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Got Apps? Some of Our Favorite Meditation Apps!
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Sep 28, 2022
Rob and Caren talk Apps! Meditation apps, that is! We review the features of Headspace, Calm, and more. Join us and learn which app will work for you!. #headspace #calm #insighttimer #spotify #selfcare #meditation 📌 Subscribe to Caren's Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc 📌 Subscribe to Rob's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDD7_s8ATlyaMv2SwfqsWnw Watch all shows on Roku: https://bit.ly/3R9d4Ry Follow Rob on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/altereduniverse1 Follow Caren on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow Caren on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow Caren on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser
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hello everyone Karen Glasser here and
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welcome to minding your mental health
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I'm here with my son and co-host Rob
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Glasser we talk about the topics that
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shape mental health today teach the
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importance of inclusion and share why we
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should be kind so whether you're here
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live or on replay we love you let us
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know where you're tuning in from so Rob
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I'm really excited about this show today
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what are we talking about
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uh meditation apps specifically ones
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that we use and enjoy on a regular basis
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and you know we've been talking about
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this show for a while because we both
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like to meditate and we both like to do
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mindfulness activities and um so we
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thought it'd be a good idea because I do
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it differently than you I I use a lot of
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the different apps that are out there I
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download them on my phone and I do that
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and when Rob starts to talk you're gonna
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see that he does all of his stuff using
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basically YouTube
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um and what's great about that is that
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YouTube is a free platform so everything
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that's there you're going to be able to
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get for free so we're going to jump
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right in because I want to talk about
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the very first app that I use and it's
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my favorite app and it's called The Calm
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app and I'm gonna put it up on the
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screen
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and I'm going to start sharing the
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different aspects of this and tell you
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why I like this so much first of all um
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what's really cool about this rob it has
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a family plan and so you can purchase
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this if you want for 99 a year and you
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can have six members actually use the
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plan so it's very affordable but even
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better than that
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it's it's basically it's free okay
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um you can do a ton of different
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meditations here that are free so you
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don't have to pay for the program and
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you'll notice that literally you can
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click on the different things so if
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you're having some challenges at work
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let's say or maybe self-care you would
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click on it and you would literally
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click on something to watch or listen to
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um some of the people that are involved
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with the Calm app is uh Tamara Levitt
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and Jeff Warren so what I want to do
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right now is I want to pop right onto
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the screen first of all this is how you
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find calm you go to com.com and check
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them out they're great and you see how
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that picture just all of a sudden
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changed in there so no matter what
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you're doing you can actually say I want
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to have a scenery of the ocean and
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mountains or I want to do the fields or
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or I want just water you can pick what
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you want Jeff Warren is the guy that I
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like to use I do his daily uh time his
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daily Combs every single day I do it
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they're 10 minutes long they're so much
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fun and he's a kick and he's a guy and I
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I like guys voices and better than I do
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like women's voices however Tamara
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Levitt who is I think probably the face
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behind comb she's the one who comes up
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with all of the different meditations
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and she picks the different things this
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is how you can go check her out at
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Tamara
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tomorrowlevitt.com
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so I'm just going to come off of this
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just for a second so
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what's fun about comb is that you have
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the ability to do guided meditations you
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can do music meditations you can do
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silent meditations you can do visual
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stuff you can just watch things if you
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want Rob I know that you use calm on
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YouTube and we're going to do that in a
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second we're going to have you go show
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that
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um what is it that you like about the
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comb on YouTube
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um well let me get that set up while I
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talk
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um well as you said before uh calm on
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YouTube is free so that's cool here it
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is here I'm gonna go ahead and turn it
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on there you go um and I'm gonna I'll
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scroll down
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um so the ones up here I I don't see
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usually these are not what comes up
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however
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um let me see if I can go to their
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playlists
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so
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see it looks so much different on TV
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than it does on the computer but so
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something like this and no that's not
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right where to
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okay so something like this now this is
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more cartoony
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but
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this is what you get on the big screen
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so oh so Rob you're not saying YouTube
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on your computer you watch this on your
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television yeah yeah no I don't do this
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on my computer wow we have a TV upstairs
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in our in our exercise room that's what
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we do it
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um and this is kind of what you get I
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was trying to find one that we actually
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do this is
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again it's a computer makes it so much
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but you can pick you can go to the comb
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and just search on YouTube by the way
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guys just search for calm yeah
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on your board and their um site will
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come up on YouTube and then you can just
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pick what you want to do so what do we
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have up there right now so this is just
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kind of one of their ass with their with
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their app on it but again it's just
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basically you know imagery in the
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background this one goes for 10 minutes
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and there's really nothing but just the
