Past Musings, Feeling Grounded & Groovy S1 E4
Past Musings, Feeling Grounded & Groovy S1 E4
In this episode, I mention a story about the phrase, "All's right in my world." I never shared it, so I'll take the opportunity to share it now.
This was with my mother. I really do not talk about my mother much. Not that she was not an important part of my life or that I do not love her, it's complicated.
There was a weekend that I spent with her that we went out and explored the market place along the river. It was beautiful and I was blessed to grow up in an artistic and creative city. That being said, it seemed that there was something in the air that day. We hit one obstacle after another. My mom all throughout it said," All's right in my world!"
At the very end of the day, because I hadn't really been affected by these "obstacles" but found it humorous that my mother was saying this all throughout the day, I asked her why she had been saying this all day. She said it was because she didn't want me to get upset or angry from the little hang ups that we kept encountering. She found it funny that I didn't even pick up on the fact of why she was saying, "All's right in my world!"
A lesson that has stayed with me throughout the years. And when I follow it, ALL, truly is alright in my world!
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Welcome to the Wandering Musings of AJ and A-Rae!
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Two Mama's After Dark!
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Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
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Hey everyone! Welcome to our Feeling Grounded and Groovy episode.
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How are you doing this week?
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I'm good! I picked a whole bunch of grapes before the frost started.
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Before the bad weather started setting in?
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Yes, there you go.
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Before that storm came.
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There was Wednesday?
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Yes.
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I only got halfway through, which I'm really glad that I did because the next day, right after it was frosted and especially the following day, I was like, oh those grapes are gone.
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You got a lot of grapes.
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I do.
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I got two, I think they're ten gallon buckets.
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We'll go with that.
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Two of those full and half, more of the purple grapes.
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There's a myriad, they're not just one type of grape and then one full one of the white grapes.
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What's your plan with them right now?
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Right now to finish getting them cleaned up because that's a process. Making sure they're cleaned before I freeze them.
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No bugs.
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No bugs!
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But freeze them and then when I have a moment, I can juice them and then I want to make wine and jellies from them, but we'll see what happens.
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Sounds fun.
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Yeah.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah, how about you? How are you doing?
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Good. I'm a little tired, but it's a good tired. I did a big thing yesterday. I bought a new car. Spent all day at the dealership.
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And it's pretty.
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I did a big, impulsive thing. Well, it wasn't super impulsive. I've been thinking about it for a little bit, but I was a big kid yesterday.
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It has a sunroof.
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It has a sunroof. It's a brand new, brand new car.
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And it's pretty color on the inside. Two tone color.
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Yes, it's like dream car type colors. Yeah, brand new. It's 2024 car.
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So I feel like a very big kid accomplished. I made it in life.
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Good job.
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Yes.
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And what are you drinkin'?
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So I'm celebrating by being healthy.
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That clock is chiming in celebration with us.
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Yay! Yeah, we'll hear the clock every once in a while.
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I am celebrating with a healthy smoothie. It's a, okay, so I like my smoothies with, and my smoothies and my milkshakes this way with peanut butter and chocolate.
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Oh, yes, I know. So I used to work for Jamba Juice. Well, I worked for Zuka Juice before it became Jamba Juice.
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And there was a drink that… Anyways, long story short. I can't remember what it's called. The one with chocolate peanut butter.
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Oh, the peanut butter mood. That one. Yeah. Yeah.
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So I, whenever I make smoothies at home or if I buy them, it's always peanut butter, chocolate protein powder, and then, what else, is in it?
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That's pretty much the basics. That's what this one is.
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Do you put banana in it?
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Yes. Yeah, banana, chocolate, protein powder, and then, I feel like there's something else.
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So, uh, vanilla yogurt, vanilla, Greek yogurt. Greek yogurt. It's always good.
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Yep. And then, this one doesn't have it, but sometimes I will add frozen fruit in it.
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And like a berry mix. Yeah.
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Some people don't like that with chocolate protein powder, but it's actually really good.
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Well, it's just chocolate covered fruit. I know. Yeah, that's what I am drinking today. It's celebration. I'm being healthy.
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I celebrate with you, but it's not my normal smoothie. I just, I put fruit, frozen fruit, and milk together, and now it's like an ice cream cone, but it's huge.
