Beyond Our Upper Limit
moving beyond our upper limit.
Such an inspiring, thing to think about for me.
We're on a journey.
I've been describing it a lot as climbing up a mountain.
We've been looking through this book. The mountain is you.
We recognize we have obstacles. It's a mountain.
It's something that we're trying to overcome.
And we look at that, from as many different perspectives
as we can.
Seeing.
Okay, there's a lot of things external out there
that we're trying to deal with.
Also recognizing a lot of the path
that we have to walk to get to a better place.
Internal, work.
So we're trying to, do that in,
an inspiring fashion today.
I was doing a lot of thinking about it yesterday.
Climbing a mountain.
One thing I didn't know when you think about, like,
the most inspiring mountain climbing.
I think at least I do.
I think about climbing Mount Everest.
And I was like, I don't even know. Like, how do people do it?
I started looking at, you know, how long does it take?
When I filmed, the video on the channel Joy
on a journey where when I was in Yellowstone,
we climbed up mount Washburn.
You know, we'd do it in a day.
This is the type of mountain that I have, climbed.
Do a hike. It was like six, six, seven miles.
Get up to the top of this mountain and back in one day,
I thought, you know, I knew Everest has a base camp,
but I didn't realize the average.
Do you know, the average, duration that it takes?
For people to climb up mount Everest?
42 days. Oh, man.
Now there is a journey. Okay.
And then I realized as I was studying it, that's the average
between the standard route and the like express route.
You can do an express route, very expensive.
And, you have to, like, train
and adjust your body using these hypoxia chambers
where you like
depriving yourself of oxygen so your body can adjust.
And then they'll let you do it
because you have to acclimate on the way up.
So part of what is happening in these 42 days, oh,
the standard route is like 56 days.
And then they average it.
So the average between those two.
But to the most people, if you're not some pro,
you're actually going to take over 50 days to do it.
All right. So we are on a journey.
We are talking about a mountain about,
overcoming a health obstacle,
becoming healthier, leaner, stronger, wiser, hopefully,
like building up every good, thing of health.
We say we have a limit. Like, if we say we are stuck.
I'm going to be talking a bit about a weight loss plateau,
something very, very common.
We're going to totally, I hope, change the thinking on it.
We have a mountain.
We're trying to climb it up. Have you
have you experienced this?
Have you experienced a weight loss plateau?
Maybe you are there now.
Are you in a space where you've
you know, we think of it this way, right.
Scale is coming down and then scale stops.
And then we say we feel stuck
like we are in this sort of place.
Have you experienced that?
One of the very common
trying to lose weight on any type of path,
whether that's, exercise,
some sort of dieting
and whether it's fasting, fasting, to me, the process,
I would say that helps people flow through a weight loss
plateau.
The best, but doesn't mean it isn't going to happen.
I say weight loss rarely linear.
What weight loss is really like is like waves.
Like this.
We're trying to ride some waves, and sometimes those waves
kind of go and do one of these for a little bit.
I'll tell you the goal.
What we're really trying to do and working through
this is to help
that process resolve to the downside so that it's kind of,
I think of it like a water slide
where I trying to slide down this thing.
Over time we get to these plateau sort of things.
The reason a plateau.
Tell me if you've experienced something like
this is like frustrating,
frightening even is like people have been through cycles
that look like this.
And we are really trying to break out of that cycle.
So like we can see right away
if we get a, a something that looks like this.
Okay. Well it's not this. All right.
So a plateau the way better than the alternative
just to start to hey we have even this out.
We broken out of a cycle
and now today we are going to flip things.
I love, trying to find an inversion. Right.
So we want to invert our thinking as much as possible.
Looks at things from the opposite perspective.
Now we're going to start down here
instead of like the graph going this way.
It's like we'll start down here somewhere right.
We are building up our success.
This is like climbing the mountain.
This is the analogy of what happened with climbing
and climbing a mountain.
We made the initial ascent.
Now we have some altitude
to see if we have flipped the graph here
from this
to this, the incredible graphics that you get at first space.
Okay, plateau is happening,
but do you see what has happened now?
