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SMNTY Classics: Deep Space SMNTY (in 3D!) · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I welcome to stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I've never told you a production of iHeart Radio, And
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  Speaker 1: today I wanted to bring back one um about because
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  Speaker 1: you were talking about meditation during the holidays. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and we're looking to try to do another one of those,
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  Speaker 1: um because they can be quite quite stressful the holidays. Yes. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But because of that, it got me thinking about this
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  Speaker 1: cool thing we did with Eves where we did some
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  Speaker 1: like three D audio, which I know isn't for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: but um, it was it. I really enjoyed it, and
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  Speaker 1: when I listened to it, I was so through the
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  Speaker 1: olden please without it turned out and all the work
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  Speaker 1: people put into it, Christina and Eves and I found
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  Speaker 1: it very very relaxing. So I thought, you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to do that. We're planning on it, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, things are pieces are moving, things are shifting.
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  Speaker 1: So if we don't, or even if we do, here's
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  Speaker 1: another kind of meditative episode if you're if you're really
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  Speaker 1: feeling that stress, or even if you're not, you're just
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  Speaker 1: looking for something relaxed to So take a deep breath.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Yes, I heart three D Audio. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephane Never
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  Speaker 1: Told You production of I Heart Radio. This episode is
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  Speaker 1: maximum of effect, headphones are recommended. Hey everyone, we have
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  Speaker 1: a yes, special three D episode for you today. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: if you're like what three D audio, it's a thing.
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  Speaker 1: It is a thing. You have a thing I do.
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  Speaker 1: If you wanna randomly, if you're like me and you
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  Speaker 1: like horror at any time of the year, you can
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  Speaker 1: go check out Thirteen Days of Halloween and I have
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  Speaker 1: an episode up on there that was recorded in this
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  Speaker 1: three D audio and it's pretty cool. I do say
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  Speaker 1: so myself. If you'd like to, I'll listen to it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and I appreciated that. So, yeah, we're trying something new
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  Speaker 1: for this episode because here at My Heart we recently
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  Speaker 1: got our hands on some audio equipment capable of recording
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  Speaker 1: in three D, so we wanted to try it out.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of a bunch of shows are doing this,
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  Speaker 1: and don't worry if that makes you a little nervous.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to go overboard just to light touch
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  Speaker 1: some soundscaping here and there. But if you like it,
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  Speaker 1: we might try this again sometimes because originally we were
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  Speaker 1: going to do a dramatic reading of some of my
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  Speaker 1: fan fictions. I really wanted to do this. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: sure about the legality of it, but I did those campaignings.
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  Speaker 1: You are you contacted like Eaves about it. It was
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  Speaker 1: great maybe in the future, because I really want to
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  Speaker 1: hear you do a Chewbacca impression in three you have
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  Speaker 1: to say it that way at least once. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna let the echo go um. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm down. I'm practicing perfect perfect, So listeners, just let
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  Speaker 1: us know if that's something you're interested in. I totally understand.
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  Speaker 1: If not, though totally get it, but my feelings won't
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  Speaker 1: be too hurt. I just want to let the option.
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  Speaker 1: I want to put it out there. My feelings will
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  Speaker 1: be hurt because I really wanted to happen, but we're
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  Speaker 1: not doing that this time around. I was vetoed, I
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  Speaker 1: was vetoed hard, but we thought we'd continue our conversation
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  Speaker 1: on self care instead, so I was okay with it
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  Speaker 1: and make a space to relax, sort of a podcast oasis,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, with special guest star Eves, our friend
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  Speaker 1: who comes through all the time talking to us about
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  Speaker 1: the amazing female first series as well as being our
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  Speaker 1: executive producer. So of course, and by the way, if
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  Speaker 1: you do follow our sites such as Instagrams or Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: you know that she is a meditation yoga guru. I
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  Speaker 1: think so it's gonna be awesome. So just a disclaimer.
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  Speaker 1: So these are things that we really love to do
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  Speaker 1: as a part of our self care. Always listen to
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  Speaker 1: your body. What my work for us may not work
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  Speaker 1: for you, So make sure listen to yourself and what
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  Speaker 1: you need, put your headphones in and rely x along
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  Speaker 1: with us. One of my very favorite things to do
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  Speaker 1: for self care and in general is hiking. It's been
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  Speaker 1: over a year and I'm so excited to get back
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  Speaker 1: out there. We're very lucky where we are to be
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  Speaker 1: close to some absolutely stunning trails and hikes. There's something
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  Speaker 1: I find so peaceful about getting in touch with nature,
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  Speaker 1: about focusing on that next step and letting your mind wander.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big part of mindfulness and centering and getting
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  Speaker 1: in touch with your body. That can be really hard
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  Speaker 1: to do as a trauma survivor. We talked about that
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  Speaker 1: in our Traumla mini series when we spoke to the
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  Speaker 1: lovely women behind. We hike to heal. It makes sense
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  Speaker 1: to me that hiking would be healing because it can
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  Speaker 1: involve a lot of the grounding techniques recommended for trauma survivor.
