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Meditation: Meditate Without a Guide · Eye Opener Society

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  Hey everyone, welcome back to Wednesday night meditation because tonight there
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  is no guided meditation and it's if you've been following the podcast, uh,
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  you know, sequentially, you will know that I just mentioned that because of
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  the move and everything else that's going on, it's harder for me to bring these guided meditations.
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  I have to come up with a topic or a theme and then I got to write it all out.
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  It's still probably the only thing that's actually scripted on my show is the
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  guided meditations because I try and follow a sequence to give me a good 15 minutes and all.
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  But if you're joining me this Wednesday night and you're looking for the meditation,
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  I'm thinking of doing something a little bit more that It also involves meditation,
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  whereas I'm going to give you some tools, some tips, some tricks, whatever it may be.
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  But I'd really like to talk to you more.
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  About meditation, things you can do on your own without having to rely on a guided meditation.
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  Now, you can always go back and replay any of the other guided meditations.
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  That's basically how they work. I mean, the repetitiveness of them gets you
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  into that place where you want to be to the point where you don't really require
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  that guided meditation anymore.
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  Now, as we know, there's so, so many different forms of meditation outside of
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  just guided meditations.
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  And that's the thing I just want to let everybody know. You can meditate.
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  I don't have degrees or certifications in meditation.
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  I've just been doing it so long that I'm in a constant state of meditation.
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  And if I'm ever out of it, just a quick thought will bring me right back into
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  that state of meditation. So how do I do that?
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  Why is it that I can walk around in a state of meditation all the time?
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  Well, that's why I wanted to do these little shows.
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  Instead of doing an actual guided meditation, I would like to just,
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  I do apologize. I'm messing around.
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  And again, if you don't know about the video, if you want to see the video versions
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  of this, you go on YouTube or Bitch Shoot.
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  And we're also now on Rumble because Rumble is the only one where I got complete and total free speech.
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  So anyway, I would like to bring this Wednesday night rather than always bring
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  in a guided meditation. I still will bring some, but I want to give you a little
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  bit more insight. So here's what's happening.
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  I sat today.
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  At the time of this recording, I was out in my wooded area, a place where I like to go.
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  That's fantastic for meditation. It's very sacred to me. It's just one of those
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  spots where I feel very comfortable.
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  Now, I didn't take the long hike that I normally would to get to these places
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  down by the creek. I just went immediately off the trail as soon as I entered the trailhead.
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  And it's off the path. And it was quiet. And it was under a tree.
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  So I sat there for a while. I did some videos that went up on TikTok.
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  But I sat there then for a while after that, completely electronic free.
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  And I just sat there meditating.
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  Now, when it comes to me and the way I do meditation, it's going to be completely
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  different from the way you do meditation, your friends do meditation,
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  anybody does meditation.
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  We all find our own ways of doing our rituals differently and how we get into
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  these, you know, focused states of consciousness.
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  Now, again, it's easy for me. I'm always in this state, but when I'm out in
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  the woods or I'm out in nature in any kind of way, it becomes deeper.
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  I feel much more enriched and something happened.
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  And whenever we meditate, regardless of the type of meditation we are doing,
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  document, record, journal, things that happen, things that you see,
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  things that you feel, things that happen to you during that meditation.
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  And keep a log of all of that. And then you can look through it and see key
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  moments, symbolicism, and it starts to come and make more sense to you at a later time.
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  Me in particular now on this particular day, well, that I had a experience where
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  I'm just looking out over the trees and the wooded field.
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  And obviously this time of year now It's fall and there's no leaves And they're
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  all on the ground And it's crunchy
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  And there's beautiful softened sounds I immediately was taken back to,
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  Maybe around mid-80s I believe.
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  I found, now some may call it kind of like deja vu, but I don't feel it was
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  deja vu. I really don't. I think it was something else.
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  I think there's a connection with trees and how they're all planted and the
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  way they communicate with roots.
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  I think that that network can go very, very far.
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  And then the connection with the universe as well is all part of the experience.