We've climbed up the initial part to Everest
and then we got to base camp.
This is what you do when you're climbing Everest.
You make the initial camp
and there's multiple base camps, right?
You get up to a level because you're going
so high, 35,000ft or whatever.
It is like way up by the airplanes.
And so like we get to the base camp and you hang out a while
when you are climbing Mount Everest and you get up to a space
and you are hanging out there for a while,
it's not it's not anything is not wrong.
You say, we haven't kept climbing. Do you see?
Like, is something wrong?
No. This is a necessary part of the journey.
This is the acclimation phase where we are like.
This is where the body can handle bodies. Gotta adjust.
I think of this in our context.
Moving down a weight loss path.
Do you see that we're heading and approaching our limit.
We have a limit.
For whatever reason, that limit might be physical in the body,
might be adjustments that have to happen
hormonally in the body as the body is building out the energy
pathways.
Limits can be psychological especially.
I'm going to show you some reading today where we're going
to dive into that, that we have psychological limits.
Do you feel them.
And we get to a certain point.
We're pushing on that comfort zone.
We've kind of stretched out of it.
And the the body is kind of like, whoa, you know,
we gotta get to the base camp, okay,
hang out a little bit and adjust and acclimate.
And what we can see is that sort of process.
Then we stabilize it, solidify it,
consolidate it, help the processes that got us to this point.
To start to feel normal, to feel really comfortable with it.
And then, okay, we spend some time at the base camp.
Look what that has done.
That's the plateau.
We've hung out in that space.
We're building the energy
and the momentum for the next ascent.
And heading up the next climb, getting to the next level.
We're unlocking the next level of our success.
This.
Yeah, this is a total inversion of the other graph,
and it's a total emotional inversion.
We think we're going this way
and we get here and we feel stuck.
Okay. Flip it.
We are climbing up and we've reached a new plateau
like literally seeing out farther.
Like at a plateau. Think of a plateau on an actual mountain.
It's like you climbed up and now you're looking out
from a higher level than you've ever been.
And,
this takes something that can be so frustrating, inverted.
And to realize this is a marker of success, right?
Getting the base camp on your assault up Everest, right?
That's a milestone.
That's a marker.
That is your first success, right?
Made it this far.
I think this is what what people experience
that starts to drive stuff like this.
You make an initial attempt at something,
you have some progress,
but then it's stopping people saying,
oh, it doesn't work anymore.
Quit.
Okay, that would be like we're trying to hike up to Everest.
We get to base camp one know, like, well, I'm not at the top.
I guess I'll just walk back down.
Oh, like, look at the process.
Okay, look at the process.
We're hiking up.
Base camp is part of the journey.
And like, you can have some fun at base camp.
Think how beautiful it is.
You're looking up at the mountains.
You're looking at all these things.
This is the type of attitude
I say, bring this into our experience of health.
You know.
Are not on a linear path.
We're not on a linear process.
We just made a change.
You know, we and we experienced some benefit and we saw it.
And now we are floating through a space.
So many good ways to think about it.
We've been using the analogy lately
like that's the cocoon right?
That's the process.
That's where the real transformation happens,
is actually in that space.
Can't see it right away. Use the analogy a couple weeks ago.
It's like an ice cube in a frozen room,
and we're slowly turning up the temperature.
These are the things.
So we have a limit.
And I just love this word beyond paint.
Sitting in a space like that, that is like a space
where you can just think, okay, we see where we've been
and we can start to envision where we're going
to, to me, or plateau space like that.
Nothing wrong with it.
No judgment needed in it.
Take any frustration you're experiencing
that is like an emotional clue.
I'll tell you a frustration in that sort of space.
Start unpacking it and it's coming from a good place to you
because we want growth.
We want progress, right?
The fact that you are frustrated with it, that anyone is
frustrated with it, is coming from a place that is showing.
This is something I really want.
This is something I care about.
This has meaning to me, okay?
Recognize the good in that and see that
that those thoughts, those types of ideas are the mind.
It is the mind trying to unlock the next step.
Right.
