April 26, 2024 • 43 mins
Wrap up your week with Nyomi as she shares the benefits of practicing mindfulness meditation to stay grounded in the present moment. In this episode of "The Season of Self Love," explore the transformative effects of mindfulness on mental clarity, emotional balance, and overall well-being
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Welcome to the Season of Self Love, your daily dose of inspiration and encouragement.
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Tuning into the Season of Self Lovepodcast to start your day on a
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positive note and discover the limitless potentialwithin yourself. Frank and want to get
anything good Afternoon. Today is Friday, April twenty six, twenty twenty four,
and welcome back, my beautiful people, to the Citizing and Self Love
I am your host, Namibanks hereand today today we're going to explore the
power of mindfulness and how it helpsus on our path to live in completely
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in the present. So, withnature blossoming all around us in this lovely
month of April, now is theidea moment to use our affirmation and mindfulness
to blossom. But then so let'stake a quick break and then when we
come back, we're going to talkabout understanding the affirmation. I practice mindfulness
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meditation to anchor myself in the presentmoment. All right, it's you go
to you got its Nummy Banks hereon the season of Self Love podcast,
and we be right Hi. I'mdoctor William C. Washington, aka doctor
will your friendly neighborhood counselor. Oneof the biggest things that I want to
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tell you about is that I'm ahealth psychologist, a licensed professional clinical counselor
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I want to bring in the SilverAge of psychology. And to do
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I'm on offer to the world andto anyone that's read. So if
you're ready, sign up today,be kind to yourself and He'll always I
remember. Welcome back as you goto God's number banks. You're on the
Season of Sufferer podcast, and todaywe're talking about understanding the affirmation. I
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practice mindfulness meditation to anchor myself inthe present moment. All right, So
before we get deep into this topic, let's begin with a nice little guided
meditation. All right? Are youall ready for this? All right?
Let's begin by finding a comfortable positionwith your back straight and your hands resting
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gently on your lu I want youto close your eyes and I want you
to take a deep breath in fillingyour lungs with air. Now as you
exhale slowly, I want you tofeel any tension of stress leaving your body,
and with each breath, allow yourselfto relax deeper into the present moment,
letting go of any distraction or thoughts. Now, I want you to
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bring you awareness to the sensation ofyour breath as it flows in and out
of your body. I want youto notice the rise and the fall of
your chest, and the coolness ofthe air as you inhale, and the
warmth of you ax heale. AndI want you to repeat gently or loudly
to yourself, I practice mindfulness andmeditation to anchor myself in the present moment.
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I want you to feel these wordsgrounding you in the hearing and now
fully embrace the beauty in the moment. I want you to allow any thoughts
that arise to simply drift you awaylike clouds in the sky, returning your
focus to the rhythm of your breath. Now, with each inhale and excel,
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I want you to feel yourself becomingmore anchored and centered in the present.
I want you to take a fewmore deep breaths, savoring the stillness
and the piece that comes from beingfully present. Now, when you are
ready, I want you to gentlyopen your eyes and I want you to
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carry this sense of mindfulness with youthroughout your day. All right, Well,
welcome back if you are new hereto the Season of selfalve podcast.
This is something that we do everyday Monday through Friday, to where we
center ourselves, get ourselves grounded beforewe go into the topic of hand and
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today our topic is understanding affirmation.The affirmation of I practice mindfulness and meditation
to anchor myself in the present moment. Yes, oh, this is right
here, this is what is needed, all right, all right, So
look, it's not just a technique. Mindfulness meditation is a way of being.
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So being firmly grounded in its presentis where life on falls and it's
very crucial. So the statement fortoday of I practice mindfulness meditation to anchor
myself in the present moment. Thisencourage us to welcome the present with open
hearts and arms. And why thisaffirmation is the truest of me because see,
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being a caregiver for a loved onewith Alzheimer's, you have to live
in the present moment because it canchange at any given time. So to
help me. I have to findways to ground myself right on the spot,
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and no lie, it can bevery, very challenging for me when
I truly realize it's the saying thatI say every morning, I thank you
for my yesterdays. I wait patientlyfor my tomorrows, but I'm going to
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live today. Today is going tobe my best day ever. And I
think sometimes we as human beings arehealthy human beings that we kind of take
this moment now, we take advantageof that. And when I look at
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my loved when and when I lookat my mother and for her, time
is time is not a regular thingfor her. Memory is not a regular
thing for her. So when Ihave those interactions with her, it's like
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she don't know about future or pastor how it revolves around what's happening today,
if that makes sense, because there'sa lot of confusion with that.
So for me, in being inthis moment with her, I can only
think about this moment and be mindfulin this moment, in this time.
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So with meditation and being mindful inthe present moment, that's all that I
can do at this right now.So by me sharing this affirmation with you
all is very telling on what mylife is today. It's very telling of
what my life is today. Thegood thing is that I'm able to wake
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up early early in the morning tobe able to record this podcast because I
don't know what that day might bea lot of days, we have very
great days, you know, towhere she remembers everything like boom boom boom.
But then there are days that thereare challenging to where she might not
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remember what I just told her fiveminutes ago or two minutes ago, that
she might not remember exactly what theylike. She might think it was last
week, or last month, oreven a few years back. You know
what came what made me appreciate moreon what's happening in the moment now.
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I had an incident earlier this week. It was it was so funny.
She was supposed to go to churchwith my sister, and she called my
sister several different times that morning tomake sure that what time she was supposed
to go, she was supposed togo, and then she felt like she
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was ill, so then she didn'twant to go, And then she called
my sister again and told her thatshe didn't want to go, that she
wasn't feeling well. But then whenI go, she said, no,
she's she's going to go. Soshe was going back and forth with that,
and I was like, wow,this was another situation. So let
me tell you about this one.We were going walking and she had said
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she didn't feel like going walking.So you can't really force them to do
anything. You know, you canask them and see if they want to
you. I'd be very patient whenyou when you're speaking and you're talking with
them, and I remember her saying, no, I don't want to go.
