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Episode 43: New-Fashioned Irony · From My Planit to Yours...

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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Blizzard Planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Self-Friendship Podcast, where playfulness meets societal reflection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Through the lens of self-friendship,
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  SPEAKER_00: embracing,
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  SPEAKER_00: understanding,
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  SPEAKER_00: and enjoying ourselves,
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  SPEAKER_00: I hopefully inspire you to critically think,
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  SPEAKER_00: creatively think,
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  SPEAKER_00: and optimistically approach life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine this,
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  SPEAKER_00: you hopped on the band rocket and now you're on Planet Butter,
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  SPEAKER_00: a world made of delicious,
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  SPEAKER_00: sparkly peanut butter and an adorable disco ball of self-reflection is whirling
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  SPEAKER_00: around in her transforming convertible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining me in my 43rd episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of what I'll be sharing includes my answer to last week's question of the week,
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  SPEAKER_00: a note on egos,
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  SPEAKER_00: critically thinking with weed,
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  SPEAKER_00: a perspective dance with hot and cold therapy,
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  SPEAKER_00: PBJ ring of consciousness in action.
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  SPEAKER_00: new fashioned irony, and so much more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as always,
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  SPEAKER_00: a brand new question for all of us to self-reflect and self-connect and email me if
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  SPEAKER_00: you desire,
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  SPEAKER_00: selffriendshippodcast at gmail.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: My answer to last week's question of the week,
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  SPEAKER_00: which was,
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  SPEAKER_00: what is something you currently have that you previously desired?
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, it's my villa in Bali.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know it would be Bali, but I've had clarity around the fact that I want an indoor outdoor home.
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  SPEAKER_00: This actually isn't the first variation of it for me either.
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  SPEAKER_00: To drop in a little reminder dose of my perspective of manifesting,
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  SPEAKER_00: I've shared this with you guys before,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is the key to manifesting is bringing truth to whatever it is you want to actualize.
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  SPEAKER_00: My first degree of bringing truth to this, the indoor outdoor house, is
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  SPEAKER_00: was when I lived in a really cool garage in Venice Beach that opened to a beautiful plant field patio.
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  SPEAKER_00: I called it my billionaire garage because I know I'll be a billionaire and all cool
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  SPEAKER_00: billionaires have their first,
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  SPEAKER_00: I started in a garage story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Count me in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the villa is yet another level of truth to my grander vision of building,
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  SPEAKER_00: designing at least one indoor outdoor open floor plan home overlooking the ocean
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  SPEAKER_00: cliff side with a zip line slide and stairs all as options to go down to the beach
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  SPEAKER_00: and more.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: A note on fake work.
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  SPEAKER_00: I saw a post about fake work and the guy defined it as work that makes you feel
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  SPEAKER_00: like you're progressing,
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  SPEAKER_00: but you're not.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think my Planet Butter jet is landing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you guys hear that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're in Los Angeles today, by the way, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the guy defined it as work that makes you feel like you're progressing, but you're not.
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  SPEAKER_00: He carried on to describe it as work that is not contributing to revenue.
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  SPEAKER_00: like a logo.
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  SPEAKER_00: He acknowledged logos are important, but it's not a direct driving factor for revenue.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is hilarious to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: As usual,
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  SPEAKER_00: unfortunately,
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  SPEAKER_00: it was some big business dude getting hundreds of thousands of likes,
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  SPEAKER_00: blind likes,
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  SPEAKER_00: as I call them,
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  SPEAKER_00: for something that severely lacks critical thinking and intentional thought.
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  SPEAKER_00: The immense support he received on this further fuels the narrative,
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  SPEAKER_00: the follower narrative,
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  SPEAKER_00: as opposed to the advocate narrative Planet Butter is working toward.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure, if we're thinking one dimensionally, maybe he's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we take a step back,
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  SPEAKER_00: as we like to do on Planet Butter,
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  SPEAKER_00: and invite ourselves to think multidimensionally,
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  SPEAKER_00: if we are allowing our inspirations to lead us and we find ourselves working on
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  SPEAKER_00: elements of our bigger vision,
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  SPEAKER_00: That, that is not fake work.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every tiny detail, every piece of fake work is what creates our big picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: These tiny details,
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  SPEAKER_00: the fake work,
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  SPEAKER_00: fuel a more sustainable business,
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  SPEAKER_00: which actually means more sustainable revenue.
