Episode 9 - The Meditation of Action

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And welcome.
Welcome to a Resident Life

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episode 9.
So happy, you've joined us today

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and I'm looking forward to
talking about our topic today,

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which is meditation, and
mindfulness meditation is a very

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broad word and there's so many
different kinds of meditation

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out there.
That when somebody makes a

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resolution to start meditating
to improve their live or to calm

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Themselves down or to deal with
anxiety or pain, whatever it

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might be.
There's so many choices and

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options and it's often difficult
to choose the right one for you,

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the right meditation practice
for you.

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And then it's even harder to
stick with it because our minds

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are busy things.
And when we encounter obstacles,

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our minds continue to pull us
away from those resolutions to

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meditate to calm down, and to
overcome that sort of, They

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called monkey mind.
I guess so, as I said, there's

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an infinite variety there,
sitting meditation, moving

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meditation visualization.
Emptiness focused, spiritual

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mindfulness, the list goes on,
there's many names, I'm sure

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most of you have heard shunyata
tonglen, calm abiding.

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Yoga Mantra tantric cetera.
It's quite overwhelming.

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And hard to figure out where to
start and how to do it.

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So we're going to take a
different approach today about

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meditation, and how to see
meditation and understand

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meditation.
And then with that different

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understanding that different
perspective, seeing how we can

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incorporate it into our daily
lives.

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Not just half an hour here or
there, but rather, as a

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moment-by-moment experience, And
mindfulness will be a part of

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this.
And as I mentioned in a previous

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episode, I personally prefer to
use the words intention

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intentional and intentionality
instead of mindfulness.

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This would be small M,
mindfulness, capital M

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mindfulness.
This is a concrete practice of

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meditation, but mindfulness is
sort of a generic word.

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Use these days to encourage
people to be in the moment so to

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speak with whatever they're
doing.

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So instead of that sort of using
mindfulness, we're going to use

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the word intention intentional
and intentionality.

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So how do we reframe re
contextualize and understand a

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new meditation as a practice as
something we can do?

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And as an exercise.
The way to do this, I think is

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to understand that the
stereotypical view of meditation

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is to be sitting on a cushion
and to be still and quiet and

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bringing your mind to a state of
calmness and focus.

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And this is something
meditators.

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Do once a day twice a day, maybe
they do 5 minutes, maybe they do

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15, 20, 30 hours.
Certainly, Advanced meditators

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can sit for hours in quiet.
Contemplation. but meditation

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isn't all about, just being
quiet and still Meditation from

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a larger perspective and looking
at it in this different way that

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we're doing today is about
maintaining a level of

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awareness.
And in that awareness

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maintaining an intention What
does that mean?

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Concretely?
So in the podcast, we've talked

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a lot about finding ourselves in
situations of conflict or

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situations of emotional
reaction.

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Whether that's anger, or
frustration, or anxiety, and

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catching ourselves, and taking a
step back, taking a deep breath

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and pulling back from the self,
the ego that's in that state.

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Sort of being the little angel
on the shoulder, that's

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observing rather than being in
the middle of it all.

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And that's what we're going to
be talking about today as a

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state of meditation.
Because really, every time you

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find yourself in a situation of
anxiety or conflict or upset and

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you're able to stop step back.
Take a breath and become that

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little angel on your shoulder.
And observe, that's actually

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meditation.
And the more you can do that

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throughout the course of the
day, the more you find yourself

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in meditation.
And so it's not just about

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sitting, it's about acting and
as you'll know, from this

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podcast, we talk about action
all the time that nothing is

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brought into reality unless we
act upon it.

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If we think about it, that's
fine.

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But if we don't act on what we
think about nothing happens, If

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we make a decision or a goal or
a concrete objective that we

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want to act on, but we don't act
on it, we keep it in our brains,

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then it's nothing action creates
the reality in which we want to

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live.
And most of our lives were in a

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reality where we're not
necessarily in control because

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our egos driving everything and
our ego.

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Reacts our ego is tied to our In
a to our survival Instinct to

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our animal base nature.
And so this intention to not be

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that the intention to be the
little angel on the shoulder,

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The Observer, the one who is
striving to be authentic

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authentic, meaning being able to
experience the world with

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Equanimity where there isn't?
Yes.

