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Hello, and thanks for listening.
This is Renee, and this is a 

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somatic meditation. 
Somatic meditation is a style of

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meditation that is pretty 
creative and I use visualization

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and guided awareness through the
body. 

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And I'll ask questions and kind 
of invite you to feel into your 

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self through a lot of different 
layers through your physical 

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layer, your emotional layer, 
your mental layer and your kind 

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of Imaginative and maybe even 
psychic layer. 

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You can do this kind of 
meditation in any shape and also

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in any activity meditation, as a
gesture is focus and there is an

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idea that you bring your 
awareness and your intention 

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towards the meditation. 
So it might not be the best 

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thing to do while you're 
distracted. 

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But it is something that you can
do in small moments when you 

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find yourself with a couple of 
extra minutes here. 

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There and it's something you can
do maybe when you're in transit 

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and you have an opportunity to 
kind of spaced out in a certain 

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way, from whatever it is, that's
calling your attention in other 

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places. 
And then, of course, if you can 

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give yourself the time and the 
space to really just drop in and

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and be with the meditation. 
That's great. 

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And these meditations are 
offered kind of as suggestions 

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and they are all All ideas and 
imaginings and states of being 

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that you can bring anywhere 
else. 

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So I love the idea that 
meditation can happen all the 

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time, and it doesn't need to 
look like any particular thing. 

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So today's meditation is called 
serving sacredness. 

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And the idea is that we can drop
into a state of felt sense, 

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awareness around Essence and 
sacredness as an Essence is 

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something that is everywhere and
I don't want to Define it for 

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you. 
I know what it feels like for me

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and sacredness is something that
I think a lot of us want and 

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particularly that we When it 
comes to how we apply ourselves 

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in our lives and what we feel 
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Earth is or what our purpose is.
And I think that if you found 

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your way to this meditation, 
this is probably you as well. 

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And I'm not going to make this 
assumption for everyone that 

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everyone wants to be in service 
to sacredness, but I think a lot

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of people do. 
And so if you are finding this 

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and sitting with me for it or 
moving with me for it, then this

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is for you. 
So let's begin in any shape and 

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find a way to make yourself 
comfortable. 

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So, for me, I'm sitting and I've
got just kind of a traditional 

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meditation crossed like seat. 
But I'm aware that I can sit in 

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such a way that my spine is long
and I feel comfortable and 

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supported. 
And so if you're sitting then 

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make any adjustments that you 
need so that you can feel 

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comfortable and supported. 
And if you're lying down, Are 

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standing up or moving around, do
the same thing and just take a 

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few moments to check in with the
physical state of your body. 

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And notice any kinds of 
distractions that might be 

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present, you could turn your 
phone off. 

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You can close your eyes, you can
I don't know, tell your kids. 

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You'll be back with them in a 
little bit and then come into 

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your own experience in some way.
And for me the quickest and 

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easiest way to come into my own 
experience is Is to tell my face

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and head and brain to relax. 
And this is usually the 

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withdrawing of outward moving 
energy and especially in my eyes

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and around my brow. 
Where if you are focusing this 

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part of your body, this part of 
your face, usually has an 

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intention outward or forward. 
So you can kind of feel that 

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your face and eyes and Forehead 
are kind of resting back and 

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away from anything that they 
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And even though you're listening
to my voice speaking into your 

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ears also let your ears relax 
and just trust that whatever 

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words are floating into your 
ears at any given time or the 

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right words for you to hear. 
And so you don't need to try 

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with your ears to pick up on 
exactly the, you know, the 

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meaning or the words that I'm 
saying this kind of let your 

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ears also be open and relaxed. 
and then from here, coming into 

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the breath, is a really easy and
direct way to get present. 

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And the nature of anything as 
its observed, is that it 

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notices? 
It's being observed. 

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And then gets a little shy and 
aware of itself or maybe starts 

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to perform, so you don't need to
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But as you start to notice that 
your breath might naturally 

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change, and as you bring 
attention to your breath, you 

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might feel an instinct to take a
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And if you do then go ahead. 
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to my breath, usually I notice 
how long it's been since I've 

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paid attention to my breath and 
I'll feel the way that I have 

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been truly breathe, which is 
often a little shallower than 

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when I'm paying attention. 
And then, as you bring attention

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to your breath, you can notice 
where in your body at moves and 

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of course you're inhaling. 
And that breath is coming in and

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filling your lungs, up, and your
lungs are quite massive organs 

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in comparison to some of the 
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And they extend all the way down
to your bottom, ribs, and all 

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the way up underneath your 
collar bones and forwards to the

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front of your chest, and into 
your back body and their 

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voluminous. 
And, you know, really kind of 

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amazingly textured. 
Organs, they're full of porous 

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tissue and blood. 
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trees, tree roots. 
That spread out into smaller and

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smaller. 
Aller pathways. 

