Shadowing Practice: you will never worry again after this - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi everyone, it's been a while.
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I hope you're doing well.
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Before starting this video, I want to say thank you to each
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and every one of you who watched my previous video about emotional independence and left so many encouraging comments.
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I really appreciate you guys sharing your stories and experiences.
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Reading them reminds me of why I am doing this
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and it felt truly amazing and fulfilling and magical
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because for the first time ever my voice could help many people
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and i could see it with my own eyes
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so it really means a lot to me thank you
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so much for today's video i just want to share some thoughts
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that have been on my mind for the past few days i have been recovering from a flu actually
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which was quite serious that's why my voice still sounds a bit hoarse
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and raspy anyways during my three week recovery i couldn't do anything much
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so i spent a lot of time resting and also contemplating about life
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and one of the things that really stuck in my head is
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that i think as humans we worry in a really unnecessary way we worry way too much about our life
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that could end any time have you ever taken a really close look at your worries
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when you look at them closely they all seem really irrational
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and almost ridiculous i mean who are you who am i what is our true identity
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those are the questions i've spent the past few years seeking answers to for now i can tell that
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we are not confined to socially constructed identities i know
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that i'm not just hang that's the name my human parents gave me
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and what people call me
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but I'm not a name I am also not a student
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not a teacher not a youtuber not a content creator I
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am none of these identities I am more like a soul
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moving from an infinite realm where there was no linear time
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no physical space nothingness basically to this physical world where linear
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time exists to experience something called life I am not going
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to impose my spiritual beliefs on you you have the right to align yourself with any identity
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but I just want to say that
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if you remember you are more than just a physical being
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and that you are here to experience a very fleeting life compared to the eternity that you've spent in the spiritual realm.
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All experiences that you have will feel more vibrant yet lighter and you won't worry about anything anymore.
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I really want to emphasize the importance of remembering who you truly are.
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We think that the more we grow up, the older we get, the more we understand who we really are.
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But that's not the case.
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The truth is most of us have been taught to forget
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who we really are i mean has anybody in your life
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like your parents your teachers has anybody in your life ever told you
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that you are more than just this physical body
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if i told someone in my life these things
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that i am a soul you are a soul i am a soul we are souls
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most of them would think
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that i am crazy i mean we have been taught to
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forget our true essence Our true identity has been covered by layers
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and layers of limitations You don't want to limit yourself in this physical expression of a human being
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But more like a free infinite being Who has existed for probably hundreds
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or even thousands of years If you are an old soul
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And that your journey doesn't end here Actually your end is the beginning Sometimes I think about death
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and it's a topic that humans tend to avoid talking about because it seems to carry this ominous,
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foreboding connotation, you know.
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But for me, death is very different.
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I look at it in a very different way.
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First of all, death and life are present simultaneously.
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It's not like when life ends, death comes.
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No, death is a part of life and life is a part of death.
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For example, inside your body, millions of cells die every day.
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Your skin cells are continually replaced.
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The outermost cells eventually die and shed while newer cells move upward.
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Nature does the same thing as well.
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A new leaf grows in spring, right?
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Then it changes color, falls, decomposes and eventually becomes a part of the soil.
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And that soil provides nutrients for new plants to grow.
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And also if you look at your own life, so many past versions of you have died.
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We become new versions of ourselves by allowing old things to die.
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so what i want to say is that
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if you zoom in on life you realize
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that death has always been intertwined with living and secondly like i said before if we come from a spiritual
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infinite realm and we reincarnate on this earth then when we die our journeys still continue you.
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I think death is going back to where we truly belong.
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Death is coming home.
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Death is coming home.
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It's like taking a break.
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You know, it's like taking a vacation after a long time of working, learning and gaining experiences.
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You finally go home, take a break and your journey will continue somewhere else.
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So when you remember all of this, how can you be worried about anything?
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Let me give you some examples to make it easier for you to imagine.
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You know, when you were small, sometimes you worried about your parents not buying you the toy you wanted, right?
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Sometimes you worried about not getting a good score for your midterm test.
