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Time Is an Illusion | Guided Meditation to Slow Down Time & Find the Present Moment · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another Wednesday night guided meditation.
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  My name is Gary Dean, and I am with Eye Opener Society. So welcome to this little group.
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  And we hope that these meditations are definitely helping you.
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  But this particular episode, I'm wanting to talk about something real quick
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  first before we get into any kind of meditation.
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  Time. It's something that we treasure and it's something that we find we have less and less of.
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  I was thinking about this because Lizzie brought something up to me.
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  It's just like, it doesn't matter what you do, even when we sit and we're quiet
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  and we have time for ourselves, the very first thing that happens,
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  we start thinking about when that time is going to be up.
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  It's almost like our body wants to go back into that routine,
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  that cycle of constantly doing something when we really don't want to.
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  So I thought about this. It's not that we don't have time.
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  We have too much on our plates, and it's eating into all of that time.
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  So I know it's very controversial, and I say, you know, get rid of every single
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  thing you have, go live in a tent in the woods, and you'll notice that time
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  is going to slow down so much,
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  and our entire body is going to reset back to the way that they should be.
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  Now, for a great many of us, obviously, we don't have that luxury.
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  So this meditation that I'm going to take you on hopefully gives you a little
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  chance to expand time and we'll do that through meditation. So let's get ourselves
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  relaxed. let's get ourselves into the space we want to be in.
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  Start focusing on our breathing, our awareness of stillness.
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  And once we find ourselves comfortable enough,
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  let's get ourselves quieter.
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  Space in our mind, emptier,
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  and then let's start some visualization.
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  I think a very good way to begin this is let's picture a clock or a watch or whatever.
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  Anything that has a face, you know, for a timepiece face.
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  And let's watch it ticking away.
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  When we stare at any clock, and we stare at, say, a second hand,
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  and we just sit and watch it, time slows down.
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  If we watch that clock all day long a 24 hour day would seem like an eternity,
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  this is almost what we want to create because we want to create more time,
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  one when we're in this comfortable space we don't want to go back anywhere else
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  We want to stay in this, and we want to spend as much time as we possibly can.
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  And by doing so, let's focus on a clock.
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  Let's count the seconds down from 1 to 60.
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  And if we keep repeating 1 to 60 over and over, time will slow down.
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  And if all we have to do is count 60 seconds, that's all we need in life.
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  Each minute that ticks away is ours and we're claiming it in this moment.
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  We're taking all of the time we need.
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  Even my speaking changes.
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  Each sentence is a longer pause in between each one because I have nothing but
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  time and it's slowing down more and more.
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  Every breath that I take takes longer and there's much more satisfaction with it.
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  I feel more comfortable with it.
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  Because I'm not rushing anything.
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  Now let's remove that clock. Get rid of it.
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  It's a man-made construct.
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  Now, all we need to do is focus on this moment, and this moment doesn't end.
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  It's a never-ending moment. Time no longer exists.
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  We're just in it, occupying it, and that's all we're doing.
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  It's almost like going down into the quantum physics world.
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  Time can start to travel backwards, forward, side to side.
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  It doesn't matter because time doesn't exist in reality.
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  So we're sitting here enjoying ourselves, enjoying our moment,
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  and it doesn't have to end.
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  There's nothing else we need to think about. We don't need to go back anywhere else.
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  We just need to be right here, this space, this moment, and enjoy every little bit of it.
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  There's no hours, there's no minutes, there's no seconds, none of it exists.
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  We're here and we're here for infinity.
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  It's our space, it's our time, it's our moment. We claim it, we use it, we enjoy it.
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  It doesn't end. It's an endless, endless cycle of absolute relaxation.
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  Now let's remove time from our brains let's just remove the entire theory of
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  it the entire understanding of it because it no longer exists now.
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  Notice how things are taking longer, and we're enjoying it.
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  We feel no need to move on to something else.
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  We're just here, enjoying it, and that enjoyment will last.
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  Even our breathing seems to take longer.
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  And it makes us feel even better.
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  We just opened up an entirely different world that we can step into at any time we need to,
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  just simply by removing the word time, and we remove time itself.
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  No schedules,
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  nothing to rush.
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  We're just here.
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  Now, let's take this newfound learning and just apply it to life.
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  Sure, we're going to need to do things, there will be schedules.
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  But at any moment, we could step back into this moment and remember that the time doesn't exist.
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  The things we don't want to do, we can speed up, shorten the time span.
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  The things that we really enjoy, we can slow down and enjoy them longer.
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  Let's remember this. Let's reaffirm that time does not exist.
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  We exist.
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  Our existence does not require time.
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  We are just here.
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  Let's absorb that. Let's remember that.
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  And let's apply this when we're back into our regular world, our regular lives.
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  Even when we wake up from this meditative moment, this will still exist as there is no time.
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  We could be in this moment for as long as we want.
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  So now knowing that and putting it inside of our minds, let's come back.
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  Let's start to ground ourselves here and start to understand where we are.
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  And just remember, any moment that you want to preserve, you can.
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  And you can do it because we don't have to think about time.
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  Time doesn't exist.
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  I want to thank you for joining me on this guided meditation.
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  We really, truly appreciate it.
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  Don't forget to tune into our regular episodes every Monday morning with Lizzie and I.
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  Stay tuned for so much more that we're going to have for you.
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  And I'm going to keep these Guided Meditation series as often as I can.
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  next Guided Meditation.