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your attention is the most valuable
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resource in your life and everyone is
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after it we live in a world that's
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highly optimized to distract you right
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and suck your energy because your energy
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follows what you give your attention to
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advertisers are trying to get your
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attention right now I'm getting your
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attention other people are getting your
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attention Etc so you have to selectively
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choose what you actually give your
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attention to some and some people give
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you energy when you give your attention
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to them and other things and people just
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take it from you so you need to actually
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really pay attention to the quality of
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the interaction that you are having with
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the thing or person that you are giving
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your attention to with the food right
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with the Habit with the content that you
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consume if something is always just
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taking your energy and taking and taking
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and taking this is just going to leave
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you drained and numb and dull and you
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can't really live a profound life you
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can't really self-actualize and self
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transcend if you're habitually drained
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by various things in the external world
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so some things and people just take your
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energy and they just suck your attention
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other things actually get it and then
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they give to you because well they
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actually care they have a high enough
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moral development to the point where
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they actually will care about you so I I
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want to actually list some examples now
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some very extreme examp examples so you
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get a very clear idea of what I'm
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talking about and I'm saying that your
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attention is the most valuable resource
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in your life right so your energy
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follows your attention and what you give
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your attention to has formative powers
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or not formative Powers it has a
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formative effect on your mind and your
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life right so some examples of this are
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reading a book for 12 hours versus
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mindlessly scrolling on Instagram for 12
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hours right we can see from this very
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clear extreme difference that one is
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going to have a very profound effect on
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your mind where the other one is just
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going to be sucking your energy and just
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taking your energy usually just for
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personal gain for a very selfish motive
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it's kind of like sick and twisted
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actually another good example is
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practicing meditation for 1 hour a day
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versus eating hot dogs and watching TV
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for 1 hour a day this is going to a huge
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shift that occurs over time just based
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off of simple things like this right
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basically what you repeatedly give your
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attention
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to so you get to choose what you give it
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to the problem is that Humanity has
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figured out how to hijack your attention
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Humanity's figured out how to manipulate
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you to give you or to how to manipulate
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you so that you give things and people
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your attention so that you just like
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mechanically buy from them or just help
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them with their own agenda and their
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agenda doesn't actually give you any
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value right I have there's nothing wrong
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with making money or advertising or
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technology the problem is when this
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stuff is used in a exclusively selfish
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way that doesn't actually provide
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meaningful and healthy value to people
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and people are just addicted to this
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junk so the problem is basically that
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people have figured out how to
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manipulate you right social media um
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news and media junk food gaming online
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shopping streaming in Services Etc
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various companies and stuff have
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basically figured out how to exploit you
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right so that you just get sucked into
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things right and they actually create
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addictions within your own psyche so you
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actually get addicted to things that are
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dysfunctional for you right and you
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don't really know any way out especially
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because this is baked into our culture
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most people don't really know other ways
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of being in the world they just see what
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everyone else is doing and they just do
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that
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because this is just how they've been
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programmed they just watch TV and eat
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junk food and scroll on their phone they
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don't meditate or clean up their diet or
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go on meditation Retreats or um you know
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Etc self-actualized self transcend they
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don't really know any other
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possibilities that exist so without
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learning how to protect your attention
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right and give it to what's meaningful
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and healthy for you it will end up
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getting sucked into something unhealthy
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rather fast in our modern world because
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there's so much unhealthy
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garbage that is just so stimulating it's
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just so easy to grab your attention when
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you have no discipline when you have no
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impulse control when you have no vision
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for your life when you're not clear
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about your values and who you want to
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become when you don't live your life by
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a certain set of principles right when
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you don't have any psychological
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structure to build your life upon your
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psyche is just easily distracted easily
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infected right so you actually have to
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counter all that noise that is trying to
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infect your mind and focus your
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attention on what's meaningful and
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healthy for you you need some kind of
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boundary some way to counter all the
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external BS all the external noise
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that's actually just trying to infect
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you for personal
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gain right so this is why you actually
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need to know yourself right that's what
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the Greek said they say know
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thyself right you have to actually
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uncover your values take personality
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tests read books study
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psychology right practice meditation
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connect with like-minded individuals
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spend time in nature eat for nutrition
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not to escape
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yourself and sit this one's my favorite