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  Speaker 1: Is listening to your breath, to the crunch of the
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  Speaker 1: leaves or ground under your feet, the birds, the breeze
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  Speaker 1: in the trees, the babbling of water over rocks, the
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  Speaker 1: quiet roar of a waterfall, and through all of this
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  Speaker 1: is you and your body moving through this space. Something
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  Speaker 1: you have to attune to all of these sounds, tethering
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  Speaker 1: you to the presence. Another form of self care and
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  Speaker 1: something that is simultaneously easy and hard, is meditation. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the idea of meditation has always been around. Whether you
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  Speaker 1: call it mindfulness, relaxing, a focused breathing, or just a break,
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  Speaker 1: it is something that can be pretty accessible and fairly effective,
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  Speaker 1: and there are many different forms of meditation, guided and guided,
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  Speaker 1: calming and insightful. Religious and non religious in many different
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  Speaker 1: practices use soundscape or immersive sound or sound bad meditation,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's sounds of nature such as water sounds which
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  Speaker 1: can help you find the peace of the waves on
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  Speaker 1: a sunny day, or the sounds of a gentle storm
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  Speaker 1: as you try to relax from the day of stress
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  Speaker 1: and demands, and maybe even try to fall asleep. One
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  Speaker 1: of my favorites is the guided imagery meditation, which is
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  Speaker 1: a meditation that puts you in a space to be
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  Speaker 1: able to focus in in order to relax. Focus relaxation
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  Speaker 1: involves concentrating on a specific object, sound, or experience in
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  Speaker 1: order to calm your mind. With this type of meditation,
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  Speaker 1: you're able to visualize a positive scenario or images that
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  Speaker 1: helps you to relax and focus. It can help you
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  Speaker 1: cope with stress and anxieties, and can even be a
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  Speaker 1: helpful method to wind down. For example, my favorite imagery
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  Speaker 1: is that of being in the Northern Mountains sitting near
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  Speaker 1: a lake, listening to the waters hitting against the shore,
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  Speaker 1: while in the distance the bird sings as the wind
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  Speaker 1: blows throughout. So if you're wondering what it is for
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  Speaker 1: a beginner, you might want to start by sitting down
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  Speaker 1: or maybe lying down, close your eyes, focus on your breath,
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  Speaker 1: and allow your body to relax. Choose your happy place,
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  Speaker 1: Choose your go to relaxing place. Maybe again it's like
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  Speaker 1: the water that I spoke of. Allow yourself to settle
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  Speaker 1: in immerse yourself in the environment by using all of
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  Speaker 1: your senses allow yourself to be part of that area
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  Speaker 1: and environment. There are many benefits to meditation, and specific
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  Speaker 1: to meditations like guided imagery, it can help you reduce
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  Speaker 1: feelings of anxiety, as in fact, in a four study
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  Speaker 1: women suffering from flabromalgia or test to see the effects
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  Speaker 1: of using this specific type of meditation, and it showed
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  Speaker 1: a significant decrease in feelings of stress, fatigue, pain, and depression.
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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Eves. If you don't know my voice,
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  Speaker 1: you might already know my voice. I've been on the
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  Speaker 1: show many times for a segment called Female First, but
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  Speaker 1: I am here today to do a very special episode.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy that Annie and Samantha have me on
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  Speaker 1: for this episode because it is one of my favorite things.
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  Speaker 1: I know that a lot of time y'all know me
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  Speaker 1: for talking about women in history, but today is very
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  Speaker 1: different because I'm going to be in my yoga and
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  Speaker 1: meditation bag. I have been practicing yoga for about six
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  Speaker 1: years now, and I am also a yoga and meditation teacher,
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  Speaker 1: and I am very grateful and honored to be here
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  Speaker 1: today and to be able to bring you uh meditation.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to do some guided imagery today. I
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  Speaker 1: asked that if you're not familiar with yoga meditation, there's
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  Speaker 1: a good chance you might be because you are listening
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  Speaker 1: to this episode and until this point. But if you're not,
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  Speaker 1: I ask and I hope that you keep an open
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  Speaker 1: mind and that you try to go along with me
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  Speaker 1: for this ride. And at the end we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: it's something that you like, and if you do, you
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  Speaker 1: can return to this whenever you want to, or try
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  Speaker 1: it elsewhere. Who knows, it's it's up to us whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want to do. So let's begin. So, no matter
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  Speaker 1: where you are, trying to get into a comfortable position,
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  Speaker 1: try to get into a place, in a position in
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  Speaker 1: which you feel safe and which you feel settled, and
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  Speaker 1: just take a moment to settle into that place. You
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  Speaker 1: can be in whatever position you want to be in
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  Speaker 1: whatever position feels good to you right now. That might
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  Speaker 1: be sitting in a chair, that might be sitting cross
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  Speaker 1: legged on the floor in your bed, lying in your bed,
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  Speaker 1: whatever position in which you feel like you can sit
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  Speaker 1: or stay for several minutes. It doesn't have to look
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  Speaker 1: like anything special, it doesn't have to be fancy. It
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  Speaker 1: just has to be somewhere that you want to be.
