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Love Your Love Muscle - The Stories We Live By · Transformational Meditation Podcast

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  Hey, everyone, welcome back
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  to another episode of Love Your Love Muscle.
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  I'm Seb, the founder of the Transformation Meditation Group.
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  Good to see you.
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  Welcome back in nature for our biweekly podcast.
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  Well, it's not so long a biweekly anymore, because we
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  had a little break last week, but we're starting up again.
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  Sometimes things get in the way, and,
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  uh, yeah, better to not stretch
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  too much and just skip a week and, uh, start
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  up again a week later.
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  So...
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  Anyway, I hope you enjoyed our last session with Christina.
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  longer interview about relationships,
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  and how mental health, and social
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  media, and everything like that plays a role.
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  that's a very interesting interview, with a
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  great lady, that knows a lot about relationships,
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  and spirituality, and a lot of Buddhist practice as well.
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  So you will hear, if you haven't listened to that episode.
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  If you go and listen, you will hear
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  a lot about that, and a combination of those things.
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  So, yeah.
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  Um...
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  I was debating with myself what to
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  do as a theme today.
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  And, um...
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  I was a bit pondering about,
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  uh... a
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  study I, not I published, but I found
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  a study that I published in our, um,
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  knowledge base on patron.
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  As you know, we have a knowledge base with studies, videos, interviews,
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  documentaries, everything that
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  has to do with heart based living, meditation, mindfulness,
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  health regulation techniques, mental health.
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  But it's a treasure trove for everything related to
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  what we talk about in this podcast, my workshops,
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  courses, et cetera.
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  So, yeah, go and find it.
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  But that article I published there was
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  about some larger study that looked at
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  hundreds of different studies about mindfulness,
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  meditation, self regulation techniques and mental health.
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  And the conclusion was that, um, it's a good practice.
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  Meditation is very nice, very good, in,
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  as a additional,
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  additional practice, alongside, if you go to,
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  if you have trouble with mental health, you go to your
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  mental health expert, doing meditation alongside
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  that is of benefit.
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  And, in fact, I
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  have some psychologists joining my group sessions now and then.
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  It's always great fun.
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  They use these techniques themselves
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  as well, in their practice.
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  So, it's not only medication they prescribe.
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  So, yeah, they're getting more and more
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  interested in how we
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  do things in our community, and
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  help people getting better,
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  getting a better understanding of their lives, their role in life,
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  and to be happy, well
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  functioning member of society.
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  which we sometimes think might
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  be a bit worrisome, especially when you
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  look at, now with the football going on, again,
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  soccer, for those that are in the US, it's called soccer.
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  It's football for us, Europeans.
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  You see, the hooligans,
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  the people going on the street rioting, I mean,
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  it's a weird situation.
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  I'm a Formula One fan myself.
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  I love sports.
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  I've been a water polo player for many years.
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  Um, enjoyed
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  it very much, uh, and also, I like to watch
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  Formula One, don't put me in the car because I will crash.
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  But, yeah, the difference between mentality
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  between football supporters
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  and Formula One supporters, for example,
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  is enormous.
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  Last time I was live at the race, I was in Hungary,
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  in Budapest, and there you
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  sit amongst people that are supporting
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  different drivers, and
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  we applaud each other's drivers, and we have fun,
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  and people
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  wave their flags.
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  They were grandmothers, with grandchildren, grandparents,
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  there were families, there were babies even.
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  And it's a jolly mix of
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  fantastic people that have come there to enjoy,
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  uh, the spirit of sports and Femula One.
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  Which is weird.
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  I also thought, why, why?
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  Why are Formula I fans able to behave
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  themselves and have a good time with each other, even with alcohol involved?
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  And you can have such a great mix of people there.
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  And it's just a show.
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  It's a beautiful, beautiful thing to be a part of.
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  Why is it so much so
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  different from football supporters?
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  It's amazing, that
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  you can't behave, that you can't be happy for the
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  other team, that's not your team, to score a
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  goal sometimes.
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  Of course, it's not what you come
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  to see, but still, it's a good thing that they
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  managed to score some goals as well, right?