And why is this not working? Is the right question. Okay?
Why are things the way they are?
There are answers, there are reasons to it.
And so we flow out of it.
And as we sit in that space, we experience it, right.
We go through the process and we think beyond.
We think beyond and we think beyond in every positive,
encouraging way because we have powerful tools for this hike.
Right? You think about equipping to climb the actual mountain.
You're going to climb Everest. You got tons of gear.
You know, I was looking okay, how would you actually do it
and how much does it cost?
The cost absolutely blew my mind.
It's like like minimal cost is like $50,000.
It is that I could find, like.
Good grief, I had no idea.
I'm used to just like, oh, you climb a mountain,
you can just do it for free.
You go to the national park, you hike up the thing.
What, what an investment to actually climb up mount Everest.
It cost a fortune to do it.
Part of what you get, with that, you get it.
Guides to lead you in these very dangerous places.
And you get all the equipment that you need for your success.
We did that yesterday. Empowering ourselves.
You want to climb up mount Everest?
You're going to have to empower yourself, right?
You're going to have to have a huge financial investment,
get tons of gear, everything that you need to do it.
And then you can, you know, do it
if you train for it and have every resource.
So here we are in this space.
We are reaching our upper limit.
We say we have gone through a process
and gotten to a space is better than we were before.
And that's like base camp.
You say, how do we equip ourselves with every good thing,
give ourselves every tool for the next leg of the journey?
Right? That's what we're doing it base camp.
So if you feel stuck, if you are
at some sort of plateau space, I want you to reframe that.
I want to help inspire and encourage you to see that
this is actually a beautiful space to be.
You've made incredible progress.
You're consolidating, learning,
and preparing for the next amount of success.
Some of these ideas I'm taking from this book,
The Mountain is you loving this book.
If you want a book to help, get you on a path of change
for the better change that is moving you in a direction.
Say, there's something in my life that I don't like.
How it is, going.
I want to powerfully take the steps to change it.
This can help you do it.
We're trying to bring these ideas into our experience here.
Listen to what they say here about hitting an upper limit.
Your upper limit is essentially the amount of good
that you're comfortable of having in your life.
Do you think about that ever?
Like you usually think like,
how much bad can we tolerate before we are breaking it?
It's like this is another inversion, right?
How much good can we handle? Right.
It's another thing for like
how much change can we take at once.
You know, like we can break in the other direction
where it's like,
even if things are going well,
it starts to make us feel uncomfortable.
You have a tolerance and a threshold
for having positive feelings
or experiencing positive events.
Have you recognized that, like the first time
that I was reading that, I was like,
I don't know, I'll take off.
I'll take all the positive feelings I can get.
But then when you start to dive into it,
I've kind of realized it's true.
You say when you start to or when you begin to surpass
your upper limit, you can start to unconsciously sabotage
what is happening
in order to bring yourself back to
what is comfortable and familiar.
Have you ever done that?
Can you see times in your life
where maybe you have actually done that now?
Is this what is happening in a plateau?
I will tell you,
I think it is at least really part of it. Okay.
It is part of it.
We are having an inner psychological dialog,
that is integrated within this physical body,
that is having a physical, mental,
emotional experience
as we're going through a process of change.
Walking up
the mountain is a change when you physically see it.
We're hiking up a huge mountain.
Gotta take some time to like, just take a break,
let the body adjust, sink into a space.
That's what I tell you in this plateau.
This doesn't mean anything is wrong.
What I say, I like that sink into it.
I've never hiked a mountain like I'm describing, like Everest.
Never done anything like that.
But I can imagine, you know, the experience of it
actually, for such a long time,
such a good metaphor for what we're doing.
Right. Because this session.
Right.
Our experience here together, fasting space,
this isn't some, hyped up
by, lose 20 pounds by next week, you know, sort of thing.
This is like a long term process.
And so think you get to that base camp,
like just sink in a little bit, you know what I mean?
Like, say this is an okay place to be.
I am on the path. I am on the journey.
We're going to take the time that we need here, like,
you know, in the mountain climbing, actually,
so we can do it safely.
