Hi everyone, I'm going to take some time to test the mic and the loudness of my voice. We're going to talk to you about a project, a very special project that we're working on. My colleague, Mark Elalami, he's our Mural Administrator and Ion Carolina Sandoval. He's a learning specialist at the University of Luxembourg, but we're working on a project called University. So a few months ago, we asked ourselves a question, if you got to design your learning ecosystem from scratch, what would you do? No administrative constraints, no, this is the way we've done it for the past 20 years, therefore we keep on doing it. No, this is what the structure is like right now. We had an opportunity to think out of the box and decide every single element we could include for our community. So next, I don't know if you were in the earlier presentation by the European Commission. I felt a bit nervous because she made this great image of European universities and how we are the future. European universities are uninitiated by the European Commission. So we are five, not six, but we're five universities where European, which means that we have to work in a transnational environment. We promote European culture, values and education. We're trying to revolutionize higher education, so we're trying to come up with different ways that we can define programs and create learning opportunities. And as you can imagine, we're highly reliant on technology. We have students in different locations, lecturers in different locations. Every member is participating in different ways and we need to have a place to put this. So we also had the choice to choose the learning platform as well, the LMS. So one of the biggest challenges we had within this context from the beginning is how can we ensure that all these students will stick to our programs? Because it is optional to take these courses. For most students, they are re-enrolled into a different program in a university. So this is an opportunity for them to try something new with a lot of scary elements. This is based on some actual pedagogical research on online education, distance learning, what our students fears. We all talk about MOOC education, like MOOC programs, but when you read that more than 90% of students drop out of the course and it's mostly based on isolation. So we didn't want our students to have to go through this. Over 40% of students, they need face-to-face interactions, even if it's in a virtual environment. In our context, it's very difficult to ensure this. So we asked ourselves, how can we use an LMS, in this case we chose Moodle for many reasons, that will support our students through this process. And I'll let you think about your context, because these numbers were actually before the pandemic. So all these students that before the pandemic already have said, I do not want to try an online course because I need interactions and I need to connect with people. Suddenly had to do it. So our focus was virtual learning communities. We decided that we would use Moodle, because we were able to customize as much as possible our learning platform for a virtual learning community. We felt that this would help students through the process and when they're on those situations where they cannot connect with someone, they had alternatives. We have five universities, many universities, but we also have multiple institutions associated with their universities. So we actually have in total nine institutions right now and we're expanding for the next stage. Reality is that not every single student has the same access to technology. We have a digital device and higher education in Europe, even if people are not aware of it. We wanted to be able to set up the system for students, no matter what technology they have, whether they lack the technology to still contact any member to ask for support. We wanted to be able to center like resources. Not every university has access to the same type of licenses or the same type of software. We wanted to provide training for all these professors in different universities because we cannot control what our universities are doing or how they are developing their courses. So we needed to take care of this as well. When we talk about innovative pedagogical approaches, as we said, we are still trying many things and most of our lectures will not be delivered in a classroom to a group of students. They might be in different combinations, some of them might be pre-recorded, some of them might be virtual. We don't know because every single course is unique and there is no set structure or rules. So as Caroline said, we were lucky to start from scratch, so we had no constraint about migrating data from a platform to another. And we had experience in using Moodle. So we were able to focus on the needs of the platform of today's and the future. So what did we know at the start? We need some digital mobility. So a student following a course in a country should be able to coordinate, collaborate with students or teachers of other countries. The platform should allow to combine in-person and distance learning. A teacher can give a course in the University of Toulouse in-site with students in-site while other students from other countries should follow the same course online. And the difficulty is also that the different universities use different tools for streaming. Toulouse uses Zoom, University of Luxembourg is using Webex. So this is some difficulty. And so for the scalability, we started with small courses attached to the program of each university. But this course will grow, more users will enroll and more courses will be created. Everybody should be able to create its own account, so we cannot predict how many users we will have in a year or two. And as Karolina said, we are two new universities joining in the coming months. So Moodle offers a wide range of technology and solutions. We spent some time in adapting the current roles available in Moodle and creating new ones for each type of user. So from the student to the teacher or instructional designer or even the data private officer. We created all this course and adapted based on the respect of the GDPR. So and for the plugins, we based on our experience of the University of Luxembourg platform, we selected the most useful and used plugins. We made the selection because some plugins were very old and not GDPR compliant anymore. And we installed, with the new one we wanted to install, we made sure that they had the privacy friendly logo or that there was no problem with the data transfer with the plugins. For the login, we used, we choose the SAML2 single sign-on plugin from Catalyst. This plugin allow any members of the consortium to create an account on our platform while connecting with his own university home, university credentials. So this is very, very good for us because we don't have to manage the account. And for the cohorts, with a combination of plugins, we managed to create cohorts and groups based on the different institution. We had, so the cohorts allow the institution to directly connect with their own students on the platform. So in some circumstances, students don't have access to computers. So we made sure that all, when we set the model that it was all compatible and adapted to a mobile phone. So while choosing the template or adapting the course template, we were always testing it or adapting it to a phone display. And finally, for the GDPR compliance. So the world, all the world was defined with permission based on the GDPR. And we created also a policy notice with the help of the data private officer of the University of Luxembourg. So it was, it's based on the Luxembourg law, which is a bit difficult in this, in this circumstances has different countries are involved. So