She said, I don't feel likegoing out. You know, I'll
go tomorrow, promise. And Iwas like okay. And so I go
to get my daughter ready because Iwhen I drop her off, then I
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go walking in the park and soas you know we're getting ready, we're
moving. As we're going, Ihear, you know, somebody running down
the stairs like you're gonna leave me? Mind you. She had said she
didn't want to go, But whatI forgot to tell you, she said
it several times that she wasn't goingto go. She wasn't going to go.
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So in that moment, I hadto realize that, Okay, that's
what this is going to be.I have to understand that I have to
be patient with this. I haveto understand that I cannot think about future
what's happening, and I cannot thinkabout what's passed that's happening. I have
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to think about with her right here, in this moment, because right now,
this is what she remembers. SoI have to have empathy and I
have to show compassion in that moment. So for me to do that successfully,
I have to be in a presentmoment. I have to be mindful.
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So when I say, when Iconstantly say about this podcast and self
love and me doing the research forthe different topics that come here, that's
helping me, it's truly helping me. Is truly helping me, all right.
So now we're going to talk aboutexamining the verdict. So we need
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to acknowledge the significance influence that mindfulnessmeditation has on our lives in order to
fully comprehend this assertion. So aslessons the tension and enhances the focus,
and it fosters a deep sense ofcalm within us, we become emotional and
psychological present in addition to being physicallypresent when we practice mindfulness. And one
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thing that I do is I takea few slow, deep breaths, and
I visualize that beautiful person in frontof me speaking of my mother as in
living in the moment now, andI think of making her feel safe.
I think of making her feel safeand comfortable. Help grounds me so I
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no longer want to be combatible orfiguring who's going to be right or wrong
in that moment at that time,my groundness for her is my vision of
thinking looking at her and saying,this beautiful person right here, I have
to make sure that she feels safewith me. I have to make sure
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that she feels comfortable with me.So when I take that deep breath and
in my head, I am countingbackwards from ten to one, and in
that from that ten to one,I am being in this moment now that
I forget all of my past,which just happened five minutes ago, two
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minutes ago, thirty years ago,and I don't think about what's going to
happen in the next two to threeminutes. I think about what our question
of what I focus is right now? What was her question? Answered the
question? In this moment, remindmyself not to say do you remember?
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So for me, This is aconstant practice that I have to do,
and I have to do it ona spot so until I'm learning more ways
to do it and I'm searching formore ways to be able to really do
it to where this can be secondnature for me, but also my empathy
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and my compassion. It truly comesforward as I talk about it. I
talked about it on Monday Show aboutusing our values intentionally for our growth.
We're dealing with my mom is love, it's empathy, it's compassion, it's
family, it's my integrity. It'sinspiring because as I sit here and I
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stand here with her and we speaking, were talking, and were in this
conversation that might be so confusing toher, and that can I be honest,
it's very inspiring to watch her tryto figure it out. Yeah,
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And what it does for me,it inspires me more to truly live in
my purpose. Inspire me more tofind different topics and conversations and you know
that I can be able to shareon this platform as well as my other
platforms. It inspired me to lookmore deeper into dimension and and Alzheimer's and
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how we can reverse it, wecan slow it down or whatever, you
know, whether it be through youknow, a different form of lifestyle of
eating this mindful meditation as well.And I'm smiling because I'm smiling because when
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we came from the doctor a fewweeks ago, and I was speaking with
her doctor about some of the thingsthat I do with meditation and stuff like
that, and the doctor had inteltold her this is something that you should,
you know, do it with yourdaughter, you know, do that
with her that you guys can dotogether. And I remember being in a
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car and she looked over to meand she said, could you show me
how to do the mindful meditation?How I can do that? And I
remember in that moment, and I'mjust being honest, checking myself saying because
I was ready to say so,I'm really sarcastic and smart, because that's
that's our love lengthuage and saying thingsto each other, sarcastic and smart.
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But at that moment, no,I did not. I just said,
you know, as long as thisyou're willing to learn, my mama,
I'm willing to teach you. Ijust pray for my patients and I pray
for your patients patients as we gothrough this journey. And so by me
sharing this with you, and thisthis affirmation, this is this is genuinely
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a part of my life. Istruly what I say when I when I
come on on this platform is thatI'm I'm speaking every part of my life.
I was very excited to use affirmationsthis month with each one of our
shows, and I think we onlygot a few more shows to go in
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this month of April, but Itruly thought that it was truly necessary to
be able to break them down.And honestly, I want to know you,
you all your you all feedback fromit, and how did you enjoy
this series of affirmation on how webroke it down? Please share that with
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an email us and let me knowwhat's your thoughts. You know, because
for me, I do practice mindfulnessmetitation. I do practice it, and
I am researching and looking for otherways that can truly, you know,
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enhance my ability to be able tobe in a moment right then, right
on the spot, because you know, when when life be life and and
and moments be momenting, that ain'teven a word, but I'm just gonna
create one. You know, sometimeswe cannot control on how on how we
react, and so I've been veryaware of how I'm going to respond,
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and so I be in a moment. I stay in a moment, and
sometimes when I'm talking to her,I'll be there with my eyes closed,
and she said, did I dosomething wrong? I'm like, no,
I'm just taking a moment. I'mjust taking a quick moment right now.
Taking a quick moment right now,and gather my senses, gather my words,
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gather my thoughts, and I thinkabout how my words can land.
I think about how my words canmake her feel. And so I'm very
mindful of how I say things andwhen I'm speaking with her. All right,
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all right, so let's take aquick break and we come back,
and we're gonna dive a little bittledeeper into this topic. All right,
ishugurt, you gotta Sammy Banks hereor the Season of Self Love podcast,
and we will be right back.Welcome to the Season of Self Love Podcast
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All right, well, welcome backto your goody gouttes is me Banks.
You own the Season and Self Lovepodcast, and today we're talking about understanding
the affirmation I practice mindfulness meditation tomyself in the present moment, and then
the previous segment I share with youon how I use it to my daily
life and how this has helped meto, you know, to kind of
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maneuver my emotions and my feelings aroundand even interacting with my mother who is
now diagnosed with outside of the dimensionand I am her caregiver for that,
and so it's been able to helpme but not only be impatient with her
as well as myself, but alsoto truly live in a moment, to
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truly look at this situation and understandthat I have to be in the moment.