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  So as I was sitting there and I'm looking like I said as I'm looking out over this wooded area
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  unlike deja vu I was taken back to kind of
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  like the mid-80s there was a place where I grew up in the Bronx I
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  used to go um to Bronx River Park which
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  was walking distance from my house very very close and I used to walk all the
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  way to the back right to the fence right where it backed up right to the highway
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  the Bronx River Parkway and the highway patrol for NYPD uh was also back there
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  I used to find a little spot there myself and sit.
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  It was a little bit more wooded in that area, closer to the highway patrol precinct.
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  And I was suddenly taken back and it felt exactly like it did back then.
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  And the feeling I was getting more like summer, maybe spring.
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  But more than just a deja vu What it was was more like I was seeing that time
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  And feeling that presence At that time too,
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  So what does this have to do with anything Meditation wise Well again,
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  when things like this happen You journal them, you write them down You remember them,
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  And when we try to find those spaces in between,
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  inside of our consciousness.
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  What I like to do, for those of you, especially people who always say,
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  oh, I can't silence my mind, which we're not supposed to, but focus.
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  I ask very deep questions, questions that basically don't have answers one way
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  or the other, and it takes a lot of thinking.
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  So I ask myself, is time travel possible?
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  And I asked myself that question right when I was right in that mode where I
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  felt myself mindfully in the woods where I am living now in Pennsylvania,
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  but still seeing myself and not only seeing myself back in,
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  say, the mid 80s, but feeling that presence as well.
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  So looking at it down from another plane.
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  So I asked that question, is time travel possible? Because obviously there was
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  a connection. I relived at an entire moment in my life at one point through
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  the current moment that I am in.
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  So when I started thinking about that and I started thinking of all the possibilities
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  and different ways that it could happen, And that put me deeper into my meditative
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  state because I was focused on what I was experiencing.
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  But at the same time, in my head, I had that question going on.
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  Is time travel possible?
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  Is this time travel? Can this be time travel?
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  And I asked these questions over and over and it kept me in a much deeper state.
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  And I was able to enjoy that moment. I was able to enjoy not only the moment
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  I was having in the current dimension, but I I was enjoying the moment that
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  I had in a past dimension.
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  So this is one tip that I like to give when you are doing meditation, especially on your own.
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  Ask deep questions and just come up with answers in your head.
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  There doesn't need to be any rhyme or reason or correctness to any of it.
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  It's just there to keep your mind occupied and focused.
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  And when it's more of a deeper question, it strengthens the mind.
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  It keeps your state of consciousness more lucid because you're focused so much on it.
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  And that's another good thing. Think about lucid dreaming when you are meditating
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  or anything like that. Think about the galaxy.
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  How vast is it? There's just another general example.
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  We don't know the limitations of the universe. Then we start questioning how long is infinity.
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  And when you do that, just as I'm thinking about it in my head right now,
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  I'm going into a calmer state and I'm trying to focus on answers to that question.
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  And then I get into a meditative state while I'm still thinking about those
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  questions, those answers, probabilities, and everything else.
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  I hope that I can bring a little bit more of this to you.
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  And again, I will start up again the guided meditations right now,
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  like I said, with time and all.
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  I'm actually sitting here recording a whole bunch of stuff to get it out before the move.
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  And I really feel, though, that
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  this is more important to connect with meditation, to connect with you,
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  your own self, and how to do meditation more than just giving a guided meditation
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  that anybody can listen to. You still need to be.
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  I guess, trained more in meditation itself, especially since I do all this basically
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  for first timers, people who are just very interested in the entire meditation world.
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  So I hope to bring more of these talks to you. I feel they're really great and
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  they can help you meditate.
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  And I might even kind of intertwine the two where I can actually do a guided
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  meditation while giving you a talk with these tips, tricks, and all that.
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  I'll figure it all out. I hope to bring some more to you. But in the meantime,
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  enjoy everything that is around you.
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  Enjoy the abundance of life. And I will see you again really soon on another
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  Wednesday night meditation episode.