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Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today to get through
this thing called life.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You are listening to the Reset Yourself You Podcasts.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
And Hello. Hello, Hello, and welcome to a beautiful rainy
day hair. You may hear the sound of thunder in
the background every so often, but overall, it's it's been
beautiful spending time here with Henry and his Tale. In
this weekly podcast, I focus on sparking your inner confidence
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and igniting your belief in yourself. I'm your host, and
I'm always very thrilled to share my thoughts and research
with you as we go along on this journey. Together. Together,
we can nurture a mindset that empowers us to reach
our your your fullest potential. I write a record every
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episode to challenge your thinking and to encourage us to
reflect and inspire actionable, realistic steps towards our personal growth.
Whether you're facing a career transition, seeking to overcome challenges,
or simply striving for greate fulfillments in life. This podcast
has been the go to resource for a lot of
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people on many different platforms in many different countries for
motivation and practical insights. My inspiration to do this is
to show you to show people how to focus more
on what they can. You can yes you, I'm talking
to you you no, no, not you not you yes,
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you to accomplish so that they can do the things
that they need to do when they need to do them.
So that ultimately you can get the things that you
want when you wish to have them, But you got
to do the work right. This episode is dedicated to you.
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Tell me what you want and I will show you
how to get it. The question is are you willing
to do I should put echo on that. Are you
willing to do the work? Figure off your ass?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Please note this show contains adult language and themes and
is intended for mature audiences only. Listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Daily Beloved, we will gathered here today to get through
this thing called life.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You are listening to The Reset Yourself twenty two Podcasts
with your hosts Jimmy Gunzalis and Know.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Hello, Hello, and that is me. Welcome to the Reset
Yourself twenty two Podcasts, Episode one hundred and seventy six.
In this weekly podcast, I focus on sparking your inner
confidence and uniting your belief in yourself. I am your
host and I'm always very thrilled to share my thoughts
and research with you as we go along on this
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journey together you we us can nurture a mindset that
empowers us to reach our fullest potential. I write a
record every episode to challenge our thinking and to encourage
us to reflect and inspire actionable st that's realistic steps
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towards her personal growth. Whether you're facing a career transition,
seeking to overcome challenges, or simply striving for great fulfillments
in your life. This podcast is your go to resource,
which has become a go to resource for a lot
of people on many different platforms in many different countries.
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Thank you. My inspiration is to show people to focus
more on what they can accomplish, so they can do
the things they need to do when they need to
do them, so that ultimately they get the things they
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want when they want wish to have them. And this
episode is dedicated to you. Yes, no, you were last week,
so you're this week. Yes you dedicated to you. Tell
me what you want and I will show you how
to get it. The question is are you willing to
get off of your ass and do the work or
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are you just going to complain, make excuses and point
fingers at everybody else? You know, you know that it's
it's his fault. Today's show is about mm hmmm, the
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power of silence, embracing stillness, which leads to the gift
of life in the rush. In this rush of modern life,
silence often seems like a luxury. Noise follows us everywhere,
digital notifications, crowded cities, and endless conversations, internal chatter. But
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with the noise lies a profound truth. Silence is not
just an absence of sound. It is the presence of awareness,
the ability to be stilled, to pause, to listen deeply
to oneself and the world. This is where life begins
to make sense. Life in its most precious form is
a gift. Waking up every day is not just a guarantee,
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It is an act of grace. It is a role
of the cosmic dice, and we never know when our
number is up. To live well, then, is to honor
each day, not by rushing through it, racing through it,
but by becoming acutely aware of it's worth. This essay
explores the transformative power of silence and stillness and how
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to help cherish honor and fully inhabit the miracle of
our existence. Just bothers me when people have an appointment
later this evening or later tonight, I'm gonna go do whatever,
so I'm just gonna piss the day away until then
all I have something to do tomorrow, So I'm gonna
piss today away. Don't piss the day away. I may
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use I may just named this episode Pissed the day Away.
Life is not owed to you. It's funny how people
will go through life and just assume that you know, well,
you know, I'm going to be doing this. I have
plans next six months, next year, We're doing X, we're
doing Y, and we're doing Z. I don't follow that.
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I'm not saying I don't make plans. Usually doctors appointments.
But even then it's like doctor's appointments can be canceled
or moved or something can happen. I'm not saying that
to focus on that. It's just that you're so focused
on that, you're not focused on what's right in front
of you. Your life is. It's not a oh you,
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by the universe, by God. It is instead of mysterious
offering a moment to moment miracle that too often sadly
goes unnoticed. We wake up assuming tomorrow will have it
has to come. Of course it's gonna come. I'm gonna way,
of course I'm gonna be here tomorrow, planning for next
year and making lists and schedules as if time is
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a currency that you own. You don't own time. But
each morning is a gamble, each heartbeat is a silent
drum of mortality. To live with this awareness is not
to be afraid, but it is to be awaken it.
When you open your eyes in the morning, you are
not simply continuing where you left off. You are being
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handed another chance, another page in your story. Yes, your story,
the story that you're writing, because it's your book. I'm
not writing your book right now. I'm a guest in
your life, thank you, but I'm not writing your book.
This is when life becomes sacred to you, not because
it is perfect, but because it is fleeting. And it
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is only in silence and the moment of stillness that
we can fully appreciate the truth. Silence, sadly is often misunderstood.
It is not emptiness, It is not boredom or withdrawal.
True silence is a powerful teacher. It is the space
where the mind settles and the soul speaks. And a
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world filled with distractions, silence offers clarity in a time
where everyone is shouting to be heard, especially like on
social media. Look at me, look at me, watch me dance,
watch me move, watch me. Silence becomes a radical, active presence.
And what's funny is that a lot of those people,
you meet them face to face and they just can't
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even put a sentence together it face to face with you.
They've created this person of who they are behind the
screen like I am doing now. But I will meet
you anywhere, have lunch or coffee, especially coffee, and just
talk about life. To sit in silence is to face yourself,
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not the version that others see or that you have created,
not the persona, the persona that you perform. Trust me,
I know you know there's people in your life that
you act a certain way, you say certain Yeah, I
can't say this to that person and I can't act
like that in front of this person. And I don't
want that person to judge me, and Oh, I don't
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want these people suck. They're not your friends. They shouldn't
be in your life. I'm sorry. I take that very
very seriously. And as you get older, the more you
value your time because you're getting less of it. I
don't have time to piss my way with people that
I just don't want to be your own. I don't.
It's not being selfish. It's knowing my own value, and
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it's trust me. It's not that my value is better
than anybody else. It's just this is a one on one.
This isn't about me comparing myself to anybody else. It's
just that now I value me and the times I
get to watch my chickens. This morning, I went and
built them a swing. I put up some plastic inside
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the barn because we're supposed to get some rain today
and I don't want We have a tobacco barn and
old tobacco barn which the panels are cracked open, so
I put plastic on the inside to keep the water
from coming in and the wind, and I want them
to be comfortable and safe. That's all that's all I
live for. But you know, while I'm doing it, I'm
like watching them I'm watching how certain ones react, how
certain ones are just in the moment, and then it's
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funny because I watch it's almost like watching a group
of people. You have those that are running, worried, stressed,
and oh my god, what's going on? What's he doing?
He's moving that ladder, where is he going? What time
is it? What should we? Then have the other ones
just there's two of them that are just like totally chill.
They just like come near me and they look up
and they're like, that's cool. Oh cool, building us a swing? Awesome?
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Which are you? Because I could sit there and pick
people that I know in my life and pick a chicken.
As I said, in a time where everyone is shouting
to be heard, silence becomes a radical act of presence.
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Stillness is just not lack of motion. It shouldn't be uncomfortable,
which I will go into that with meditation later, speaking
about being uncomfortable in your own mind, But it's a
delivererate act of feeling grounded. To be still is to
stop running from the past, from expectations, and from especially ourselves.
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It is to sit with reality exactly as it is
and find peace in the present. This past week we
had a shitty weather and it's just funny how some
people everybody has a different perspective. It's not a judge,
but I'm just going to share with you what I
saw and how I saw it. Uh So, we had
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crazy weather and there were tornadoes that touched down in Kentucky.
One of us supposedly touched kind of near us, like
an hour away, but yet to hear of it. But
another one did damage, actually took lives, and that one
was about three hours away. We're blessed so far that
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this area we don't really get that. You know, to
that that point doesn't mean we won't, but we don't.
We haven't, thank God, in the history of me, of
me knowing the people that have lived here, this part,
really we're not known for that. Plus, you know, we
don't get flooding, We don't get a lot of things here.
