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Developing Enthusiasm · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: Good morning.
• 0:01
  Speaker: We can see far and wide.
• 0:03
  Speaker: We can be alert and awake.
• 0:07
  Speaker: It is our choice.
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  Speaker: It is the level of our intensity of being energized.
• 0:16
  Speaker: Sometimes we're sleepy.
• 0:18
  Speaker: We need to rest.
• 0:19
  Speaker: Sometimes we're full of enthusiasm and we wish to learn and be curious about and accomplish.
• 0:30
  Speaker: And everything in between.
• 0:34
  Speaker: Most importantly, to come into every situation, as many as possible, more fully alert, awake.
• 0:44
  Speaker: Makes sense that it is a more valuable way to begin investigating or making a decision about whatever it may be that's in front of oneself, of one's mind's deliberations, circumstance, you know, responses.
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  Speaker: Whatever it is.
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  Speaker: How do we wish to acknowledge what is before us?
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  Speaker: In what way do we bring our own being into this moment of whatever the deliberation might be?
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  Speaker: Well, it comes from our past, obviously.
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  Speaker: From our past moments.
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  Speaker: And the moments that are most critically important are the moments that are the closest in time.
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  Speaker: Something that's just happened in the last few minutes of moments, right?
• 1:46
  Speaker: Sixty moments in each minute of time.
• 1:49
  Speaker: Or hours.
• 1:51
  Speaker: Or days, or weeks, etc.
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  Speaker: How do we go about understanding better our moments, our minutes, our hours, our days, than by reaching for a greater depth of understanding, mindful meditation?
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  Speaker: It's all the same thing.
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  Speaker: It is an inquiry into one's being.
• 2:18
  Speaker: It is taking an initiative, making a space available inside of oneself to allow one to be receptive to one's own message.
• 2:36
  Speaker: Your heart and soul are talking incessantly.
• 2:41
  Speaker: You and I may very well not be listening or interpreting things in a particular way or form, which may or may not be honest and truthful, or wrong, or right.
• 3:00
  Speaker: What are we saying?
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  Speaker: The more we can bring to the table, the more perspective we can share with our own being, with our own experience, with our own level of understanding, most likely it's going to benefit us.
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  Speaker: And we will make better decisions of how to proceed in the moment at hand, in our deliberations which are occurring in these moments.
• 3:34
  Speaker: There is nothing more important than this.
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  Speaker: It is a new beginning in every moment for everyone, everywhere.
• 3:47
  Speaker: Everything is in change.
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  Speaker: One need juggle a few things in one's consciousness, or one can if you so choose to.
• 3:58
  Speaker: Mindful meditation is a confluence of wanting to be and being curious of what it means to utilize more of our capacities, or being able to simultaneously be aware of different physical processes which we do to cultivate a mindful, calm, peaceful experience.
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  Speaker: Maybe we should visit here, there, and everywhere, breathing.
• 4:40
  Speaker: Breathing as if one's life depends upon it, for surely it does.
• 4:49
  Speaker: Being aware of one's breath.
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  Speaker: How you inhale longer and slower, please.
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  Speaker: Pausing when the volume of air in your lungs is sufficient, you release this activity and in a sense begin to contemplate what's next.
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  Speaker: This is a pause.
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  Speaker: How long the pause lasts is another story altogether.
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  Speaker: Noticing and realizing there is a pause is a wonderful journey in itself because this is also part of the tool of respiration.
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  Speaker: Simple.
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  Speaker: Right here.
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  Speaker: And you and me and all of us.
• 5:41
  Speaker: And then your lungs, your body, your mind calls and says, Hello up there.
• 5:49
  Speaker: We need to flush out the carbon dioxide that's accumulated now from our bloodstream into our lungs again.
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  Speaker: Can you exhale, please?
• 6:01
  Speaker: And so we begin an exhalation, long and slow, please.
• 6:06
  Speaker: Calming.