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  But, yeah, it's just the way we see things,
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  the perspective we have on things, I guess.
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  Going back to these psychologists coming
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  to my workshops, in group meditations,
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  they're very interested in my talks, about
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  the nature of reality, how we interpret reality with our brain.
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  It's, um, I have this very scientific
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  way of explaining it, which, of course, they like a lot.
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  And I think in this session today, we are
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  going to focus on that.
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  I'm going to guide you through
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  a meditation, where we will shut
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  off some of our senses.
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  Of course, our eyes, we close our eyes.
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  But we will talk about how we interpret reality,
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  what is reality based on, what does it consist of?
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  And why do things
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  look the way they are?
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  Why do we hear things the way we hear?
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  So...
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  Yeah.
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  I think it's going to be an interesting session.
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  So I'm going to turn the camera around.
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  I'm going to give you a view of nature.
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  And reality, as the
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  camera interprets it, and
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  how you will interpret it.
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  when it is being processed by
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  your brain and enters your mind.
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  So yeah, let's go and get started, right?
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  Enjoy the session.
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  This will be a nice one.
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  All right, everyone.
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  Welcome to this beautiful scenery.
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  And, um, enjoy
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  the view, for those that are watching life, or
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  patron supporters watching the recording,
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  enjoy the sounds as well, and
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  to those that are listening in, through the
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  audio podcast or audio recording, enjoy the sounds,
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  the birds, the water, maybe
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  a little bit of wind now and then.
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  It's all part of nature.
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  It's all part of reality.
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  And let's
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  go further into reality, what it's
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  about, what it consists of.
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  So take a nice deep inhale through your nose.
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  Exhale through your mouth, lower
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  your shoulders, loosen your jaw, try to relax as much as possible.
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  Find a good position, feel that you getting centered.
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  And again, take a nice, deep inhale through your nose.
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  And exhale through your mouth.
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  Getting
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  settled, slowing down.
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  Now breathe calmly and deeply.
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  Calm, nice, deep breaths.
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  With every exhale, calm down even more.
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  Relax even more.
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  Get centered even more.
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  If you want to, you can close your eyes, so you can look
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  out of the landscape or find a point...
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  that you want to focus on with your eyes.
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  Continue with those calm, deep breaths.
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  And notice where in your body you feel your breath the most.
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  Maybe you feel your breath the most in your nostrils,
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  the back of your throat.
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  Maybe you feel your breath the most in your chest,
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  or in your tummy.
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  Notice where in your body, you feel your breath the most.
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  The move that focus point into your heart space.
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  Become more aware of your heart space.
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  And imagine, just
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  imagine, that you are breathing
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  through your heart.
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  Nice, calm, deep breaths,
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  where you let the air
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  go in and out of your chest area... through your heart.
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  Let's start with... reality.
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  and the understanding...
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  that everything is
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  built up of in reality.
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  This is known since the early 1920s.
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  Everything is energy.
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  Also physical things.
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  consist of energy, vibrating
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  on a level, on a frequency and amplitude,
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  that we interpret as a physical object.
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  But still, build
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  up out of energy.
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  And our heart.
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  Can sense energy.
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  Our heart is a radio, transmitter, and receiver.
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  The organ, our
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  heart is electric.
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  It's a muscle.
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  We can measure the electrical signals coming from the heart.
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  And therefore, the heart also emits an electromagnetic field.
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  And
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  like everything else that lives, everything
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  that lives, emits
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  an electromagnetic field.
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  Even the Earth, due
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  to the movement of its core and the outer layers of the
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  Earth, emits an electromagnetic field.
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  And every electromatic field has information,
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  information
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  from our heart, is
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  all about our feelings,
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  and emotions, our
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  state of being, is encoded in that
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  field, every time.
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  as we change our state of being, our
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  heart rhythm variation, changes, and
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  information in the heart's electromonetic field changes.
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  It gets picked up by other living
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  beings.
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  And, of course, other human beings.
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  So we influence each other with
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  our electromagnetic fields.
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  The Earth influences
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  us with its electromagnetic fields, and
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  we, if we are a big enough group,
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  can even influence the Earth's
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  electromagnetic field.
