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Love Your Love Muscle - Choosing Joy · Transformational Meditation Podcast

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  Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of
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  Love Your Love Muscle.
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  Our bi-weekly podcast about heart-based living, heart
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  focused meditation.
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  Self-regulation techniques, and helping yourself and
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  others by reconnecting your brain with
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  your heart and vice versa.
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  So good to have you here.
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  Welcome back.
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  For those that are frequent listeners, listeners, and watchers,
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  viewers, I would say, watches viewers oof my English.
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  Um, A new session,
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  and again, in nature, of course, it is beautifu weather, it's summertime
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  here in Norway, and today it's very quiet.
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  I don't know why.
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  Uh, theme for today.
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  I got some messages about people, again,
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  being worried about life
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  itself, the planet, the heat waves,
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  all the wars going on, and
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  afraid and missing a bit of joy in
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  life, and also
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  realizing that you can’t get really joy from
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  the outside world, at least it's temporary, right?
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  You can watch a humoristic movie or
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  a series or have
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  a good time with friends, of course, but everything comes to an end and you get home again.
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  And the next day, things start over again,
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  and nothing has really changed.
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  Can be depressing, can be difficult, and
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  but in today's session,
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  we are going to use nature and
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  short meditation, focus on the heart,
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  to realize that we don't have control over everything.
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  But we do have control over how we see the world.
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  We can change it.
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  And we have control over how we decide
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  to view our life.
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  And one of the most important things
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  is always living in the moment, right?
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  You can't control the future, you can control the
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  past, that's been done.
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  But, yeah, today, right now, just
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  focus on right now, how are you feeling right now?
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  I mean, if you are in this moment, you're alive, you're
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  breathing, and if you're like me, you're in nature,
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  you're feeling the wind, there's so much to be grateful
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  for, to feel joyful about.
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  So, we're going to focus on the now, because now it's nice
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  right now in this moment.
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  So, yeah, I would say everything becomes much more clear.
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  once we do the session.
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  I will turn the camera around.
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  You will have a beautiful view of a calm landscape,
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  maybe this time boats will not
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  go by so frequently.
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  We'll see, and we have
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  the birds singing, and everything, so, yeah, just enjoy.
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  And, yeah.
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  Hopefully this will help getting that
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  joy in life back, because there's a lot to be joyful,
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  and a lot to be grateful about.
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  So see you on the other side.
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  All right.
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  So let's get started.
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  Just settle down, move your body, your shoulders, your neck.
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  Notice that you find a good, comfortable spot with
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  good support.
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  And it's always take a nice deep inhale through your nose.
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  Fill those lungs with air.
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  And as you breathe out through your mouth, feel
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  that you're settling down, that you're getting centered, letting
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  the day go, take another nice deep anal through your nose.
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  Exhale through your mouth.
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  All the way out, let in the day go.
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  Getting more and more centered, then in this moment.
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  Maybe do this one more time, a nice deep inhale, through your nose again.
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  And out and relax even more, settling down.
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  Wonderful.
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  And breathe normally.
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  But try to breathe slower and deeper than you usually do.
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  Slower and deeper.
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  Wonderful.
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  Now notice that if you notice your
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  mind wandering off during this session, your thoughts are all over
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  the place, all of a sudden.
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  It's good that you notice it.
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  Don't get frustrated, don't get angry.
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  Just get back to your breath.
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  to your anchor point, which today is in our heart.
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  So let's move your focus to the heart area.
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  The middle of your chest.
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  To have even more focus, put your hand on your chest,
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  right there where your heart is.
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  And now imagine that you are breathing through your heart.
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  Just imagine the air going in and out of your
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  chest area, through your heart.
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  Nice calm, deep breaths.
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  through your heart.
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  I may want to continue looking out over the landscape.
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  If you're watching the video or if you're outside.
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  Or you can close your eyes.
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  And turn inwards.
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  Continue breathing through your heart.
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  I want you to think back about a time in your life when you felt
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  great joy, appreciation, care or compassion.
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  To think back about a time in your life, you felt great joy,
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  appreciation, gratitude, or
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  care, or compassion, this could be anything.
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  Could be something from today, last week, a year ago.
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  Could be so simple as the weather.
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  A loved one, a friend, a pet, a
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  gift you received.
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  Just pick something.
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  Pick something, a moment from your life when you felt
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  great joy, appreciation, gratitude,
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  care, or compassion.
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  And as you breathe through your heart,
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  Feel that moment again.
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  Relift that moment as if it's happening right now.
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  Make it as real as possible.
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  Not only see it happening in front of you.
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  Leave it, feel it.
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  Be there again in that moment.
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  Make it as real as possible as you breathe through your heart.
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  You might even notice yourself smiling or warmth going through your body.
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  It's okay.
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  That's your body reacting to the inner
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  experience you are creating.
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  It is reacting as if it is right there, right now.