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  Speaker: This is the beginning of multitasking.
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  Speaker: This is the beginning of a confluence of physical processes which, in lieu of other things, take up one's consciousness.
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  Speaker: This is how we focus.
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  Speaker: We overload what other items or agendas we might have on the table and substitute these physical processes in between, taking their space, expanding our own sense of physicality.
• 6:53
  Speaker: This is legitimately mindful meditation.
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  Speaker: And when the lungs have expelled enough carbon dioxide laden air, the message begins to be broadcast that it's enough, okay.
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  Speaker: Reverse courses, and a pause ensues.
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  Speaker: And again, being mindful of this is being mindful of part of the task of a human's respiratory process.
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  Speaker: We breathe in, we pause, we breathe out, we pause.
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  Speaker: Four parts.
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  Speaker: And then we begin again.
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  Speaker: The body says, Oh, we need more oxygen, please.
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  Speaker: And so we breathe.
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  Speaker: Long and slow.
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  Speaker: With curiosity and grace.
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  Speaker: When one pauses between one's in and exhales, then one takes the time to say hello to the pause and maybe to oneself, maybe to the universe, maybe with a sense of virtuosity, of being humble and being thankful.
• 8:20
  Speaker: It can be this way.
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  Speaker: All day.
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  Speaker: When you remember, in just a moment, or two or three moments.
• 8:33
  Speaker: And then you say, but wait, let's do more multitasking, and we say, okay.
• 8:47
  Speaker: And what is it maybe we we want to look at?
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  Speaker: Do you want to feel the heat emanating from your skin?
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  Speaker: Do you want to feel your body's largest organ brushing up against the air or clothes or furniture or floor?
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  Speaker: Where is it do you want to feel?
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  Speaker: Okay.
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  Speaker: Feeling one's body as a whole organism and the heat being generated inside of oneself.
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  Speaker: And even if you feel cold, feeling one's temperature, understanding why.
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  Speaker: Maybe you need to get a blanket to cover yourself or to put on clothes or whatever.
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  Speaker: Say hello to your bodies and its degree of warmth.
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  Speaker: Remembering, of course, as much as one can, simultaneously, one's breathing process.
• 10:05
  Speaker: In and pause, out and pause.
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  Speaker: Sometimes, and then in different order.
• 10:14
  Speaker: Do not be distressed if everything is not as you conceive or perceive that it should be, because everything is changing in every moment of history.
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  Speaker: And history has existed for approximately in our way of looking or measuring at it, 14 billion years.
• 10:38
  Speaker: So don't be too concerned, things aren't going exactly the way you may wish or think or hope They might go.
• 10:48
  Speaker: The chances are there will be differences.
• 10:52
  Speaker: And the chances are very good that this will be so.
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  Speaker: Sometimes we're right, sometimes we're wrong.
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  Speaker: More oftentimes, there's degrees in between.
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  Speaker: The infinite number of variables and circumstances involved in everything that has ever been and will ever be.
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  Speaker: So don't fret is the short analysis of what I've just said.
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  Speaker: Be accepting of whom you are, be receptive to see whom you are.
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  Speaker: And begin to change.
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  Speaker: To increase the positive and decrease the negative.
• 11:51
  Speaker: It is as simple as this.
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  Speaker: And keep at it every day.
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  Speaker: And in every day, keep at it in every hour.
• 12:04
  Speaker: And in every hour, keep at it In as many moments as one can play, as one can smile, and shine with one's own vitality, one's own life.
• 12:30
  Speaker: Being aware is a beacon of light.
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  Speaker: It is this way.
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  Speaker: Being here now.
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  Speaker: This is enough for today.
• 12:46
  Speaker: The music's continuing for another minute.
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  Speaker: Please think about just these two processes.
• 12:54
  Speaker: There are more, of course.
• 12:57
  Speaker: Being in awe of one's own being, of whom we are.