We picked a great spot, we really, you know, Melissa
did a great job of research. But we have a
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storm shelter and just just like first off, so we're
sitting in this storm shelter like we left the house,
took all our animals and we have comfortable seats and
we set them in a storm shelter, and it's a
big metal building. It's heavy as hell, like it was
delivered by a crane, and it's put inside this other
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space that we have, which is fast. It's fascinating. But
so I'm sitting there, I never thought, well, I'm not
surprised I fell asleep because I see what's happening as
an act of God, his presence, his power, how he's
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cleansing the earth, and a lot of people are like, oh,
God kills. Yeah, it's a part of life. Death is
a part of life. It's not something for us to
question or judge. I always make the joke that when
I die, I'm gonna find the first angel and just
shake the shit out of and be like, what the fuck,
like explain so many I have a list. I have
a death list that I'm taking with me of questions
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that I have of why and who and where and
you know. But for now, I taken the emotion. I'm
an EmPATH, so it sucks, but I taken the emotion.
So I'm sitting there, and we had the door, which
is like a five thousand pound door, cracked open a
little bit, and it's as if this constant flash is happening,
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but oddly, there's no crack of thunder, there's no nothing.
But when I went out and i'm looking, what I
witnessed I've never seen before was thunder different, all different
shades and forms and just actually, I'm sorry, not thunder
lightning three hundred and sixty degrees and not lightning like
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the actual crackle lightning. I'll get into that, but just
the clouds lighting up. It was as if I was
in like the biggest party, the biggest grave of just
strobe lights and it was all around me, and it
was it was beautiful. Sadly, I shared some stuff on
face book, but what I shared was like the beginning
of it, where the sky was still black and it
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was just some light. By the end of this universal
light show, it was it was amazing, Like I couldn't
stop taking in God's power, and that's a great word power.
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It was powerful. And that's when I really felt that again,
I'm not the center of this planet. I am a
pimple on the ass of the earth, and I'm just
a small part of it. I'm a spec and hopefully
while i'm here, I make an impact. That's all I
want to do. I want to make an impact and
leave something behind for others. But I was there and
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I was taking it in and it was just so
powerful and so beautiful at the same time. Many people
fear stillness because then, like I said, now I'm sitting
in there and I'm just reallying. Actually I'm listening to
the sound of the breeze. It's just it was like
this great meditation of taking of connecting with the universe,
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and I was able to find peace. And this is
exactly why all of this matters. Stillness teaches us to
accept what is, rather than chasing what might be or
what could happen or even in my mind, what I've created,
because that's what fear is what should happen. We're gonna die, right,
It's like no, because you shouldn't be afraid. You should
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be prepared, should be aware. Being afraid of things without
trying to figure out how to resolve them is such
a waste and it's like, honestly, you're cheating your life.
You figure out what to do and how to prepare
for it. Like I said, here, we're not known forgetting
them at all, but we have one, and we filled
it with it something that evening and our neighbors came
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over and we were in it together, and me and
the neighbor we're talking about out, like the neighbor and
I what, you know, what we can do to make
it a little bit more comfortable. We're gonna put a
little roof in front, so like when it's not that bad,
we can still walk out. And you know, there's so
many things and then you know the other group we
were talking about, like you know what what what things
we need and what we don't need? Preparation because when
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you have that, there's no fear because your first reaction is, well,
what do we do? Not oh my god, or my favorite?
Uh oh, that doesn't it doesn't compute to me. Uh oh,
that's what a nine year old says. The question is
what do you do? Something happened? What do you do?
Something drops to the ground, you pick it up. Many
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people fear stillness, as I said, but why Stillness teaches
us to accept what is and like I said, not
the not the projection of tomorrow. But it's through practices
like meditation, reflection, or simply walking in nature that we
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begin to cultivate stillness. And through stillness we become aware,
not just of life, but of how precious our lives are,
and because of this, gratitude is born from awareness. When
we are silent, we are still, We begin to notice
the things that we usually overlook, the warmth of sunlight,
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the sound of laughter, the presence of those we love.
We begin to see our lives not as burdens to bear,
but as blessings to honor. To be grateful is not
to ignore pain or pretend everything is perfect. It is
to recognize the full spectrum of experience, the highs the lows,
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and to value everything in it. Because gratitude makes ordinary
moments sacred. The morning coffee becomes a ritual. When I
have my morning coffee, it's the greatest thing. Before I
have my morning coffee and like you know, go to
the bathroom and get ready to take a shower. Now
I have my morning coffee. I let the dogs out.
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I walk out to the barn, I feed the pigeons.
I have three groups of chickens, so I make sure
everybody's alive and safe. And then I make sure that
their water is clean. I make sure that they have
fresh feed. I make sure everything is looking good. Then
I have a big garage where I have some birds
I'm sorry birds. I have birds there too, but I
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have cats, farrow cats, and it's funny because they will
hang out outside and then as I walk from the
barn to the garage, they race towards the garage and
they come around the back and go through a hole
and they come up and wait for me, and then
I feed them, sometimes dry, sometimes wet, and then I
watch them and I savor in that moment. It becomes
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a ritual every morning, or like a hug from a
friend or a great conversation that makes you laugh. The
wag of a dog's tail becomes a symbol of joy.
I find an interesting when animals try to show expression
and people don't see it. Their reaction to a dog
barking or doing stuff is like stop it, stop it,
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what are you doing? Blah blah blah. It's like they're
showing you love. They're fascinated by you. Don't chastise them,
don't punish them. They don't understand what that means. They
just see your face wing and they're your hands swinging
now this and that. They're like, I'm trying to show
this person love because I love you unconditionally, and basically
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you're yelling at me. Enjoy every moment. When you practice
gratitude daily, especially in silence, you transform how we live.
We stop waiting for some day. That's my funniest thing.
Someday I'm going to do this and that start honoring
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that day today. Our lives are not lived in isolation.
I know people that are in jail. I know people
that have gone out of jail, and they've all pretty
much shared similar stories on how they found more peace
there than here. Out Here, we are woven into a
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web of relationships, families, friends, partners, pets, even strangers who
we pass on the street. Each one is a character
in the story of our lives, and we don't know
how to put everything together because we have not organized
our own story. Each one offers a chance to love, learn,
and give, and there's so much thought, but what are
you offering yourself? It is easy to take these connections
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for granted, to forget that every moment with the loved
one is a gift. But when we slow down, when
we will become still unaware, we begin to cherish these
interactions more deeply. The shared joke, the knowing lance, the
comfort of a hand held in silence, These are not
all small things. In fact, they are everything. Even our
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relationship with animals teach us to be present. A cat
curled up right now in front of me, a dog
trying to get my attention. These are invitations to step
out of our heads, get out of your fucking head,
and get back in your heart. It is animals that
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remind us to love without condition and to live without reservation.
The harshest truth about life is also it's most beautiful
that it will end. None of us know when. This
is not meant to scare us, but to awaken us.
Every second wasted in bitterness or distraction is a second
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we will never get back. Every opportunity we ignore, every
word of love left and spoken, is a loss we
may one day regret. I practice Buddhism. I have for
actually over twenty years, and I've always had a lot
of people say the dumbest things, like, you know, first off,
it's a philosophy. It's not so much religion. No, we're
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not praying to the Dali Lama or even the Buddha.
It is to find a sense of peace, and a
lot of symbols on my Buddhist all to our skulls.
So a lot of people are like, oh, they worship death,
and it's like, no, we glorify it. We glorify death.
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It is the ultimate transition from here to their death.
To me, I don't see a skull as a symbol
of halloween or horror. Sadly, that's Hollywood, which is stupid.
It's a reminder that you will die and until then,
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cherish today. So do not piss it away. Don't squander
this miraculous, fragile chance to just be alive. Time is
a silent current, always moving. You can't stop it, but
we can choose how we appreciate, how we see it,
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how we write it. We will drift in apathy, or
we will paddle with intention. We will numb ourselves, or
we will feel every moment. Life asks us these questions
every day, and the answers are found in how we
choose to show up. When we become silent and still,
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we step into a new rule, a new role, ready
the witness, the observer of your life. It's almost like
you stepping out of your body and watching your life.
Do that. That's part of a lot of meditation that
I do, stepping out of my body, seeing my self
meditating over there, and then looking around, what am I doing?
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What I need to accomplish, what's important? Was not important? Stop
being swept away by every thought and emotion, and we
start to see the bigger picture. The witness sees the
patterns in our behavior, the beauty and our pain, the
lessons and our failures. From this place of awareness, we
begin to make better choices. We stop reacting and start responding.
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We live not an autopilot, but with pure intention. To
witness your life is to honor it. It is to
recognize that you are both the artist and the cannabas,
the author and the story, the dreamer and the dream
And in this recognition, life becomes not something that happens
to you, but something that you co create. Cherishing does
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not mean clinging. It means seeing the value in each
moment as it passes. It means treating your time, your relationships,
experiences as sacred. It means saying this moment matters with
every breath. We do not need grand adventures or constant
excitement to live fully. What we need is to be present,
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but because it is real, and because it may never
come again. Every morning, every morning, every morning, every morning,
the universe asks you a question when you first wake up,
and that question is what will you do with this
gift today? It does not promise tomorrow. It offers only
this day, this breath, this heartbeat. So make it count.
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Be still, listen, look around, take it all in. Laugh
with your friends, Hug your family, Thank your animals for
their unconditional love. Create something, be a part of something,
help someone, be kind, be grateful, do something with your life.
