Showing posts with label Grounding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grounding. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Open Your Heart With Rose Quartz

I tend to write about healing techniques as I try them out and a few months ago, I was meditating with a Rose Quartz Crystal when I suddenly felt the urge to hold it in my hands and circulate its warm, loving and healing energy through my arms. The feeling was that by doing this, I could also intend for it to flow through my Heart Chakra. Instantly I felt like it opened my Heart Chakra, making it easier for me to give and receive love which is a key step in opening ourselves up to abundance of all kinds. I should also mention that I began by grounding myself, as I always do

If you have a rose quartz please try this at home - if you don't you can still do this meditation by visualizing a huge rose stone in the center of the earth and bringing its energy up through your legs, to your heart, and then circling it through your arms.

I am still figuring out the tech details for my video blog but I will be recording quite a few of these to complement my Chakra Healing & Magick bookRead it and please follow me on YouTube!





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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

 

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The Heart's Intuitive Garden (Meditation)

Last week we discussed the Chakra System and how we can work with these wheels of energy to unlock our Intuition. Today I'm going to share a meditation that we can use to ground ourselves in Mother Nature, flex our Chakras and connect with our team of guides, angels and power animals. It's one of my favourites!


Ideally, I would suggest that you record this on your phone and play it back, as your subconscious responds to your voice. But I have linked to a Youtube video below! =) 


1) Clear Your Surroundings 

Find a place to sit, one where you won’t be disturbed. It can also help if the room is tidy, as a clean environment reflects on our mental clarity and our Aura. Have a look around the room, notice the décor, the furniture and color pattern. Take a couple deep breaths to calm your mind and release your day. Breathing in love and peace, breathing out stress and tension. Now bring your attention to the soles of your feet and let them relax. Work your way up through your ankles, calves and thighs letting any tension fall down through the floor to the center of the earth for cleansing and purification. Breathe into your stomach and release any tension from your abdomen and chest. Let your attention go up through your shoulders and neck to the top of your head, relaxing as you go. One more deep breath and we are ready to begin. 

With your eyes closed, bring your attention to the room. See it in your mind’s eye: the color on the walls, are there curtains, hardwood floors, rugs or carpets? Let these images flash before your eyes for a moment, and watch as they are washed away by the brightest of lights. This light sweeps around the room, clearing, healing and releasing the energy as it goes. See and feel yourself surrounding by this light. It creates a bright, friendly and safe environment for you to work in. Only the highest vibrations are able to penetrate this light, letting your angels and spirit guides through and nothing else. Breathe in this light, and watch as the ceiling lifts off, carried by the power of this light. The room and your body are inundated with white light from above. 

2) Connect with Mother Nature

Bring your attention back to the soles of your feet, where our foot chakras connect us with Mother Earth. Visualize and feel these energy centers as they open up ever so slightly. We’re going to ground ourselves by creating a set of grounding cords, and letting them extend down from our Foot Chakras to the center of the earth. Let your imagination bring these cords to life, as you see them cut through layers and layers of dirt, rock and lava before they reach a beautiful cave at the center of the earth. Here we see a massive crystal formation, the Heart of the Earth. Let your intuition give it a color, indicating the healing that you need right now.

Your grounding cords draw on the energy in this crystal. It goes up through the cords, to the bottoms of your feet where its brings tingles and warmth to your body. This fills your feet with healing energy and flows up, through your calves and thighs to the Root Chakra at the bottom of your spine. The Root Chakra is where we feel our connection to the earth, our surroundings and also our sense of physical safety. Let that energy clear and heal any doubts, fear or tension from your physical body and your psyche, firmly anchoring you in a place of love. Release any tension into the ground through your legs, for cleansing and renewal. 



3) Activate the Lower Chakras

The Root Chakra is the gateway to the rest of the body. The more we focus on clearing and healing it, the stronger and healthier the rest of the Chakras will be. You may want to repeat this grounding process every morning to deepen your grounding and boost vitality, motivation and sense of belonging in the world. Strong grounding and deep foundations tend to yield specific, timely and helpful intuitive messages. 

