シャドーイング練習: The powerful release of letting go - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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hello friend I'm hope
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and I'm really glad you're here today welcome to English with hope a calm space for your mind
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and your heart in this channel you don't have to be
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perfect you don't have to rush here we learn English slowly we listen English gently no pressure no stress
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and here you are not alone wherever you are in the world I'm right here with you
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so relax your shoulders take a slow breath and let's begin can I ask you something not something hard just something honest
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is there something in your past
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that you still think about maybe it comes in the quiet moments
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when you're lying in bed when you're on the bus
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when you're just sitting there
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and suddenly something old comes back a memory a moment a
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person a version of yourself you're not sure you're proud of maybe it's something
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that hurt you maybe it's something you did maybe it's a chapter
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that ended too soon or maybe it's a chapter
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that went on for too long whatever it is I want
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you to know something you are not strange for holding on you are not broken you are human
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and holding on is something we all do today we are going to sit with
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that we are going to look at what it means to hold on to carry something heavy from the past
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and then slowly gently we are going to explore what it might feel like to begin to let it go
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not all at once not perfectly just a little just enough to breathe again
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because I believe something I believe you didn't come to this episode by accident something brought you here
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and I think part of you is ready ready to loosen
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the grip ready to stop carrying what no longer serves you this episode is called letting go of the past
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and I want you to think of this not as advice
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not as a lesson think of it as a quiet conversation between you
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and me between you
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and yourself are you ready let's go I want to tell
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you about a girl let's call her Sarah Sarah was the
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kind of person who remembered everything she She remembered the exact words people said to her.
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She remembered the exact moment things changed.
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She remembered the day she felt happy.
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Really, truly happy.
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And she remembered the exact day that happiness disappeared.
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Sarah was 26.
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She had a job she liked.
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Friends who loved her.
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A small apartment with a plant on the windowsill.
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the outside her life looked fine
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but inside Sarah's heart there was a box she never talked
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about the box she kept it pushed to the corner of herself
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but it was always there heavy familiar inside the box were things she couldn't throw away an old relationship
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that had ended badly
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words an ex-partner once said to her you're too much Sarah
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you're always too much Sarah a job she had lost two
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years ago a job she had loved the memory of failing an important exam
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when she was 19
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and something older deeper a moment from childhood she rarely let
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herself think about about she kept all of it in the box
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and every night without meaning to she would open the box
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just for a moment just to check just to remember she
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told herself it was normal she told herself she was just processing
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but the truth was this Sarah didn't know how to live without the box it It had been with her
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so long that it felt like part of her.
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One afternoon, her older sister came to visit.
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They were sitting on the floor of Sarah's apartment, drinking tea.
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The plant on the windowsill caught the late afternoon light.
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It was one of those rare golden hours.
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Soft and still.
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The sister looked at Sarah and said quietly, You look tired.
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Sarah laughed.
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I'm fine, she said.
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The sister didn't argue.
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She just nodded.
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Then she said something Sarah never forgot She said, you know, you're allowed to put things down,
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Sarah You don't have to keep carrying them everywhere Sarah didn't answer,
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she looked at her tea She felt her throat tighten And for a moment,
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just a moment, she felt something shift Not fixed,
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not healed, just loosened Like something that had been tied very tightly around her chest had given just a little slack.
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She didn't open the box that night.
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She didn't throw it away either.
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She wasn't ready for that.
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But she didn't open it.
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And the next morning, she woke up, and the first thing she felt was not the weight of everything behind her.
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The first thing she felt was the light through the window.
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It was golden, and it was now.
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I share Sarah's story
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because I think many of us have a box we all
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carry something maybe yours a shame maybe it's grief maybe it's anger
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that never found the right place to go maybe it's the quiet persistent feeling
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that you made a mistake somewhere
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and you still haven't forgiven yourself whatever you carry I see it
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and I want to tell you what I've come to understand
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about the box I want to be honest with you I
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don't have all the answers here I'm not standing above you
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looking down saying here is the formula do these steps be
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free now I'm sitting beside you on the same floor holding my own cup of tea
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because letting go is something I am still learning to every day in small imperfect ways
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but there are three things I've come to understand three things
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that have helped me breathe a little easier
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and today I want to share them with you the first
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thing I want you to remember holding on is not a
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weakness it was protection I used to think something was wrong
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with me why couldn't I just move on why did I
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keep returning to the same memories the same conversations the same regrets why did my mind keep replaying things
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that were already over I
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felt weak I felt stuck I felt like everyone else had figured out how to let go
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and I was the only one still standing in yesterday
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but then I learned something that changed everything for me the mind holds on
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because it is trying to protect you
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when something painful happens your brain doesn't just file it away
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and forget it it studies it it replays it it asks
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what went wrong how do I make sure this never happens again.