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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass.
It is about learning to dance in the rain. It
is about knowing deep in your bones that you are
here now and that now is enough. The power of
silence and stillness is that they return you to yourself,
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and in return, you find the one thing you've been
looking for all along, the ability to truly live something.
I want to try. I have exercises, you know, my
little practice things, and I want to go over some
of them because I've shared and I've had a lot
of people write them back to me and saying that
they're simple, but they love them and thank you so much,
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and all this stuff. So I want you to try
the morning silent practice. Now, think of how long your
day is. Okay, then think about ten minutes of that
just ten minutes. Ten minutes you piss away ten minutes
doing stupid stuff. So when you wake up, either you
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go get your cup of coffee and then you go
somewhere sit on your porch or something or whatever, or
you can do it in the shower. You can do
it on the toilet. I have people for years that
have told me because moms, I have said, you know,
I have children, and they just don't give me time.
The only time I get pieces in the bathroom so
they will actually listen to my guided meditations while they're
on the toilet or in the shower. But the purpose
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of this ten to fifteen minutes that I'm asking you
to take is to start each day with clarity, with gratitude,
with intention before you get lost in it and you pick
up your phone and start scrolling and who said what
and where are they going? And you know, damn this
person and look at that celebrity, And I don't care
about these people. I care about you. Wake up, get
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your cup of coffee, your tea, whatever, and be like
I said, before checking your phone and turning on the
lights or speaking to anyone, sits somewhere comfortably close your eyes,
take a few deep breaths, and again, don't go crazy
trying to be a Buddha. Just as you just sit
there and breathe. That's how easy it is. But just
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allow your body to relax. And I know you're like, well,
I was just sleeping, right, but you, most of us
weren't relaxing. Allow your body to relax in this moment,
and as you do, listen to your breath, observe it
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without changing it, feel the air enter and leave your body.
Think about that moment. How many times do you breathe?
Have you taken a breath since you alive? I'm happy
you're still taking breaths. But say in your mind's eye,
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you can say it a lot. I don't care, but
I am awake, I am alive. This moment is a gift.
And please try to not just repeat those three phrases
as you say, then what does it mean? I am awake,
I am alive. This moment is a gift. And it's
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funny because I just heard just somebody I know that
I could just picture them going, of course I'm awake,
I'm awake, and I'm alive. Duh, of course I'm alive. Well,
obviously you're not living because you don't realize that this
moment is a gift. And then you think of three
things that you are grateful for today, three things. They
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can be simple. I'm grateful for my bed. I'm grateful
for the light as it came in through the window
this morning. I'm grateful for the chance to begin again
because nothing is owed to me. Think about it by
the end of today. And it's so funny because I'll
talk about death and people like, oh, don't do that.
It's death, like I'm not. I I'm not afraid to die,
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never have, never will be. It's funny. I have a
story when I was very very young, very very young,
ten nine, ten years old. I was in my I
remember I see it. I was on the twin bed
in my room. My brother's room was to the left,
my parents' bedroom was to the right, and I think
it was it wasn't late lately because they were still
watching TV, so it was probably like ten o'clock, eleven
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o'clock at night, and I was listening. Oh, I was
listening to this radio show casey one on one was
the station, and it was father. Oh my god, what
was his name? I can't believe. I just forgot his name.
I just went blank. But I used to listen to
him every Sunday and for like two hours he would talk.
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And it was one concept. It was the first time
a child that I heard the concept of death. And
I just went into this rollercoaster riot of wait a minute, death,
Does this mean that I won't be here again? This
means that I'm gone forever? Oh my god. And it's
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just and I'm not an anxious kid. The anxiety built
up in that moment, and I was like, oh my god,
and I gotta believe this, and oh my god, and
it'll be over and my story will be done and
the whole world will be gone. And and I got
up and I went to my parents' room and I
walked over to them, and they just looked at me,
like what are you doing? And I just like, for
some reason, just looked at them. I don't even know
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how to put it into words, but it's like, I
got it. It's it's life, this house, my parents, their love,
my brothers, their love. I was like, wait a minute,
I'm not going to walk around with fear in my heart.
To me, I just fear as a concoction that's created
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by like the devil. It's just I just savored the moment.
I savored my life, this house, this family, this bedroom,
And I went back to bed and I knocked the
hell out and I slept so well because it isn't
the fear of the ending. It's the focus on the
on the journey and what's happening right now. This moment
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is a gift. What kind of energy do you want
to make today while you're sitting there, Choose a word
like peace, presence, gratitude. I feel it. What do you do?
You love the peace here in are you? Are you
in a peaceful place? If you're not changing it, be
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present in the moment. If you're not change it, are
you feeling gratitude for everything you have? If not, do
something about it. And then when you're ready to just
start your day. And it's funny, a lot of people
are like, that's it. I'm like, so do it. Step
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two another one. There's a thing called silent meditation. I
remember the first time I learned silent meditation. It was
about four years after I learned meditation, and it was
at a Buddhist temple in New Haven, and I was like,
it was like walking. Meditation. I was like walking, and
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it was a lot harder than I thought, because you
have to walk a certain way. You have to really
you're looking forward, but you're in the moment. You're so
focused on walking that you bypassed the fact that you're walking.
And you had to walk around this room and you
had people in the middle meditating. It was a beautiful space.
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It was in an old building, but you could do
it anywhere. You could do it on your property. You
can do it, you know at work. You can do
it anywhere. Just just a few minutes. Reconnect with the
world around you, in the presence within you. Go for
a walk, find a little quiet place as you're walking,
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a park, a neighborhood trail, or even in a backyard.
No phone, no music, no electronics, no talking, just you
and your senses. Walk a little bit slower than usual.
But don't just focus on getting over there.
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Focus on looking around you, at the trees, at the birds,
at the sky, feel the ground underneath your feet.
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Listen, Listen to the rocks, the gravel, Hear the birds.
Don't just hear the birds. Listen to the birds, the
different songs, the wind, the breeze, the distant sounds, be
your silence witness. Don't judge, don't label, don't criticize, don't narrate,
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Just experience this moment. Let thoughts pass like clouds. At
the end, you pause and reflect, what did you notice?
What felt different? This practice not only will clear your mind,
but it reconnects you with the miracle of just being
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alive again and again, like well, of course I'm alive. No,
I mean like actually being alive, like actually connecting with
everything around you, not just eating to eat and doing
to do, but just living, just living. And then you
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your moment with awareness, gratitude, and peace. It's a beautiful
thing in the evening before you go to bed, ten
minutes before you go to bed. This is actually something
that I like to share with people as a hypnotherapist.
Right before you go to bed, there's a stage that
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you're not sleeping yet, but you're not awake. You're in
the middle. That's actually like a hypnosis level. That's where
we bring you to when we do hypnosis. It's a
good time during that moment to daydream about what you want,
where you want to be, who you want to be,
how you want to see your day again, being aware
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of being filled with gratitude and peace. Turn off all
the screens and lights except for a small lamp or
candle somewhere in your room. Sit or lay down in silence,
allow your breathing to just settle and slow down, and
mentally review your day from waking up to right now.
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What moments stood out? What made you smile? This isn't
about this person did that, and this person did this
and it shitty day. I don't care about that. I'm
not saying those moments don't happen, but you really shouldn't
focus on that. Which is supposed to focus on is
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that little kid in the cracker barrel that waved at me,
or being able to sit at a restaurant and break
bread with friends and family, or having an ice cream
cone with somebody I loved dearly, or something as simple
as knowing that my daughter lives near me and I
think it's cool she has her own place. I applaud
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that's that's admirable. Pick your shit up and move a
few states over to start again. So you think to yourself,
what made you smile today? Who did you connect with?
It's funny because in my day I can go usually
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between five to fifteen. Maybe you're gonna say five to
in general. In general, typical day, just I short conversations
a waiter, a waitress, somebody at a store. I'm always
connecting with somebody. At that moment, you ask yourself, what
are you thankful for it today? What did you learn today?
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Did you show up as who you wanted to be?
Think about that. Did you show up as who you
wanted to be today? Or did you just throw on
your mask? And we're fearful of everything around you. You
see the good in the day. There's always good in
the day. I don't care who you are, there's good
in the day. Then you end with a silent thank
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you for the gifted this day. Usually by this time
you fall asleep and think about it. Everything I told you.
I didn't ask you to buy anything. I know added
you to spend money on equipment or tools or anything.
Just your mind, just your presence. They help you step
out of autopilot and into the intentional mindset. Over time,
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you cultivate the ability to slow down. Do this every
day in the morning and at night. See clearly an
honor your life as the fragile, fragile, beautiful gift that
it is your life is a gift. You are a gift.
As a meditation teacher, as I said, and practitioner, there's
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no way I can go on with this topic of
silence without bringing up what I feel to me is magic,
the ultimate being in the moment of sitting still being
aware of my surroundings. In other words, meditation, It to
me is the silent practice. The greatest gift of silence
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is that is always accessible. Whether you are a seasoned
meditator or never have done it, you can tap into
silence to bring yourself to deeper levels of self awareness.