You know, like, so everything feels good.
We're not pushing anything.
See, this is what I want everybody to be doing.
This is what fasting is to me.
Openness. Sink into it. Open.
Let it expand just in the way
that the body is tolerating
that is bringing joy, peace, contentment to life,
never pushing it.
Floating toward it in a gentle way.
Fasting. Very powerful.
Like you can't think of all the diets in the world,
all the different dietary practices.
You cannot get a more aggressive
dietary practice than fasting.
You can't eat less than nothing, right?
It's the most aggressive.
This is why I like it the most powerful.
You want a powerful tool of weight loss, the fasting space.
It's like the most power you're going to get.
Okay.
Therefore, say we approach it so gently,
we take something powerful, we bring it in thoughtfully.
We use just the amount of it that we need
for this point, sitting here in this space.
Like, did fasting help you to get there?
Did every other good thing help you to get there?
All right, then we're sitting in that space. We can reflect.
I saw an image once.
I wish I could bring it up.
I'd have to find it, but we can imagine it in our mind. Okay.
It shows, a graph on one side.
Learning from experience.
And it has, like a graph where we like,
All right, our learning is going up a little bit, right?
Because we learn from experience.
But on the other side, it's got this much more exciting graph
that says learning from our reflection on our experiences in
the graph is going like way up, okay, because we don't.
Yes, experience is good, but reflecting on it, do you see that
the plateau space on
this is the reflection space to really dive in and understand
what what has gotten us to where we are
and where are we going?
What is beyond this limit?
They say here, hitting your upper
limit is a really great sign.
The composite of that is so what I want to send to you
these encouragements.
If you're feeling stuck, don't feel stuck, okay?
You're hitting an upper limit. Great sign.
It means that you are approaching
and surpassing new levels of your life.
That is first and foremost something to congratulate yourself
for, isn't it?
It is. It is.
Think about the like alternatives.
Think how many people are not dialed
in. They're not on a path.
They're not doing the work. All right.
You are here.
You're on the path.
You're climbing the mountain.
You made it to base camp. We say congratulations.
It's part of the process.
The way through. It is the process of.
Conquering it.
Accomplishing it the way you resolve.
They say here, an upper limit problem is by slowly
acclimating yourself to your new normal.
Right?
We've gone through a process of changing
and now we are consolidating that.
Now it is becoming normal.
Now do you see as things start to feel normal, we've shifted.
The shift has happened
from what was normal to like this space.
Things are different now.
But then as we float through that space,
they come to feel normal.
This is what we want.
I did a session in the fall, the normal way to lose weight.
We're doing some contrasting of standard dietary practices
versus fasting.
But then we were just using this psychology of understanding.
And in order to really to lose weight in the long term,
the process has to feel normal.
If we are stuck in a space where we're always feel like
this is like abnormal, this is different,
this is a thing like that in of itself,
like change is its own type of stress, right?
We are trying to use methods, wellness practices
from healthy eating through fasting, from movement
to meditation, all these things, every good process of health.
We're trying to support ourselves
in this whole process of flourishing.
Each of these things can be a wellness practice means
a stress reducing our stress coping practice.
Okay, so that we can flow through a space as gently
and peacefully as possible.
That's how we make things sustainable.
Okay, so we recognize all of that.
But at the same time and change is difficult.
Change can be stressful.
Going through any type of health process
like we recognize that that in and of itself,
even if it's a wellness practice.
Certain type of stress.
That's
why it's like that's why we're climbing up the mountain.
That's why we need to get to base camp
and we gotta bring down any type of stress with that.
Flowing into that space, say, do you see
if we are like you understand the metaphor,
like pedal to the metal, right?
It's just like we are 100% all the time.
It's like the engine is just revving full power.
Like a lot of our society is this way, right?
That is saying like, we have to be going 100% all the time.
And if you're not doing it to like,
then all the judgment just immediately comes.
You're basically lazy and no good in society.
Judge us, we judge ourselves.
You know?
This is a society that is just locked on and doing okay.
There's a spectrum between doing and being.
Both have incredible value.
