1: thing I would say to do as you are having
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  Speaker 1: the intention of slowing things down is pay attention. What
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  Speaker 1: happens is that you live your life and you do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the same things, kind of going back
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  Speaker 1: to doing new things. But as you become part of
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  Speaker 1: your day to day routine, right you create this routine
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  Speaker 1: and you become part of that routine. You start if
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  Speaker 1: you're not careful going into autopilot mode. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about you, but I've been in situations where I get
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  Speaker 1: to work and it's until I stopped the vehicle and
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  Speaker 1: get out, I don't realize how I got there. Because
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  Speaker 1: I take the same route, I leave approximately at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, and I essentially try to get the same
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  Speaker 1: parking spot, and I think for many of you it's
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  Speaker 1: very similar your experience with being in that autopilot state
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  Speaker 1: of mind. And so what I'm saying here is to
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  Speaker 1: pay attention, and paying attention means to have a level
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  Speaker 1: of mindfulness, an intentional level of mindfulness where you are
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  Speaker 1: attentive right you are living with intention to ground you
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  Speaker 1: in the now, and that may require mixing things up
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  Speaker 1: a bit. I know that again we were told, we
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  Speaker 1: were sold the idea of routine ue important. Routine is key,
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  Speaker 1: and that is true. But what happens when you are
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  Speaker 1: in a routine and sometimes that routine turns into a rut,
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  Speaker 1: is that you lose sight of the variety of life,
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  Speaker 1: which everybody says variety is the spice of life. So
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  Speaker 1: you lose your spice and you start to feel like
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  Speaker 1: the train is moving and there's no stopping this train.
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  Speaker 1: And so what I say is pay attention, get out
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  Speaker 1: of the autopilot mode, be more mindful of what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing and where you are when you're doing it. This
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  Speaker 1: kind of feeds into doing things on purpose. Doing things
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  Speaker 1: on purpose every single day. Do as much as you
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  Speaker 1: can from the time the sun rises to the time
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  Speaker 1: the sunsets. And for some of you, you may be
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  Speaker 1: looking at that like, wait a minute, you want me
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  Speaker 1: to fill up my day with activities. Well, you can
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  Speaker 1: do that if you have the time. But here is
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  Speaker 1: an activity that oftentimes gets overlooked because it doesn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like an activity, it doesn't feel like a thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: So because of the way, I now am going to
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  Speaker 1: the office more frequently, five days a week, so no
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  Speaker 1: more working from home for me. I am literally walking
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  Speaker 1: in the office if I'm lucky enough, if I'm blessed
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  Speaker 1: enough to have this experience when the sun is rising
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  Speaker 1: at about seven point thirty seven forty five in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and similarly, at the end of my day again, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed enough to see this, because sometimes it's overcast
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  Speaker 1: and things, I'm able to see the sunset. And so
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  Speaker 1: because that has now been and become part of my
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  Speaker 1: day to day routine, and that's gonna change once the
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  Speaker 1: season's changed. But while it's here, while it's now, as
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking into the office, I have the pleasure of
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  Speaker 1: looking to my right and watching the sunrise. And while
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  Speaker 1: everybody is bustling along trying to get into the building,
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  Speaker 1: including myself. I take a moment, and when I mean
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  Speaker 1: a moment, I'm not out there for five minutes. I'm
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  Speaker 1: literally taking a moment, maybe two or three if I'm
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  Speaker 1: being honest, and I'm stopping in my tracks to be
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  Speaker 1: purposeful about watching that sunrise. I remember the first day,
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  Speaker 1: as we were all getting back to the office, which
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  Speaker 1: was last week, I mentioned this to neighbor. This is
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  Speaker 1: somebody that I didn't know because we're all coming back
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  Speaker 1: to the office, so I'm meeting new faces and meeting
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  Speaker 1: new people. And I went over in that area and
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  Speaker 1: I said, Wow, look at that sunrise. That is so beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And it was so interesting because as I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to one person, others around that heard that started paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to the sunrise and it was a beautiful moment.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, just a moment, maybe two or three.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the kind of activity that I talk about
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  Speaker 1: when I say do things on purpose, do as much
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  Speaker 1: as you can in that sunrise to sunset moment. Something
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  Speaker 1: else I'm doing around the work space, because again, we
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  Speaker 1: spend more time in our workspace than even sometimes at homes.