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No like dislike hate love but a
steady even Life a steady even

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way of living in and
experiencing life where you are.

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a force of positivity, not just
for yourself, but for all those

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around you, that's the end
result of meditation.

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That's the goal of meditation.
That's peace.

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Peace of Mind, peace of heart.
And it's also peace around you

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peace in the world.
So the meditation were talking

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about is setting an intention.
To use our daily life.

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To meditate or to get better at
becoming the Observer rather

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than the passenger of our ego.
We want to be the Observer of

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our ego and ultimately, the
master of our ego, the master of

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the ego meaning, we get to
control how we react, we're in

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control of our intentions were
in control of how we relate to

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others, rather than just
reacting.

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It's kind of comes down to who's
the boss.

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If the ego is the boss, then
we're riding along through life

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with many ups and downs and
anger and upsets and happiness

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is enjoys, and it's just a
roller coaster of emotions.

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And it's just a situation where
there is no sense of control or

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satisfaction.
Because we're always being

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pulled this way and that and so
the idea is to become the boss

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of yourself.
So the key mind hacks to make

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this happen we've discussed
before but let's discuss them

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today from a perspective of a
concrete practice of meditation.

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So when waking up set your
intention as soon as you come to

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Consciousness, as soon as you
maybe open your eyes or do that

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little stretch as you come out
of sleep, think to yourself

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today.
Today, I am going to be aware of

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myself.
I am going to be awake to who I

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am and how I live in the world.
You can expand this.

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Today, I'm going to be a cause
of happiness for all those

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around me.
But that simple intention.

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You've already pointed the prow
of the ship of your day towards

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positivity before your mind, can
start to think about the

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stresses in the difficulties and
the challenges ahead.

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You've already said it towards
being a cause of happiness for

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others, for your day.
That's the beginning of your

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meditation for the day, your
meditation in action.

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And so, of course, as you get
going, as you get up, maybe

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there's children to get off to
school and get ready, maybe

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there's a spouse to help, get
off to work or whatever the

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case, maybe you'll forget.
I'll forget we all forget, we

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all forget this intention, but
the trick is to try and keep

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coming back to it and the best
opportunities for coming back to

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it.
Are the moments when we're

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feeling stress, irritation
anxiety, these little moments

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happen throughout the day.
We're always being bombarded by

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something, that is sort of
disrupting our equilibrium.

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So try to use those moments to
bring it back to.

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I want to be the cause of
Happiness to all those around me

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today.
Let's say your child is late.

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Getting out the door for school
and you're hustling them along.

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You're hustling the long.
You're like golly, why can't

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this kid?
Get it together?

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That moment right there.
Step back from that.

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Get out out of the middle of the
feeling step back and say ah,

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whether or not the kid gets off
on time.

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Actually isn't all that
important.

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What is important is that the
kid is happy.

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It's important that the kid is
safe and it's important that

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that child also be a cause of
happiness, for others around

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them.
And the best way for that to

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happen is if you are a cause of
happiness, for all others around

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you, and so, step back from
that, and bring yourself back to

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that meditation.
It's like magic because you'll

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find yourself calm down.
You'll find yourself centered.

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You'll find yourself grounded,
in a sense.

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That's a state of mindfulness,
right?

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And so you carry on let's say
you're off to work or you're off

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to some kind of an appointment
and there's traffic too many

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people on the train.
Too many cars going too fast or

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too slow irritation, hurry up,
hurry up, people.

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I've got places to be right
there.

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Boom.
Every state of irritation

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anxiety, upset, frustration.
Dissatisfaction becomes an

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opportunity to bring your mind
back to the meditation.

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That meditation was the
intention you set.

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As soon as you woke up, I want
to be a cause of happiness for

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all those around me today. now,
certainly many people have lives

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that are filled with
difficulties and hardships.

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Possibly abuse deprivation.
And that makes it hard.

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To imagine that you could be a
cause of happiness for others.

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When you can't even imagine
happiness for yourself.

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Depression.
Is something that brings people

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down so low that it the
depression and the chemical

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hormonal balance in the brain
and the nervous system all

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combined to create a situation
that is hard to get out of the

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black hole of depression.
How hard to see the light?

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These pose particular challenges
for people to set their

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intention to be a cause of
happiness for others.

