Fasting Space

If you'd like to level up your life.

Take a listen to these words from Brianna.

Waist in the mountain is you.

Of all the things that no one tells you about life.

That you might not experience instantaneous happiness

after a positive life change is perhaps the most confusing.

The truth about your psyche is this anything that is new,

even if it's good, will feel uncomfortable
until it is also familiar.

Interesting kind of paradox, right?

We're going to be diving in to some more thinking on that.

Want to level up life?

This is what I want to do personally.

It's what I want to do.

Help everybody do.

We can all do it together in this sort of space,
bringing up the level

across all domains of health and wellness,
wholeness and flourishing.

Fasting space, to me, is a component of that.

Not the only thing, but it's a good thing.

And that's
what's so interesting about what that passage is saying.

All right.

Even a good thing if it's change, can push us out of a zone.

Do you ever feel that way?

Anything that is new, you feel stretched
and then feeling stretched,

feel a little uncomfortable like the butterfly

coming out of the cocoon, say.

Stretch the wings and fly a bit.

A metamorphosis, a change.

This is what I want to be going through
and what I want to help us be going through.

Are we open to it.

Do we want it.

Are we striving after it.

Do we want to be climbing the mountain there?

There is a process of leveling up life.

So leveling up when I say it, does something

come to your mind where you say, oh, I want to level up
my life?

Does a thought come in? It's okay if it doesn't.

But man, sometimes you just hear it
and it's triggering a something.

Say I want to level up this process.

Maybe fasting is the actual thing to level up
and we can dive into that.

Absolutely.

And maybe we have been leveling up in a fasting process.

And like this is saying it's calling us to level up

some adjacent practices, some things that are fasting adjacent,

like how is our actual diet,
how is the food, can we clean that up?

Can we improve that as we are leveling up

what we're eating, as we're leveling up a fasting space?

Does it call us into a space?

Level up the movement.

That's the progression that I often like for people.

The standard path, try to lose weight,

try to get healthier, hit the gym,
and then the afterthoughts like, how do we clean up the diet?

Okay.

I like to go through a fasting space

and then use that level up the dietary practice.

And once that is dialed in, then start dialing in the movement.

And then of course leveling up our mindfulness practices.

That is a daily practice.

I can tell you that's what I'm doing every day.

Got to tell myself keep going.

Level up. Dial in. So important.

Listen to how she goes on in this section.

We often think of big achievements as a get out of life
easier card.

They are rarely that.

In fact, the opposite tends to happen.

They level us up.

They force us into greater responsibilities
to think more deeply

about big issues, to question ourselves
and what we previously knew to be true.

And big achievements, they say, actually pressure us

to become increasingly better versions of ourselves,

a net positive for our lives, but can be its own struggle.

See, this book is challenging.

I love this book.

Some things in here that we can definitely chew on,

but to me it's an inspiring challenge.

They conclude this section,
your big life change is going to force you

to level up in every way imaginable.

Oh man.

And a way to overcome the fear of stepping into the unknown

is to familiarize yourself with it, to make it a part of you,

one that you are certain that you're prepared for

and that you deserve it.

I love that. I really love that.

Yeah, I was you know, I read through this little chapter

last night as I was thinking, oh, what should we talk about?

You know, Right now
I am planning our little sessions one day at a time.

And in some sometimes I've strung together some things,

but I've maybe in some future state can I dial it

in where I have everything planned out in series forever?

Right now it's feeling good. I've got my collections of books.

These are things that I'm trying to dial in my mindset on,
and I kind of

pop in and out of what is feeling right for me,
and I'm completely open

to suggestions of where do you want it to go?

But this,
this bit of thinking was really challenging me last night,

you know, as I think things that I try to share on
this channel are perspective,

everything as much as possible.

But while we see two sides, always two sides,
but we want things.

My default side thoughtful and gentle.

Using fasting as a wellness process

bring use it to make everything else better.

Take the pressure off. Nothing to do.

You know fasting is nothing.

It's just a space of nothing.

I like to call it applied nothingness.

I love that we're just applying nothing for a period of time.

See what happens. Is it better?

Is it the most convenient way to eat less?

You know, I say it is.

You know, at least in my personal experience,

if I eat a little bit is like, where's the rest?

We just turn the system on and is like, you want to eat, right?

But nothing a very special state.

Whereas like, if nothing's there, the system stays off.

We flow through it.

See, that can lead to wellness in mind and body.

Because instead of turning the system on, little snack is like,

now we got to like no, no no no, calm it back down right then.

It's a distraction.

It's like, just get the stuff done, just go.

