Embrace The Unknown
As we think
about change and what we are trying to do in a health space.
Health space. We're trying to become healthier.
So we're moving in a direction
where it's going to be a little different than before.
And the thing about human beings, right?
People like the familiar.
This is part of what takes us in a direction of anxiety, right?
We have anxiety when we don't know the future,
which is pretty much all the time.
It's one of the ways we try to cope with that. We.
Try to envision that the future will be like the past,
like the present, like the past.
Try to protect ourselves from the unknown.
And if we're protecting ourselves from the unknown
that is looking like things staying the same.
And we say from a certain perspective, we say all that's good
because that safer change means
things could be different,
means could be better, but could be worse.
Even if it is very likely to be better.
We say don't risk it.
That is what feels comfortable, feels comfortable to us.
And so we stay in that sort of place.
But we want to go somewhere different
We're heading us into the mountains.
We're on a journey.
We're heading on a journey toward better health.
Find some joy on the journey in,
this place, where we find ourselves today.
So as we're sitting here.
Listen to these words from Brianna West.
The mountain is. You. Okay?
This is coming from a section that is, titled.
Self-sabotage comes from what's unfamiliar
and with definitely, definitely can resonate with that.
Right?
She says human beings experience
a natural resistance to the unknown.
Because it is essentially the ultimate loss of control.
When I was thinking about what to call this session.
Yes, I said, embracing the unknown.
That's where I ultimately came,
because it was like the most positive.
And I was thinking about calling it or saying, What to do
when life feels completely out of control, you know?
But then I was like, well, that's a little intense,
but that's what we're seeing here.
Okay? Something is unknown.
We can fear of the unknown because we're not in control of it
and we're never really in control. Right.
But we like to pretend that we're in control when we,
we tried it to get the amount of control that we have.
And sometimes our resistance to change, our resistance to
to do something
different is the bit of control that we can have.
So I at least I can I can stay in this space.
It's like, it's okay and see that is comforting.
There's a certain amount of good.
That's what we're we're dialing into this space
that when we see the resistance to change
and we see coping mechanisms,
we say, okay,
there are behaviors, things we do that are coping mechanisms.
See, see the good in it too. Right.
You see, let's let's not just be too quick to judge.
There are good things that come from coping mechanisms.
They started because they served us in a space.
They gave us comfort.
They help us in a certain way and but now we see we all
we went through a space and now we're identifying this process
that served us is now we start to see
maybe it's not for this season,
maybe it was for another season.
Maybe we're going in a new direction.
Is this what you're doing in 2026?
If that's what you want to do, I want to help you, with it.
I'm so glad that, we are here.
Where?
We're heading to the mountains. Right.
So say, maybe this is like our base camp.
We're on a journey.
We're heading toward the mountains.
Here. It's at sunset. Maybe we want set start out at sunset.
So, you know, this is a sort of place
we can just get ready for the journey.
Maybe the journey starts out tomorrow.
You know, in there in this metaphor.
Or maybe this is just the campsite on the journey.
You know, whatever, is serving you best is the idea.
Okay, but if we are fearing the journey, if we're saying,
I'm resisting it because we feel we're not in control,
they say we fear this, even if what's unknown
is benevolent or even beneficial to us.
This is especially true on a health path.
We say we know there's certain habits and practices
that can help us to move in a positive direction.
But it's out of the comfort zone.
It's out of the normal.
It's not familiar, makes it difficult to flow toward it.
So from my perspective, this is how you move toward it.
You carve out the space in the busyness of life
to sit in a reflective space,
try to answer the deepest questions what do I really want?
What is the meaning of this experience,
and what is the path that we can step forward on?
They say self-sabotage very often
a simple product of unfamiliarity.
It's because anything that is foreign, no matter how good,
will also be uncomfortable until it is also familiar.
This often leads people
to confuse the discomfort of the unknown
with being wrong or bad, or ominous.
