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Stillness Meets Motion: Meditation for People Who Can’t Sit Still · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello everyone, welcome back
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  to Eye Opener Society, and welcome back to my guided meditation series.
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  Now this one is way different, and I'm always trying to find new ways to keep
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  you tuned into this because I feel meditation is extremely important,
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  and it can be fit Into everyone's lives And when I say everyone I do mean everyone,
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  Especially those Whom are always telling me I cannot relax My mind's always
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  going I'm always in motion I can't calm down Do you know what?
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  That's specific to you And you're not the only one,
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  And there is still a way For you to meditate Because there's so many myths out
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  there that you have to be calm and that you have to be seated in.
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  I always dislike those myths.
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  There are many people who are on a frequency that they have to keep moving and
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  their bodies need to be in motion and their mind is going to be functioning
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  in a way different way while they are meditating.
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  So I've picked the perfect person to work with and this is going to be alive.
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  Not live live, but I'm going to have somebody working with me on this episode to actually show you,
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  in real time, how a meditation goes with someone whose mind is very active.
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  I would like to introduce to you, if you are only just tuning into my meditation
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  series, but if you're a regular listener, you already know her. Lizzie.
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  Lizzie, my co-host. How are you, Lizzie?
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  Good. Just so excited to try something just a little bit different.
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  Because I agree with you, everybody can meditate and you have to just kind of
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  go however is natural to you.
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  And for me, it's always been movement.
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  You know, you've seen me do it or I'm doing jumping jacks. I'm running around
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  the house. I'm doing all kinds of things.
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  But yeah, I'm in a stage now where I'm trying to kind of ground it back out,
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  kind of broaden my perspective.
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  Not that one's better than the other, but the ability to do both, I think, is very useful.
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  So I'm excited to see what today's kind to blend into and see if I can sit still
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  or if it feels natural to sit still.
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  That's what we're going to try and work on. Yeah, it's motion.
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  And I'm going to have you doing some motion because, like I said,
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  I want to feed into the way you work naturally.
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  So the audience knows it's going to be watched.
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  I'm not sure how well it's going to work because with Zoom, it kind of switches
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  off if you're not talking.
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  No one's going to see you. but it's meditation anyway.
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  So every now and then I might have you say something, but I think we'll be fine anyway.
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  You're already relaxed. And now that's, I always tell the audience,
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  and I'm going to tell you again, now is your time to go into that quiet space.
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  Now is the time to start focusing in on my voice.
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  This might not be a very, you know, what you're used to as far as a guided meditation,
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  because I'm focusing on one person.
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  However, I'm going to try and focus for everyone else as I'm getting all my
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  energies ready for this. So Lizzie...
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  You're already relaxed or as relaxed as you can. It's probably the most relaxed
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  I've seen you. So that's good.
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  I like that. That's good. And we both kind of cleared our auras prior to getting
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  on here, which is another good thing.
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  Grounding yourself. So you're ready. So Lizzie, thank you for being a subject. So just relaxed.
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  There you go.
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  I always start with the breathing And Lizzie you probably already know this
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  But you're just going to concentrate On your breathing No heavy breathing No
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  deep breaths You're just focused On Your breathing,
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  And you're feeling it And that's all you're going to You know Think of In this
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  moment The in and out of your breath.
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  And I'm reaching out to you now And just because I know you And I know your energies,
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  I'm going to tap into that a little bit As we have this moment of quiet This
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  moment of stillness I would like it to stay with you For the times that you actually need it,
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  So this moment, this present moment right here, right now, the way you are,
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  hearing my voice, and feeling your breathing,
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  this is going to get you into a much more relaxed state.
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  There's nothing dramatic. There's just going to be a subtle shift of weight.
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  Now, Lizzie, reconnect with yourself and just move slight shifts of weight from left to right.
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  Just allow your body to move because what I feel from you is you gain more from the movement.
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  It's kind of like that static air when you build it up walking across a rug.
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  Allowing the static electricity to build up. That's what you're doing with movement.
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  This is what people do when they can't, or at least they tell me that they cannot control their minds.
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  Your mind may be racing a million miles a minute.
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  You may be feeling a lot of things going on in your head, but this is normal.
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  You're picking up frequencies. It's all downloading.
