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Speaker 1: Food is information that helps every single one of the

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Speaker 2: The number one health and wellness podcast, Jay Sheetdy Jay

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Speaker 2: Shetty Want Only Jay Shetty. Hey everyone, welcome back to

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Speaker 2: On Purpose, the place you come to listen, learn and grow.

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Speaker 2: Today's guest is someone I know personally and someone I'm

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Speaker 2: so excited to introduce you to. Mona Sharma is a

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Speaker 2: globally recognized nutritionist, entrepreneur, and corporate wellness strategist whose work

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Speaker 2: blueprints that drive lasting vitality. Mona's approach is rooted in

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Speaker 2: the belief that you are the healer, guiding clients to

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Speaker 2: and holistic practices. Please welcome to On Purpose. Mona Sharma. Mona,

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Speaker 2: It's great to have you here.

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Speaker 1: I'm so honored to be here with you.

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Speaker 2: I was really looking forward to this because we met

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Speaker 2: I first got introduced to you through Will Smith, who's

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Speaker 1: Is that thanks for j Yeah, it's special because we

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Well. I want to start off because I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that you know, my stories were resonates

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Speaker 1: in both worlds.

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Speaker 2: Let's say someone answers those questions and they say, Mona,

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Speaker 2: I'm definitely exhausted. I'm over work, Like I just feel

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Speaker 2: like I'm just constantly chasing everything. My weekends are just

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Speaker 2: full of like social events and maybe there's a couple

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Speaker 2: of work things, and I just feel like I've been

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Speaker 2: on that treadmill, and I'm sure you hear this a lot.

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Speaker 2: I don't think this is a picture that's abnormal. Where

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Speaker 2: do they start? What should they do first? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I work with a lot of high performers and people

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Speaker 1: who are on the go all the time, and it's

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Speaker 1: a norm, and they don't really want to think about

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Speaker 1: feeling that way because they know that they're overwork, they're overtired,

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Speaker 1: they don't have time to relax and restore. And I

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Speaker 1: think the first stage really is about just the awareness,

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Speaker 1: like I'm here, I don't think I can sustain this

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Speaker 1: for a long time. And now we have experts, you know,

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Speaker 1: saying it's not a good idea to sustain it. Right.

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Speaker 2: How long should you sustain it for if you were

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Speaker 2: to sustain it, I think it depends.

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Speaker 1: On the resiliency of your body and what you're actually

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Speaker 1: doing to repair. So, for example, someone like you, who

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Speaker 1: I know is prioritizing their morning, who is doing meditation,

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Speaker 1: who has grounding practices throughout the day. You can live

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Speaker 1: in that world of stress and really go hard for

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Speaker 1: some time, but I know that you will take time

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Speaker 1: to come back and recover. Other people and this is

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Speaker 1: like so common today. I'm thinking of a group of

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Speaker 1: men that I work with, and they're about do more,

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Speaker 1: go harder, dream bigger, do a harder race next time,

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Speaker 1: do one hundred mile er next time, and they see

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Speaker 1: it as a badge of honor because society has really

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Speaker 1: entrained them to believe that that's a success motivator, right,

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Speaker 1: makes them a better person, mind over matter, right, when

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Speaker 1: that's just not the case. So I think maybe a

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Speaker 1: good opportunity would be to ask what symptoms are you

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Speaker 1: suffering from? So I love doing this exercise when I'm

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Speaker 1: in a group of people, and I just asked, how

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Speaker 1: many people your suffer from anxiety? From worry, and they're

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Speaker 1: putting their hands up, from tension, from digestive issues, from heartburn,

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Speaker 1: from gas, from bloating, from poor sleep, from muscle pain

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Speaker 1: and aches, from low sex drive, low energy, brain fog,

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Speaker 1: lack of mental focus, brittle hair breakouts. Right by the

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Speaker 1: end of all this, every hand in the audience is up.

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Speaker 1: So if you're the person who's living in that stress

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Speaker 1: state for too long, and you've said yes to one, two,

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Speaker 1: three of those symptoms, then it's time for you to

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Speaker 1: do something to course correct. Don't ignore the symptoms the

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Speaker 1: way that I did, because these symptoms are whispers from

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Speaker 1: your body. Again, it's that intelligence of your body which

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Speaker 1: is communicating with you during every second of every day.

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Speaker 1: It's not about waiting until Monday to course correct, or

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Speaker 1: next month or January first to course correct. We can

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Speaker 1: course correct at any point of every day and the

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Speaker 1: body will respond, but it takes some time. So step

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Speaker 1: number one the awareness acknowledging those symptoms. But STEC Number

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Speaker 1: two is learning what the modalities are to really help

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Speaker 1: you shift. And I know you know so many of these.

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Speaker 1: So wine is just take a breath, like right now,

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Speaker 1: everybody listening to long, deep breath in Like if I

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Speaker 1: had to cue you how to do that, then chances

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Speaker 1: are you're probably not breathing like that throughout the day.

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Speaker 1: Breath is number one. Meditation is a great option, getting

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Speaker 1: out and going for a walk, doing some yoga, journaling,

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Speaker 1: scribble exercises to really like get the thoughts out of

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Speaker 1: your brain and onto paper, breaking the cycle of stress.

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Speaker 1: But again that's not making the problem go away, So

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Speaker 1: you have to come back to and understand, well, what again,

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Speaker 1: where is this coming from? What do I need to do?

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Speaker 1: So coaching is really great for people who need some

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Speaker 1: additional support, like I just can't shake this feeling. What

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Speaker 1: do I need? Coaching is great and one of those

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Speaker 1: modalities in coaching, it's called a best self snapshot. Other

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Speaker 1: people call it a circle of excellence. So visualization is

505
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Speaker 1: such a power modality to help us change our states.

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Speaker 1: And if we're living in that stressful state for too long,

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Speaker 1: but we don't want to break there, we have to

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Speaker 1: break the cycle through visualization. If I were to ask you, Jay, like,

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Speaker 1: how do you want to feel in your body? If

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Speaker 1: you were to think about yourself in the most optimal

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Speaker 1: health and happiness and waking up feeling joyful, knowing that

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Speaker 1: your digestion is working, your body is primed, everything is

513
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Speaker 1: just in tune. Your body is working so hard to

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Speaker 1: help you heal, and it knows that you're busy, but

515
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Speaker 1: it's just it's taken care of things. Has got you right.

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Speaker 1: By visualizing that so clearly to the point that you

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Speaker 1: can make it feel real, that's a physiological shift to

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Speaker 1: shift you out of that sympathetic state into a pair

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Speaker 1: of sympathetic state, which I think is so powerful. Breath

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Speaker 1: work is another really great way to do this. Box

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Speaker 1: breathing is a really great way to do this. But

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Speaker 1: I would say that visualization, especially from an NLP front,

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Speaker 1: when I'm coaching my clients, if I can get my

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Speaker 1: clients in touch with their higher self, like, really understand

525
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Speaker 1: what am I working so hard to achieve? You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing so much work around living a great, strong,

527
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Speaker 1: happy life and dieting and exercising, But how do I

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Speaker 1: want to feel in my body? If you can take

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Speaker 1: a few moments every single day and get so clear

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Speaker 1: on how that feels, then your body doesn't know the

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Speaker 1: difference between it being the reality or not. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: know that it's going to be in the future, but

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Speaker 1: it means that you have to practice that muscle.

