Unlocking the Miracles Within - Episode 21 - Food for the Soul: A Diet for Spiritual Vitality

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But the thing I did not have reverence for, like
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I do today, is my body. My body, God bless it,
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has been through an enormous amount of abuse and taken
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advantage of because I wanted to show everyone in the
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world that I could be happy even though I was
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carrying a little bit of extra weight. If you're not
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in a place of reverence for your body, you're in
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a place of shame or judgment, Do your best to
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step out of that. Do your best to love yourself,
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whatever shape you are, however you look. God knows you're perfect.
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I know you're perfect. Be grateful for your body. Be
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grateful for having access to food that many people don't
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have access to. Be grateful for having a meal. If
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you have family, if you have a loved one and
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you could spend it with, be grateful for that. If
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you're eating alone in the quiet, be grateful for that.
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Gratitude is a huge thing when it comes to everything
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you're doing. with your body and with your food. Hi,
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and welcome to Unlocking the Miracles Within. I'm your host,
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Jeffrey McDonald, and we're starting with episode 21 today, Food
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for the Soul, a diet for spiritual vitality. It's just
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going to be me today with you. We'll let spirit
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guide us. And, you know, just got touched on this
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show to do it myself because I'm actually going through
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this journey And I face challenges throughout my life, and
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I wanted just to share that journey with you and
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share those stories. And maybe that'll touch something in you.
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Maybe you can relate to what I've gone through, what
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I'm going through, and how that'll help uplift your relationship
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with God. So we'll talk about my journey with food
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and weight and all those fun things. And I will
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also share with you some stories. Hopefully you enjoy those.
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And I'll give you some tips and tricks that I
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learned on a variety of things. And I'll also share
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with you kind of the challenges I'm facing now, just
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to be very direct and real with you. I'm still
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on this journey, so I'm not one who's perfect. I
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know we see way too much out in the world
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around diet, what's good, what's bad, what's good for us
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and what's bad for us. And as you know, if
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you listen to my other shows, one of the most
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important things to me is that we're all so unique energetically, spiritually.
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We're all very unique in our relationship. God created us
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and created us in our way so that we could
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have that relationship with him through all things. And one
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of them is food. I couldn't say that I grew
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up spiritually grounded in food at all. I don't even
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recall consistently praying over food when I was young. I
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recall prayer at times, but not consistent prayer. Not reverence
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for food. I grew up in a generation in the
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70s and 80s where it was the worst case. Processed foods,
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microwave foods, easy foods, what everybody would call today unhealthy foods.
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the creation of the Twinkie and the Suzy Cube and
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all those things that are very tasty, but were not
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maybe the best thing for young children. Anyway, I went
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through all that, and I really always, I've always enjoyed food.
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When I was young, I was a quick eater. I
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wasn't heavy, maybe compared to my older brother. I was
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a little bit chunky, so I was a little conscious
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of that. I had a little more weighed on me.
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I would even, looking back at my pictures, I wouldn't
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even say chunky, but as you can see, I have
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a round head and cheeks. I've always had those, even
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when I was little. For whatever reason, in my family,
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there were a lot of comments around weight and comparative weight,
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not among me as a child, among others being witnessed.
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And I felt a lot of that judgment. And part
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of me If you really get to know me personally,
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when I see that kind of judgment, whether it was
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intentional or not intentional, and I don't believe with my family,
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who I love very much, it was intentional. I believe
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it was just a lack of consciousness and awareness. I
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am so stubborn. I do the exact opposite of what
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I'm told many times. And I know God knows that
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because God works on me all the time with my stubbornness.
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But the thing I did not have reverence for, like
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I do today, is my body. My body, God bless it,
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has been through an enormous amount of abuse and taken
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advantage of because I wanted to show everyone in the
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world that I could be happy even though I was
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carrying a little bit of extra weight. I wanted those
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people that were judging, categorizing, making comments to me and
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to others that that didn't really matter, that we're all,
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as my wife always says, and I say too, we're
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perfect as we are. So it was much later before
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I even really had a relationship with my body or
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even realized what I had faced all these years. It
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was after Jesus came and touched my heart, as you
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heard about in episode one. I started to realize how
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God created me, the kind of person I am. And
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one of the first things I noticed is that my body,
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because I'm so empathic, reacts to emotions and energy. So
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that could be very simply, I could eat something one day,
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and it'd be perfectly fine. And I could eat something
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the next, depending on my emotional state. And it would
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just tear up my stomach, my whole digestive system. I
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could eat something one day and not affect my weight.
