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This is the Wuwai Wisdom

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Podcast. Our weekly no-nonsense

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life lessons aim to

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inspire you to master

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your emotional and spiritual

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help, achieve balance harmony

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and flow, and rediscover

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the authentic and awesome

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you. We're your hosts

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David James Lee's and

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Alexandra Lee's. Now

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do you truly amress yourself

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in the present moment

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or is your mind

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always racing ahead thinking

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or worrying about the

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future or perhaps stuck

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ruminating in the past? Well

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in this teaching we are going

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to teach you how to live

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more in the now and the

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enormous benefits of doing this. Okay

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David, so living in the now,

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as a Taoist monk, you I

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guess know a lot about this

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and practice it. What does it

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mean? Well I think what you

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just, the word you just use

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there, it's something we have to

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practice. So if a lot of

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my clients ask me, how do I

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know the voice of being a child? When

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do I know the inner child

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is talking? Now this is one

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instance where you know when the

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inner child is talking, when it's

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stuck on the past, what I

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call the what-ifs, what should, what

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could have happened? Wouldn't it be

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better if it have happened this

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way? Or whether it goes into

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the future concerning about what are

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going to happen? It misses out

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the only thing that we have

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got control of. is the present moment.

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And isn't this strange? Because

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one of the things about

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the inner child, it wants

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to be in control. It's

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striving to be future-proofed. It's

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striving to control things. Yet

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the only thing it can

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control is the present moment.

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It doesn't do that. It

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swings like a pendulum from

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the past as into the

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future. Always looking for justifications

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or excuses. Always trying to

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find worse case scenarios. And

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so if you're ever unsure

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about the inner child, the

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voice, how it sounds. when

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you're doing this or if

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you're doing this, this is

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the voice of being a

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child. So that in a

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child part of our mind

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is what you're saying is

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what stops us from living

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more in the now. So

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if we catch ourselves thinking

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about something in the future,

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forward, I mean it could

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be forward planning positively or

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it could be worrying about

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the future or ruminating on

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past events, we know that

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that is our inner child

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part of our mind. drawing

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our attention away from the

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value and the benefit and

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our capabilities within the current.

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And that's why it needs

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practice because you have to

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define because there's nothing wrong

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with planning the future but

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if you plan the future

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just based on worst case

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scenarios what's the worst thing

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that can happen? So I'm

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going to give you an

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instance that the inner child

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does. Isn't it better to

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think into the future and

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think of the worst case

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scenarios? Because I'll be better

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prepared. But what that does,

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it clouds the future, then

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all you're doing is focusing

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on worst case scenarios. You're

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not focusing on best case

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scenarios. Have you ever thought

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about the future thing? Well,

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this could work well, or

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there's a 50-50 chance. The

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inner child will always try

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and what it sees itself.

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protect itself and thinking of

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the worst case scenario. But

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then it's like setting your

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Google maps on your phone

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to go to the worst

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place that you don't want

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to go. So your, our

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motivation to want to protect

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us. to make sure things

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are going to be all

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right in the future. It's

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one of the reasons that

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we get drawn out of

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the present moment. But I

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think a lot of people

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would say, David, you know,

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is living fully in the

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present moment, does that mean

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that I can't make plans,

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I can't have goals, how

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do we find like an

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authentic spiritual balance where we

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can... really be present, really

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save for what's going on

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around us, really be mindful

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of what's going around us,

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and yet also have a

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trajectory of sorts that we

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also want to try and

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steer intentionally. Well, you've asked

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two questions there, so let's

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think about the future. So

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the dough is teaching us

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on the future is what

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they call ye, yi, yi,

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yi. And that translates to

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intention. having a direction of

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travel, but not being fixed,

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not thinking that's rigid, not

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believing that everything has got

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to happen to your expectations

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to what you want. And

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here's where you can identify

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the inner child again, the

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inner child wants what it

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wants, when it wants it.

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And unfortunately, the universe doesn't

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work to that rhythm. You

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can have a direction of

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travel, an intention, a move

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forward. In fact... in Taoism,

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this gets very close to

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the law of attraction. Ye,

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Tao, Chi, Tao. And you

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hear me say that on

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the meditations, ye, Tao, the

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way of your intention, the

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flow of your intention, with

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a way you want to

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go, Chi, Tao, your energy

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will follow that. So if

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your intention is always worst

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case scenarios, I've got to

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protect myself. Then you setting

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yourself up. to go in

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that direction of worst case

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scenarios. So you should have

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a clear intention from a

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balance from based in your...

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spiritual nature from your truth,

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understanding, integrity, but also be

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prepared that it may not

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happen on your time scale.