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So this is the beauty of what I
call mind hacks is that you

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don't have to believe it, you
don't have to feel it in your

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gut.
If you just go through the

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motion, I will be a cause of
happiness, for others, with all

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of my actions of body speech and
mind today.

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Just saying the words.
And trying to make an effort.

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This re paves the brain re paves
the neural Pathways this if you

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can keep it up over time.
Over and over and over, even if

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you don't mean it, even if you
don't feel it, you will

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eventually start to feel it.
You will eventually start to

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mean it.
And you will actually become not

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only a cause of happiness for
others, but you'll see a little

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bit of light, a little bit of
happiness in your own life.

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The enemy of happiness.
The enemy of peace.

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Is doing nothing is stasis.
Is being overwhelmed Frozen,

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unable to act.
That's why I keep emphasizing

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that we have to take action even
if we're Faking It.

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Even if we're just mouthing, the
words or mindlessly.

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Reciting a litany in our brains,
and our minds, Without taking

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the action, nothing happens.
Nothing changes.

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And so if you set your mind to
meditation to becoming a

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meditator to meditating as a
routine and a daily practice,

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that's an action, that's a first
step setting, your intention for

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that.
That's the first step.

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The next step is to act on that
to do it to do something.

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So that step can be waking up in
the morning and saying today.

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Today I am going to be the cause
of happiness for all those

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around me.
That's the next step.

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If you just get that done once
twice, maybe for a week, things

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are going to start to unravel
loosen up and you're going to

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start to feel it and you'll be
able to take the next step.

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And that next step is finding
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emotional state where you're not
the boss and saying, whoa, wait

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a minute, I am the boss stepping
back, becoming the angel on your

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shoulder and saying, okay, now I
get to reorient myself to my

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intention, that I will be a
cause of happiness.

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And the day goes on and you get
caught up lost in the sea of

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things going on.
But every time you can stop step

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back, take a breath and say,
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I'm going to be a cause of
Happiness.

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You've changed the future.
You've changed the future

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because you're no longer a
participant or a passenger a

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victim being pulled along,
you've suddenly taken charge and

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you can set a new Direction in
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Acting taking charge of yourself
of your mind of your heart of

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your intention.
Controls your reality.

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And by taking control of your
emotional spiritual reality, you

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change the present for the
positive, and you change the

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future for the positive.
And as you get better at this,

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not only do you find that your
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Your day is more full of light
than Darkness.

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Not only do you find these
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But you'll find that the people
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Are also experiencing more
happiness that their their

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column or they're more friendly.
They're more open than more

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welcoming.
Because your state of Happiness

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translates into kind actions,
kindness you become a source of

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kindness.
Because you're happy.

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Happy people are kind people.
Happy people do kind things.

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The Dominoes start to fall as we
override our - mind and our

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animalistic ego, The Dominoes
start to fall and we become, as

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I've said, this bright light
that attracts others to us and

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that brings them happiness.
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Becomes our happiness becomes a
house of mirrors reflecting

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happiness.
Infinitely And as you experience

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that through this, very simple
basic practice of meditation in

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action.
A sense of Joy will well up in

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your heart and this Joy is like
nothing you will have ever

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experienced before because it is
a sustained feeling sense of a

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of abiding of joy of
satisfaction. and while it might

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not last, the moments that we
experience it, Help us to work

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harder.
To set Our intention more

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frequently, more strongly so
that we can build more sustained

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moments of joy.
So meditation a different way of

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looking at meditation.
Setting your intention in the

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morning.
There are many ways many

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intentions to set in the
morning, but the one I've laid

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out here is being a cause of
happiness, for others, and all

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of your actions, and thoughts
and words.

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And then catching yourself using
the moments of irritation,

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anxiety, and upset to, to, to
reset that intention to take

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that step back.
I guarantee. that if you do

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this, For any period of time.
Your life will change for the

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better.
The lives of those around.

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You will also change.
So, thank you for listening

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today.
It's been great talking and I

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look forward to the next episode
where we can talk more, please

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send an e-mail Mike at resonant.
Social, share this with your

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friends and let's continue to
work together to create a

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resonant life uncovering, our
own and others, authentic

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selves, creating a world of
peace and happiness, that will

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defy expectation.