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[EP13] How long before I feel connected in meditation · AWAKEN with Dylan Ayaloo: Inner Work, Healing, Yoga & Meditation

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  I haven't long started meditating.
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  How long does it generally take to feel connected?
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  Firstly, congratulations and well done for jumping in on meditations.
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  Because meditating is not easy, right?
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  Like, that's why people start and give up.
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  Meditation so often is sitting in the fire of facing ourselves, right?
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  So all the layers on a physical and an emotional and an energetic level,
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  all the stuff that we've been pushing down, running away from,
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  that we're here to learn, will all start to come up.
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  So it's not just this shiny, glamorous ride of,
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  I close my eyes and I'm one with the universe and I'm in infinite bliss.
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  Maybe.
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  But most often, it's just sitting in fire.
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  you might be thinking but why would I want to do that because you have to move
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  through those layers to get to the truth of who we are which is you are a drop of
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  the divine it's all of the other stuff in between that we are moving through
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  right the not self right this stuff that that we need to work through so it
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  comes back to that letting go question. Meditation is like, yeah, sit, close your eyes and practice
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  letting go. Practice getting present. Practice feeling. Practice connecting. It's a practice.
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  How long does it take? As long as it needs to. Sorry to say. That's why people give up.
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  And you might be thinking, yeah, you're not selling it well. Why should I bother? Why don't I just go
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  and take a pill that's going to make me feel a certain way you know like there's tablets right
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  like what is it i don't know whatever brands why i've got anxiety i can just take a tablet that
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  gives me relief why sit and meditate it's like yeah look around at the side effects of those
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  things the long slow boring consistent thing gives you consistent results lifelong results
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  the tablet doesn't get rid of all of the stuff that you face when you sit in meditation
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  it doesn't make that shit go away it is still there waiting for you with the name card your
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  name on it when you're ready you know like you know you arrive at the airport hey there you are
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  i've been waiting for you is this your name yes welcome i've been waiting to meet you
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  and all the parts of us that need us to meet it, it's waiting.
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  That's our work.
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  And when we do, by the exercise of doing it, sometimes we go from mind to no mind, self
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  to the not self, right, to the higher self.
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  We get little glimpses of the divine.
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  and sometimes I've had those experiences where I've had this like experience right like connection
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  and then the next thing the mind goes that was amazing let's chase it so the next three or four
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  weeks I'm chasing it every day in my meditations there was a period when I used to meditate for
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  like four hours a day I'm not condoning that but that's what I did it's an experiment for a few
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  years three four weeks nothing happens nothing boring and that's what the mind
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  does right it chases things it goes after things and even that like letting
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  that go is part of the process learning so we are learning you know it's like a
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  schooling and we learn we grow when we sit and do the meditations you might sit
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  and instantaneously have a connection instantaneously to the divine and have
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  this blissful euphoric experience and if you do great enjoy it and if you don't
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  great enjoy it show up do the work because it's the journey not the
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  destination the journey is the destination and along the way we will
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  have you know those kinds of glimpses but long term if you look at your life your life around
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  you and within you is transforming there is this ripple effect that goes through your life
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  as you sit and do the work that's actually why right so when you start to shift and clear and
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  heal and sit and meditate and move and breathe and start to connect because the truth is we are
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  the disconnect is an illusion of the mind
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  so that's actually what we're overcoming
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  that illusion
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  because we are always connected
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  that bliss
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  that sense of oneness
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  is always there
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  it's our natural state
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  that is who we
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  it's the very fabric of what creates us
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  we're a drop of the divine
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  So, I hope that helps and I'll say it again, awesome that you are jumping into the meditations
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  and doing it because what's the alternative?