I have to think about now.I have to think about now,
all right. So the path ofself love, So the flowering and the
blooming topic of April is a metaphorfor our own personal development. So through
mindfulness we can open up to newpossibilities. So just as flowers open up
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to the sun, right, soby enabling us to accept ourselves exactly as
we are wherever we are, itfosters our love of ourselves. You see,
I truly understand why I'm where Iam in my life right now.
So without my journey in life,I might not be prepared as I am
of the things that is happening inmy life and in my mother's life.
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So in saying that, is thatI under truly understand what my life is
and why it is like it is, and I accept it, I embrace
it all and I can laugh.Like I said, I had an AHA
moment earlier this week writing out thiswhole entire show and just those words,
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is that I understand now where I'mat at this moment. At this time
and understand why. I understand whyit was brought to my heart to do
the Season of Self Love because Iknew with the Season and Self Love,
it helped me to go deeper intomy healing process. Yes, would it
also show in the Season and SelfLove. It also showed me about patience,
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about understanding, about empathy, aboutcompassion, about living in a moment.
It helped to strengthen my meditation andbe mindful of my meditation. It
also helped me to understand that everythingthat I've been through before that I can
use those as tools right now,that I use them as tools right now.
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And so I spoke about this theother day with doctor Will about having
this ah aha moment and it ittruly is it, It truly is m
And I I was gonna start onmy YouTube channel on Naomi's World, and
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I haven't quite did it yet.I've done an outline for it. I've
I did an outline for it,and I've done a little you know,
different segments of certain things that Iwas gonna create. It's called Living through
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Dimension and it was going to befrom my personal my point of view of
living through the dimension. While mymother is living with dimension, and my
idea was to show you know,me giving a testimony or how I feel
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real, raw and uncut. Butalso in the researching of the thing of
you know, certain things so youknow, my mother and I can have
a better communication relationship as well asto help her to have a better communication
and relationship with people outside of myown to what she can be feel comfortable
when she walks outside of these thesethis door in my home, you know,
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and possibly could find a reversal ofit. It's so many things that
I am looking for. With doingthat, but also with creating the at
is that that I can either createa community or connect with the community where
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we can combine our we can comein connection with each other and create something
great for caregivers. That's about thisor as well as the patients in another
form. So I truly feel thatthat's another part of my purpose is that
you know, really my purpose isserving others. I truly believe is that
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my testimony in life is just apure servant for others to see life for
what it is. I have somany ups, amazing ups, and I
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have some downs. And even thoughpeople might look at this as a down,
I don't see it exactly like that. I'm looking at it from a
different perspective, and I'm looking atit from a blessing. But not only
that, but I'm also trying toshow others on why this is a blessing.
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And one reason why I know thatit's a blessing because I'm able to
sit here and be able to speakto you all in this manner and you
can understand it. It might besomebody right now that's listening to me.
I have a loved one of motheror father, a husband or a wife
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that can relate to what I'm speakingof and maybe not even thought about.
Using mindful meditation, and take yourmoment in time to where you find that
quiet spot or that place to whereyou able to just be in that moment
right now, to where you canlook at that loved one of yours and
say, you know, I understand, I understand. I'm right here with
you. I'm not behind you,I'm not forward, but I'm right here
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with you. So in this moment, in this time, wherever year it
is, I'm with you right herein this time. And with mindful meditation,
it has helped me to be moreaware of that. It helped me
to be more connected with that.Now. I'm not gonna say that I'm
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perfect in it, because I'm not. It's days that I have my moments
where I have to go out tomy garden when I do feel overwhelmed.
But at least I know how toget myself and make myself backgrounded. If
you would have told me this yearsago, I wouldn't have never thunk it.
M I wouldn't have never thunk it. But I'm truly happy for this,
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truly understand what this is. Ido, I do, I truly
do all right. So guess whatwe got our segment back here as a
text from doctor Will. And Iwant to welcome back this special segment a
text from doctor Will. And althoughdoctor Will couldn't be here with us in
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person today, we are so fortunateto have this inspiring message to guide us
through some introspective questions. And Iinvite you, the listeners, to engage
in this therapy session by reflecting onthese questions along with me. And so
earlier this week I said, Doctorwell, I know you're not going to
be here with me on Friday,but this is the topic that we're talking
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about, and this is the affirmation, and this is what he sent me.
He said, when it comes tomindfulness, ask yourself these simple questions.
All right, as doctor Will willsay, get your purple purpose pen
and purpose paper to get for thesethree questions when it comes down to practicing
mindful meditation, all right. Numberone, how do you make a routine
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for my piece? This is aquestion that you should ask yourself. How
do you make a routine for yourpiece? So it will say, how
do I make a routine for mypiece? Okay, so let me answer
this now. I'm like, I'mlaying down on doctor Will. For me,
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it's been hard to have a routine. But remember earlier. What I
say is that in that moment,at that time, I take a deep
breath and I count back from tento one. I count back from ten
to one, And even when Iwake up in the morning, that is
my moment. What I can Ican do it. I do it when
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I when I can, I cando it. I do it. In
the middle of the day, Ido it. Yeah. The next question,
what are you doing confidently to buildyour meditation muscle? What are you
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doing confidently to build your meditation muscle? Ooh, that's a good one,
doctor, will I will have tocome back to that one. What are
you doing confidently to build your meditationmuscles? You know? For me,
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I just say consistency. Yeah,really really And if you and let me
say, if you are new tomeditation, you don't have to do you
know, ten twenty thirty minutes.You can start off by even starting with
breathing exercises, you know, anice minute breathing or a two minute breathing
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exercise, and then you know,gradually build from there. Yeah. And
then number three, did you writedown your distractions when you were meditating?