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This is not a flaw.
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This is your mind doing its job.
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Your nervous system learned that this memory was important, dangerous, worth watching.
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So it kept it close, very close.
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And for a long time that was exactly what you needed.
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Here's a private thought I once had.
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I remember sitting in my car one evening after a difficult day.
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And I thought, Why do I keep punishing myself with this memory?
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Why won't my brain just let me be?
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And then very quietly, something answered back.
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Not a voice, just a feeling.
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Because you loved that thing.
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And love doesn't disappear just because it's over. That stopped me completely.
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I sat there for a long time.
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And something in me softened.
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Holding on is not weakness.
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It was care.
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It was love.
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It was your whole self saying, this mattered to me.
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The past hurts most when it mattered most.
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So instead of asking yourself, why can't I let go?
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Try asking, what am I still honoring by holding this?
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That question doesn't shame you.
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It sees you.
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And maybe, just maybe, once something feels truly seen, it becomes a little easier to release.
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The next time a memory comes back, don't fight it.
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Don't push it away.
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Just place your hand gently on your chest and say, quietly, I see you.
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You mattered.
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And I am safe now.
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That is enough.
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Just that.
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the second thing I want you to remember you are not the same person who lived through
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that this one takes time to feel
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so I want you to stay with me for a moment think about who you were back then
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when that hard thing happened when that mistake was made when that loss occurred how old were you
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what did you know then did you know differently now what were you carrying then on top of everything else
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because here's what I think we forget we judge our past selves with our present wisdom we look back
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and say I should have known better I should have left
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sooner I should have tried harder I shouldn't have said that
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but that person the one back then they were doing the best they could
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with what they knew with what they had with how much space they had inside them at
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that time you were not failing you were surviving I think of it like this
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imagine a child learning to walk they fall of course they fall falling is part of learning.
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Now imagine going back to that child, that small, brave child taking their very first steps and saying, you should have walked better.
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Why did you fall so many times?
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You would never do that.
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You would kneel down.
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You would hold out your hand.
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You would say, you're doing so well.
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Look how far you've come.
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But we do that to ourselves all the time.
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go back to our younger selves our more afraid selves
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and we judge them harshly without mercy what
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if we tried something different what if we went back to
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that version of ourselves with kindness not to excuse what happened not to pretend it didn't hurt
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but to say you were trying in your own way with
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what you had you were trying a private thought I once
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had I remember looking at an old photo of myself from a very difficult period
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and my first instinct was to feel embarrassed ashamed even
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but then I looked more carefully and I saw someone who was just
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afraid just someone trying to hold themselves together
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and I felt something unexpected I felt tenderness not pride not
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pain just tenderness like meeting a stranger who reminds you of yourself you are not
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that person anymore you have grown you have changed even when it didn't feel like change,
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even when it felt like standing still.
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You are not the same, and the past cannot define someone who no longer exists in that same form.
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A small thing you can try, find one photo of yourself from a hard time,
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or just close your eyes and picture yourself back then,
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and say, gently, honestly, I understand why you did what you did.
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I forgive you, you were learning.
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You don't have to believe it fully the first time.
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Just say it.
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Let your ears hear you say it.
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The third thing I want you to remember.
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Letting go doesn't mean forgetting.
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It means choosing your present.
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I think this is the biggest misunderstanding
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when people say let go of the past it can feel
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like they're asking you to erase it to pretend it never happened to delete the memory to stop caring
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and that feels impossible
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because you can't unknow something you can't unlove someone you can't unfeel a feeling
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that was real so you hold on
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because letting go feels like losing something all over again
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but I want to offer you a different picture imagine you
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are holding a stone a heavy stone you've been holding it
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for a long time your hand is tired your arm aches someone says put the stone down
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and you panic but if i put it down what
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if i forget it was there what if i lose the proof
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that it happened what if letting go means it didn't matter
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but here's what i want you to see putting the stone
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down doesn't make it disappear the stone still exists it is still real it still happened
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but now your hands are free now you can hold other things better things softer things things
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that belong to today letting go is not forgetting it is simply choosing to stop carrying it is saying This happened.
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It was real.
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It changed me.