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  SPEAKER_00: To acknowledge this man's point on la money,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying money isn't inherent in business, obviously.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually saying because it's inherent,
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  SPEAKER_00: if we exclusively focus on it and don't allow ourselves to be freely inspired,
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  SPEAKER_00: it becomes narrow-minded.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sit on that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, why selflessness doesn't exist.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no such thing as selflessness.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we do something that is not for ourselves,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is still foundationally,
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  SPEAKER_00: which may or may not be a word,
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  SPEAKER_00: and likely subconsciously rooted in self-serving interest.
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  SPEAKER_00: And foundationally, it sounds like a word, but it's underlined.
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  SPEAKER_00: Red.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it isn't a word, it is now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Add it to Blizzard's blictionary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Planet butter sub stack.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when we think an action is selfless,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is still satisfying some sort of selfish need,
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  SPEAKER_00: be it mental,
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  SPEAKER_00: emotional,
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  SPEAKER_00: or physical.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we can own this fact, we can evolve in our self-friendship practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when we do something we think is selfless, maybe...
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  SPEAKER_00: we can consider asking ourselves what this action satisfies within us.
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  SPEAKER_00: This reflection allows us to better embrace,
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  SPEAKER_00: understand,
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  SPEAKER_00: and enjoy ourselves in the process of doing the perceivably selfless act,
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  SPEAKER_00: ultimately enabling us to offer even more of ourselves to the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now a note on ego.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've got a whole theory deep in the works about the ego.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm very excited about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm writing a book.
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  SPEAKER_00: There, I did it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: A chapter book this time, not a coffee table book for the lesson, although that one's still a gem.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've touched on this a couple of times for you guys throughout the show, the concept of ego.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just going to offer you for consideration that our ego,
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  SPEAKER_00: as I see it,
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  SPEAKER_00: is the product of our emotional and intellectual capacity as a result of our
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  SPEAKER_00: capacity for consciousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to say it one more time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our ego,
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  SPEAKER_00: as I see it,
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  SPEAKER_00: is the product of our emotional and intellectual capacity as a result of our
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  SPEAKER_00: capacity for consciousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me know what you think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now a note on smoking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Smoking in relation to weed sounds kind of nasty.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it sounds kind of nasty in general, but in relation to weed, it's like a little dirty.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's change smoking weed to inhaling.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're breathing it in like oxygen from trees, a marijuana plant.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just happens to be on fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thumbs up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started doing the thumbs up on camera instead of saying ta-da.
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  SPEAKER_00: I used to say ta-da like all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ta-da.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a thumbs up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Following that up, critically thinking with weed.
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  SPEAKER_00: For those of you who do smoke weed or inhale weed,
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to put on your radar the consideration of self-friendship,
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  SPEAKER_00: embracing,
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  SPEAKER_00: understanding,
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  SPEAKER_00: and enjoying yourself in relation to your strain selection.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't know, there are two primary strains of weed, indica, sativa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Indica is categorized more so as the sleepier strain,
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  SPEAKER_00: whereas sativa is categorized more so as the uplifting strain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though there's a lot of science behind these marketing frameworks,
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  SPEAKER_00: taking our depth of understanding ourselves into consideration allows us to
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  SPEAKER_00: critically think about our options.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me,
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  SPEAKER_00: with my hyper-excited mind and body that loves physical activity,
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  SPEAKER_00: Indica actually brings a degree of ease to my excitement that supports my focus
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  SPEAKER_00: practices while still welcoming my free-flowing ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: I absolutely love the heightened sensations I experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: so if and when I do smoke,
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  SPEAKER_00: I love smoking just a little bit before working or engaging in physical activity.