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Sometimes you worried about your crush not reciprocating your feelings
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and now when you look back at those worries do they seem serious to you no they all seem
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so small and trivial
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and even silly right that's how you as a soul that's how a soul views the things
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that you are worried about right now and by saying this i am not marginalizing your problems
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people can face big challenges and it requires a lot of effort
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and strength to pull through but to be honest many things
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that we worry about are not that serious their importance
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and seriousness have been magnified in our human brain
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because that's what is designed to do it exaggerates risks
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and discomfort to keep it safe but at the same time stresses us out
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and makes us suffer mentally and emotionally
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when you know how long you have existed in another form of consciousness before you arrived on this earth.
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The difficulty or the challenge
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that you are worrying about right now will change from this
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giant scary monster in the eyes of a human into a tiny speck of dust in the eyes of a soul.
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As a soul, you have gone through it all.
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Everything.
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Things that you, of course, cannot remember or even imagine now, but you are stronger than you think you are
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so much more than you think and if the things
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that you are worrying about really happen even though there's a really small chance of
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that happening you can still survive the worst case scenarios everything is survivable even death is not
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that scary when you look at it as coming home
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if you fail try again if you try again
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and still fail maybe try one more time if you have tried
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so many times
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and now you are completely exhausted just give up maybe this is not the right thing for you
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and you have been given so many signs
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that this is not the right thing for you
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so just give up take a break
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and embark on a new journey later I mean we need
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to make peace with the worst case scenarios don't let them scare you
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and you will take away their power over you As long as you are alive, there will be another chance,
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another option, another path Like I said before, this life that you have is very,
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very short compared to your total existence as a soul Time passes so quickly here You got the chance to be here,
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to experience this human life To resolve your bad karma
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and to enjoy the fruits of your good karma
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And you are telling me that you are wasting all of your time and energy on worrying?
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Okay, this is how I imagine my journey.
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I like to think that as a soul, before I reincarnated on this earth, right?
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I was given this assignment from a higher power.
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And it says that I need to live this life to the fullest
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and learn lessons and take notes of everything
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and later I'll need to give like a presentation in front of other souls
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and a higher power to talk about my experience in this lifetime
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and I don't want to stand there
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and be like okay I spent more than half of my time worrying about stupid things, imagining worst case scenarios,
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being bothered by how others thought about me and not doing anything because I was scared of failure and judgment.
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That's not what I want to do.
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I want to stand there and give the most
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insightful joyous and inspirational speech about this lifetime and i want to add
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that not every soul in every lifetime has to do something
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extraordinary not every soul has to carry a grand mission you know maybe your mission is to live a calm
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and quiet life it's just as beautiful
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but i'm sure that when your time comes you also don't want to regret
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that you you cost yourself
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so much unnecessary suffering from worrying too much about everything right i think
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that worry is just misused imagination it's imagination going in the wrong direction as humans one of the greatest gifts
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that we have is creative imagination and imagination is the root of all creation everything
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that you can possibly see in front of you right now
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is a product of imagination a chair had existed in someone's
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mind before it was made a painting had existed in someone's
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mind before it was created a certain outcome had existed in someone's mind before it was materialized
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so things exist on the mental
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and emotional planes before they exist on the physical plane the
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problem is humans are using too much of our time
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and energy on imagining things that don't serve us things that dampen our mood, weaken our spirit and steal our peace.
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Worry, fear, anxiety, doubt, all these emotions and mental processes are products of willful imagination.
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It's willful imagination.
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We often think that there are external factors that make us worry
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that we are victims of certain circumstances but the truth is we created our own worries.
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Some people are even addicted to creating negative scenarios in their minds to have a sense of control
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but of course it's just an illusion so
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worry is just misused imagination now you can turn the tables
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and change the way you practice imagination by imagining things
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that actually benefit you and bring you peace it's just as simple as
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that it's simple but also difficult at the same time it's difficult
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because if you have spend the majority of your life being stuck in this loop of worry
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and anxiety it requires a lot of self -awareness
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and self -discipline to break it however it's also very easy
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because all it takes is just a committed promise
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that you make to yourself that from now on you will only entertain thoughts
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and beliefs that bring you peace peace of mind honestly is just a decisional way
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that decision is a product it's a it's a result of you realizing
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that you are in control of your inner world and
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that you deserve peace and
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that you can create peace for yourself you know in the past I used to think
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that if I can change my living space
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if I can move to another city
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if I can have a lot of money
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if I can achieve all of my goals and dreams
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if I can just escape my present circumstances i will finally experience peace
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but that's not true i have changed my living space
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i have achieved some really big dreams and goals i have had more money but i didn't feel at peace
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once something was done i had another thing to worry about
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once i achieved something my mind started to aim at something bigger that's
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when i realized that escapism is not the way out of worry
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and anxiety i mean of course there are things
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that you should do and changes that you should make to improve your life
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and have better experiences
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but peace should not be dependent on external factors peace is in here real peace always comes from within
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if you don't learn to find inner peace regardless of your present circumstances worry
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and anxiety will always follow you wherever you go, whoever you become.