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I could eat something another day and it blooms up.
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Now there's all kinds of medical reasons for that. You know,
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talk about stress and cortisol and all those, but I'm
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enormously energetically sensitive. I'm sure there are many of you
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out there that are that, but what that's done for
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me is made me aware or made me more reverent
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of my body instead of me fighting my body, I
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began to learn about my body. So that's kind of
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the first theme, if you will, that I wanted to
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share with you. If you're not at a place of
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reverence for your body, you're in a place of shame
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or judgment, do your best to step out of that.
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Do your best to love yourself, whatever shape you are,
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however you look. God knows you're perfect. I know you're perfect.
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Don't do what I did again. upset at the others
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that were judging others and to try to be an
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example of, well, I can do whatever I want and
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you can't, you can't tell me what to do. Just
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love them in spite of their unconsciousness. I don't think
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that most, most folks, I know there are folks out
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there with bad intentions. I think most folks don't have
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bad intentions. They see carrying extra weight as a sign
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of unhealthiness and our society's kind of promoted that. Some
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people are just built differently, can carry extra weight and
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not be unhealthy. We're all unique. And we need to
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appreciate that in others. And if someone asks you for help,
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you can give them advice and what's worked for you,
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as I'm doing here with you today. But that's not
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an end-all be-all for anybody. I'm not knocking being healthy
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and exercising and eating right for you. What you need
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to do is honor and respect you. That's how I
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look at things. So our body, the temple, right? That's
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what Jesus talked about. We're the temple. We're created by God.
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And having reverence for that body, beginning to talk to
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that body. I actually talk to my body. I say, hey, buddy,
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how are you doing today? I kind of love it
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like a friend. I don't want to say a pet
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because it's not quite like a pet. It's very intelligent.
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What is it that you need today? What is it
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that you would like to have? Why are you having
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problems today? digesting or why is my stomach upset, all
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those kind of things. So I take more time to
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talk to my body. I've tried about every variation of
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diet that one could try. I've tried veganism and vegetarianism.
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I've tried all meat, surprisingly, and they all have their fits.
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I had great experiences on all those diets. I think
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I've come to the conclusion in my life that probably
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many of you have, where it's just, it's all about balance,
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balancing my emotions and balancing my love and respect for
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myself and balancing what I intake and trying to be
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more conscious with the food I intake. I'm on a
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journey right in this moment, and I'll talk about this
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a little bit later, where I'm really focusing on the
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shape of my body. And I had to get to
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a place first, though, before that, where I just I
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didn't judge that, and I didn't listen to others who
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judged that, that I loved myself exactly the way I was.
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And that's a journey. That took me a long time
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because I did have a lot of, they call it
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childhood trauma. I had a lot of trauma from that
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when I was younger. So I think, first off... off,
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just being reverent for your body, being grateful and thankful, one,
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that you're here, two, that you have a body. Even
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for those folks whose bodies maybe don't work perfectly or
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they're born with defects, still love what you have. Matter
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of fact, for the folks that have had defects, I
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have a nephew who, with a birth defect, spina bifida.
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He's an exceptional human being, and he has no use
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of his legs. I think sometimes those physical challenges, I
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think I've shared this before. You know, the people I've
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met have been the most loving, just like my nephew, David,
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most loving, the most gracious, the most determined. Some of
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the most successful people I've ever met in my life
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are the ones that face challenges. And so we're the
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ones that are healthy, that have all of our working limbs.
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You know, we tend to take that for granted. I
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did for many, many years. So I think the first
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thing is being grateful for it and then being more
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reverent for that relationship with the body and how we eat,
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how we move with the body, how we rest our bodies,
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how we get ourselves into a balanced emotional state. So
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that's the first tenet, if you will. Heck, you know,
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my journey didn't start until my 40s, so I did
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a lot of unconscious actions to my body. And it's
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taken me many years, and I'm still unraveling that journey
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with it. So don't, whatever you do, don't judge yourself.
