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Reported speech
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I'd like you just to take a moment to think, when did you last take any time to do nothing?
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speaker asked about when did we last take any time to do nothing?
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The mind, our most valuable and precious resource,
through which we experience every single moment of our life.
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He said that our mind is the foremost profitable and valuable asset and in reality we don’t take any time to see after it.
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You know, the mind whizzes away lots of difficult, confusing emotions,
and we don't really know how to deal with that.
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Then he added that the mind experiences a lot of challenging and confusing emotions which we don’t know how to deal with.
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And the sad fact is that we are so distracted
that we're no longer present in the world in which we live.
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He claimed about the sad effect of our being so distracted and it is that we are no longer present in the world in which we live.
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It taught me -- it gave me a greater appreciation,
an understanding for the present moment.
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He clarified that it instructed him and gave him a more prominent appreciation an understanding for the present time
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I think the present moment is so underrated.
It sounds so ordinary,
and yet we spend so little time in the present moment
that it's anything but ordinary.
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And he told that he thinks that the present moment is so underrated and it sounds so ordinary, even yet we spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary
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There was a research paper that came out of Harvard, just recently,
that said on average, our minds are lost in thought
almost 47 percent of the time.
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He reported the research paper that came out of Harvard, that said on average, our minds are lost in thought almost 47 percent of the time
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Now we're not here for that long anyway,
but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought
and potentially quite unhappy
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After that he expressed that we came into the world to spend nearly half of our life misplaced in thought and possibly quite unhappy.
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I don't know, it just kind of seems tragic, actually,
especially when there's something we can do about it,
when there's a positive, practical, achievable,
scientifically proven technique
which allows our mind to be more healthy,
to be more mindful and less distracted.
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He wondered that it fair kind of appears awful, particularly, when there's something we will do almost it, when there's a positive, practical, achievable, experimentally demonstrated method which permits our mind to be more solid, more careful and less occupied
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And the beauty of it is that even though
it need only take about 10 minutes a day,
it impacts our entire life.
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He summed up that the beauty of it is that even though it need only take about 10 minutes a day, and it impacts our entire life.
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That's essentially what meditation is.
It's familiarizing ourselves with the present moment.
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He informed that meditation is familiarizing ourselves with the present moment.
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So we're looking for a balance, a focused relaxation
where we can allow thoughts to come and go
without all the usual involvement.
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He suggested that we're searching for a balance, a centered relaxation where able to permit thoughts to come and go without all the normal inclusion
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Now, what usually happens when we're learning to be mindful
is that we get distracted by a thought.
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Then he mentioned what usually happens when we're learning to be mindful and it is that we get distracted by a thought
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But when you sit down and you watch the mind in this way,
you might see many different patterns.
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But he argued that when we sit down and watch the mind in another way and we might see many different patterns
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meditation offers the opportunity, the potential to step back
and to get a different perspective,
to see that things aren't always as they appear. We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life,
but we can change the way that we experience it.
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He concluded that meditation offers the opportunity, the potential to step back and to get a different perspective, to see that things aren't always as they appear and that we can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
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