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  Speaker 1: And now that you arrived here in this comfortable position
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  Speaker 1: in a way that invites you to feel held, supported
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  Speaker 1: and safe, all you have to do is breathe, feel
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  Speaker 1: and notice. Breathe, feel, notice, Notice how to be here
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  Speaker 1: with yourself to meet this moment in time that you've
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  Speaker 1: made space for. Allow yourself to settle into a sense
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  Speaker 1: of ease and peace that feels you so deeply that
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  Speaker 1: it warms the very center of your being. Now bring
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  Speaker 1: your awareness to your breath. Feel your expansiveness, the way
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  Speaker 1: your chest rises as you are filled the life giving breath,
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  Speaker 1: and the way it settles back into the body as
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  Speaker 1: you release. Feel how the air is cool as you inhale,
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  Speaker 1: and warm as you exhale. Now began to count the
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  Speaker 1: breath inhale for account of three, exhale for account of
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  Speaker 1: three inhale one two three, exhale one two three mm
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  Speaker 1: inhale one two three, exhale one two three. In a moment,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to count down from ten to one. When
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  Speaker 1: we arrive at one, you will have settled into a
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  Speaker 1: much deeper space. Ten you notice the sounds in the
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  Speaker 1: room around you, the sounds of your surroundings. Nine You
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  Speaker 1: notice your body in space, how it rests on your support. Eight.
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  Speaker 1: Feel the clothing against your skin, the light touch of
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  Speaker 1: your fingertips, the points of contact that you have with
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  Speaker 1: the outside world. Seven. Let go of any tension that
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  Speaker 1: you may be holding in your body. Scan your body
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  Speaker 1: in a release in any place that you may be
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  Speaker 1: holding tension m Six. Notice your thoughts, Acknowledge them as
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  Speaker 1: they come, and release them. Let them flow through as
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  Speaker 1: if they are floating on water. Five. Allow your mind
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  Speaker 1: to settle into this moment. Allow yourself to simply be
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  Speaker 1: four three two one h h here in this deeper space.
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  Speaker 1: Allow yourself to let go. Allow the deep sense of
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  Speaker 1: calm that you have invited in to envelope you. Here,
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  Speaker 1: you are crossing the threshold from the soft amber lightning
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  Speaker 1: of your warm home and into the cool evening. Your
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  Speaker 1: home is cozy, but the crisp air and light breeze
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  Speaker 1: are refreshing on this spring night. You let the stillness
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  Speaker 1: of your surroundings wash over you as you continue your
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  Speaker 1: journey farther away from your home and into the lush
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  Speaker 1: meadow ahead. The soft grass gently tickles your feet as
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  Speaker 1: it gives way to your presence. The steady and musical
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  Speaker 1: chirp of all the creatures that awaken at night fills
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  Speaker 1: the air as you climb a small hill to one
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  Speaker 1: of your favorite views in the meadow. At the top
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  Speaker 1: of the hill, you breathe in deeply, letting the fresh
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  Speaker 1: air fill your longs. From your hill, you can see
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  Speaker 1: the nearest town, a collection of twinkling lights far in
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  Speaker 1: the distance, but your hill is quiet, calm. You slowly
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  Speaker 1: open the blanket you brought with you, laying it down
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  Speaker 1: next to a bed of wild flowers. There's subtle fragrance
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  Speaker 1: comforts you as you lie down on your back on
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  Speaker 1: the blanket and stare up at the night sky, a
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  Speaker 1: deep shade of amethysts. You settle in here, mesmerized. The
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  Speaker 1: night sky seems to be all that exists anymore. It
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  Speaker 1: surrounds you, the light and the dark, both equally soothing,
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  Speaker 1: the light for its warmth, the darkness for its serenity.
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean that something so limitless could exist?
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  Speaker 1: And what does it mean that you are able to
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  Speaker 1: witness it every day and are even able to call
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  Speaker 1: yourself part of it? The stars shine brighter as the
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  Speaker 1: sky turns a deeper shade of blue. Their light pulls
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  Speaker 1: you even closer, and now you are gently floating, as
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  Speaker 1: if held by a body of warm salt water. But
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  Speaker 1: it is the night sky that supports you, allows you
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  Speaker 1: to rest in the cradle of its infinite expanse your light.
