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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 co-host and Son Rob
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Glasser good morning Rob good morning or
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afternoon I think it's afternoon
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actually
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um so on minding your mental health we
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talk about the topics that shape mental
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health today we teach the importance of
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inclusion and share why we should be
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kind so whether you're here live doesn't
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matter we love you make sure you know
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where you're tuning in from so today
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even though I'm talking really really
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fast
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the show is all about going
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so Rob what are we talking about I'm
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awake I swear
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um all right guys so a few weeks back we
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talked about enjoying the uh presence
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and this kind of goes with that form
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um something that is very popular on
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YouTube is called slow living and it's
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basically taking every moment of time
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and using everything to your best
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advantage or full advantage I should say
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not taking too much care now that sounds
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kind of weird and boring but it kind of
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has a good back story as far as slowing
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down so slowing down in terms of
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clinical words according to many
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psychologists it means just taking
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enough time away from your schedule
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um in this particular case the article I
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read from says take mini bricks uh it
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doesn't have to be very long it could be
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anywhere between two and five minutes
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and this by itself does just as well as
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your rest periods so this obviously is
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not in lieu of getting very sleep or
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obviously you know yeah
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testing what are they suggesting in the
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next two to five minutes so there's
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actually a few things and I think we're
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going to kind of see because I know we
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wrote down some on our script so let's
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see what they say and see if it Compares
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with what we talked about and see what
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what they have so their first example is
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progressive muscle relaxation I learned
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this from my therapist not a big fan to
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begin with
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um it's basically the tensing and
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untensing of your muscles from head to
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foot you have to be very in the moment
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and focused and you know me I have ADD
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focus is not my friend but what it does
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is it helps to relieve any physical
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stress or tension that's in your uh body
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this then in part should if done
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correctly uh make you a little uh a
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little happier a little um make you feel
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better a little bit right
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um so this is one you can do and again
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no products involved it's just you and
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yourself and you basically stand or I
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guess theoretically sit as well and each
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individual you can either go from foot
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to head or head to foot and you just
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tense and untense as you go again I'm
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not a fan I've done it it kind of hurts
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more I might be over tension which could
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be my problem
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um but I can see how this could be a
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interesting meditation if you're not
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into just a regular I've done you know
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I've done something similar to that but
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not the 10 sensing but more focusing and
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feeling like the the feeling of warmth
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or whatever as I work my way down from
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my head all the way to my toes so you
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focus on oh okay yeah and you focus on
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your you know your face and you relax
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your cheeks and you do all that stuff I
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think I would probably be like you with
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the tensing I probably would overdo it
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because I'm an overachiever like you are
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so now it does feel good in some parts
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like when I do to my hands and my arms
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it's sore but then the feelings subside
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and you actually kind of feel good on
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your arms and legs especially when you
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wake up it's kind of fun but yeah I I've
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heard the way you do it I think also my
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therapist told me about that it's more
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of a uh kind of thought process but
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again that's such a vague idea for me
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I'd be I wouldn't have no idea what I'm
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looking for
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number two however I think everybody can
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get into here we're going to talk more
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about this on Thursday as well uh pop on
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some music
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um it doesn't have to be something
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you're necessarily into
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um I have a select list of songs some
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upbeat some low B
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um and those songs just kind of take me
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away for a minute
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um I will admit I love listening to
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theme songs to my favorite anime back
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there which is hilarious but it makes me
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feel good and that's what matters and
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the thing is is it's not so much what
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you like it's that your brain is allowed
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to kind of run wild and resets itself so
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while you're having fun I didn't
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actually know this until I read this
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you're actually putting a factory reset
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like you would on your computer right on
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your brain right so you're not only
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enjoying the music but you're actually
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kind of letting it recharge and repair
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for a minute kind of kind of cool yeah
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[Music]
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um
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excuse me number three uh breath work so
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the interesting part on this that I
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wanted to point out here is they
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actually have ways to do it depending on
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what you're feeling if you're feeling
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anxious or stressed you want to actually
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extend the exhale
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and I believe that's probably because
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you are releasing more however if you're
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feeling tired or you need to up a boost
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then hold the inner hair
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which I believe just kind of tricks your
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brain and gets your blood flowing a
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little bit too right and this one I've
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done many times uh whether on purpose or
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subconsciously whether just sitting in
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front of the uh um meditation video or
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just sitting in bed or somewhere for a
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minute and letting myself
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it redirects your your thoughts exactly
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and it takes little to no time I can do
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my breath work in about five minutes or
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so and under
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um again it's on a race I'm not saying
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you have to do it in five minutes
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um but it's just something very easy to
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do and it's something that for I who's
