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Gratitude Meditation: Peace + Fulfillment in the New Year with Jessie De Low (P.S. THANK YOU) · QUESTION EVERYTHING

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  Speaker 1: The following podcast is a dar Media production.
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  Speaker 2: Big Things Happen when you're pretty, pretty bold, pretty clever,
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  Speaker 2: pretty strong. I'm Danielle Robe and each week my guests
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  Speaker 2: and I have conversations that put a new spin on pretty.
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  Speaker 2: This is pretty smart. I thought long and hard about
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  Speaker 2: what to put out today one day before twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: the new year. How can we celebrate and reflect? And
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  Speaker 2: it came to me, I just want to say thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've worked in several places where I felt
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  Speaker 2: really frustrated. Either I was trying to fit into an
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  Speaker 2: environment that just didn't fit me, or I was trying
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  Speaker 2: to live up to the expectations of my bosses, or
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  Speaker 2: quite honestly, I just didn't feel valued. Actually, this goes
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  Speaker 2: for relationships too. This is the first show I have
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  Speaker 2: ever done that feels good. It's uplifting and exciting, and
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  Speaker 2: it's positive and healing at times, and it's because of you.
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  Speaker 2: We've really formed a community here, and the more I
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  Speaker 2: talk to you all on Instagram, the more I realize
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  Speaker 2: we're a group of seekers. People who listen to this
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  Speaker 2: podcast are looking for growth. You're invested in yourselves and
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  Speaker 2: in the people around you. Your hearts beat loudly, your
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  Speaker 2: minds are always turning, You care deeply. You are my people.
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  Speaker 2: When I started this podcast, I always thought about using
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  Speaker 2: the initials of Pretty Smart PS because each episode feels
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  Speaker 2: like a love letter. This episode is my love letter
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  Speaker 2: to you. I think some years are questions and some
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  Speaker 2: years are answers. We've asked a lot of brilliant people
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  Speaker 2: questions this year, and one of the big takeaways I've
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  Speaker 2: had is that while it's really important to be a seeker,
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  Speaker 2: the answer always lies within you. Everything you need is
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  Speaker 2: inside of you. This podcast, our guests, this platform, and
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  Speaker 2: most of all your messages have made me realize that,
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  Speaker 2: and so I want to thank you for giving me
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  Speaker 2: so much. My wish for you this year is that
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  Speaker 2: you find both fulfillment and peace, and whatever relationship is
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  Speaker 2: causing you stress, in a work environment that feels frustrating,
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  Speaker 2: or even within your self. Work fulfillment and peace are
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  Speaker 2: both fluid. I think they're never going to be things
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  Speaker 2: we can grab onto all the time, but they're good
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  Speaker 2: north stars. So whichever kind of year this is for you,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's one of questions or one of answers, know
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  Speaker 2: that wherever you are right now is where you are
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  Speaker 2: meant to be, And as a thank you to you,
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  Speaker 2: today's pod is a gratitude meditation to take us into
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  Speaker 2: the new year. Feel free to download it onto your
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  Speaker 2: phone so that you can replay it throughout the year.
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  Speaker 2: I always do that with my favorite meditations. And before
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  Speaker 2: we begin, you know, this wouldn't be pretty smart if
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hit you with some facts so gratitude. We
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  Speaker 2: know now that gratitude literally changes our brain. It increases
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  Speaker 2: feelings of security and connectedness. It helps squeeze out negative feelings,
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  Speaker 2: It keeps the good ones around for longer. Positive emotions
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  Speaker 2: tend to be like teflon. They slide off us way
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  Speaker 2: too quickly. Gratitude lets us hang on to the positive
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  Speaker 2: for longer and celebrate the good in our lives that
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  Speaker 2: we might otherwise move on from too quickly. It's shown
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  Speaker 2: to help reduce anxiety and depression. And most of all,
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  Speaker 2: it feels so good. And we are really lucky today
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  Speaker 2: because none other than Jesse Delou recorded our gratitude meditation.