different laws and data is transferred from a country to another. And the policy, the policy notice, take that. Okay, so we put some images because they look pretty as well. Just so you get a glimpse, we also have the link to our Moodle platform. So you can see afterwards how it's been set up. One of the important things of European universities and especially with our project is to give back to society. So this project actually started in 2020, November 2020. We kind of officially launched, but we had a temporary Moodle then that was a bit not as functional. And it did not incorporate the elements we want to provide right now. For example, when you arrive to the Moodle, you see the space dictionary, the dictionary of space concepts. This was actually developed by students or focus is space research and development. All our programs focus on that. And we're trying to work on developing tools and resources with the focus on space that others can use. For example, high school students can come in here and find terms specific to space. Fine, we right now we're doing the languages of all the universities. So we have an English. So we have French, of course, English. We have Swedish because we have also Sweden, part of the project. Polish and German. So when you go in there, you can find terminology translated in all languages and explanations. We also have the available courses as a catalogue because, again, we want to attract students but also educators. We want teachers to be able to to want to join these programs. Right now, accessing the courses is limited to, of course, our alliance members. But we're also hoping that this will develop into MOOC-like courses afterwards that anyone can take to do their own professional growth and development. So yes, we have the announcement section where we have everything is not just about events related to our alliance is also space related events. If there's a consortium, people send us this information and we share it in the front page so anyone has access to it. We also have language courses that anyone who is from the alliance can take the language courses for no additional costs and our partner in German in the University of Düsseldorf, HSU, is providing out of the language courses for free for all our students. And yes, the MOOC-like where we're working on developing it, but right now it's lecturers who offer the content for free for anyone to be able to follow them. And the learning community, the next one. So if anyone saw the good, the bad and the ugly workshop, we were there and we're kind of pleased that we actually were nailing some of the spots. At the University of Luxembourg, we have had the teachers' corners for a really long time. This is a community base for educators course where we have different types of resources. We have open forums where teachers can post resources. They can ask for additional support on something and pretty much exchange ideas. We have lots of tutorials between quick how-tos to more advanced tools that they can use in Moodle. We also have a section explaining, we create an activity catalog because you can try to convince the teacher to use a specific activity, but until they see it, they might not know that they need it. So we actually create a catalog with every single plugin we have in our Moodle, a sample of how could be used, instruction and additional information. We have a tech support system. Again, we have professors that are everywhere in Europe, so it's not as simple as going and knocking on your tech office to ask for supports. We have all kinds of repositories for resources that teachers can use between images to templates for presentations. I don't know how I'm doing with time. I'm good. If you want to check it out, especially the dictionary, this has been a lot of work. We're using the Glossary activity for it, but we're also developing a database activity to collect information. Our goal is that at some point any member of the European community can add terms into this dictionary. I think we're good. Questions? Thank you. Thank you very much. We have time for questions, so please raise your hands and we'll take questions. Hi, and thank you for this amazing show of your work. I have two questions that don't belong to each other. The first one is, have you already done another poll with the students? How they like online learning now that you improved it in that special way? The other question is, how big is the administrative part of dealing with all those teachers with their needs and different specialities? That's all. Thank you. We just launched our first set of courses. We have 18 courses right now that are interdisciplinary and all of them combined have to have at least two partner universities. So we just got students enrolled, so I cannot give you feedback on that, but some of the teachers, because I work directly with the teachers as well, they have told me, I wish my university would do this for us. So to me, as an in-learning specialist, that's the greatest feedback I can get. Regarding administration, it was decided at the beginning of the project that every university would hire an instructional designer. So I was hired as an instructional designer for the University of Luxembourg, but also as a person helping with the implementation of Moodle, I do a lot of one-to-one with the instructional designers and with the teams of professors as well, because sometimes a course will last one semester, but then you have two professors, two instructional designers, plus all the lecturers involved in it, and I have to work with them. Any other questions? So you said that in order for a course to be able to be made, at least two universities have to sign on to it. Once the course is initially made, can you reuse that course after, like you have one semester, and then can you use that same course again the following semester? There's nothing preventing us from doing that, but in most cases, every course proposed is attached to an existing program. So usually, if two universities propose a new course that is connected to different master programs, it also has to be interdisciplinary. So we have law, like an example is satellite communication, business, and law. So you bring universities together, and it's just one semester for the different universities. Do you have any information about how this has impacted teaching and learning across Europe, whether anecdotal, or what have you heard in response to this program? I mean, everyone who is involved in the program is technically volunteering. Every professor who joins in, they're joining because they want to try something innovative, and then they share it with their colleagues. So at the beginning, you start with a small group of people, and we're slowing attracting more people, and sometimes we receive emails from professors who say, like, hey, I heard from this person that you were working on this project. I want to try it too, or I want my students to have these opportunities, access to these kind of lectures. And we also have lecturers that when they see the proposals, they ask me, can I attend? Like, I'm really interested in all these things. I mean, many times as an educator, you have ideas of things you want to do, but you don't know how to channel it. So we're trying to do that.


First and foremost thing that one needs to understand is, love is not something that you do, love is something that you can become. If you are being love, you are in the sweetest mode and a highly exuberant mode.  In this, there cannot be any entanglement. But you are trying to milk another person with this trick of love, then of course it will be entanglement. May you know the joy, may you know the beauty, and may you know the self-obliteration of being in love, falling in love.