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  Just replay that, that
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  period, that, that's happening.
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  We play it over and over again like a movie, where
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  you're the main character, the actor.
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  Let's replay it, make it as real as possible, more
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  and more real, inside of you, as you breathe through your heart.
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  Really go for it.
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  Okay, now let it, let that movie, let that
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  experience go, but
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  keep that energy of it inside of you.
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  Just notice how you changed your state of being.
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  And notice how fairly easy it is, to
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  change the way you
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  experience things, to change your experience.
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  So now try to sense your surroundings.
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  In this moment, everything that's
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  going on right now, in your
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  near surroundings, not anywhere else in your
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  world, but just right where you are in your spot.
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  What is happening there?
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  Just listen.
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  Feel and sense.
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  Okay, maybe here the silence.
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  The birds...
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  My voice...
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  You maybe can... you maybe even hear your breathing.
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  And try to enjoy this moment, as it is right now with
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  the same gratitude, appreciation, care, compassion,
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  or joy, as you did previously.
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  Just do that as you breathe through your heart with all your heart and your whole being.
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  transfer that feeling of joy that you just had appreciation,
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  care, compassion, or gratitude, over to
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  this moment, right now, as you sit here in peace.
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  In this moment.
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  Beautiful.
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  So now you know you can transfer... your
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  state of being over from situation to
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  situation, even in this moment.
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  For the next few minutes, enjoy the stillness
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  and joy, nature, enjoy life as it is right now.
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  You might even open your eyes and look at the screen.
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  If you watch the video version.
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  You might just listen to the surroundings, and
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  to the sounds from nature here.
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  Enjoy it.
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  Smile, even if you're not smiling right now.
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  Just put up and smile and breathe through your heart, and
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  take in this moment of beautiful nature and joy.
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  Okay, beautiful.
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  Breathe normally again as we slowly get back.
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  If you drifted off your mind to somewhere else, that's okay.
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  That's fine.
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  It happens to everyone.
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  Don't get frustrated.
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  There's no need to focus that hard.
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  Beautiful.
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  Move your body back and forth from side to side.
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  Wiggle a little with your fingers and toes.
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  You should notice more your surroundings.
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  Wonderful.
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  Open your eyes if you had them closed.
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  Welcome back.
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  Welcome back.
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  All right, welcome back.
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  What a calm, quiet session today.
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  So, perfect to just be in
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  the moment, and try to, uh,
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  give meaning to this moment to life, and hope it works for you.
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  I hope you also recognize that you can
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  always go back to a time in your life, you had great joy,
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  appreciation, care, compassion, you know?
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  Relieve that, and then to transfer that energy,
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  to ensure that knowledge that energy over to another situation.
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  And that's what people do every morning with the hardware
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  coherence techniques I do it every morning.
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  Wake up in the morning and choose what state of being I want to be in today.
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  Do I want to be a grumpy person that's scared
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  of life, uh, worried about
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  everything that's going on, taking too much of that energy
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  onto me.
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  Or do I choose to be productive?
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  What can I do today?
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  What can I offer to the world?
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  What can I do for my colleagues,
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  for myself, for my work, for my partner?
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  Find something.
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  Often when you work, you already have a to do list, right?
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  You know what your task is.
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  So what energy do you want to bring to that task?
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  So those are things you can think about in the morning when you do your morning
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  meditation, breathe to your heart, and become
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  that person you want to be that day.
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  Imagine it, feel it.
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  See it happening in front of you.
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  Already program your mind, your
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  nervous system, your being, for that
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  moment of joy, appreciation, and gratitude.
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  And I always say, if you don't know what to feel, feel gratitude.
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  Universal key.
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  to everything.
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  So, yeah.
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  And like I said, transferred it over.
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  And know that you don't have control over everything.
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  You don't have control over the heat waves.
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  You don't have control over the wars going on.
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  And the only thing you can do is be the
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  best version of yourself, and demonstrate
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  towards the worlds, how a real human
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  being lives their lives.
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  It's often like, I say, you already know how
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  you want to live your life.
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  You want to live your life in peace, happiness, and joy.
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  You want a caring life, you want others to take care of you, and
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  you want to take care of others, help each other, love,
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  compassion, you know?
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  It's very simple, but we make it darn
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  difficult for ourselves to get in that state of being.
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  But, yeah, well, like,
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  uh, like, uh, the Dalai Lama says, if every child in
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  school learns how to meditate, there will be no more wars,
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  I, fully, fully agree with that, and
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  people would be more happy to, nevertheless.
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  So, yeah.
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  So, thank you for joining in today.
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  I hope you found this session useful.
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  Keep following me, and, uh, if
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  very soon, we will have another interview, uh,
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  with Christina from, uh, way to yourself.
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  So stay tuned for that.
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  Uh, that's cool.
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  A little bit longer sessions with lots of
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  interesting information.
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  So, until then, take good care.
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  Be safe, and Namaste.