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And I am choosing, slowly, gently, to carry it differently now.
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Not in my clenched fist, but in my open heart.
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There is a difference between remembering something and being imprisoned by it.
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You are allowed to remember.
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You are allowed to honor what was.
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And you are also allowed to be here.
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Now.
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In this moment.
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Where the light is different.
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Where you are different.
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A small thing you can try when the past pulls at you and it will try this one sentence.
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Say to yourself, that was then, this is now, and now is where I live.
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Just that.
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Let it be a small, quiet anchor.
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A way of coming back to yourself.
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You don't have to banish the past.
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You just have to remember where you actually are You are here right now reading breathing
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Alive and Here right here is where your life is happening
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Let's slow down for a moment no lessons no pressure just you and me I
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I know everything about letting go can feel far away sometimes like it makes sense in your mind
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but not quite in your heart
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and maybe a part of you is thinking you don't know
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what I've been carrying you're right I don't know all of it
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but I know this
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if you're still here still listening still trying then you've already
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been strong in ways you don't even see maybe it was love
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that didn't last maybe it was a choice you wish you
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could change maybe it's something you're still quietly carrying every day whatever it is it mattered
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and it still matters
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but here's something gentle to remember your past is something you
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went through not something you have to stay in all those what ifs
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they don't have answers because your life didn't go
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that way it went this way and somehow you made it here
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that matters more than you think if there's shame if there's regret
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that doesn't define you you are not your worst moment you
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are the person who kept going after it everything you've been through it It didn't ruin you.
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It shaped you.
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It softened you.
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It made you more human, more real.
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And that is something beautiful.
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So hear this gently.
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You are not your past.
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You are what survived it.
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You're allowed to put the weight down now, not all at once, just a little.
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You're allowed to choose today, as it is.
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And if you're here, Still trying to understand yourself with kindness?
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That's already growth.
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That's already healing.
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And you're already on your way.
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We're almost at the end.
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And I don't want to give you a long list.
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No steps.
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No pressure.
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Because healing isn't something you complete.
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It's something you practice.
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Gently.
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Slowly.
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One day at a time.
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So today, just one small thing.
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Tonight when things feel a little quieter, take any piece of paper and write one sentence.
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I am choosing to release.
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Then finish it.
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However it feels true for you.
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It could be guilt.
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A past version of yourself.
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A hope you've been holding on to.
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Whatever it is, just write it.
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Let it exist outside of you for a moment.
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Then look at it and softly...
この動画で話す練習をする理由は？
英語を学ぶ過程で、実際に話すことは不可欠です。この動画「手放す力」では、リラックスした環境で、感情や思い出について考える機会が得られます。講師であるホープさんは、完璧さを求めず、自分のペースで学ぶことの重要性を説いています。このような心のこもった会話形式は、英語学習者にとって、思考や感情を表現するスキルを磨く絶好のチャンスです。実際の会話を想定しながらシャドーイングを行うことで、自然な発音やイントネーションが身につき、英語の発音を良くする手助けになります。自分を解放し、自由に話せるようになることは、自己表現の手段として非常に有効です。
文法と表現の文脈
この動画には、いくつかの重要な文法構造や表現が含まれています。以下にいくつかの例を示します：
- 「not something hard, just something honest」 - ここでは、否定形や形容詞の使い方が示されています。自分の気持ちを素直に表現することが強調されています。
- 「you are not strange for holding on」 - 否定語と前置詞の使い方が良い例です。「holding on」のように動名詞を使用することで、行動に焦点を当てています。
- 「part of you is ready」 - ここでは、現在進行形と現在完了形を使って、感情の変化を表現しています。これにより、英語を話す際の流暢さを向上させるための基盤が築かれます。
一般的な発音の落とし穴
英語を話す際に、特に気を付けるべき発音のポイントがあります。以下の単語やフレーズに注意を払いましょう：
- 「holding on」 - ここでは、「h」と「o」の発音に弱い部分があるかもしれません。正確に発音することで、自然なリズムを保てます。
- 「let it go」 - このフレーズの「t」と「g」は特に注意が必要です。間違ってスムーズに発音しないと、不明瞭になってしまうことがあります。
- 「something」 - この単語を発音する際、母音の部分が省略されやすいので、しっかりと言うと良いでしょう。
これらの発音の落とし穴に気をつけながら、シャドーイングを行うことで、言語能力を向上させることができます。定期的に英語シャドーイングの練習をすることで、自然な会話力を養いましょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。