Hey, this is Brett. In this 2022 GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Denali is stock number 14050Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Phan Lack, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2022 GMC Sierra 2500 has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine. It is the L5P engine and it's paired up with the Allison Heavy Duty 10-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation possible. Summit whites the color. I upload all my videos in 4K, and if you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel to do YouTube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 20-inch polished aluminum Denali wheels. They look really good. It has Nitto Exo Grappler AMT tires. These are LT27560R20s, and they are brand new tires. We put those on in our safety inspection. They are brand new tires on this truck. It does come with the Z71 off-road suspension package. Front fender is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings in there, and it does have the LED headlamps, running lights, and fog lights. I'm going to turn all those on at the end of the video, so you can see just how bright they are. You also get the chrome tow hooks in the front bumper parking sensors, as well as the chrome-trimmed grille. This one also has a 360 cam, the fully functional co-induction hood. The hood itself is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings up there, and it does have the cab lights as well. Passenger side front fender, no dents on that. And the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of this 2020 GMC Sierra 2500 take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. Take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. You can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. The truck wheel is in excellent shape, and the back tires are brand new as well. If you get the felt wheel well liners, it keeps your frame and underbody looking good. And other than being a little dusty under here, looks really good, has all the remaining factory exhaust, and you do get the power running boards. I always like showing those so that you can see that they're working nicely. You also get these side box steps, the lights in the fenders as well. You can see the denser dings on that passenger side box coming around to the back. The rear bumper is in really nice shape. It does have the backup parking sensors, full towing package which includes a receiver hitch, and seven pin wiring. You get two hookups for auxiliary cameras on a trailer or whatever, and for full disclosure the only thing I saw is one little ding on the rear bumper there. But that's why we do the videos because these are used vehicles. It comes with the multi-pro tailgate, so it comes down like that, and then you get the spring and bedliner back here. Fifth wheel and goose neck prep, there's your step assist handle, four pin, and seven pin wiring back here as well, LED bed lights, and you do get a 120 volt 400 watt plug-in back here as well. That spring and bedliner goes on to the tailgate. Speaking of that tailgate, it also drops down into a step, which is pretty sweet. There's a bunch of stuff that you can do with that tailgate. LED tail lamps coming around the driver side just as clean as that passenger side, no major denser dings on the box, and for full disclosure this back wheel is in nice shape as well. Down the rest is side of the truck, doors and cab all look really good. This one does have the telescopic tow mirrors, LED side lights, blind spot wiring, they're heated, built-in directional signals, they power telescope out, they power fold in, you have the 360 camera on there as well. I'll show you the back seats real quick. This is probably one of the coolest interiors I've seen. It's like a dark brown and like an indigo blue interior.  These back seats are heated on the outboard side, they do fold up. There is a storage tray underneath here, there's your engine block heater cord, weather tech floor mats throughout, carpeting is nice and clean underneath. There are your heated seat buttons, USB-C, USB and a 12 volt power point. Seats fold down like so, these headrests go down like that for better visibility when nobody's riding back here. Got the really good looking woodgrain trim, the blue and brown matching there. Child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look fantastic. I want to show you the VIN sticker, no Canadian trucks here as well as the trailering information sticker and the tire and loading information sticker. Inside, once again, the Denali package gives you that dark brown and blue leather interior bucket seats in the front. You get the Denali stitched into the headrest, no rips, no tears, both these seats are heated and cooled, weather tech floor mats in the front, auto headlamps, heads up display, fog lights, cargo lights, that's how you turn on your LED bed lights and LED side lights as well, push button, four-wheel drive, power windows, locks, mirrors, like I said these mirrors do power fold in. I was like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly and then they do power telescope out and in, out and in. So that's working nicely and you get a memory driver seat. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. Alright, it's gonna make me open the door. There we go. 22,635 miles on this truck instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You get the nice digital display on there, compass display, comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls and I'm thinking that's adaptive cruise controls on the left. We'll double check in just a second, heated steering wheel controls and then you get the Allison 10-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift and then you get the GMC infotainment system. This one does have AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. It does have the factory navigation system. There's Highway 41 so that is working nicely and then you get all your different apps on here including Apple CarPlay and Android Auto where you can project your cell phone to the screen. You can check out your cameras here.  So you can check out all those cameras. Really great especially if you're towing stuff. A lot of cool things you can do with this radio and then there's your other apps on there. Down here are your more tactile volume tune and climate controls including your dual climate controls, heated and cooled seat buttons, factory exhaust break, lane departure warning, parking sensors, you can power drop down that tailgate, hazard light stability control that's for the plug-in in the bed of the truck, down hill assist control and you can turn those power running boards off. Down here is your factory brake controller, USB-C, USB, 12 volt power point and 120 volt 150 watt plug-in and your wireless cell phone charge pad, keyless entry, remote start and power drop down tailgate, passenger side glove boxes and seat are an excellent conditional rips or tears on them and they headliner is in a very nice condition as well. I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in, smells very clean, get home link buttons up here as well, map lights, power sign, rear window and sunroof controls, on-star and SOS buttons and you get a review mirror camera. Actually we'll start it up and I can show you that. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. You also get the digital speedometer on there, you get the heads-up display and then there's your review mirror camera, it's a video display of what's going on behind you, you can turn that off for just a normal review mirror or have it on like so. Alright, let's go turn on all the lights and I'll show you under the hood. Bose premium sound system as well and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, they're your LED side lights and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality, condition, options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change on the fluids having checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go. There is the emissions sticker and I would highly recommend this truck to make quality and conditions standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new news cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three-quarter tons, one tons in a minute, we got to go to the website right there is summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube, 8,000 videos and counting. 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These are more recent murals here. I don't know if you've ever seen the one of Vietnam one up the road. There's La Gloria, that white building in this mural. And this one is beautiful. This is the one of Vietnam. The one who painted this said that's his father sitting there looking in a picture of his mother. The one in a graduation. Ball to boots.