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sound of you know rain coming down I'm
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starting to stop that one really quick
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um so yeah that's one of the few on
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YouTube
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um again it looks so much different on
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the computer because it's set up
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obviously differently but what I do is I
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go on YouTube
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um and when you do it enough it
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remembers your stuff so I actually don't
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have to search anymore it usually just
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pops up on my recommended right okay
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that's kind of cool let's try this one
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it is really cool and you'll see as I do
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the other YouTube same type of thing
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you'll right you do it once or twice
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YouTube goes oh you must like this
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here's right and and and and like that
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calm app does the same thing so you have
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a dashboard so if you like to you know
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check off a box every day I meditated
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you're able to actually track how many
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days in a row you meditated
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um how you are feeling before you start
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the meditation so it's all very very a
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cool kind of platform it's very engaging
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and interactive the second one that I
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want to share with individuals right now
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is the insight timer uh platform
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now inside timer first of all it has a
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hundred and thirty thousand free guided
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meditations yep you heard it here 130
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000 free guided meditations and what's
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interesting about them they have some
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celebrities that are involved with it
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you can see that you have a Russell
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Brand Who's involved with it
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um you can have there's workshops so you
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have all the free but you can also sign
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up for like a 25 Workshop right
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or you can take a course
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but for the most part all of these
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things are free and what I love about it
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too is that you can track your favorite
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gurus that you want to you know listen
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to so I listen to a bunch of different
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ones right I I love David gandolin from
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the um I love Kenneth Suarez I love Mary
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Maddox and Glenn Harold there I mean
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some really great people and they have
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their own schools out there so I want to
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just show I'm going to get rid of this
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just for a second I'd like to show some
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of the areas that people can go check
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them out
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um one of the instructors on insight
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timer he's French his name is Jonathan
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lehrmann I think it's called listen to
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shea.com he does meditations both in
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French and in English obviously I listen
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to the English ones but he does multiple
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meditations where one meditation has
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music in it he'll do the same meditation
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without music in it so he basically
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meets you where you're at so if you're
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somebody who likes to have music in the
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background he has something for you and
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if you don't like music in the the
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background you don't have to worry about
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it another one of my favorites is Glenn
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Harold and Glenn Herald's got one of
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those dreamy beautiful voices that you
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could just listen to Forever and it's
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gorgeous music in the background I
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happen to like music so you're going to
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notice that everything that I'm showing
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right now has music as an option most of
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the people I follow are men but here's
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one that is a woman Mary Maddox and her
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website is meditation Oasis and she was
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actually the first person that I got
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introduced to with meditation back
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before there were apps I went and
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downloaded and bought meditation tapes
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so that I could listen to them so as
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time has gone on we can get all this
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stuff for free also Kenneth Suarez this
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guy is very cool he's got long
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dreadlocks and he's a young guy and what
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I love about him is that he does
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hour-long meditation so for those of you
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who are out there going oh my God like
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an hour long who's gonna sit for an hour
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you might if you listen to him he does
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body scanning he does breath he does all
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sorts of stuff so way way way cool and
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then finally David gandleman he's a
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young guy I think he's in his mid-20s he
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also has a new book out called the seven
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seven energies of the Soul he's got his
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own website called meditationschool.us
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and as I was telling you earlier Rob
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he's got videos that go with each one of
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these meditations in his book so
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something to check out it's um again I
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like free I like the idea that you don't
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have to get caught behind a money
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barrier right that you can meditate if
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you need to so I'm going to do the last
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one and my last one I'm actually joking
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because I actually don't like this one
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but I thought it was necessary to show
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um another platform it's not free
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everything you have to pay for and that
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might be why I don't like it it's also
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um seems very
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um
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cartoonish to me but we're going to show
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it anyways and I want to share it on the
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screen
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it's kind of got this kind of cartoony
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kind of thing you see like illustrations
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and like we see these little weird guys
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here right yeah
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um and there are no people associated
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with these they're like generic people
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which I know sounds weird but generic
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people but there's nothing free about
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this platform and um I'm only showing it
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as one of the choices that you can do
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and I know Rob you're going to segue
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into our next one so let me get this off
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the screen
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and let's go to the next one and what is
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that
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all right well just when you thought it
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wouldn't get any order
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Spotify
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um so before I scroll oops where'd it go
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oh there it is okay
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um so yeah so my so really Spotify
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started off for music uh you can play
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the radio you can do all that right and