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Don't compare yourself to others. Just be the best version
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of you you can be. And that's what I'm trying
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to do. So let's talk about food for a minute.
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I love, love, love food. I'm a cook. I just
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pretty much will eat anything, almost. I don't say equally
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like everything, but I love trying new foods. I love
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trying cultural foods. I just love food. But what I
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didn't do for the longest time, and I've only done
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again since my conscious awakening, is build a relationship with
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that food. And what I mean by that is really
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respecting where it's come from. whether it's an animal that's
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been butchered or whether it's vegetables in the garden or
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herbs or, you know, I've grown, I've had gardens, I've
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grown herbs, I've come to respect and to honor all
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that goes into food for us. And a lot of
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times in this world, we're doing it in such a
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mass production level that there is not that consciousness and
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the care for the animals and the care for the,
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even the way we treat our gardens. You know, we
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talk about it It's talked about a lot by folks,
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the chemicals in our foods, how the soil's maintained and
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the nutrients aren't there, how our animals are being abused,
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you know, before they're slaughtered. And that's why, you know,
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there was that big push for organic. But I think
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what's even more important is because we don't, we are
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in a unique time in human history where food is
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completely accessible, right? And our ancestors and our ancestors' DNA
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food wasn't that accessible. We starved a lot. We fasted
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a lot because we just didn't have access to that
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much food. We have access to anything we want. Just
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walk into Costco. It's crazy or Sam's. So we have
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access to all this food, but we're not even conscious
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when we pick it up off the shelf. We're not
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even conscious when we begin to season it and prepare
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it with all the things that we get. So one
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of the things that I do, one of the first
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things I do, and I actually have a guide that
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you can get on my website. I make sure that's
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shared within the podcast notes, but I call it the
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Inspired Kitchen. When I go shopping, I actually talk to
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my body while I'm shopping for food. I use a technique.
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It's called a pendulum technique, and it's hard to show
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you on a podcast. You could probably look this up.
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I want to caution folks that there's a lot of
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debate on the pendulum technique, whether it works or it doesn't.
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I'll share with you my perspective. So what the pendulum
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technique effectively is, is you are standing still upright and
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your body can either move forward or it can move backward.
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And you would intentionally do that to make sure you're balanced, basically.
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So you can lean back and then lean forward and
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just normal standing. And then what you'll do is you'll
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test that momentum. And typically the way it's taught is
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you test it by saying a fake name. So you'll say,
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I am Banana Rama or something like that. And that'll
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cause your energy to move backwards. So you just feel
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yourself lean back. Then you say your name. Like in
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my case, I am Jeffrey. And then I would move forward.
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it is, is you begin to feel whether or not
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the energy is positive, moving you forward, or the energy
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is pulling you back. Now, the mind is a tricky thing.
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you know, of course, my old mentor, Donna Eden, she
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always used to say, I always, you know, test positive
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and muscle testing for Dairy Queen, because she loves Dairy Queen.
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whether or not that particular ice cream was good for her.
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mind can override that. How I actually learned this technique,
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and this is before my days with Donna Eden, but
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I ultimately learned how to feel energy and a muscle
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test with Donna Eden. Muscle testing is not a oh,
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this is absolutely it kind of thing, or pendulum testing.
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Yourself with your body is not an end-all, be-all thing.
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It's really a marker, maybe, a direction. It might be
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a better way to look at it. And so what
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you need to do with it is you need to
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practice it. And the way I practiced it for well
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over a year was in the shower, because I know
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about myself, and this might be something you look at,
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I knew with myself, when I connected with water, I
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was just very in tune. And especially in a shower
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where the water's warm and you're kind of relaxed, my
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mind really wasn't racing. But then I could ask questions
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of my body for whatever I intended for that day.
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the energy moving forward or moving backwards at the highest peak.
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it feels like you're asking questions in different ways, poking
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around the topic that you want to talk about. So
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let's just take an example. Maybe I say something like,
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maybe I had a headache that morning. I got in
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the shower and I said, hey, body, would it help
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me if I took some ibuprofen? Would that help this headache?
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I may not just totally go, oh, great, it's a yes,
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or I'll go take some ibuprofen. I would poke around
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that a little bit. You know, maybe something like, well,
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is acetaminophen a better option than ibuprofen for your body?