However, it is more a matter of psychological adjustment.
this is where we're at today, say, embracing the unknown.
Okay.
There's a lot of unknowns going on right now in the world.
And it is, this is giving us,
you know, an analogy for what we're saying in this, passage.
You know, sticking to the familiar, right,
can give us a lot of comfort.
There's a lot of real benefit in that.
Flowing through a season, a stressful season.
often say, like, don't make big decisions.
Don't do something drastic in the middle of, like,
you know, all these other things
and so we're trying to find the health practices like,
I like here's the metaphor.
We've used a lot, the anchor in the waves. Right.
There's a lot of waves, a lot of storms going on.
We hope it doesn't turn into some kind of hurricane. Right.
But sometimes it does. And so what are we supposed to do?
Ground ourselves, with the very best
thinking and mindset that we, possibly can.
That can't change the entire world.
We wish that, we could, but we are going to change ourselves.
We're going to help every day, taking a step forward.
Making sure that we are taking the step forward and health
that we can in this day,
we're opening up these reflective spaces.
Look at the reflection in the water,
giving us the metaphor for our life.
We want to reflect deeply about our life and our values.
What is truly important to us?
Center ourselves in the present moment, letting go of regrets
about the past, letting go of anxiety about the future.
Be here now in this present moment.
So I have this opportunity I've been given in this day
right now
to move toward health in the most powerful way that I can.
This passage here says we're programed to seek
what we've known, even though we think we're after happiness.
Perhaps we say that we're after happiness.
We're actually trying to find what we're most used to,
to trying to feel familiar,
trying to find the comfort of what's normal. Right.
We talked about that throughout the fall.
Really, we want what's things just to feel normal.
Part of why, you know.
Certain things that are going on, they're not normal.
That brings a lot of stress okay.
So then triggers things like that can be triggers.
We flow back into old habits that feel comfortable
as a coping mechanism when other things do not feel normal.
Really?
Good to really dial in to that kind of mindset,
to realize, okay, everything in life is flowing together.
Our experience in one domain of life bleed over into the other.
Our relationships, our,
interactions with news and political things,
our health choices,
what we eat, how we move, what we think, how we're sleeping.
It's all one, big space in the body.
And then we realize, okay, body and mind.
Also arbitrary distinction.
We're a mind body.
So our thoughts so powerful
in impacting the health of the body.
And so then we're trying to reverse that cycle
by taking care of the body.
So that out of health in the body helps
to shape our positive thinking.
And we can push it all back outward.
This is the, best strategy,
what I am trying to implement in my own life.
I've gone through many,
seasons of being overwhelmed and angry about,
you know, the political situations, for many years.
And you say you wish weren't the case.
Social media, I think these sort of things has amplified,
so many of these things
make people say we can feel so small and overwhelmed.
It's like we're shouting into some void.
Okay, but listen.
Look at the opportunity. Look at the process.
We focus on health first.
This is the thing we can actually control.
What we saw in this first passage is like we
we get stuck in the habits of the past
because they feel familiar,
and that is giving us a sense of control.
But then we get into a reflective space and we see
but this control that we think we're wielding, it's
not like controlling us in the right direction, we say.
And so when we see that the process of change, the process
of opening up to something
different is its own form of control.
And this is how I want to help us
walk out of that sort of space.
We've talked about the toolkit that we have of healthy,
the different paths that we can walk.
Whatever the metaphor, you want these
simple, basic things choosing the healthiest food,
choosing not to eat food for a period of time
to open up space for the body is like the big thing
we're trying to do.
Taking the literal steps, meaning moving the body
in a thoughtful and gentle way,
and then opening up the mindfulness practices,
the journaling meditation, connecting with our community
relationships with, people that are important to us, these
very basic things, things that you can't really sell.
You know, you can sell a healthy food.
We have to buy a healthy food.
You know.
But, no flashy commercials for a broccoli,
you know what I mean?
Like just the simple, basic
things that are the the best, you know, the most health giving.