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for that usually purchased because in
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order to get ad-free music you buy your
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your subscription you can get Spotify
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whatever but as YouTube is you can go on
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and watch these for free uh if you type
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in meditation you're going to get all
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look there's headspace haha there you go
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um but you can do it by artists and this
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will give you the uh people or groups
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that do it right I love meditation Panda
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that's just so funny
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um we have Native American meditations
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we have relaxation sleep meditation and
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spirit and it just keeps going as I'm
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scrolling you see their opening yeah I
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actually I think David gandelman's on
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this one too I think they also cross
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promote so some of the ones that you're
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going to get on inside timer I think you
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can actually get for free on Spotify
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which is cool okay there you go uh you
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can do it by playlist so if you notice
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that you like a certain kind like you're
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talking about music we have calming
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music in nature this one would most
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likely be
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sounds
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of nature
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um and then lastly we have the podcast
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and the shows and this is
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another way to do it it's all basically
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the same all different ways do the same
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thing there's no Rhyme or Reason it's
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just how you like to do it these I
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believe
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um if you know these podcasts you'll
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probably appreciate it more that's a
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good thing about Spotify you go there
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you'd listen to this podcast
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um but really that's you know and I'm
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gonna stop that one there but really
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that's that's what that one goes and
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like YouTube it's for use
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um you know Krista always laughs because
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I listen to music with the ads and she's
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like well I have it I bought mine so I
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have no ads I'm like I don't really care
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but when it comes to the meditation
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there is really no advertisement you
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watch one you might have to wait 30
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seconds for the next whatever
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um but it is free and if you don't mind
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waiting a few seconds in between once in
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a while for an ad YouTube does the same
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thing right if it's a popular Channel
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you're gonna have to watch an ad you
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know to get to things so I thought that
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was a good one and I guess I might just
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gonna go to the next YouTube yeah so the
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next one is Bruce H Lipton PhD okay so
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this one kind of just an accidental one
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I came across and this one is the
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least meditation and meditations so this
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man as you can see he's a PhD and I was
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looking through something to watch one
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morning because I was like I'm bored of
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doing the same meditation so I came
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across one he he told a story about how
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to be happy and he told a story about
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two monks that were walking down the
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street and one of them you know picked
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up a woman and brought her across the
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lake but you know you weren't supposed
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to touch a woman as a monk so a few a
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few miles down the other monk says how
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could you have picked up that woman and
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he goes I dropped her off miles away
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You're the one who's still holding on to
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her and it was one of those you know
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fables of what it means and I just like
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the guy and you know you see on there he
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talks about the pandemic he talks about
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gratitude uh money and this is one of
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those things where I told you you don't
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have to meditate to meditate if you want
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to watch something or listen to
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something that makes you feel good
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that's the same idea and while you know
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I don't know much on this guy past his
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YouTube it is kind of cool to see a you
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know a doctor somebody who obviously has
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you know he older gentleman probably has
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been through the the things and the
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stuff and probably knows a thing or two
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um it's cool to just see that kind of
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thing and they come across it you know
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by accident it's kind of a happy
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accident right you're like oh cool I
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find this cool guy so if you guys want
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something that's more of a education
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kind of like what I do on the everyday
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hero stuff he's the kind of guy you go
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to and he's not the only one you know if
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you type in you know stories about
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happiness stories about gratitude
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stories about YouTube in YouTube you
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know type in the keyword appreciation uh
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love
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um Buddhism you know I know we talked
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about Dalai Lama on one of our other
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shows so that's that guy there now the
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next one we're gonna do uh let me pull
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this one up
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uh interspace meditation uh this one is
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out of the UK
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um it's usually done by a lady but for
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instance I'm gonna put one here I'm
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going to turn the I'm not going to let
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it play but basically this is what you
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see so each one is going to have an
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image you can see in the list next if
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there's an image of the mountains uh
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there's one called drifting on the
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stream now we always make fun of this
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because it's stock images and some of
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them are kind of blurry and you're like
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really they're just using a stock image
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over and over again so it's kind of
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silly but it also is good for add you're
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not really focusing on too much you're
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basically watching the same entire
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picture for three to five minutes right
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great for me
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um it's a lady uh with English accent So
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for anybody who enjoys a accent outside
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of your American accent this might work
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for you too
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um but really it's just
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it's fun
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um this is probably the most meditation
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meditation we do as far as what you were
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talking about as far as
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um listening to someone and watching
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someone right uh the other day I came