And when do you start creating solutionto those distractions through your day? So
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the other day I talked about thisa little bit because I talked about journaling
and I talked about when I'm induring my meditation in the mornings, that
is what I do. When Ifinished meditating, I usually put down what
my thoughts was during that moment atthat time, especially if I went through
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a visualization, you know type ofthing, and I'm writing it down.
And he said, and when doyou start creating solutions? For me?
I start creating solutions as I amwriting down whatever that distraction was or whatever
it is I'm writing it down rightthere, what that solution is or what
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I want that solution to be forthat distraction for the day. Now.
For you, I probably shouldn't haveshared my answer, but for you these
are question to ask yourself. Butalso doctor will say, he said,
when creating the action in your meditation, it requires you to understand what to
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feel like it feels like to becalm. Go to the place that you
have felt calm in the past.Envision yourself there as you focus on breathing
without distract shifts. Okay, allright, listen, do this. We
gonna take a quick break and thenwe're gonna come back and we're gonna wrap
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it up, all right, ishagurtyGod is Namby Banks here on this season
and something podcast, and we'll beright back. Washington wells into two focuses
on healing. Always for me,if I look good, then I feel
good. If I feel good,then I share the good. If I
share the good, then I celebratethe good. If I celebrate the good,
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Love podcast, and today we're talkingabout understanding the affirmation. I practice mindful
meditation to myself in the present mo. And right now, let's talk about
applicable mindfulness. We'll see together.Let's practice and pay attention to our breathing
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in the places in our body towhere it is felt. You know a
lot of times when I talk aboutwhen we do in the beginning, when
we do our breathing exercise, andI said, breathe through the nose hold.
When you do that, I wantyou when you do that breathing and
you can feel your lungs and yourbody fill up. You know a moment,
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put your hand on your chest andfeel it, just feel it.
And then when you exhale, takeyour other hand and put it on your
belly. So take one hand andput it on your chest, your heart,
and put one hair on your belly, and then do a deep inhale
through your nose hold and I'll releasedo it again, breathing through your nose.
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Count four. Hold ex hell,now if you close your eyes and
you do that several different times,and just concentrate on your breathing. Nothing
else. Just concentrate on your breathingin and out. See, when you're
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able to do this, you're readyto bring your thoughts back to your breathing.
And it's easily to do when youstray when you're in that. You
know, when you're meditating and youknow your mind go off and you take
that deep breath and you bring itback in and now you can more concentrate
on your breathing. But also thecore of mindfulness meditation is the straightforce practice
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of coming back to the breath.Breath breathing exercise is so important. That
is the core, that is thefoundation there. So what I want to
do right now is I want toend this show with the guided meditation,
all right, just to send youalong your way to have a glorious weekend.
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Tomorrow, I have a few ofmy beautiful sister friends that I invited
to my home to do a beautiful, purposeful tea party and we're gonna have
a great time to celebrate each other, which is life, love and just
interacting between sisterhood. All right,and I just want to share this guided
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meditation. So if you can justfind a comfortable position and get ready for
this. Begin by finding a comfortableseated position or lying down, allowing your
body to relax and settle into astate of ease. Now, I want
you to close your eyes gently takea deep breath in, filling your lungs
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with fresh air. Now, asyou exhale, slowly release any tension or
stress that you may be holding ontoo. I want you to fill your
body, sinking deeper into relaxation witheach breath, letting go of the cares
of the day. Now, bringyour attention into the present moment, focusing
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on the cessation of your breath asit moves in and out of your body.
I want you to lead each inhell bring a sense of calm and
each exhale, release any worries ordestruction. And I want you to repeat
sidedly or out loud. I practicemindfulness meditation to anchor myself in the present
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moment, and I want you toallow these words to resonate within you,
guiding you towards your inner peace andtranquility. Now, I want you to
picture yourself surround us by a warmgolden light that radiates love and serenity.
I want you to fill this life, developing and filling you with the sense
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of security and comfort. And witheach breath, I want you to imagine
the light expanding within you, illuminatingevery corner of your being with this gentle
glow. Let it soothe your mind, body, and soul, and bringing
up a profound sense of relaxation.Now, I want you to savor this
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moment of stillness and inner peace,knowing that you are safe and supported,
to allow yourself to rest in thispeaceful state for a few more breaths,
basking in the tranquility of the presentmoment. Now, when you are ready,
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I want you to slowly begin tobring your awareness back to the room,
taking with you the feeling of thepeace and calm that you have cultivated.
Now, open your eyes gently andcarry this sense of mindfulness with you
into the weekend and allow it toguide you towards restfulness and rejuvenation. All
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right, well, welcome back.I hope that you enjoyed that two minutes
that too many. I hope thatyou enjoyed that guide in meditation. All
right, I truly truly do,and I thank you all for just joining
me today and I just hope thatyou truly enjoy your weekend. All right
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again, I am glad that youcould tune in today and with any luck,
I hope that this episode that encouragedyou to practice mindfulness on a regular
basis and to utilize it as atool to live more completely in the present.
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So practice often and never forget thatevery moment is a fresh start.
And I want you to remember tocheck back next week as we die more
into another facet of self love andjoin us on our social media to discuss
your journey and let's keep encouraging oneanother as we pursue self love and self
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discovery. So until then, Iwant you to remember to be gentle with
yourself and stay in and out.I have a good one. Thank you
for listening to the Season and SelfLove Podcast and we hope that you enjoyed
this fun field with inspiration and empowermentand self discovery. Remember, practicing self
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more exciting episodes and guests in thenext season, and remember you are worthy
of love, kindness, and allthe happiness in the world. So until
next time, take care of yourselfand spread love wherever you go. See you some
Welcome to the Season of Self Love, your daily dose of inspiration and encouragement.
