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3. **EARLY RELEASE** - In Case of Emergency, Press Play: The Detour Lunar Eclipse Guided Meditation · We Didn't Plan for This Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to We Didn't Plan for This, a podcast about what happens when life doesn't go according to plan and all the what the fuck moments nobody planned for.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Adrian.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we get into the meditation, thank you so much for following us over to our new feed along with We Didn't Plan for This and People Be Peopleing.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: And if you just found us here for the first time, welcome.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: We are so glad you're here.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: My hope is that somewhere in all of these stories, the funny ones, the heartbreaking ones, the completely what the fuck just happened ones, you hear something that makes you feel a little less alone in whatever you didn't plan for.
• 0:42
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• 0:48
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  SPEAKER_00: Which brings us to our meditation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tonight, there's a lunar eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's something about a lunar eclipse that kept coming back to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tonight, the moon and the sun will simply cross paths.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for a little while, the view will change.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our lives do that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something can move directly into the middle of a plan we had for ourselves and completely change the view.
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  SPEAKER_00: But maybe an interruption doesn't automatically mean we've gone off course.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the route just changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this practice isn't about telling yourself everything happens for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's about giving yourself permission to say, I don't know what this means yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when the universe says plot twist and you did not ask for a rewrite, press play.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to your practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Find a comfortable position and let yourself settle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a slow breath in through your nose and an easy breath out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Breathe in and breathe out.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the next few minutes, there is nowhere else you need to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing you need to figure out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing that needs to be fixed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just breathe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tonight there is an eclipse happening above us.
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  SPEAKER_00: The moon is moving along the same path it has traveled again and again.
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  SPEAKER_00: The earth is moving along its path.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing has fallen out of orbit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing in the universe has screwed up its schedule.
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  SPEAKER_00: They simply cross paths.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for a little while, the view changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Picture yourself outside at night.
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  SPEAKER_00: In front of you is a blanket in a moonlit meadow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Above you, the moon hangs in the night sky.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's blue, silver, quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Walk over to the blanket and lay down on your back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice the evening breeze on your skin.
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  SPEAKER_00: The soft blanket beneath you.
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  SPEAKER_00: The meadow floor underneath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Allow your body to be held by this blanket.
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  SPEAKER_00: Supported by the earth underneath you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look up at the moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Imagine the moon moving through tonight's eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something has moved in its path, and yet the moon keeps moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't turn around or demand an explanation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't decide that because something unexpected happened, it must have been traveling in the wrong direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: The moon continues along its orbit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe there is something in your life right now that feels like an interruption.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something that wasn't part of the plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice what comes to mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we don't know the reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes something simply happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the view changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feel the blanket underneath of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let yourself become a little heavier against it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Consider this.
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  SPEAKER_00: A detour doesn't necessarily mean you've gone off course.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means the route changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are not the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is only here and whatever comes next.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take another slow breath in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feel yourself supported underneath the moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: The earth is moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: The moon is moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you are moving too.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to know where all of this leads.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the only thing you need to know tonight is you are still here.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are still moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: A plan changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't disappear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let those words settle for a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The plan changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you didn't disappear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a slow breath in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And breathe out.
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  SPEAKER_00: There may be another route you can't see yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or something ahead of you you haven't planned for.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to know yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Begin to bring your awareness back to your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice your breath moving through you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Create some little movements in some little places.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gradually allow those movements into larger places.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your breath is moving through you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Slowly blink your eyes open.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take one final breath in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let it go.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to understand the detour while you're still traveling it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just have to keep moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: From my heart to yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where you are right now, take a breath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Loosen your grip a little.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be bold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And be impeccable with your words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do meaningful work and leave things better than you found them.
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  SPEAKER_00: We didn't plan for this, but we're here.