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you know, would you like me to take acetaminophen with water?
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How much water? That kind of thing. I would poke
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around on that question with my body until I was
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very confident that I had a positive energy pulling forward.
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a place where you're very grounded, your mind's clear, you
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almost get pushed over, push forward and get pushed over.
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with doing it yourself really is being not biased with
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yourself or being, I don't want, I was going to
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say ambivalent, but that's probably not the right word. You
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have to be detached from the outcome. So that's really,
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really important. And you can even ask that question. Hey, body,
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am I too, is my mind too attached to the outcome?
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I always go to Jesus because Jesus is my friend
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and my love. He's been there. He's never not been
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true to me. I talk to my body. I also
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talk to the Holy Spirit, my higher self, but I
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address it as the Holy Spirit of my higher self,
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the highest version of myself, God's creation. What is in
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my best interest? I do that. I've done it so
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many years now that I can sense what's in tune
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for me. And I take that same application and I
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apply it to the food that I intake. And I
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can't say I'm 100% conscious on that. There's times I'm
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not conscious, but I try to. I try to test
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the food I buy, even to the level of, let's
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say I'm picking apples in the grocery store. I'll pick
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up different apples or bags of apples, and I'll say,
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is this one better? Because sometimes produce or food in
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the marketplace is that particular one is not as energetically
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aligned with you as another one that's sitting in the
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same rack. They're not all equal. So I test all
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of that. I test basically all the foods, meats, veggies,
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other products. I don't so much get too hung up
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on ingredients. I try to stay away from the mindset of, oh,
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this is so bad for me or this is so
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good for me. I'm more concerned about, is this body,
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is this something you can handle, you can work with,
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that will uplift you, that will bring you to an
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elevated state? I'm not a big alcohol drinker, and we
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know all the science around how bad alcohol is for you.
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But I will make sure if I do drink alcohol,
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I will make sure that my body can handle it.
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I'm not putting it under abnormal duress when I'm doing it.
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When I was younger, drinking on an empty stomach or
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something like that, my body's like, what are you doing?
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Now I have more of a relationship that I can
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ask it and talk to it. I also want to
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say that as I believe human beings carry history, genetics,
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We carry things in our bodies and our DNA that
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aren't of this lifetime. I believe that. You can choose
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to believe it or not. That's okay. I believe food,
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where it's grown, how it's grown, the consciousness of it,
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consciousness of the soil, of the land, all impact that food.
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to me, is what it is. I know one example
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I had, I visited England. It was a great trip.
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But it was the first day we were there, and
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we went to a pub, and I was very simply
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having a bowl of veggies and a sandwich. And these
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veggies just lit my body up. And the waiter came over.
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It's just the normal pub there. He came over and
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asked how I was enjoying it. I was just like, oh,
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your veggies are incredible. Now, much of my DNA comes
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from England, Scotland, Ireland. I firmly believe that it was
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just because my genetics, my body, was very familiar with
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the nutrients of that land, and it just really fed
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me well. He thought I was crazy. Yeah, they're just
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carrots and, you know, green beans and simple stuff. Broccoli,
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I think, was in there. And it was just awesome.
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It was incredible. And I think we have those experiences
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with food. I believe if you're conscious enough about your
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food or a meal, you'll realize... Yeah, I had that
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kind of experience. Like it was the simplest thing and
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it just took me over the top. I had the
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same experience with waters. You know, water, fortunately, where we're
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at here in St. Louis is very good. And I usually,
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you know, I pray over it and I do all
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those things. But sometimes, you know, I do get a
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water from somewhere else if we're traveling or I, you know,
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have a bottle of water once in a while. I
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try to do less of that. I try to be
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more eco-conscious with, you know, what I drink. what I
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dispose of. So I've been doing a lot less bottled products,
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but you know, every once in a while I might
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get a bottled product and my body will call me
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to get a water from another region. If I'm at
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a gas station and I'm thirsty and I need a
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bottle of water, I test it. And I'm like, why
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is this one, you know, where's it from? Why is
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this one so, you know, my body went this one
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so much. So that, That relationship that you build, you
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become more conscious, you find out what's working for your body.
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I don't want to say stop listening to all the
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noise out there, but really I think that noise can
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be unhealthy, what food is and what's good and bad.
