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Planting Seeds of Encouragement · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:01
  Speaker: Taking a long deep breath.
• 0:02
  Speaker: Allowing oneself to pause at the top of one's breath.
• 0:07
  Speaker: And, taking a long slow exhale.
• 0:12
  Speaker: Finding ourselves being more aware of our changes.
• 0:21
  Speaker: Finding a sense of comfort in knowing we are here.
• 0:28
  Speaker: Making the best of our opportunities in these moments we share.
• 0:35
  Speaker: Comfortable, undisturbed, as best as one can.
• 0:42
  Speaker: Focusing, concentrating on what's at hand, which is our self-improvement through mindful meditation, planting seeds of encouragement, affirmation into our beings, into our minds, into our brains, creating, nourishing new habits or habits we've already begun accumulating,.
• 1:25
  Speaker: be---ing a humming bird, be---ing a bee, just you and me.
• 1:46
  Speaker: Similarly, ironic that as a powerful tool as our breath is in helping one attain a sense of calm ease, it is underutilized.
• 2:20
  Speaker: And it is also a boon for our future as we are learning to pay more attention to our physiology, our minds, our gifts of life.
• 2:37
  Speaker: Techniques like meditation, mindful meditation, transcendental meditation, things we can do to help change ourselves, redirect the way that we spend our moments, how we pursue our moments, mindful meditation.
• 3:01
  Speaker: What am I doing now?
• 3:04
  Speaker: How can I become more proficient at and receptive to my activities, my actions, the way I think, the way I do, paying attention, becoming more aware, widening one's perspective, to experience gaining greater understanding of what's going on, of what you're finding is our own being, making its way through currents of energy flowing, we call life, time, space, are both in motion, seemingly, eternally and omnipresently, everywhere, everything within this universe, this creation we call our whole.
• 4:05
  Speaker: Each of us is a nodal point of energy within the context of this creation, remembering your majesties, just whom you are, how great, a result of millions of years of evolution it is to be in humble and in awe of how lucky we are to be part of this process of evolution.
• 4:38
  Speaker: Give thanks.
• 4:39
  Speaker: All religions do, all societies are based upon these traditions which are thousands of years old.
• 4:50
  Speaker: Take the best of each religion, let it grow.
• 4:55
  Speaker: Opportunities for compromise.
• 4:58
  Speaker: In our vast world today, we need to learn and get to know our cousins better.
• 5:06
  Speaker: Wherever they may have grown into adulthood, into making decisions, into making families, cultural traditions.
• 5:16
  Speaker: We need to be more understanding of everyone on our home, right?
• 5:22
  Speaker: Of course.
• 5:24
  Speaker: Cooperation, compromise, collaboration, all of these different aspects.
• 5:35
  Speaker: We need to be virtuous.
• 5:38
  Speaker: We need to enhance our skills.
• 5:43
  Speaker: Many, if not most, educational backgrounds and curriculums are not dealing specifically with the kinds of thoughts that we are often sharing here.
• 6:00
  Speaker: And they need to, in my opinion, certainly need to do something new.
• 6:07
  Speaker: We need to find better ways.
• 6:10
  Speaker: The world being at war is no good.
• 6:12
  Speaker: It's a taboo.
• 6:14
  Speaker: It's a sign of immaturity of our race, of humanity, of our cousins are making these decisions.
• 6:25
  Speaker: Helpful and change.
• 6:28
  Speaker: We have great power economically to do this.
• 6:31
  Speaker: We don't need to fight wars.
• 6:33
  Speaker: We need to dignify life.
• 6:40
  Speaker: We need to think about all life, not just Homo sapiens.
• 6:47
  Speaker: We need to think about our planet, other species, how we interact with them.
• 6:54
  Speaker: And we need to make goals and aspirations for our future, not of one country, but of our world combined, of many different elements, of the creativity and the uniqueness of all the different cultures and environments combined.
• 7:15
  Speaker: We don't want to be an anthill where everything is the same and there is one queen.
• 7:25
  Speaker: This is not the world we live in, nor the world we have come from.
• 7:32
  Speaker: Man is not such a creature.
• 7:36
  Speaker: We thrive in our diversity, our uniqueness.
• 7:42
  Speaker: It is a beautiful thing to behold what we have accomplished, mankind.
• 7:48
  Speaker: That's all.
• 7:50
  Speaker: One's pulse is the engine, the locomotion of blood.
• 8:15
  Speaker: We are internally approximately ninety-eight point six degrees.
• 8:24
  Speaker: Our bodies quivering, undulating, vibrating, shimmering with energy.
• 8:37
  Speaker: When we allow ourselves to relax enough and be receptive enough to be.
• 8:46
  Speaker: Be here now.
• 8:49
  Speaker: You and I have heard this phrase many times.
• 8:53
  Speaker: Be here now, shimmering, one's whole body trembling with our life energies in this way, feeling one's extremities, one's feet, one's hands, one's arms, shoulders, necks, and chests, remembering one's majesty, the length of time for Homo sapiens to have come from the ground and rise.
• 9:30
  Speaker: However tall one is three feet, four feet, five feet, six feet, however wide one's perspective becomes, is becoming being here.
• 9:47
  Speaker: Meditation is not outside the realm of the rest of our universe, it is a part of it.
• 9:56
  Speaker: One needs to acclimate oneself with one's meditation in one's living environment.
• 10:05
  Speaker: Many separate these two aspects of one's life, and I ask in query, how can you do this?
• 10:16
  Speaker: One needs to live their meditation.
• 10:20
  Speaker: One needs to be mindful as much as possible.
• 10:25
  Speaker: One needs to nourish oneself all the time, not just sometimes, as much as possible.
• 10:34
  Speaker: All of these different items or things or goals, aspirations need to be done with virtuosity.
• 10:44
  Speaker: This is mindful meditation in action, virtuosity, kindness, understanding, compassion, patience, experience through practice, wisdom, knowledge, depth, width of perception.
• 11:06
  Speaker: Opening one's heart, opening one's mind to possibilities, to potential.
• 11:17
  Speaker: Thinking about these things.
• 11:22
  Speaker: The music's going to continue for another minute.
• 11:26
  Speaker: Have a wonderful day.
• 11:28
  Speaker: Marvelous day.