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Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in

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your present place of right now. To get there requires

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practice what I do every day one sheet of paper,

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just ten minutes, write about whatever is moving through your

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presence of all things right now without any type of judgment.

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Stream thinking will sharpen your skills as a listener, as

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a communicator, and as an activator. Learning to trust everything

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that's in your right now. This is stream thinking today.

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We're reading from October twenty seventh, twenty twenty four. Somewhere

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along the way, I heard that if you want to

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look and feel young, surround yourself with those who are

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My father's demeanor changed at the arrival of grandchildren. Suddenly

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he was a playful kid, dressed up in an aging

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man's suit. I have to remember, in my father's heyday,

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there weren't any of these amazing self help and religious

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study books, to which is where I find my truth

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in youth. It's in the spirit of how we think

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and react to all things around us. Being present in

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your place of now keeps you from comparing yourself to

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everything you once were. Feeling young is your winning choice.

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It's a choice. I don't want to sound like one

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of those radio disc jockeys who were always promoting some

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sort of weight loss program. But when it comes to

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feeling young, that told me one thing, get back to

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where you once were while still living here in the present.

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When I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in nineteen eighty five,

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I weighed in at one hundred sixty seven, well through age.

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And you've seen everybody around you, no judgment here, we

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all gain weight. When I had my heart attack on

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July twenty first, two thousand and nine, which today is

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July twenty first, so happy anniversary, and thank you Lord

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for giving me a chance. But here's the thing. I

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was two hundred and forty two pounds. It became my

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goal by the age of fifty that I wanted to

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be fifty pounds lighter, and I achieved that goal. So

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since that moment, I've been trying to do everything I

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humanly possibly can to get back to where I was

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in nineteen eighty five, not to relive my past, but

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to be in the present, moment of now with a

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body that I had before I became the truer, deeper adult.

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And one of the things that I've had to do

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is put a lot of attention on the daily writing

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to understand who I am, why I am, what I am,

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and where I am going or growing. And it involved

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a lot of sweets, chips, food, bad, bad, bad things.

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And the thing is is that when you start clearing

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your mind, body, and soul of those little triggers, then

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things began to happen, such as losing the weight. Today,

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I weighed in at one seventy eight. I'm nine pounds

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away from where I was in nineteen eighty five. I

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was twenty three years old. I'm now sixty three years old,

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so forty years later, I'm almost there. Looking and feeling

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young means work. Do the work, write, listen to yourself,

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get with people that will motivate you in the right way.

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Don't live in your past, being your present, and things

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will start to happen. By the way, I'm not taking

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anything to lose the weight. I'm just doing it right.

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I'm marrow and that's stream thinking.