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Speaker 2: Is there a particular time of day that that's more prominent, And.

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Speaker 1: I would say first thing in the morning. If you

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Speaker 1: can make your mornings your magic healing mornings. This is

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Speaker 1: like prime time because our thoughts tend to be a

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Speaker 1: little bit more quiet and still, first thing in the morning,

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Speaker 1: you know, medality that I use with my clients is

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Speaker 1: to get up, go to the bathroom, and immediately come

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Speaker 1: into meditation. Now, I'm always cautious talking about these because

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Speaker 1: people think that my wellness routine is like what I'm

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Speaker 1: recommending to everybody. No, just like a healing protocol that

544
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Speaker 1: I'm customizing for all my clients. The way that you

545
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Speaker 1: start your morning that feels really great for you, and

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Speaker 1: mindfulness should be as unique. Your blueprint, right is your

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Speaker 1: thumb print. So maybe for you it's meditation or visualization

548
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Speaker 1: or journaling or walking or getting on the sun. But

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Speaker 1: figuring out what and where is a good place for

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Speaker 1: you to feel stillness, then I want you to go

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Speaker 1: ahead and start to answer some of those questions. How

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Speaker 1: do I want to feel? What does it look like?

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Speaker 1: I think an easy grounding practice would be to say,

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Speaker 1: if you were to go outside in your favorite place

555
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Speaker 1: in nature. You can do this right now if you're listening,

556
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Speaker 1: what is your favorite place in nature? I want you

557
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Speaker 1: to go outside, put your feet on the ground. I

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Speaker 1: want you to feel the sunlight on your skin. How

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Speaker 1: does the wind feel on your skin? What does it

560
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Speaker 1: look like? What are the sounds in the background or

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Speaker 1: the birds chirping? Like really doing the investigating to make

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Speaker 1: it feel real. Now, I want you to notice how

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Speaker 1: you feel in your body in this state. Notice that

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Speaker 1: you feel a sense of happiness, of peace, of calm.

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Speaker 1: Can you turn on the feeling of joy in your body?

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Speaker 1: What happens in your body when you feel the feeling

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Speaker 1: of joy? And then all of a sudden, it's like

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Speaker 1: down the noise on all of the distractions in life

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Speaker 1: that are causing you to feel stress, in illness and symptoms,

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Speaker 1: and you're coming into a space that allows you to

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Speaker 1: feel calm and joy. And if you can practice that

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Speaker 1: like a muscle throughout the day, then you're retraining your

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Speaker 1: nervous system to make that your core reality. There's all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden meaning behind everything that you do, despite

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Speaker 1: the stressors or not.

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Speaker 2: I love that idea and for anyone who's never tried

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Speaker 2: it and wondering whether it works, it works, it works

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Speaker 2: and why does it work? Because I think a lot

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Speaker 2: of people if they're doubtful about practices like this, how

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Speaker 2: do you convince people that this works rather than it

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Speaker 2: just being some sort of placeiver.

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Speaker 1: So ten years ago use the word vibration with my clients.

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Speaker 1: I helped shift my client's vibration from imbalance to balance.

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Speaker 1: And I remember like the eye roll back then, yeah, yeah, vibration.

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Speaker 1: But now these words vibration and frequency they're no longer

586
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Speaker 1: woo woo. They are being backed by science. Doctors like

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Speaker 1: doctor Bruce Lipton Jodah Spensa are validifying through biofeedback the

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Speaker 1: ability to change our state without doing anything. It's the feelings,

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Speaker 1: our thoughts, our emotions that literally have the power to

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Speaker 1: change our physiology. Right I'm actually doing my master's in

591
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Speaker 1: quantum healing right now because I believe that there's so

592
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Speaker 1: much more to healing. There's this interconnectedness between our thoughts,

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Speaker 1: our feelings, and our emotions. And so when people get

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Speaker 1: into that state and they can really feel or imagine,

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Speaker 1: even if they don't know what the feeling of joy

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Speaker 1: is like in their body, just try to imagine what

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Speaker 1: it feels like for a lot of my clients are

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Speaker 1: really great practices to go back to when you're a

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Speaker 1: little kid, what was your note? We all came into

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Speaker 1: this world with like a really beautiful note or frequency

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Speaker 1: to play in this world. We love wearing vibrant colors

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Speaker 1: and playing outside. What did you like playing? What colors

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Speaker 1: were you wearing? How did you like dressing? Did you

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Speaker 1: make a lot of noise and scream and dance?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: What was your core essence? Back then and even asking

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Speaker 1: those question, I see my client's faces just light up

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Speaker 1: because they're going back to a memory of what their

609
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Speaker 1: core being is. It's a feeling of oneness within themselves

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Speaker 1: before all this stuff started happening in their lives, and

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Speaker 1: it's like stillness, quietness, and coming to center. And I

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Speaker 1: think that it really just takes practice for people to

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Speaker 1: feel that every single day. There's so many incredible guided

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Speaker 1: meditations online, guided visualizations online that people can practice to

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Speaker 1: really go back to that feeling of joy. And I

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Speaker 1: think that this is the future of medicine. The future

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Speaker 1: of medicine is really going to have to consider the

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Speaker 1: integration between these Western modalities but also Eastern medicine. The

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Speaker 1: things that we're talking about, our ancestors have known since

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Speaker 1: the beginning of time. Yoga has been practicing mindfulness and

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Speaker 1: guided meditations and breath work and visualizations for over five

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Speaker 1: thousand years, right, but now we're backing it with science.

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Speaker 1: Traditional Chinese medicine also just recognizes the energy of your body,

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Speaker 1: the systems within your body. When there's lack of coherence,

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Speaker 1: it means that there's stress and that the body simply

626
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Speaker 1: doesn't have the tools to deal with that stress. But

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Speaker 1: what happens when we can come back into coherence, the

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Speaker 1: body shifts. Another incredible company is heart Meth the Heart

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Speaker 1: Meth community. Gosh, just understanding the concept of the resilience

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Speaker 1: of the heart and heart coherence, so an amazing heart

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Speaker 1: coherence practice. To also deliver the same state is to

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Speaker 1: really just start to tune into gratitude. If I were

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Speaker 1: to ask you to think of something or someone that

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Speaker 1: you love so much right now, make it feel real.

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Speaker 1: Imagine hugging them, Imagine waking up with them first thing

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Speaker 1: in the morning, traveling with them. How good does it

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Speaker 1: feel to be in their presence. If you're a parent

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Speaker 1: thinking about being with your child, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: the problems from your nine to five, if you're present

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Speaker 1: with your child in that moment, because of the love

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Speaker 1: and gratitude that you feel, everything just dissipates. That frequency

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Speaker 1: of stress just turns down. And I think that we all,

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Speaker 1: I'll hold the superpower to change our frequency from imbalance

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Speaker 1: to balance. And it's a muscle that we have to

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Speaker 1: practice for optimal health.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can honestly say personally like there's so

647
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 2: much value in everything you're sharing and having practiced so

648
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: much of it with myself. I've found so much it

649
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 2: almost like gives you a breakthrough from the place you're at.

