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Welcome.

I often speak with the language of trance that we get caught in a trance that narrows our

world.

I was remembering one of my first conscious experiences of waking up out of a trance.

My entree into a lot of spiritual practice was through yoga.

And I remember I was in college and I had done a yoga class and we would end our yoga

class with meditation with silence.

And so my mind was pretty quiet when I walked outside and it was springtime and there were

fruit trees.

There was real the fragrance of the trees and slight wind and so my senses were taking

it all in.

And I just stopped and I stopped and it was just the moon and it was kind of one of those

classes I could have ridden a little hikku at the moment but I didn't.

But I did have this awareness that it was the first time I consciously felt my body and

my mind in the same place at the same time.

All there.

And it just become increasingly clear to me that in the moments that were stressed it's

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