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not always down for the videos I see
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breath work is something that I can
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pretty much get into no matter what
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because it's you know it's something you
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do regularly your brain and your heart
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are now naturally breathing why not let
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it work a little more as far as your
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internal not just for your physical
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organs I don't know all that so
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it's kind of interesting one right there
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number four in childhood or an or find a
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new one I kind of like the first part
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engage your childhood activity
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this is one of those things where you
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just have to go and obviously depending
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on where you live any equipment you have
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will obviously say what you can and
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cannot do but you know for instance uh
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being a boy scouts I do a lot of hiking
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so hiking could be one
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um I apparently swam is according to you
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so swimming could be one not that I I
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don't know but um you know I was outside
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collecting rocks and flowers stuff like
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that so whatever it was that you did or
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if you really can't think of a good
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childhood one then yeah make one up pick
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a hobby that maybe you've ever tried for
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anything I keep telling you when you
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know when we get to our new place I want
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to get into gardening never gardened
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before but it looks really fun I see a
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lot of videos I see a lot of stuff so
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pick a hobby
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um I my assumption is when they say
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childhood it's something to kind of
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revert yourself to the happy times but
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again I think in general just doing a
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fun activity childhood or not right
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exactly and I'm doing what you did I
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mean I I planted a garden over the
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weekend
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um oh that's right yeah it's amazing
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because I'm the one who walks around
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saying I have a brown thumb well I
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apparently I don't they're still alive
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the flowers are growing and I have
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Rosemary but it was very relaxing I have
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to tell you putting my hands into the
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the dirt and and you know what do they
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say tilling the soil and and putting all
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this out there and planting it you feel
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like you're creating life or extending
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life and it was really cool I really
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enjoyed it I think so there you go other
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than the you know I'm touching dirt part
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it sounds like a good time uh no I'm
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just kidding uh no actually and I saw
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what you showed me the uh there was
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again all that stuff it actually that
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looked really cool
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I'll be intrigued to see what it looks
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like when it comes full and actually for
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those who are in winter right now there
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are a set of seeds you can actually
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plant and by March or April they bloom
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so they're actually supposed to be
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planted in the cold that way they bloom
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well in the spring right I think they're
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bulbs some of them are bulbs yeah
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they're flowering kind of you know some
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of that so uh number five cozy up with a
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good book you can ask uh Krista uh
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herself
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probably the easiest thing to do for
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anybody because you probably have at
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least one or two lying around uh read a
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book you can do what I do read a article
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on something uh I'll watch the History
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Channel show and go that's kind of cool
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hop on the computer hop on my phone and
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read an article about whatever it was
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um again I go with the vague I don't you
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know a lot of people will say you know
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read the motivational book read the
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whatever if that's your Forte sure go
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for it but a lot of people don't like
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that so I would just say pick something
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you like I like doing the historical
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research other people don't I'm weird
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that's just me
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um you know Chris that mainly has her
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her fiction she has her Kindle she has
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we have these books we have the books
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and I do personal development I have so
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many personal developers there you go so
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that I don't even remember how to read a
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fiction book because it's like I'm so
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used to learning something that I read
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that when I read Fiction it's like I'm
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not learning anything here I'm just
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hearing a story so it's interesting I
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like nonfiction I like as you do
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historical research you like yeah I mean
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I like learning about the you know
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history science stuff I mean I like a
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good fiction too as well but yeah you
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just you pick up something you want to
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read if you're a newspaper person read
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the newspaper and you know Rob I've
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heard a lot of people say well I don't
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know I'm not a good reader and I say
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start slow do 10 pages get in ah yes
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yeah right do 10 pages and that's how I
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actually started reading again because I
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had I stopped reading and I started
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reading again you do I do I start off
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with I'm gonna do 10 pages and before I
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know it I am deep into it and I am
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continuing to read so it's a great it's
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a great Habit to to discover I think
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yeah uh number six put that sniffer to
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work just like music and hearing uh
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makes a good a good smell uh one of
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their actually uh ideas of this kind of
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word I believe orange actually is good
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for the sinuses but they said you can
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actually put an orange in your shower
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and the smell from the or I I wouldn't
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do that but the smell from the orange
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actually relieves a lot of uh right the
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heat activation yeah but it also gives
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you a pleasant thought process well
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interesting um you know and again if you
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you've probably heard about it you know
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you peel the orange
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juice the orange it's got a different
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thing
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um people do that with uh with apples
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with um uh whatever B the orange feel
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the Orange
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yes that's weird but yes exactly exactly
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um but yeah a good smell will put you in
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the mood maybe it's cookies maybe it's
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you know I don't like the rain but some
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people do like that smell
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um maybe it's the forest I mean fine to
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scent and funny enough people bottle
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everything so if you can't go out and
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find it pick it up at Target because
