June 9, 2025 • 22 mins
In a world addicted to motion and noise, stillness might be the most radical act of clarity. I share my journey of reclaiming presence through running, walking, and moments of quiet that helped me reconnect with my environment—and myself.
Stillness will allow you to hear more birds chirping, be more connected to those who you love most, and enjoy what is.
Lessons Learned:
- Stillness creates the mental space needed for clarity, creativity, and emotional processing.
- Movement (like running or walking) can be powerful gateways to mindfulness and presence.
- Rewarding your mind for noticing small details builds a lasting habit of gratitude and awareness.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Wednesday podcast, a weekly
resource thoughtfully crafted tohelp people build and refine
discipline, accomplish theirgoals, fortify their mindsets
and be of service to somebody inthis world.
My name is Ryan Cass and I amyour host, and it is my mission
and commitment to deliveramazing episodes to you every
week where you'll learn frommyself or renowned expert in
(00:26):
their field.
We love helping people win inevery aspect of their lives, and
you can help us win by sharingthe show with somebody that you
believe will benefit from it,subscribing and leaving a rating
and review.
We believe that everybody inthis world is meant to do
something great with their livesand we're here to help play a
(00:47):
role in that.
Thank you for tuning in andlet's win today.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The birds are chirping, but you can't hear
them.
The squirrels are playing, butyou can't see them.
A house in the neighborhoodjust had the whole front redone,
but you never noticed it.
Why is that?
Likely because your mind isrunning so fast and consumed by
(01:17):
so much that you can't see andhear the things right in front
of you, and perhaps even thethings that you wish that you
could see and hear.
Someone that you love isattempting to connect with you,
but you can't feel them.
Someone at work is sharing animportant message, but you can't
(01:44):
connect with it.
Why is that?
Same reason mentioned before wehave so much that we allow to
infiltrate our minds and I'mspeaking this as somebody that
has been guilty of this andperhaps the main culprit, for
(02:06):
many years.
And bringing this up to share apractice that I've been working
on to help myself hear and seeand notice and feel more of the
things that are in ourenvironment, that surround us
(02:30):
every day.
That allows me to be morepresent with the people that
mean the most to me, to be moreconnected to what's going on in
the professional world.
What's going on in theprofessional world.
It's difficult, in the worldthat we live in today to often
(02:51):
see and hear and feel and noticethe things that are right in
front of us, but even the mostimportant things, and it's to no
fault to anyone.
The world that we live in todayis filled with distractions Our
phones, technology, the, attimes, what appears to be praise
(03:19):
for being able to do so much atone period of time?
This multitasking quote,multitasking praise for that
that we often become so consumedin.
Are we doing the right thing?
Are we doing enough that wethen miss the most meaningful
(03:39):
things?
It's something that has beenreally present for me as I've
been working towards my dream ofgoing out of the corporate
world and taking everything elsefull-time.
And it's difficult because mycorporate world or corporate
(04:04):
position alone continues tointensify.
And it's not uncommon that in anormal day there may be
discussions and help needed fromboth coasts East Coast, west
Coast team.
In Texas, where a normal daymay be, there's a staffing
discussion for people inCharleston and then a staffing
(04:26):
need in Texas, where a normalday may be, there's a staffing
discussion for people inCharleston and then a staffing
need in Texas, and then we'vegot a manufacturing issue in
Orangeburg, which is about anhour up the road, and a
manufacturing issue inCharleston, and then we have
somebody's family is not doingwell.
Therefore, now we have a gap inone area.
(04:47):
Meanwhile we have a deliverablein Seattle.
There's not much time to reflecton one thing, and then that
influences, or can influence, mypersonal life.
What I'm getting at here isthat there are often things that
(05:09):
we are all doing, especially inour professional lives, where
it's not uncommon to be thinkingabout or working on six
different things at one timethat are sometimes
interconnected which is greatbut oftentimes completely
independent of each other, andthen that transcends into our
(05:33):
personal lives.
What I'm getting at here now ishow to focus on stillness and a
few things that I've beenworking on lately over the last
two months, but really focusingeven more so on it now and
starting to see benefits that Ihaven't experienced before, and
(05:58):
I'm going to share what thatlooks like and what you can do,
or perhaps, by sharing what itlooks like, inspire someone, at
least one person, to adopt orincorporate some of these
practices into your life,because I believe it's so
beautiful once you can be morecognizant of just the things
(06:24):
that are in front of you, evenwatching the squirrels run
around, noticing those littlethings, hearing the birds
chirping.
