Practice #58 - Meditating In The Rain At Florida, BAREFOOT AND SHIRTLESS!

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So me and my friend are just chilling in a villa that we rented across the country from

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where we normally stay in Florida and it's raining.

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And in our villa it's just, it's a screen and porch and then it's overlooking a lake.

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So there's like a little pond in the middle with some very nice greenery and it's a very

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nice area.

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So it's kind of like a circle of villas surrounding a pond in the middle.

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And then there's kind of like this mountain thing with a bunch of greenery and trees and

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stuff all over it, like this kind of rock like formation with like a waterfall flowing

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down.

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And we're both kind of chilling.

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It's about to be bedtime.

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So we're just chilling, winding down and we're both journaling.

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Just enjoying our, enjoying ourselves.

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And we're looking into this pond and it starts raining and it actually starts down pouring

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really quick like the heavy kind of down pouring like shh.

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And so we're just kind of enjoying ourselves, still journaling and this idea pops up into

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my head.

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I look at him and I'm like, you want to do something crazy?

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And I think he knew exactly what I was trying to say because I started to take off my shirt

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and we started sprinting.

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We both raced out the door and running barefoot and shirtless with nothing but shorts on.

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We just sprinted straight out the door and ran around our villa all the way into the

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rain onto that little hill, that little mountain kind of thing.

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And we, it was not like somewhere that pedestrians are allowed to be or at least not like expected

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to be or they shouldn't necessarily be there because there was a sidewalk and then it was

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just like a bunch of bushes and trees and then you like go up and then it's like the

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hill.

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But it's like a forest in between the sidewalk and the hill kind of thing.

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And so we literally just like kind of push our way through and walk over all the like

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the brush and the bushes and all that stuff.

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And it's raining and we're starting to get like mud all over our feet.

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And it's, it's an awesome experience.

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And we get to that top of that like mountain kind of thing overlooking the pond and we

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just sit down and we literally just, we literally just sit there, crisscross apple sauce at the

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top of the mountain and then just, just sit there and watch.

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We're getting soaked by rain, but we're just sitting there.

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And I'm starting to get a little chilly because even though it is Florida, it's like rain

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and it's starting to get nighttime.

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So I'm getting a little chilly, but I'm just chilling because that's such a cool vibe.

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It's such a cool experience.

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And we kind of like do this meditation for a little bit.

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And then I remember this one instance where I just kind of got up and I kind of felt the

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urge to do this because I remember seeing this image of like the lion king standing

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on top of the rock overlooking like the entire kingdom.

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And I just did this.

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I like sat on the edge of the, of the mountain and literally just did this.

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And it was so cool.

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I felt like a beast.

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So I did that for a little bit.

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And then I kind of like just my mind was like extremely calm.

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I was like tranquil, I found peace in the midst of the storm.

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And then once we were starting to get like, okay, it's time.

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It's like, we've had enough of this.

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We, me and my friend Franklin, we walk like we actually, we like walked back down and

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then we start to go in the house, but then I feel another urge.

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I'm like, you want to do another crazy thing.

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And so there's this tree right here that is not really one that someone, actually it is

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a climbing tree.

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So we literally just climbed this tree and we just sit there in the rain.

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We're getting downpoured and we're getting all like muddy and our hands are full of like

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bark and all that like the stuff, like kind of mud like tree bark from the rain.

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And we're just sitting there.

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Just enjoying our time in the middle of the rain.

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Two dudes shirtless barefoot sitting on top of a tree shirtless.

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And by the way, it's not just rain.

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It's a thunderstorm.

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It's like lightning.

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So like this scene and the scene from the mountain was extremely awesome.

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That's something I didn't tell you.

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It was so cool because I was literally sitting on top of the edge of the mountain like this

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and it was thundering and it was lightning.

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I could literally see the whole sky like light up.

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It was sick.

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And then once we got to the tree, I kind of got a little nervous because of all the like,

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you know the image where it's like the lightning strikes the tree and then it turns like literally

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into char.

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I kind of like was thinking about that image while I was up there, but we're both just sitting

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on top of that tree and there was lightning going all over the place.

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Thunder like loud cracks of thunder and then lightning is awesome.

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So we stayed up there for a little bit.

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And then after like a couple minutes of this, I started to get really cold.

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I was like shivering at this point because I got like, I don't know if it's low body

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fat or it's just like not very tolerant to cold or like more susceptible to cold.

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I don't know.

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But I just got cold.

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And so we just started to get inside and we both like quickly showered off and rinsed

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off and then we put a towel and we just like sat back where we began at the table like

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in the screened in porch.

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And we just sat there and we just both got out of the shower.

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So we weren't like dressed.

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All we were wearing was a towel around us.

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But we were just sitting there, just sitting in our chairs, just watching the thunder and

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the lightning or watching the lightning, hearing the thunder and just watching the rain fall

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down and listening to it.

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The peace.

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And the funniest part of it or the most interesting part actually is there was a duck in the middle

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of the pond the entire time.

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Just chilling.

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Now that duck is a story for another time.

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So I'll be, I'll be sharing that story over, I don't know when, but I will definitely be

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sharing that story because there is something very unique about that duck.

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So stay tuned if you want to learn about that duck.