Next, bring your attention to Sacral Chakra in the lower abdomen, where we feel emotions, creativity and appetite for life. It’s also the Chakra that opens the door to empathy for others, and by clearing and healing it we can release any feelings that may have been absorbed from those around us. Let that earth energy wash through you Sacral Chakra, releasing tension into the ground. We are going to let our Sacral Chakra grow strong with earth energy, infusing it with creative power. This will make it easier for us to create the life we desire.

We are going to balance and heal the Solar Plexus, our personal power center. Located in the upper abdomen, the Solar Plexus is also where we draw boundaries, discover our sense of self and experiences joy. Visualize and feel this beautiful Chakra as it expands, bright yellow and full of sunshine. Know that it is safe for you to shine your light in the world. Embrace your strengths and your weaknesses, and remember that our imperfections make us unique individuals. Your Solar Plexus grows in power & tenderness as it fills with earth energy. Release any misgivings or self-doubt into the ground for purification. A strong Solar Plexus gives us permission to be ourselves. 

4) Enter the Heart's Garden

Now bring your attention to the Heart Chakra, the seat of unconditional love and also where we receive the clearest guidance. We are going to work with Earth energy to clear this space and create a garden for our intuition to thrive. See and feel the earth energy as it reaches this loving center, your Heart activates and expands filled with green and pink light. Use your imagination to step into your Heart Chakra, where you see a beautiful garden, blooming with love. Sit on the warm earth and visualize a grounding cord dropping from your Root Chakra at the base of the spine, into the Earth, effectively grounding you from the Heart.

Still firmly grounded, turn your attention to the sky where we find the Sun’s warmth and the Moon’s intuition. Connect with these luminaries and bring their light through the atmosphere, to your garden where the light reaches your body. Your Crown Chakra opens up to receive that light, letting it flow down through your Brow and Throat Chakras illuminating them as it goes. The moonlight comes to rest in your Heart, while the sunlight flows past the Solar Plexus and Sacral Chakras to the Root, shedding light on any aspects of your life that may need healing right now. Observe without judgement and intend for your Heart's loving energy to follow suit, healing that space. Stay as long as you like. 
  
Now that we’re grounded, clear and attuned to earth and sky energy; it’s time to tend to the intuitive garden in our Heart. Look for weeds, dry flowers and gently remove them. In their place, we are going to plant new flowers, letting our imagination bring the colors to life. These flowers represent the different psychic abilities that are available to us:  red for physical sensations, orange for empathy, yellow to help us feels the vibes in our surroundings, sky blue for clairaudience, indigo blue for clairvoyance and violet for just knowing. There are many ways for us to receive intuitive guidance, the colors that stand out merely clue us into your intuitive strengths. We can plant seeds for new flowers to grow and new abilities to develop. For now we will observe with compassion, showering the flowers with love & light.

5) Spirit Guides and Angels

Sit in the garden and feel the energy around you, taking in the light. We’re going to call one of our Spirit Guides or Angels, asking them to join us. Don’t be surprised if they look like a bird or a squirrel. Take a few moments to feel your guide’s energy and get to know them. They know how you feel but they’d like to hear it anyway. Share your thoughts and feelings with them, ask for guidance or help if there’s a particular issue that is troubling you. The answer may come now as a thought or intuition, or it may come to you during the day. We can come back to this place of loving guidance at anytime simply by checking in with our Heart. When you feel ready, thank your guides, angels and your flower garden and say goodbye for now. 


6) The End: Closing Down

It's important to close down properly at the end of any intuitive meditation. Sit in the garden and look up at the sky, thanking Father Sun and Mother Moon for their love, support and guidance. Disconnect from their lovely energy, knowing full well that they are always there for you and let your Crown Chakra close down gently. Your Brow and Throat Chakras follow suit. We are going to close and protect our Heart Chakra by visualizing a beautiful fence around the garden, and closing the gate behind us as we leave. Bring your attention back to your body on the chair. Draw your Solar Plexus in closer to your body, protecting it with a gold plate at the front and back. Follow suit with the Sacral Chakra, before bringing your attention to the Root. We’re going to draw our Root Chakra in just a little bit, so that it’s still drawing in warm earth energy. Check your grounding roots, and visualize a bubble of protective light around your body. When you are ready, open your eyes, stretch and have a sip of water. Give yourself some time to come around before getting up. 