Below are some of the while'm going to get into
some key benefits and how to access silence in our
practice that I wrote out for us. This is actually
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something I took from a long time ago, parts of
it that I wrote for a meditation session. But silence
is so powerful yet so rare today and a world
surrounded by noise, traffic, social media, cell phone sirens, leaf blowers, lawnmowers,
and around here mooing cows, cockadoodling roosters, it can't be
challenging to find true quiet. But the greatest gift of
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silence is that it's not only always rare accessible at
any time. It is one of the best ways to access,
as I said, our deer selves and connect with everything
around you. When was the last time that you sat
in silence? It's funny. When I was a kid, my
father used to fix sewing machines as a side job,
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which became a was It was a big part of
his life. But and we would drive to the projects
and there would be you know, i'd say, a dozen
people a week that he would go meet with and
you know, after work and fix their sewing machines. Or
there were always much older ladies who U there sewing
machines broke and they had no idea how to fix it,
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and he would go do that. But as a child,
I was told sit and wait in the car. No tablet,
no toys, no phone, Sit and wait in the car.
And I would just sit there. I didn't know not
to I didn't know to complain or just to be
a brat. I just sat there. I looked around the car.
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What can I read? What can I touch? And then
I looked out the window. I'm a people watcher, so
I watched people walk by, and I thought, who are they,
what's your story? What are they about? And thank god
I was taught that because now I can sit peacefully
anywhere and enjoy the moment. I don't feel the need
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to rush and Russian. But you know, because realistically ask yourself,
what are you rushing to? Where is so important? Like
I know people that are very important that they find
they're big meditators. They make time to just be. It's like,
you can wait because trust me, one day you will
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be forced to and you're not gonna like it. Learn
to be in the moment, Learn to savor every second,
every conversation, every meal. I find it interesting that some
people find silent awkward. We often feel compelled by an
urge to fill the silence with conversation or noise constantly.
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I'm not gonna lie in my home right now. There,
let's see I have I have Alexis everywhere, but there's
always music playing quietly in the background, from old classic
stuff to meditation, to blues to jazz. I always have
music playing, But I always cherish my moments when all
I hear is nature around me. As a long time
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student of meditation, I've sat for many retreats. I've found
that through the challenge and deep pain that can often
surface in long bouts of silence. Yes, sometimes it could
be painful to try to sit still and be quiet.
There's always a sense of freedom at the end from worry,
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from stress, from your daily problems, because while you're there,
sitting there, you've released it. When you sit in silence
long enough, ad or inner peace and sense of bliss
can change, we can begin to emerge. It's as if
the silence allows space for the mind and the soul
to open. Why some can't meditate, I mean, I get it.
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You are breaking down your thoughts and now putting them
into order, from what is important to what is not,
and to what stuff you can't actually do and what
you can just archive forever and just put in the
back of your mind's eye in a filing cabinet. I mean,
there are things that you need to resolve today or
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within the hour, and there are things that you need
to resolve within a week or within the month, and
then you have those plans and goals to finish something
within the year, five years, ten years. But when your
mind is constantly racing through thoughts, you're never going to
be able to stop and just be. I mean, as
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I mentioned before, the biggest complaint that I learned. When
people say, oh, my mind is racing, my mind is racing,
It's just like, so stop the race. It's your mind.
You have control of your thoughts, I mean, and please
don't think you don't, because if you do, that's like
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what kind of day I will have? Well, it's up
to me. Obviously, I don't have control of everything. But
you know that free will that I have, I choose
how I will see it, to view it, experience it.
My car broke down, it is what it is. Yesterday
I was cutting grass and I I something happened underneath
the mower, which was just odd. When I tell you
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what it was, you're gonna be like, wow, that must
have been. It wasn't loud at all. I was just
turning and all of a sudden, the bottom of the
whole mower started like just to rattle. So I was like, Okay,
I'm in the middle of my arc and I'm looking
over the garages over there. I'm like, all right, oh,
I need to get from here to there. So there's
two settings on these big motors. One is you could
just drive them without the blades going, and the other
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ones with the blades so I moved it a little
bit and I turned it on without the blades, and
it was fine, and I started going, and all of
a sudden, when I turned the blades on, everything started
going blah blah blah blah blah blah crazy, and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And I turned it off and I was like, hmm.
So my first thought wasn't what the hell Jesus griage
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blah blah blah. That's that's so naive and ignorant. I
just thought to myself, well, what has to be done, Well,
this has to be repaired, okay. So what I did
was I turned it on without the mower, and I
drove it to a space where it was, you know,
I could work. And I got a piece of wood
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out and I put it on the ground and I
laid underneath, and I was like, all right, well, let's
just see what's different. I trust me. I don't repair mowars.
A lot of people don't. And I just looked at
the wiring. I looked at the mechanics. Everything looks good.
There's no leaks, there's no list, there's no that. I
went to the other side. I looked blah blah blah
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blah blah. And then I raised the whole platform up.
You could raise bring it down, and I was able
to look underneath, and I was like, and then it's
three blades, three big blades, and the middle one way
at the end of the darkness. I could see a
rock and I was like, what the hell? Somehow a
rock had picked up and wedged between the blade and
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like where it spins and just froze it right there.
And I was like, oh, so I figured out, okay, well,
obviously it's turned off. It's safe, it's not just gonna
magically turn on. So I went and got a certain
pole and I was able to go and shimmy and
play with it and play, and finally it just dropped out,
and I was like, hmmm. So now because I'm there,
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I'm like, I'm gonna use this time to really look
at this mower. So I looked at the blades. How
will I be able to replace in the future. I'm
looked at filters and oil filters and air filters and
the belts and the pulleys and everything and how that works.
Because you know, usually you go, you cut grass, you
put it, Oh, you're tired you put. No. I took
this time of it being broken down to really study
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it and see how it works. Fascinating, fascinating machine. And
I was like, okay, so in the future, this is
how I'm going to do this, this and that and
this is and all this happened because it broke so
I was able to tighten everything. I tightened some stuff,
I greased some stuff. I made everything look nice and pretty,
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and I was like, good to go. I turned it
on perfect. I didn't get lost in the moment. I
became the moment. I took control of the moment. I
didn't let the moment control me. I didn't let anger,
rage and fear and take over. It's like mower broke down, okay,
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And if I couldn't fix it, then okay, who can Okay,
let me start making some phone calls. But for now,
let me see what I can do. And since I
was there, I'm like, all right, let me take some
time to really see how this works, what it is
because the way I everything around me is the whole
happens for a reason. I don't just say it, I
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mean it. And it's just like maybe in the future
something's gonna happen again, and at that point, I'm gonna
have the knowledge experience to go I know what it is.
I bet you it's that beltest list. I bet you
it's this. I bet you it's that a lot of
times we're afraid to try things because we don't know.
But it's just like, but think of the many things
that you already do because you tried. I mean, do
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you actually remember being at an age looking at your
parents or family driving thinging to yourself. They drive cars, cars,
that's crazy. Before you know it, you're doing it. I've
driven tractor trailers, I've driven boats. I've driven pretty much
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every type of car. I can go from car to car,
from truck to truck. I drive automatic, I drive manual.
I mean, I've drive I've driven motorcycles, I've driven ATVs.
I've you know, now, new riding mowers. I've never owned
a riding mower. So now I have a riding mower.
And in the beginning, my neighbor let me use his.
And it's scary. It's it's the one with you know, Oh,
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it's scary. It's like driving a tank because you can,
you know, three six, you can make instant turns. And
of course people are like if your first thought is
that scary, No, nothing is scary, stop that it's okay,
How do I figure this out? I knew at some
point I'm gonna have to do it, So I went
on and I started slow, and I was like, all right,
let me go left, let me go right, let me spin. Wow,
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that was freaking scary. But I figured it out, and
I was like, okay, and now I've a master at
and now I can go up to the side of
anything real slow and take my time and trust me.
I'm like, wow, this is cool, Like I can do this,
but with practice. I mean, at one point, you didn't
know how to cook. At one point, you didn't know
how to wipe your own ass. At one point you
couldn't drink from a bottle I want you, but you did.
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You've mastered so many things. Don't forget those, don't laugh
at it, like, well that's life, right, that is life.
And with that comes learning how to drive, learning, how
to run, learning, how to walk, learning, how to talk, learning,
how to do things. The only thing on my buck
list is I want to I would like to fly
a plane, not so much like for people, but on
my buckle list before I die, I want to take
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a lesson where I could just fly a plane to
the point that it's that you take the class, you
learn how to go up and you learn how to land.
That's pretty much it. I wanted to do that before
I die. I also want to do the thing with
the parachute and the propeller parasite like I think it is.
That's not parasite, but it's similar to that. You put
the propeller on your back and you run and you
jump up in the air and you put your feet
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on a thing and then you fly and you're pulling
a parachute as you're gliding. Oh god, how beautiful. There's
a video that I used to watch all the time
was of a guy doing it surrounded by a school
of geese. It was amazing. It was amazing. But you
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are breaking down your thoughts, you're putting them in order.
