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Q&A with Devi Brown · Deeply Well with Devi Brown

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  Speaker 1: M from grandmothers who whispered in their baby girl in
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  Speaker 1: of your daughters. They called you wisdom. Proverbs on the
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  Speaker 1: is the ancestis told me that you would come to
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  Speaker 1: give wisdom of thousands. They said you would come. Dropping
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  Speaker 1: Roping Gym. Welcome to the Dropping Gym's podcast. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: DeBie Brown Gosh. I sat and listened to of the
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  Speaker 1: friend day One, who produced the track. I think I've
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  Speaker 1: shared this story before, but my inspiration was when I
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  Speaker 1: connected a day One, I was like, can you produce
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  Speaker 1: a song for me for my podcast? I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: sound like g funk meets elevator music. And for those
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  Speaker 1: that are from the West Coast, you know just what
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  Speaker 1: I mean by g funk, but it's the a very
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  Speaker 1: specific music style to l a mixed with like you know,
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  Speaker 1: the subtleness, the melody, the mood of an elevator music.
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  Speaker 1: And then my boy Namdijs wrote such a beautiful, beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: super grateful for that. All right, what's up, y'all. Great
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  Speaker 1: to be back with you, Thank you for joining the show.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into today's show. So we are
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  Speaker 1: at a very interesting time of year right now. It is,
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  Speaker 1: uh we are shortly before going into in a completely
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  Speaker 1: new year. And something that I really like to do
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  Speaker 1: more so starting in November is really start wrapping my
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  Speaker 1: mind around are there new ways of being that I
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  Speaker 1: want to invite in. I don't do resolutions, and my
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  Speaker 1: astrologers shared with me shout out to Darryll that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the new year is actually not even the best time
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  Speaker 1: to set intentions because there's no planetary energy behind it
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  Speaker 1: versus some other times of the years, especially the starts
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  Speaker 1: of different seasons or at solstice. But November December really
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  Speaker 1: this time of the years that I like to get
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  Speaker 1: really reflective. I like to take stock and then I
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  Speaker 1: like to reimagine, um, what is my spiritual practice, need, desire,
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  Speaker 1: what does it want to grow into. Sometimes I add
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  Speaker 1: things that the new year, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: remove things sometimes I don't, But I really just check
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  Speaker 1: in with myself and I check in with my body
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  Speaker 1: and check in with my heart, and I see what
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  Speaker 1: are my needs and how can I meet them? And
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  Speaker 1: so that is some of what I've just been thinking
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  Speaker 1: about this time of year. And I think I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to record an entirely different episode for next week related
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  Speaker 1: to really being able to set some powerful intentions for
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  Speaker 1: this new energy that is coming in UM. But something
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  Speaker 1: that I really wanted to do, which is what today's
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  Speaker 1: episode is going to be, as I wanted to connect
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  Speaker 1: and find out, you know, what are what are some
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  Speaker 1: needs the collective has, what are some questions that are
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  Speaker 1: coming up for us all? And so I decided to
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  Speaker 1: start going live once a week for the most part
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  Speaker 1: on my Instagram channel I do for those that connect
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  Speaker 1: with me on I GM at Debbie Brown on there,
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  Speaker 1: and for the past really year and a half, I've
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  Speaker 1: been doing a lot of lives with Chopra, done lives
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  Speaker 1: UM with some of our educators, with Deepak, with some
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  Speaker 1: of the really beautiful work that we do over at Chopra.
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  Speaker 1: But then I decided I want to go live on
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  Speaker 1: my page too, and I really want to start UM
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  Speaker 1: diving into with a little more room, more specific questions
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  Speaker 1: about the spiritual journey, and what I say when I
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking specifically about the spiritual journey. It's not just like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: how do I meditate? I can't meditate, though that is
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  Speaker 1: a valid question that a lot of people have, but
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  Speaker 1: it is a question that I speak to quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to dive into more of the UM, more
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  Speaker 1: of the grooves, more of the cracks, more of the
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  Speaker 1: crevices of how we experience ourselves and how we experience
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  Speaker 1: our journeys, and answer questions that are deeply related to that.
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  Speaker 1: So that is what I do now once a week
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  Speaker 1: on Live for the most part, once a week UM.