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Tuning into the Season of Self Lovepodcast to start your day on a
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positive note and discover the limitless potentialwithin yourself. Frank and want to get
anything good Afternoon. Today is Friday, April twenty six, twenty twenty four,
and welcome back, my beautiful people, to the Citizing and Self Love
I am your host, Namibanks hereand today today we're going to explore the
power of mindfulness and how it helpsus on our path to live in completely
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in the present. So, withnature blossoming all around us in this lovely
month of April, now is theidea moment to use our affirmation and mindfulness
to blossom. But then so let'stake a quick break and then when we
come back, we're going to talkabout understanding the affirmation. I practice mindfulness
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meditation to anchor myself in the presentmoment. All right, it's you go
to you got its Nummy Banks hereon the season of Self Love podcast,
and we be right Hi. I'mdoctor William C. Washington, aka doctor
will your friendly neighborhood counselor. Oneof the biggest things that I want to
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tell you about is that I'm ahealth psychologist, a licensed professional clinical counselor
supervisor, an NDIMA assistant therapist,a KEDEMY assistant therapist, a psychedelic integration
prep specialist. I'm a researcher,a mentor, a supervisor, and also
an artist. One of the biggestthings about Washington's Institute is that I created
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this to modernize the way that welook into the world. And I hate
to say it, but we're finallygetting rid of the old ways of thinking.
I want to bring in the SilverAge of psychology. And to do
that, I've even created a modelcalled restorative Enhancement modality that focuses on motive
and purpose to make healing a lifestyle. I want to offer this to you.
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I'm on offer to the world andto anyone that's read. So if
you're ready, sign up today,be kind to yourself and He'll always I
remember. Welcome back as you goto God's number banks. You're on the
Season of Sufferer podcast, and todaywe're talking about understanding the affirmation. I
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practice mindfulness meditation to anchor myself inthe present moment. All right, So
before we get deep into this topic, let's begin with a nice little guided
meditation. All right? Are youall ready for this? All right?
Let's begin by finding a comfortable positionwith your back straight and your hands resting
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gently on your lu I want youto close your eyes and I want you
to take a deep breath in fillingyour lungs with air. Now as you
exhale slowly, I want you tofeel any tension of stress leaving your body,
and with each breath, allow yourselfto relax deeper into the present moment,
letting go of any distraction or thoughts. Now, I want you to
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bring you awareness to the sensation ofyour breath as it flows in and out
of your body. I want youto notice the rise and the fall of
your chest, and the coolness ofthe air as you inhale, and the
warmth of you ax heale. AndI want you to repeat gently or loudly
to yourself, I practice mindfulness andmeditation to anchor myself in the present moment.
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I want you to feel these wordsgrounding you in the hearing and now
fully embrace the beauty in the moment. I want you to allow any thoughts
that arise to simply drift you awaylike clouds in the sky, returning your
focus to the rhythm of your breath. Now, with each inhale and excel,
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I want you to feel yourself becomingmore anchored and centered in the present.
I want you to take a fewmore deep breaths, savoring the stillness
and the piece that comes from beingfully present. Now, when you are
ready, I want you to gentlyopen your eyes and I want you to
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carry this sense of mindfulness with youthroughout your day. All right, Well,
welcome back if you are new hereto the Season of selfalve podcast.
This is something that we do everyday Monday through Friday, to where we
center ourselves, get ourselves grounded beforewe go into the topic of hand and
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today our topic is understanding affirmation.The affirmation of I practice mindfulness and meditation
to anchor myself in the present moment. Yes, oh, this is right
here, this is what is needed, all right, all right, So
look, it's not just a technique. Mindfulness meditation is a way of being.
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So being firmly grounded in its presentis where life on falls and it's
very crucial. So the statement fortoday of I practice mindfulness meditation to anchor
myself in the present moment. Thisencourage us to welcome the present with open
hearts and arms. And why thisaffirmation is the truest of me because see,
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being a caregiver for a loved onewith Alzheimer's, you have to live
in the present moment because it canchange at any given time. So to
help me. I have to findways to ground myself right on the spot,
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and no lie, it can bevery, very challenging for me when
I truly realize it's the saying thatI say every morning, I thank you
for my yesterdays. I wait patientlyfor my tomorrows, but I'm going to
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live today. Today is going tobe my best day ever. And I
think sometimes we as human beings arehealthy human beings that we kind of take
this moment now, we take advantageof that. And when I look at
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my loved when and when I lookat my mother and for her, time
is time is not a regular thingfor her. Memory is not a regular
thing for her. So when Ihave those interactions with her, it's like
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she don't know about future or pastor how it revolves around what's happening today,
if that makes sense, because there'sa lot of confusion with that.
So for me, in being inthis moment with her, I can only
think about this moment and be mindfulin this moment, in this time.
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So with meditation and being mindful inthe present moment, that's all that I
can do at this right now.So by me sharing this affirmation with you
all is very telling on what mylife is today. It's very telling of
what my life is today. Thegood thing is that I'm able to wake
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up early early in the morning tobe able to record this podcast because I
don't know what that day might bea lot of days, we have very
great days, you know, towhere she remembers everything like boom boom boom.
But then there are days that thereare challenging to where she might not
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remember what I just told her fiveminutes ago or two minutes ago, that
she might not remember exactly what theylike. She might think it was last
week, or last month, oreven a few years back. You know
what came what made me appreciate moreon what's happening in the moment now.
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I had an incident earlier this week. It was it was so funny.
She was supposed to go to churchwith my sister, and she called my
sister several different times that morning tomake sure that what time she was supposed
to go, she was supposed togo, and then she felt like she
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was ill, so then she didn'twant to go, And then she called
my sister again and told her thatshe didn't want to go, that she
wasn't feeling well. But then whenI go, she said, no,
she's she's going to go. Soshe was going back and forth with that,
and I was like, wow,this was another situation. So let
me tell you about this one.We were going walking and she had said
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she didn't feel like going walking.So you can't really force them to do
anything. You know, you canask them and see if they want to
you. I'd be very patient whenyou when you're speaking and you're talking with
them, and I remember her saying, no, I don't want to go.
She said, I don't feel likegoing out. You know, I'll
go tomorrow, promise. And Iwas like okay. And so I go
to get my daughter ready because Iwhen I drop her off, then I
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go walking in the park and soas you know we're getting ready, we're
moving. As we're going, Ihear, you know, somebody running down
the stairs like you're gonna leave me? Mind you. She had said she
didn't want to go, But whatI forgot to tell you, she said
it several times that she wasn't goingto go. She wasn't going to go.