650
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 2: Like I think when you're trying to change the externals,

651
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: it can kind of feel a bit clunky, and almost

652
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 2: when you change it from the inside out, it's like,

653
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 2: oh wow, there is another side that there is that belief.

654
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Speaker 2: And I think that's what it comes to is do

655
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 2: you even have the belief that there is a healed, happier,

656
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: healthier version of you? And if you don't have that

657
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: belief and you don't have that in your vision, it's

658
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: not going to suddenly happen.

659
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: Where I was, there was not that vision. No doctors

660
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: had given me a label. You have a heart condition,

661
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: you are on medication, You're going to have heart surgery.

662
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: I identified as somebody who was sick. I had a

663
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: heart condition, and I gave so much of my power

664
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: away to the doctors. Right the doctors were doing their job.

665
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: They recognized the symptom that they wanted to heal within me,

666
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: and they tried to do that. God bless them for

667
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: trying to do that, but they weren't uncovering again the

668
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: root cause right. So at that time, I wasn't interested

669
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: in getting to the root cause I was sick. And

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Speaker 1: you know, you're making me think of a story. My brother,

671
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: my big brother, he was the marathon runner. He'd done,

672
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: you know, so many triathlons and everything, and he asked

673
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: me one year to do this triathlon with him and

674
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: I was like, no, mo, like I can't, my heart,

675
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: and he just looked at me and he's like, how's

676
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: that working for you? And it took someone that I

677
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: love just like bringing that up, like, oh my god,

678
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: kind of like shook me for a second. I really

679
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: identified as somebody who was sick. And unfortunately it takes

680
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: those moments sometimes from the people that we love in

681
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: our life. Or even listening to this conversation, just questioning

682
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: what are the thoughts that you've identified with the symptoms

683
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: that you've identified with, maybe you've suffered from something is

684
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: like digestive issues your entire life, that it's become you

685
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: when it's not you. It's simply your body communicating with

686
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: you that there's an opportunity to resolve something within.

687
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,959
Speaker 2: I want to talk about the physical changes as well,

688
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 2: because I think that that's what you're encouraging. You're encouraging

689
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 2: this visualized change, this internal change, as well as practical

690
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 2: external changes. And I wanted to ask you about the

691
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 2: connection between stress and the gut because I think what's

692
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 2: only happened very recently is we've started to you know,

693
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 2: at least in modern conversation. It's been around in Irada,

694
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 2: which you practice for thousands of years, but only very

695
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 2: recently have we started to understand that Wait a minute,

696
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 2: my emotional stress is related to my gut health, like

697
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 2: my mental stress is related to my physical pain. And

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Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you talk to me about how

699
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 2: stress is related to nutritional health, to your gut.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So we never really consider in the Western world

701
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: that stress could be the instigation of your bloating or

702
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: your gas, or your constipation or your diarrhea. And yet

703
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: now we understand that we have this incredible wisdom, this

704
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 1: intelligence of the vagus nerve in the body that runs

705
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: from your brain down through your heart into your gut microbiome.

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00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: And what's incredible about this nerve is that there's bi

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00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: directional communication. If the head is thinking stressful thoughts, I'm worried,

708
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 1: I'm scared, I'm fearful, that is going to the gut. Right,

709
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: how many of your listeners they feel stressed about giving

710
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: a presentation, all of a sudden, their stomach feels off right,

711
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: they have to run to the bathroom. But we also

712
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: know that the opposite is true. Right, So we now

713
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: note that we have more nerve endings in our gut

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00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: than we do in our brain. It's communication. So if

715
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: we've been living with years of imbalances, constantly commute like

716
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: there's stress happening down here. But we were never taught

717
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: to tune into that. We were never really taught to

718
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,439
Speaker 1: tune into distension. And in fact, I would even say

719
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: that we live in a world where we're normalizing all

720
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: these symptoms, right. I know, as a woman going out

721
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: with my girlfriend's, oh I'm so bloated, getting bloated after dinner,

722
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: It's like, oh yeah, me too, me too. It's like

723
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: this new norm. But the symptoms are so common they

724
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: are not normal. Again, your body is communicating with you.

725
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: So with stress being in the instigation of disease, we

726
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: need to make sure that within the gut microbiome. If

727
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: the gut is the source of all health, we need

728
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: to take care of our digestion. In Areveda, digestion. The

729
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: quality of your digestion and your gut health is really

730
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: the root to all health and all disease prevention. So

731
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: digestion is everything. So this is why we need to

732
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: not ignore these symptoms. I know that with you together,

733
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: like we were really working towards healing your gut. And

734
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Speaker 1: I'm using you as an example because you're somebody who

735
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: is a high performer. I knew that you were doing

736
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 1: the mindfulness work. But I also work with so many

737
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: people like you who they don't even notice that they're

738
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: living in a stress state. But it's the same messages

739
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: that are being communicated to the guts. We've just become

740
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: masters at ignoring those symptoms. Right, So when it comes

741
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: to stress over time, if your digestion is compromised, what

742
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: does that mean. It means that you've got an imbalance

743
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 1: of good and bad bacteria, right. The good bacteria help

744
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: you thrive, they're associated with longevity, with your immune system,

745
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: with optimal health and energy and motivation. And it means

746
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: that you're also having probably a lot more food cravings

747
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: for bad foods, like even trying to eat really really well.

748
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 1: But you just don't understand why you're craving those foods.

749
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: So often you're craving lots of sugars and lots of carbs.

750
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: It's also impacting your anxiety, like why do I have anxiety?

751
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: Can?

752
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 1: It's that bi directional communication. And if we think about

753
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: that long term, if we're living with those stressful symptoms

754
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: and digestive imbalances long term, that's what leads to further

755
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: disease within the body. That could lead to things like

756
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: joint pain, to getting more headaches, to having really really

757
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: poor sleep, to having lack of sex drive, to not

758
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: being able to lose weight and just gaining weight because

759
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: of feeling too much stress and too much cortisol throughout

760
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: the day. So healing your digestion has to be pillar

761
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: when optimizing your health.

762
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 2: If someone's really struggling with bloating, it's so common now,

763
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 2: where should they stop.

764
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: There's a couple of things. So one, just having a

765
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: look at how you're starting your day. Two, what is

766
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: the state in which you're eating? Are you eating while

767
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: you're scrolling, while you're driving, while you're working. You know,

768
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: at the astronm we eat without any devices. We're eating

769
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: in nature, we're eating in community, we're eating in a really,

770
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: really calm state. Remember, your body has to be in

771
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: that rest and digest for your body to optimize digestion.

772
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: If you're eating in fight or flight, you cannot digest

773
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: your food. The analogy of running from a lion. If

774
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: you're running from a lion for your life, you never say, oh,

775
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: I'm hungry and decide to eat an apple when you're running, right,

776
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: But that's the equivalent of the type of stress that

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00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: we're living with today. The second thing is looking at

778
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: the foods that you're eating. So one of the first

779
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: things that I do with my clients is I get

780
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: them off of ultra processed foods. Eighty percent of the

781
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: diet in the US comes from ultra processed packaged foods.