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It is huge. It's like a full size, maybe 32 ounce. So if you hear me like eating, it's because it's yummy.
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Don't think you're going to finish that. Probably not.
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This is going to be like three meals for you. There's no way that's a 32 ounce.
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It's fine. 64 ounce, maybe? I don't know. It's huge. 42 at least 40.
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Yeah, I was going to say it's not 64, but anyways.
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We're being healthy today. Normally I get spinach lettuce and I put that in and then I do the Greek yogurt, like you're saying and a banana and then the frozen fruit.
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And that just seems like a lot of work today.
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Do you ever just put the greens powder in? I know some people do that.
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I did. I used to have like the matcha tea powder that I put in there. It doesn't taste quite the same. I don't dislike it. I don't love it.
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That's fair. I think I just got so used to it with the spinach leaves. I just throw that in there.
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Yeah, I love spinach leaves in my smoothies. That's another thing I used to do with chocolate protein powder.
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But not like the, you have to get the... That's really good. You have to use like the, not the big spinach leaves. I like the smaller ones.
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The baby spinach? Yeah, the baby spinach. And I don't put kale in it. I'm not a fan of kale.
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You just don't like kale. Okay, got it.
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When I started, so before the wind blew all of my seeds down last spring, I had kale that I had planted so that I could feed it to my chickens. That's how much I like kale.
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But anyways, I digress. I digress. So what quote do you have for us today?
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Okay, so the quote today that I chose is by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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It's without ambition, one starts nothing without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You will have to win it.
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And I just like this because it speaks to me, especially right now when we are talking about, because we have a few episodes where we're talking about being motivated to do things.
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And sometimes I don't have ambition or motivation to start things or finish things because we sidetracked. You know how that is.
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You have to have ambition and you have to work at things. And I just, nothing is handed to you in life.
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not even being born into the world, you went through a process. Not that you even remember though, yeah, I mean, you don't remember, but
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I just think that you, a lot of people, I see this mentality in people, even people in my life, that they think that things are handed to them.
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And owed to them.
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And they're not going to go out and get it unless it's handed to them. And I just think that we have to remember that you can't start something without ambition. You can't finish it without working for it.
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And I just thought that that was a really good quote to remember.
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And in case you were like me and missed who it was by, it's Ralph Waldo Emerson, because I was like, who's it by?
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I'm sorry. Yes, I did say that at the beginning. I think you did. I know you would have. I'm sure you did, but I just missed it. So I was like, I'm going to say it just in case somebody missed it like I did and I'm in the same room.
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I'll just throw it out there again.
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But did you have any other "sharings" that you wanted to mention?
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No, I think, I think that pretty much sums up my week.
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Those are my thoughts, how about you?
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I mean, that's a really good reminder, though, to like, remember not everything's going to be handed. You have to work for it. Sometimes you have to work really hard.
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But I noticed that in my life, the things that you work hardest for are the things that you appreciate the most, maybe not going through the process, but like you, you learn a lot more from and they become your golden moments and excuse our children and dogs upstairs.
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They're a little odd today.
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But yeah, I have a few things.
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First off, we have for November, another full moon, because it happens every, every month.
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And that's going to be on November 27th at 416 in the morning. So this time, get up early-early, I guess.
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I will not be seeing that.
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It'll be pretty much full the night before. So I think you'll be fine.
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So that's the full beaver moon, but I'll talk more about it next episode.
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And then, um, this is all from the farmers.
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Do they all have names, funny names like that?
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Yes.
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Yes, I'd never, I never knew that. I was like, yes, and I will get into it in the next episode.
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Why it's like that. But yeah, they all do, like this last one in October was the hunter's moon. This one's going to be the beaver moon. There's a reason there's a rhyme.
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Although to us, it doesn't make sense.
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And then November 12th through the 14th is when it's going to be prominent to view this.
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It is the annual meteor shower for the North Torrid meteors. And I did look up a little bit about that. Let me pull it up real quick here.
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The Northern Torrid meteor shower will be active. It's actually from October 20th, which has passed to December 10th.
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But the peak is like I said, around the 12th of November.
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Over this period, there will be a chance of seeing Northern Torrid meteors whenever the showers radiant point is in the constellation Taurus.
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So you have to find that. And that is when it's above the horizon.
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Yeah, for more information, if you would like to look it up is at in dash the dash sky org forward slash news and then you can just find it in that little article.