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So in that moment, I hadto realize that, Okay, that's
what this is going to be.I have to understand that I have to
be patient with this. I haveto understand that I cannot think about future
what's happening, and I cannot thinkabout what's passed that's happening. I have
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to think about with her right here, in this moment, because right now,
this is what she remembers. SoI have to have empathy and I
have to show compassion in that moment. So for me to do that successfully,
I have to be in a presentmoment. I have to be mindful.
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So when I say, when Iconstantly say about this podcast and self
love and me doing the research forthe different topics that come here, that's
helping me, it's truly helping me. Is truly helping me, all right.
So now we're going to talk aboutexamining the verdict. So we need
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to acknowledge the significance influence that mindfulnessmeditation has on our lives in order to
fully comprehend this assertion. So aslessons the tension and enhances the focus,
and it fosters a deep sense ofcalm within us, we become emotional and
psychological present in addition to being physicallypresent when we practice mindfulness. And one
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thing that I do is I takea few slow, deep breaths, and
I visualize that beautiful person in frontof me speaking of my mother as in
living in the moment now, andI think of making her feel safe.
I think of making her feel safeand comfortable. Help grounds me so I
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no longer want to be combatible orfiguring who's going to be right or wrong
in that moment at that time,my groundness for her is my vision of
thinking looking at her and saying,this beautiful person right here, I have
to make sure that she feels safewith me. I have to make sure
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that she feels comfortable with me.So when I take that deep breath and
in my head, I am countingbackwards from ten to one, and in
that from that ten to one,I am being in this moment now that
I forget all of my past,which just happened five minutes ago, two
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minutes ago, thirty years ago,and I don't think about what's going to
happen in the next two to threeminutes. I think about what our question
of what I focus is right now? What was her question? Answered the
question? In this moment, remindmyself not to say do you remember?
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So for me, This is aconstant practice that I have to do,
and I have to do it ona spot so until I'm learning more ways
to do it and I'm searching formore ways to be able to really do
it to where this can be secondnature for me, but also my empathy
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and my compassion. It truly comesforward as I talk about it. I
talked about it on Monday Show aboutusing our values intentionally for our growth.
We're dealing with my mom is love, it's empathy, it's compassion, it's
family, it's my integrity. It'sinspiring because as I sit here and I
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stand here with her and we speaking, were talking, and were in this
conversation that might be so confusing toher, and that can I be honest,
it's very inspiring to watch her tryto figure it out. Yeah,
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And what it does for me,it inspires me more to truly live in
my purpose. Inspire me more tofind different topics and conversations and you know
that I can be able to shareon this platform as well as my other
platforms. It inspired me to lookmore deeper into dimension and and Alzheimer's and
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how we can reverse it, wecan slow it down or whatever, you
know, whether it be through youknow, a different form of lifestyle of
eating this mindful meditation as well.And I'm smiling because I'm smiling because when
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we came from the doctor a fewweeks ago, and I was speaking with
her doctor about some of the thingsthat I do with meditation and stuff like
that, and the doctor had inteltold her this is something that you should,
you know, do it with yourdaughter, you know, do that
with her that you guys can dotogether. And I remember being in a
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car and she looked over to meand she said, could you show me
how to do the mindful meditation?How I can do that? And I
remember in that moment, and I'mjust being honest, checking myself saying because
I was ready to say so,I'm really sarcastic and smart, because that's
that's our love lengthuage and saying thingsto each other, sarcastic and smart.
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But at that moment, no,I did not. I just said,
you know, as long as thisyou're willing to learn, my mama,
I'm willing to teach you. Ijust pray for my patients and I pray
for your patients patients as we gothrough this journey. And so by me
sharing this with you, and thisthis affirmation, this is this is genuinely
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a part of my life. Istruly what I say when I when I
come on on this platform is thatI'm I'm speaking every part of my life.
I was very excited to use affirmationsthis month with each one of our
shows, and I think we onlygot a few more shows to go in
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this month of April, but Itruly thought that it was truly necessary to
be able to break them down.And honestly, I want to know you,
you all your you all feedback fromit, and how did you enjoy
this series of affirmation on how webroke it down? Please share that with
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an email us and let me knowwhat's your thoughts. You know, because
for me, I do practice mindfulnessmetitation. I do practice it, and
I am researching and looking for otherways that can truly, you know,
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enhance my ability to be able tobe in a moment right then, right
on the spot, because you know, when when life be life and and
and moments be momenting, that ain'teven a word, but I'm just gonna
create one. You know, sometimeswe cannot control on how on how we
react, and so I've been veryaware of how I'm going to respond,
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and so I be in a moment. I stay in a moment, and
sometimes when I'm talking to her,I'll be there with my eyes closed,
and she said, did I dosomething wrong? I'm like, no,
I'm just taking a moment. I'mjust taking a quick moment right now.
Taking a quick moment right now,and gather my senses, gather my words,
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gather my thoughts, and I thinkabout how my words can land.
I think about how my words canmake her feel. And so I'm very
mindful of how I say things andwhen I'm speaking with her. All right,
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all right, so let's take aquick break and we come back,
and we're gonna dive a little bittledeeper into this topic. All right,
ishugurt, you gotta Sammy Banks hereor the Season of Self Love podcast,
and we will be right back.Welcome to the Season of Self Love Podcast
with Naomi Banks, where every dayis a chance to embrace self discovery and
personal growth. Join Naomi on atransformative journey streaming exclusively on Spotify and Breaker
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end uplifting stories from thought leaders inthe field. Embark on a journey
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Get inspired and join Naomi Banks onthe Season of Self Love podcast.
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All right, well, welcome backto your goody gouttes is me Banks.
You own the Season and Self Lovepodcast, and today we're talking about understanding
the affirmation I practice mindfulness meditation tomyself in the present moment, and then
the previous segment I share with youon how I use it to my daily
life and how this has helped meto, you know, to kind of
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maneuver my emotions and my feelings aroundand even interacting with my mother who is
now diagnosed with outside of the dimensionand I am her caregiver for that,
and so it's been able to helpme but not only be impatient with her
as well as myself, but alsoto truly live in a moment, to
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truly look at this situation and understandthat I have to be in the moment.