Hi and how are you all today? My name is Priyanka. The question to be discussed is diagonal AC and VD of a trapezius of A,B,C,D with AB parallel to DC. Intercept each other at O. Through that area of A,O,D is equal to area of B,O,C. Now this is the figure which we need to refer. Here we are given that A,B is parallel to DC, right? And also A,B,C,D is a trapezius. Through that area of triangle A,O,D is equal to area of triangle B,O,C. These two triangles we are talking about. Let us start with our proof. We can see that triangle A,B,B and triangle AC,B are on the same base that is AB between the same parallel lines that is AB is parallel to DC, right? So we can say that therefore area of these two triangles will be equal to each other because triangles between the same base and between the same parallel line are equal in area. Now notice that these two triangles are having the area of triangle A,O,B as common. So on subtracting area of triangle A,O,B from both sides we get. Now from the area of triangle AB,B if we subtract this area we are left with this area, right? So we can say that therefore area of A,O,D will be equal to from the area AC,B if we subtract this area we are left with this region. So it is equal to area of B,O,C. So I hope you enjoyed. Have a good day and bye for now.


to everybody. Welcome to day five of the challenge. Today, we're going to talk about mindful walking to Saturday afternoon. Not sure how many people are going to pop in today, but that's what we're going to talk about today. Using walking as a way to practice slowing down and being mindful and paying attention to what you're doing at any given moment. It's really good way to do it. It's something that people tend to overlook.  And you do not. That is actually not true.  So today, we're going to talk a little bit about mindful walking, using walking as an opportunity to practice being slow and paying attention to what you're doing. So we'll wait for a few folks to show up. I'm not exactly sure how many people are going to be here today, given that it is a Saturday, but you know, practice on the weekends too, right? So let's see, if you pop into the chat, I'll wait for a few minutes, just give me a hello to let me know that you're here. If you're coming from the hey, Nat, if you're coming from the Facebook group, I'm sorry, I have to remind you that I will not see your name because of restream. Hey, K, what up? Folks are for showing up. This is cool. And we'll get into it in just a minute. So this is an interesting topic because a lot of people don't really think of being able to be mindful and paying attention when up and about. They tend to think that you have to be sitting quietly, you have to be laying down, there has to be like nature sounds and music playing and things of that nature, not necessarily true. We could practice these skills anytime we get a chance, including when we're walking around. So the basic premise of the challenge is that we want to learn how to slow down, even when anxiety and stress and fear are telling us to speed up. That is the basic premise of 7% slower, the book that's up on your screen right now. And when we practice this, when we don't need to, it becomes easier to do this when we do need to, like when anxiety, stress and fear are rising on us. So Anna's here, Ingle is here all the way from Norway. Good morning, says somebody in my Facebook group, which means that you are behind us, maybe West Coast, I'm guessing. So welcome to everybody. We have about 13 or 14 people here. We'll get get cooking on it. So mindful walking. Have you guys ever seen? Sometimes you see them in parks and places like that. There's one not too far from me, a labyrinth. If you're familiar with a labyrinth, a labyrinth is just a layout, usually in a garden, that sort of thing. Excuse me. And it's just a circular path of stones or stepping stones or however way that's laid out. It's a circular walking path that isn't very large. And it doesn't go very far. It just goes around in a circle, right? And it bends back on itself and you slowly walk that labyrinth until you get to the center of the circle. And then you can turn around and walk back out again. And a labyrinth is a really interesting example of something that you can use to practice mindful walking. The point of mindful walking is to just make yourself aware, right? And we're always talking about mindfulness as an exercise and paying attention. Make yourself aware of just the act of taking your steps. So when people talk about mindful walking and walking meditation is actually a thing that a lot of people do engage in. It's really just about paying attention to each step that you take. Feeling your feet, hit the ground, roll along the ground, right? The heel to toe thing. And then pick back up again. And then the next step hits. Step, step, step. You're just paying very close attention to the sensation of your feet hitting the ground, leaving the ground, hitting the ground, leaving the ground one step after the other, bringing your attention back to that sensation. You can bring your attention to your breathing as you do this. You could bring your attention to the feeling of the breeze if there's a breeze outside. You could bring your attention to the scent of the sense that you smell in the environment. Maybe the grass was just caught or there's a garden and you could smell the garden. Doesn't matter what it is. You're just trying to bring your attention to a focus point and keep it there. So the object of the game here, part of what we're practicing in terms of learning to slow down and be mindful and pay attention is paying attention, putting our focus someplace, our attention someplace and keeping it there. So this is essentially just an exercise in learning to pay attention. Really, that's what mindfulness is. We were talking, we've been talking about that. So I urge you guys to try mindful walking. You could do it anywhere. You don't have to do it in a garden or a beach or through the forest. You don't have to do anything like that. I mean, if you have those environments, that's great.  