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  Speaker 1: You are encumbered by nothing, no expectation, no labels, no responsibilities.
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  Speaker 1: Here there is only possibility. For now you have released
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  Speaker 1: everything that weighs you down. What does that feel? Alife?
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  Speaker 1: In every glowing star and every pocket of darkness in between,
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  Speaker 1: you see yourself new in every moment, infinite and harmony
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  Speaker 1: with everything else in this universe. You are exactly as
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  Speaker 1: you are meant to be here, in this burdenless state.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you take a moment to settle into this sense
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  Speaker 1: of freedom. Perhaps you let go of any concerns about
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  Speaker 1: doing and simply let the being happen, but the stars
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  Speaker 1: as your guide. Floating in your time here, you realize
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  Speaker 1: that the peace and contentment you found in the night
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  Speaker 1: sky is always available to you. So you let the
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  Speaker 1: stars light a pathway back to the earth, and you
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  Speaker 1: drift slowly back to your favorite hill in the meadow.
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  Speaker 1: The scent of the wildflowers welcomes you as you come
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  Speaker 1: to rest on your blanket. You take your time rising
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  Speaker 1: and preparing to head back home, taking soft steps back
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  Speaker 1: down the gentle slope and through the moonlit meadow. A
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  Speaker 1: breeze creates the faintest whistle, as if it were calling
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  Speaker 1: you to return. You've made it back home. This comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and loving place that you've created for yourself greets you
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  Speaker 1: with kindness and more, and as we return, invite all
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  Speaker 1: of the feelings you cultivated in our journey to come
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  Speaker 1: home to you. In a moment, I'm going to count
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  Speaker 1: from one to ten, and by the time I get
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  Speaker 1: to tend, any sleepiness will have faded, and you will
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  Speaker 1: feel wonderfully refreshed and present. One. O, two, Three You
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  Speaker 1: began to notice the sounds in the room. Four, Begin
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  Speaker 1: to notice any sounds that you may hear from outside
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  Speaker 1: of the room you're in. Five Notice your body in space,
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  Speaker 1: bringing yourself back into the presence of your surroundings. Six
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  Speaker 1: maybe you wiggle your fingers and toes. Seven fill your
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  Speaker 1: breath deep in, awakening your senses and energy. Eight Stretch
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  Speaker 1: out through your arms, through your legs, through your feet,
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  Speaker 1: through your hands. Nine start to move your body a little,
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  Speaker 1: maybe stretching through your back, rolling your neck, turning your
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  Speaker 1: head from side to side. Ten and vit a yawn
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  Speaker 1: into your body. Pausing here, just to feel that transition
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  Speaker 1: from stillness to movement. And as you bring yourself back
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  Speaker 1: into the room that you're in, back into this moment,
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  Speaker 1: just remember that everything you just cultivated, all the stillness,
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  Speaker 1: the peacefulness, the contentment, the awareness, receptiveness, softness, all the
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  Speaker 1: other things that you can name for yourself that you
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  Speaker 1: just cultivated throughout that experience. You can carry that with you.
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  Speaker 1: You can have it at any moment, at any time
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  Speaker 1: that you may choose. Thank you for being open to
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  Speaker 1: and taking the time with me that you just did.
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  Speaker 1: I am so honored that you've stuck with me through
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  Speaker 1: that entire experience. I do hope that you've got something
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  Speaker 1: meaningful out of it, or at least and george your
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  Speaker 1: time doing it and doing something a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: than you hear from me, and definitely a little bit
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  Speaker 1: different than we usually do on this show. All right, bye. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you listeners, but I'm feeling pretty relaxed.
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  Speaker 1: That was a nice little oasis. It was fun. It was,
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  Speaker 1: and as always, we love it when eaves dropped by.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like we're having like an A list celebrity cameo.
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  Speaker 1: To be really honestly, I feel like she's a pro.
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  Speaker 1: She is. She should be a yoga expert. To be fair,
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  Speaker 1: she absolutely is. And like you said, Samantha, listeners, check
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  Speaker 1: her out on social media because she consistently post amazing
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  Speaker 1: things about yoga and meditation. So she was very much
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  Speaker 1: a help in this episode. And if that's something you're
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  Speaker 1: interested in learning more about or getting into, check her
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  Speaker 1: out online. And we hope that you enjoyed this experiment
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  Speaker 1: of ours and that maybe you did get a moment
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  Speaker 1: of relaxation. If you want us to do more stuff
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  Speaker 1: like this in the future, just let us know. You
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  Speaker 1: Told You. Special shout out thanks as always to our
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  Speaker 1: super producer, Christina Episodes made this episode literally she did,
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