In this episode of HOW DO YOU LIVE? we feature a Sam Smith’s and Jermain Jackman’s voice coach – Anthony Wade aka Dr Voice. Anthony explores the big question: What’s the biggest killer on the planet?
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Video Transcription:
I gave the talk to these doctors once it
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was amazing and I asked the doctors in
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the room: “tell me – what’s the biggest
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killer on the planet?” and they said:
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“stress”. Exactly, stress, right, okay – what is
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stress? Stress is a chemical it’s a
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chemical reaction that goes through the
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bloodstream. It turns into acid and burns
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holes in the arteries and depletes the
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organs. So… there’s another chemical in
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your body worse than stress. It’s so
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dangerous it can annihilate every other
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chemical in your body believe it or not.
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It’s a very powerful chemical and this
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chemical is natural to us. It’s called
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oxygen. So when you fill your body full
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of oxygen you are getting rid of stress!
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You are becoming still and calm and
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you’re saving yourself from aggravation,
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irritation, pain, anything that’s going on
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in your mind or body because you’ve
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actually done that technique and it
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would take you to that place where
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there’s no stress. Oxygen… and where this
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oxygen comes from… the first day you were
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born
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(Imitating child cry) – with the voice, the breath and the
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voice married – true authentic self. There it
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was and there it is in you, now, and on
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the day you die you have your last
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breath. I realised there’s something
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bigger than what everybody’s doing
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there’s something bigger than what
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everybody’s trying to do and I thought
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it was God so I became a religious nutter.
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I became a Mormon a Christian a
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Pentecostal a Methodist you name it I
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claimed every denomination studied it
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read the books Bhagavad Gita the
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Quran, Ramayana the Aquarian Gospels
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the Bible, I studied and read because I
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was so hungry to know what God was. So
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what is God? Well, for me, I’m not
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religious I don’t want to get into
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religion even though I’ve been through it
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and did it so many times but now I’ve
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become very very aware of who I really
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am and this was the journey that I took.
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Looking for generator operated destroyer
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G O D was my whole quest, and it started
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when I was 9 when before the Beatles and
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I really wanted to know why we’re alive
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why we had a body why am I here I had to
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know the answer to this, and it pushed me
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and forced me to emigrate because I
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couldn’t find it in England around the
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family which was, my family was very much
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limiting me in my pursuance of education
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and growth so I had to get out of that
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area. That’s why I went to Australia. Now
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in Australia was incredible
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because I was able to see and learn so
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many different types of things from
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different cultures,
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well, how people were and it was this
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time that really made me hungry to know
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the truth even more and was until one
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day I found myself sitting on a park
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bench at the age of 20 throwing religion out
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of the window, throwing my belief in God,
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Jesus, Buddha, anything at all, to realize
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there’s no such thing.
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I’m sorry it doesn’t exist and it wasn’t
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until I realized, with my bottle of
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whiskey, that I was finished. I actually
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did want to take my own life.
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While sitting there a man came over to
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me with a corks around his hats, an
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Australian character and he looked straight to
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me in the eyes and said: “don’t you know,
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God is within you”.
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There I was. God is within me. Not in a
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book, not in a religion and there was
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that that took me on the journey to
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pursue the real truth of my existence
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and this took me to a place where I
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started to learn about so many people so
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many things out there, were people
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talking about “go within”.
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Go within what? Coffee shop in Damascus? Go
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within what? Your body. How do you get
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inside your body – you put your feet up
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into your mouth and start walking? What
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do you do? How do you go inside? Well,
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first you have to close your eyes. Now…
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how many people understand what closing
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your eyes does? Most people close their
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eyes only to sleep. We do it just to
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go to sleep but to close your eyes to go
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on a journey is a different experience
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and you can’t do it on your own. It’s
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like anything else. Some people might
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be able to do that but most of us can’t
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and it was my quest to find a guru,
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someone who could show me, a person, an
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able-bodied person who could tell me,
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show me how to go within. This is when I
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found the person I needed to find so
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there I was, really intrigued and I
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waited for 18 months before I could
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receive this thing called knowledge
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which I did and it was that, from that
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moment I realized that I was not just
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this mind and not just this body. I am
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something else and so it is for all of
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us we are not just a mind and just this
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body, and how do we know that? How do we
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know that it’s very simple. I want you to
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try this, try this. I’m sitting here now
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looking at you and my hand is, my left
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hand is here and I don’t know if you can
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see my left hand but my left hand is
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here, now. I’m looking at you and as I
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look at you I can also see in my peripheral
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vision in my left hand. I would like you
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to try that now, don’t look at your hand
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but just have it a little bit away. As
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far as you can and just feel that that
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hand is there as you’re looking at me.
