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Receptive, Accepting, acquiring new Habits · Zaran the Gardener, planting seeds of & nourishing our Soul with mindfulness

• 0:00
  Speaker: Oh, oh, oh.
• 0:01
  Speaker: What do we know?
• 0:03
  Speaker: We know a lot more than we give ourselves credit for.
• 0:07
  Speaker: I know that.
• 0:08
  Speaker: If you're anything like me, anyway, because I'm forgetting all the beauty of our universe all the time.
• 0:15
  Speaker: Find myself reminding myself as often as I can through the day to remember, to fashion some ideas of what and whom we are.
• 0:30
  Speaker: Doesn't matter what time it is.
• 0:32
  Speaker: When I wake up, I begin our morning being thankful, acknowledging my own being.
• 0:43
  Speaker: We are bundles of miracles.
• 0:46
  Speaker: And being humble before the perspective widening in my mind as I am saying these words.
• 0:54
  Speaker: This is the purpose of such a saying or a symbol, prayer, mantra, whatever it might be, is eliciting a sense of awe in one's being, a sense of reverence, a sense of perspective beyond what might normally be, leading to the possibilities of having this receptivity turn into acceptance and turn into a new mode of behavior, a new habit, a new understanding, a new way of being.
• 1:39
  Speaker: And why not?
• 1:43
  Speaker: The universe is constantly changing.
• 1:48
  Speaker: We, as parts of it, are also always oscillating and changing as well.
• 1:56
  Speaker: The idea "I can't change." Someone says this to you, you gotta share what the truth is to them.
• 2:07
  Speaker: There is no such thing as standing still.
• 2:12
  Speaker: The whole world is spinning at a thousand miles an hour.
• 2:17
  Speaker: It is either one is improving or one is not.
• 2:22
  Speaker: It is impossible to be in the same groove for one's life.
• 2:29
  Speaker: It is a constant state of evolution.
• 2:32
  Speaker: It is what's going on in our universe.
• 2:35
  Speaker: It is basic laws of time and space, composition.
• 2:40
  Speaker: Everything is different.
• 2:42
  Speaker: Even one's thoughts.
• 2:44
  Speaker: Even if you don't think they are, talk to someone with it, have a discussion, and see if you don't find yourself that, yeah, you are changing all the time.
• 2:53
  Speaker: Being receptive to this notion is the beginning.
• 3:01
  Speaker: Accepting.
• 3:02
  Speaker: Whatever you find to be true, it is your life, it is your being, it is your way of wanting to think and greet what is coming toward you and I, which are moments of time.
• 3:15
  Speaker: Judge not that yea be not judged.
• 3:19
  Speaker: An important and coherent way to view the world.
• 3:24
  Speaker: Because it is always...
• 3:27
  Speaker: just a reflection of a moment that has already been.
• 3:30
  Speaker: Perhaps someone hasn't seen the light, and then in a moment's time the light has shined.
• 3:37
  Speaker: Change.
• 3:38
  Speaker: Each new moment is just this.
• 3:42
  Speaker: Not to be confused with anything else, not to be denigrated or forgotten about, but to be remembered because this is, in essence, a series of the most important moments of our lives, one after another.
• 4:02
  Speaker: Eighty six thousand four hundred in every day.
• 4:07
  Speaker: These are the number of opportunities we share to remember, finding awe, finding grace, being here in this space, this way,
• 4:25
  Speaker: How, practice, becoming more aware, following one's breath, pulse, shimmer, heat, being, thinking, expanding, grace, harmony within, creation's universe, becoming comfortable with each, planting seeds of encouragement for each, affirmations to increase one's virtuosity.
• 5:08
  Speaker: We need use tools.
• 5:12
  Speaker: There's nothing wrong with this.
• 5:15
  Speaker: In today's world, there are ten thousand and one different distractions, inputs which want to gather up our attention.
• 5:27
  Speaker: Continually, we must be strong and purposeful.
• 5:33
  Speaker: One need be affirmative.
• 5:36
  Speaker: One need be self-encouraging.
• 5:41
  Speaker: This is our goal, self-improvement.
• 5:45
  Speaker: Know thyself.
• 5:47
  Speaker: To thine own self be true.
• 5:51
  Speaker: Encourage oneself to listen, grow.
• 5:57
  Speaker: An opportunity for ideas to be received, considered, not necessarily accepted, maybe, but believe that they at least have an opportunity to express themself, being strong, purposeful, aware, awake, rising in virtuous purpose for oneself, family, community, world.
• 6:33
  Speaker: We are bundles of miracles, stewards, we're even called.
• 6:41
  Speaker: Our world needs us to help reign it in positive, life enhancing ways.
• 6:54
  Speaker: Let us be wise and learn with our experience.
• 7:00
  Speaker: The music is continuing for another minute.
• 7:06
  Speaker: Please reflect.
• 7:08
  Speaker: How can I improve myself?
• 7:13
  Speaker: What is something where I see I need to work on myself?
• 7:19
  Speaker: These are good questions to ask.
• 7:21
  Speaker: Especially if they have answers.
• 7:25
  Speaker: Mine do.
• 7:26
  Speaker: One always needs, in my opinion, consider everything.
• 7:32
  Speaker: Where do I find weaknesses?
• 7:34
  Speaker: What am I attempting to do that's not getting done the way I want it to?
• 7:39
  Speaker: Why am I procrastinating about this?
• 7:43
  Speaker: Why am I excelling at that?
• 7:47
  Speaker: Finding, learning, changing with positivity.
• 7:54
  Speaker: Yes.
• 7:56
  Speaker: We can do this because we are all bundles of miracles.
• 8:02
  Speaker: And with our widening perspective, humbled and thankful.