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And then the moon on this episode November 7th is going to be in Taurus.
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And then your sun sign just to kind of go over like the natal chart really quickly. Your sun sign is what most people know as their horoscope right.
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It tells your traits and your characteristics, your moon sign is your inner self your private self, who you are the core right.
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And then your rise is what you show people in social circumstances is your social self.
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For the moon to be in Taurus, it will give you the opportunity to harness the heavens, unlock your potential, slow down and take life steady.
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It's a time for restfulness and to kind of pause and reconnect with your basic self and senses.
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Just reminder not to get stuck in that rut.
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You know, you say you do have to move forward and that is from the which is complete guide to astrology.
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And I forgot to put down the author so I will do that and let you guys know at a different time, if you are interested.
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I think that ties in really you did this on purpose I'm sure.
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I didn't. I really didn't. It ties in really well with what we were going to talk about today because it is telling us to slow down and but not slow down too much so that we get stuck because I think we have a tendency at least for me personally we have a tendency to take a step back, slow down and be like I'm too overwhelmed or I'm overworked let's you know and then you do nothing and you get in the habit of doing nothing and then
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you can't get yourself out of that rut I guess you could say but I mean we're going to talk about meditation and mindfulness today and grounding yourself and the benefits of it on your mental health and physical health.
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That's kind of perfect. Well and I think your quote also ties into that because which I didn't do on purpose either I just really liked it I have the quotes of the day that pop up for me when I'm on my computer and that was pretty okay.
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That's cool though because it does remind you that there's a balance you can't overwork and get everything done, which is what I try to do, and you can't underwork and do nothing because you're exhausted and whatnot and stay in that state and actually progress you have to find that
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balance and I think that's what life is, it's just finding that balance on a day to day with also all the things that we have going on still make, making our deadlines still living in a fast paced world, which I wish would slow down a little bit.
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And yeah.
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So I think that really ties in quite well. Yeah, we'll just jump right in. Let's dive in. Let's dive in.
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Okay, let me start. Okay. So we thought it'd be really cool to, talk about meditation and mindfulness and the benefits for because there's benefits for mental and physical health, which I don't think people talk about them physical
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benefits that often because you don't think about them. I would even further and say that they're spiritual. Oh yeah.
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Emotional and mental. I think they're slightly different, but they're also, people realize that there is a difference between mental, spiritual, emotional. They're all tied together. Yeah, absolutely. But I don't think people really take the time to realize that.
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Yeah, it's just like your arms, right? You have two arms or you have legs. Everything's connected. They'll work together. But without one, it's slightly different. Yeah.
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So when I was researching some of the benefits of meditation, there's emotional and like I said, emotional physical benefits.
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They can include, the benefits can include you can gain a new perspective on stressful situations when you take that step back.
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And you view the situation as a whole. And you're like, Oh, okay.
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Which I can understand, especially, so I still work in a traditional job. You work in, I don't want to say a non-traditional because when I say traditional, I mean, nine… you're employed. Yeah, I'm a nine to five type of job.
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Yeah, employed, bring home a, you have a paycheck for your time. Yes. Yeah, you are employed in the sense that you have.
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Your job right now is to you're a chauffeur for your kids. Yeah, you have your farm.
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Full time mom, full time mini farm owner, you're a full time wife, trying to be an entrepreneur, you're kind of doing a lot of things. Yeah, and you might not see, you know, a typical paycheck for those types of things, but your job is to support.
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You don't see any paycheck right now. But those two jobs in and of themselves are stressful. Yes, in very different ways. Absolutely.
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And being a person that came from a full time job right. Yes, I worked. And have worked since I was 14 to 15 years old, up until 2022, which I'll get into the next episode.
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And we both worked in the same field. We did. We did.
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And I always thought, oh, when this one this full time job is gone, I'm going to have so much more time to focus on.
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You're more busy now. I swear. Yeah, just like I have found that I am even more busy. And then I think, how did I do this?
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You think maybe time management, not time management. I don't want to say time management because you really do manage your time very well. But I think it's a different time management because when you work, you know, okay, I'll be home at 530-ish, you know, give or take.
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And then, this, this, this, this, this. And now it's, you don't have that time constraints. Okay, this is what I need done this week. And this is what I need done today and this is where I have to go.