We start there at those places
because those are the decisions we can actually control.
They're actually the powerful decisions
to say in the face of mass media, mass culture.
Crazy stuff going on.
I'm not going to let that distract me
from taking the very most important step.
The we only control our little life,
you know, we get so into these huge things,
what's happening all around the world.
We feel so small and insignificant.
We say, but when we ground ourselves and center ourselves
here, in this moment,
especially together with people walking on a path
together, say no, we recognize this is what's important.
This is what we need to do, and we realize it is enough.
Like when you think about like the word enough
is not really present in our culture,
certainly on the big scale, what's enough,
you know, is everything has to be more and more and bigger
and better and everything incredible.
And it just that can feed into this whole process.
You know,
I think we we take that into even a personal development space.
You know, it's like we always have to be better.
It's like when we don't recognize like actually
like I'm I'm good enough here, you know what I mean?
I have everything I need.
Health is a way of being.
Nothing actually has to be done.
So like, look at the healthy place that fasting is, right?
Say, I don't need even a single thing.
I have everything I need right here inside of me.
And then actually wellness
can come out of that move toward wellness by doing nothing.
So just saying that helps me take a deep breath.
Like I always I feel that drive to, you know, is like,
oh, you're not good enough.
You have to do more or you have to be better.
You have to, you know,
I think it's good to have aspirational visions.
We're sitting here looking in the mountains, you see, like,
who doesn't want to be better
but like when better as a pressure to please someone else,
when better is coming from this society that never has enough.
I mean, here's,
here's like a beautiful inversion is to say like,
I want to be better by recognizing that I don't need anything
else.
You know, I want to be better by being more content,
by bringing more peace into my life, by doing more with less.
That that's changing.
The idea of better, better in our society is just more money,
more status,
more power, more control over other people.
And we're looking at,
you know, this about very specifically control in our own life.
How do we really get control of our own life
in the face of the unknown?
We are moving toward the unknown.
In the future,
we say we're going to be a healthier version of ourself,
leaner and stronger.
Like, what's that like? We don't know.
We hope it's going to be good.
It probably is going to be good.
But then we say, oh, we don't know it so we can fear it.
I got some great quotes.
I found, for us about overcoming fear.
That's the other thing I was going to show Carl this,
you know, overcoming our fears,
embracing the unknown is like a big process of getting over
our fear of the future, letting go of the anxiety
about what things will be like when they're different.
Like, these are the two primary drivers of maladies
in human culture, right?
Fear and greed. Right?
This is what drives most of the, problems we have.
Both of these things fear and greed.
We don't have enough, right?
Or we don't have enough of something,
or we we feel that way drives
this always have to accumulate things, always have to.
Be better not finding a place of contentment.
To me, this is what we need.
Oh, and then to complete that cycle,
I was saying, as we are doing these things
and we realize these are the powerful steps that I control,
this spreads outward and this is what we want to be doing.
We want to be radiating health, wholeness,
positivity, love, light,
kindness, thoughtfulness, contentment out into this society.
If we really want the society to be better,
we can't shout our way to it.
We aren't going to, We aren't going to fight our way to it.
You know that I was so inspired
reading Doctor King for Martin Luther King Junior Day.
You know, diving back into some of,
you know, even him referencing Gandhi and,
and the nonviolence and just leaning into
love for people as a path to health.
To me, I'm completely inspired by that.
That's that is the answer.
That was Doctor King's Nobel speech that,
people are going to have to figure it out.
You know, he said that in 1964,
we still haven't figured it out.
Obviously, people are going to have to figure out
if we want a healthy society,
if we want healthy people to bring it down to ourselves,
if we want to be healthy,
we got to figure out how to solve our differences
and live together in this beautiful place.
Beautiful place without oppression and violence.
We've got to get the oppression
and violence out of our own life first.
We talked about that yesterday.
Tell that drill sergeant to get out of here.
We don't need you bossing us around anymore.
We are content in this space.