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Even when you have billions of dollars, even when you become the most successful version of yourself, even when you are in the healthiest relationship with the most loving person,
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you will still find countless things to worry about.
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What I have learned is that you can only experience peace
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when you accept everything that is happening in this present moment and don't hold any resistance to it.
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You just let things happen and you go with the flow of life everything feels lighter
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when you accept it as what it is even struggle or discomfort
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or suffering I have this really simple example to explain why
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accepting unpleasant things can make them less unpleasant for example
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when you cut onions you slice them and you chop them right
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and your eyes are watering and stinging like crazy and to be honest it's quite irritating
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I have observed that when I fight against that burning, stinging sensation and I complain about how unpleasant it is to cut these onions,
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the stinging gets worse.
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But when I accept that, okay, chopping onions will make my eyes water and it will sting a little, I'll just let my eyes sting,
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I'll make peace with that burning sensation
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and suddenly it feels almost like nothing my eyes are still watery but it's not irritating and unpleasant anymore.
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The same thing goes for all the situations in our lives.
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When we don't fight against anything, when we just accept things as they are with no resentment,
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no disappointment, no dissatisfaction or resistance.
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When we just treat everything as neutral events without attaching any negative interpretations or preconceived notions to it.
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Our bodies relax, our minds relax, we heal faster and we experience more peace no matter what is happening.
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You know, there are things that will never happen.
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No matter how hard you try to make them happen, there are things that will 100 % happen.
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No matter how hard you try to prevent them, there are things and people that are not meant for you
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and they will leave you even when you think that they will stay with you forever.
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There are also things and people that are meant for you
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and they will cross oceans and galaxies to eventually find you even when you lose all your hope.
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Everything happens at divine timing.
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You cannot force it.
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You cannot predict it.
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You can only let go of all your expectations and resistance
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and just let things happen naturally and you will always arrive in the right place at the right time.
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So no need to worry, just relax and go to sleep.
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Sleep deeply and soundly tonight, knowing that what's meant for you will find its way to you
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and that you can survive everything because you are a powerful being.
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You are so much more than everything that everyone has ever told you about yourself.
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You are so much more than everything you have known about yourself.
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Every time you forget this, please come back to this video.
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And I guess that's everything for today.
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I hope this video brings you peace and reassurance.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Please take care.
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I'll see you again soon.
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Bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “you will never worry again after this”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: peace, soul, worry, experience. This video has 227 sentences and 2741 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:34. The speaker talks at a natural 156 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| imagination noun | /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/ | The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images. |
| sting verb | /ˈstɪŋ/ | To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. |
| anxiety noun | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event. |
| scenario noun | /sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/ | An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events. |
| unpleasant adjective | /ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/ | Not pleasant. |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| spiritual adjective | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul. |
| lifetime noun | /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ | The duration of the life of someone or something. |
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| infinite adjective | /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/ | Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense. |
| onion noun | /ˈʌn.jən/ | A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice. |
| circumstance noun | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event. |
| belief noun | /bɪˈliːf/ | Mental acceptance of a claim as true. |
| soil noun | /sɔɪl/ | A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth. |
| layer noun | /ˈleɪ̯ɚ/ | A single thickness of some material covering a surface. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| pull through verb | To come through pain and trouble through perseverance. | |
| take away verb | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | To remove something and put it in a different place. |
| zoom in on verb | To quickly focus on a particular subject or object. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I hope you're doing well.
- That's not what I want to do.
- I'll see you again soon.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been · i've spent · you've spent |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are not confined · have been taught · has been covered |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 22 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'll, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, unnecessary /ʌnˈnɛs.əˌsɛɹ.i/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like imagination, sting, anxiety.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.