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  Speaker 2: She's really amazing at what she does, so much so
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  Speaker 2: people all over the world try to book sessions with Jesse,
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  Speaker 2: and we have our own special session with her today.
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  Speaker 2: If you aren't familiar with Jesse's work yet, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to briefly introduce her. Jesse Delou is a certified yoga instructor,
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  Speaker 2: art therapist, manifestation coach, and co founder of How You Glow.
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  Speaker 2: Jesse provides life enhancing, enriching, and enlightening experiences to clients
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  Speaker 2: across the globe. Her sessions blend her background in therapeutic
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  Speaker 2: healing with spirituality, positive psychology, and neuroscience. Her goal to
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  Speaker 2: inspire people to live the most vibrant life possible and
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  Speaker 2: step into alignment with their soul's true calling. And with that,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Please find a comfortable seated position. If cross legged doesn't
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  Speaker 1: feel comfortable for you, find another way to relax. Allow
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  Speaker 1: your eyes to gently close and let the eyeballs sink
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  Speaker 1: deeper into the eye sockets. Feel the space behind the
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  Speaker 1: eyes relax since the space between the eyes, the third
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  Speaker 1: eye center and point of intuition expand with relaxation. Allow
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  Speaker 1: your jaw muscle to soften, perhaps the teeth slightly part
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  Speaker 1: to facilitate this sense tension releasing out of your face.
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  Speaker 1: The forehead is smooth and relaxed. The scalp releases the ears. Relax.
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  Speaker 1: Feel relaxation traveled down your throat, and imagine someone placing
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  Speaker 1: their hands softly on your shoulders, encouraging them to relax.
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  Speaker 1: Down away from the ears. Allow your collar bones to
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  Speaker 1: spread wider across your chest, creating a feeling of spaciousness
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  Speaker 1: and ease in the heart. Allow your belly to be
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  Speaker 1: completely soft as you breathe, feeling it inflate with the
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  Speaker 1: inhale and deflate with the exhale. Allow the hips to
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  Speaker 1: be heavy, the legs completely relaxed. Feel gravity support your weight.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your awareness to your sitting bones, feeling them plug
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  Speaker 1: into the earth. Imagine cords of energy traveling from your
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  Speaker 1: sitting bones deep down into the earth, creating an anchor.
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  Speaker 1: From that anchor, feel the sense of rootedness and support.
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  Speaker 1: Allow your spine to grow taller. Sense the clear channel
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  Speaker 1: from Earth to sky through the centerline of your body.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your awareness to your breath. With each breath in,
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  Speaker 1: you grow taller, lifting the crown of your head towards
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  Speaker 1: the sky. With each breath out, your shoulders released down
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  Speaker 1: away from the ears, and your body settles more deeply
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  Speaker 1: towards the earth. Then through the nose filling first your belly,
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  Speaker 1: then your rib cage, and then your chest, and then
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  Speaker 1: let it all spill out, exhaling through the nose, emptying
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  Speaker 1: the chest, then the rib cage, and then the belly.
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  Speaker 1: Continue to repeat the cycle of breath. Allow the breath
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  Speaker 1: to create space throughout your entire body with each in hand,
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  Speaker 1: and release tension and soften with every accent, clearing, releasing,
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  Speaker 1: and letting go of whatever is not serving you. Bring
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  Speaker 1: your awareness to your heart, visualizing your heart beating in
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  Speaker 1: your chest. Feel the space in front of the heart,
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  Speaker 1: and of the heart and surrounding the sides of the heart.
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  Speaker 1: As you breathe in draw energy up from the earth
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  Speaker 1: and send it directly to your heart. Visualize this energy
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  Speaker 1: as a vibrant, bright light filling the heart and stimulating
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  Speaker 1: each and every cell within your heart. Notice how you
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  Speaker 1: feel as you breathe a vibrant light into your heart space.