This is what they say here.
Limiting beliefs come from wanting to keep ourselves safe.
But then it's a double edged sword. Do you see it?
Double edged sword.
Because keeping ourself in one space,
if it's leading us to be unhealthy
or if we're not healthy, we're not really safe, right?
It's like being unhealthy
means we're opening ourselves up to risk.
You know,
we got plenty of risk in the world today in the health space,
diabetes and heart disease, stroke, dementia is like
all these things we're trying to have healthspan, right?
We're trying to give ourselves longevity and healthspan,
meaning
staying healthy and flourishing throughout this whole, space.
Fear always been smoldering in the background for me,
even when I didn't realize that's what I was feeling.
It was actually fear. Yeah.
You know, I think fear is a sneaky thing.
It's just like we have an idea of
fear is like watching a horror
movie, and we're, like, terrified and some space.
And that's maybe, you know, level 11 on the fear scale
is like imminent attack or something
like this, but like fear, also much more subtle.
It kind of cloaks itself, kind of sneaks in there and like,
think about
what is the most mild version of fear might be something.
Yeah, we don't even recognize it.
It's just like a subtle little voice.
You don't want to do that.
You'd be better off if you just didn't.
You know?
We got a move. I saw a quote once I can't remember.
Said the time has come to move beyond
fear and embrace solutions.
Just love that. This is the time for solutions.
You know this is not the time for living in fear
is not the time
for perpetuating cycles that haven't served us
the time to find the solution, the time for the new path.
I want to I want to be standing on the top of that
mountain, looking out at the sunset.
I'm ready to take the journey.
That's what I say. We want to keep ourselves safe.
They go on.
Maybe that's why you prefer the comfort
of what you've known to the vulnerability of what you don't.
Change in a certain way.
Yeah it does.
We have to open up a little bit to change that at least.
Feels like vulnerability.
Probably is, is, you know.
But then we see too, there's vulnerability in not changing.
Right. Life is change.
We are change
always changing the seasons, giving us the example.
Life is flowing through seasons of change.
When when we are an object that doesn't go with the flow
and we refuse to change when we're static stuck,
then we become, say, sclerotic.
Say we don't want that.
That is its own vulnerability.
We need to be adaptable. I think of like.
You know, things that are hard and inflexible.
Crack. Right.
They crack.
That's what I'm seeing here in the frozen cold of Wisconsin.
Here, she says,
we think that suffering can make us more worthy.
Boy did that.
That one hit me hard when I read that, you know, this is
this is personally a very, very deep couple words for me.
And one of the reasons I finally left my medical practice,
even though it's so hard to do a medical practice
that, the university say, I've got it,
I've got to find a way to help people
in a different kind of way because,
this was my experience in medicine,
the the systems of medicine that we have,
you know, in America today are exploitative,
and they are specifically exploitative
of the people who work in this system.
It isn't
it is not thoughtful in any way to the doctors, nurses,
nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, medical assistance,
everybody, receptionists,
everybody is just squeezing every drop
out of people to the point that pretty much most people,
most people that I know, in my clinic,
everybody, well, you know, everybody's struggling.
That's what I can say.
Everybody feeling the weight.
Not a lot of joy on the journey happening, I can tell you that.
And this is the complete inversion
of what I believe health and health care could be in an ideal
health care system, which is what I want to work in.
It would be like health flowing out.
Doctors should be the healthiest people, you know what I mean?
Nurses should be the healthiest people.
A health care system should be full of joy, right?
Because it is joyful.
I've experienced joy in medicine, right of like connecting,
even in the midst of difficulty connecting with a human being,
helping someone in their time of deepest need, you know,
even if it's hard.
See, I have no problem at all.
And in fact,
I'm very happy to do it, to stay up all night, to help.
I've done it hundreds of times.
Stay up all night, no problem.
Being very tired to help somebody. Okay?
Gotta do it.
We need people to do it, and I'm very happy to do it.
