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Speaker 3: Dropping Dropping Jim, Hey, Welcome back to another episode of

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Speaker 3: The Dropping Gem's podcast. I'm your host, Debbie Brown. This episode,

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Speaker 3: I want to dive into a little meditation. I've been

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Speaker 3: getting some beautiful feedback on the past few episodes, and

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Speaker 3: it's been really beautiful reading for those that have been

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Speaker 3: connecting to the meditations how much that that has allowed

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Speaker 3: you to deepen your practice. Meditation is, as many of

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Speaker 3: you know by now, just one of the most gorgeous,

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Speaker 3: powerful tools to being your heeled, whole, full self, your

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Speaker 3: previous episode of the podcast Triggers and Meditation, there are

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Speaker 3: to share something with you when I was first becoming

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Speaker 3: also where your purpose occurs. That's where some of those

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Speaker 3: M all right, that's it for this week. I will

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