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  SPEAKER_00: As for sativa,
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  SPEAKER_00: I found that I actually become overstimulated and sometimes anxious for the
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  SPEAKER_00: so-called uplifting and energizing effects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Self-reflect, self-connect, which drain is best for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, now a note on knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is infinite knowledge to consume in this world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's to say what's important to know besides you?
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  SPEAKER_00: I know what I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Together, we can educate each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why it's okay to not know things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when it's popular, it's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know a lot of other cool stuff that whoever you're talking to might not know or
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  SPEAKER_00: will be talking to and would benefit from knowing,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, a perspective dance with hot and cold therapy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Less of a perspective dance, more of a, I just wanted to share this publicly because I think it's funny.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a hot shower.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eat an ice cream sandwich during it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I did that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: I highly recommend it.
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  SPEAKER_00: My favorite ice cream sandwich is Cool House.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have the best cookies and the ice cream tastes like a cloud.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, a note also, if Cool House, if you want to sponsor Self-Friendship Podcast, I accept.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, a note on energy exchanges with the physical world.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know how parents tell kids to say bye to things or hi for that matter?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I was at the park and this lady said to the child she was with, say bye fountain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on my flight the other day,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was saying hi to this baby and the baby got all excited,
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  SPEAKER_00: started to say hi back to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then the mom bends down and goes, say hi.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said to the mom, I go, well, she was saying hi until now, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: She ruined it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, let her be a person on her own.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, not the point.
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  SPEAKER_00: So then also one of Planet Butter's Instagram subscribers messaged me observing and
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  SPEAKER_00: appreciating how I say thank you and I love you to things that I care about and or respect.
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  SPEAKER_00: What he doesn't know is that I do that with everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anytime I'm anywhere, I say hi when I arrive and thank you when I leave.
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  SPEAKER_00: not just to people,
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  SPEAKER_00: a table in a cafe,
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  SPEAKER_00: the sun,
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  SPEAKER_00: the plants,
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  SPEAKER_00: the moon,
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  SPEAKER_00: my car,
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  SPEAKER_00: chippy,
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  SPEAKER_00: my home,
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  SPEAKER_00: my bed,
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  SPEAKER_00: a bathroom,
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  SPEAKER_00: the kitchen,
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  SPEAKER_00: anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: This microphone, thank you, microphone.
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  SPEAKER_00: See?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'd love for you to consider speaking kindly to your environment,
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  SPEAKER_00: the physical things around you,
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  SPEAKER_00: the other energies in your environment,
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  SPEAKER_00: like fountains and plants,
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  SPEAKER_00: doors and trees,
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  SPEAKER_00: carpets,
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  SPEAKER_00: rugs,
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  SPEAKER_00: wood floors,
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  SPEAKER_00: marble floors,
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  SPEAKER_00: you name it,
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  SPEAKER_00: all the things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever you have, wherever you are, start saying hi and bye and thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, camera.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, camera.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love you, camera.
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  SPEAKER_00: It feels good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then your energy feels good to the things around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all good.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now a perspective dance with meditation.
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  SPEAKER_00: In episode 39, I offer that meditation can be thought of as marinating.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're soaking in ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today,
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to offer what if we considered meditation as a way to slow down the mind
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  SPEAKER_00: rather than quiet the mind,
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  SPEAKER_00: as is commonly said.
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  SPEAKER_00: so that we can better understand how we think,
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  SPEAKER_00: enhancing our daily self-friendship practice of,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know it,
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  SPEAKER_00: embracing,
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  SPEAKER_00: understanding,
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  SPEAKER_00: and enjoying ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now another perspective dance with alignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we say alignment, what we're saying is our embodiment of our role in the ever expansive universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our connection to the universe is our intuition.
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  SPEAKER_00: the PBJ ring of consciousness begins with prioritizing, listening to our intuition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the rest of our decisions that follow are led with intuition,
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  SPEAKER_00: which means a greater connection to the universe,
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  SPEAKER_00: which also means we are best serving society,
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  SPEAKER_00: humanity,
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  SPEAKER_00: the universe,
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  SPEAKER_00: because we're acting in accordance to full circle,
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  SPEAKER_00: our role,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the ever expansive universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now a self-friendship article snippet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Signs are the language of the uni.