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  Speaker 1: Is I'm stepping away from my desk to have lunch
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  Speaker 1: with a friend, stepping away, making lunch plans, and doing
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  Speaker 1: things with per The purpose of this is to give
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  Speaker 1: myself a breath away from the work and make people connections,
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  Speaker 1: which is something that I know with the pandemic and
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  Speaker 1: how we were living working from home and how we
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  Speaker 1: kind of lost the art of communication and being face
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  Speaker 1: to face and having conversation and dialogue. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be more intentional about making time to have those live conversations.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I mean by activity. It doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to be that you're doing all the things and you're
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  Speaker 1: creating all these projects side projects. It can simply be
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  Speaker 1: making connections. And that's another thing that needs to happen
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  Speaker 1: in this space of slowing it down a bit. When
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  Speaker 1: you live and when you work, and when you are
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by negativity, it will always feel like the train
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  Speaker 1: is moving too fast. It will always feel like life
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  Speaker 1: is moving too fast. It will always feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: losing you're losing time, you're losing relationships, you're losing life
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  Speaker 1: because life is going too fast. So what has to
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  Speaker 1: happen in this season is that you have to surround
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  Speaker 1: yourself with positive things and positive people. That helps, That
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  Speaker 1: helps things to slow down because now you're getting enjoyment
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  Speaker 1: out of the spaces and the places and the conversations
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  Speaker 1: and the connections that you're having, and less disconnection, discord
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  Speaker 1: and all of the things that help us disassociate from
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  Speaker 1: our lives. And it feels like, oh my gosh, things
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  Speaker 1: are going too fast and I'm missing out. I'm losing out.
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  Speaker 1: You don't do that when you have positive things around me. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: things multiply for you. Here's another tip, practice daily mindfulness. Again.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like when we talk about these things, people
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  Speaker 1: feel like they you Again. I feel like when we
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  Speaker 1: talk about these things, you may often feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: here comes a laundry list of things that I have
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  Speaker 1: to do. And as I'm walking through this with you,
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  Speaker 1: here are the laundry list of things that I have
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  Speaker 1: to do. No. Practicing daily mindfulness is just being present
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  Speaker 1: as much as possible. I remember years ago when I
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  Speaker 1: was a new manager, because I've learned a lot of
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  Speaker 1: lessons along the way, and I worked in retail, and
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  Speaker 1: retail is a beast, it's a bear. It's a different
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  Speaker 1: type of movement and momentum. And I was a manager
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  Speaker 1: at the time. I had at one point seven locations
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  Speaker 1: under my care, if you will. And I would have
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  Speaker 1: these after work or after school activities with my kids
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  Speaker 1: where they would be in gymnastics or some sort of
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  Speaker 1: activity to again keep them, you know, learning new skills
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  Speaker 1: and things of that nature. And I remember going to
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  Speaker 1: those you know, practices or rehearsals or whatever it is
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  Speaker 1: that they were participating in, and my head was down
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  Speaker 1: in my BlackBerry. This definitely dates me. My head is
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  Speaker 1: down in my BlackBerry and my kids are out there performing,
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  Speaker 1: doing the stunts, doing the things that they were doing
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  Speaker 1: in that particular arena, and I was not present in
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  Speaker 1: the moment. That's my story about how I was not
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  Speaker 1: practice the daily mindfulness that I speak to you about.
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  Speaker 1: Those moments where my kids were out there will never
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  Speaker 1: come back again. I will never have those moments. I
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  Speaker 1: will never re see or get a play by play
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  Speaker 1: on what happened, what took place, what they learned, what
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  Speaker 1: they overcame, all the things that come along with being
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  Speaker 1: present and doing it as much as possible. Were there
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  Speaker 1: some things that I needed to that needed my immediate attention, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: but then I need to be as engaged in my
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  Speaker 1: BlackBerry and my work activity that I needed to be
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  Speaker 1: where I was in a moment absolutely not doing and
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  Speaker 1: being present allows you to focus on the things that
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  Speaker 1: bring you joy. When I think about my kids in
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  Speaker 1: those younger years, those wonder years, those years bring me joy.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I don't get joy now, but I was
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  Speaker 1: part of that. They're kind of journeying and doing their
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  Speaker 1: own thing now right, being young adults. So those moments
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  Speaker 1: bring me a lot of joy. It was me being
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  Speaker 1: around my kids. It was me being in an area
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  Speaker 1: to watch them grow and learn new things and being
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  Speaker 1: in a moment of mindfulness when I learned that lesson right.
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  Speaker 1: They were by then in middle school and I was
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  Speaker 1: really dialed in as much as I could to all
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  Speaker 1: the things, and I kept that energy all the way
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  Speaker 1: up until high school and even now with the things
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  Speaker 1: that they're doing in their lives. Being present that means
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  Speaker 1: a lot to them, but it certainly brings me joy
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  Speaker 1: and allows me to stay connected to the practice of mindfulness.