782
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: It's insane, right, And we're kind of being deceived because

783
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: on the front of the labels of those packages and

784
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 1: boxes it might say healthy, gluten free, organic, keto, all natural,

785
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 1: and air quotes. The Astram belief is if it comes

786
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: from a box and it's dead food, there's no life

787
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: force energy to it, there's no prana to it. Food

788
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: is information that helps every single one of the trillion

789
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: cells in our body thrive. So ask yourself if what

790
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: you're eating is nourishing you and helping you become the

791
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: version of yourself that you want to become, or is

792
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: the food that you're eating depleting you and taking you

793
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: away from the health that you want. The second one

794
00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: is inflammatory seed oils and vegetable oils. Oils are in everything.

795
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: These vegetable oils, swabey oils, safflower oil, canola oil are

796
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: in everything. If you look closely at the labels, even

797
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: on healthy foods, like I'm talking even in health food stores,

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00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: you will see those foods. And if you were a parent,

799
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,439
Speaker 1: please read the labels of your children's snacks because they're

800
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: in everything. These we know are pro inflammatory omega six,

801
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: fatty acids that actually cause inflammation to our cells. They

802
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: cause free radical damage. And if you look at one

803
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 1: of these blood cells under a microscope, it literally looks

804
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: like it has these spikes around it, right. That leads

805
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: to systemic inflammation in the body. So taking out those

806
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: inflammatory seed oils is key. The last one is sugar.

807
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: A lot of my clients will say, I'm not even

808
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: that much sugar, you know, just a little bit here,

809
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: a little bit there. But by the time we add

810
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,760
Speaker 1: it all up. It's like, you know, twenty thirty forty

811
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: grams of sugar in a day. It's too much. Even

812
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: simple things like a fruit, organic greek yogurt could have

813
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 1: grams of sugar in the morning. You're starting your day

814
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: off with that sugar boost, right, general population is starting

815
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: with a coffee or coffee cake or muffins or these bars, right,

816
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: these protein bars that have so much sugar and refined

817
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: oils and refined ingredients that aren't good for us. Taking

818
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: out an excess of caffeine is also a really big

819
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: deal because that's a stimulant that causes our body to

820
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: feel stress. Too much alcohol. Alcohol shuts down digestion. It

821
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: causes a further dyspiosis of that good and bad bacteria

822
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: within the gut microbiome. So those are definitely the key

823
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: pillars the state and which you're digesting, and then of

824
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: course the quality of the foods that you're digesting.

825
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 2: Also, what's the biggest problem with the sugary breakfast?

826
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 1: Sugary breakfast, So you're starting your day with this spike

827
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: in glucose. Right, whatever goes up, it's got to come down.

828
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: That leads to a sugar crash. So for a lot

829
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Speaker 1: of people who start their day with a coffee, a donut,

830
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 1: a muffin a bar. They crash, so at ten o'clock

831
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: they need another coffee. They're looking for another hit of

832
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: sugar to get them back up, and then the cycle

833
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 1: is kind of going all day. This causes the cycle

834
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Speaker 1: of insulin resistance. Insulin resistance leads to metabolic dysfunction. When

835
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my client's blood labs, I can see

836
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: over time this type of person they're fasting, glucose is rising,

837
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: it's leading them to diabetes. Like this is a big

838
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: area of concern. And again I want to just really

839
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: point out that a lot of those foods might seem

840
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: like they're healthy, but they're just laden with sugar. So

841
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: it's not really about the label of the front of

842
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: the product that you're eating, it's the label of the back.

843
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: Become a master at reading that label, looking at the sugar,

844
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: look at the ingredients. If you don't know what the

845
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: ingredient is, then neither will your body. So take ownership

846
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: of that. So over time, if we're on this cycle

847
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: of insulin instability, then we're going to continue to crave

848
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: more carbs and crave more sugar, the cortisol levels within

849
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: our body are going to continue to rise. We will

850
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: be more stress. It's just not how our body is

851
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: meant to function. So starting your day with a high

852
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: protein breakfast. You and I talked about a savory breakfast

853
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: as being so beneficial, But protein and fiber, I would say,

854
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: are like the two things that you really want to

855
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: optimize first thing in the morning or when you break

856
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: your fast. When you do that, you'll feel more satiated.

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00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:21,359
Speaker 2: Right.

858
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Speaker 1: I think you know a lot of my clients will

859
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: work towards between thirty and forty grams of protein first

860
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: thing in the morning. This is going to keep your

861
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: blood glucose a lot more stable throughout the day. You

862
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: actually won't be craving as many carbs and starches and sugars.

863
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: You actually be craving just more sustenance or nourishment, which

864
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,240
Speaker 1: means you'll make better choices for yourself and for people listening,

865
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, yeah, I've tried that, Maybe try it

866
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: for a little bit longer. Give me two weeks of

867
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: just focusing on a higher protein, higher nutrient density breakfast,

868
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 1: and you're going to notice that your taste beds are

869
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,240
Speaker 1: going to change. Your glucose levels are going to change.

870
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: Your mood might prove right, less highs and lows. You

871
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: might be less reactive. You're sleep might improve, you might

872
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: have more creativity because you're no longer crashing throughout the day.

873
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: So just take the chance. Try it out. It's really

874
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: really worth it.

875
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 2: It's fascinating to watch how quickly your taste buds change

876
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 2: and how much your body changes. I find myself having

877
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 2: less cravings, for sure. I'm someone who needed sugar every

878
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 2: single day and craved it so badly, and now that's

879
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 2: like almost you know, dissipated, where I'm not turning towards it.

880
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 2: And on top of all of that, I'm wanting to

881
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 2: make healthier choices simply by that savory breakfast, that protein,

882
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 2: that fiber. And I wanted to ask you how much

883
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 2: alcohol is too much alcohol?

884
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: The question? Honestly, I think any alcohol is too much alcohol.

885
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: Like I've really gotten to that point. Doctor Amen has

886
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: really shed a lot of light on this. The fact

887
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: that alcohol can shrink your brain. Is somebody who's focused

888
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: on living a really long life full of vita. I

889
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: don't want to take anything and that's going to shrink

890
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: my brain. Right, and it's a drug, and we've normalized

891
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: it as a society and it feels so good because

892
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,479
Speaker 1: it's a coping mechanism at the end of the day

893
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,919
Speaker 1: to deal with the stressors that we're all enduring. We've

894
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: normalized it, and we really need to stop doing this

895
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: because it's impacting our health, gets us on that metabolic

896
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: instability again, it disrupts our sleep. I think over time,

897
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: it makes you more irritable, more anxious, and more stress

898
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: So taking alcohol out of your diet, I think, gosh,

899
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: do that for a month and you're gonna feel yourself.

900
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: How great you feel, how much more clarity that you

901
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: have first thing in the morning. And there's so many

902
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: better alternatives to you know, there's non alcoholic options that

903
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: are out there that are delicious and like you would

904
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: never even know. Whenever I go out to a social event,

905
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: I literally will get some sparkling water, I'll get some

906
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: lime juice, some lemon juice put into it. I'll put

907
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,720
Speaker 1: it into a cocktail glass or everyone thinks it's a cocktail,

908
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: and I do not feel like I missed out. My

909
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 1: digestion is better, I'm digesting my food better, I'm more

910
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: present in the conversations that I'm having. Alcohol is a drug,

911
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: and when we think about the state of the world,

912
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: anxiety related disorders are on the rise. Over forty million

913
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:21,439
Speaker 1: people are suffering from anxiety related disorders and depression, and

914
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: I think that it's something that we really need to

915
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: stop normalizing.

