Hey guys, this is one from the vault where we pull some of the classic episodes from the past on The Rise Up with Dragon show. Enjoy. Great morning world. Welcome to the Rise Up with Dragon podcast with your host, Dragon! ROND

RON! your host, Dragon! Great morning world.

All right, folks, ready, set, grow.

This is Naked Awareness.

Here's a few Dragon thoughts to get things warmed up. Let's practice some

present time consciousness today and recognize the massively groundbreaking potential that you and I

have in this very moment. We do this how? Through practicing gratitude, which I consider the super

highway to present moment thinking. Recognize that we have

things rather than recognizing the things that we don't have. What are you grateful for? I am grateful

for the basics. My breath, my heartbeat, my family, and the 24 hours that appear to have been granted to me again, as if I was

in a video game and my power had been depleted, yet I picked up some sort of green emerald and had

my life restored. That's what I'm grateful for this morning. Today, I'm grateful also for my eyes that can see, my ears that can hear,

my nose that can smell, my skin and heart that have the ability to feel and choose to see

that there must be more to life to you and I than we've been taught. I'm grateful for my

ability to recognize that my thoughts, feelings, and emotions are not strong indicators of my

reality. I recognize the important things yesterday that I may have overlooked that very well

may be the reason that I found myself overbooked.

These are the things that I'm grateful for now. This is naked awareness. There were two young

fish swimming, and an older, wiser fish swam up and approached them and said this,

Hey, you two. How's the water? I didn't really understand the question,

so they swam off and minutes later they looked at each other and said, what is water?

When Bill Gates first met Warren Buffett, their host, Gates' mother, asked everyone around the

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