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  SPEAKER_00: The thing is,
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  SPEAKER_00: us humans often internalize these signs as what we project onto them from our own
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  SPEAKER_00: life experiences and desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rather than receiving signs as an affirmation of our own alignment,
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  SPEAKER_00: our role in the infinitely expansive universe beyond ourselves
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  SPEAKER_00: It's tricky.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in our best interest to not take signs personally,
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  SPEAKER_00: not internalize,
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  SPEAKER_00: yet understand that the signs we receive are personal to us in that moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the planet butter jet ring of consciousness in action.
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  SPEAKER_00: Intuition, sensations, action, sensations, again,
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  SPEAKER_00: Circle again, intuition, and we repeat.
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  SPEAKER_00: To set the scene, around 7 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: the other night,
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  SPEAKER_00: my friend asked me my travel plans,
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  SPEAKER_00: and when they seemed geographically irrational to her,
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  SPEAKER_00: she questioned it,
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  SPEAKER_00: as most people would.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said back to her, and I quote, I very sincerely go with the flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to force going somewhere out of convenience when it's not aligned.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's way more convenient to stay aligned.
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  SPEAKER_00: aligned.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where the planet butter jet ring comes in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Intuition told me it was time to leave New York.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sensations told me I don't really know where yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Side note,
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  SPEAKER_00: I had Dallas tentative and LA tentative for planet butter things,
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  SPEAKER_00: yay,
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  SPEAKER_00: but neither were locking in and as per the universe and the planet butter jet ring,
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  SPEAKER_00: detachment and action were
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  SPEAKER_00: three action on my part are required for flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I leaned into the circumstances of not knowing and inferring,
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  SPEAKER_00: well,
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  SPEAKER_00: if I'm sensing it's time to leave and nowhere specifically pulling me and Bali is
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  SPEAKER_00: my current base,
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  SPEAKER_00: perhaps it's time to go to Bali again.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I take the detached action and begin to book my flight to Bali.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is where the second sensations comes in.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't feel alignment in this action.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we circle again to the start of the cycle with intuition.
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  SPEAKER_00: So my intuition said, check my email.
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  SPEAKER_00: I checked while on the phone with the airline.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sure enough, something locked in for plant butter in L.A.
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  SPEAKER_00: My sensation said, yay.
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  SPEAKER_00: My action then, next circle we're in already, became cancel the booking to Bali, reroute to LA, reroute.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sensations check again.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the fingers still excited.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's alignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we watch the magic continue to unfold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Intuition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sensations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Action.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sensations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Intuition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep it moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, party of one.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a loving reminder,
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  SPEAKER_00: party of one means having fun with oneself,
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  SPEAKER_00: for oneself,
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  SPEAKER_00: as oneself,
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  SPEAKER_00: anywhere,
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  SPEAKER_00: everywhere,
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  SPEAKER_00: no matter who is there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We become our party of one by consistently practicing self-friendship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each episode,
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  SPEAKER_00: I share little tidbits from my life that happened thanks to me showing up in the
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  SPEAKER_00: world as my party of one.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was bopping around with Chippy, my darling little convertible.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a transforming convertible in the book,
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  SPEAKER_00: coffee table book with a lesson,
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  SPEAKER_00: party of one,
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  SPEAKER_00: self-friendship in action.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: so we were bopping around the east side of LA in and out of cafes,
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  SPEAKER_00: parks,
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  SPEAKER_00: and decided I wanted to go to a hot yoga class.
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  SPEAKER_00: I found one nearby starting in the next hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't have workout clothes with me and I realized it was more logical to buy a
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: new outfit than to go home based on timing,
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  SPEAKER_00: traffic,
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  SPEAKER_00: all the good things.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I went to the only store nearby that maybe had something for me.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: I decided to show up to the studio anyway,
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  SPEAKER_00: thinking maybe they had a little boutique in the studio as many of them do.