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So you may want something

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to happen. Next year I'm

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going to get a promotion.

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It may not be a

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year, maybe this year, maybe

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the year after, but focus

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on getting the promotion. What

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does it mean to get

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the promotion? And that's the

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intention. And so living in

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the present, the other part

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of your question. to be

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honest is gratitude. Aren't we

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so fortunate to be in

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the now? If you're of

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good health, good standing, just

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take a moment and breathe

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and be grateful and we

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so often just take things

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for granted, just getting up

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on the morning, just having

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our health and I've gone

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through a period just recently

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about health and realizing just...

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being able to walk, to

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eat, to talk, to just

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celebrating those very simple things.

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Can we just take that

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for granted? We don't take

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any gratitude for being in

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the now because we're so

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often just projecting on. the

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world that we think it

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should be? Yeah, I think

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it's the inner child's tendency

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to want to be better,

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to want more to strive

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that will naturally draw our

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focus away from gratitude of

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the moment in the moment.

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to future planning and you

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know when you're talking about

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intention there David I like

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the idea of intention rather

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than detail planning for all

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the reasons you've explained because

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intention is looser it's lighter

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it's more flowing but I'm

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also wondering laid on top

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of that as a strategy

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there needs to be almost

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like a set and forget

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so insofar as you set

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your intention attention on whatever

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matter is, whether it's your

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health, whether it's a family

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goal, whether it's a career

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goal, whether it's a financial

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goal. You set it mindfully,

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authentically, and then you refocus

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back. on the current moment.

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That might be refocusing back

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on the current moment in

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terms of what can I

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do right now in this

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moment as part of that

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longer term intention. But you

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don't stay always, always planning

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and looking and having your

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energy focused into the future.

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So you set the intention,

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then almost like leave it,

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forget it. Bring your energy

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and attention back to the

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present moments. Enjoy the present

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moment, work in the present

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moment, be creative in the

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present moment, aligned with those

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intentions. And then maybe at

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a set point in time,

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whether it's a month later,

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a week later, three months

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later, review, go back to

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the intention that you set

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and review, but then do

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a review and then a

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set and forget. And it's

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all, I would say it's

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maybe about mindfully... recognizing the

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value of bringing ourselves back

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into the present moment. Well

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again, there's a couple of

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things you said there, which

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is very important. The last

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thing you said was mindfully,

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and this is where it

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goes wrong, because mostly we

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do not set an intention.

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So the Taoist thought, the

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translation of the Taoist thought

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of ye intention, is a

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direction of travel. So we

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don't normally set our intention.

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from mindfulness, from our shared

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spirit, from our truth and

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honesty. We set it from

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an emotion. Wouldn't we be

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happier if we had a

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relationship? Wouldn't things be better

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if I got a rise?

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Wouldn't things improve if this

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happened or that happened? And

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we set it from an

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emotional base rather than a

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mindful base. Can I just

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be clear on that is

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what you're saying is? experience

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or an emotional feeling such

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as I feel lonely, I

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feel anxious, I feel in

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lack. What we're describing here

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is an uncomfortable physiological feeling,

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but from those feelings then

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comes the motivation to strive

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to future project, to also

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ruminate on the past. rather

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than being more neutral, more

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present, more having more gratitude

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for life lessons learned, often

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hard life lessons. So I

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would, what you're just describing,

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I would define that as

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the difference from being grounded,

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your core, either being in

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your emotions or being in

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what I call your shin,

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your spirituality, your mindfulnessness. So

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if I'm going to use

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an example that you use,

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I feel lonely, therefore I

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need to find a partner

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and that will cure my

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loneliness, that will not work,

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sustained. You have to say,

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I feel lonely, I would

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change that to, I am

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creating the loneliness feeling, then

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I would do the golden

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thread and ask yourself, why

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am I creating this lonely?

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feeling. What is it from

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me? Because your first grounding

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has to always be share

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your mindfulness, whatever word you

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want to call it, and

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then you select and choose

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the ye, the direction of

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travel. And you must always

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remember, this is a very

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powerful Taoist teaching. The only

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thing we have is the

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journey. The destination is not

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going to... magically like a

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fairy godmother step in and

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change your life because we

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never reach the destination we're

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on this journey of life

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and all we've got is

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the journey is this present

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moment and if we again

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using your words I wouldn't

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like to use these words

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strive to get when I

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get to the destination everything

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will be all right can

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be happy then I won't

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be lonely then I'll have

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a wonderful partner then I'll

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make money that destination will

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never arrive so constantly When

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I do this teaching, I

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always have this image, I

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don't know where it comes

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from, that donkey with a

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carrot dangling in front of

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it, always trying to grab

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the carrot. But David isn't

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that very much the, also

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encouraged by the society and

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the media that we, systems

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that we live in? Right

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now, society, social media encourages

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us to strive to self-criticise,

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to self-judge ourselves and to

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want more, rather than having

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that, as you say, acceptance,

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understanding, gratitude of what we

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already have. Our inner child,

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our ego. is magnetized, excited,

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drawn into this game of

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being better, having better, having

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more money, having a better

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house, having a better job.