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  Just let your shoulders loosen Roll them back slowly,
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  Soften your jaw Unclench your hands And just remember, we are meditating We're
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  not performing What you are is releasing.
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  Now, allow your arms to move just a little bit more freely.
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  They may rise, they may circle, or they may simply hang and swing.
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  No choreography, it's just natural movement.
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  And if it feels natural, shake out your hands, your shoulders,
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  and imagine stagnant energy leaving your body.
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  Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth.
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  Now you are safe in your movement and you are allowed to take up this space.
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  And begin that slow moment just slightly, not stopping, just softening.
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  Now, I think you're starting to feel a little bit of what you normally are I
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  could tell You're probably getting the energies in Your body may or may not
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  want to move at this point Whatever it wants to do,
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  Like I said, this is relaxation Something that we don't normally see Or something
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  we don't normally do But I want you to feel this moment.
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  You're controlling your breathing, and my voice is just in the background.
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  Bring awareness to your feet touching the ground, and feel the floor holding you.
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  Feel gravity supporting you.
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  Let your hands slowly come to rest over your heart.
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  Keep swaying gently, if your body wants that, and then take a deeper breath.
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  Inhale fully, and exhale completely.
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  Allow your body movement to gradually become smaller, softer,
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  until you come to stillness.
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  And if you feel that And if it feels right Allow it to be,
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  Now Allow your hands to rest comfortably And notice your heartbeat beneath your palms,
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  Notice the subtle vibration Still inside of your body Even though you are no
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  longer moving there is still motion within you.
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  Your breath moves.
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  Your heart moves.
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  Energy flows.
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  So take a slow inhale and let it go without force.
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  And once again, inhale and exhale.
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  Now, allow your breathing to find its natural rhythm.
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  No controlling it. You're just going to observe it.
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  Now, as thoughts arise, let them pass like distant clouds.
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  There are people like you where you special, where you have these thoughts that
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  burn, they turn, they twist.
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  I can feel that in you.
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  Your motion is natural. Your motion can be chaotic, but it's part of you and
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  it's part of the way you meditate.
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  So enjoy this moment, being still.
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  You don't need to chase your thoughts. You do not need to fix them.
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  Just simply remain here, present and aware.
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  Now, feel the difference between restless energy and alive energy.
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  One is chaotic, while the other is grounded.
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  Right now, you are grounded.
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  Now, bring awareness to this truth.
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  Movement did not disturb your peace. It revealed it.
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  Stillness did not silence your energy. It focused it.
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  You are not required to change your nature to find balance.
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  If you are high energy, you can move consciously.
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  If you are calm and still, you can remain grounded in that.
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  Balance is not becoming someone else. Balance is honoring how you were built.
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  So take one final deep breath in. Hold it gently. And release.
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  And now notice how you feel compared to when we started.
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  There is stillness within movement.
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  There is movement within stillness. Both live inside of you.
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  Much more interestingly, there's stillness within me. There is motion within you.
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  Together, we can blend this.
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  So, Lizzie, start to become aware.
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  Bring yourself back. Welcome back, my friend. How do you feel?
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  Really good. That was a fun experience. Thank you very much. Yeah, absolutely.
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  It's great to see that you were still and was able to take that moment to ground yourself.
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  On the other hand, I would love to do this again when you are in your chaotic energy.
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  I was just going to say, when you told me you were going to walk me through
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  some movements, I was like super excited about it.
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  And I was surprised to see that I couldn't do it.
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  How do I explain it? It's like when I'm meditating through movement,
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  I'm bringing energy through my body.
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  But when i sit still i'm connecting
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  to my body for energy to
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  come to it's like a different perspective and
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  i like i couldn't switch that that was really
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  funny i think you saw me giggling i don't know if the audience could
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  see it but i was like anything that i had done it
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  would have like thrown me out of the groove i was in
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  so it's kind of funny i want to i'm gonna play this
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  back after you post it and I'm going to try and do it again and
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  I'll see if the movement comes with me because you
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  were it was funny because you guided me through the exact
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  movements you see me do so it's really funny and
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  insightful to me that like it I now couldn't do
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  it from this perspective so I'm going to play with that thank you so much yeah
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  I found that interesting because I was focused on you and I wanted the movements
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  to become larger at least that was my initial plan But as I sat and I watched
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  And I started absorbing your energy I said, wow, I'm seeing you.