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  Speaker 1: And the very first time that I did that, I
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  Speaker 1: received questions that really really blew me away UM and
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  Speaker 1: I got a chance to connect with so many friends
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  Speaker 1: UM who joined me for that Live. So that is
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to share with you today. There are
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  Speaker 1: questions that I am diving into and I'm packing that
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  Speaker 1: relate to how to create UM a spiritual container for yourself,
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  Speaker 1: how to create your spiritual practice. I have questions on
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  Speaker 1: how to navigate depression and how to navigate UM. Some
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  Speaker 1: of the more shadowy aspects of what being on a
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  Speaker 1: wellness journey is and so let's dive into all of
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  Speaker 1: that now. Let's go. So I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: meditation today, and I'm kind of flirting with the idea
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  Speaker 1: of doing some lives once a week and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of calling an office hours and any questions that you
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  Speaker 1: have as you're on your journey, just kind of taking
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  Speaker 1: a second to explore them. So I go live on
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  Speaker 1: Chokra a lot, but I wanted to also make sure
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  Speaker 1: that for those that don't follow that account, UM, we
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to connect and talk and all the things.
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  Speaker 1: So my idea today was and I'm just flirting with this,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll probably be on for about fifteen minutes. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about meditation UM. Meditation is something that
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing for the last ten years, and as
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  Speaker 1: I share quite a bit everywhere UM, definitely on my podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It changed. Meditation truly changed absolutely everything about my life
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  Speaker 1: and the way that I experienced myself in the ways
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  Speaker 1: that I experience and relate to other people. And so
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  Speaker 1: I've recognized when I first learned meditation, even though I
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  Speaker 1: was in a completely different life path at the time,
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  Speaker 1: working in a completely different world, I knew it was
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  Speaker 1: a divine calling on my life to share meditation with
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  Speaker 1: my community and share especially UM, the access to our
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  Speaker 1: own self love and self acceptance, the access to our
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  Speaker 1: internal process. UM. So I would love to deep dive
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  Speaker 1: in meditation here. And I think maybe next time I
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  Speaker 1: go live, maybe later this week, we can do Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so I see my first question. We can do meditation.
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  Speaker 1: I can lead you on a meditation here. UM. I
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  Speaker 1: also lead daily meditation on the app. It's called Chopra
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  Speaker 1: and it's available in the iOS store, and I have
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  Speaker 1: daily meditations that are really approachable because I just want
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  Speaker 1: to say the number one thing that every single human
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  Speaker 1: being says is that, um, Daniel, what up that every
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  Speaker 1: single human being says? Is I think too much? There's
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  Speaker 1: no way, or oh I have too many thoughts in
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  Speaker 1: my day, or oh I'm too busy, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like, well, welcome to the human experience.
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  Speaker 1: Every person that has ever meditated ever in life has
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  Speaker 1: thought and said that same thing. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: latest staff from scientists is somewhere around the lines of
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  Speaker 1: as humans, we think thirty thou thoughts a day, um,
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  Speaker 1: just naturally about any and everything and so that part
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  Speaker 1: of it comes with the territory, and that's why we
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  Speaker 1: develop practice. So if you have any questions about your
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  Speaker 1: meditation practice, especially specific ones, whatever it is, there's no
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  Speaker 1: question that's too big or too small. UM, nothing is silly.
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  Speaker 1: Let this be a safe space and ask me anything
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  Speaker 1: as it relates to your meditation or spiritual practice journey. UM.
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  Speaker 1: One of the questions that I saw Dan Yelle, the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Content, one of the questions that I saw
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  Speaker 1: come up was along the lines of my apartment is
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  Speaker 1: too small? How do I meditate? That's so silly. We
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  Speaker 1: can meditate. And this is why I think it's so,
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  Speaker 1: so so important to talk about meditation, and I really
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  Speaker 1: want to push myself to do it more and just
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  Speaker 1: make it um so demystified. Right, Like I think that
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  Speaker 1: there's this deep misconception that to meditate or to be
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  Speaker 1: a meditator, it means that you've also joined in oshroom
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  Speaker 1: and your full vegan and you know you're always your
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  Speaker 1: highest self and all those things, and that's just not true. Like,
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  Speaker 1: meditation is a companion for the journey. Meditation is um.