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all the things. Well that's

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because we live in a

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community, a society that values

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because we buy more, we

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sell more, and that's the

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society we live in. And

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so that's why, going back

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to where we started, you

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have to define the difference

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between the inner child, because

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the inner child will bind

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to that. society that if

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I get a new car,

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if I buy a new

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dress, if I just lose

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some weight, if I change

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my job. There's always that

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striving to grasp the carrot

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and that means that we

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buy more, we want more,

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we're always striving. Now we

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live in this society, nothing

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wrong with this society, and

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it goes back to the

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word you use, but we

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have to be mindful. We

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can't be consumed by the

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society. We have something more

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that I would call your

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Shen spirituality and your Shen

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spirituality, that inner wisdom. Again,

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we're using words. You may

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want to call it your

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inner, your inner wisdom, your

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intuition, your inner knowing, your

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gut feeling. You know when

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something is right. And if

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you're constantly striving and always

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wanting and always thinking that

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you need something, then you've

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fallen into the trap. You're

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falling into that trap. We

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live in this society, but

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we don't have to fall

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into the trap. We can

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navigate, again, this goes back

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to intention, we can navigate

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our way through this, being

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more connected to our truth,

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to our honesty. And the

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thing that makes this difficult,

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particularly for the inner child,

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emotions. The emotions come in

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and... Going back again to

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your words Alex, the emotions,

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oh I'm lonely, oh I'm

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anxious, oh if only I

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had this, I would be

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much better if I lost

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some pounds, or I'd be

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better if I dropped the

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dress size, wouldn't that be

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happier? We fall into that

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and we have to step

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back and ask ourselves, where

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is the basis of our

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intention? Where is that coming

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from? And that would be

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my teaching on being in

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the present moment and our

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speaker moment, how we do

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that. But being in the

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present moment is almost holding

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hands, connecting to that shen.

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yourself even if it's for

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five minutes and I often

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smile because my clients say

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I haven't got time for

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this I haven't got time

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to sit down quiet yet

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I've got time to worry

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about the past which I

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can't change or the future

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which I can't control they've

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got plenty of time to

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do to do that but

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they haven't got time and

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I always say you hear

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me saying my meditations 10

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15 minutes you haven't got

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time for 10 to 15

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minutes to connect yourself to

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connect yourself with your truth

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you can spend hours ruminating

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wouldn't it be better if

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that didn't happen wouldn't it

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be better if I did

16:46

this wouldn't it be better

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you've got plenty of time

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for that and so this

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is why connecting to your

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real whatever you want to

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call it I call it

16:58

Shen your intuition you're in

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and knowing and spending some

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time in what you have

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got and what you can

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control Not what you can

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control, what you can control.

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And so David, that I'm

17:12

kind of imagining this in

17:14

terms of practical things we

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can do to be more

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in and now. What I've

17:20

heard you say is that

17:22

on a daily basis, and

17:24

you can talk more about

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it, we can connect back

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to our authentic cells, our

17:30

spirituality, our sheen, as a

17:32

kind of a daily practice,

17:34

and that then forms the

17:36

foundation. for us living out

17:38

another busy day on planet

17:40

Earth, getting on with the

17:42

things that we need to

17:44

get on with, but in

17:47

a more mindful, in a

17:49

more present way. And then

17:51

there's almost like the maintenance

17:53

to that initial reconnection, which

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I think from what you

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said is very much being

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aware of when we experience

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an emotional red light feeling

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so an uncomfortable or painful

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emotional feeling whether it's anxiety

18:07

whether it's loneliness whether it's

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regret whether it's longing or

18:11

wanting we need to tune

18:13

into that and be mindful

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that I'm not in the

18:17

present moment because is this

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is this emotion originating in

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thoughts which are focused on

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the future or thoughts which

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are focused on the past

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because chances are they will

18:29

be. So one of the

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things there that you just

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said is making that definition.