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And so as you breathe, you can 
feel the circumference of your 

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breath and the volume of your 
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And you can invite your breath 
to travel all the way down and 

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all the way up and forwards, and
back and your lungs as organs 

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are pillows for your heart and 
they wrap around and embrace 

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your heart. 
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It's kind of like you're giving 
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exhale, The exhale is the 
natural pattern of the lungs. 

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It's the diaphragm releasing 
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And for some people, the exhale 
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And for some people, you exhale 
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And so whatever it is for you in
the exhale, can you let 

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yourself, relax Camila yourself,
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So as you inhale, you are 
drawing in life force and any 

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life form on Earth, breathe, and
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And so respiration comes from 
the Latin root word, spear re. 

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I don't know if I said that 
right, it's SP IR a re, and this

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is the, the root word of both 
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Expiration. 
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these are the words for 
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exhaling or some kind of 
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And so this, this word spear, 
our spear re is related to 

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Spirit from also the Latin word,
spiritus, meaning breath, so 

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respiration and perspiration the
ways that our bodies kind of 

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intake and outtake. 
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idea of spirit. 
And in English what we think of 

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as inspiration or aspiration are
the ways that we receive 

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guidance and then both direct 
and kind of feel ourselves 

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navigating towards what we want 
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So as you breathe in, consider 
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breathe on a very basic and also
very profound level and that 

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you're taking in spirit into 
your body, whatever spirit is 

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and spirit. 
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that exists on this planet. 
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everything. 
There is a spirit to you as an 

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individual, there is a spirit 
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There is a spirit to any plant. 
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moment. 
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And that Essence is probably in 
articulate a bowl on undefinable

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it might be able to be felt but 
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spoken or expressed in any 
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And so as you breathe feel, the 
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And Ponder the question of, how 
do you know yourself? 

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And what really is your essence,
as an individual as human being 

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here on Earth at this time. 
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billions and billions and 
trillions of cells and all of 

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those cells somehow know 
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every one of those cells 
requires oxygen, every one of 

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those cells also respirate 
support takes in oxygen and 

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sugar, it metabolizes, it 
expresses it releases its energy

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And is part of the cycle of 
life, that moves through all 

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living forms here on Earth. 
And what is it about? 

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The essence of you? 
That knows yourself. 

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And sustains yourself. 
And so as you draw in your 

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breath you can breathe into that
Essence as mysterious as it 

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might be and let it be an 
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And as you exhale, you can 
imagine your essence, your 

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presence Rippling out and 
vibrating into the 

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everythingness. 
That is shared here on this 

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planet. 
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The atmosphere that contains us 
the humidity and your breath, 

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that is, of course, part of the 
water cycle on Earth, that moves

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through all plant life and all 
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This is also part of you. 
And you contribute to it and you

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are made of it and you are 
affected and you effect. 

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And as you breathe in, you can 
breathe into the essence of the 

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question. 
What are you, how do, you know 

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yourself and let that just be an
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A mystery that hopefully will 
always be a place to linger, a 

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place to abide and to explore. 
Because when there is answers, 

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when there are forms where we 
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All the time. 
We do that but those forms are 

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always incomplete. 
All of your identities. 

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If you think of all the ways 
that you say, I am, While they 

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all might be true in some way. 
None of them are complete. 

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None of them fully Express the 
essence of you. 

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However when you get kind of 
fixated, when one gets we get 

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fixated on the I am then we're 
getting into a state of ego and 

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from an I am place will want 
things and we'll have 

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aspirations to feed the ego. 
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right now, there's a lot of 
greed and a lot of aspiration 

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towards capital gain. 
And this aspiration has become a

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really destructive force on our 
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That seems to be leading. 
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of movements is some kind of 
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And so, again, it's kind of, 
it's an ego. 

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Like I am better than you. 
I'm going to win. 

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I'm going to topple you. 
And greed and competition aren't

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really that different. and their
instincts that arise in everyone

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and you see these instincts 
coming up and really, really 

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young children and really, 
really old people and everybody 

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in between And so it's good to 
notice them when they come up 

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and not to feel necessarily like
shamed or like, oh, that's a 

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horrible thing. 
I can't have that, but to notice

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it, and to be in a place of 
choice with it. 