Next time you have to get up and walk through the house to go to the kitchen or something, try doing that in a mindful way. Just put your focus on the act of walking, keep it there and walk from one place to the other. Give it a shot. It's it's to be very useful. And a lot of times that walking is one of those places like the shower where we're guilty of like you're running really fast, like we walk fast, we got to get walking is just the conveyance to get as fast as possible from A to B. And sometimes it is. Sometimes you do have to walk quickly. There's nothing wrong with that. But other times you can take the opportunity to walk very slowly and mindfully in practice. So let's see. Let's take a look this. I don't have a lot to say about mindful walking other than I would urge you to try it. And the challenge behind mindful walking and like intentionally walking slow for a lot of people is, you know, that thing where like, well, if I tried to put my attention somewhere, I can't because the sensations of my body keep coming up and they come to the front of my mind and I can't ignore them. I have to think about them. Or I have so many racing thoughts, whether they would be anxious thoughts or intrusive thoughts, or just thoughts about the day I have so much to do. I have this going on like I don't argue with my sister, whatever it is. So sometimes people will say I can't do this sort of thing because all of thoughts and sensations come back up in my mind and that's okay. We're not doing this to learn to stop those thoughts or thought or stop those sensations. We're doing this to learn that we can actually pay attention to something other than those things. And if you have to repeat going back again to note back to my steps back to my steps back to my steps, that's okay. You might have to repeat that refocusing of your attention every two or three steps there's nothing wrong with that if you have to do it that way, then do it that way. That's totally fine. This is a thing that takes practice. One of the reasons why I'm doing this challenge is to give you a bunch of things, several different things that you can use all throughout your day to practice. Because we have to practice. We're not going to be automatically good at these things. So let's see what the comments say today. Let's see. Ann is here. I got a lot of hellos. Stepping left, stepping right. Yes.  Step, step, step, step. It might seem really weird. It's going to feel kind of foreign. It's not going to feel natural to you the first time you do these things. But that's okay. Again, practice is the way to go. But yes, that's exactly what this is. Let's see this comment here. We'll go through some comments. I've been trying to keep these relatively short. But yesterday went a little longer. Let me see what's going on in this comment here. I try that before where you need to concentrate on how your feet feel on the ground. And then when you lose track of it, you concentrate again. I can't even do it for one minute. That's okay. So Natalie says that you cannot even do it for one minute. That's totally fine. I'll be honest with you. There are people that spend their entire lives, like Buddhist monks, dedicate their entire lives to these type of practices. And they don't get good at them sometimes. Even the most mindful person with the most experience stumbles and our brains wander and our attention wanders. So don't think like, well, you know, if you do it for a minute, that's actually really good to tell you guys the truth. So don't feel bad that after a minute you're kind of lost in it again. I always tell people all the time, like I've been meditating regularly for many years now. And there are many times when I will sit down and I'll decide to do my meditation and, you know, like six minutes into it, I realize that I've been thinking about old song lyrics or movie quotes or old, you know, like hockey games or what I'm gonna have for dinner. Like that's just what happens. It's okay. We don't judge success or failure in this based on like, oh, I couldn't do it for more than a minute or I couldn't do it for more than 10 seconds. Totally fine. Do the best you can. Just practice it. That minute that you give yourself is worthwhile. It matters, right? So it's okay. If you have to keep refocusing and practicing, there's actually nothing wrong. So this is exactly right. It's paying attention on purpose. That is really our operational definition of mindfulness is learning to pay attention and really be aware of where you're putting your attention. Direct it where you want it and then keep it there for as long as you can. That's what this is really all about. Let's see my daily practice. Walking is my jam. Now, even though I can't see your name, I would take a guess. I would venture a large amount of money as to who that is. Is that Donna? Really great. Dan, you're very welcome. Thanks for the tips. These are just things that you can practice. Practice, practice, there's nothing wrong with it. I'm going to keep telling you that. Try these things. If you struggle with them, just go back to them. Be gentle with yourself. You don't have to judge yourself harshly because maybe you're not so good at mindful walking or mindful showering or mindful eating, which is what we talked about yesterday. By the way, if you haven't seen the rest of these videos and we'll do another one tomorrow, tomorrow we're going to do mindful listening, listening with attention and then on Monday we're going to wrap up the series with breathing because we've got to talk about breathing. We've got to do it. Be gentle with yourself. If you're having a hard time with this stuff, then there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. You just go back and try the best that you can every day. Make the effort. That's okay. Mia is here. Mia is here looking for more tips. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. This video series has everything. It's an inside jokes here. Everybody's here for the inside jokes. Okay, you're very welcome. Oh, Anna's from Singapore. I love that, you know, the audience is so global, so welcome from Singapore. Good to see you here. You can try mindful walking in Singapore too. Works everywhere. Let's see what this comment is. I can actually do a chat overlay. I just realized this. Check this out so that your comments come up on the side, this side. Oh, my pointing is just degraded. So yeah, the pointing shows up from here, which is kind of cool. I'll turn that off and I'll just go through your things this way. I've been doing my exposure walking around my neighborhood over the past couple of weeks. Today I really tried to focus on the surroundings and walking slower and it really helped. I love to hear that. That's exactly what's supposed to happen here. Like nothing in particular, we're not looking for any particular outcome like, oh, I was able to stop a panic attack or, you know, I instantly felt calm. If that happens, that's awesome. But if you find any sort of improvement and sometimes the improvement is just a sense of empowerment, right? And competency that like, oh, look, I do have a little bit of control here. I do have some influence in this process. I can put my attention where I want it. Like if that's what you get