916
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you because you spoke about alcohol,

917
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 2: you spoke about sugars, you spoke about fib M protein.

918
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 2: I was thinking, Yeah, what do we substitute coffee for,

919
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 2: because that seems to be such a big need for people.

920
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 2: What do you trade the coffee for in the morning.

921
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Okay, so this is what I'm living

922
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: through right now. So I used to say that I

923
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 1: was the nutritionist that would never take you off of coffee.

924
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: I love the taste, I love the smell, I love

925
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: the aroma, I love the ritual. Even on days where

926
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: I couldn't meditate, I would wake up, put on my

927
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: coffee machine. I would do tree posts, I would set

928
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: an intention, make it a mindful moment. But then, speaking

929
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: about what we're speaking to today, I was that hypervigilant person.

930
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: I used to say that anxiety was my blueprint and

931
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: coffee was not doing me any favors right, it increases

932
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: our cortisol. It can put us into that fight or

933
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: flight state, and let's face it, it's something that we

934
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 1: really really abuse. I still love coffee, so these past

935
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: two weeks, I've just been really focused on removing it

936
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: from my diet altogether. And it's hard. This is a

937
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: full addiction for me, and for me also, I feel

938
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: like it was one of my only vices, so I like,

939
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: I wouldn't give it up. There's no way that I

940
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: wanted to give it up. So now I'm making chai

941
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: first thing in the morning. I'm using things like mudwater,

942
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,800
Speaker 1: which I absolutely love, no caffeine, no stimulants, and I

943
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: would say by about day four, day five, headaches dissipated.

944
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: I wasn't running to the bathroom, you know, every so

945
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: often because it was stimulating my bladders so much. I'm

946
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: looking at my sleep to see if it's tracking for

947
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,439
Speaker 1: better sleep. But I would say that if you're somebody

948
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: who exp eperiences any type of anxiety, if you are

949
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: more prone to being stressed, if you are more prone

950
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: to hypervigilance, I know you love that coffee first thing

951
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: in the morning, but do yourself a favor. Maybe switch

952
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: to decaf use a organic mold tested Swiss water decaffeinated

953
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: coffee first thing in the morning. Trick your brain. Still

954
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: go for the aroma, but get off of the drags

955
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: the addiction.

956
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, these are really great solutions and really great options

957
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 2: to choose from, because I feel like we've just talked

958
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 2: about like the core aspects of what's kind of wiring

959
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 2: our day that way. Yeah, and it does take a beat,

960
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: It does take a second. Like I'm someone who I

961
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 2: crave a sugary breakfast, or used to crave a sugary breakfast.

962
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 2: It was my favorite thing in the world was to

963
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 2: have a sweet breakfast. And now that I've been eating

964
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 2: a savory breakfast five out seven days a week, it's

965
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 2: almost like I'm so used to that now. And so

966
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 2: much of this is habit breaking, habit formation, habit learning.

967
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 2: Why is it so hard in the beginning to break

968
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 2: these habits and staw a new one.

969
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 1: I always say that habits come and go, but rituals

970
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: become you. And this is actually one of the greatest

971
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: lessons that come from the ashram. Every single day, the

972
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,919
Speaker 1: schedule is the same, right. You know this from being

973
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 1: a monk the schedule is the same. We're up at

974
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: the same time every single day with the same activities

975
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: scheduled at the same time. While you're living there the

976
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: first few days, it feels like torture until you get

977
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: used to it. And what's so great about it is

978
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: that it teaches you how to become so like hyper

979
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: present and focus and you start to ritualize your behavior

980
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: so over time with practice and repetition and also associating

981
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: with a feeling like, oh, this feels really good. By

982
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: merging those two together, you ritualize your healthy habits. So,

983
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: you know, I think a lot of the things that

984
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: we're talking about, it can feel so overwhelming, like Okay,

985
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: she's saying to do this, cut out these foods, cut

986
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: out these stimulants. It feels like so much. Look at

987
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: the one, two or three things like could make the

988
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: most impact for your lifestyle and start there and then

989
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: maybe start habit stacking, so you would never leave the

990
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: house forgetting to brush your teeth or having a shower. Right. So,

991
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: a lot of my clients will habit stack. They will

992
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,800
Speaker 1: you brush their teeth and do something like tongue scraping,

993
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,280
Speaker 1: which is really really beneficial. They will make their morning

994
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: tea and you know, hold their loved one while the

995
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: tea is brewing. They'll go to the gym, but when

996
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: they go to the gym, they're spending five minutes in

997
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: mindfulness afterwards. So looking at where you can merge habit

998
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: that you're already doing something that you're already doing and

999
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: loving with something that would help you kind of step

1000
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: into the higher version of yourself and make you feel

1001
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: really really good. And that could be playing loud music

1002
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: and dancing like that could be an amazing habit stack

1003
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: because again, it's elevating your vibration to make better choices

1004
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: for yourself throughout the day.

1005
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, habit stacking is such a great, great skill, and

1006
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 2: you're so right if you're going to go work out

1007
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 2: five minutes of mindfulness even when you think about being great,

1008
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 2: like while you're waiting for your tea in the morning

1009
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 2: to just heat up or whatever it may be, to

1010
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 2: practice gratitude at that time. I think people often think,

1011
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:08,959
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I've got to find all this time

1012
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 2: in my day now. Well, there are so many activities

1013
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 2: that can allow us to be internal and by the

1014
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 2: way we're thinking during those times anyway, So it's replacing

1015
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 2: what we think about it with I was wondering, what

1016
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 2: about someone who's dealing with brain fog, Like, what are

1017
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: some of the tools that someone can have to sort

1018
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 2: brain fog?

1019
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, so big topic. There's a couple of things. So

1020
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 1: I really become an investigator for these clients. One, is

1021
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: there anything in your physical environment that could be causing

1022
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: your brain fog. So we're looking for you know, chemical

1023
00:51:56,120 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: air fresheners and perfumes and maybe noises in the background,

1024
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: are things that are just constantly distracting you. We're looking

1025
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 1: at the foods that you're eating. Having food sensitivities can

1026
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: actually cause brain fog. You might not even know it. Yeah,

1027
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: Like remember you and I both had some similar things,

1028
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: Like we had coconut come up and almond come up,

1029
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: like pineapple, like these things that are seemingly healthy, but

1030
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: our bodies just were like, we don't have the enzymes

1031
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,240
Speaker 1: to digest those foods right now. That could be causing

1032
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: brain fog as well. Nervous system dysregulation right again, living

1033
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: in that state of hypervigilance could be causing your brain fog.

1034
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: And then we look at sleep also. When I work

1035
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: with my clients, sleep is actually one of the biggest

1036
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: pillars of health. If you are not resting properly and

1037
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: recovering and restoring, there is no way that you're going

1038
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: to have the energy to proceed in your life and

1039
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: to do all the things that you want to do

1040
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: with energy and focus. So looking at your sleep, I

1041
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: love data, so I'll use things like or a ring.

