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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George Norri

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Speaker 1: back with doctor Susan Smith Jones, PhD. Has assisted thousands

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Speaker 1: of people in becoming more aware of how their lifestyle

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Speaker 1: choices affect their physical, emotional, mental, spiritual wellbeing. For thirty

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Speaker 1: plus years, Susan has taught student, staff, and faculty at

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Speaker 1: UCLA on how to be healthy and fit. She's an author,

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Speaker 1: motivational speaker, holistic health consultant, and was selected as one

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Speaker 1: of the ten Healthy American Fitness Leaders by the President's

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Speaker 1: Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. A very gifted teacher,

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Speaker 1: Susan brings together modern research and ageless wisdom in all

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Speaker 1: of her work. Susan, welcome back. How are you? I had, George,

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Speaker 1: wonderful to be with you. Healthy, Happy New Year, Happy

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Speaker 1: New Year. And let's let me ask you a question

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Speaker 1: about New Year's Why does it seem that before the

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Speaker 1: clock strikes midnight into twenty three, people say I'm glad

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Speaker 1: this year is over. Oh my god. Almost everybody says that,

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Speaker 1: and then they look forward to twenty three, and then

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Speaker 1: in twenty three they may say the same thing. I know.

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Speaker 1: I think often that's because people are focusing on the

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Speaker 1: negative aspects of the last year rather than focusing on

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Speaker 1: what was good, what was positive, How did you make

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Speaker 1: a positive difference in other people's lives? So and then

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Speaker 1: people regret things they did in the past. They forget that.

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Speaker 1: You need to live more in the present moment. And

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Speaker 1: that's why today's topic is so good to end the

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Speaker 1: year on a positive note and begin the next year

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Speaker 1: on the most positive note possible. And it's within our

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Speaker 1: our ability to create a more positive life. So we'll

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Speaker 1: go through all the ways to do that. Is it

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Speaker 1: difficult or easy to stay positive? Susan If you are

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Speaker 1: you want to be good at, it takes practice. There

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Speaker 1: are many studies that show how being more positive can

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Speaker 1: not only light up your brain and help you release

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Speaker 1: neurotransmitters that make you feel good, but it can also

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Speaker 1: lengthen your life and change your immunity and give you

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Speaker 1: can all choose to do every day. To be more

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Speaker 1: positive does it seem like time is sticking too quickly

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Speaker 1: be negative for just one moment, not you. Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 1: just for one moment, though, But this will resonate with

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Speaker 1: almost everyone, and that is that stress is a major

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Speaker 1: problem in modern life. Computers have sped up our lives.

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Speaker 1: We want to do everything. We want to do it

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Speaker 1: while we drive, we watch TV while we read, we

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Speaker 1: conduct business while listening to the radio. And as my

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Speaker 1: grandmother and mom taught me, I see this as a

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Speaker 1: sickness of epidemic proportions, and I call it a business

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Speaker 1: or a hurry sickness. And this type of lifestyle will

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Speaker 1: drain our hearts of compassion, according to many studies, and

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Speaker 1: you and I will talk about a few of them

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Speaker 1: in a moment. But if you understand the speed of life,

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Speaker 1: you can slow it down by enjoying it more and

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Speaker 1: making a conscious choice of being more compassionate. And this

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Speaker 1: involved being a more kind and grateful person. Henry David Throw,

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Speaker 1: one of my favorites, once wrote life is frettered away

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Speaker 1: by detail, simplify, simplify, Well not at work that way too.

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Speaker 1: Does it seem to you that people seem to be

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Speaker 1: would agree to that the people are much less compassionate

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Speaker 1: their hostile. And it's not our imaginations, I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: And this divisiveness is most prevalent these days. If you

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of this has to do

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Speaker 1: Interesting take on that, Susan, how'd you get involved in

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Speaker 1: it's all the whole stories and uplifted. But she taught

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Speaker 1: life and the importance of being positive and kind to

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Speaker 1: over the world. I've written, you know, over thirty books,

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Speaker 1: I know how to keep the immune system healthy. You

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful to my mom and grandmother, and they

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Speaker 1: to say to me, honey, keep your words loving, true,

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Speaker 1: You know, people don't realize that you want to speak

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Speaker 1: words that are positive and affirm always what you want

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Speaker 1: to create in life. Because your words are messengers for power,

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Speaker 1: got to put a guard up at that door of

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Speaker 1: One of the chapters is thinking right in a positive light.

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Speaker 1: And I give you two hundred and sixty of my

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Speaker 1: with how you think. Because Fritzie used to say to me, George,

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Speaker 1: your attitude is your mind's paintbrush. It can color anything.

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Speaker 1: It absolutely can. So it begins with what you think

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Speaker 1: you know, people who are negative drain your energy. I know.

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Speaker 1: take themselves in life quite so seriously. It just feels good.

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Speaker 1: People that are positive and people that show gratitude. It's

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Speaker 1: high reward activity. You know. Gratitude is about being thankful

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Speaker 1: more compassionate and kind toward ourselves and others. When you

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Speaker 1: of a magnet for miracles. But like you said a

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Speaker 1: moment ago, when you are grateful for something, whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: Using m our eye technology, researchers have discovered that gratitude

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Speaker 1: like a dynamic spiritual energy that allows you to exert

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Speaker 1: great stressbuster because you know this, what you think about consistently,

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Speaker 1: know something simple you could do is keep a gratitude

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Speaker 1: for which you're grateful, because when you focus on positive things,

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Speaker 1: the brain endorphins by being kind and positive? Absolutely we do.

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Speaker 1: powerful kindness is. Kindness benefits ourselves as well as the

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Speaker 1: others do. That's an impressive statistic, and endorphins also have

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Speaker 1: you're kind, you know. Put Simply when you are kind

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Speaker 1: to someone else or even doing a kindness for your self,

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