The system knows this system knows.
The doctor is not going to leave their patient
hanging system knows the nurse is not going to
just, you know, check out and leave.
And so they tighten the screws harder and harder every year,
squeezing more and more goodwill out of people
to make the bottom line better and better.
And, It is so unhealthy,
the experience of going through it and having experience.
I became so unwell it disgusts me how unwell I became
and so many people in this space.
You know, most of the people in, medicine
who are not experiencing that have carved themselves out
huge space, away from it, you know, charting their own path.
You got to do it.
You know, here's what I finally just said.
I just have to chart a different path.
This is how change happens.
Is I an example? Right.
That's
what the book says. Usually change happens at rock bottom.
I kind of hit a rock bottom
with my medical experience in the system.
I say I can't go on.
Like literally, I can't.
I'm like developing diseases and horrible habits and.
See, to heal, right.
We need space to heal.
I was like, I need some space to heal from this.
And we need a type of medicine
that is, is like what I'm describing to you, right?
I've been on a personal journey, right?
To heal myself,
to find a way of bringing health and wholeness into the world.
I'm trying to do it. Exactly.
I think where I was felt
crushed and overwhelmed by everything I say.
I have to become healthy again.
You know, I was like, I used to be a healthy person.
I used to be positive.
I used to have positive habits. Right?
But I got them all crushed out of me.
I was like, I got to rebuild that.
I in which I've done, I am doing it.
And now we are radiating it out. See, that's what I'm saying.
We are radiating out health and positivity, love and light
into what I was, what I'm trying to do right now.
Change.
We build that up and then send it out.
I tell you, the the process of doing that for me feels good.
I spend less of my day feeling overwhelmed by things.
I spend less of my day, in fact, none of my day anymore.
I'm feeling angry at health systems.
I just want to help them. You know what I mean?
I just want to help.
I want to help everybody with everything.
And and I think this is the best idea that I have to do it,
which is to say, look, we have incredible financial burdens.
This is a big thing that's squeezing everybody.
I have compassion
also for, CEOs and administrators of health systems.
Everybody's under huge pressure.
Everybody's got budgets and and things.
You know I do get that.
And so they're trying to make, say,
the best decisions that they can.
You know, you look at the salaries of some of these people
and you maybe temper some of them.
I'm trying to be very positive. Okay.
Some of these people could do a little more. I would say.
But this is what we do, right? Not fighting anything.
Taking the most positive action.
We can put health in ourself first.
Radiate it out.
This is going to help health systems
like going around this big level, right?
If we can find a way to connect deeply and positively
with lots of people, realize, okay,
you can become healthier with nothing.
This is the promise of fasting.
No money required, no purchasing,
no consumption as a model, just to show how powerful
the human being is that there's health and healing
present right in you right now, today.
Okay, this is the primary driver of cost
in the medical system is metabolic dysfunction okay?
It is driving the weight problems, the insulin resistance,
the diabetes is upstream of heart disease, osteoarthritis.
Most autoimmune disease most neurological disorder okay.
We are getting down into this very, very root level.
And so what if
what if the pressure you know, I've tried to describe
everything that can happen in this fasting space
is about taking pressure off everything from every direction,
taking health,
taking pressure off of our,
metabolism, taking pressure off the energy, taking pressure off
everything we have to do.
Like when we sink into that space.
Okay? You can lose weight in that space.
You can burn through blood sugar
in that space, reset insulin resistance.
You can see fatty liver, right?
So you can see these things go away.
Now a lot of studies been done on this, but it's just you
you have to see that it is true
that people who are experiencing rejuvenation
in their health, every metabolic parameter, are getting better.
People are going to have decreased risk of cancer
in that space.
People are going to have decreased risk of heart disease
and stroke.
People are going to need less joint replacements.
You know, you think about the cost of that,
you know, just to get an easily
what is it these days, 30, $40,000,
you know, something like that.
And so you, look at all this pressure that everybody is under.