I've found it to be one of themost meaningful gifts lately.
One of the most meaningfulgifts lately Just having the
(06:46):
ability to be more present towhat's around me.
I love this quote from BreneBrown about stillness, because
oftentimes we can think aboutstillness as okay.
Does that mean sit and doabsolutely nothing and that's
what's supposed to clear my mind?
No, I believe that this doesrequire some work, some practice
, some intentionality.
But this one is really neat.
(07:08):
Stillness is not about focusingon nothingness.
It's about creating anemotional clearing to allow
ourselves to feel An emotionalclearing, to allow ourselves to
feel, think, dream and question.
Key point here it's aboutcreating an emotional clearing,
(07:32):
that alone.
It's about creating anemotional clearing that can look
completely different from me,to you, from you to your best
friend, to your spouse, to yourparents, to somebody that you
love.
But I believe that's also aninvitation.
It's about creating anemotional clearing.
(07:53):
So the interpretation of thatis what activity or what is
something that you believe youcan do that will allow you to
create this state of emotionalclearing, or what is something
that perhaps you would bewilling to explore to create
(08:16):
that state?
One thing for me that is sohelpful with this is running,
and I first discovered thisabout 17 years ago now when I
was in high school on thewrestling team and a lot of
(08:39):
things going on in my home life.
But it was awesome that to begood at wrestling and to be able
to stick with it for a longtime, to make it through a
grueling match, to make itthrough the practices and really
just to be in the best cardioshape possible and to keep your
weight down, you get to run aton.
(09:02):
Every practice started withrunning.
A lot of practices ended withrunning.
Pre season conditioning for twomonths was nothing but running
and hills and intense cardiowork and what I found on going
on these runs when I would gethome, especially when I was
cutting weight, is thateverything that was going on in
(09:30):
my home life that was making meso upset and often having my
mind ping pong because therewere so many different things
between now I'm a student, I'man athlete, but then I'm also a
middleman at home playing theoftentimes protector defender
for my little sister and notwanting her to see the things
(09:53):
that are going on due to mydad's struggles with alcohol and
that then impacting him and mymom's relationship and
eventually marriage.
There was a lot going on in mymind.
I would go lace up my shoes togo on these runs, to cut weight,
to sharpen the craft withwrestling, and I found that by
(10:16):
doing that repeatedly I couldliterally turn my mind off and
think about absolutely nothingif I wanted to Like literally
nothing, and it became this kindof addictive practice, or
rather, that became my drug toturn things off.
(10:40):
That became my drug to turnthings off.
And now it's my thing that Ican either go out there and turn
my mind off, I can think aboutthe future and I can create what
I want to achieve later on inlife.
Typically when I'm runningwhich is one of the things that
(11:01):
I do for emotional clearing Ican literally see how the future
is playing out right in frontof me, step by step.
That's how this podcast came tolife.
That's how a lot of my sidebusiness work came to life.
All of that just popped up on arun because everything else
(11:23):
could be shut out.
Everything in my professionallife, as I mentioned before,
where a normal day can deal withcalls and action items from
both coasts and the Midwest orthe Southwest, etc.
All of that goes away and it'sone of the few opportunities
(11:44):
that I have to be able to seeand feel and understand what's
really around me.
Now, for those that know me andhave listened to this for a
while, you know I talk aboutrunning quite a bit.
There's something else that'sreally been helping me when I'm
(12:08):
going out on morning walks, andthere's a lot to be said about
walking and it being really atransformative practice.
But I used to go on walks withpodcasts, or I need to listen to
music or I have to have somesort of stimulant, and I've been
(12:30):
experimenting with just thisconcept of walking, with the
intent creating the intention,creating the state that all I
want to do is see and feel andhear.
I want to see what's going onaround me, I want to feel the
(12:54):
environment and I want to hearnature.
I want to be connected and Iwant to hear nature.
I want to be connected.
And when I first developed thatintention, I'll tell you that I
didn't totally buy into it.
I felt a little strange.
I thought, okay, yeah, sureYou'll see some birds and hear
(13:14):
some birds chirping and peoplerunning around and whatever.
It's not going to be that cool,but man going out more and more
and more again, creating thatintention and really creating
that, declaring that, hey, thisis going to be an opportunity to
(13:39):
create an emotional clearing.
This is going to be anopportunity to create an
emotional clearing.