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sit in an unstimulating and undistracted
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room by yourself have you ever noticed
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how you can't really do this you jump
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for stimulation all the time you always
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have to be doing something you always
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have to be escaping yourself
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essentially this is really what's going
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on and our call culture is not really
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going to change anytime soon there's
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going to continue to be an endless
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bombardment of advertisements and new
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games and new TV shows and new crap for
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you to spend your money on new material
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garbage that doesn't actually really do
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very much for you and just sucks your
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energy for you to be spending your money
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on right it's basically this ridiculous
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amount of stimulation that's completely
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unhealthy for you causes all sorts of
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mental illness and just cracks and holes
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in your
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psyche and it's all being done really
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for the benefit of others right you're
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actually just being exploited so you
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need to figure out how to protect
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yourself from this so your entire life
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does not yet sucked away that's why I
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said give me a few minutes of your
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attention right and I'll save you years
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I literally talk to people who say they
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spend 10 hours a day scrolling on their
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phones
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right and it's not just phones it's it's
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all forms of distractions and just
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highly stimulating garbage that just
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infects your body your mind mind your
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awareness right your whole experience of
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yourself really your being your soul
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right you need to actually have strong
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boundaries with this stuff be aware of
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this stuff and actually have structures
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and habits in your life that counter
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those things various principles and
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values that actually counter that stuff
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so that you can be healthy because we
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live in a extremely sick
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world right and of course we're not
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taught this in school ever it's not
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shown on the media on the news at night
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of course not right so you need to
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defend yourself from the numb existence
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that most people are unfortunately
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living due to ignorance you need to
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defend yourself against the constant
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bombardment of distractions our culture
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is built on escaping reality escaping
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ourselves and escaping the present we
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can't just be present in our existence
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we can't sit in an unstimulating
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undistracted room by ourselves without
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freaking
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out right we get bored angry we're just
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too neurotic we're too addicted we have
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all these coping mechanisms to just
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escape and avoid right so our culture is
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just built on escapism and basically the
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avoidance of unprocessed pain really
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from childhood stuff we've been running
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from over and over and over again we're
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in this constant cycle of just pain
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avoid pain avoid pain avoid and all this
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emotional pain especially doesn't go
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anywhere gets stored in the body and it
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plays itself out in a cyclical fashion
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it Cycles it come back around to bite
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you in the ass over and over and over
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again you're always avoiding right
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you're never cleaning up what's going on
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inside you you remain stuck in a cycle
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so you need to pay attention to how you
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feel when your attention is absorbed in
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certain things feel the quality of the
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energy that certain things actually give
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to you certain foods right when you wake
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up in the morning right pay attention to
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the quality of the energy that um waking
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up and scrolling does for you versus
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waking up and meditating or waking up
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and having some water with with you know
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squeeze some lemon into it waking up and
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going for a run spending time in nature
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waking up and reading or
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journaling right basically as you go
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about your day giving your attention to
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certain things notice the felt
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experience and the energetic flow
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between you and the thing that you are
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interacting with right the people right
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there's always an energy
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transaction basically between you and
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what you give your attention to right
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when you really practice a lot of Med
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meditation you get very sensitive to
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this you become very aware of this you
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can't ignore this anymore this is just
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your lived experience it's like the the
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default right so notice the quality of
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the energy that you get from certain
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things if it's just taking from you and
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what it's giving you is feelings of
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exhaustion or just dysfunction or
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sickness you have to cut that stuff out
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of your life right some obvious examples
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of that are just like fast food endless
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entertainment endless scrolling Etc if
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it gives you energy right it adds
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Vitality to your being right makes your
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body feel alive right makes your mind
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feel clear sharp Lucid rather than foggy
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numb and dull right those those things
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are great that's like meditation nature
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Reading Writing spending time by
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yourself reflecting you know in solitude
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spending time with healthy people right
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who actually care about you right
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interacting with things that want to be
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giving you energy right Fair energy
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exchange
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right it's basically how the world works
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there's always an energy transaction
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going on and some people are just trying
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to scam your energy right you need to
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interact with people who want to give to
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you right and especially want to
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interact with people who it's just very
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natural for them to be giving value
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because they've transformed themselves
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into someone who effortlessly provides
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value right these people
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exist right want to interact with habits
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Foods Etc that give to you right rather
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than just always taking from you that's
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it for this video you can apply to work
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with me one to one link is in the pin
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comment and the description take it easy