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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 






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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Grounding through my Merkaba Activation - Part 2

My last post was about a workshop called Awakening the Illuminated Heart, and how grounded I have felt ever since. The class is based on the teachings of a man called Drunvalo Melchizadech. I didn't know what to expect as the teachings are very New Age (Merkabas, Ascension,, etc). The class was pretty cool, a heart-based approach to co-creation. One of the big perks for me however, was how my energy field adapted. I now find it a lot easier to ground my energy through my Root Chakra. 

This was a big step as I've always been one to ground my through my feet instead of my Root Chakra. Try as I might, I couldn't visualize or feel grounding cords at the base of my spine. If you're wondering, grounding refers to how well we connect with Mother Earth and how safe we feel in the world. That connection also makes it easier for us to release stress, tension and emotional debris into the ground for cleansing. We can also use our grounding to draw up earth energy, boosting our own energy levels. See here for Grounding 101.

The other secret is that the deeper our grounding, the easier it is for us to access clairaudience, clairvoyance and clair-knowing through the Throat, Brow and Crown Chakras as well as their corresponding Aura layers. We need solid grounding, a strong Aura and decent shielding skills to flex our Chakras safely. My foot Chakras compensated for the lack of grounding in my Root and my energy also skewed heavily towards the Brow Chakra which is great, but the Brow can lend itself to overthinking things. I would much rather let my intuition guide me. This workshop was about grounding in the Heart and letting it be our new driver. The first thing I noticed was deeper grounding. A few days later I felt a clearing in my Heart and Brow. The visual was stunning, a white dove and a flash of gold light. I could see and feel the light for two or three days and then in disappeared back to where it came from. 

A few days later my energy shifted again during a basic Chakra meditation. This time it was my Aura. I saw myself surrounded in a deep violet light and before I knew what happened, it dawned on me that I was looking at my seventh Aura layer. This is the outermost part of our spiritual Aura and its full of Crown Chakra energy. In her book Hands of Light, Barbara Brennan also tells us that the seventh Aura layers holds together the rest of our aura (it's the shell that protects and filters the energies around us). 

This is the first time I sense it in so much detail and it made me think back to one of my first psychic classes, back in 2010. My teacher told us that we had seven aura layers, each corresponding to one of the main Chakras. When we're starting out on our intuitive journey, its easiest for us to activate and feel the innermost layers: physical, mental and emotional and that's why so many psychics can tune into how other people feel. That is more or less where I am now. Not sure what happened and why my perception jumped from the inner layers to the outermost (7th) layer. The violet energy is often associated with St Germain and with manifesting or magic. I'm curious to see what happens with the middle layers, which I haven't activated consciously. 

Thinking back to my days as a student Healer at the School of Intuition & Healing, we also studied Chakra pairs. The Root, Heart and Crown bring stability to our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual selves. One of my classmates likened the three Chakras to the bread in a club sandwich, holding all of the ingredients together. Now that my Root, Heart and Crown seem to be working on a more conscious level, maybe the rest of the Chakras will follow. I've been meditating almost every day since this workshop, can't wait to see what happens and I'm hoping that my Sacral and Solar Plexus Chakras follow suit. If I look at what Barbara Brennan says about the Aura in Hands of Light, the 7th layer holds the blueprint of who we are on a soul level, and hopefully that will filter down to my human identity in the third Aura layer and my Solar Plexus. Maybe it will remind me that there's more to me (and you) than we realize. 








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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Grounding through my Merkaba Activation - Part 1

Last month I attended Awakening of the Illuminated Heart, a heart healing workshop that taught us how to connect our Brow Chakra to our Heart, so that we could see the world through our Heart and not the mind. This connection is also one that Barbara Brennan references in Hands of Light, telling us that Unconditional Love flows when both of these Chakras are open and connected. The Brow Chakra and its corresponding Aura layer make it possible for us to see the light in others, regardless of who they are to us. 