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  Energy is information.
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  Remember this, this is important.
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  Continue breathing through your heart.
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  Imagine the electromagnetic field
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  of your heart, expanding with each breath,
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  becoming more aware of its surroundings.
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  Incorporate as much as you can,
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  inside your
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  heart's electromagnetic fields.
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  Sense it.
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  Feel it.
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  become more part of it.
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  Feel the distance between you and your surroundings.
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  And nature disappear.
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  You're part of it.
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  You're in the middle of it.
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  You're an integrated whole of it.
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  Now, if you haven't closed your eyes yet, do this now
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  for a moment, and let us
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  focuse on sound.
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  Listen to the sounds around
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  you, in your headphones, or
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  from your device for a moment.
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  Can you hear the water?
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  A slight breeze, the
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  sound of a boat motor, in
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  the distance, a
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  bird now and then, the sound of my voice.
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  And if it's really quiet,
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  You sometimes can hear the sound of
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  your own body, your intestines,
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  your breathing, your blood,
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  running through your veins, your heart pumping.
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  Sound
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  is a wave of energy.
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  going through the air.
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  It reaches your ears.
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  When it gets turned into an
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  electric signal, and electric
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  signals have information that
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  our brain can interpret.
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  And all these different frequencies and amplitudes
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  and volumes, the
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  direction where the sound is coming from.
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  It's all processed by our brain.
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  And our mind makes logical
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  assumptions based on it.
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  We distinguish different sounds as
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  belonging to an animal, a
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  human being, a liquid,
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  machinery.
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  In
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  this way, we form a picture in our minds, based
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  on sound,
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  of reality.
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  Can you imagine that a
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  dog, for example, has
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  different hearing capabilities.
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  They can hear sound with
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  a higher pitch than we do.
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  So their reality, the reality of a dog, is different.
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  A dog listens from a whole different perspective.
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  A dog can hear high pitched sounds.
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  So a dog's reality based
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  on sound is broader,
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  more enriched, than
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  our reality.
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  What you can't hear... will
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  never become part of your reality, even if it's there.
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  Now let that sink in for a moment.
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  Now open your eyes.
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  Keep breathing through your heart.
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  Just gently open your eyes,
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  look out over the landscape,
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  or on your screen, on
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  your device, or in your room.
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  What you see... is
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  energy.
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  It's light, coming
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  from the sun, reflecting on surfaces.
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  Giving different colors, different
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  tools, and
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  that lights consist of small photons,
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  packages with energy, that
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  hits our eye, our lens are
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  retina, and
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  our eye converge this again to electric signals.
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  with information that
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  go to our brain to be processed.
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  And from that information, our brain
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  creates a picture, a video, that
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  it fits to our mind.
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  And we try to make sense of everything we see.
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  based on what we've learned
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  our history, our culture,
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  and the same, of course,
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  is also for our hearing.
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  This whole video, this whole
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  movie that we interpret.
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  is just part of reality.
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  But it's our reality, the way we see it.
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  Some people have excellent eyesights,
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  others not.
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  Some people are colorblind.
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  Others not.
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  And just like what they are hearing, we
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  therefore, each of every one
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  of us has a different version of reality.
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  We experience reality in different ways.
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  based our cultural backgrounds, our
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  upbringing, our
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  genetic memory even.
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  We see reality from different perspectives.
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  We experience reality from
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  different perspectives.
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  Now that sink in
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  Breathe through your heart.
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  And let that sink in.
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  Breathe through your heart.
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  Sense your surroundings.
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  Be fully present
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  in your version
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  of reality.
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  All right, breathe normally again.
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  We go with your fingers and toes.
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  Slowly move your body back and forth.
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  And if you had your eyes closed again, you
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  can open them now, softly, gently, this
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  concludes... this short
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  meditation session, I'll
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  see you back in a few seconds.
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  Welcome back.
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  Okay.
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  Welcome back, everyone.
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  So quite a session, right?
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  And, uh, I hope, uh, even if you had your
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  eyes closed, that it opened some eyes, uh,
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  you can interpret it any way you want.