Our society not very dialed in on being right.
Being is a state of contentment to realize I'm enough.
Everything that happens is enough. Here. I have what I need.
I don't need more.
Everything is content here. Okay?
That is a beautiful state of mind to be in, right?
We hit ourselves pedal to the metal.
We think if everything is in a straight line,
if every day is not hitting
milestone, milestone, milestone,
we can just be like, well, this isn't good enough.
Okay? Plateau space.
When we start to see it giving us an opportunity
like we just did a lot of doing right.
If you went through a process, you had some actual success
and then you say, now I'm floating through a space,
look,
this is a space that, far from being stuck, that we can use
to great advantage to like say, okay, doing,
we've been doing a lot of doing.
What does it mean to be in this space right now?
And the is just balance it out,
help everything to start to feel normal.
When you just be in a space when you experience it,
when you accept it, when you say, hey,
this is good enough, you know,
for the time being, you find gratitude for it.
Do you see that?
That's the mindset
that would help that sort of space to feel normal.
And and as a space feels normal.
That's what I describe as sinking into it.
That's like solidifying it.
That's how we. Right.
We're breaking out of cycles like this. Right.
So if we lost some weight and we float into this space,
like to invert it, we climbed up to this space.
We're this space camp as we stay there. Okay?
We're not walking back down.
Building up the energy for the next, next leg up the hike.
Listen to how they describe it here.
Instead of shacking yourself into a big change,
allow yourself to slowly adjust and adapt by taking it slow.
You're allowing yourself to gradually reinstate
a new comfort zone around what you want your life to be.
Doesn't that isn't that just a beautiful sentence?
Don't allow yourself
to gradually reinstate a new comfort zone around
what you want your life to be.
You see, this is how we're flowing through this space.
We're climbing up the mountain.
If it's going to take us 56 days to climb up Everest, right?
We're not going to be hiking every single day
without stopping, right?
It's dangerous to do that.
Take some time, adjust, acclimate.
Then you start to feel normal with it.
Then you keep going.
This is what we want in our life, they say here.
Over time,
you gradually shift your baseline to the new standard.
I love that, I love that.
This is what I want to help us all do to slowly,
thoughtfully, over time
shift our life to the new standard, shift our comfort zone.
You know so much of what we experience is feeling
comfortable is just what we're used to,
whether it's healthy or not.
Do you experience that?
You know, it's like we can get used to
things is is not really taking us in a healthy direction.
But it it's not even that it feels good
so much as it just feels normal.
And therefore it feels comfortable.
And so when we deviate from that, we describe that
even if it's something that can make us feel better,
you know, eating a healthy, nutritious food,
you agree like it helps you to feel better, right?
But if you're not in a habit of doing it, even when you do it
and you feel temporarily better, then there's the part of it
where, like, that's not what I normally do.
And it's just it's like in this awkward transition
sort of space.
So like they say here, this book can you see, is mirroring
what we're seeing in the other book.
We're stepping through atomic habits. Right.
That small changes are what build
the process of change that are giving us the evidence.
When we make small steps, then you can see it, right?
Small step wasn't so hard to do.
Then we can see it is building evidence.
You say I see I see these changes, especially if you're
journaling amount you're writing, you say, today I did this.
This was a little bit new for me.
And maybe that looks like
just a little bit more fasting space, you know, doesn't
have to be all the way out to 72 hours,
which is like legit powerful fasting space.
Oh man, can be just a little bit more.
It's like whenever you have
maybe you say, I don't do any fasting.
I'm just here. I'm coming through. What is this all about?
Fasting space.
You know, everybody got a little bit overnight.
You're sleeping, you know, and not eating well or sleeping.
Body does just fine in that space.
So we want to flow through that.
We can extend that a little bit you know
and then that's showing up
like body is doing good.
Like we can extend that out gently over time.
I always tell people you can take it five minutes at a time,
you know.
Yeah I normally eat breakfast at six. Like that's make it 605.
You just took an atomic step, you know, a little bit forward.
And look, if you do that over a few days, a few weeks,
all of a sudden
you're see how I'm saying it's opening up that space.
