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Change is inevitable, suffering is optional: Finding peace in transition · STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

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  Speaker 1: Hey there.
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  Speaker 1: It's safe to say that most of us are experiencing some kind of a transition in our life right now.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Might be minor, might be more major, maybe it's something that's just unfolding in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's already here, maybe you're anticipating it, maybe you're not even sure what it is, but you can feel it.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: You can feel something coming.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: This meditation is for staying open in the unknown.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Take a moment to settle into wherever you are right now.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Just allow your body to soften, allow your breath to find its natural rhythm.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: To find its natural rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: Take the time you need as you transition into this meditation.
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  Speaker 1: When you draw awareness around the fact that everything is a transition, you might be able to acknowledge that transitions aren't as scary, maybe, as you thought.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 1: Let's begin by simply noticing our breath, not changing it, not forcing it.
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  Speaker 1: Simply observing the inhale and the exhale and the space in between.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Notice yourself starting to relax, know that you are safe, that this is for you and we're not attached to getting anywhere.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: We're simply in the moment together.
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  Speaker 1: And as you listen to my voice, I want you to gently bring to mind the change that's unfolding in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's already here, maybe it's happening in your outer world, or maybe it's happening on the inside.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's coming, maybe you always knew that it was coming and it's getting closer now.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're not even sure what it is, but you can feel the shift.
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  Speaker 1: Breathe into it.
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  Speaker 1: Just breathe into the feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Don't assign any meaning and let yourself acknowledge what is true Change is happening, and with change comes uncertainty.
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  Speaker 1: And with uncertainty often comes fear, and it's okay to feel that fear.
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  Speaker 1: It's human, it's perfectly natural.
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  Speaker 1: Our mind, trying to protect us, creates stories, and not just any stories.
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  Speaker 1: Often the worst case scenarios, we imagine loss or failure, rejection, regret.
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  Speaker 1: But what if we're rehearsing pain that may never come?
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  Speaker 1: What if the fear we're feeling isn't from the change itself but from the story we're telling about what that change might mean?
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a deep breath together here, inhaling for 4, 3, 2, 1, and exhaling gently for as long as you can.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Now let this phrase anchor you.
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  Speaker 1: Change is inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: Suffering is optional.
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  Speaker 1: What we choose to do with change is powerful, how we choose to be to it with possibility.
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  Speaker 1: We can brace or we can breathe.
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  Speaker 1: We can cling or we can open, can open.
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  Speaker 1: Let's choose to open in this moment, right now.
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  Speaker 1: On your next inhale.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine you are inhaling possibility, space, curiosity and trust and as you exhale, release the attachment to knowing how it all turns out.
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  Speaker 1: Breathe in openness, breathe out control.
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  Speaker 1: There's no need to force clarity.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to grip the outcome.
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  Speaker 1: You get to stand in this moment, rooted in choice, in this breath.
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  Speaker 1: You are not lost In this breath, you are not behind.
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  Speaker 1: In this breath.
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  Speaker 1: You are whole, capable, resilient, forceful.
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  Speaker 1: There is power and freedom in not knowing, because not knowing is also the birthplace of every creative possibility.
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  Speaker 1: It's where new ideas live, it's where you get to write the next chapter.
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  Speaker 1: So when the mind rushes ahead, when you run from the fear or the fear gets louder, come back to this place, come back to the breath.
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  Speaker 1: Come back to the breath, come back to choice, return to the quiet, knowing that you are not at the mercy of change.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: You are in relationship with it and whatever you want that relationship to be is entirely up to you.
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  Speaker 1: And the more you soften, the more you stay open, the more life can meet you with unexpected grace.
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  Speaker 1: Take one more deep breath in and release with a long, slow exhale.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you're ready, bring yourself to where you're sitting or lying, still with your eyes closed.
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  Speaker 1: Draw your awareness around.
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  Speaker 1: What is the support of the earth beneath your feet or the pillows beneath your body of your breath that supports you from within, saying out loud or to yourself I am open to what's unfolding, I am grounded in choice and I trust that possibility lives in the unknown.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: Whenever you're ready, go ahead and open your eyes, gently, move your body around, notice how you feel and as you move back into your day, remember change is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Namaste, my friend.