I say,
why don't we just come here and kind of sit in some space
and realize this whole path
that we've been on, not going in a good direction.
We see there's some fear of the unknown.
How do you have a health system?
Is different, is so broken,
like we just can't sit here anymore.
See, this is the same space.
It's like we human beings, we just sit in a space
like I did until we just completely hit the bottom.
Then we say, we've got to change.
I hope you've already been through a place like that.
I tell in that that session we did the other day,
I don't want anybody to have to hit a rock bottom,
but it's like we get to a dark place
when we finally say the pain of staying
the same is more than the pain or the fear
of being new and going somewhere different.
And so I think if we get into a reflective space,
we can embrace the unknown,
especially when the unknown is not so good.
So health system not not so good right now.
Let's start over.
This.
Let's try to, to the greatest extent possible.
Find a way to build a health care system
where money isn't the focus.
You know.
Not in some crazy communist utopia. Okay?
No, no crazy things. We need money.
We got to pay for things. Okay?
But like the spirit, you know what I mean?
Where it's like we where where maybe
the centering word and health care could be enough.
You know that it's enough.
We have enough buildings already.
We don't need a shiny new building.
We need, like, actual spaces of healing.
Like, oh, my God.
Here's how the, and some of this sections here.
Oh, I was just went off on this suffering.
Make you more worthy.
This is. Yeah. To conclude that thought.
The attitude that gets pushed out in medicine
so much these days because people are so unhappy is like it's
all unhealthy.
It's like the more unhappy you are, it's just because you care.
This is being pushed out there, the more unhappy hours
you must really be trying to take care of people
like you are really doing it.
And I was like, this is
this is the way that this preys on everybody's emotional space.
That is this thing that suffering is making us feel better
about ourselves.
Like, oh, I'm, I'm really being a doctor now, you know,
look how miserable I am.
A lot of people feeling that way.
This is because I'm so dedicated to my patients
that, you know, I'm just working so hard, like,
that's how we justify it is how I justified it.
It's like I just tell myself I'm a good person.
This is why I'm so miserable.
I can take it, you know? And I did that for years and years.
That is very unhealthy.
I just thank you, book, for pointing that out
is going to help people.
A lot of people need to hear
that suffering doesn't make you more worthy.
Okay? Suffering does not make you better.
You don't inflict, terrible situations on yourself
is not helping to make the world better.
Okay?
Or, they say, believing that for every good thing in life,
there also must be an accompanying bad.
This book is so deep, you know, like,
do you get into that thinking
like I have had so much of that thinking like, oh,
it's like something good happens, something bad.
Going to have to happen, you know,
because everything in balance, like it's like we're afraid
to move towards something good because like, we just say,
oh, that would be something bad.
That's not true.
We can.
This is how we can develop hope. Okay?
This is how we can look forward to a brighter
future, a better tomorrow.
Okay.
Because there can just be good things in life
and the future can be better.
And we don't have to be afraid of it.
I had I had personally so much fear
of leaving the regular medical system,
like still in the medical system I'm consulting.
So I'm doing still everything that I like to do.
I took everything that I like to do,
try to help people be healthy, and I just kept those things.
And then I added new things like this, you know,
and it's it's it's good.
This is the type of path I want everybody to walk on.
Don't be afraid of things.
Just hang on to things that are good.
Let go of things that are bad.
Move toward love and light and that is how we heal.
They say here to truly heal,
you're going to have to change the way you think.
You're going to have to become very conscious of negative
and false beliefs.
Start shifting your mindset that actually serves you.
To truly heal.
This is what I want for everybody.
It's what I want for myself first, right?
Is what I'm trying to do.
This is a healing journey for me, which I'm loving.
Is it part of the healing?
Is I just to send out healing into the world?
Okay, this is what a health system should be about.
This is why I couldn't stand,
you know, the health system anymore in it.
Because I was like the whole vision
I had, you know, in medicine were supposed to be about healing.