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  Speaker 1: And while we're on that topic, the last thing I
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  Speaker 1: will say is live in the now. And living in
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  Speaker 1: the now, yes, is practicing mindfulness. But the ex extension
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  Speaker 1: of that is not worrying about the past. The past
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  Speaker 1: will chain you down and will make you feel and
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  Speaker 1: experience life going too fast. It will make you feel
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  Speaker 1: like this train is coming dead on and there will
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  Speaker 1: be a head on collision with you. Here's the thing
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  Speaker 1: about the past. You can't change it. And the other
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  Speaker 1: part of that is you don't know what's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen in the future. You can't predict the future, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't change the past. Being in the present is
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  Speaker 1: the key. What happens when you worry about the past
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  Speaker 1: is that it robs you of the freedom of the
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  Speaker 1: future and the enjoyment of the now. It robs you
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  Speaker 1: of that we are all guaranteed this moment, not the
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  Speaker 1: next one, but the one we're in now, the one
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  Speaker 1: in which you're listening to this podcast, the one in
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  Speaker 1: which you have heard some things that will help guide
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  Speaker 1: you in this new year, in this time of the year,
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  Speaker 1: to know that it's okay, because by slowing things down,
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  Speaker 1: you can tune into you. You can tune into the
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  Speaker 1: inner you as well as the things that are happening
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  Speaker 1: outside of you. And when you do that, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you what's in it for you. I know I've
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  Speaker 1: been giving you all these things that would be great
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  Speaker 1: activities to do, but here's the whiff them. What's in
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  Speaker 1: it for me, what's in it for you? Here's what
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  Speaker 1: you'll notice when you slow down. You may notice when
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  Speaker 1: you're in a stress signal space. And that's critical because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us carry stress with us from season
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  Speaker 1: to season, from situation the situation, from life to life,
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  Speaker 1: from learn to learn. It's important to recognize those stress
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  Speaker 1: signals so you can act accordingly. It may require you
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  Speaker 1: to get therapy, it may require you to start putting
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  Speaker 1: your boundaries back up again and living in that space
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  Speaker 1: and setting up that expectation for those around you saying no,
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  Speaker 1: which is again in the world of boundaries. So understanding
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  Speaker 1: your stress signals, when you are tuned in to what's
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  Speaker 1: going on inside and outside of your world, will certainly
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  Speaker 1: help you get ahead of when things get out of
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  Speaker 1: control again, going back to the train coming at you right.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing that you will notice is thought patterns.
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  Speaker 1: You'll identify when the negative thought patterns are arising or
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  Speaker 1: the positive thought patterns. The whole idea is to getting
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  Speaker 1: to know what's happening with you, inside of you, and
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  Speaker 1: how is that impacting your thoughts. We say it every
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  Speaker 1: week on this podcast, Thoughts become things, And if your
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  Speaker 1: thought patterns are negative, you're going to manifest the negativity.
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  Speaker 1: Not because you think about it, but as you have
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  Speaker 1: repeated thought patterns, it affects your belief system, and your
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  Speaker 1: belief system then triggers what you say, what you do,
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  Speaker 1: and how you live. And so that's why you manifest
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  Speaker 1: right thoughts become things. You also may notice the bigger
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  Speaker 1: picture around you, the energy around you. I talked about
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, when I'm walking into the building and
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  Speaker 1: I look to the right and I see the sunrise,
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  Speaker 1: that's the bigger picture. Yes, I'm going to work, I
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  Speaker 1: got a clock in, or get to my desk at
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  Speaker 1: a certain time and do all these things. But right now,
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  Speaker 1: the big picture is I'm alive, I am well, I
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  Speaker 1: am thriving, I am connected. That is the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 1: That is the energy of where I am right now.
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  Speaker 1: That is what you notice. You also notice your breath.
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  Speaker 1: Am I breathing? Am I taking a deep breath in
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  Speaker 1: this moment, especially when you're dealing with stressful things or situations,
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  Speaker 1: it's important to take a breath. So you start to
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  Speaker 1: notice that, You start to notice the connections you're having
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  Speaker 1: with others because you're not in this rapid fire environment.
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  Speaker 1: You're slowing down, so you can tune into what's happen
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  Speaker 1: inside of you, what's happening outside of you, but also
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  Speaker 1: what you need and we need people need people. You
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  Speaker 1: may not need all the people, and some of the
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  Speaker 1: people you can do it out, but you do need people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's important to understand having that connection and slowing
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  Speaker 1: down and allows you to deepen that connection. It also
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  Speaker 1: helps you to see and hear, not just visibly see,
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  Speaker 1: but also audibly hear what's going on in your environment,
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  Speaker 1: your surroundings. Right again, those signals. It lets you know
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  Speaker 1: when something's off, that's not the sound I normally hear.
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  Speaker 1: So again more attentiveness. And finally I've been talking about this. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you are tuning into your inner and your outer world,
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  Speaker 1: which means you are tuning into your feelings. And I
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  Speaker 1: know feelings aren't facts, but it's important to know how
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  Speaker 1: we feel in a moment, so we can identify if
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  Speaker 1: we're going down the stress signal path, identify what thought
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  Speaker 1: patterns come along with how we are feeling, so we
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  Speaker 1: can begin to regulate ourselves, manage ourselves. Right, And so
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  Speaker 1: that's what this is all about. It's all about finding
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  Speaker 1: what happens to you when you slow down, seeing the
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  Speaker 1: benefits of it, but also being intentional about stopping the
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  Speaker 1: train of life. This isn't asking you to reshape your
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  Speaker 1: whole life. It's asking you to be really just dialed
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  Speaker 1: into you so you can get to understand what you need,
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  Speaker 1: when you need it, and what it's going to do
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  Speaker 1: for you when you stay connected to you. I hope
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