out of the exercise out of the practice that day, then that's great. Even if your thoughts were still at a high level or they were very loud or your symptoms and sensations didn't necessarily go down. If nothing else, you got to learn an experience in real time in the real world that, look, oh, I have some control over this. I can do this. I can walk mindfully even though I'm not feeling so great. So that's great. Like whatever you get out of it is good. Let's see here. Oh, this is good. Gina says it can work for gardening too. So yes, in the... I lost my pointing skills today. In the chapter 9 of 7 percent slower, which I recorded this morning, by the way, the audiobook has been submitted or it's about to be submitted anyway. I will probably hit the button on that tomorrow. I actually use gardening as an example. You can do that if you're working in your garden and you're planting then plant slowly and mindfully as opposed to trying to get through all the plants. I need to put all the seeds in the ground. Do each one at a time. What's the rush? A lot of this is being willing to accept what's the what? What's the rush? What's the rush? Let's see. It's definitely a practice as Dan. You are correct. Dave, you're very welcome. Yep. Donna, I knew I got it. Bessie is here. What up, Bess? It says yo-yo from... Bessie, I'm not even sure where you are. But it's from somewhere in the U.S., I think. Let's see. When walking yesterday... Okay, here's another one. We got about 25 people. I'm surprised on a Saturday. I expected a slower turnout, a smaller turnout today. When walking yesterday, it felt so good to slow down as they do everything really fast. At first, it might feel really weird and awkward and unnatural and you won't be good at it, but so many people will say, wow, I really had a better day yesterday because I did try to slow down as often as I could. So that is awesome. I love to hear that. Glad it's working for you. Yep. Linda is nailing it right here. I struggled with a wandering mind. Cool to know that I'm okay and not alone. You're always okay even when your mind is wandering because really in the end, if we're out and trying to do a mindful walk, write a meditative walk, your mind is going to wander. That's what's just going to happen. It's okay. We are thinking machines.  This app on my Mac that tells me to look far away from the screen every 20 minutes. It's good for your eyes. Anyway, it's okay. Humans are thinking machines. We cannot help ourselves. We will think, think, think, think, think. So if your mind wanders, that's okay. This is a practice. There's a reason why people call meditation meditation practice. There's a reason for that. Let's see. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, me is still here. What I got from all these is that we have to focus on the process instead of worrying about the results. That is so true. That is such a good observation and I'm glad that you're getting that lesson because the results will come later, right? Later. We can't be always goal-focused, especially when we're doing stuff like mindfulness and meditation practice and focus training. This is not a goal-related thing. This is not a goal-focused thing. This is a process-focused thing. So you're absolutely right. It's just engaging in the process more than the results. Oh, let's see. We got good news coming in. I've had a win this morning. I don't need to detail it, but it was because the morning was slow and paced. Yay me, yay you. Yes, let us share in the win. I love it. So very good. What does Emma have to say? I always feel like I need to fix me. Okay, but you don't necessarily have to fix you. The basic premise that we're all about here in these parts in this community is that you actually don't need fixing, right? This is not a broken problem. You're not broken.  We approach these things in a cognitive behavioral scope for a reason, because I don't believe in my heart, Emma, that no matter how you're struggling, I don't believe that you're broken or need to be fixed. You just need to learn different lessons and move in different directions, and that's okay. Let's see what else we got here. Doing activities intentionally slower has definitely reduced anxiety in a lot of situations for me. It's allowed me to focus on my task much better. Excellent. That's what I like to hear. That is, for most people, the result over time. But again, not results focused. We're not trying to be goal focused. We're trying to be process focused. So if you can just concentrate on engaging in the process of slowing down and paying attention and being more mindful, then that result will sort of naturally happen as a happy side effect. So we're looking for a happy side effect. We're not looking for particular results. And I expect these things to fix me wrong intent. Yes, this is these things. Let me put this back up here. So Emma says, I expect these things to fix me. None of what I ever say or write or record or say into a camera or whatever is designed to fix you or anybody because you don't need fixing. These are designed to teach you. So just like anything else, if you really kind of, if you took a math class and maths for those Europeans among us, but if you took a math class and maybe you didn't understand the concepts and you started doing the math wrong for an entire school year and you failed the class, it isn't because you're broken. It's because you took a few wrong turns and learned some wrong lessons about that math. So all this really is is understanding like, oops, my brain learned the wrong lessons. It made mistakes and it acted on those mistakes and that's why you failed the class. But now it's just a matter of like, oops, there were some mistakes and now I have to teach my brain new lessons to correct the mistakes. That's all this is. It's not fixing. You don't have, these things are not designed to fix you. These are activities designed to help you learn through experience that there's a different way to do this, right? That's really, really, really important. Yeah, Mia, the struggle is real, man. Like I had the pointing down to, I was nailed it yesterday. I had it. I was a pointing pro and now I'm just not working out for me so well. Washington State, Bessie, is from Excellence here. Currently brushing my hair mindfully. I love it. I've not been able to make a plan for exposure therapy or finish the first book. But I think this would work for me to do first. Yes, you can, you can do this. There's no, you can do this all the time. Honestly, the idea of all of these little exercises and 7% slower are really, for me, they were meant as an adjunct, like, know the concepts that are in the big book, The