What is important, what is not? That's the important thing
of meditation. People have this thing that, like you know,
they have to meditate for now. You don't have to
meditate for how you can meditate for three minutes, two minutes,
five minutes, ten minutes, whatever. There's no rules, weird, You
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just get lost in thought and before you know, you're
organizing your thoughts by importance, like I said, and you
realize what's important right now, right now. I hope, I
hope with this podcast I made you think. I hope
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I made you question your existence and that you appreciate
every single tomorrow, every today, and you'd be grateful for
all the experiences of the past that have made you
who you are right now. Yes, you keep this in mind.
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Choose action over excuse, purpose over comfort, and the work
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that they need to do when they need to do them.
So that ultimately you can get the things that you
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get off of your ass and do the work or
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are you just going to complain, make excuses and point
fingers at everybody else? You know, you know that it's
it's his fault. Today's show is about mm hmmm, the
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power of silence, embracing stillness, which leads to the gift
of life in the rush. In this rush of modern life,
silence often seems like a luxury. Noise follows us everywhere,
digital notifications, crowded cities, and endless conversations, internal chatter. But
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with the noise lies a profound truth. Silence is not
just an absence of sound. It is the presence of awareness,
the ability to be stilled, to pause, to listen deeply
to oneself and the world. This is where life begins
to make sense. Life in its most precious form is
a gift. Waking up every day is not just a guarantee,
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It is an act of grace. It is a role
of the cosmic dice, and we never know when our
number is up. To live well, then, is to honor
each day, not by rushing through it, racing through it,
but by becoming acutely aware of it's worth. This essay
explores the transformative power of silence and stillness and how
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to help cherish honor and fully inhabit the miracle of
our existence. Just bothers me when people have an appointment
later this evening or later tonight, I'm gonna go do whatever,
so I'm just gonna piss the day away until then
all I have something to do tomorrow, So I'm gonna
piss today away. Don't piss the day away. I may
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use I may just named this episode Pissed the day Away.
Life is not owed to you. It's funny how people
will go through life and just assume that you know, well,
you know, I'm going to be doing this. I have
plans next six months, next year, We're doing X, we're
doing Y, and we're doing Z. I don't follow that.
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I'm not saying I don't make plans. Usually doctors appointments.
But even then it's like doctor's appointments can be canceled
or moved or something can happen. I'm not saying that
to focus on that. It's just that you're so focused
on that, you're not focused on what's right in front
of you. Your life is. It's not a oh you,
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by the universe, by God. It is instead of mysterious
offering a moment to moment miracle that too often sadly
goes unnoticed. We wake up assuming tomorrow will have it
has to come. Of course it's gonna come. I'm gonna way,
of course I'm gonna be here tomorrow, planning for next
year and making lists and schedules as if time is
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a currency that you own. You don't own time. But
each morning is a gamble, each heartbeat is a silent
drum of mortality. To live with this awareness is not
to be afraid, but it is to be awaken it.
When you open your eyes in the morning, you are
not simply continuing where you left off. You are being
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handed another chance, another page in your story. Yes, your story,
the story that you're writing, because it's your book. I'm
not writing your book right now. I'm a guest in
your life, thank you, but I'm not writing your book.
This is when life becomes sacred to you, not because
it is perfect, but because it is fleeting. And it
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is only in silence and the moment of stillness that
we can fully appreciate the truth. Silence, sadly is often misunderstood.
It is not emptiness, It is not boredom or withdrawal.
True silence is a powerful teacher. It is the space
where the mind settles and the soul speaks. And a
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world filled with distractions, silence offers clarity in a time
where everyone is shouting to be heard, especially like on
social media. Look at me, look at me, watch me dance,
watch me move, watch me. Silence becomes a radical, active presence.
And what's funny is that a lot of those people,
you meet them face to face and they just can't
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even put a sentence together it face to face with you.
They've created this person of who they are behind the
screen like I am doing now. But I will meet
you anywhere, have lunch or coffee, especially coffee, and just
talk about life. To sit in silence is to face yourself,
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not the version that others see or that you have created,
not the persona, the persona that you perform. Trust me,
I know you know there's people in your life that
you act a certain way, you say certain Yeah, I
can't say this to that person and I can't act
like that in front of this person. And I don't
want that person to judge me, and Oh, I don't
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want these people suck. They're not your friends. They shouldn't
be in your life. I'm sorry. I take that very
very seriously. And as you get older, the more you
value your time because you're getting less of it. I
don't have time to piss my way with people that
I just don't want to be your own. I don't.
It's not being selfish. It's knowing my own value, and
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it's trust me. It's not that my value is better
than anybody else. It's just this is a one on one.
This isn't about me comparing myself to anybody else. It's
just that now I value me and the times I
get to watch my chickens. This morning, I went and
built them a swing. I put up some plastic inside
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the barn because we're supposed to get some rain today
and I don't want We have a tobacco barn and
old tobacco barn which the panels are cracked open, so
I put plastic on the inside to keep the water
from coming in and the wind, and I want them
to be comfortable and safe. That's all that's all I
live for. But you know, while I'm doing it, I'm
like watching them I'm watching how certain ones react, how
certain ones are just in the moment, and then it's
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funny because I watch it's almost like watching a group
of people. You have those that are running, worried, stressed,
and oh my god, what's going on? What's he doing?
He's moving that ladder, where is he going? What time
is it? What should we? Then have the other ones
just there's two of them that are just like totally chill.
They just like come near me and they look up
and they're like, that's cool. Oh cool, building us a swing? Awesome?
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Which are you? Because I could sit there and pick
people that I know in my life and pick a chicken.
As I said, in a time where everyone is shouting
to be heard, silence becomes a radical act of presence.
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Stillness is just not lack of motion. It shouldn't be uncomfortable,
which I will go into that with meditation later, speaking
about being uncomfortable in your own mind, But it's a
delivererate act of feeling grounded. To be still is to
stop running from the past, from expectations, and from especially ourselves.
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It is to sit with reality exactly as it is
and find peace in the present. This past week we
had a shitty weather and it's just funny how some
people everybody has a different perspective. It's not a judge,
but I'm just going to share with you what I
saw and how I saw it. Uh So, we had
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crazy weather and there were tornadoes that touched down in Kentucky.
One of us supposedly touched kind of near us, like
an hour away, but yet to hear of it. But
another one did damage, actually took lives, and that one
was about three hours away. We're blessed so far that
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this area we don't really get that. You know, to
that that point doesn't mean we won't, but we don't.
We haven't, thank God, in the history of me, of
me knowing the people that have lived here, this part,
really we're not known for that. Plus, you know, we
don't get flooding, We don't get a lot of things here.
We picked a great spot, we really, you know, Melissa
did a great job of research. But we have a
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storm shelter and just just like first off, so we're
sitting in this storm shelter like we left the house,
took all our animals and we have comfortable seats and
we set them in a storm shelter, and it's a
big metal building. It's heavy as hell, like it was
delivered by a crane, and it's put inside this other
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space that we have, which is fast. It's fascinating. But
so I'm sitting there, I never thought, well, I'm not
surprised I fell asleep because I see what's happening as
an act of God, his presence, his power, how he's
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cleansing the earth, and a lot of people are like, oh,
God kills. Yeah, it's a part of life. Death is
a part of life. It's not something for us to
question or judge. I always make the joke that when
I die, I'm gonna find the first angel and just
shake the shit out of and be like, what the fuck,
like explain so many I have a list. I have
a death list that I'm taking with me of questions
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that I have of why and who and where and
you know. But for now, I taken the emotion. I'm
an EmPATH, so it sucks, but I taken the emotion.
So I'm sitting there, and we had the door, which
is like a five thousand pound door, cracked open a
little bit, and it's as if this constant flash is happening,
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but oddly, there's no crack of thunder, there's no nothing.
But when I went out and i'm looking, what I
witnessed I've never seen before was thunder different, all different
shades and forms and just actually, I'm sorry, not thunder
lightning three hundred and sixty degrees and not lightning like
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the actual crackle lightning. I'll get into that, but just
the clouds lighting up. It was as if I was
in like the biggest party, the biggest grave of just
strobe lights and it was all around me, and it
was it was beautiful. Sadly, I shared some stuff on
face book, but what I shared was like the beginning
of it, where the sky was still black and it
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was just some light. By the end of this universal
light show, it was it was amazing, Like I couldn't
stop taking in God's power, and that's a great word power.