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Find out what works for you. What I wanted to
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share is what I do when I cook is I
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pray over food. I pray over the ingredients. I'm trying
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to be very reverent when I'm preparing it. I pray
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over it and I do my best to infuse it.
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those ingredients in that cooking with positive energy. I believe
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that has a huge impact. If any of you have
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ever seen Dr. Emoto's work on water, I think his
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first name is Masamoro, you'll see that when there's positive
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energy put into water, what he would do is he
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would have folks either yell negative things at water or
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pray over it, or do positive things over water. And
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he would freeze it at that moment, and then he
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would look at it under a microscope. You could see
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the distortions in the water when it was negative energy,
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and you could see the crystals formed into these beautiful,
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gorgeous patterns when positive energy was put into it. So
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if you go, oh, that's all, woo-woo, that's fine. You
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may not agree with it, but I actually believe that energy...
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Just as when you're around someone else who is negative,
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you can feel it. When you're around someone else who's positive,
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genuinely positive, you can feel it. When you're around someone
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who's stressed, you can feel it. When you're around someone
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who's calm, you can feel it. If we can feel it,
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then why would that not impact other living things? Other
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things that may have been living but are no longer living,
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like vegetables and fruit and meats. To pray over something
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and to connect to something and be reverent to something
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helps clear any negative energies. And that should be your intention. Okay,
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this food's aligned with me. Let me get fully aligned
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with it. Let me be fully reverent with it. And
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you see this appreciation more so within many of the
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indigenous people. You see it depicted in movies of them
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being grateful for their crop or praying over an animal
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they just killed, to be grateful and thankful for it.
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I believe that's actually real. That's actually what we should
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be doing with all of our food. You know what?
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Just try it out. Try it out and see if
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it makes a difference with you. I mean, try it
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out just with water. Connect with your body and get
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to know what your body wants. Try pendulum testing and
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see how it works for you. Connect with your food
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when you buy it, when you prepare it. before you
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eat it and see what happens. And I think what
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you'll find is that you'll be intuitively connected more to
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your body and what your body wants and what your
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body needs. I get different direction all the time from
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my body on what's good for it. So one of
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the big things right now is, for me, personally, that
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I'm dealing with is, well, I want to drop some
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weight and Two, I want to continue to enjoy preparing
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a wide variety of foods and eating in it. That
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part of it seems to go pretty well for me
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with the different foods I eat and prepare because I'm
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very intuitive with that. Where I tend to be challenged
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with is movement. So I love yoga. I love walking.
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I love hiking. But sometimes I just, the way I
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was in the work environment, the way I am Now
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I get so involved in something and I just don't move.
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I'll sit in this chair. I got me a trampoline
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over here in my office just to get up every
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once in a while and jump. Trying to do more
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of that. Trying to walk more. Setting aside time every
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day to be consistent with my yoga practice, which I love.
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What I found with me is that I'm stubborn. I
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like doing things when I want to do them, how
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I want to do them. And I actually read a book.
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It's called The Power of One More by Ed Mylett, M-Y-L-E-T-T.
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He's one of the top podcasters, but we ran across
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him at a live surge event. And just he really
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had a profound speech there that really touched Julie and
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I's heart. And one of the big things with it
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was when you're trying to make change, your why has
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got to be bigger than what you're facing. Because the
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days when you do get stubborn and you don't feel
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like doing something, your whys got to outweigh that. And
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I had never really sat down. I had a lot
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of whys. My big one is my grandkids. As I've
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gotten older, you're just not as durable and pliable. And
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I just love spending time with my grandkids and playing
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with them on the floor. And I just wanted to
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be more, have more energy, be more flexible with them
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as I grew older. And I never really sat down
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and used that intentionally as a reason why I would
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do yoga every day, make sure I get up and
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go walking. And so I've set up, you know, I've
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kind of eased into this. I've set up a structure
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for myself where I do yoga in the morning and
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make it a commitment. And if I do get stubborn
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around it, I kind of reconnect to my whys. And
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Ed's suggestion worked. I'm very grateful for that. For me,
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that was like, okay, my why is more important than
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my need to Be in control of everything they do
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to be stubborn about it. Because I know, you know,
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I've talked to my body many times like, yeah, I
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love yoga. Do it more, Do more stretching. My body
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also responds very well to weightlifting. Resistance training works very
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well for me. That might not be the case for everybody.