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  SPEAKER_00: They didn't,
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  SPEAKER_00: but the brilliant manager there,
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  SPEAKER_00: Griffin,
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  SPEAKER_00: offers to let me wear clothes from their lost and found that he assured me they washed.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: I ended up rocking a pair of men's basketball shorts and a dark green sports bra
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: slash tank top situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Had a good laugh and put myself front and center in the room as I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Party of one.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Now a note on willingness.
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  SPEAKER_00: As acknowledged just now in my party of one, I was willing to go to the studio without being prepared.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: right,
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  SPEAKER_00: willing to pay for new clothes,
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  SPEAKER_00: all in honor of prioritizing my intuition in the spirit of my self-friendship practice,
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: feeling the pull to go to hot yoga at that time,
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  SPEAKER_00: at that studio,
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: because in embracing understanding and enjoying myself,
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: I know and knew that that will be in my best interest and trusting I would figure
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: it out and that it would work out however it's meant to as I follow my intuition.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Then when I left the studio,
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: I forgot to get my parking ticket validated and only realized after I pulled out of
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: my parking spot.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: Instead of going through the whole ordeal of going back inside, I decided I was willing to pay.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: I've evolved to believe that the extensive effort in attempt to quote unquote save
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: money is a form of scarcity thinking.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: That said, I carried on my way only to arrive at the exit, unable to easily locate my ticket.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: The car behind me, beep, beep, beep.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: I decided I'll reverse out and then I can take time to find my ticket.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: Within two seconds, a guy magically appears.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, there was nobody waiting at the gate, manning the gate before, like when I arrived or leave.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like he just appeared, seriously.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: He asks me if I lost my ticket and I thought he was just being friendly because he didn't,
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: there was no uniform he was wearing or anything that I could tell.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so I said, I'm digging for it.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, I'll help you out this time.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, but don't lose it again.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, he must work it.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: So clearly he did work there, considered my parking validated.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: The sincere willingness,
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: my sincere willingness to execute something regardless of the perceivable
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  SPEAKER_00: circumstances within my own world creates space for the external world,
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: the universe,
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  SPEAKER_00: to offer its magic.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: Self-friendship is prioritizing our own best interest because we know that the
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  SPEAKER_00: universe has our back when we do so.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Ta-da!
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Now, new-fashioned irony.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: I...
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Love some good new fashioned irony.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: I've traveled a healthy dose of this earth and have experienced countless yoga and honestly,
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: all other types of workout classes where I get in trouble for operating independently.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: It hurts my brain to think about the level of obscene control issues,
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: rather the lack of self-control issues that exist in this world,
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: resulting in the attempt to control others,
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: even in places like the gym.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: the gym, a place to freely move and express our bodies, not have a dictator.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's a place we can practice connecting our minds and bodies,
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  SPEAKER_00: listening to our body to indulge in expressing its physical cravings.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: Workout classes are a place to learn,
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: a place for suggested timing,
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: suggested motion,
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  SPEAKER_00: suggestions,
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: options.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: As for the Planet Butter Jet Ring of Consciousness, prioritize our intuition,
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: check in sensations, take action, check sensations again, circle forward to intuition.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not responsible for your distraction.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: The only instructor in the entire world,
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: and again,
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: I have traveled the world,
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: not all of it,
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: but some of it.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: And the only instructor who has ever genuinely encouraged independent practice
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: is Heather Thrills.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Find her at Heather Thrills on YouTube and everywhere else.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: She's based in LA, but she's international.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: Now, a note on my Planet Butter jet.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was talking to somebody about my Planet Butter jet, PBJ, and they said, that's really expensive.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I said,
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: First of all, who said I'm buying it?
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: You're thinking small.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, someone's going to pay me to customize and fly the Planet Butter jet.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: Think critically.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Think creatively.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: Be conscious.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Trust your intuition.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Be confident about what it is you want in this lifetime and be open to expanding it.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: Planet Butter jet.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: And lastly, the question of the week.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: What is something you're knowledgeable about that's not perceivably common knowledge?
• 22:01
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• 22:02
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• 22:06
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• 22:13
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• 22:18
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• 22:22
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• 22:24
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• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for landing on Planet Butter.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you next Thursday.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: From my planet to yours.