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  Not moving your movements were very slight and
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  I noticed I picked up on that that you weren't able to
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  so I just went along with it and and see
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  this is why I brought you on because like I said there are people like
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  you you know everyone's unique obviously but people
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  have that chaotic and I know you go
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  through that especially a lot of times when you're excited and
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  you're talking to me about some download that you just got and you
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  figured something out it's all over
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  the place and not in a bad way it's it's energy
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  and it's exciting and people do not realize
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  that that's completely fine you don't
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  have to be still you don't have to just sit there
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  i mean walk us through your mind like when i just described when you get those
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  downloads what's happening to you um it's kind of like a burst of excitement
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  you know what i mean and if i hold still my muscles get like really tense and
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  so it's like kind of like a freedom it's almost.
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  It almost feels more like a disconnect from my body when I move into where I'm moving.
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  Like I'll watch back a video I've sent you and I like laugh at myself as I'm
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  like, you know, doing something weird.
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  And I'm like, God, I look like a crazy person.
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  Thank goodness you see me in normal moments too.
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  But that's part of, I think, where I'm at in my understanding with it is that
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  really shouldn't feel like a disconnect from my body.
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  And so so really what you showed me today
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  and that I almost couldn't do both taught
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  me that there's more that I don't understand here and I
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  actually think that you did a really beautiful job if this was like if I had
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  found this episode back when I was first trying to like feel free in my movement
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  like I think that like I think this is an excellent episode just so you know
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  even though I didn't like move the way that we anticipated.
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  That's the thing about meditation is if you're being authentic,
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  like it doesn't always flow the way you think you're going to, you know?
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  So this was good.
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  Yeah. I'm glad. And I'm glad it did work out this way because like I said,
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  this is the greatness of meditation.
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  We can pull in all of these different energies. You do not need to be silent.
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  You do not need to be sitting.
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  You could be out running and meditate if that's your thing.
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  People just, this is what I want to focus on to people to allow people to do
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  what they do without having to take all that traditional sitting lotus position and silencing the mic.
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  All of that works for some, doesn't work for everyone.
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  And everyone's got thoughts that go on their heads. We can't stop them.
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  That's just the way our minds work. Some of us are able to,
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  look through it easier. Well, there are people more that work on that chaos
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  energy and that's the only way it works for you.
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  So embracing it is great.
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  But then having this moment where you're actually focused was actually amazing.
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  It was amazing for me to see.
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  You've probably never seen me quite that focused. Yeah. I mean,
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  but I'm glad I'm happy for it.
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  It's, it's, um, it
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  makes me feel like we actually did accomplish something and i know for sure
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  yeah and it makes me to feel you know you're working with me and like you've
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  told me before you know i ground you and you always give me through your chaos
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  and you give me ideas and thoughts that way so,
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  we can still function with that yin and
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  that yang no matter what's going on whoever's
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  calm whether it's not whether we're both calm one's
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  not the only one is we can still work
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  together and we can you know
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  make these beautiful little connections something that
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  you could take away and learn from okay you
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  want to do another episode in like a month for this
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  we'd love to and i would love to yeah we'd
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  love to and i would love to catch you in your chaotic energy so maybe
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  next time i'll be on the floor and i'll be prepared for either and i'll and
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  i'll and i'll practice letting it flow from both directions okay i'm always
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  excited for those challenges that's great i thank you lizzie um i hope anybody
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  out there in the audience understands.
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  You can still meditate and i know most of my guided meditations always focus
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  on calm and peace that's just to give your mind something else to think about within that chaos us.
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  Whether you're going to do it in that moment or it's going to come up later
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  on in life, you don't know.
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  The more you practice, the better this gets.
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  So that's my advice. Keep practicing on this. Lizzie already knows that,
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  but she does it in her way. So I thank her again. She's wonderful.
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  Thank you, Lizzie. Everybody give her a standing ovation.
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  Thank you, Terry. You're very welcome, Lizzie.
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  Thank you again. Don't forget to check out Lizzie and I every Monday mornings
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  when we have our regular episodes of Eye Opener Society.
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  We've got so many big things coming up, you just don't know.
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  So stay tuned with us, and thank you for joining us.