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  Speaker 1: It's your internal GPS system. It is your way to
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  Speaker 1: learn your own enoughness is your way to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to be with one another. That is so funny, it's
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  Speaker 1: the real Why would your apartment need to be bigger
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  Speaker 1: to meditate? Please enlighten me? Oh good? Okay, So I
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  Speaker 1: see a question from Diana, which is what is the
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  Speaker 1: best time to meditate? Morning or night? I recommend both. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think there there was a very consistent
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  Speaker 1: kind of stream of thought that everyone should start their
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  Speaker 1: day with it, and I do agree with that. I
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  Speaker 1: think setting an intention for the beginning of your day,
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  Speaker 1: which you kind of naturally do through meditation or you
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  Speaker 1: become a little more connected to changes everything about how
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  Speaker 1: that day will be experienced and felt by you. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But something that I, as like a busy toddler single mom,
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  Speaker 1: have discovered is that that's not always feasible. But I
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  Speaker 1: still need my nourishment and I still need a way
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  Speaker 1: to just fully be with myself. And so I've actually
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  Speaker 1: created a really expansive evening meditation practice for myself. Now
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  Speaker 1: I might get in about, you know, maybe fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, but my evening, after I put my
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  Speaker 1: son down to bed, I probably meditate for about an
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  Speaker 1: hour at night. And that has been really really powerful
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  Speaker 1: for me. I've really been enjoying that. So the great
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  Speaker 1: thing about your practice, I think, to get started, create
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  Speaker 1: some consistency for yourself. So choosing one time of day
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  Speaker 1: that you're really going to try on this new way
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  Speaker 1: of being every single day, UM, it helps you lock
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  Speaker 1: you into being able to actually feel and see the
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  Speaker 1: differences and create this system where you're able to show
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  Speaker 1: really confidently in your practice. But then after that, the
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  Speaker 1: beauty about having a spiritual practice, it's all about the creativity.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about creating YEA, what works for you. And
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  Speaker 1: meditation allows you to get to know yourself really well,
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  Speaker 1: so you can actually answer that question very fully UM
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  Speaker 1: in a way that creates um deep nourishment for you. UM.
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  Speaker 1: That really creates a service to you. So morning is
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  Speaker 1: ideal to get started. The recommended UM kind of uh
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  Speaker 1: recipe of meditation UM would be meditating two times a
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  Speaker 1: day for twenty minutes. UM. So think morning when you
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  Speaker 1: wake up, and then think like maybe early evening, like
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  Speaker 1: around a four PM. When I first started meditating and
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  Speaker 1: I was still working in radio, what I used to
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  Speaker 1: do is I would finish my shift and then I
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  Speaker 1: would go sit in my car for twenty minutes and
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  Speaker 1: meditated my car right at four pm and then go
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  Speaker 1: back inside and then go home. So you find ways
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  Speaker 1: to do it, and it doesn't have to be so
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  Speaker 1: precious your meditation practice. It doesn't have to always be
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  Speaker 1: like right, But I'm sitting perfectly, and I have my
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  Speaker 1: mudras and you know, I have my my backjack behind
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  Speaker 1: me and all of those things that can. Like I've
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  Speaker 1: meditated standing in line before being in a long line.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also the kind of person that will go deep
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  Speaker 1: inside real fast, so I'll just be like da And
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  Speaker 1: that's just my way of being. But it can be
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  Speaker 1: done anywhere, literally anywhere. And so that's why I was
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  Speaker 1: laughing when Into the Real said my apartment is too small.
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  Speaker 1: You know, with wellness being so on trend, it's really
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  Speaker 1: been about the luxury of wellness. But meditation is free.
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  Speaker 1: It is free, It is simple. It is something you
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  Speaker 1: can do everywhere on any corner of the earth, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of your background, regardless regardless of your culture, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: how much money you have. Is something that is truly
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  Speaker 1: just a dialogue between you and the divine happening inside
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. Um, so there's always opportunity to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it helps to get all the trinkets though. Right
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  Speaker 1: the backjacks or this is my meditation space that we're in,
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  Speaker 1: it's painted orange for the sacral chakra. UM. It can
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  Speaker 1: feel really serving to have those extra adornments and makes
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  Speaker 1: it more of an experience. UM. It makes it delightful
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  Speaker 1: for you. It makes it your own. But it's not necessary. Actually, okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me let me look for some more questions. As
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  Speaker 1: a beginner, would you suggest guided or using some form
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  Speaker 1: of sounds? Thank you for that question to get started.