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But we'll get into that.
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But my point was, you know, you have stressful, stressful situations and like work and things like that. And when you can take time to meditate.
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It gives you a new perspective. Yeah, and things and doesn't have to be meditated, when, when I say meditate, I don't mean
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like Buddha, you know, kind of meditating. It can be a religious thing. Like Buddhism, Islam, big Hinduism, in Christianity, there's even meditation.
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Yeah, sitting there on the floor or praying, same idea. Yeah, eyes closed.
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Doing the same old thing.
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Sometimes that feels really cool.
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I don't know if we could do that at work every day.
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No, but just.
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But it could help you know, gain a new side of me is like, yes, this would be great.
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So that's one benefit.
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You can build new skills to manage your stress.
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You can increase your self-awareness helps you focus on present it centers you it brings you to the right here right now. Yeah.
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It reduces your negative emotions.
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It increases your imagination and creativity.
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Which do you see that in your art. Yes.
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But sometimes I use it as my meditation from work, because, or even if I'm, you know, stopping to sing or, or play my instrument, those are art forms as well.
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It brings you more centered, or focused because if I'm having a bad day and I just need to stop, sitting down and pushing everything out of my mind and focusing on that, which is what meditation is right.
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It's, it's taking a singular focus on something honing in on it and letting everything else drop and having that control to do it but it just also reset and centers and makes you more grounded like we said, and
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able to like focus on if you're drawing or whatever focus on the beauties of just what a line does or a shade does the difference it makes to a whole picture.
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Or if you're playing an instrument, you know, focusing on that and that language and letting all the other senses just kind of relax and, and for all of those things you're also getting in touch with your
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breathing because you're slowing down right because you're focusing on just those things, you're not, you're, you're not accelerating in your, in your breath intake, you're, you're bringing it down to baseline.
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And that also helps like with the meditation process and relaxing your body.
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Yeah, I can definitely see that. Yeah.
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It can also increases your patience and your tolerance, which I need help on.
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I, for me, I never thought of this as meditation, but now that we're talking I'm realizing that this is my meditation.
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I'm going for walks. I have a demo on my list without music, without music? do it with music. Sure. But when I am very frustrated or stressed, I will go for a walk.
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A brisk walk without music.
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And I come back and I have more patience
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I'm mostly from my child is usually when I'm frustrated with my child, but I'm going to one up and say you can even do that as your meditation break for when you're at work because then you're getting your physical activity.
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Oh, you're moving your body from actually sitting for so long. If you're sitting in a job right. Yeah.
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And also it lets your brain stop on whatever problem that you were working through before going on your break and focusing on resetting and I have, a I'm blessed to have a wonderful boss who encourages that she encourages all of us to go on breaks, take your lunches, take your breaks.
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And he said, you know, this year she was all about mental health. And, you know, if we need to go take a break or take a walk.
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It helps your productivity helps your alertness and your motivation to continue to work you're not feeling like you're overwhelmed you're not feeling burnt out as much.
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And I was like, I'm just going to take a break for a few moments. And after, you know, I think it was a few months back, I was going through a lot and she's like, you know, you should go on walks after work, you know, let's do it.
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You know, until it snows.
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Yes.
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Sorry, I'm like, negative Nancy right now.
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I mean, that's what indoor treadmills are for. There's outdoor treadmills, but you know what I mean. I like ellipticals better. You know what I mean, treadmills. I like treadmills more than I like ellipticals.
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I really got into like the rowing machine the last time I was on a kick for stuff like that.
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An exercise kick.
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I have an elliptical.
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Anyways, that's a different time.
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Different time.
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There is a benefit for me just it helps.
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Again, ground me.
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I come back with more patience. Yeah, tolerance. Yeah.
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In general. Yeah.
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And meditation in whatever form we choose.
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It also benefits us physically by lowering our resting heart rates.
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And lowers our resting blood pressure and improves our sleep quality, which I didn't think about, but that makes sense. Yeah, because we're clearing our mind.
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Well, it's a reset for your mind and it's a reset for your body. Yeah, because you're bringing all those things down. Yes. And then I also put down that it, like we said, grounds and produces a… It helps me be kinder.
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Because, because, you're taking care of yourself. Well that too.
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You're not caught up in the like the chaos of whatever right you had a moment to take peace.