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I'm not as impacted physically when I do aerobics. I
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tend to handle that very well, whether I'm hiking or anything,
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but that doesn't tend to affect me. My body shape
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or the weight that I carry, yoga, stretching and opening
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up my body, allowing things to move. I think it's
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just because I'm empathic and I carry a lot of
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energy around. And weightlifting. So I'm on that journey now.
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I'm a few weeks in and it's the why suggestion
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from Ed is working. So I'll give you that suggestion.
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Come up with the whys that are greater than what
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your stubbornness entails. We all want our freedom. So, you know,
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that's not anything to judge. But also, too, we have
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other things we want. And in those, I don't want
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to call them sacrifices, but they take commitment. Oh, my
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other big lie is I was offered to be connected with,
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to go on a TV show. So hopefully that happens.
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I don't want to announce it yet because it's not
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officially locked in. But I was like, well, if I'm
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going to be on TV, I want to look my best.
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So that was another big why. But my biggest one's
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my grandkids. That's one that gets me over the hump
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every time. You know, I'm not, unfortunately not vain enough
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to care about my looks that much where I would
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worry about how I look on TV. I've gotten over that.
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I love myself regardless of my body shape and all
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those kind of things. But anyway, that's a little story
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for you there. Definitely would recommend reading Ed's book. It's
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really a wonderful book and it helped me off in
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a lot of things. And Again, reiterating, stop getting caught
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up in the rules. I mean, there's a lot of
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great advice out there. There's a lot of bad advice
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out there. But don't get so caught up in the
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rules you miss out what's right for you. I wanted
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to talk a little bit about gratitude. Just be grateful.
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Be grateful for your body. Be grateful for having access
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to food that many people don't have access to. Be
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grateful for having a meal. If you have family, if
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you have a loved one and you could spend it with,
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be grateful for that. If you're eating alone in the quiet,
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be grateful for that. Gratitude is a huge thing when
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it comes to everything you're doing with your body and
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with your food. The other thing I was always challenged
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with was being present with my food. When I was younger,
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I used to eat so fast. I did it. I
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didn't take time to chew and savor and to enjoy it.
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So that's another big area that I'm working on. When
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I take a bite, really appreciating the bite and chewing.
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I think the rule of thumb was chew 30 times,
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something like that. I don't know if anybody's watched The
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Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy, but I love that show.
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And there's a scene with him going to a health spa.
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And he's supposed to fast for a few days and
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they only give him broth. And they say, well, when
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you take the broth, you got to chew the broth
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30 times. And of course, Eugene Levy is a comedian.
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So his facial expressions were humorous enough when he said,
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how do I chew broth? But, you know, chewing with
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every bite. There was another story. One of my old mentors,
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Christopher Timms with Blue Star Mystery School, the really great guy.
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He told a story about him being more conscious with food.
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And he was eating with monks, and they would hit
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a gong at the table, and you were supposed to
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chew for the duration of the gong. If you ever
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hit a gong, you know they last quite a while.
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And he said it was frustrating at first. It was
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hard for him to do, but when he started doing it,
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he became more reverent with his food. He actually began
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to cry. He became that connected to his food. He
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began to cry. It was actually a very profound story
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that I wanted to share with you. I know we're
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coming up, we got about, we're more than halfway there,
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so I want to make sure I give you some
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of the good stuff. Let's talk about being in the
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right emotional state when you eat. That is probably my
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number one challenge, I should say, I don't want to
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say problem, thing to overcome. Since I'm so impacted by
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emotions from other people, I spend a lot of time
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Getting myself grounded and balanced. But I don't do a
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good job. Of. I'm going to say this. I'm more.
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I don't know if you're this way. But I'm more
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stuck on patterns. Like I. I love breakfast. So I
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got to eat breakfast. And then I. Generally I have
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to have something at lunch. And then. I have dinner.
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Some days. I've shifted that around. To try to test
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my body. Maybe I just had two meals in the day.