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  But yeah, in today's world, in today's
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  situation, especially here in Europe, in the West, with
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  our wise politicians,
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  European leaders, and
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  it includes Russia, because Russia, part of Europe,
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  We shouldn't forget that.
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  I'm just saying that.
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  He's pro Russian, I already can
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  think about some people thinking that.
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  I'm not pro anything.
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  I am not against anything either.
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  Why not, because, as you might know now?
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  Each, every one of us, also,
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  our leaders.
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  have their version of reality.
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  Reality according to them.
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  And shouldn't
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  it be, and I hope that after this session, you
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  recognize that our goal should be to
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  perceive the widest,
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  broadest, most intense, not
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  intense, but the most rich version
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  of reality you can get.
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  Because if we ourselves
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  interpreted reality, you see it from
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  one perspective, which is a
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  limited version of reality, it can be beautiful, it
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  can be the right thing for you, but
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  it doesn't have to be the right thing for somebody else.
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  Shouldn't we get that perspective
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  and reality, that information of how
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  somebody else sees reality or interpret reality?
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  Shouldn't we exchange that information,
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  and that way enrich each other?
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  Help each other understand our perspectives.
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  And if we can't do this in
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  a normal behavioral,
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  normal behaved way, like
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  adults teach their kids, but
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  don't practice themselves sometimes.
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  Shouldn't that be the goal to be more enriched?
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  to listen to each other, to try to
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  understand each other's version of reality.
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  to make concessions, to understand that
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  another version of reality is
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  also for you, preferable.
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  Hey, I like the way you look at this.
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  I find it interesting.
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  Right?
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  Isn't that our goal?
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  Instead of screaming out, you're
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  threatening me, I'm defending myself,
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  and all
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  that sort of thing, why should we threat each other?
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  Why should we be threatening against each other?
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  Why are we afraid of other people's perspective and viewpoints?
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  Goes everywhere.
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  And don't say that this
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  country or this European leader is correct, and this
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  European leader is false.
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  We all have our... our viewpoints.
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  And together, we should come to a conclusion.
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  And also, determine
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  together, what's reality we want to live in.
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  And...
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  to say it that way.
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  If our European leaders
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  are wise people and
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  listen to this, they, of course, already know this.
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  And then you can think, like,
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  okay, let's assume our leaders
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  are... knowing
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  all this, they know that their perspective might be wrong, might be right.
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  And they know they should take into account other
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  people's perspectives and other countries' perspectives, other
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  cultures, their perspectives as well.
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  And there should be a dialogue there.
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  There should be a total enrichments of reality,
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  the understanding of reality, the world you want to live in.
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  So, assuming they know all this, they are
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  wise beyond their words.
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  It almost makes you think that
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  everything that's going on now, in
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  Europe, especially.
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  And for part in the Middle East for some time now.
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  is a willing action.
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  It's...
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  It's like the need there's a need to
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  be mean to each other.
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  I myself am not wise enough to understand that.
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  And maybe it's the other way around.
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  Maybe you and me and
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  all the other people listening.
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  We are the wise ones.
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  Who knows?
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  Maybe our leaders are truly stupid.
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  Maybe our leaders are truly on the level of
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  the average kindergarten child, and even below that.
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  I find it hard to accept that that is true.
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  But I leave that to you and your perspective.
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  I'm looking at a beautiful ship coming by.
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  And it's too late to show it to you now.
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  And that ship is part of my reality.
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  You can only listen to the motor sounds,
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  sound of the engines of the ship.
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  So you have a less...
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  a lesser experience of the reality I see.
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  But, yeah.
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  We're going around in circles, which is lovely.
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  I like that.
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  So, I hope this was an interesting session.
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  It goes deep sometimes, and
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  for those that are looking for entertainment all the time, maybe not what you wanted.
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  But I hope that for some people,
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  this was, strike the cord, or ringed
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  a bell, and open some eyes, and, yeah,
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  gives you food for thought.
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  I hope to see you back next time.
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  Take good care, be safe, and Namaste.
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  Goodbye, everyone.