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it's probably there in some sort of Jar
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I like lavender I'm a lavender girl the
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aromatherapy stuff yeah exactly diffuser
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and I have one in here and one in our
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bedroom and I have lavender lavender is
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very soothing but for those of you who
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don't like lavender me you like the the
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Christmas scent because you want to have
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Christmas all year long you can put that
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in there as well or you know interesting
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and it keeps your house smelling nicely
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and you're right it soothes you the
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minute I start smelling it the aroma I
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just kind of go ah and that's what and
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it works it works double it helps you
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feel good and it helps you feel good
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right good exactly and the last one on
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here for them is move your body uh you
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know me I exercise at least three times
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a day the end of the day we do the cool
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down exercises but the beginning of the
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days we do our you know more intense
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ones uh but again same thing uh with the
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um
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uh you know being outdoors doing the
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activities moving your body exercising
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you feel good yeah you look good you
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know you feel good up here all that
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stuff matters together so slowing down
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and it's funny because that's how
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something's slow usually the exercise is
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pretty fast paced but it's the after
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effect it's the you know
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go down you know we stretch every night
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same type of thing you know if you guys
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are too if any if you're tuning in live
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right now and you have a comment want to
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share with us go right ahead put it in
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the comments and if if you're here on
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replay also make sure to put in the
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comments because we will go back and
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check and see who's who's commenting on
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all of these and we're talking about
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learning to slow down today and I'm
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laughing because I talk really really
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fast and as I'm saying we're going to
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slow down
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I think I need to learn to slow down
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apparently
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um well I'm looking at the list we have
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and I'm pretty sure I mean I think most
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of the stuff they wrote down we wrote
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down too so great minds think alike
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apparently the only thing that I saw
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differently was the meditation but we
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kind of talked about that as well
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mindfulness goes with that
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um I don't know I'm out of ideas on mine
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do you think about anything else yeah
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actually I'm gonna throw one hey Kathy
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perfect time oh perfect time
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this is the time of year that we all get
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really really really stressed one of the
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things that I'm
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Robin she's an amazing author and an
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amazing motivational uh speaker and she
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has gone through she has anxiety she has
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all these things and she talks about
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something called the five second rule
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that will stop you in your in your in
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your you know in your path and so when
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you're feeling stressed and you really
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realize that you need to just slow down
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what she says is to count backwards from
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five to one five four three two one and
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then go so no matter what it is so if
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you're if you're in the urugu like going
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fast fast fast and you know you need to
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slow down try it count backwards and
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then take a deep breath what it is it's
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a pattern uh interrupt
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so wherever you were it totally slows
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you down if you haven't read Mel Robbins
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go check her out she's amazing
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um and she talks about the five second
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rule now Rob I'm gonna throw out a funny
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for all of our viewers so when you were
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younger and we went to a party and there
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was a humongous bowl of salad on the
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table and the the bowl tipped over onto
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the floor so the salad was everywhere
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and you were hysterical you literally
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shouted out as it fell five second rule
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because apparently you can anything has
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a five second rule you were literally
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telling people if you as long as it
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wasn't there for more than five seconds
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it was okay to eat now knowing how we
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are today can you imagine even saying
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that or doing that not so much right ew
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but it was funny
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totally funny
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so we're going to share something
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because
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um we've put together some cool
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journals
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so when you're living in the now and
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when you're slowing down another good
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thing to do is take your Journal out and
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write down something that you are
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grateful for
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right
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yeah
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so we have three different books if you
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go over two hold on let me put this up
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the importance of now specifically go
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get that one this importance of now and
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there's some other really cool items on
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there as well so just added a water
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bottle this morning so you know check it
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out guys check it out
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Rob any last minute thoughts we can
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share with our audience in terms of
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living in the now
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uh well it's funny we said that because
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we kind of like that's that was the
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other show but apparently it's the same
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show so we're doing our repeat no
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um
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yeah just
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um
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just enjoy the uh enjoy the moment enjoy
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the time and uh
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take a time or uh take the time to enjoy
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the view I know that's a really bad you
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know and the reason why we named this
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show slow down because it was a song
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running through our head and Rob before
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we went live she said he said are you
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going to sing it yes of course I am of
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course I am slow down don't move too
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fast
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gotta make the morning last I'm
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embarrassing my son oh my gosh okay I'm
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gonna stop
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I'm totally gonna stop
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go out guys we're really happy that you
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joined us today choosing us as your
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viewing today really makes us feel good
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because we know that you have a choice
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so go out give somebody an awesome day
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because we're going to see you next time
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on the next minding your mental health
16:57
see you later everyone bye
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