The big reveal at the end of the workshop was a manifesting meditation that we can use to create images with our Heart and Mind, things that you want to bring into your life. I started out visualizing themes like healing, abundance, friendships and a completely healed and whole emotional body so that I can relate to others from a place of wholeness and not old hurts. I think I'm almost there, but there are probably a few experiences that I still need to release. Rather than carry on with the manifesting meditations, I have been connecting with my healing guides through my Heart Chakra and just chilling out. Since then my energy has been shifting in ways that I didn't expect. This is what I've noticed so far: 

Grounding through the Base Chakra 



I have been practicing energy healing and meditation since 2009. In the early days I was incredibly ungrounded, say 37% out of 100 (don't ask me how I got to that number as its a long story lol). Since then I have been working on grounding my energy, usually with clairsentient meditations where you run earth energy through your legs to your Base Chakra and down again. As a result, I got to be very good at grounding through my foot chakras and that's fantastic, but I still couldn't ground through my Base Chakra. We did lots of meditations in Healing School, they often began with grounding through the Base Chakra. The idea was to drop a grounding cord from the bottom of your spine (or Base) into the ground and let it sink to the center of the earth. I usually wound up grounding through my feet instead. My Base wasn't as open as my upper Chakras and I couldn't wrap my head around it. Thankfully my legs compensated for my ungrounded Base Chakra or I wouldn't have gotten very far with healing either. 




The past few weeks I've noticed a change and I think it's the workshop. There was one particular meditation where the teacher guided us through activating our Merkabas (merkawhats?), which Google defines as "the divine light vehicle allegedly used by ascended masters to connect with and reach those in tune with higher realms." It's also meant to be an Ascension tool, though in my peculiar world view Ascension may very well be about grounding. In class we also learned to  program our Merkabas to speed up the earthly learning process, attracting people, events and life lessons that will help us grow (in a friendly way, I hope). I haven't been able to sense my Merkaba just yet, but I do feel a lot better, more grounded and happier since I activated it. I am not sure if the teachers intended for the Merkaba Activation to ground us, but I strayed from the meditation and activated my Base Chakra spontaneously.



This is what happened ... 


A couple months ago, I was meditating at home and connecting my guides. Occasionally they give us spiritual gifts, tools that we can work with in our daily lives. In the past I've received a crystal wand, a protective cloak and a few other gadgets. This time I got an ankh, a protective cloak and a few other gadgets. This time I got an ankh, that Egyptian symbol that is said to be a key for life, death and immortality. I had no idea what to do with it so I said thanks and tucked it away. Well wouldn't you know, the ankh popped into my mind during the Merkaba activation, and somehow I know that I was supposed to plug it into my Base Chakra. I did, and suddenly I felt a rush of energy going from my Base up my spine, past my Heart  to my Crown Chakra and back down again. It was like I turned a key and let energy flow through my Base Chakra to the rest of my Body. It was fantastic and since then I've been incredibly grounded. 


Honestly I don't know if this is what the workshop leaders intended, but it has been one of the most valuable side benefits of the class. Deep grounding makes it easier for us to channel healing energy, give readings and just be in the moment. I also have a funny feeling that this Base Chakra activation is going to help in other ways. The rest of my Energy Body is already adapting to the change, especially my Crown Chakra and outer Aura. Read Part 2 Here!  =) 


Here is a short video - the merkaba is the double triangle (one facing up, other down) that spina around the body. It is based on Sacred Geometry. 





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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Connecting with London's Trees

One of the things I like about meditating is how things come to life. Today I sat down to open up before my healing session, and the meditation went in a completely different direction. I will usually sit down, fill the room with white light, throw down my roots and then open each of my chakras starting at the root and working my way up. At that point I send my attention to the highest source of light and draw a white beam towards me.  Then I surround myself in a bubble of white light, and off we go! 