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  Speaker 1: I do recommend guided. UM. I don't use guided for
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  Speaker 1: myself now, but for probably the first two years of
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  Speaker 1: my practice. For the first year, for sure, I used
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  Speaker 1: guided every day, and then I would kind of supplement
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  Speaker 1: and I would do one guided, one not guided, until
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  Speaker 1: I got really comfortable with my own silence. There is
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  Speaker 1: no timetable on that. It just depends to who you are,
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  Speaker 1: how you live, and what your journey is. I needed
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  Speaker 1: the guided to get started, and it was very powerful
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  Speaker 1: shifting for me to have it. UM. I guess kind
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  Speaker 1: of shameless plug, but also just a resource. I lead
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  Speaker 1: daily meditations, I guide them on the show. Brack Um,
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  Speaker 1: So if you resonate with my voice at all, that
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  Speaker 1: might be a nice place to start. Um. But guided
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  Speaker 1: can be really good, Um, Gentle nature sounds can be
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  Speaker 1: really powerful in a meditation. But then you get into
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  Speaker 1: a space where you will crave true silence, So follow
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  Speaker 1: your own lead there. Um. Now, being in my own
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  Speaker 1: silence is like delicious, like it is such, it's such
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  Speaker 1: a gift. It unlocks so much in me to just
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  Speaker 1: kind of hear the sounds of my own breath, hear
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  Speaker 1: the sounds of my heartbeat. Um. But go go gently,
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  Speaker 1: but go in whatever way feels best to you. There's
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  Speaker 1: no wrong way to do it. And again, you can
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  Speaker 1: always change it. So if you start with guided, and
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  Speaker 1: then you decide I'm ready to try a more advanced practice,
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  Speaker 1: go to silence, stretch it practice with time. Um. The
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  Speaker 1: longest session I have ever meditated for straight without interruption
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  Speaker 1: is two hours. I last year did a really deep
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  Speaker 1: meditation for the very first time, UM, and I meditated
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  Speaker 1: actually on a boat in the ocean for six hours straight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how often I could do that, but
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  Speaker 1: it it blew the top off of my life when
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  Speaker 1: I did. So I'll be trying that again. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let me look for more questions. Yeah, oh, Danielle, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for that question. I hope I touched on a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Are you able to meditate throughout the day
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  Speaker 1: without having it be a whole setup or those just prayers? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: meditation the setup is like the glitz and glam, it's
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  Speaker 1: the accessories of it. It's whatever feels good for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a very adorned person. I like I love design,
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  Speaker 1: I love style, I love color, I love texture. But
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  Speaker 1: also I meditate, as I shared earlier standing in line. Sometimes, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I've stopped and meditated at dinner while other people were talking.
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  Speaker 1: You can do it anywhere, and when you get kind
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  Speaker 1: of into that more confident, comfortable swing with your practice,
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  Speaker 1: you just go into meditation as we did. Rock. Another
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  Speaker 1: question that I have, I have about three minutes left
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  Speaker 1: then I go get my baby from preschool. Um, what
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  Speaker 1: do you say to people who say meditation is too
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  Speaker 1: hard for them? I'd say it does feel really hard
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  Speaker 1: to start. It's very challenging. So many of us have
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  Speaker 1: been taught and raised to just constantly keep conversation going,
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  Speaker 1: like not even be able to be in silence with
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  Speaker 1: each other. Um, and we've been taught, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: really prize our thinking, our own analytical ability. So a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the challenge and meditation it's really just laying
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  Speaker 1: off all the behaviors that we've taken on that no
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  Speaker 1: longer serve us. And that's kind of the gifted meditation.
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  Speaker 1: It's being able to meet yourself in the challenge. UM,
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  Speaker 1: in the restlessness. I meditate every day, but there are
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  Speaker 1: sometimes that I get, depending on what is happening in
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  Speaker 1: my life, I'll get irritated by it. You just get restless.
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  Speaker 1: You're sitting there and then you're just like, can you
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  Speaker 1: to move? I'm gonna do something, you know. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the beauty is about how you practice meditation
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  Speaker 1: and come into this new way of being is that
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  Speaker 1: you get to rub up against that challenge in real
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  Speaker 1: time and instead of judging yourself for it, um, which
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  Speaker 1: could sound like I can never focus, God, I can
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  Speaker 1: never stop thinking meditation isn't for me, you know, rushing
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  Speaker 1: into this judgment, it becomes more for me in my practice. Hmm,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on today? Why is this feeling so challenging?