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Now as you’re doing that, you see in your
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peripheral vision your hand – it’s just
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floating there. Just indulge a thought
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with me: that hand… it could be someone
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else’s.
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Does it feel like yours? It’s like it’s
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just there… no – you know intellectually
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it’s yours, but feeling just seeing it in the
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peripheral vision it’s like – hang on, it’s
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floating. We are floating in a body, we
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are not this mind. We are not this body.
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We are something inside, floating in a
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body. Now this became a very powerful
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realization for me in my time of
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meditation of which I did 10 years
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roughly 8 hours a day to find out, to
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uncover, to look who I really am.
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Inside – not the outside, because we spend
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too much time going out. We look out, we
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listen out, we taste out, we feel out and
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yet these five senses have the
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incredible capacity to go in and no one is
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bothering and it is the same with the
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voice. Our voice is the echo of who we
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really are. Our voice has a very powerful
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presence. There, as I speak, you can hear
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me, as I speak, [ you can hear ] that I will use my breath
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on my voice, like this: “aaaa..” – my breath comes
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first – “aaaaa…” – then sound comes afterwards – “aaaaa…”.
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It’s rather like a surfboard on top of
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the water. The water is like the breath, the
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surfboard is the sound. We all make sound – “aaaaa…” –
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that’s what we’re doing. I want you to try that, try
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that with me now. It’s mad I know
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but try it! Go: “aaaaa!”. Just feel your breath,
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take breath in, go: “aaaaa!”. Isn’t that incredible?
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You’re making a sound. Now I want you
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to say a word with me today. This word is
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a word that describes you perfectly and
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this is something I’ve learned on my
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journeys. I just want to share it with
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you I hope you don’t mind.
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Just indulge with me, it’s like, it’s
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interesting because you might have some
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insights and learn something from this
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about you.
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So you take a breath in and you say this
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word please and this is the word I want
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you to say, take a breath in and the word
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is: “me”. It’s mad isn’t it?… “me”. I want you to listen to that.
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You’re at home you’re watching, listen to
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that word. Here it goes;
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breathe: “me…”. Did you feel that?
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What did you feel? Do it until you feel it.
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Keep doing until you feel it. Breathe:
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“me”.
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Close your eyes and feel that me and you.
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Just feel that “me” in you. Do it again.
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Breathe. You can feel the vibration in
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your chest. Vibrating. You can feel the
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air vibrating. It’s your chest vibrating.
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This is a resonator in your body which
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makes sound. Do it again so you can feel
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it:
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“me”. Did you feel that? Did you feel you
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in that me? If you did… if you’re
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thinking a lot you won’t. If you’re
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wondering a lot or you criticising me and
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thinking: “oh I’m an idiot”- which is….
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I understand – you’re not experiencing
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that feeling. So have another got, one
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more time: “me”. Feel it. Breathe and go: “me”. Did
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you get that? If you got that you’re
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experiencing the “me” in you and that “me” in
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you is free it’s divine it’s not
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attached to anything but the sound.
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The “me” in you doesn’t criticize,
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doesn’t judge, doesn’t live in the past,
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doesn’t live in the future. That sound
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you made – “me” – is here, now, in this moment.
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As you make sound – “me”.
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The self, however, judges. The self
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criticizes. The self is saying all sorts
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of comments to you but the feeling of me
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has nothing attached to it. It’s honest,
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it’s your sound, is who you are making
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sound. Now that, believe it or not, is the
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root and [is] connected to the root of your
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authentic self. It’s the part in you we
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forget and don’t look at everyday and I
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asked that question to you: how many of
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you want to be your true authentic self?
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How many of you really want to feel who
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you are when you speak or when you talk
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or when you live? You see… when you feel
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your voice, when you feel your sound
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you’re in the moment. Right now, as I
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speak to you I have no thought. There is
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no thought in my body.
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I’m listening to my sounds and I’m
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connecting with you only, in the sound of
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my own voice. Reaching out to you to ask
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you to look inside, to look for that
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truth in you, to look for your sound in
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you and when you can and when you feel
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that sound in you and that breath in you
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and you understand that – you will be
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transformed. It doesn’t take long for
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transformation to occur. It doesn’t. All
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it takes is understanding. When the
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understanding is there, immediately,
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transformation takes place.