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And then I already said here more alert and attentive after it but I did want to put a quote that I found in a book that I have that have had since 2012 actually.
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I was like, Oh, I knew I liked this book. I was reintroduced to it after this topic, but it's a complete guide to yoga Pilates meditation is stress relief.
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Okay, was put out by Paragon Publishing. It doesn't actually have like an actual author listed, which is weird.
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But is it like one of those collection books and that's why they don't have an author? I think so. I think so. It's really interesting.
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It's great to have it like how everything kind of ties together. But the quote that I wanted to bring up it brings like a scientific kind of thing to it as well.
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Like why it works not just because this is like what we have noticed or whatnot.
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But meditation helps us to restore balance between the left and right sides of the brain. The left side of the brain deals with thinking, speaking and writing.
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When we are awake and in a busy thinking state of mind, the brain emits faster electrical patterns called beta waves.
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In this state, we are able to rationalize and think about the past and the future. The right side of the brain deals with intuition, imagination and feeling.
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When we are sensing something, such as listening to music and we are in a receptive rather than active state, the brain emits slower electrical patterns called alpha waves.
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In the alpha state, we are more passive and open to our feelings. The alpha state is more most likely to happen when we live in the present rather than in the future or the past.
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It often happens just before or after sleep, but not during sleep when we are sleeping the brain emits other waves called theta and delta.
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When we are awake, we are usually in beta most of the time and spend only about an hour in the alpha state.
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Meditation helps to restore the balance by increasing our time spent in alpha. It helps us to recover feeling and to experience the world directly in the present before the sensations become interrupted by the left side.
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Sometimes it's nice to just take all of the definitions that we've been talking about and have it go into a simple format. This is what's happening and this is why it works so well.
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It's because our bodies are able to do all of that chemistry science stuff and we feel calmer, we feel more alert and attentive and relaxed.
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Did you know that it can help manage conditions and symptoms of anxiety, asthma, cancer, depression, chronic pain, heart disease, and IBS?
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I did know that. I used to have, I still do a little bit, but I don't get panic attacks anymore, but I used to get panic attacks. I had high anxiety levels, depression, and you know that.
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And that's when I started to learn that meditation was very imperative for me. I don't like to do all the, and I'm not putting down, if you need medication, you get medication.
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Like if I have, if I need an antibacterial, I will go get an antibiotic, you know? I'm not putting down pain medication. I'm not putting down any medication at all. I just, I don't like to use them abundantly.
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I know it's really hard on our bodies and I know there'll probably be a day that I do have to use a lot of medications, right? Because our bodies are going to get worn down.
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But I try really hard to do what I can proactively and use the meditation methods so that I do not have to take medication for panic attacks.
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So I don't have to take medication for anxiety and depression. And I have been able to, and I'm not, I'm not 100%. I don't think anybody ever is 100% on these things.
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But when I'm able to practice it appropriately, I can stop a panic attack. I can reverse the depression.
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But I also have learned that it's important to sometimes just meditate on the feelings of depression that I'm going through and focus in on that and, and start to break it down. And am I feeling depressed because of something outside of me or something inside of me
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and taking that moment to get down to the core of it and work it out sometimes is even more beneficial because it helps you work through a lot of things and it makes it to where you're not just dealing with those.
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Because it's going to come back, right?
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Absolutely. That's life.
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But if you know if it's something that is just inside of me and it's just how I feel and it's okay to have our blue days and our gray days and be okay with that.
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And I think that falls into the category because there's like different categories of meditation, right? And that would be like mindful meditation mindfulness, right?
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And then you're being mindful or aware and accepting of the present moment of what's happening.
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Yeah.
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And then you work through it and you let it go.
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Sure.
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And I think it's also important that we going into the wellness part, right? Mental wellness. It's, it's going to have those, okay, what are your things that generally help you.
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Like for me, it's what we already mentioned. Sit down and do some artwork, painting, whatever, sing a song, play some music, go out for a walk, go for a drive.
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Like something that is an action that takes you from whatever state you're in and resets it.
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And so if you already have those things, okay, I had a really busy morning and I just need some relief.
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Okay, I know if I go for a walk on my break, I'm going to be fine.
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And then you have something to look forward to that helps you manage whatever stressful moment you're in.
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And then you reward yourself by doing that.