Today a few extras cropped up along the way:

  • The first thing I did was take a couple really big breaths, and from there I went on to fill the room with white light. It didn't feel like enough though and the whole building filled up with white light. All the way down to the foundations. I saw a huge rectangle of white light rising up from the bottom and clearing all of the energy as it went upwards. It went through each floor and finally towards the sky. I could sense some passengers riding the white disk but I didn't pay much attention to them. 
  • Next I cleared my own flat three times using the same method, and then let multiple tornados of light spin through it. It was very light and airy by then, and when the tornados were gone I saw a shower of white light fill every inch of space. The tornados and the white light were both airy and they were not clearing anything heavy. It was a nice infusion of white light. 
  • There are huge trees at the front and back of the building, and because it's February they have no leaves on them. Nevertheless, trees still have powerful energy and in my meditation I could sense green leaves surrounding the building and even  lining the walls of my healing room. I was also very aware of their root, and followed my own roots down where I could feel the trees roots supporting me. My first thought was, how nice! I like working with these trees! At that point I became aware of all the trees on my street, in the neighbourhood and even the nearby Kensington Gardens.  What a lovely image! The trees are all interconnected and we can tap into their energy to ground ourselves and to heal as well. 

I just love how many trees we have in London. The trees on my road are tall and really leafy, but at certain times during the year, the release a sap that makes is very slippery on the ground (even if the scent is just delicious).... 

  • What else? I also got some healing for myself. Particularly on my left eye, my brow and my crown. My throat also feels really dry and parched and the message I got is that TOO MUCH COFFEE is causing this. My left eye also started twitching when I was opening up the brow and Coffee was also the culprit on that one. So the Caramel Machiatto I had this morning will be my last. Not allowed to go into Starbucks for the next month - and that will do wonders for my debit card balance! Last night I sat down to meditate for a bit and clear stuck energy and I could really feel the difference this morning. 

I haven't been meditating and healing myself as much as I'd like to and I now have a list of things to look at before I'm done with the healing course. I'm going to approach this in my natural blue style, and make a list that I can cross off as I go along. First off will be some ancestral clearing and healing. A lot of very particular memories have been popping into my mind and I think those are things that I need to look at before I do anything else. My meditation today was only 15 minutes and it worked wonders. In my last psychic reading class the teacher told us we should be doing 30 a day but I'm going to stick to 15 very focused minutes instead. 



Sitting in Nature is Meditation Too!
(or picture yourself there!)





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Monday, February 20, 2012

Fighting off the neighbour's cold!

Last week my team was off-site for three days at a conference. We spent the better part of 48 hours around a conference table and then going out for lunch, dinner, breakfast. You name it.

One of the regional sales managers went home sick on the last day, nasty cough and cold. By Friday we had another three people down. Today my line manager and desk neighbour came in with a scratchy throat, red eyes, and the urge to sneeze. How do I know she had the urge to sneeze? I started sneezing as soon as she came through the door. And when we sat down for a status update my throat started feeling all scratchy. Foggy head. I've been fighting it off since she walked through the doors, and now that I'm home alone my nose is still sniffling. So annoying! Hopefully my trip to the gym will sweat it out of me. Even now as I'm writing about it I can feel my throat scratching up again. 

We talked about this in class a few weeks ago, often we might pick up someone else's aches and pains when we're out in public. It's true of public transport and it's also true of the people you work with. No need to be psychic, this is how all human aura fields react. 

The key is to notice when the symptom first appears, and to ask yourself if it belongs to someone else (i.e. are you feeling someone else pain, etc?). If so, tell your body "I'm not having that" and send it back to where it came from. 

Just kidding!

I'm not planning on directing my would-be cold at anyone. What I have been doing all day is working on my grounding and making sure that anything that does come my way is disposed of via the grounding cord. Staying grounded and in your body is a good way to stay healthy. Or so I'm told. Apparently people who tend to be ungrounded catch colds often. I've also been conscious of my aura field, making sure it's protected. That works and then when I think about it I can feel the symptoms again. So this is the last I'll say about a cold. Off to the gym and looking forward to a bright and healthy Tuesday! 