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It was powerful. And that's when I really felt that again,
I'm not the center of this planet. I am a
pimple on the ass of the earth, and I'm just
a small part of it. I'm a spec and hopefully
while i'm here, I make an impact. That's all I
want to do. I want to make an impact and
leave something behind for others. But I was there and
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I was taking it in and it was just so
powerful and so beautiful at the same time. Many people
fear stillness because then, like I said, now I'm sitting
in there and I'm just reallying. Actually I'm listening to
the sound of the breeze. It's just it was like
this great meditation of taking of connecting with the universe,
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and I was able to find peace. And this is
exactly why all of this matters. Stillness teaches us to
accept what is, rather than chasing what might be or
what could happen or even in my mind, what I've created,
because that's what fear is what should happen. We're gonna die, right,
It's like no, because you shouldn't be afraid. You should
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be prepared, should be aware. Being afraid of things without
trying to figure out how to resolve them is such
a waste and it's like, honestly, you're cheating your life.
You figure out what to do and how to prepare
for it. Like I said, here, we're not known forgetting
them at all, but we have one, and we filled
it with it something that evening and our neighbors came
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over and we were in it together, and me and
the neighbor we're talking about out, like the neighbor and
I what, you know, what we can do to make
it a little bit more comfortable. We're gonna put a
little roof in front, so like when it's not that bad,
we can still walk out. And you know, there's so
many things and then you know the other group we
were talking about, like you know what what what things
we need and what we don't need? Preparation because when
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you have that, there's no fear because your first reaction is, well,
what do we do? Not oh my god, or my favorite?
Uh oh, that doesn't it doesn't compute to me. Uh oh,
that's what a nine year old says. The question is
what do you do? Something happened? What do you do?
Something drops to the ground, you pick it up. Many
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people fear stillness, as I said, but why Stillness teaches
us to accept what is and like I said, not
the not the projection of tomorrow. But it's through practices
like meditation, reflection, or simply walking in nature that we
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begin to cultivate stillness. And through stillness we become aware,
not just of life, but of how precious our lives are,
and because of this, gratitude is born from awareness. When
we are silent, we are still, We begin to notice
the things that we usually overlook, the warmth of sunlight,
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the sound of laughter, the presence of those we love.
We begin to see our lives not as burdens to bear,
but as blessings to honor. To be grateful is not
to ignore pain or pretend everything is perfect. It is
to recognize the full spectrum of experience, the highs the lows,
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and to value everything in it. Because gratitude makes ordinary
moments sacred. The morning coffee becomes a ritual. When I
have my morning coffee, it's the greatest thing. Before I
have my morning coffee and like you know, go to
the bathroom and get ready to take a shower. Now
I have my morning coffee. I let the dogs out.
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I walk out to the barn, I feed the pigeons.
I have three groups of chickens, so I make sure
everybody's alive and safe. And then I make sure that
their water is clean. I make sure that they have
fresh feed. I make sure everything is looking good. Then
I have a big garage where I have some birds
I'm sorry birds. I have birds there too, but I
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have cats, farrow cats, and it's funny because they will
hang out outside and then as I walk from the
barn to the garage, they race towards the garage and
they come around the back and go through a hole
and they come up and wait for me, and then
I feed them, sometimes dry, sometimes wet, and then I
watch them and I savor in that moment. It becomes
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a ritual every morning, or like a hug from a
friend or a great conversation that makes you laugh. The
wag of a dog's tail becomes a symbol of joy.
I find an interesting when animals try to show expression
and people don't see it. Their reaction to a dog
barking or doing stuff is like stop it, stop it,
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what are you doing? Blah blah blah. It's like they're
showing you love. They're fascinated by you. Don't chastise them,
don't punish them. They don't understand what that means. They
just see your face wing and they're your hands swinging
now this and that. They're like, I'm trying to show
this person love because I love you unconditionally, and basically
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you're yelling at me. Enjoy every moment. When you practice
gratitude daily, especially in silence, you transform how we live.
We stop waiting for some day. That's my funniest thing.
Someday I'm going to do this and that start honoring
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that day today. Our lives are not lived in isolation.
I know people that are in jail. I know people
that have gone out of jail, and they've all pretty
much shared similar stories on how they found more peace
there than here. Out Here, we are woven into a
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web of relationships, families, friends, partners, pets, even strangers who
we pass on the street. Each one is a character
in the story of our lives, and we don't know
how to put everything together because we have not organized
our own story. Each one offers a chance to love, learn,
and give, and there's so much thought, but what are
you offering yourself? It is easy to take these connections
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for granted, to forget that every moment with the loved
one is a gift. But when we slow down, when
we will become still unaware, we begin to cherish these
interactions more deeply. The shared joke, the knowing lance, the
comfort of a hand held in silence, These are not
all small things. In fact, they are everything. Even our
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relationship with animals teach us to be present. A cat
curled up right now in front of me, a dog
trying to get my attention. These are invitations to step
out of our heads, get out of your fucking head,
and get back in your heart. It is animals that
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remind us to love without condition and to live without reservation.
The harshest truth about life is also it's most beautiful
that it will end. None of us know when. This
is not meant to scare us, but to awaken us.
Every second wasted in bitterness or distraction is a second
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we will never get back. Every opportunity we ignore, every
word of love left and spoken, is a loss we
may one day regret. I practice Buddhism. I have for
actually over twenty years, and I've always had a lot
of people say the dumbest things, like, you know, first off,
it's a philosophy. It's not so much religion. No, we're
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not praying to the Dali Lama or even the Buddha.
It is to find a sense of peace, and a
lot of symbols on my Buddhist all to our skulls.
So a lot of people are like, oh, they worship death,
and it's like, no, we glorify it. We glorify death.
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It is the ultimate transition from here to their death.
To me, I don't see a skull as a symbol
of halloween or horror. Sadly, that's Hollywood, which is stupid.
It's a reminder that you will die and until then,
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cherish today. So do not piss it away. Don't squander
this miraculous, fragile chance to just be alive. Time is
a silent current, always moving. You can't stop it, but
we can choose how we appreciate, how we see it,
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how we write it. We will drift in apathy, or
we will paddle with intention. We will numb ourselves, or
we will feel every moment. Life asks us these questions
every day, and the answers are found in how we
choose to show up. When we become silent and still,
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we step into a new rule, a new role, ready
the witness, the observer of your life. It's almost like
you stepping out of your body and watching your life.
Do that. That's part of a lot of meditation that
I do, stepping out of my body, seeing my self
meditating over there, and then looking around, what am I doing?
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What I need to accomplish, what's important? Was not important? Stop
being swept away by every thought and emotion, and we
start to see the bigger picture. The witness sees the
patterns in our behavior, the beauty and our pain, the
lessons and our failures. From this place of awareness, we
begin to make better choices. We stop reacting and start responding.
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We live not an autopilot, but with pure intention. To
witness your life is to honor it. It is to
recognize that you are both the artist and the cannabas,
the author and the story, the dreamer and the dream
And in this recognition, life becomes not something that happens
to you, but something that you co create. Cherishing does
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not mean clinging. It means seeing the value in each
moment as it passes. It means treating your time, your relationships,
experiences as sacred. It means saying this moment matters with
every breath. We do not need grand adventures or constant
excitement to live fully. What we need is to be present,
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but because it is real, and because it may never
come again. Every morning, every morning, every morning, every morning,
the universe asks you a question when you first wake up,
and that question is what will you do with this
gift today? It does not promise tomorrow. It offers only
this day, this breath, this heartbeat. So make it count.
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Be still, listen, look around, take it all in. Laugh
with your friends, Hug your family, Thank your animals for
their unconditional love. Create something, be a part of something,
help someone, be kind, be grateful, do something with your life.
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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass.
It is about learning to dance in the rain. It
is about knowing deep in your bones that you are
here now and that now is enough. The power of
silence and stillness is that they return you to yourself,
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and in return, you find the one thing you've been
looking for all along, the ability to truly live something.
I want to try. I have exercises, you know, my
little practice things, and I want to go over some
of them because I've shared and I've had a lot
of people write them back to me and saying that
they're simple, but they love them and thank you so much,
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and all this stuff. So I want you to try
the morning silent practice. Now, think of how long your
day is. Okay, then think about ten minutes of that
just ten minutes. Ten minutes you piss away ten minutes
doing stupid stuff. So when you wake up, either you
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go get your cup of coffee and then you go
somewhere sit on your porch or something or whatever, or
you can do it in the shower. You can do
it on the toilet. I have people for years that
have told me because moms, I have said, you know,
I have children, and they just don't give me time.
The only time I get pieces in the bathroom so
they will actually listen to my guided meditations while they're
on the toilet or in the shower. But the purpose
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of this ten to fifteen minutes that I'm asking you
to take is to start each day with clarity, with gratitude,
with intention before you get lost in it and you pick
up your phone and start scrolling and who said what
and where are they going? And you know, damn this
person and look at that celebrity, And I don't care
about these people. I care about you. Wake up, get
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your cup of coffee, your tea, whatever, and be like
I said, before checking your phone and turning on the
lights or speaking to anyone, sits somewhere comfortably close your eyes,
take a few deep breaths, and again, don't go crazy
trying to be a Buddha. Just as you just sit
there and breathe. That's how easy it is. But just
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allow your body to relax. And I know you're like, well,
I was just sleeping, right, but you, most of us
weren't relaxing. Allow your body to relax in this moment,
and as you do, listen to your breath, observe it
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without changing it, feel the air enter and leave your body.