1042
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: I know we looked at your or ring also, but

1043
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: I had mold exposure a few years ago. That was

1044
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: my environment that was causing stress to my body. And

1045
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: it wasn't actually until I looked at my ordering my

1046
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:11,919
Speaker 1: heart rate variability continue to drop and drop. My REM

1047
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:15,280
Speaker 1: sleep started dropping as well. I got like twenty minutes

1048
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: of REM sleep every single night. You wonder why I

1049
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 1: have brain fog. So that caused me to do some

1050
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: deeper investigations. So this is where, like again, if you're

1051
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: suffering from those symptoms, any symptom at all, investigate to

1052
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: see where they come from, because the sources could be

1053
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: very different for all of.

1054
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 2: Us totally, and it's always so much simpler than we

1055
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 2: think it is. And I think often we do get

1056
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 2: caught in our heads and we just think there's something

1057
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 2: in my head like I'm doing something wrong.

1058
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: It's just the way that I am, exactly.

1059
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 2: And so often it becomes, like you said earlier, it

1060
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 2: becomes our identity. It's really interesting. So I'm someone who's generally,

1061
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 2: thankfully never struggled with sleep. Knock on wood, And it's

1062
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 2: so funny because I was talking about this recently, and

1063
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 2: for the past couple of weeks, my sleep was getting

1064
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 2: really wrong, and I was like, that's really weird. Like

1065
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 2: I literally just spoke about this on a podcast, like

1066
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 2: what's going on? And I was thinking about it and

1067
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 2: I was trying to figure it out. I was like,

1068
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 2: wait a minute, I'm not looking at my phone, I'm

1069
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 2: not stressed, i'm not anxious, I've got a really good routine,

1070
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 2: I'm working out, I'm eating, and I'm like, what is

1071
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 2: going on? And I realized it sounds crazy, but it's

1072
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 2: my mattress. And so my mattress was slowly getting worse

1073
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 2: and my sleep was slowly getting worse. And it was

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00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 2: only until me and Raley had a conversation about it,

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00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 2: and I was like, Ralely, I just not been sleeping

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00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 2: well for the past couple of weeks, Like, how are

1077
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 2: you doing? Because obviously we're sleeping in the same bed

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00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 2: next to each other. So it's like and she was like,

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00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 2: you know what, I've not been sleeping well either. I

1080
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 2: was like, what do you think She goes, I think

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00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 2: it's the mattress. I was like, you're so right. I

1082
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,320
Speaker 2: keep waking up because my back hurts and I'm uncomfortable.

1083
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 2: But I didn't. I just didn't like it sounds so ridiculous,

1084
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 2: but I couldn't sense it because life's so busy. You

1085
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 2: keep moving fast, and you're out of bed, you're in

1086
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 2: your day, and your day's fine, and then only in

1087
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 2: your bed are you're feeling that way. And so we

1088
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 2: recently replaced our mattress, and again I sleeps back to normal.

1089
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 2: Because I was thinking about it, I was like, wait a minute,

1090
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 2: why am I sleeping well in hotels but not in

1091
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 2: my own house? And it was the mattress. And I

1092
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 2: was literally in a hotel for the last two nights,

1093
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 2: slept amazing. And then we got back last night, slept

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00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:14,320
Speaker 2: in a new mattress, slept amazing. But something as small

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00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 2: as that can have such a big impact.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember, I think we started working together, you

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00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: lived in a different house or something.

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Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, I don't even get any started.

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Speaker 1: Your sleep back then?

1100
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 2: Was that energy of that home. There was lots of

1101
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 2: things wrong without home. The first thing is the main

1102
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaker 2: generator was hidden behind the master bedroom in the house,

1103
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:37,479
Speaker 2: so then sounds, the frequency, the vibration of that was there.

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00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 2: It was also a home that was really old, so

1105
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 2: you could hear animals in the floorboards and the walls.

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00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 2: I would wake up to that. And then the energy

1107
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 2: of the home by day was beautiful and by night

1108
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 2: was not good, like there was a there was some

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00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 2: kind of stuff going on there.

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Speaker 1: Well, how many people put up with that? Right like

1111
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: they put up with maybe the partner that's snow snoring,

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00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: or the mattress that isn't so great, or too much

1113
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: light coming in, or they just get used to it.

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00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: This is how I sleep. I'm a terrible sleeper. Right again,

1115
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: You've got to like become an expert. You are the healer.

1116
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: You have to take control of your life. And without

1117
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: even working with me, pretend I was in your bedroom,

1118
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: like I'm doing an audit of your bedroom. We're looking

1119
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 1: at the quality of your mattress, the quality of your duvet,

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00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: your pillows, the temperature, the lighting, the sounds right. How

1121
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: do you make your bedroom your rest and digest oasis.

1122
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: I don't allow my clients to have any screens in

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00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:35,240
Speaker 1: the bedrooms. Bedrooms are meant for rest, restoration, for sleep,

1124
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: and for sex. That is it. And once you master

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00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:41,560
Speaker 1: your sleep, like gosh, the joke is like, let that

1126
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: cure ninety nine percent of your problems because your body

1127
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: has the ability to heal itself. Our bodies are healing

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00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: in the second as you're listening to this. Your body

1129
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: is so resilient. It is healing. But if we're not

1130
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: giving it the proper rest and restoration that it needs,

1131
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 1: it's not going to be able to do that. It's

1132
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 1: putting out fires here and there to try to keep

1133
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: up with your busy life.

1134
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:02,839
Speaker 2: We have to change that identity. What you just said,

1135
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 2: that this idea that I'm a terrible sleeper, That's what

1136
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 2: needs to be solved at the root of it, because

1137
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 2: if you keep saying that, and you keep repeating it

1138
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:14,280
Speaker 2: rather than what you said, do an audit of everything

1139
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 2: from the pillow shape and size to your bed sheets,

1140
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 2: everything that you just mentioned. That audit is so important

1141
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 2: because you'll find it in that audit that there's something

1142
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 2: else tripping you up, and it isn't this weakness you

1143
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 2: have or the fact that you're just a bad sleeper

1144
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 2: or and also sometimes I think we do overestimate the

1145
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 2: anxiety in our life, like we do just make it

1146
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 2: about oh my gosh, I'm just anxious. I'm just this,

1147
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 2: and it's like no, no, no, that you've got a

1148
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 2: TV on in your room, you're on your phone all

1149
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 2: this time before you go to bed. Of course you're

1150
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 2: not just going to switch off sleep.

1151
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: Anxiety is a real thing, and this is actually a

1152
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: really important, you know, part of aer veda. In Aveda,

1153
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: we talk about not only digesting the foods that we eat.

1154
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: We metabolize everything in our life. It's not only what

1155
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: we eat, it's what we're watching, it's what we're like

1156
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: listening to, It's what we can smell, and it's what

1157
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: we can feel. So look around you right now, or

1158
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: look around in the rooms where you spend the most time,

1159
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: and ask what you are digesting. You know, I always say,

1160
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: clean up the cupboard or that drawer. That's just like

1161
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: chaos for you, because a cluttered house clauses a cluttered mind. Right.

1162
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: That was my dad's message growing up look at your

1163
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: space and see is it a reflection of the version

1164
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: of yourself that you want to become and how you

1165
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 1: want to feel. Often with my clients, I'll help them

1166
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: kind of build their ashroom as much as I want

1167
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: everybody to go away and experience what ashroom like is

1168
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: and all the gifts that come with it. Create your

1169
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: ashroom at home. So what does that mean? We talked

1170
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: about your bedroom, optimizing your sleep, going into your kitchen,

1171
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: and I always say that self care starts in the kitchen.