It's just a healing profession.
And, man, there's good things happen.
I don't want to be too cynical.
There are good things in medicine.
There's incredible technology.
There are medications that help people.
I'm not opposed to anything like that.
But healing as a word
is so much bigger than an MRI scanner
or some piece of technology.
The the real healing, the part that makes medicine a joy,
both for the people who are practicing it
and for the people who are experiencing it, and the part
that we can't lose in the midst of the incredible
technological, experience we're having with,
so-called thinking computer systems and all of this.
So the human connection of people.
And my personal experience is almost impossible to heaven,
deep human, connection
that people would describe
as a healing, therapeutic relationship.
With someone, whether the person who is supposed to be
the healer can't be at rock bottom.
Okay, you talking with a doctor who's at rock bottom?
You're working with a nurse who is at rock bottom.
You can feel that, right?
You can feel at home.
The emotion, the connection.
This is when I started to know I had to, you know, leave
when I was like the patients trying to take care of me, like.
Like, man, we are so far away
from, like, the vision of healing.
Healing relationships of what true health is, true
health system
gotta fill up the people who are running it
with health, so that the health can overflow to people.
This type of thing is possible.
It's already been done right.
I think the health system used to be like that.
Before it went crazy.
Okay, here I'm going to give you some quotes.
I found some great quotes.
I was just looking for quotes
that, summarized this type of thinking.
Help us move beyond our fear, help us to do it.
Give us encouragement and move on our journey.
This one I was this is, fair, Pat,
because yesterday you were talking about takes courage, right?
It takes courage to face the bully. Right?
This drill sergeant. Right.
Courage is resistance to fear.
Mastery of fear. Not the absence of fear.
So to change, to move in a bold direction of health
and healing is like.
I mean, I can't
I can't tell anybody that that's an easy thing to do.
But it's a good thing to do.
And I encourage people to think as deeply as possible about it.
What does it mean in your life to be courageous,
to move toward health and healing in a courageous way?
To overcome the fear.
To step out into the unknown.
To take bold and powerful steps.
You can do it is what I tell you.
You can do it.
Maybe the first step just to sit in this space.
Look at the space.
Were at the base camp. Just sit here.
Maybe you don't have to do anything right.
Maybe the bold step is to realize
I don't actually have to do anything.
Take all the pressure off my sitting here
and telling all you can do it.
I'm not.
There's no drill sergeant, right?
I'm not telling you. Get to the gym.
I'm not telling you and judging you in any fashion
if you don't do anything in particular,
maybe the courage is just to embrace enough.
Realize I am enough right now.
Nothing else required.
How are you?
Let go of all the judgments,
everything that is holding you down.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
What do you think of that?
I'm sitting with it a little bit right now.
Is everything we want on the other side of fear?
I'm not big on words like everything okay?
Or always are.
Like,
you know, there's an exception to almost everything. Okay.
So like so like I'm thinking, like.
Also like, everything that we want is right here, right now.
So like, we're we're trying to walk this line.
We're trying to overcome obstacles in our fear
and, and be bold and courageous and move towards something.
And then we're also trying to just sit in a space and recognize
that everything is enough, I am enough, everything is okay.
And so, like,
everything we want is also available to us right now.
But peace and contentment is here with us.
Health is here now.
Health is our way of being so summon up
the big ball of thinking when you need it.
And also like find the balance of recognizing that.
Also like.
Just the openness that we have here to recognize like.
Everything is okay in this moment.
Do the thing you fear the most.
And the death of fear is certain.
I sandwiched these two.
We got kind of like two Mark Twain's. Courage.
The death of fear.
Okay.
Very, very powerful line.
Are there steps that you need to take?
Are there things like you you then block them out of your mind
because you're like, oh,
I know, like that's what we are saying the other day.
The resistance. Right.
We don't feel emotional resistance
in our being to things that aren't important.
Not a lot of resistance to say.
I think I'm just going to turn on Netflix.