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Where is the root of

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this? Where is the core

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coming from? Where is that

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first thought? It can never

18:43

be emotional because if you

18:45

agree, and this is why

18:47

this is a foundation of

18:49

teaching of woo-way wisdom, we

18:51

do so many teachings on

18:53

this, you are the creator

18:56

of your emotions, not the

18:58

victim. So we're not saying

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you shouldn't have emotions. I'm

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saying the opposite, I'm saying

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emotions are natural and normal,

19:06

but emotions are always a

19:08

consequence of a belief or

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a thought. So if you're

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basing decisions based on emotions,

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you're missing the first step.

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You're starting at step two

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instead of step one. So

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the first tool task is

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to go back to step

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one. What do I believe?

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What do I think? My

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mindfulness of this situation. So

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that's your first step. Again,

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we've done many videos on

19:34

this. One of the things

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the inner child that part

19:38

of your psyche likes is

19:40

familiarity. So it's so used

19:42

to working from the familiar

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emotions. You now have to

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retrain it. It is a

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retraining. As you said right

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at the beginning, a practice,

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something I do every day,

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a practice that you have

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to go back and connecting

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to your shen, to your...

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original intuition, your good feel.

20:02

I'm using different words because

20:05

you may not like Shen,

20:07

but going back to that

20:09

original thought, that has to

20:11

be familiar. That has to

20:13

be your starting point. You

20:15

don't have to think about

20:17

it. That is naturally what

20:19

you do. You start from

20:21

a belief. And is this

20:23

belief true? honest and has

20:25

integrity. Yeah, so when we

20:27

catch ourselves experiencing a red

20:29

light emotion at some point

20:31

during the day and we

20:33

and then we we stop

20:35

and examine it and say

20:37

am I am I you

20:39

know projecting into the future

20:41

here, am I ruminating on

20:43

the past, what is the

20:45

actual thought or belief that's

20:47

going on here if If

20:49

we find that it's very

20:51

much an ego-led or an

20:53

in-child thought, which is not

20:55

authentic, which is not true,

20:57

which is not honest, which

20:59

lacks integrity, then we know

21:01

we've disconnected from thoughts or

21:03

beliefs which are associated with

21:05

our Shen and our authenticity.

21:07

And you also know, I'm

21:09

going to stop you because

21:11

you said something very important,

21:14

you are now programming your

21:16

Google Maps to go in

21:18

a different direction. You are

21:20

not going into your true

21:22

direction. You are not following

21:24

your intention. You are wanting

21:26

to go to London and

21:28

you've set your maps to

21:30

go to Glasgow. If you

21:32

want to go to New

21:34

York, you've just set your

21:36

maps to go to LA.

21:38

You're setting the wrong intention

21:40

because your starting point is

21:42

your emotions rather than your

21:44

authenticity. So I and I

21:46

would imagine if we do

21:48

that cross check and we

21:50

find out. This is motivated

21:52

by a fear of the

21:54

future or not letting go

21:56

of past events. I'm definitely

21:58

not living in the present.

22:00

I'm not living in the

22:02

now of my energy as

22:04

not in the right place.

22:06

If we can switch to

22:08

the... authentic version of that.

22:10

So it might be, you

22:12

know, authentic self would be

22:14

more about acceptance of stuff

22:16

that has happened in the

22:18

past, self-compassion about stuff that's

22:20

happened in the past. It

22:23

would be more about knowing

22:25

what we can't control in

22:27

the future, knowing that the

22:29

worst case scenarios in the

22:31

future are not always the

22:33

outcome. If we switch to

22:35

a authentic, then immediately happens

22:37

is it shuts off the

22:39

need to be looking into

22:41

the future to be stuck

22:43

in the past and we

22:45

automatically become more presence. That's

22:47

the automatic. So the practice

22:49

is reconnecting yourself to the

22:51

familiarity of coming back to

22:53

your shen, your truth, your

22:55

honesty, your integrity. That takes

22:57

practice. because as we just

22:59

said, we are surrounded by

23:01

an environment that almost encourages

23:03

to do the opposite and

23:05

we have to practice and

23:07

we'll talk about us how

23:09

you practice. But once you

23:11

do that, then over time,

23:13

and it's different for everyone,

23:15

but the practice has to

23:17

continue, then your familiarity... becomes

23:19

very natural to be more

23:21

rooted or grounded in your

23:23

sham in your authenticity in

23:25

what you believe and why

23:27

you believe it and then

23:30

your journey of travel your

23:32

ye your intention becomes easier

23:34

to follow so this practice

23:36

of being mindfully present over

23:38

time this becomes more habitual

23:40

it becomes less clunky you

23:42

don't have to consciously be

23:44

aware of your thought processes

23:46

so much because you naturally

23:48

start to default to your

23:50

authenticity to your shanway thinking

23:52

rather than your inner child

23:54

or a fearful ego way

23:56

of thinking. So David just...