Going back to Brene Brown'squote, I feel as if my mind is
now slowly becoming more andmore programmed and attuned to,
when I go out for these walks,to allow that those things to
(14:03):
come to life, allow the visionto come to play, allow the
environment to really latch onto me and I absolutely love it
on to me and I absolutely loveit.
There's another quote from RyanHoliday, who is well known for
(14:24):
his work on stoicism Stillnessis the key to self mastery.
So when I'm going on thesewalks or runs, I'm also thinking
about the opportunity that eachone of these activities
(14:46):
presents to master self and toget better at being more
cognizant of just the world andall of this beauty that we're
surrounded by that we often cancompletely forego Because of
(15:12):
everything else in our minds.
I've been spending more time inthe mountains lately.
Rather, I've gone up home a fewmore times than I usually do
lately, and one of my favoriteplaces to go is Crowder's
Mountain.
Crowder's Mountain is about 20miles outside of Charlotte,
(15:32):
really close to my hometown,really close to my hometown, and
it's got an awesome, awesomerunning hiking trails and I love
running up to the top of theRocktop Trail, which it's.
Once you get up there, there'sa big radio tower and you can
look and see the entireCharlotte skyline.
(15:53):
On a good day you can see justmiles and miles and miles worth
of tree lines and I got up thererecently and I was looking at
the tree lines and was thinkingabout nothing else.
Like no other thoughts reallycame to mind and I was so happy
(16:15):
and grateful because of the factthat I literally had an amazing
view for one but literallynothing else was coming into my
mind that a year ago or yearsago I believe, I could have been
(16:37):
up at the top of that summitpeak and been thinking about a
thousand things until I startedrunning again or hiking, where I
know my mind would shut backoff, but I could actually sit
still on top of a rock and enjoythe environment and the world.
(17:01):
That was made possible bypracticing Daily practice
Getting out no headphones,creating the emotional clearing,
whatever that may be for youday in and day out and simply
(17:32):
being and it's a tough switchfor someone to turn off.
If you're ambitious which, ifyou're listening to this podcast
, you're an ambitious person butthe more that you go out and do
it and I would say that this isreally, I'd say, I've been
dialing into it more intenselyover the last two months, but
this is something that has beena practice for years and I still
don't believe I'm very I'm notan expert at it.
(17:55):
I believe I maybe have gottendecent at it, but knowing that
we can always improve.
I love to approach any newthing with a quote, white belt
mentality that hey, I'm abeginner and I can always learn
something.
I never want to becomecomplacent in that, oh, I'm the
(18:17):
best at, I can always learnsomething.
I never want to becomecomplacent in that, oh, I'm the
best at this now and I can hangand coast.
Every morning walk or eveningwalk is an opportunity to
attempt to notice one more thingor hear one extra bird chirping
, see one extra squirrel runningaround, and when I am able to
(18:43):
notice these things and see andhear and feel, I express
gratitude for that and kind oftell my mind, reward my mind,
that hey, this is the stuff I'mlooking for.
I want to see and feel and hearthese things, and I believe
that that's then creating thisprogram to look for even more,
(19:05):
because you're now creating thisreward program for your mind,
just as you would somebody.
Or think about if you've everhad an animal somebody or think
about.
Think about if you've ever hadan animal.
When you start rewarding it forsitting down before the door is
(19:25):
, before you tell it to gooutside or eat its food and
giving that pet a treat, what'sit going to do now?
It's got a reward to lookforward to and it's gonna.
It's, it's programmed to keepdoing that thing because there's
a reward system.
I love to reward my mind andbody and spirit with gratitude
(19:48):
for taking these things intoaccount, for taking the
environment into account, forbeing able to hear and see and
feel things that I truly believeI would not have been able to
notice years ago.
The closing quote and myencouragement to y'all is to
(20:13):
practice something that willallow you to slow down.
The quieter you become, themore you can hear.
That's from Ram Dass.
The quieter you become, themore you can hear.
Test out what it means to bequiet today or this week.
(20:37):
Test out what it means to bequiet today or this week, find
an activity that's going toallow you to create an emotional
clearing whether it's running,walking, yoga and then couple
that with some sort of rewardsystem for your mind, whatever
(21:00):
that may be, whether it'sinstant gratitude, something
that you believe will prompt youto do that thing more, to look
out for that certain thing more.
I'm finding that it's helpingme become more centered,
especially as some things,tougher things, have been taking
place in life lately, andreally become more calm and
(21:26):
understanding of what's going on, more understanding of what the
future may hold or should hold,and I believe it's one of the
most powerful skills that wecould possess Stillness.