I have to think about now.I have to think about now,
all right. So the path ofself love, So the flowering and the
blooming topic of April is a metaphorfor our own personal development. So through
mindfulness we can open up to newpossibilities. So just as flowers open up
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to the sun, right, soby enabling us to accept ourselves exactly as
we are wherever we are, itfosters our love of ourselves. You see,
I truly understand why I'm where Iam in my life right now.
So without my journey in life,I might not be prepared as I am
of the things that is happening inmy life and in my mother's life.
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So in saying that, is thatI under truly understand what my life is
and why it is like it is, and I accept it, I embrace
it all and I can laugh.Like I said, I had an AHA
moment earlier this week writing out thiswhole entire show and just those words,
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is that I understand now where I'mat at this moment. At this time
and understand why. I understand whyit was brought to my heart to do
the Season of Self Love because Iknew with the Season and Self Love,
it helped me to go deeper intomy healing process. Yes, would it
also show in the Season and SelfLove. It also showed me about patience,
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about understanding, about empathy, aboutcompassion, about living in a moment.
It helped to strengthen my meditation andbe mindful of my meditation. It
also helped me to understand that everythingthat I've been through before that I can
use those as tools right now,that I use them as tools right now.
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And so I spoke about this theother day with doctor Will about having
this ah aha moment and it ittruly is it, It truly is m
And I I was gonna start onmy YouTube channel on Naomi's World, and
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I haven't quite did it yet.I've done an outline for it. I've
I did an outline for it,and I've done a little you know,
different segments of certain things that Iwas gonna create. It's called Living through
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Dimension and it was going to befrom my personal my point of view of
living through the dimension. While mymother is living with dimension, and my
idea was to show you know,me giving a testimony or how I feel
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real, raw and uncut. Butalso in the researching of the thing of
you know, certain things so youknow, my mother and I can have
a better communication relationship as well asto help her to have a better communication
and relationship with people outside of myown to what she can be feel comfortable
when she walks outside of these thesethis door in my home, you know,
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and possibly could find a reversal ofit. It's so many things that
I am looking for. With doingthat, but also with creating the at
is that that I can either createa community or connect with the community where
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we can combine our we can comein connection with each other and create something
great for caregivers. That's about thisor as well as the patients in another
form. So I truly feel thatthat's another part of my purpose is that
you know, really my purpose isserving others. I truly believe is that
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my testimony in life is just apure servant for others to see life for
what it is. I have somany ups, amazing ups, and I
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have some downs. And even thoughpeople might look at this as a down,
I don't see it exactly like that. I'm looking at it from a
different perspective, and I'm looking atit from a blessing. But not only
that, but I'm also trying toshow others on why this is a blessing.
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And one reason why I know thatit's a blessing because I'm able to
sit here and be able to speakto you all in this manner and you
can understand it. It might besomebody right now that's listening to me.
I have a loved one of motheror father, a husband or a wife
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that can relate to what I'm speakingof and maybe not even thought about.
Using mindful meditation, and take yourmoment in time to where you find that
quiet spot or that place to whereyou able to just be in that moment
right now, to where you canlook at that loved one of yours and
say, you know, I understand, I understand. I'm right here with
you. I'm not behind you,I'm not forward, but I'm right here
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with you. So in this moment, in this time, wherever year it
is, I'm with you right herein this time. And with mindful meditation,
it has helped me to be moreaware of that. It helped me
to be more connected with that.Now. I'm not gonna say that I'm
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perfect in it, because I'm not. It's days that I have my moments
where I have to go out tomy garden when I do feel overwhelmed.
But at least I know how toget myself and make myself backgrounded. If
you would have told me this yearsago, I wouldn't have never thunk it.
M I wouldn't have never thunk it. But I'm truly happy for this,
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truly understand what this is. Ido, I do, I truly
do all right. So guess whatwe got our segment back here as a
text from doctor Will. And Iwant to welcome back this special segment a
text from doctor Will. And althoughdoctor Will couldn't be here with us in
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person today, we are so fortunateto have this inspiring message to guide us
through some introspective questions. And Iinvite you, the listeners, to engage
in this therapy session by reflecting onthese questions along with me. And so
earlier this week I said, Doctorwell, I know you're not going to
be here with me on Friday,but this is the topic that we're talking
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about, and this is the affirmation, and this is what he sent me.
He said, when it comes tomindfulness, ask yourself these simple questions.
All right, as doctor Will willsay, get your purple purpose pen
and purpose paper to get for thesethree questions when it comes down to practicing
mindful meditation, all right. Numberone, how do you make a routine
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for my piece? This is aquestion that you should ask yourself. How
do you make a routine for yourpiece? So it will say, how
do I make a routine for mypiece? Okay, so let me answer
this now. I'm like, I'mlaying down on doctor Will. For me,
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it's been hard to have a routine. But remember earlier. What I
say is that in that moment,at that time, I take a deep
breath and I count back from tento one. I count back from ten
to one, And even when Iwake up in the morning, that is
my moment. What I can Ican do it. I do it when
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I when I can, I cando it. I do it. In
the middle of the day, Ido it. Yeah. The next question,
what are you doing confidently to buildyour meditation muscle? What are you
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doing confidently to build your meditation muscle? Ooh, that's a good one,
doctor, will I will have tocome back to that one. What are
you doing confidently to build your meditationmuscles? You know? For me,
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I just say consistency. Yeah,really really And if you and let me
say, if you are new tomeditation, you don't have to do you
know, ten twenty thirty minutes.You can start off by even starting with
breathing exercises, you know, anice minute breathing or a two minute breathing
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exercise, and then you know,gradually build from there. Yeah. And
then number three, did you writedown your distractions when you were meditating?
And when do you start creating solutionto those distractions through your day? So
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the other day I talked about thisa little bit because I talked about journaling
and I talked about when I'm induring my meditation in the mornings, that
is what I do. When Ifinished meditating, I usually put down what
my thoughts was during that moment atthat time, especially if I went through
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a visualization, you know type ofthing, and I'm writing it down.
