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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 Susan Smith Jones back with us. Holistic health

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Speaker 1: and lifestyle expert, educator, president of her own Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: based Health Unlimited consulting firm. Susan Smith Jones, as a PhD,

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Speaker 1: has certainly made extraordinary contributions to the field of high

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Speaker 1: level wellness. For the past twenty years, has traveled the

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Speaker 1: country and the world, teaching people how to conquer illness,

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Speaker 1: extend life, and be uplifted day in and day out.

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Speaker 1: Susan had has established herself as one of the world's

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Speaker 1: foremost experts on nutrition, vitality, human potential, the law of attraction,

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Speaker 1: and living a balanced living. Susan, welcome back. I hope

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Speaker 1: you are well, George. I'm doing well. It's so great

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Speaker 1: to be with you again. Thank you. I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to this and you know what, I can't think of

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Speaker 1: a better time to have you on where people are

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Speaker 1: so stressed and upset and just everything seems to be

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Speaker 1: coming in on people. Do you feel that I see it.

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Speaker 1: I feel it every day with people calling me from

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Speaker 1: all over the world. It's not just here in America,

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Speaker 1: it's everywhere. Turn on any news at night and you're

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Speaker 1: bombarded with negativity. So you have to be really strong

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Speaker 1: within your own being to let a lot of this

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Speaker 1: roll over you. And I still watch the news, but

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Speaker 1: I know where I need to send my prayers. We

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Speaker 1: talk about the law of attraction. What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: So in the simplest terms, And I like simple and

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Speaker 1: I think Einstein does too, because he said once if

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Speaker 1: you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I would say. You're always attracting back

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Speaker 1: to yourself, a reflection of what you believe, what you think,

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Speaker 1: what you say, what you do. And Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Speaker 1: said we become what we think about all day long.

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Speaker 1: I's and said, your imagination is a preview of your

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Speaker 1: life's coming attractions and then another favor to mine. Henry

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Speaker 1: David Row said, the world is but a canvas to

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Speaker 1: your imagination. So in other words, your outer world tends

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Speaker 1: to be a reflection of your inner world, kind of

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Speaker 1: like a mirror. You're subconscious and what you see in

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Speaker 1: the world around you will be consistent over time with

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Speaker 1: what's inside you, and this will become much clearer as

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Speaker 1: we go on today. But here's an example, bringing in

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Speaker 1: health and vitality. Maybe you're visualizing one of your goals daily,

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Speaker 1: like being fit, being healthy, but then you might during

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Speaker 1: the day be saying negative things to yourself, maybe denigrating

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Speaker 1: yourself because you don't look as good in your clothes

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Speaker 1: So those negative thoughts will nullify the positive visualization. Here's

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Speaker 1: what you need to do. You've got to put a

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Speaker 1: guard up at the door of your thoughts where it

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Speaker 1: all begins, and keep your thoughts and words as positive

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Speaker 1: as possible. My grandmother Fritzie and I'll tell you in

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Speaker 1: a moment of how I got started. It's an amazing story.

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Speaker 1: But she used to say to me, Susan, your attitude

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Speaker 1: as your mind's paintbrush. It can color anything. And this

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Speaker 1: law of attraction also rides tandem with living intentionally. It's

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Speaker 1: about it's about living your life on purpose. And when

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Speaker 1: you live your life on purpose, you're putting these conscious

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Speaker 1: thoughts behind the choices you make. In other words, you acknowledge,

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Speaker 1: you get to choose and I always say that intentional

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Speaker 1: living is like a GPS system found in many cars.

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Speaker 1: It shows you the path to where you want to go,

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Speaker 1: and a GPS requires putting in the right down destination

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Speaker 1: where you're headed. So setting an intention and attracting what

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Speaker 1: you want to relentlessly remind yourself of what you want,

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Speaker 1: reach your desires. You've got to breathe and eat and

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Speaker 1: sleep what you're after. And as my grandmother taught me,

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Speaker 1: your mindset needs to be synchronized in order to create

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Speaker 1: the reality you wish for and always be focusing on

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Speaker 1: the positive. And if I recall, you started this in

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Speaker 1: your teenage years, didn't you? Yes, a few just a

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Speaker 1: on and seven more years I lived I didn't live,

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Speaker 1: now know that is grounding and earthing. And she would

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Speaker 1: of the human heart is to feel understood. Now as

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Speaker 1: a result of her brilliant, wonderful wisdom, to this day, George,

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Speaker 1: I've never taken any medication. I know how to heal

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Speaker 1: telling anybody to go off any medications. But she taught

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Speaker 1: then at that point I went to UCLA, got multiple degrees.

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Speaker 1: So the universe had a huge lesson for me. And

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Speaker 1: So then the team, the doctor, the team of doctors,

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Speaker 1: and my head doctor said I'm sorry, susan major fracture

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Speaker 1: And over six months with sheer determination and deep faith

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Speaker 1: and Mike Thorow said, if you advanced confidently and the

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Speaker 1: direction of your dreams, and you endeavor to live the

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Speaker 1: unexpected and common hours. So it's not that it was easy,

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Speaker 1: He said, Susan, I don't understand. I don't see a

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Speaker 1: sign of that fracture. You seem to be in great health.

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Speaker 1: And then he said, maybe this is what they referred

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Speaker 1: when you are grateful, when you live your life as

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Speaker 1: How important, Susan is mental wellness to all of this?

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Speaker 1: Well mental, Like Fritz who said to me, remember your

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Speaker 1: attitude as your mind's paintbrush. You can color anything. That's

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Speaker 1: the conscious, the subconscious, and the superconscious. Now as your

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Speaker 1: waking activities, make decisions, you relate to others, you do work.

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Speaker 1: The subconscious mind at the same time carries memories of

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Speaker 1: based on your daily experiences. And then, of course, the

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Speaker 1: super conscious mind is your connection to the divine. I

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Speaker 1: High level Wellness. So relating this to weight control. If

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Speaker 1: it's going to be difficult to lose weight. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you can start with affirmations. In chapter ten of Uplifted,

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Speaker 1: enriching affirmations that you can repeat to yourself silently or

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Speaker 1: an affirmation do, Suson. Actually, it helps to change the

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Speaker 1: and so let's turn it around down to make it positive,

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that happier people are more successful? Well,

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Speaker 1: are a choice. We can choose the beliefs that limit us,

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Speaker 1: is to choose beliefs that are conducive to success. And

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Speaker 1: to discard the ones that hold you back. Beliefs can

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Speaker 1: our beliefs determine how much potential will be able to tap.

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Speaker 1: Like in ten BC, Virgil, one of the greatest poets

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Speaker 1: Pythagoras twenty four hundred years ago. I love what he said.

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Speaker 1: Choose what is best, habit will soon render it agreeable

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Speaker 1: and easy. And in the world of metaphysics, it's the

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Speaker 1: unwritten law of correspondence or attraction that says, as within

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Speaker 1: you thinking about? So about successful happy people, George, you

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Speaker 1: just said. Studies reveal that successful happy people have think

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Speaker 1: they dislike situations they're angry about events. You know. So?

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Speaker 1: All these data point directly to the law of concentration,

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Speaker 1: or the way I say it is what you think

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Speaker 1: throw Whitman all my favorites. And these two laws and combination,

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Speaker 1: I had a producer years ago, in my earlier days, Susan,

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Speaker 1: he did, Yes, absolutely he did. Gosh, I'm surprised you

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Speaker 1: didn't set them straight. I did eventually, very good. Eventually.

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Speaker 1: It took a while, but you know, after he listened

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Speaker 1: he began to realize, Hey, maybe I have to change

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