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  Speaker 1: Feel the heart so well with beautiful light, and as
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  Speaker 1: you exhale, sends the light expand out of the heart,
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  Speaker 1: beginning to surround the space in front, in back, and
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  Speaker 1: on the surrounding sides of the heart. Feel the light
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  Speaker 1: travel through your veins into your arms, hands, fingers. Feel
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  Speaker 1: the light spread down into the belly, hips, legs, feet,
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  Speaker 1: and does allow this beautiful, vibrant light to course through
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  Speaker 1: your veins, activating each and every cell in your body,
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  Speaker 1: creating a higher frequency, more aliveness, and more magnetism. With
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  Speaker 1: each breath, your entire body tingling with the sensation of
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  Speaker 1: light filtered through your heart energy. Take a moment to
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  Speaker 1: feel yourself lit from within. Now allow anything that you're
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  Speaker 1: grateful for in your present reality to come to the
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  Speaker 1: forefront of your mind. Feel the sensation of deep, deep
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  Speaker 1: gratitude in your heart. Gratitude for the experience of being
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  Speaker 1: alive and in your body, of being able to move
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  Speaker 1: and interact with the world's, gratitude for being able to
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  Speaker 1: love and connect with others, to experience pleasure through your senses,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever you are specifically grateful for in this moment.
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  Speaker 1: Come up with at least three to five things that
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate in your life and feel how calling these
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  Speaker 1: things or people to mind activates your heart space. Honor
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  Speaker 1: why you are grateful for them. Now call to mind
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  Speaker 1: one person in particular that you are grateful for in
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  Speaker 1: this moment, someone who's essence cannot help but bring you
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  Speaker 1: joy or put a smile on your face. The love
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  Speaker 1: and appreciation for this person to open your heart even more,
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  Speaker 1: making your heart smile with gratitude for their existence. Allow
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  Speaker 1: the vibration of gratitude and love to fill up your
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  Speaker 1: heart space, magnifying that light, making it even brighter, even bigger.
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  Speaker 1: As you breathe, feel the energy in your heart flowing
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  Speaker 1: through your veins, throughout your body, into each and every cell.
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  Speaker 1: As you breathe here, begin to notice how your energy
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  Speaker 1: is now vibrating at a higher frequency. Your cells are
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  Speaker 1: turned on, your heart space is open, and the energetic
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  Speaker 1: field around you has expanded. Visualize the light within you
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  Speaker 1: beginning to transcend beyond your physical form into that space
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  Speaker 1: around you. Sense yourself sending out this beautiful, vibrant light
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  Speaker 1: into the room you're in, beyond your home, and into
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  Speaker 1: the world. Visualize your energy traveling down into the earth,
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  Speaker 1: up into the sky, and into space, into the lakes
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  Speaker 1: and oceans and mountains, connecting with and magnetize all frequencies
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  Speaker 1: that match yours. The frequency of love, gratitude, abundance, prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: and limitless potential. Allow yourself to plug into this high
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  Speaker 1: vibration state where you have everything that you could ever need,
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  Speaker 1: with infinite resources available to you. Feel completely supported by
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  Speaker 1: the universe, tapped into source energy, where anything is possible
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  Speaker 1: and you can transcend time, space and form, creating anything
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  Speaker 1: that you choose. Allow yourself to stay as long as
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  Speaker 1: you'd like, acknowledging the light and love that you have
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  Speaker 1: activated within yourself. When you're ready to come out, begin
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  Speaker 1: to deepen your breath, wiggling your fingers and toes, bringing
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  Speaker 1: movement back into the body. Allow the edges of your
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  Speaker 1: mouth to turn up into the shape of a smile,
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  Speaker 1: and choose to continue your day from this base of
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  Speaker 1: deep gratitude, opening up the gateway to your dream reality.
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  Speaker 2: All right, today is a good day. To have a
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  Speaker 2: good day. I'll see you, an excell