I'm going to watch my favorite show is like, no resistance,
no voicing.
Oh, you you shouldn't do that, you know?
But it's like when it's like we resist the things like,
oh, I really should get on this path.
I really should open up this space.
I really should do this.
Things like,
we feel the resistance to the things that are important.
We can use that as a guide.
When you're in that space, you're saying,
oh, I'm trying to do this fasting practice because I see,
I want to open up this space, give a gift to my body,
and you feel like, oh, but I might feel a little uncomfortable.
I might have some hunger, I might have something. Okay.
Then we fear it's like, oh, see, that's a conversation
we're having with the fear, the things that are important.
And I don't know if I should go to the gym.
I don't know if I should take a walk as,
like easier to not do that.
I kind of sit here as like, you feel the resistance
to the thing that is giving health to the body.
Let's go.
I feel like I really should buy this thing.
I should have this food.
It'd be so tasty.
I'd feel so good when I'm eating it.
It's like, oh, but how do we feel later?
And if we bought this, I say, I could buy this, I love it,
I don't really know
if I want to see these are
the conversations were having with our fear.
How do we kill that voice?
You just power through it.
You do the thing fear is telling you. Don't do it.
You're not the type of person that can do that.
You're not strong enough to do that.
Other types of people do that, but not you. Okay?
When you're hearing voices like that, you kill that fear
by doing the thing.
When you have decided this is what is important to my life,
this is what the path is toward health and healing.
I am not going to be convinced by these ridiculous arguments
of judgment and discouragement, negative thinking.
I can replace that negative thinking with the positive reality.
I am a human being. I am strong and powerful.
I am thoughtful and considerate.
I have looked at my life deeply
and decided that this is the direction
that I'm going to move, and I am not going to be denied.
My contentment.
I am not going to be denied
the peace of existing here in my own mind,
in my own space, with my own positive thoughts.
And then the negative thoughts will diminish.
You banish them to the pages of the history
of your journal, where you wrote them out and shut them.
Shut the book, and we've moved on.
Embrace the unknown.
That is my best thoughts for embracing the unknown.
It's like we do not know what does.
Tomorrow bring?
What does even the rest of this day bring?
I don't know what does our health journey really look like?
We don't know.
When we embrace the unknown.
We actually open up so many possibilities.
I love that, I don't even remember which book it was in.
We were saying, Oh, it was Atomic Habits.
We'll get back to that when we only are focusing on the goal.
It's like the goal is only one thing.
But when when we're about a way of being,
when we're about building a system, a practice
like then
that just becomes a way of being that you find joy in.
And that joy can flow in lots of different directions.
Maybe you don't accomplish the specific goal,
but because you were
just existing in a space,
maybe you float off towards something better.
You know, just awesome.
We embrace the unknown because.
It opens up the best case scenario.
It takes all the pressure off.
It's embracing words like hope, love and light.
It's practicing in our life.
Trust.
Like, do you believe that there is something
meaningful happening here in this existence? You know?
Can we trust that that's the case, that there are good things
in store that we don't have to hang on so tightly
that if we lost
this current version of ourselves,
that we wouldn't find something better.
It's only in the unknown
that you can unlock something like that.
A healthier version of ourselves mentally, physically.
Gotta let go of the old to make room for something new.
Have a beautiful day.
I have no idea what's happening in the world.
I say shelter yourself a little bit.
It doesn't matter if you're struggling in any space.
Keep the good vibes of this session going.
You can float through this space.
Let the world take care of itself for a little bit
and you focus.
Take care of yourself.
Make sure that you are good.
You know in this day that you're moving toward health,
that you're on your path.
Don't let anybody else knock you off, okay?
Embrace the unknown. I will embrace the unknown.
We will see what happens tomorrow in our fasting space.
See, I haven't planned it yet,
so we're all embrace that unknown.
We'll see what happens tomorrow.
Okay.
Really nice to share this space with
you. I'll see you tomorrow.