Think about that moment. How many times do you breathe?
Have you taken a breath since you alive? I'm happy
you're still taking breaths. But say in your mind's eye,
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you can say it a lot. I don't care, but
I am awake, I am alive. This moment is a gift.
And please try to not just repeat those three phrases
as you say, then what does it mean? I am awake,
I am alive. This moment is a gift. And it's
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funny because I just heard just somebody I know that
I could just picture them going, of course I'm awake,
I'm awake, and I'm alive. Duh, of course I'm alive. Well,
obviously you're not living because you don't realize that this
moment is a gift. And then you think of three
things that you are grateful for today, three things. They
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can be simple. I'm grateful for my bed. I'm grateful
for the light as it came in through the window
this morning. I'm grateful for the chance to begin again
because nothing is owed to me. Think about it by
the end of today. And it's so funny because I'll
talk about death and people like, oh, don't do that.
It's death, like I'm not. I I'm not afraid to die,
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never have, never will be. It's funny. I have a
story when I was very very young, very very young,
ten nine, ten years old. I was in my I
remember I see it. I was on the twin bed
in my room. My brother's room was to the left,
my parents' bedroom was to the right, and I think
it was it wasn't late lately because they were still
watching TV, so it was probably like ten o'clock, eleven
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o'clock at night, and I was listening. Oh, I was
listening to this radio show casey one on one was
the station, and it was father. Oh my god, what
was his name? I can't believe. I just forgot his name.
I just went blank. But I used to listen to
him every Sunday and for like two hours he would talk.
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And it was one concept. It was the first time
a child that I heard the concept of death. And
I just went into this rollercoaster riot of wait a minute, death,
Does this mean that I won't be here again? This
means that I'm gone forever? Oh my god. And it's
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just and I'm not an anxious kid. The anxiety built
up in that moment, and I was like, oh my god,
and I gotta believe this, and oh my god, and
it'll be over and my story will be done and
the whole world will be gone. And and I got
up and I went to my parents' room and I
walked over to them, and they just looked at me,
like what are you doing? And I just like, for
some reason, just looked at them. I don't even know
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how to put it into words, but it's like, I
got it. It's it's life, this house, my parents, their love,
my brothers, their love. I was like, wait a minute,
I'm not going to walk around with fear in my heart.
To me, I just fear as a concoction that's created
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by like the devil. It's just I just savored the moment.
I savored my life, this house, this family, this bedroom,
And I went back to bed and I knocked the
hell out and I slept so well because it isn't
the fear of the ending. It's the focus on the
on the journey and what's happening right now. This moment
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is a gift. What kind of energy do you want
to make today while you're sitting there, Choose a word
like peace, presence, gratitude. I feel it. What do you do?
You love the peace here in are you? Are you
in a peaceful place? If you're not changing it, be
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present in the moment. If you're not change it, are
you feeling gratitude for everything you have? If not, do
something about it. And then when you're ready to just
start your day. And it's funny, a lot of people
are like, that's it. I'm like, so do it. Step
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two another one. There's a thing called silent meditation. I
remember the first time I learned silent meditation. It was
about four years after I learned meditation, and it was
at a Buddhist temple in New Haven, and I was like,
it was like walking. Meditation. I was like walking, and
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it was a lot harder than I thought, because you
have to walk a certain way. You have to really
you're looking forward, but you're in the moment. You're so
focused on walking that you bypassed the fact that you're walking.
And you had to walk around this room and you
had people in the middle meditating. It was a beautiful space.
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It was in an old building, but you could do
it anywhere. You could do it on your property. You
can do it, you know at work. You can do
it anywhere. Just just a few minutes. Reconnect with the
world around you, in the presence within you. Go for
a walk, find a little quiet place as you're walking,
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a park, a neighborhood trail, or even in a backyard.
No phone, no music, no electronics, no talking, just you
and your senses. Walk a little bit slower than usual.
But don't just focus on getting over there.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
Focus on looking around you, at the trees, at the birds,
at the sky, feel the ground underneath your feet.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Listen, Listen to the rocks, the gravel, Hear the birds.
Don't just hear the birds. Listen to the birds, the
different songs, the wind, the breeze, the distant sounds, be
your silence witness. Don't judge, don't label, don't criticize, don't narrate,
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Just experience this moment. Let thoughts pass like clouds. At
the end, you pause and reflect, what did you notice?
What felt different? This practice not only will clear your mind,
but it reconnects you with the miracle of just being
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alive again and again, like well, of course I'm alive. No,
I mean like actually being alive, like actually connecting with
everything around you, not just eating to eat and doing
to do, but just living, just living. And then you
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your moment with awareness, gratitude, and peace. It's a beautiful
thing in the evening before you go to bed, ten
minutes before you go to bed. This is actually something
that I like to share with people as a hypnotherapist.
Right before you go to bed, there's a stage that
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you're not sleeping yet, but you're not awake. You're in
the middle. That's actually like a hypnosis level. That's where
we bring you to when we do hypnosis. It's a
good time during that moment to daydream about what you want,
where you want to be, who you want to be,
how you want to see your day again, being aware
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of being filled with gratitude and peace. Turn off all
the screens and lights except for a small lamp or
candle somewhere in your room. Sit or lay down in silence,
allow your breathing to just settle and slow down, and
mentally review your day from waking up to right now.
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What moments stood out? What made you smile? This isn't
about this person did that, and this person did this
and it shitty day. I don't care about that. I'm
not saying those moments don't happen, but you really shouldn't
focus on that. Which is supposed to focus on is
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that little kid in the cracker barrel that waved at me,
or being able to sit at a restaurant and break
bread with friends and family, or having an ice cream
cone with somebody I loved dearly, or something as simple
as knowing that my daughter lives near me and I
think it's cool she has her own place. I applaud
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that's that's admirable. Pick your shit up and move a
few states over to start again. So you think to yourself,
what made you smile today? Who did you connect with?
It's funny because in my day I can go usually
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between five to fifteen. Maybe you're gonna say five to
in general. In general, typical day, just I short conversations
a waiter, a waitress, somebody at a store. I'm always
connecting with somebody. At that moment, you ask yourself, what
are you thankful for it today? What did you learn today?
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Did you show up as who you wanted to be?
Think about that. Did you show up as who you
wanted to be today? Or did you just throw on
your mask? And we're fearful of everything around you. You
see the good in the day. There's always good in
the day. I don't care who you are, there's good
in the day. Then you end with a silent thank
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you for the gifted this day. Usually by this time
you fall asleep and think about it. Everything I told you.
I didn't ask you to buy anything. I know added
you to spend money on equipment or tools or anything.
Just your mind, just your presence. They help you step
out of autopilot and into the intentional mindset. Over time,
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you cultivate the ability to slow down. Do this every
day in the morning and at night. See clearly an
honor your life as the fragile, fragile, beautiful gift that
it is your life is a gift. You are a gift.
As a meditation teacher, as I said, and practitioner, there's
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no way I can go on with this topic of
silence without bringing up what I feel to me is magic,
the ultimate being in the moment of sitting still being
aware of my surroundings. In other words, meditation, It to
me is the silent practice. The greatest gift of silence
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is that is always accessible. Whether you are a seasoned
meditator or never have done it, you can tap into
silence to bring yourself to deeper levels of self awareness.
Below are some of the while'm going to get into
some key benefits and how to access silence in our
practice that I wrote out for us. This is actually
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something I took from a long time ago, parts of
it that I wrote for a meditation session. But silence
is so powerful yet so rare today and a world
surrounded by noise, traffic, social media, cell phone sirens, leaf blowers, lawnmowers,
and around here mooing cows, cockadoodling roosters, it can't be
challenging to find true quiet. But the greatest gift of
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silence is that it's not only always rare accessible at
any time. It is one of the best ways to access,
as I said, our deer selves and connect with everything
around you. When was the last time that you sat
in silence? It's funny. When I was a kid, my
father used to fix sewing machines as a side job,
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which became a was It was a big part of
his life. But and we would drive to the projects
and there would be you know, i'd say, a dozen
people a week that he would go meet with and
you know, after work and fix their sewing machines. Or
there were always much older ladies who U there sewing
machines broke and they had no idea how to fix it,
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and he would go do that. But as a child,
I was told sit and wait in the car. No tablet,
no toys, no phone, Sit and wait in the car.
And I would just sit there. I didn't know not
to I didn't know to complain or just to be
a brat. I just sat there. I looked around the car.
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What can I read? What can I touch? And then
I looked out the window. I'm a people watcher, so
I watched people walk by, and I thought, who are they,
what's your story? What are they about? And thank god
I was taught that because now I can sit peacefully
anywhere and enjoy the moment. I don't feel the need
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to rush and Russian. But you know, because realistically ask yourself,
what are you rushing to? Where is so important? Like
I know people that are very important that they find
they're big meditators. They make time to just be. It's like,
you can wait because trust me, one day you will
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be forced to and you're not gonna like it. Learn
to be in the moment, Learn to savor every second,
every conversation, every meal. I find it interesting that some
people find silent awkward. We often feel compelled by an
urge to fill the silence with conversation or noise constantly.