1172
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: Your kitchen is your first line of defense when it

1173
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: comes to your healthcare. So if I were to come

1174
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: over again, do an audit of your cabinets, your cupboard,

1175
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: to your fridge, what would I see? What would you

1176
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: have to hide from a new tritionist? Right, just get

1177
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: rid of it. Why do you think it's okay to

1178
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: feed yourself those foods if you know that they're inflammatory.

1179
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: Why aren't you putting yourself into the position of wanting

1180
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: to nourish yourself so much and heal and break that addiction?

1181
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: I often say to people, you build an altar, whether

1182
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: you are religious or spiritual or not, build an altar

1183
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: in your home that reminds you of what it means

1184
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: to go back to that core frequency of who you are?

1185
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: Who are you? How do you want to feel? What

1186
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 1: are you working towards. It could include a religious deity

1187
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: or a god or something spiritual. It could be a

1188
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: picture of yourself in nature and your happiest spot. It

1189
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: could be a picture of your family. It could be

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00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: a vision board. It could be you know, some devotional

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00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: practice that you have there. I love putting some Palo

1192
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 1: Santo and stuff like that there. But have a space

1193
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: in your home where you go to that altar. It's

1194
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 1: always something that's going to anchor you in the version

1195
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: of yourself that you are becoming. And then I also

1196
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: add in like have a space for mindfulnes. Yes, it's

1197
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: funny you and I we talk a lot about meditation.

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01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: If there was something that you could do that would

1200
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: take away your stress, improve your digestion, help your memory,

1201
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: your brain function, your mood, your motivation, your creativity, how

1202
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: you show up in this world? Would you do it? Yeah?

1203
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: Meditate right? If we don't do it, it's free. What

1204
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: if doctors started to prescribe meditation. What if one day

1205
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: we could go to our doctor's offices and before we

1206
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:31,439
Speaker 1: even stepped in to see them. We were guided into

1207
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: meditation to surrender and just practice that muscle of feeling peace.

1208
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: You would learn how to change your physiology. You become

1209
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 1: the master of your own health. And because you remember

1210
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: how good it feels, even if it's a split second

1211
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: in the meditation that day, you're practicing that muscle. You're

1212
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: building the fuel of what it feels like to feel good,

1213
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: and you deserve to feel that way. So, yes, you

1214
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: need to meditate, and gosh, if you haven't practiced yoga.

1215
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: Yoga is something that I think that needs to be

1216
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: recommended to everyone. A lot of my clients will say,

1217
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I can't stay still for that long.

1218
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: That's why you need to be doing yoga right, That's

1219
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: exactly why you should do it. But when we think

1220
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: about the ancient wisdom behind it, Sudiya and namuscar right

1221
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: sun salutations first thing in the morning. Right now, we're

1222
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: talking about our circadian rhythm going out into the sun.

1223
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: We know that this really supports us with our sleep

1224
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: training at night. It helps to boost serotonin in our gut.

1225
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: Microbiome Yogis have known this forever we go outside, we

1226
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: salute the sun. We're inhaling sunshine, allowing nature to really

1227
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 1: calm and sue us. We're aligning with the rhythm of nature. Also,

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01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 1: we're moving our bodies in different ways to alleviate stillness,

1229
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: working our lymphatic system or respiratory system. Ultimately letting go,

1230
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: releasing things from the night before, stuff that's come up

1231
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: from while we sleep. Do that first thing in the morning.

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01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: If it's one round of sun salutations, two rounds of

1233
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: sun salutations, but just give it a go. Notice how

1234
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: it's like an instant energy boost. You won't need coffee anymore.

1235
01:02:07,400 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: Your body will feel primed for your day.

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01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 2: When you talk about it, you make it sound so easy.

1237
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 2: I'm like listening, just going mona, You're amazing, this is awesome.

1238
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 2: This is like, it's so blissful to live this way.

1239
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 2: And I think anyone who's listening right now, it's about

1240
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 2: finding the time you have to start doing one of

1241
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 2: these things and seeing how it changes your life, and

1242
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 2: that will build your confidence. I think when I've looked

1243
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 2: at my health journey, it's been changing a pillar at

1244
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 2: a time. And when I've changed the pillar and built confidence,

1245
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 2: then I can add another pillar and then I can

1246
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 2: add another one rather than this, let me just destruct

1247
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 2: my entire health regime and start a new one, and

1248
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 2: it doesn't work that way. I feel like if you

1249
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 2: solve your sleep all of a sudden, now you can

1250
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 2: solve your food, then you can solve your workout. If

1251
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 2: you try to do it all at the same time,

1252
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 2: most people don't have the time, or can't find it,

1253
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 2: or are not prioritized it. There's too many things going

1254
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 2: wrong because each of these things is going to take

1255
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 2: time to practice and prepare for and get right.

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01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that's a good reflection too, because I

1257
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 1: don't want people to look at me and think that

1258
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: I've got it figured out. Mona's outside doing sun salutations

1259
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,959
Speaker 1: every single mornings just for blissful self. No, I'm a mom.

1260
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: I've got two little kids. Life is stressful and it's

1261
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: really busy. But I know that when I come back

1262
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: to those core practices then I feel my best. And

1263
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 1: for listeners, I want you to start thinking about what

1264
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:33,480
Speaker 1: are one, two or three things that you can start doing,

1265
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:37,919
Speaker 1: and maybe consider one thing in the nutrition category. What's

1266
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 1: one thing like drinking water first thing in the morning

1267
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: that could be so simple that could help you optimize.

1268
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 1: What if it's removing one food ingredient. What if it's

1269
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 1: deciding to eat dinner a little bit earlier because you

1270
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: know that's going to help you sleep a little bit better.

1271
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: Then from the movement category, you know, what's one type

1272
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,959
Speaker 1: of exercise that you actually love? Focus on doing something

1273
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 1: that you love. Don't go do hit training because you

1274
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: know social media is telling you to do that. Don't

1275
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 1: go and lift heavy weights if it's something that you

1276
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 1: just absolutely hate. Find something that you love doing, and

1277
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 1: then do something for your spirit, what makes your spirit

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Speaker 1: feel really really great? And do one thing from each

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Speaker 1: of those buckets every day, acknowledging that it's that one percent.