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  Speaker 1: What me? What need do I need to meet within myself? Um?
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  Speaker 1: What's the thought that I can let go of. So
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  Speaker 1: you start to get really gentle, really curious, and really
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  Speaker 1: inquisitive with yourself and with your process. So if it
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  Speaker 1: feels too hard for you, follow that breadcrumb trail and
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  Speaker 1: just ask yourself questions in real time, like why is
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  Speaker 1: this feeling so hard? But do it with that tone
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  Speaker 1: that I just did not why is this so hard? God?
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  Speaker 1: This is so frustrating. It's bringing in that gentleness for
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  Speaker 1: self is part of the practice, so it's just wow,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm really tired today, or gosh, I am under
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stress. Okay, just take a breath, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and treating yourself in that way that is
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  Speaker 1: also part of what the spiritual practice is moving into
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  Speaker 1: grace with you as you try on these new tools.
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  Speaker 1: Um do you offer teacher instructor trainings? So I work
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  Speaker 1: at shop a Global and we have the leading meditation
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  Speaker 1: program in the country. In my opinion, UM, I went
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  Speaker 1: through that program many years ago. It is best in class.
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  Speaker 1: You get such deep knowledge, specifically of the Vedic lineage
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  Speaker 1: and primorial sound meditation, which deepoc created with Dr David Simon,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a really powerful program. I highly recommend it.
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  Speaker 1: And there's so much support around it. Um, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it feels like poetry. It's so beautiful. So I recommend
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  Speaker 1: that program so funny. It feels I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: go live like this really, so I gotta say it
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  Speaker 1: feels weird to read questions in front of people if
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  Speaker 1: they're watching you. It is an important to meditate in
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  Speaker 1: a sitting position. Yeah. Ideally you want to be really comfortable. UM.
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  Speaker 1: That is really the leading feeling of it. You want
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  Speaker 1: you want enough comfort in your body to surrender um.
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  Speaker 1: And so that can feel really good sitting down. I
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  Speaker 1: think once you have an active practice, there's other ways
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  Speaker 1: to do it. There's walking meditations, there's meditations with your
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  Speaker 1: eyes open, like if you were in um, if you
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  Speaker 1: were in like a stone labyrinth, which you guys may
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  Speaker 1: have seen, which is like the stones on the ground
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  Speaker 1: in a circular pattern. Um, if you were in a
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  Speaker 1: stone labyrinth, you keep your eyes open. Or you can
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  Speaker 1: do like a low gaze meditation, which is just kind
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  Speaker 1: of barely peeking out in your eyes when you're outside
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  Speaker 1: and just noticing your senses a little bit more. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But to get started, yeah, start sitting, then kind of
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  Speaker 1: play with it. Like I said, I'll I'll close my
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  Speaker 1: eyes in a second anywhere and just start meditating. Um.
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  Speaker 1: How has the practice of meditation evolved for you since
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  Speaker 1: you've started? I think I spoke to this, but it
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  Speaker 1: has definitely It's changed everything. And I think my spiritual
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  Speaker 1: practice became the most serving for me and the most
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  Speaker 1: healing for me that has ever been when I allowed
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  Speaker 1: myself to get creative with it. I used to be
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  Speaker 1: very structured and I'd be like, Okay, meditate, then I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do yoga. Then I'm gonna do this, then I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna journal. Um, And now I just create a can
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  Speaker 1: tainer for myself. So I'll say, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: have about an hour to self care. That's my container.
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  Speaker 1: What I do with that hour is my business. And
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  Speaker 1: I just follow the lead of my soul and my
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  Speaker 1: body and need its needs within that hour. So you
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  Speaker 1: kind of get to be the deeper you go. You
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  Speaker 1: have um more access to your freedom and to your creativity.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: You see. Um, I try to meditate to a guided
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  Speaker 1: meditation every morning, but I can't keep trying and just
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself questions when it feels hard, what's coming up?