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And to have some discernment. 
So greed and aspiration, they 

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can be these kind of gross 
effects of basic needs. 

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And they're not the same thing. 
So any living being but 

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particularly in a human will 
have some basic needs and we'll 

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need shelter, will need comfort 
and a sense of support from 

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other humans Community. 
Love relationships, safety will 

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need sustenance nourishing food 
that sustains our body. 

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That gives us what we need to be
healthy and vital. 

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Maybe that stuff isn't always 
like the most delicious or 

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immediately satisfying, but 
nourishing food, that feeds our 

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bodies, the nutrients that we 
need. 

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Of course, we need to breathe. 
That's kind of the first and 

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foremost. 
We need oxygen to survive at 

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all. 
And we need clean water, and we 

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need clean air. 
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things. 
Get pretty abstract. 

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And that's often times when our 
egos come in and we tell 

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ourselves. 
So I need that article of 

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clothing or I need this amount 
of money or I need this person 

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to really like me and validate 
me or I need to have that title 

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or I need to drive that car. 
So I want to invite you right 

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now to kind of check in with 
your present state of ego and to

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find one thing that you're in a 
place of needing that you 

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actually don't need. 
And I definitely have plenty of 

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those things and I think anybody
live probably does. 

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So this is not a shame-based 
exploration. 

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This is just being curious. 
Like okay, where is my ego? 

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Guiding me in places that are 
Probably beyond what I actually 

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need on a very fundamental 
level. 

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And when you find that thing, 
it's probably not that hard to 

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think of what it is, or one of 
the things I just want you to 

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attune to what it feels like to 
be in the place of needing or 

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wanting in that way. 
And how do you feel it in your 

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body? 
So for me, I feel a quickening 

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in my heart rate and kind of a 
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like a it's like the residue of 
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diaphragm, on my chest and that 
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wanting something it's 
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fear and the fears are all over 
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They they range from fears of 
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know, these kind of basic fears 
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that, then I'm going to die. 
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unhappy. 
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abstract fears. 
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what the sensation is of this 
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wanting or needing. 
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associated fears, and these two 
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desire is an attraction, it's 
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places in a version and it's 
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kind of feel the way that 
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in your brain and in your 
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All you need to do is notice it.
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research and feel free to pause 
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one. 
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I'll draw pictures and I do this
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well, where I just I want to 
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feeling? 
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Hinge on what, what is, what are
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different kinds of images for 
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So, feel free to take the time 
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But then when you're ready, just
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awareness with drawing your 
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face, and whatever parts of your
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Letting them soften and Retreat 
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feeling the simple movement of 
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And then I'm just going to start
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I say them, I want you to 
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sensations float through your 
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the ocean tide rolls in and 
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of the wave and how it comes in 
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and then it pulls back in. 
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forest and the leafy green 
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branches. 
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they'll absorb sunlight, and 
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they'll pull it through and turn
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They'll pull it in through their
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Of the tree will contract a 
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in and conserve itself and in 
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happening as fortification of 
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heat start to come again that 
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all winter expresses into 
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soil and the branches then 
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the sun to come and kiss them 
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expansion and contraction and 
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to the tips of your toes and the
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animals, flying insects insects 
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canopy of the trees, there's all
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animals are eating the plants 
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other. 
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whatever nutrients and they 
absorb and then they have energy

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and part of the byproduct of 
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poop and then they poop on the 
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starts to seep into the Earth, 
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nutrients in their excrement. 
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it's fertility and grow into the
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become part of the fertility of 
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There's this Rhythm the way that
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consumed any food that you've 
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byproduct of animal or plant 
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Whether it's willingly or 
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your body. 
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body is producing the energy 
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the energy that is passed 
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out this all goes somewhere. 
It's not like it just leaves you

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It all goes somewhere and then 
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cycle that we are living in in 
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state that simultaneous and all 
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and the life, birthing life and 
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all the time and they happen on 
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in our cells, are cells are 
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dying. 
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with big bodies and they happen 
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Earth when during a time, when 
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ego. 
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birthed and energy that is also 
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A lot of that is hooked to the 
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wanting things that are beyond 
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and competition, even if it's 
just a small Instinct that comes

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accumulation, and there's 
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and there's complicit - and when
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in Courage elements and other 
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don't protest, then energy can 
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of life-form. 
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to invite yourself to be a 
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And sacredness is something that
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course you your body is nature. 
You are nature. 