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And I can get by with that. I can. I
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can live like that. But. tend to be tied to
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structure especially around breakfast I gotta have my breakfast and
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I don't pay as much attention what I've tried lately
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to you know am I ready to have breakfast should
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I do my yoga before I eat which ends up
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being lately that's the story I should be doing yoga
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before I even try to eat one of the things
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I try to do is avoid caffeine And I also
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noticed if I have caffeine before I do yoga, sometimes
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that's a challenge. So there's just little things like that.
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Me making sure I'm in the most optimal state and
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the right state when I actually sit down to eat
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a meal. I'm actually present with the meal. And just
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all the praying and everything that goes around that, that's important.
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But it's actually just being really in an optimal state
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to receive that food. I like to think that Jesus
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is always right there with me, having a meal with
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me and enjoying a brick and bread with me like
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he did with the disciples. I think that's a great
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way to look at that. Blessing the food, passing around, sharing,
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being reverent, being present in that moment, being present there
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for the food, not on your phone, not thinking of
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something else. That's another one of my big challenges is
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mealtime was doing other things. I remember when I was
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a kid, we watched TV a lot when we ate.
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I think that's a very bad idea now because I'm
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not being reverent and present with my food. You know,
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I think it's great to be there with someone else
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and share and have a conversation. But when you're eating,
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you know, be present with your eating, be present with
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your chewing. Let me leave you with one last thing.
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You know, moderation in all things is probably... the highest
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value I have in how I live life. I try
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to stay balanced, and I think that's important. So wherever
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you're at on your journey, and I encourage you more
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to follow my journey. I mean, my process right now
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is I have a little over two more months to
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hit my ideal weight. And it's very gradual and loving
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for my body. I think also, too, when you're at
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that place where you're in love with your body, you're
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not such in a rush to change it. But, you know,
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I'm going to enjoy being more flexible and lighter and
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more pliable for my grandkids. So I'm looking forward to that.
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And you're more than welcome to stay connected with me
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for that journey. But I just wanted to leave you with,
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you know, Build this connection, reverence, appreciation, and awareness of
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your body, awareness of what you eat. Just do it for,
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pick one, you know, pick a month to do it
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and choose to consciously say, okay, I'm going to do this.
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I'm going to chew slower. I'm going to be more present.
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I'm going to pray over my ingredients. I'm going to
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pray when I cook. I'm going to pray over the food.
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I'm going to pray over my water. I'm just going
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to be more present with everything. I want to do
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things in moderation. I'm going to listen to my body
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because I'm going to be doing slower. Like, is that enough?
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Is that nourishing for you? I'm going to learn how
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to talk to my body. I'm going to learn how
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to connect. You can use the pendulum technique if you choose.
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You don't have to. And I just encourage you to
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look that up on Google because listening to me on
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a podcast is not going to give you that technique.
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But there's many people demonstrate that on YouTube. Feel free
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just to go there. And take some of my tips.
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Find a place where you're exceptionally grounded, whether that's nature,
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whether that's in a shower like me, or just in
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whatever your favorite place. Try to do it there and practice.
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And don't take every answer you get as the end-all, be-all.
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Look at after you consume whatever it is that said
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you should eat. Be conscious of how your body reacts
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and be conscious of how you feel. Do you have
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more energy, less energy? Does your digestive system work better?
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Is your mind clearer or is it foggy? And then
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if it is negative, ask your body, why was that? Well,
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it's probably because you weren't really listening. You were trying
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to tap in to what you wanted versus what you needed. Anyway,
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I'm sending all of you a lot of love. I'm
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going to say a prayer now for us to wrap
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things up. So Heavenly Father, open our hearts, our minds,
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our ears, and our eyes to all that is you
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within our bodies, all that is you within this beautiful world,
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all that is in you, with you, and our food,
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and our nourishment, and our water, Lord. Bless all that
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we are consuming and all that we are eating and
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get it aligned with ourselves so that it brings out
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the best version of us. And let us all find
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our big why, Lord. Why we want to be the
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best version of who we are. And let us all
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point it to you, Lord. Because it's all for you.
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You created us in your image. And you know that
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greatness only awaits all of us. Thank you, Lord. Thank
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you for your love, your light, and your support. In
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your son Jesus' name and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Bless
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you all. I hope you found some value in the show.
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And if you did, Make sure you like it and
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check us out for the next episode. I have my guest,
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John McGuire, a great healer, and I'm looking forward to
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that show too. Amen.