Stillness is the key toself-mastery, quoting Mr Holiday
(21:51):
again, and it's my wish thatyou can be still today, this
week and moving forward so youcan win today.
Thank you so much.
Outro Music.
Welcome to the Wednesday podcast, a weekly
resource thoughtfully crafted tohelp people build and refine
discipline, accomplish theirgoals, fortify their mindsets
and be of service to somebody inthis world.
My name is Ryan Cass and I amyour host, and it is my mission
and commitment to deliveramazing episodes to you every
week where you'll learn frommyself or renowned expert in
(00:26):
their field.
We love helping people win inevery aspect of their lives, and
you can help us win by sharingthe show with somebody that you
believe will benefit from it,subscribing and leaving a rating
and review.
We believe that everybody inthis world is meant to do
something great with their livesand we're here to help play a
(00:47):
role in that.
Thank you for tuning in andlet's win today.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The birds are chirping, but you can't hear
them.
The squirrels are playing, butyou can't see them.
A house in the neighborhoodjust had the whole front redone,
but you never noticed it.
Why is that?
Likely because your mind isrunning so fast and consumed by
(01:17):
so much that you can't see andhear the things right in front
of you, and perhaps even thethings that you wish that you
could see and hear.
Someone that you love isattempting to connect with you,
but you can't feel them.
Someone at work is sharing animportant message, but you can't
(01:44):
connect with it.
Why is that?
Same reason mentioned before wehave so much that we allow to
infiltrate our minds and I'mspeaking this as somebody that
has been guilty of this andperhaps the main culprit, for
(02:06):
many years.
And bringing this up to share apractice that I've been working
on to help myself hear and seeand notice and feel more of the
things that are in ourenvironment, that surround us
(02:30):
every day.
That allows me to be morepresent with the people that
mean the most to me, to be moreconnected to what's going on in
the professional world.
What's going on in theprofessional world.
It's difficult, in the worldthat we live in today to often
(02:51):
see and hear and feel and noticethe things that are right in
front of us, but even the mostimportant things, and it's to no
fault to anyone.
The world that we live in todayis filled with distractions Our
phones, technology, the, attimes, what appears to be praise
(03:19):
for being able to do so much atone period of time?
This multitasking quote,multitasking praise for that
that we often become so consumedin.
Are we doing the right thing?
Are we doing enough that wethen miss the most meaningful
(03:39):
things?
It's something that has beenreally present for me as I've
been working towards my dream ofgoing out of the corporate
world and taking everything elsefull-time.
And it's difficult because mycorporate world or corporate
(04:04):
position alone continues tointensify.
And it's not uncommon that in anormal day there may be
discussions and help needed fromboth coasts East Coast, west
Coast team.
In Texas, where a normal daymay be, there's a staffing
discussion for people inCharleston and then a staffing
(04:26):
need in Texas, where a normalday may be, there's a staffing
discussion for people inCharleston and then a staffing
need in Texas, and then we'vegot a manufacturing issue in
Orangeburg, which is about anhour up the road, and a
manufacturing issue inCharleston, and then we have
somebody's family is not doingwell.
Therefore, now we have a gap inone area.
(04:47):
Meanwhile we have a deliverablein Seattle.
There's not much time to reflecton one thing, and then that
influences, or can influence, mypersonal life.
What I'm getting at here isthat there are often things that
(05:09):
we are all doing, especially inour professional lives, where
it's not uncommon to be thinkingabout or working on six
different things at one timethat are sometimes
interconnected which is greatbut oftentimes completely
independent of each other, andthen that transcends into our
(05:33):
personal lives.
What I'm getting at here now ishow to focus on stillness and a
few things that I've beenworking on lately over the last
two months, but really focusingeven more so on it now and
starting to see benefits that Ihaven't experienced before, and
(05:58):
I'm going to share what thatlooks like and what you can do,
or perhaps, by sharing what itlooks like, inspire someone, at
least one person, to adopt orincorporate some of these
practices into your life,because I believe it's so
beautiful once you can be morecognizant of just the things
(06:24):
that are in front of you, evenwatching the squirrels run
around, noticing those littlethings, hearing the birds
chirping.
I've found it to be one of themost meaningful gifts lately.
One of the most meaningfulgifts lately Just having the
(06:46):
ability to be more present towhat's around me.