So I say what what are the limits
that you are experiencing right now in health?
When you see the title beyond our upper limit, like,
do you have an upper limit that is hitting you?
And and what does that look like?
What is your experience with it?
And what do you think like what do you envision
is beyond, that upper limit.
Is that something you're looking for?
Like, if we're climbing the mountain,
you say, I want to get to the peak of the mountain.
I want to see like, way out.
Okay. What is the health experience?
We say that is our mountain, that we say as ourselves
that we are actually trying to climb.
That would be something that would be like a journaling prompt
that I would save the day, you know, write that out.
What is the big purpose?
What's the pinnacle of the mountain
that we're trying to climb?
And as we're sitting here, maybe in a base camp
and we're trying to like, you know, envision.
That's the type of thing that can really bring motivation.
That's what I would say sometimes, you know, I run into people
who say, you know, everybody wants to be healthier, right?
Maybe say I'm moving in a health direction.
But then in the midst of it, we can struggle with motivation.
Do you ever experience that?
And you say, yes, I want to like make progress with something.
Could be with health, could be with any area of life.
Like we're trying to accomplish anything.
Sometimes we say, say I want something.
But then is the motivation there?
This type of process sinking into this middle space
and then envisioning beyond,
that's like keeping our eyes on the horizon
and is like two things we're trying to do
at the same time be grounded in the present moment,
not be living in the future.
That can bring into anxiety,
that can bring us to, judgment of
of saying, oh, so far to go, okay, you know,
we don't want any negative thinking.
We were into that yesterday.
So much banish any form of negative thinking from our life.
That's like the metacognition we need.
We need a little program running that is like an alert
that is saying if negative self-talk is coming,
we want to stamp that out quick
because do you ever experience that?
Because that can start a cycle.
Those sort of things can spiral negative self-talk.
We're getting into that, like the deepest questions
that we can ask about ourselves, right.
Like who am I and what do I really want?
The negative talk tends to hit those types of things right?
And only about the things that really matter.
Like we're trying to move towards something
beautiful and healthy riders, better health in the body.
It's like what a what a great goal to have in life.
So that's something that I want to say.
Everybody wants that, right?
Everybody wants health.
We don't experience resistance and negative talk
usually to things that are going sideways.
If we start walking back down the mountain,
not much resistance to that.
It's like there's no voice in our head. Usually.
Maybe we can build one.
Maybe we have a warning sign, we start going away.
Maybe we try to build one, say, hey, look out,
you were on a good track.
Like we need that kind of voice.
But see, that's positive self-talk.
We counteract those things with positive self-talk.
That's what we want to be programing in.
But the negative talk shows up
when we're trying to do something good, right?
It'll say something like, you know,
you're not the type of person that does that.
Like, only I'm special type of person,
you know, someone stronger
than you can do that in a this isn't what you normally do.
This isn't the thing that you see.
These are the types of things that's part of,
I think, what the limit is.
That's at least the psychological part.
I mean,
I think there's there's a real physical limits in the body
that is, you know, our hormones, our metabolism,
everything adjusting.
So like that's the physical reality in the body that like
and then we got to stretch the limit.
Just like we have limits to our strength.
You could see it with weightlifting. Right.
You go in the gym you say I'm going to start doing some curls.
Want big biceps.
You say, well, you know, you get the whole rack of weights
like there's a limit to it, right?
Yeah.
And you try to grab the 40 pounder,
you're like, oh, I just can't, can't do it right.
You want to move beyond that limit? You probably could.
But you have to train. You have to work at it. Right.
So maybe you start with the 20s
and you start doing the 20s for a while,
and you're going to build up the strength, to do it.
So fasting is a strength in the body,
and we don't think of it as a typical strength,
but it clearly is a strength.
How trained, how conditioned, how able
is the body to access the energy that is within it.
Instead of always relying on the external right
to rely on the internal strength of the body,
you have to train it to do it, and you can get better at it.
So there's a physical side to it.
But then the emotional side like that limit,
is this conversation that we're, having with ourselves,
right?