Anxious Truth, and in my podcast first. And then this is just a good way to start to implement some of them or at least one of those principles, right? So it all works together, but if you want to start with this stuff, there's nothing wrong with that. It's totally cool. What else we have here? I'm going to go through a few more comments and then we'll wrap it up at about the 20-minute mark. Staying present is keeping me sane while I wait for this medical result. It's not now, so anything else is what it is. Yes, staying mindful is saving much angst. Yes, like honestly, I don't know of any better application. Dealing with anticipatory anxiety, if you guys have seen my podcast episode on that, we talk about staying present in the moment right now because of something that's coming up. You don't have to live that something until it happens. It's natural to think about things like, what are my test results going to be? That's completely and totally naturally. And if Mia is still here, by the way, Mia's latest podcast episode, her podcast. Mia, if you're still here, post a link to your latest episode because Mia just went through a bit of a health scare and she shared openly about it in her latest podcast episode. If you're waiting for test results, it's normal to think about those things. But the tools we're talking about in this little series here and in the book and 7% slower really, really come in handy in terms of trying to keep you present as present as you can. And at least short-circuit some of the rumination and catastrophizing that you might do over those results. The results will come when they come and then you will deal with it. So staying present, this is one of the greatest applications for that in that health scare kind of thing. And I know who you are. I won't say the name because it's not up here, although I know you're open about it in the group and we're all hoping that it turns out well for you, of course. Let's see here Emma, you're very welcome. No problem. It's Nicky. I'm so pleased they stopped and talked to someone today. Ooh, let's put this up on the screen. I love to share the wins. I stopped and talked to someone today on my exposure work. That's a big step for me as I normally look down while going for my walks. That is huge. You should be very proud of yourself. That clearly is a shift. It's something that you're clearly afraid to try. Look, something new and it worked out great. The lessons of exposure are always not that it is difficult. Ooh, what's this one? I'm going to read that one a second. The lessons of exposure are never like, oh, this is so hard. This is so hard.  It turned out okay. I might have not felt great, but nothing really bad happened to me. I wasn't harmed by that. So excellent. Good job with that. I'm current at the place where I had my first panic attack. I was always afraid of coming back here, but there you are. Ah, so good. Really good job. You should be super proud of that. Like going back into the, you know, air quotes the belly of the beast. It's a big deal. The mechanism behind so much of this is just like being bitten by a dog. There are people that are huge dog lovers, huge. They love dogs, love dogs, all about dogs. The minute they get bitten by a dog, they are instantly afraid of dogs. That can happen. This is the mechanism. So what Dave is going through right now where like, yes, you know, back to the place where you had a panic attack is really difficult. It's like going back to the dog that bit you. So be proud of that. That is not a hard, that is not an easy thing to do. And you're doing it and it's working out, right? Nothing bad is happening to you. So it's really good. So let's see, Mia, yes. So Mia, if you want to post the link to that podcast episode, anybody that wants to listen and you'll get some good health tips anyway, because Mia's good that way. Yeah, Mia just went through a bit of a health scare and she shared about it on her podcast. So you guys should check out. Here we go. Excellent. Thank you, Mia. So go and listen to this episode. It was really good. It's a good, fast 20 minutes. And it's also funny. And you'll hear the story of somebody who was, oh, is this going to turn out for me? And it did turn out well for Mia. So excellent. Thank you, Mia. Appreciate it. So there you go, guys. I appreciate you coming by. That's been day five. We're 20 minutes. I'm going to kind of wrap it up. I appreciate everybody that came by. Well, a big audience on a Saturday afternoon. I wasn't expecting that tomorrow. We're going to do this at the same time. We're going to talk about mindful listening. So for those of you who always have to have some background noise on, there's always podcasts, there's always music, there's always videos, there's always YouTube or the TV tomorrow, we're going to talk about actually mindfully paying attention to some of that stuff. Sometimes. Another useful tool that surrounds us all the time. We can use all the time, but we forget that it's even there. So tomorrow we'll talk about mindful listening. So come back for that. Keep commenting. I'll do my best to answer them as best I can as we circle back around. And what can I tell you? Paperback version of 7% slower. If you're watching, I'll tell you it's actually live right now. Like Amazon is fast, so you can actually get the paperback right now on Amazon. If you go to 7% slower.com, I'll put it up on the thing. You can actually see the link to get the paperback if you want it. You guys are the only ones that know. Tomorrow Monday is sort of the official paperback release date and the audio book will also be out in a couple of days because I'm about to submit that. And I will ask you one more thing. If you do have the book and you've read it already, like either in the Facebook group or wherever you can, wherever you want to comment, tell me what your favorite part is because I need to have audible. I need to give audible a sample up to 5 minutes of the book and frankly, I'm not sure what part of the book to use as the sample. So as soon as I pick up to 5 minutes, I can tell them what that is and hit the button and then the thing will be released. So let me know if you have a favorite part just let me know what that is. You can comment on this in the Facebook group or whatever or wherever you happen to be watching and I will take a look. I appreciate your feedback. I appreciate your support and your enthusiasm and your participation in this crazy little seven day series which is even teaching me a whole lot about how to go live every day and make it effective. And I will see you guys tomorrow. Have a good one. Be mindful. Practice all the stuff. Do it. It's good for you.