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across uh the timers that they have on
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YouTube where it's three minutes and all
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there is is music in the background
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right I never seen that before but it's
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the same type of thing right you know
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you want to do some and oh and actually
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this is where the stretching comes in I
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was talking to you about so uh after our
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afternoon exercise we usually meditate
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well now we're trying to add some
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stretching in because it's good for the
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body you know we have we get a lot of
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stiff necks over here so we're trying to
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do that so in between the meditation
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we'll get up and we'll stretch but we
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stretch to some sound so it could be
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Birds it could be rain it could actually
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be music like you do
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um so you'll notice that how you do it
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it's more from the meditation for us
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it's more for the physical and the mind
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put together because you want to kind of
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get everything your brain your body
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right right
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um so that's that guy
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um now this last one here I we came
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across this box into but I think this is
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adorable because it's animation but it's
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cute animation I think
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this is called psych to go so they are a
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um well they have almost uh 10 million I
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guess 10 million subscribers and they do
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let's see
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um so this is a funny one this is all
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about what of course there's an ad
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coming
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um
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let's now of course these are all going
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to be ads but uh the one I clicked on
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what does your favorite color say about
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you or what is your favorite food say
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about you
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um you know they've been up and down
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people talking about it but this is one
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and again for me the videos are not
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therapy so for those who kind of get
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critical and go oh well that's the wrong
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way to do it that's not how you diagnose
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I don't really think you're supposed to
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watch these videos to be diagnosed
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you're supposed to watch these videos to
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kind of like get you something right
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getting it calm so what's cute about
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these
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um is let's see
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um you know they have one on phobias and
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it's cute you see this little guy come
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on screen and this is what you see as
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you go through so you can let them play
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I'm going to turn the volume up but you
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can let them play so for instance you
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know you see those little guys do these
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things and they have their thought
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Bubbles and you know they do this whole
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little little doohickey this one's about
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uh phobias so this is a common one
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people probably can relate to
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um but this is just it's just fun
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there's no you know again I don't look
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at this and go oh well I'm going to
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diagnose myself using cartoons obviously
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not
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um but it's just a fun way to go about
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your day and you know I'm going to turn
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this one off now but I just I like it
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that's how we do it so again we do it on
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the TV uh we usually do our you know we
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do our exercise on the TV because again
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bigger screen uh but anytime we go to
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meditating anytime we go to go just kind
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of have a relaxing moment we'll pop on
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one of those channels and then we'll
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find something new because you know the
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cool thing about YouTube is they go hey
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you like this check out this guy
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and you'll end up going down a rabbit
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hole of really cool meditations and
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stuff like that so for me being that I
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don't want to spend you know money I
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like that I can go on YouTube and
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basically watch it all for free with
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maybe an ad or two in between oh no what
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are you gonna do
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um but yeah you can tell guys watching
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different styles of meditation you do it
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your way
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I do it mine exactly and that is the
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message guys that is totally the message
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there's a lot of opportunities out there
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different ways to do it there's no right
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or wrong way it's whatever works for you
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you do you I like music
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I like to put my headphones on I
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literally sit if somebody saw me in the
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morning I grabbed my Bose headphones on
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and the dog sees me and Barks at me but
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I look like a martian but I I do my
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meditation every morning that way the
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idea of actually watching a meditation
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on a screen I don't even know what I
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would do it makes me squirrely just
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thinking about it how am I supposed to
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meditate and watch at the same time but
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that's me right you like to watch and
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that and So Different Strokes for
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different folks and that's the message
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guys
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um any last minute thoughts about these
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apps we hope you enjoy this we had so
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much fun putting these together
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yeah I had a lot of fun
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um yeah hopefully somebody will find one
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who's watching of um who likes it and if
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not you know go on Google type in
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meditation apps and I'm sure you will
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find a gazillion different
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things right you'll find something you
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like and if you don't like it try
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something else try something else and if
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we missed a favorite app that you like
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to use let us know put it in the
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comments we'll come back swing back
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later on and take a listen to it or take
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a watch it and maybe add it to another
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show
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we're so thrilled you guys joined us
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today we know that you have a choice as
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to where you spend your time you chose
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to spend it with Rob and I today we are
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thrilled about that go out give somebody
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an awesome day and we'll see you next
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week on the next minding your mental
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health goodbye everyone
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okay
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