Is overcoming the negative talk,
the negative ideas that we have about ourself,
like the negative self-image that is has been put on us.
Right?
Do we have it like we're trying to get rid of it
as much as possible?
Build up, most positive, most joyful self-image,
recognizing that we are strong and powerful people
and that we are more than anything, we just thoughtful,
you know,
we are doing our best, very difficult to do something
healthy in a society that is unhealthy.
So you basically have to be countercultural to do that.
Say we're trying to build our own micro culture.
You know, we're trying to build systems,
processes, connections of health that support our flourishing.
Just give yourself a big congratulations on that.
You're doing something like that.
You got to be very, very thoughtful to do that.
That sort of mindset, kind, thoughtful,
is a sustainable process.
See, who wants to be on a path that isn't fun,
that doesn't feel good, that isn't, joyful and encouraging.
So when you find yourself in a space like that,
no matter where you are, you say, that's good.
Like even, right?
Even if a plateau space like, say it never resolved right?
Can you find peace and contentment in that space?
Okay.
Like, is it a way of being that is working for you
that's settling into it?
It feels normal.
That's often the space
that is the biggest unlock where you say, hey, this is okay.
It's like that's building up the energy right
for the next leg up.
Let me know thoughts, reflections that you have on that.
Happy to answer any questions.
Thoughts. Curious to hear your reflections on that.
Does that resonate as a concept?
Moving beyond the upper limit doesn't help to flip this over
from what we're kind of typically seeing as a place where
we've kind of slid into and gotten stuck, do you find it
helpful to flip that over and realize this is like base camp
that we have climbed up,
and now we're looking out over a new a beautiful space.
Let me know your reflection on that.
I say the centering thought for the day is no matter
where we are, if we're just starting out, if we're just
making our initial ascent, like having the mindset
to recognize, like, hey, I'm trying to get to base camp, okay?
Not only is it a spot we're stuck on, it's like a goal.
Like I want to get to a place that is new, right?
And if we are floating in a space where we feel like,
hey, I have been on a journey,
I have been on a travel like, recognize like,
hey, this is a place just to be.
It is a good place to be.
And we are leaning into that space,
learning everything that we can
from that experience, building up every good
resource, equipping ourselves
for the next leg up in our success.
Let's do that today, I say. Let's do it today.
Let's, be present in this day,
center ourselves here, find peace, contentment, gratitude
for this beautiful moment that we have this day.
This is what is here right now.
Let's make it the very best day,
that we can take every powerful action.
That powerful action might just be nothing, right?
A fasting space is nothing.
Might be carving out a few minutes of our day
just for some open
mental space to accompany the fasting space.
Give our mind a space to just breathe,
you know, to protect the space
from all the stress, the negatives that are coming at us.
So we're going to protect that space, help us to process.
Maybe in that space we can write out a few lines about,
like where we're at in our journey
and where we're hoping to go sink into that.
And then maybe today you say, I'm ready to make a climb.
I've been sitting in this space.
It's actually feeling good, but it's like, I'm ready.
Like I've charged up in this space.
And we say, now it is the time for the,
next leg up on the journey.
We're heading to that higher base camp.
What are the paths to do that
leaning into a fasting space,
leaning into the healthiest food choices
that we can, means cutting out all the processed food
that we possibly can,
getting the highest quality, most nutritious food
that comes from the earth in a natural way.
Those are the things we wanna put into our body
that nourish the body,
moving our bodies in the most enjoyable, powerful ways.
Whether that's some resistance training,
lifting some actual weights,
taking a walk, any sort of activity, moving the body.
What type of movement brings you the most energy is, hey,
I just love this,
you know, never forcing ourselves into an exercise.
Exercise to me should be a joyful, expression
leaning into the mental health practice.
Maybe just the mental health practice
today, just carving out some space
for some reflection that we were saying.
The most powerful thing
that we can do reflect on our experience.
Really great to share this space with you today.
I hope you have a beautiful day.
I will look forward to being back with you tomorrow.
We will continue to move beyond our upper limit.
I'll see you there. Have a great day everybody!