And he said, and when doyou start creating solutions? For me?
I start creating solutions as I amwriting down whatever that distraction was or whatever
it is I'm writing it down rightthere, what that solution is or what
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I want that solution to be forthat distraction for the day. Now.
For you, I probably shouldn't haveshared my answer, but for you these
are question to ask yourself. Butalso doctor will say, he said,
when creating the action in your meditation, it requires you to understand what to
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feel like it feels like to becalm. Go to the place that you
have felt calm in the past.Envision yourself there as you focus on breathing
without distract shifts. Okay, allright, listen, do this. We
gonna take a quick break and thenwe're gonna come back and we're gonna wrap
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it up, all right, ishagurtyGod is Namby Banks here on this season
and something podcast, and we'll beright back. Washington wells into two focuses
on healing. Always for me,if I look good, then I feel
good. If I feel good,then I share the good. If I
share the good, then I celebratethe good. If I celebrate the good,
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then I live the good. SoI can be paid to be my
greatest. But I have to learnthe good to be the good. So
what does it take to be thegreatest. It's as simple as a free
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Love podcast, and today we're talkingabout understanding the affirmation. I practice mindful
meditation to myself in the present mo. And right now, let's talk about
applicable mindfulness. We'll see together.Let's practice and pay attention to our breathing
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in the places in our body towhere it is felt. You know a
lot of times when I talk aboutwhen we do in the beginning, when
we do our breathing exercise, andI said, breathe through the nose hold.
When you do that, I wantyou when you do that breathing and
you can feel your lungs and yourbody fill up. You know a moment,
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put your hand on your chest andfeel it, just feel it.
And then when you exhale, takeyour other hand and put it on your
belly. So take one hand andput it on your chest, your heart,
and put one hair on your belly, and then do a deep inhale
through your nose hold and I'll releasedo it again, breathing through your nose.
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Count four. Hold ex hell,now if you close your eyes and
you do that several different times,and just concentrate on your breathing. Nothing
else. Just concentrate on your breathingin and out. See, when you're
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able to do this, you're readyto bring your thoughts back to your breathing.
And it's easily to do when youstray when you're in that. You
know, when you're meditating and youknow your mind go off and you take
that deep breath and you bring itback in and now you can more concentrate
on your breathing. But also thecore of mindfulness meditation is the straightforce practice
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of coming back to the breath.Breath breathing exercise is so important. That
is the core, that is thefoundation there. So what I want to
do right now is I want toend this show with the guided meditation,
all right, just to send youalong your way to have a glorious weekend.
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Tomorrow, I have a few ofmy beautiful sister friends that I invited
to my home to do a beautiful, purposeful tea party and we're gonna have
a great time to celebrate each other, which is life, love and just
interacting between sisterhood. All right,and I just want to share this guided
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meditation. So if you can justfind a comfortable position and get ready for
this. Begin by finding a comfortableseated position or lying down, allowing your
body to relax and settle into astate of ease. Now, I want
you to close your eyes gently takea deep breath in, filling your lungs
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with fresh air. Now, asyou exhale, slowly release any tension or
stress that you may be holding ontoo. I want you to fill your
body, sinking deeper into relaxation witheach breath, letting go of the cares
of the day. Now, bringyour attention into the present moment, focusing
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on the cessation of your breath asit moves in and out of your body.
I want you to lead each inhell bring a sense of calm and
each exhale, release any worries ordestruction. And I want you to repeat
sidedly or out loud. I practicemindfulness meditation to anchor myself in the present
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moment, and I want you toallow these words to resonate within you,
guiding you towards your inner peace andtranquility. Now, I want you to
picture yourself surround us by a warmgolden light that radiates love and serenity.
I want you to fill this life, developing and filling you with the sense
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of security and comfort. And witheach breath, I want you to imagine
the light expanding within you, illuminatingevery corner of your being with this gentle
glow. Let it soothe your mind, body, and soul, and bringing
up a profound sense of relaxation.Now, I want you to savor this
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moment of stillness and inner peace,knowing that you are safe and supported,
to allow yourself to rest in thispeaceful state for a few more breaths,
basking in the tranquility of the presentmoment. Now, when you are ready,
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I want you to slowly begin tobring your awareness back to the room,
taking with you the feeling of thepeace and calm that you have cultivated.
Now, open your eyes gently andcarry this sense of mindfulness with you
into the weekend and allow it toguide you towards restfulness and rejuvenation. All
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right, well, welcome back.I hope that you enjoyed that two minutes
that too many. I hope thatyou enjoyed that guide in meditation. All
right, I truly truly do,and I thank you all for just joining
me today and I just hope thatyou truly enjoy your weekend. All right
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again, I am glad that youcould tune in today and with any luck,
I hope that this episode that encouragedyou to practice mindfulness on a regular
basis and to utilize it as atool to live more completely in the present.
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So practice often and never forget thatevery moment is a fresh start.
And I want you to remember tocheck back next week as we die more
into another facet of self love andjoin us on our social media to discuss
your journey and let's keep encouraging oneanother as we pursue self love and self
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discovery. So until then, Iwant you to remember to be gentle with
yourself and stay in and out.I have a good one. Thank you
for listening to the Season and SelfLove Podcast and we hope that you enjoyed
this fun field with inspiration and empowermentand self discovery. Remember, practicing self
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love is a journey and not adestination. For more information and to stay
connected with us, visit our websiteat the Season of Self Love podcast dot
com and if you have any suggestions, or questions or feedback. Feel free
to shoot us an email at Seasonof Self Love at gmail dot com and
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tips, motivation, and community support. So join our Facebook group the
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discovery and self compassion. Thank youagain for being a part of our community
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and dedicating to nurturing self love andembracing self worth. So stay tuned for
more exciting episodes and guests in thenext season, and remember you are worthy
of love, kindness, and allthe happiness in the world. So until
next time, take care of yourselfand spread love wherever you go. See you some
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