I love this quote from BreneBrown about stillness, because
oftentimes we can think aboutstillness as okay.
Does that mean sit and doabsolutely nothing and that's
what's supposed to clear my mind?
No, I believe that this doesrequire some work, some practice
, some intentionality.
But this one is really neat.
(07:08):
Stillness is not about focusingon nothingness.
It's about creating anemotional clearing to allow
ourselves to feel An emotionalclearing, to allow ourselves to
feel, think, dream and question.
Key point here it's aboutcreating an emotional clearing,
(07:32):
that alone.
It's about creating anemotional clearing that can look
completely different from me,to you, from you to your best
friend, to your spouse, to yourparents, to somebody that you
love.
But I believe that's also aninvitation.
It's about creating anemotional clearing.
(07:53):
So the interpretation of thatis what activity or what is
something that you believe youcan do that will allow you to
create this state of emotionalclearing, or what is something
that perhaps you would bewilling to explore to create
(08:16):
that state?
One thing for me that is sohelpful with this is running,
and I first discovered thisabout 17 years ago now when I
was in high school on thewrestling team and a lot of
(08:39):
things going on in my home life.
But it was awesome that to begood at wrestling and to be able
to stick with it for a longtime, to make it through a
grueling match, to make itthrough the practices and really
just to be in the best cardioshape possible and to keep your
weight down, you get to run aton.
(09:02):
Every practice started withrunning.
A lot of practices ended withrunning.
Pre season conditioning for twomonths was nothing but running
and hills and intense cardiowork and what I found on going
on these runs when I would gethome, especially when I was
cutting weight, is thateverything that was going on in
(09:30):
my home life that was making meso upset and often having my
mind ping pong because therewere so many different things
between now I'm a student, I'man athlete, but then I'm also a
middleman at home playing theoftentimes protector defender
for my little sister and notwanting her to see the things
(09:53):
that are going on due to mydad's struggles with alcohol and
that then impacting him and mymom's relationship and
eventually marriage.
There was a lot going on in mymind.
I would go lace up my shoes togo on these runs, to cut weight,
to sharpen the craft withwrestling, and I found that by
(10:16):
doing that repeatedly I couldliterally turn my mind off and
think about absolutely nothingif I wanted to Like literally
nothing, and it became this kindof addictive practice, or
rather, that became my drug toturn things off.
(10:40):
That became my drug to turnthings off.
And now it's my thing that Ican either go out there and turn
my mind off, I can think aboutthe future and I can create what
I want to achieve later on inlife.
Typically when I'm runningwhich is one of the things that
(11:01):
I do for emotional clearing Ican literally see how the future
is playing out right in frontof me, step by step.
That's how this podcast came tolife.
That's how a lot of my sidebusiness work came to life.
All of that just popped up on arun because everything else
(11:23):
could be shut out.
Everything in my professionallife, as I mentioned before,
where a normal day can deal withcalls and action items from
both coasts and the Midwest orthe Southwest, etc.
All of that goes away and it'sone of the few opportunities
(11:44):
that I have to be able to seeand feel and understand what's
really around me.
Now, for those that know me andhave listened to this for a
while, you know I talk aboutrunning quite a bit.
There's something else that'sreally been helping me when I'm
(12:08):
going out on morning walks, andthere's a lot to be said about
walking and it being really atransformative practice.
But I used to go on walks withpodcasts, or I need to listen to
music or I have to have somesort of stimulant, and I've been
(12:30):
experimenting with just thisconcept of walking, with the
intent creating the intention,creating the state that all I
want to do is see and feel andhear.
I want to see what's going onaround me, I want to feel the
(12:54):
environment and I want to hearnature.
I want to be connected and Iwant to hear nature.
I want to be connected.
And when I first developed thatintention, I'll tell you that I
didn't totally buy into it.
I felt a little strange.
I thought, okay, yeah, sureYou'll see some birds and hear
(13:14):
some birds chirping and peoplerunning around and whatever.
It's not going to be that cool,but man going out more and more
and more again, creating thatintention and really creating
that, declaring that, hey, thisis going to be an opportunity to
(13:39):
create an emotional clearing.
This is going to be anopportunity to create an
emotional clearing.
Going back to Brene Brown'squote, I feel as if my mind is
now slowly becoming more andmore programmed and attuned to,
when I go out for these walks,to allow that those things to
(14:03):
come to life, allow the visionto come to play, allow the
environment to really latch onto me and I absolutely love it
on to me and I absolutely loveit.