23:58

close, do you want to

24:00

talk then about this Shen

24:02

reconnection practice, this how we

24:04

on a daily basis can

24:06

reconnect to our authenticity? So

24:08

this is really important because

24:10

there's no, especially endowism, there's

24:12

no defined, you have to

24:14

do this, you must do

24:16

this, you've got to do

24:18

it for this amount of

24:20

time. What I want to

24:22

encourage you is if this

24:24

teaching resonates with you and

24:26

you We all have had

24:28

experiences of the inner child,

24:30

but we've also had an

24:32

experience of this spirituality, this

24:34

inner knowing, this worth and

24:36

value. For me, it's meditation.

24:39

So when I talk about

24:41

meditation, I don't mean having

24:43

to practice sitting cross legs

24:45

for an hour in a

24:47

quiet room watching a candle.

24:49

I think meditation and a

24:51

Taoist is... the ability to

24:53

focus the mind. I would

24:55

say if you're new to

24:57

try and meditation, no longer

24:59

than 10, 15 minutes, and

25:01

you can do it, you

25:03

can sit quietly, you can

25:05

go for a walk, you

25:07

can walk your dog and

25:09

meditate. If you're into crafts

25:11

as you're doing your crafts,

25:13

you can meditate, and you

25:15

can have that process, as

25:17

we've been talking about, have

25:19

just... being in control and

25:21

focusing the mind. Getting use

25:23

to saying, is this my

25:25

emotion or is this my

25:27

belief? And making that separation.

25:29

Again, because I know you're

25:31

going to write in the

25:33

saying, I'm saying you shouldn't

25:35

have emotions. I am not

25:37

saying you should not have

25:39

emotions. I am saying the

25:41

opposite. Emotions are natural normal,

25:43

part of who we are.

25:45

They make as human beings.

25:48

But we shouldn't make. these

25:50

decisions on our emotions, we

25:52

should make it from who

25:54

we are, the essence of

25:56

who we are truthfully, honestly.

25:58

What defines us our principles

26:00

and so meditation helps you

26:02

to sit down quietly I

26:04

would say you would have

26:06

to do it once a

26:08

day this in my view

26:10

you may not do it

26:12

once a day but I

26:14

would say if it's just

26:16

starting 10 15 20 minutes

26:18

you sit down quietly you

26:20

go for a walk you

26:22

walk the dark if you

26:24

like cooking you can meditate

26:26

as you're cooking and just

26:28

refocus on what your truth

26:30

honesty and integrity. We've got

26:32

a little model. We call

26:34

the Shen test. The Shen

26:36

test. And the Shen test

26:38

is, what I'm saying to

26:40

myself, the narrative I'm giving

26:42

myself, would I give it

26:44

to my six, seven-year-old child?

26:46

Would I tell my child,

26:48

look, sweetheart, mom is going

26:50

to give you some valuable

26:52

as information? You must always

26:54

think of the worst case

26:57

scenario. You must think of

26:59

what's the worst thing that's

27:01

going to happen to you

27:03

and you must work towards

27:05

that. It'd be the last

27:07

thing we would say. Then

27:09

why are we saying it

27:11

to ourselves? And we would

27:13

give our child the ability

27:15

to look at all scenarios.

27:17

Yes, that could happen. Nothing

27:19

wrong with that. But this

27:21

could happen. And that could

27:23

happen. And that could happen.

27:25

our path in life. What

27:27

would we say to our

27:29

child? If your child come

27:31

up to you and say,

27:33

Mommy, Daddy, how do I

27:35

plan my life? I'm sitting

27:37

my GCEs. I've got to

27:39

test a score. This could

27:41

change my life forever. What

27:43

would you say to them?

27:45

And it just say the

27:47

same to you. It's not

27:49

complicated. There's nothing mysterious about

27:51

this. What is the truth?

27:53

And do you tell yourself?

27:55

That truth. wonderful thank you

27:57

David and next week tune

27:59

in next Saturday because David

28:01

is preparing a new, beautiful

28:04

new guided meditation on how

28:06

to live more mindfully in

28:08

the now, which will complement

28:10

this particular teaching. So do

28:12

listen out for that. I'll

28:14

also put a link in

28:16

the show note to our

28:18

Shen, our authentic self-video teaching

28:20

playlist, as well as our

28:22

full guided meditations teaching playlist.

28:24

So both of those will

28:26

help you enormously with this

28:28

topic. I really hope you

28:30

have enjoyed. today's teaching, please

28:32

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28:34

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28:36

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28:38

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28:40

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28:42

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28:44

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