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Monday, July 25, 2011

Psychic Development Simplified

A few months ago I stumbled upon a blog called A State of Mind –  for those of you who aren't familiar with it, it is full of articles on how to develop your psychic gifts. The author, Nathaniel, has been on the path for 5 years, and writes about what worked for him in minute detail. Now he’s published a book called Psychic Development Simplified, covering everything under the sun in just enough depth to give the reader a psychic taster and a solid foundation in energy management. It's a great place to start if you're a beginner, and there are a also a few surprises for those of us who have been exploring this for a little bit longer.

This is a summary of what you can expect from the book: 

  • Psychic Development Simplified operates on the understanding that it takes at least a year of diligent energy work and meditation before you can open up safely to more advanced techniques. The book lays out a series of exercises that will give you a good grasp of energy management before you start trying things like psychic readings, telekinesis or mediumship. I for one turned straight to the chapter on telekinesis, only to find that I couldn’t get my psi-wheel to spin. Need to start at the bottom and work my way up, and moving things is a lot of work!

  • The book approaches meditation from a mindlessness angle. Most of my meditations so far have been focused on chakras, this one poses a real challenge by telling us to empty our mind and stare at the wall (or a candle) for 30 minutes. And then he tells you that it’s OK to fail, the point is to let all of these thoughts clutter our mind so that we can observe them, and in observing them detach ourselves from this constant mental chatter. It helps the reader along the path with a series of ABC’s. It also talks about prayer, protection and a few techniques to tone down your excess energy before you start meditating. 

  • There is a nifty exercise called Tactile Visualization -  What this allows you to do is recall sensations like the touch velvet, a cold metal table, or sand under your feet. These details make meditations a lot more fun, you’ll start sensing things with your five senses. I really enjoyed these exercises, and going down this route will also enable you to start hearing and feeling a breeze when you’re meditating on a beach. It’s awesome, even if it has no spiritual purpose, LOL. And we have to admit that on some level, having psychic powers can be a lot of fun!  =)

  • The energy management section teaches us how to draw on earth energy and run it through our body. You will also learn to absorb and store it, so that you can then use it in your psychic and energy work. There is also a neat trick, where you draw energy through your body, out your hands creating a ball of energy (called psi balls in the book). I’ve used these in my healing sessions, I will often program a disc to cleanse and aura and then I use my hands to move it through the client’s energy field.   

All in all, Psychic Development Simplified is a great book and I definately recommend it. If you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, I did find a couple kinks in it's theory (but nothing major). In most cases I would be in favor is agreeing to disagree, but for the purpose of this review I'll throw a few challenges out there :

  • The author's knowledge of the chakras and the energy body is spot on. However, I did notice that one of the aura's layers went missing in the descriptions. When talking about the energy body, the author covers the physical, etheric, mental and spiritual layers (skipping the emotional layer of the aura, which links to our sacral chakra). This is a very important part of our energy body, especially when it comes to healing as many illnesses are linked to emotions.


  • There was a section that made me laugh – Shopping Centers are Evil – Not really, the author  says, but he still tells us to stay away from public places because they are full of energies that can give us headaches. This is true, but it’s not practical to stay away from crowds and malls. Instead, I would suggest that you learn to desensitize your chakras and close down. If you’re a full-blown clairsentient you may need to take extra precautions, but grounding and closing down will be enough for most of us. 
 
  • The author is against channeled messages, and tells us not to channel messages unless you’ve been doing psychic work for 30 years! My entire lifetime, and then some, LOL! His view is that we don’t know who is on the other side, and that we shouldn’t put our trust in them. My view is – Trust Your Judgment! Don’t put 100% faith in spirit guides, or mediums. If it sounds like gobbledygook just flush it. But if it makes sense and sheds light on your problems, take it into account. And lastly, don’t try this at home folks, a safe professional environment is usually best =)

At the end of the day, Psychic Development Simplified’s greatest strength is that it is based on the author’s practical experience with energy management and psychic development. There is a lot in the book that I haven’t covered here, read it to get started! 



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