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I'm not gonna lie in my home right now. There,
let's see I have I have Alexis everywhere, but there's
always music playing quietly in the background, from old classic
stuff to meditation, to blues to jazz. I always have
music playing, But I always cherish my moments when all
I hear is nature around me. As a long time
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student of meditation, I've sat for many retreats. I've found
that through the challenge and deep pain that can often
surface in long bouts of silence. Yes, sometimes it could
be painful to try to sit still and be quiet.
There's always a sense of freedom at the end from worry,
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from stress, from your daily problems, because while you're there,
sitting there, you've released it. When you sit in silence
long enough, ad or inner peace and sense of bliss
can change, we can begin to emerge. It's as if
the silence allows space for the mind and the soul
to open. Why some can't meditate, I mean, I get it.
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You are breaking down your thoughts and now putting them
into order, from what is important to what is not,
and to what stuff you can't actually do and what
you can just archive forever and just put in the
back of your mind's eye in a filing cabinet. I mean,
there are things that you need to resolve today or
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within the hour, and there are things that you need
to resolve within a week or within the month, and
then you have those plans and goals to finish something
within the year, five years, ten years. But when your
mind is constantly racing through thoughts, you're never going to
be able to stop and just be. I mean, as
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I mentioned before, the biggest complaint that I learned. When
people say, oh, my mind is racing, my mind is racing,
It's just like, so stop the race. It's your mind.
You have control of your thoughts, I mean, and please
don't think you don't, because if you do, that's like
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what kind of day I will have? Well, it's up
to me. Obviously, I don't have control of everything. But
you know that free will that I have, I choose
how I will see it, to view it, experience it.
My car broke down, it is what it is. Yesterday
I was cutting grass and I I something happened underneath
the mower, which was just odd. When I tell you
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what it was, you're gonna be like, wow, that must
have been. It wasn't loud at all. I was just
turning and all of a sudden, the bottom of the
whole mower started like just to rattle. So I was like, Okay,
I'm in the middle of my arc and I'm looking
over the garages over there. I'm like, all right, oh,
I need to get from here to there. So there's
two settings on these big motors. One is you could
just drive them without the blades going, and the other
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ones with the blades so I moved it a little
bit and I turned it on without the blades, and
it was fine, and I started going, and all of
a sudden, when I turned the blades on, everything started
going blah blah blah blah blah blah crazy, and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And I turned it off and I was like, hmm.
So my first thought wasn't what the hell Jesus griage
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blah blah blah. That's that's so naive and ignorant. I
just thought to myself, well, what has to be done, Well,
this has to be repaired, okay. So what I did
was I turned it on without the mower, and I
drove it to a space where it was, you know,
I could work. And I got a piece of wood
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out and I put it on the ground and I
laid underneath, and I was like, all right, well, let's
just see what's different. I trust me. I don't repair mowars.
A lot of people don't. And I just looked at
the wiring. I looked at the mechanics. Everything looks good.
There's no leaks, there's no list, there's no that. I
went to the other side. I looked blah blah blah
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blah blah. And then I raised the whole platform up.
You could raise bring it down, and I was able
to look underneath, and I was like, and then it's
three blades, three big blades, and the middle one way
at the end of the darkness. I could see a
rock and I was like, what the hell? Somehow a
rock had picked up and wedged between the blade and
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like where it spins and just froze it right there.
And I was like, oh, so I figured out, okay, well,
obviously it's turned off. It's safe, it's not just gonna
magically turn on. So I went and got a certain
pole and I was able to go and shimmy and
play with it and play, and finally it just dropped out,
and I was like, hmmm. So now because I'm there,
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I'm like, I'm gonna use this time to really look
at this mower. So I looked at the blades. How
will I be able to replace in the future. I'm
looked at filters and oil filters and air filters and
the belts and the pulleys and everything and how that works.
Because you know, usually you go, you cut grass, you
put it, Oh, you're tired you put. No. I took
this time of it being broken down to really study
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it and see how it works. Fascinating, fascinating machine. And
I was like, okay, so in the future, this is
how I'm going to do this, this and that and
this is and all this happened because it broke so
I was able to tighten everything. I tightened some stuff,
I greased some stuff. I made everything look nice and pretty,
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and I was like, good to go. I turned it
on perfect. I didn't get lost in the moment. I
became the moment. I took control of the moment. I
didn't let the moment control me. I didn't let anger,
rage and fear and take over. It's like mower broke down, okay,
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And if I couldn't fix it, then okay, who can Okay,
let me start making some phone calls. But for now,
let me see what I can do. And since I
was there, I'm like, all right, let me take some
time to really see how this works, what it is
because the way I everything around me is the whole
happens for a reason. I don't just say it, I
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mean it. And it's just like maybe in the future
something's gonna happen again, and at that point, I'm gonna
have the knowledge experience to go I know what it is.
I bet you it's that beltest list. I bet you
it's this. I bet you it's that a lot of
times we're afraid to try things because we don't know.
But it's just like, but think of the many things
that you already do because you tried. I mean, do
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you actually remember being at an age looking at your
parents or family driving thinging to yourself. They drive cars, cars,
that's crazy. Before you know it, you're doing it. I've
driven tractor trailers, I've driven boats. I've driven pretty much
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every type of car. I can go from car to car,
from truck to truck. I drive automatic, I drive manual.
I mean, I've drive I've driven motorcycles, I've driven ATVs.
I've you know, now, new riding mowers. I've never owned
a riding mower. So now I have a riding mower.
And in the beginning, my neighbor let me use his.
And it's scary. It's it's the one with you know, Oh,
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it's scary. It's like driving a tank because you can,
you know, three six, you can make instant turns. And
of course people are like if your first thought is
that scary, No, nothing is scary, stop that it's okay,
How do I figure this out? I knew at some
point I'm gonna have to do it, So I went
on and I started slow, and I was like, all right,
let me go left, let me go right, let me spin. Wow,
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that was freaking scary. But I figured it out, and
I was like, okay, and now I've a master at
and now I can go up to the side of
anything real slow and take my time and trust me.
I'm like, wow, this is cool, Like I can do this,
but with practice. I mean, at one point, you didn't
know how to cook. At one point, you didn't know
how to wipe your own ass. At one point you
couldn't drink from a bottle I want you, but you did.
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You've mastered so many things. Don't forget those, don't laugh
at it, like, well that's life, right, that is life.
And with that comes learning how to drive, learning, how
to run, learning, how to walk, learning, how to talk, learning,
how to do things. The only thing on my buck
list is I want to I would like to fly
a plane, not so much like for people, but on
my buckle list before I die, I want to take
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a lesson where I could just fly a plane to
the point that it's that you take the class, you
learn how to go up and you learn how to land.
That's pretty much it. I wanted to do that before
I die. I also want to do the thing with
the parachute and the propeller parasite like I think it is.
That's not parasite, but it's similar to that. You put
the propeller on your back and you run and you
jump up in the air and you put your feet
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on a thing and then you fly and you're pulling
a parachute as you're gliding. Oh god, how beautiful. There's
a video that I used to watch all the time
was of a guy doing it surrounded by a school
of geese. It was amazing. It was amazing. But you
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are breaking down your thoughts, you're putting them in order.
What is important, what is not? That's the important thing
of meditation. People have this thing that, like you know,
they have to meditate for now. You don't have to
meditate for how you can meditate for three minutes, two minutes,
five minutes, ten minutes, whatever. There's no rules, weird, You
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just get lost in thought and before you know, you're
organizing your thoughts by importance, like I said, and you
realize what's important right now, right now. I hope, I
hope with this podcast I made you think. I hope
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I made you question your existence and that you appreciate
every single tomorrow, every today, and you'd be grateful for
all the experiences of the past that have made you
who you are right now. Yes, you keep this in mind.
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Choose action over excuse, purpose over comfort, and the work
that matters over the distractions that just don't. My name
is Jimmy Gonzalez and this was the Reset Yourself twenty
two podcasts. Thank you so much for listening, for liking,
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hopefully subscribing, and most share with somebody on your Instagram
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Check out this guy he kind of so he made
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you go through the main link at spreaker or I'm
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Alexa or if you have a Google forigure what it's
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two podcasts and see we'll play. Usually they play, they pick,
so I just say, please play the latest or the
first and go from there. So to be like I
have people to this day like, oh how do I
find you? It's like, just google me. It's everywhere. I'm
blessed that it's everywhere. You know why it's everywhere because
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of you, because of my following, and for that I
appreciate and I'm very honored enough how humbled by it.
So thank you so much for listening. Means a lot
to me, many many blessings to you all. And you
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it sucked, it inspired me, you made me think, you
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What I do get is people that will write to me,
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they'll write to me like you did a podcast, you know,
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that's cool. Thank you. Many blessings to you all. Be
well and prosper.
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