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Speaker 1: It's the one percent every day that's really putting you

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Speaker 1: on the best training ground to have the most optimal

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Speaker 1: health span. And I wanted to point out too also

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Speaker 1: having a strong why everyone's talking about longevity, right, I

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Speaker 1: want to live longer, you know, but why why do

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Speaker 1: you want to live longer?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: The way that we're looking at aging right now, aging

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Speaker 1: kind of sucks. We get to the last ten fifteen

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Speaker 1: years of our life and you know, we're put into

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Speaker 1: nursing homes, we're given a chronic disease or put on

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Speaker 1: prescription medication, like I don't want any of that. But

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Speaker 1: my visualization is to think about I want to live

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Speaker 1: to till I'm one hundred, so that I can throw

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Speaker 1: my grandkid on my back and hike Runyon Canyon and

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Speaker 1: have that strength and that posture, to have clarity of

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Speaker 1: my mind so I can be fully present, so with

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Speaker 1: a why. That is so powerful for me because I

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Speaker 1: really want to meet my grandkids one day and I

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Speaker 1: can visualize this. I can visualize hiking and make it

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Speaker 1: feel real. Now my actions throughout the day are going

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Speaker 1: to be aligned with the version of myself that I

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Speaker 1: am becoming. I love that so many of us listen

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Speaker 1: to social media, and I'm guilty of it too. We

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Speaker 1: hear about these things that we should be doing, you know,

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Speaker 1: the things that we need to be doing for longevity,

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Speaker 1: but we don't have a why backed behind them, and

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Speaker 1: it's like trial and error to see, like what works,

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Speaker 1: what will stick? Maybe stop looking for trial and error

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Speaker 1: and finally just get to the source of what's going

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Speaker 1: to make you feel your best and then follow those

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Speaker 1: nuggets and that's going to lead you to your perfect

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Speaker 1: healing protocol. Not somebody else's, yours own.

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Speaker 2: That I love that. Man, what a beautiful reminder. And

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Speaker 2: I loved hearing about your visualization because you made it

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Speaker 2: so tangible and real for us, and I could vision

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Speaker 2: it for you as you were saying it. So imagine

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Speaker 2: if we were all doing that for ourselves. And I

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Speaker 2: think the why is so critical and so important, and

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Speaker 2: I think everything gets fueled from that deeper purpose that

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Speaker 2: we have of why we want to live long. I

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Speaker 2: always think about it. It's like, I want to be

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Speaker 2: able to do this for as long as I possibly can.

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Speaker 2: This is all I want to do is serve and give.

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Speaker 2: And when I came to seek your help, or when

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Speaker 2: I've gone to others to find their coaching or mentorship

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Speaker 2: in my health, it's purely being because I'm just like,

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Speaker 2: I want to do this forever. Like I'm not trying

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Speaker 2: to retire, I'm not trying to stop doing what I'm doing.

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Speaker 2: There's no endpoint for me. This is what I love doing,

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Speaker 2: but I want to be healthy while I do it,

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Speaker 2: and so Mona. We end every episode of On Purpose

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Speaker 2: with a final five, So these are your final five.

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Speaker 2: They be answered in one word to one sentence maximum

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Speaker 2: so Mona Sharma. These are your final five. Question number one,

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Speaker 2: what is the best health advice you've ever heard or

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Speaker 2: received or given?

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Speaker 1: Eat like you love yourself?

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Speaker 2: Question number two, what is the worst health advice you've

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Speaker 2: ever heard received?

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Speaker 1: Carbs are your enemy?

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Speaker 2: Oh explain xpline carbohydrates.

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Speaker 1: Our body needs carbs, But I want you to start

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Speaker 1: loving on carbohydrates that come from the earth. Vegetables that

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Speaker 1: are grown in the ground, squashes, yams, sweet potato. Those

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Speaker 1: type of carbhydrates are loaded with nutrients, with vitamins, with minerals,

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Speaker 1: with polyphenols that help our bodies thrive. They're antioxidants for

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Speaker 1: our bodies. So focus on those carbohydrates from the earth.

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Speaker 2: Great answer. Question number three. What's something you used to

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Speaker 2: believe was true about health but you don't anymore?

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Speaker 1: That somebody else knows the answers to my body and

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Speaker 1: how to heal?

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Speaker 2: Tell me more.

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Speaker 1: When you don't have your health, nothing matters. Time stops.

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Speaker 1: I had to get to that point to really take

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Speaker 1: initiative to learn what my body needed to get to

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Speaker 1: a place to heal, and ultimately that was embodiment. It

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Speaker 1: was coming into my body to learn what my body

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Speaker 1: needed and I think that if we start to talk

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Speaker 1: more and have conversations like this about the fact that

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Speaker 1: our bodies actually do have this intelligence, and maybe for

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Speaker 1: once and for all, we start teaching our kids on

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Speaker 1: the wisdom that our bodies have, then they're not going

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Speaker 1: to be in the same position when they grew up.

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Speaker 1: They will acknowledge that they are their own healers. That

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Speaker 1: we can merge Western medicine with these Eastern training modalities

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Speaker 1: that we've talked about today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that you've been speaking about that so much.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm so passionate about as well. I feel

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Speaker 2: like there's so many great strengths from both and it's

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Speaker 2: a missed opportunity to ignor either or.

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Speaker 1: My dream is that the future of healthcare is really

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Speaker 1: the integration of modern science, which is so cool. There's

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Speaker 1: so many cool things that are happening with ancient wisdom,

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Speaker 1: and if the two would come together, I think that

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Speaker 1: the trajectory for the future of health how we age

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Speaker 1: the symptoms that we suffer from, will dissipate. They will

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Speaker 1: be more awareness and openness that we will be on

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Speaker 1: this like exciting journey to uncover the human body.

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Speaker 2: Question number four what's the first thing you do every

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Speaker 2: morning and the last thing you do every night?

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Speaker 1: Meditate and gratitude for my heart. Yeah, our hearts have

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Speaker 1: been veeding for us since before we even got here.

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Speaker 1: And to get into my heart, I come to the

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Speaker 1: feeling I just love. I'm so in love with my

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Speaker 1: kids and my husband and being a mom in my

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Speaker 1: life and coming into that hart coherence is everything beautiful.

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Speaker 2: It comes across, It's very real. It just oozes from you, beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Fifth and final question, if you could create one law

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Speaker 2: that everyone in the world had to follow, what would

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Speaker 2: it be?

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Speaker 1: Lead with empathy? You do not know you're at the

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Speaker 1: other person's story, and notice how often you are the

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Speaker 1: critic or the judge in your day to day life.

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Speaker 1: Maybe turn that around to empathy towards yourself. Once you

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Speaker 1: experience that, you will take that out into the world

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Speaker 1: and it will be contagious.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. Mona, thank you so much for your time today.

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Speaker 2: Everyone has been listening or watching. I want you to

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Speaker 2: tag me and Mona on Instagram, on TikTok, whatever platform

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Speaker 2: you use. Tell us what you're testing, what you're experimenting with,

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Speaker 2: what you're trying, because I want you to try and

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Speaker 2: put at least one piece of advice into practice. And

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Speaker 2: of course please go and follow Mona Sharma across all

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Speaker 2: of the social media platforms and you can check out

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Speaker 2: her podcast, Rooted in Wellness as well. Mona, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much again for your wealth, wisdom, your amazing energy

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Speaker 2: and aura that you have that you carry everywhere you go.

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Speaker 2: And I'm so grateful that we got to finally connect

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Speaker 2: on the show, and I'm excited for people to start

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Speaker 2: practicing these things.

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Speaker 1: So thank you so much, thank you for having.

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Speaker 2: Me check If you love this episode, you love my

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Speaker 2: conversation with doctor Joe Dispenser on why stressing overthinking negatively

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Speaker 2: impacts your brain and heart and how to change your

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Speaker 2: habits that are on autopilot. Listen to it right now.

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Speaker 1: How many times do we have to forget until we

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Speaker 1: stop forgetting and start remembering, that's the moment of change.

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Speaker 1: One cares how many times you fell off the bicycle?

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Speaker 2: If you ride the bicycle, now you ride the bike