Hi, it's Bridgette. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope. Today's video is about the topic of transitioning into the afterlife. So why is it that it seems like people, like we hear about a lot of people dying in December before the beginning of the next year, like at the ending of the year, why does it seem like we hear about a lot of people dying? Why is that? Or another question could be why do people die around the holidays, you know? Assuming that we have choice, right? Because don't we have free will or don't we have this thing called free will where our mind is engaged in our human experience and our spirit is helping to coordinate and they're supposed to be working together.  Why would people choose to wait until the end of the year to die? Why is that? Now these are good questions, I think, and they're curious, aren't they? So let me tell you from my 14 plus years of experience working as a psychic and a medium what I know about this topic, okay? So during the ending of a year, it is the ending of a cycle. So life moves in cycles. It's all circular. So timing is not linear when it comes to the spirit and energy. Energy is always circular and there's patterns in life. There's cycles in life and just like that your energy moves and flows in the same way. And so there's a patterning to things.  In fact, oftentimes people say, do you have the holiday spirit? And so that means that the energy is definitely at a level where it's heightened. And because of that, it's super easy to transition in between the worlds or in between the levels or the circles of life and between the circles or the levels of I don't know how to describe this, realms, reality, dimensions, maybe. Now that kind of sounds a little wonky. So let me try to re-explain that. It's easier to move between the levels of energy. Let's explain it that way. We don't want to get too weird for you because when Brigitte does psychic talk and medium talk and talk about energy and stuff, I want to make it make sense to you and be realistic and use terms that you understand. So it doesn't make you think that this is just a bunch of craziness because it's not. It's patterns, it's cycles, it's like life. Everything moves with a rhythm and that is energy. Okay, so what happens is, is during the holiday spirit, times when the spirit of the holiday is heightened, it's easier to flow in between. So it's easier to make a transition. It's not clunky. It's not hard. It's kind of like there's less turbulence. If you have flown in an airplane recently, you know, right? The pilot can climb or adjust altitude in order to be able to eliminate some of the bumpiness of the ride. Well, during that spirit at the end of the year, that holiday spirit or the ending of the year, there is less turbulence. So it's really easy to just slip right through. It's sort of like a doorway is opened or a gate is opened and there's the opportunity to come in. And it's easier. There's a lot less stress in the transition for spirit. Okay, so for a human person that's dealt with a lot of stuff during their life who's really connected to their human life and really connected to their family, it's super easier. It's, it's, I feel like it's less intense and less, they feel less guilty about leaving because they kind of slide right through this just kind of natural flow of energy that allows the spirit, the soul that is ready, the soul that is ready in the body to easily transition between the earth-bound energy of the human body and the experience of the infinite afterlife and the eternal life of the spirit and the soul. So it's kind of easier to transition during this time, less turbulence, and more people have a connection, a resonance to a faith in something greater than themselves, the energy of maybe it's the energy of love or hope. Those are the things that people refer to as the holiday spirit, regardless of what holidays you celebrate. At the ending of the year, there's a ton of holidays, you know, we've got Kwanzaa and Hanukkah and Christmas and New Year's and there's just so much going on that there is a heightened energy level and because of that people are more in tune with loving vibrational energy. People are much more giving, much more open to caring, their capacity is being very, they're being very thoughtful, even if it's stressful. Okay, I give you that. I know, I totally get it. Stressful, right? But it's also a time of connection and again, the cycle of life, the ending of the year, December is the last month of the calendar year that we use in our mind to track linear time in our human bodies, and so it's the last month of the year. So it's the cycle comes to a close. So it's a nice wrapping up or a summation, and so that's why people do choose and align it with their spirit and their soul. If the timing is right for them to leave during this time, because it is easier, it's just less turbulence to do that for the person and the spirit that is choosing to leave. Now, I recognize now my heart goes out to you if you've lost somebody during this time, during the holidays. It can be so difficult or around a special event day or a birthday or anniversary or something. It can be really, really painful, and so please know that if you have experienced loss and you are grieving that you're not alone, that the energy of the grace that it surrounds us during this time of year, the heightened caring capacity, the hopeful energy, the faith, that life is eternal, completely eternal, and that we as spirit in human bodies, if we can acknowledge that, then we know that we are never disconnected from those we love. We are always connected and I know that might be of little comfort and my heart does go out to you if you are experiencing loss at this time, but please know that it is because that soul of that person, their transition, even if the event that caused their transition, like an accident or something tragic or or an illness or such, no matter what caused or who caused, who's at at, I want to say a fault, but that's not the right word, who's at choice for the transition of that soul? Just know that the soul itself's transition was smooth, no turbulence on that flight, and so that for them it was the best possible timing. For you, it might feel like horrible timing or completely wrong or unneeded or unnecessary, but for that soul, their choice was to experience that gentle glide from this life into the next and during this time of year, it is a gentle, gentle transition. So, I actually experienced this in my family, myself, about ten years ago, and my father-in-law passed away on New Year's Day, and so I do understand that around the holiday, having someone that is making that transition or you know could be making that transition soon or just made that transition, I know it really kind of changes things for you. It kind of can mess up your mental state and your emotional energy is really kind of sometimes confused and you're sad, but you're in the holidays and I mean, I understand that part of it, but that's why the grief process is definitely a process that's very personal and it is your own, and I would encourage you to make sure you're talking to someone to get counseling, to get to have someone that, a professional that knows about that grief process, and don't just count that. That is definitely something that can be very helpful to you and to your family as well during this time. So, this is Bridget, head above life channel. I hope this video has given you some insight into why people transition, why they die at the end of the year, why is there like this big rush to get out? You know, why is that? I hope I've given some insight into that based upon just my experience as a psychic or medium over the past 14 years doing this kind of work and having these experiences myself personally and with clients just like you as well. I wish you a happy holiday season and a joyous new year regardless of where you're at on this journey. Remember, the purpose of your life is to live it and only you can do that. So, get inspired, get your spirit inspired and feel the hope that is here for you right here and right now. This is Bridget at Above Life Channel. Thank you so much for watching.