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Very much a link in the chain of
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The intelligence of the Earth 
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there's plenty, where there is 
growth and birth, and also death

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and composition and 
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And giving and receiving are 
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And can you imagine that natural
order wear anything that's given

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becomes part of what is then 
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So anything that's given becomes
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A life is given and then it is 
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more life. 
A breath is given and that 

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breath becomes the breath of 
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can you feel that your recipient
of this generosity, anything 

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you've eaten, and all the air, 
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drink? 
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that you have in your possession
that they've come from 

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somewhere. 
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the sincerity and desire for 
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And for all Beings to have their
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To have breath clean air to 
breathe. have water, clean water

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to drink and to bathe in to be 
cleansed by to have a 

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comfortable shelter. 
To have a safe and loving 

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connections. have enough to eat 
that's nourishing and wholesome,

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to have any other things or 
experiences or activities that 

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could Inspire generosity and 
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true happiness and content to 
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Can you breathe that in as a 
sincere? 

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Desire for yourself, and for all
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sensation of ego and you don't 
necessarily need to go back into

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it right now. 
Maybe me saying it just calls it

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up. 
It did for me. but you can feel 

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the difference between the 
sensation of ego and The 

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Sensation of the sincere desire 
for wellness for yourself and 

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for all beings, And as you 
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let's just settle into a prayer,
and you can take my words in and

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see how they land for you. 
And take what works and reframe 

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them as you need. 
May all beings upon this Earth 

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and the Earth itself. 
Have love safety. 

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Have comfort. 
Of nourishment and the 

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sustenance we need. 
May we release ego-based 

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aspirations that cause suffering
for ourselves for other beings. 

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And for the planet, may we 
become Discerning and ever more 

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aware and present with the ways 
that we separate. 

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Through our ego, attachments. 
With the ways that we isolate 

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their greed and competition. 
May we resolve these habits? 

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may we include the well-being 
and happiness, and contentedness

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of others in our hearts and in 
our desires, for our own 

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well-being and happiness and 
contentedness And then you might

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just ask for help, and guidance,
and assistance. 

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From your own awareness, from 
any kind of guides or spiritual 

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mentors that you feel around 
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And the request for help would 
be to cease any ego-based 

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aspirations and to turn your 
aspiration and your inspiration 

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towards creating Wellness, 
well-being, happiness, and 

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contentedness for all beings on 
the earth, as well as the planet

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itself. 
And to trust that, that greater 

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Wellness would also be something
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And that you are completely 
deserving of receiving. 

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So we're living in a Time on 
Earth went along when important 

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decisions need to be made for 
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If you live with privilege, it's
a time to start to let go of 

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some privilege to let your money
and your resources be shared 

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with those who have less. 
If you have the means to make 

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choices or around 
sustainability, and making 

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purchases that are less 
destructive on the planet, this 

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is the time to do it and if you 
live with influence and are able

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to influence people with more 
power and privilege than this is

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the time to use, all the 
influence that you have. 

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And as a recipient of 
generosity, and we're all 

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regardless of what the life 
statuses were all recipients of 

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generosity at its most basic 
from the Earth from the planet 

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itself, from the oxygen, and the
air and the water. 

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If you're a recipient of 
generosity than this is a time 

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to practice trust in as many 
ways as you can, and in, as many

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ways, as you can, to reduce the 
tendency for competition and for

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greed and one-upmanship. 
To know that these instincts in 

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our cells contribute to larger 
currents and patterns. 

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And so the more that all of us 
divest we can reinvest in other 

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systems that are more generative
to well-being. 

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Thank you so much for practicing
this meditation. 

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Please continue with it in 
whatever way suits you and share

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it. 
And this meditation was made in 

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respect and celebration of the 
Pisces full moon on August 26th,

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2018. 
And so, if you'd like to learn 

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more about Pisces and the 
Pisces, Virgo axis, this is the 

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axis of spirit and service, then
listen to the podcast for that 

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astrology and you can find audio
horse. 

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Go Oops, for your sign, all 12 
signs at embodied astrology.com 

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or linked from this recording. 
And yeah, if you received 

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benefit from my work, then 
please consider sharing it, and 

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thank you so much. 
Wishing you all the best and 

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happiness and safety, and 
nourishment, and always. 

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Thanks for listening. 
Bye for now.