There's another quote from RyanHoliday, who is well known for
(14:24):
his work on stoicism Stillnessis the key to self mastery.
So when I'm going on thesewalks or runs, I'm also thinking
about the opportunity that eachone of these activities
(14:46):
presents to master self and toget better at being more
cognizant of just the world andall of this beauty that we're
surrounded by that we often cancompletely forego Because of
(15:12):
everything else in our minds.
I've been spending more time inthe mountains lately.
Rather, I've gone up home a fewmore times than I usually do
lately, and one of my favoriteplaces to go is Crowder's
Mountain.
Crowder's Mountain is about 20miles outside of Charlotte,
(15:32):
really close to my hometown,really close to my hometown, and
it's got an awesome, awesomerunning hiking trails and I love
running up to the top of theRocktop Trail, which it's.
Once you get up there, there'sa big radio tower and you can
look and see the entireCharlotte skyline.
(15:53):
On a good day you can see justmiles and miles and miles worth
of tree lines and I got up thererecently and I was looking at
the tree lines and was thinkingabout nothing else.
Like no other thoughts reallycame to mind and I was so happy
(16:15):
and grateful because of the factthat I literally had an amazing
view for one but literallynothing else was coming into my
mind that a year ago or yearsago I believe, I could have been
(16:37):
up at the top of that summitpeak and been thinking about a
thousand things until I startedrunning again or hiking, where I
know my mind would shut backoff, but I could actually sit
still on top of a rock and enjoythe environment and the world.
(17:01):
That was made possible bypracticing Daily practice
Getting out no headphones,creating the emotional clearing,
whatever that may be for youday in and day out and simply
(17:32):
being and it's a tough switchfor someone to turn off.
If you're ambitious which, ifyou're listening to this podcast
, you're an ambitious person butthe more that you go out and do
it and I would say that this isreally, I'd say, I've been
dialing into it more intenselyover the last two months, but
this is something that has beena practice for years and I still
don't believe I'm very I'm notan expert at it.
(17:55):
I believe I maybe have gottendecent at it, but knowing that
we can always improve.
I love to approach any newthing with a quote, white belt
mentality that hey, I'm abeginner and I can always learn
something.
I never want to becomecomplacent in that, oh, I'm the
(18:17):
best at, I can always learnsomething.
I never want to becomecomplacent in that, oh, I'm the
best at this now and I can hangand coast.
Every morning walk or eveningwalk is an opportunity to
attempt to notice one more thingor hear one extra bird chirping
, see one extra squirrel runningaround, and when I am able to
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notice these things and see andhear and feel, I express
gratitude for that and kind oftell my mind, reward my mind,
that hey, this is the stuff I'mlooking for.
I want to see and feel and hearthese things, and I believe
that that's then creating thisprogram to look for even more,
(19:05):
because you're now creating thisreward program for your mind,
just as you would somebody.
Or think about if you've everhad an animal somebody or think
about.
Think about if you've ever hadan animal.
When you start rewarding it forsitting down before the door is
(19:25):
, before you tell it to gooutside or eat its food and
giving that pet a treat, what'sit going to do now?
It's got a reward to lookforward to and it's gonna.
It's, it's programmed to keepdoing that thing because there's
a reward system.
I love to reward my mind andbody and spirit with gratitude
(19:48):
for taking these things intoaccount, for taking the
environment into account, forbeing able to hear and see and
feel things that I truly believeI would not have been able to
notice years ago.
The closing quote and myencouragement to y'all is to
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practice something that willallow you to slow down.
The quieter you become, themore you can hear.
That's from Ram Dass.
The quieter you become, themore you can hear.
Test out what it means to bequiet today or this week.
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Test out what it means to bequiet today or this week, find
an activity that's going toallow you to create an emotional
clearing whether it's running,walking, yoga and then couple
that with some sort of rewardsystem for your mind, whatever
(21:00):
that may be, whether it'sinstant gratitude, something
that you believe will prompt youto do that thing more, to look
out for that certain thing more.
I'm finding that it's helpingme become more centered,
especially as some things,tougher things, have been taking
place in life lately, andreally become more calm and
(21:26):
understanding of what's going on, more understanding of what the
future may hold or should hold,and I believe it's one of the
most powerful skills that wecould possess Stillness.
Stillness is the key toself-mastery, quoting Mr Holiday
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again, and it's my wish thatyou can be still today, this
week and moving forward so youcan win today.
Thank you so much.
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