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  Speaker 1: Why can't you you know, what is it? What do
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  Speaker 1: you feel your sacrificing or what may you be um,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: perhaps avoiding in that moment without judgment something. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay, I'm gonna read that because I think that's
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  Speaker 1: really powerful and relatable for so many of us. Shoot,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have enough time. How do I go to school?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've been praying for something since March,
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  Speaker 1: but I haven't found the answers. I know the answers
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  Speaker 1: and stillness, but I'm still not seeing or hearing God's sign.
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  Speaker 1: How do I get still enough? What a beautiful question,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we all have had times that we
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  Speaker 1: can relate to that. Are you ready get more still?
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  Speaker 1: Get more quiet? You know? Right now, really try to
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  Speaker 1: disconnect from into any intellectualizing or any control. When you're
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  Speaker 1: in the quiet, you're there for as long as needed.
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  Speaker 1: There is no timetable on when God can, will, and
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  Speaker 1: should speak to you, and so just continue to honor
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  Speaker 1: yourself by speaking the silence, but speak it without expert
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  Speaker 1: expectation so that God can surprise you with the answer. Um,
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  Speaker 1: keep going, keep leaning into that, keep leaning into that silence,
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  Speaker 1: into that stillness, and it will click. Yes, let me
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  Speaker 1: try to scroll through the things. How do I how
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  Speaker 1: do I start practicing on a daily basis? Start practicing
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  Speaker 1: on a daily basis? Do it every day, especially on
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  Speaker 1: the days that you don't want to mm hmm. Do
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you have any tips for dealing with uncomfortable thoughts or
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  Speaker 1: feelings while meditating? Yeah, allow allow yourself to not have
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  Speaker 1: to find a solution in the moment that that thought
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  Speaker 1: coeps in. So, especially if you have a pressing need
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  Speaker 1: right now, or if there's like a piece of your
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: spiritual curriculum you're really working with, just give yourself grace
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  Speaker 1: and give yourself the opportunity to just notice that you're
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  Speaker 1: having that thought, but not have to stay committed to
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  Speaker 1: the thought, not have to follow the thought down another trail,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd have to investigate the thought and not have
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  Speaker 1: to find a solution for the thought or the circumstance. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you can't just notice it, and you can also in
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  Speaker 1: that moment say like, gosh, this is really stressful for me,
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  Speaker 1: this is really difficult for me to think about this,
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe even saying a word that feels nurturing
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  Speaker 1: for you. Um, when I use for myself is just grace, Grace, grace, grace, grace, grace.
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  Speaker 1: It really brings me into the place of being a
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  Speaker 1: deeper acceptance of yourself and of your life. Nice. When
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  Speaker 1: I meditate, I see a blue ball in my third
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  Speaker 1: eye area. When I focus on it, I go into
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: a swirl or spiral feeling. Any comments on what it
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  Speaker 1: is or if you've experienced that, Oh yes, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: I experienced that. I say, have fun with it. Keep
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: leaning into it, keep meditating and focusing on that color
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  Speaker 1: that's revealing itself to you and your third eye chekra
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  Speaker 1: right there, um, and just see where it takes you,
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  Speaker 1: and don't judge it. You don't have to understand it,
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  Speaker 1: follow it. It will leads yourself. We're good. How does
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: someone tune into that deep self? When I try, I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: tend to get emotional. That's why you do it, get emotional.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with experiencing your emotions. And what I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting from reading that is that your emotions would really
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  Speaker 1: like to be deeply felt by you, and they deserve to.
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  Speaker 1: And so let yourself feel what you're feeling in real
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  Speaker 1: time and then see where that leads you. How many
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  Speaker 1: times do you meditate a day? It is recommended to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: do with twice the day morning and evening practice. Um
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: right now, I've been really more so leaning into my
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  Speaker 1: evening practice, just the way my current life flow is. Danielle,
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  Speaker 1: I love this comment that you shared. Dang, I really
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: gotta go. I'd be feeling uh pause, I'd be feeling
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  Speaker 1: restless a lot in living, not just meditating. Relatable. My
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: friends followed that restless feeling. We have to meet our
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: feelings and we have to let ourselves feel them before
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: we can actually release them. So if the thought is
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: how do I get rid of this feeling, You're going
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to be finding that pattern repeat until you stop and
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  Speaker 1: you investigate the feeling and you let yourself feel it
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  Speaker 1: and see what it wants you to know or what
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: it wants you to release. Alright, So that was a
• 27:23
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