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And then you hit reset while you're going through that motion to what makes it better for you outside of that.
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Sometimes we need a little extra help too. Like talking more about the mental wellness part of it. We need to seek professionals that are educated on, you know, our minds and our bodies and how they connect together.
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And there's no shame in that either.
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I think just the same as we go to a family practitioner for our preventative and general care. Why would we not in moments that we need to seek a therapist or
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I mean, yeah, counselor of some sort, as someone who's been in there. I'm not currently in therapy, but someone who has been through therapy multiple times for many years.
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Yeah, sometimes you have to, you know, absolutely someone who is currently medicated.
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And sometimes you have to get through.
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And sometimes we have kind of a balance and sometimes we have all of those things and I'm not like, like I said, that's, that's why we have them with meditation and grounding yourself and mindfulness can be an additional aid to get you through.
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Oh yeah, I don't know why and when I just said grounding that made me think of I had a friend several years ago.
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Her way of grounding herself was going outside barefoot and stepping in the grass. Yeah, that grounded her so much. She would be in a full blown panic attack.
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The moment her feet touched that grass. It was like it just centered her to the ground literally and she was okay. Well, we are nature beings.
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And which I thought was so fascinating. I never understood it.
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My moment of, of who I am comes out in me right now.
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When you mentioned that.
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The hippie dippy of me.
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Well, but when we step out and we, and we have contact with the natural Earth, it is like she's her mother.
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And so we feel comforted in that way, but it also gives us an opportunity to flush out through our roots our feet are our, part of our roots, right?
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They're down at the bottom and push out all of those yuckies and pull in from the earth.
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All of those warmth and, and comforting feelings. It's our it's our moment to really root in and ground ourselves.
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And even if it's just that you have to close your eyes and take a breath, you're working on all of the meditation points and just releasing it out through that through your feet.
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Makes sense to me.
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I think that would be a really good.
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It's a great exercise.
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I think it would be a great challenge for us this week.
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Don't you think for us to ground ourselves and meditate?
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Oh, absolutely.
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And take a few minutes, you know, every day to just.
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Oh, absolutely.
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And it doesn't have to be every day.
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Just at least once.
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I would say every day.
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Oh, absolutely.
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I think every day we need to, because we are always, even, even when we go on vacations we need that.
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We gotta do this.
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You know, it's we.
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We as human beings need a moment to pause.
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Yes, to hit pause and.
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Let it all out.
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All of our stresses, all of our things and bring in all of the clean and natural and.
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And it doesn't take that long.
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Honestly, it's.
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It doesn't even, it doesn't even need to be on like your lunch break.
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I mean, you get breaks throughout the day.
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Just take a couple of minutes.
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You can do it in the bathroom.
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Take a couple minutes to ground yourself.
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Find yourself for a minute and just breathe and find what works for you.
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To meditate.
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What I'm going to meditate.
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It can be as structured.
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Or as leisured.
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Yeah.
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as you, and as relaxed as you need.
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And It can be in a specific location at your home where you have it all decked out and you have the yummy smelling stuff and
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Everything is perfect or it can be in a bathroom stall at work.
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It can be literal meditation or it can be a just a moment to close your eyes and you're like, I'm going to be fine.
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All is right in my world.
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Exactly.
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I end with the challenge of doing that.
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Yeah.
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Every day and it doesn't have to be long.
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It can be 30 seconds.
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It can be an hour.
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It can be as long as you want it.
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It can be as short as you want it.
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It can be wherever you want it.
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Take a moment to pause to reflect on a focused intentional thing.
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Even if it's just saying all is right in my world, which I have a story, but I'll put a pin in it.
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I'll put a pin in and save it for later.
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I love it.
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But I think it's very important that we do that.
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Not just for us.
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It's something that you'll see a benefit for you.
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Absolutely your body will start to relax.
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Everything will start to kind of calm down, but you'll also see it in those relationships that you have with other people.
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And it's a beautiful thing to watch.
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I think if we do that, then we will definitely be feeling grounded and groovy.
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Groovy.
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Okay, so Simon and Garfunkel, I was thinking the song, feeling groovy.
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And I was like, yeah, I need to put grounded and groovy instead of grounded and good.
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Grounded and groovy.
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Love it.
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But with that, we love you all and have a great week.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Thanks for hanging with AJ.
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