You know, that can be wellness.

The other side of it is to recognize that
if we're going in a fasting space, it can be intense.

It can be.

Isn't it interesting?

See, I find this whole process to be so interesting.

Doing nothing can be one of the most intense things.

Total paradox.

It really can.

So, you know, find, I like to say like a dial

leveling up on our dial. Yes.

Power over food.

With great power comes great responsibility.

Hey, I like that. The.

The thing of it.

Okay, if we can bring in just a little bit.

This is what I was trying to say.

Bring in a little bit of intensity just to the point.

Not where it is overwhelming.

The other side of it is to say, hey, we are human beings,
we are strong

and we can bring intentionally some intensity to our situation.

And that is all okay.

Fasting is a space where you can do something like that
and I don't.

We don't have to shy away from it.

This book definitely showing us that like that
we can stretch ourselves and grow.

And so that that's the type of paradox

that I was bringing to this reading today,
which was like when they say on here.

Don't you want to get out of life?

Easier card. I say, I take one. Absolutely.

You know, and a big process like I'm trying to show

here is what I'm I'm doing some thinking on it right now.

I like analogy, like the sailboat.

I like the analogy of the river
carving through the stone that we're looking for a flow state

that things can take time
and that they don't have to be forced.

And so they use some words in here.

There are even the opposite of that.

They say, well, we're not really getting out of life easier.

It's rarely the case that a big accomplishment helps
you get out of life easier.

I think we can reflect on that a little bit, you know,
I don't know.

I want the level up that I want for people to gain

skill and practice and fasting.

Certainly if I were to just try to define it,
I would say I really am

trying to help people
find the easiest way to lose weight possible.

Also, that is sustainable
and has the least side effects and not risk, you know?

And so we have a lot of equations to balance.

And to me, where it has settled out is a practice of learning.

Fasting is balances
the most equations in the most pleasant way, actually,

for the least cost, in the least risk

and the most wellness and things.

So maybe that's their point.

I say it's rarely that.

I think there are times in life
where we find things that do help to make life easier.

I don't think it's saying that, but they are saying

that when we level up in one area, it can inspire us.

They use the word force here.

I'm not big on forcing things, you know?

So they level us up

and they force us into greater responsibilities.

So I was really thinking about that.

I don't know that we have to pick about,
you know, one single word,

you know,
but this would be my thought for us as we were there.

I don't want anybody feeling forced into anything.

Absolutely. Certainly a fasting process, not forced.

If you're feeling that way in any way, I say, time for a pause.

That's what I would usually say.

Time for a pause.

Fasting, to me, is openness. I want people.

Just exploring an open space, fasting, a path to joy.

This is the thing, you know.

How do we have the biggest life change, right?

Having a dietary practice that leads to joy.

This would this is what I want for people.

Total flip most of the time.

Dietary practicing as a restriction, seeing as a punish

our way to health instead of nurturing our way to health.

And so the biggest level up in life, man,
if I can find a wellness process

that also leads to weight loss, also a place

to find peace and contentment to these.

To me, this is leveling us up across many domains.

The type of thing that can take the pressure off
and that is never forced.

I think the way they're meaning to use forcing things
here is just to say that

if we find something that is leveling us up in an area

and we like it and we're sticking with it, that that's going

to create its own momentum,
you know, not that we're stuck with it,

not that we couldn't make a different choice,
but that it does inspire us to something greater.

That's what I think.

And maybe it's a chicken or an egg, you know that.

Yeah, I was I was doing some thinking.

You were doing some thinking.

Maybe it was back in the fall, I don't know.

And it was about finding motivation

and, and we had the thought that was like

action first emotion follows or something like this.

Take the action and then you'll be inspired to do it.

And there's many examples where it can be like that.

You don't feel like getting out of bed in the morning
and doing some exercise, but then don't

you feel better when you were done with it?

And then it doesn't it create, you know, some cycle,
but then it's like you still got to like,

do the thing first and it's like,
we're back where we started, where

it's like we still don't have the motivation we have to.

So that's kind of an edge, you know, nothing forced.

But then sometimes.

Maybe a little spark. Is that what it is?

Maybe we need that little spark.

Where does the spark come from? From the human spirit.

It's got to get us there.

We got to get the spark and then get the engine running.

Yeah, but this is interesting.

Pressure.

I see there's another word
that was in this that I don't really like.

I don't I mean, personally,
I don't like being pressured into anything.

Somebody try to pressure me into something.

I have very high probability I'm going to walk away
or, you know.

Have a conflict because who wants to be pressured, you know?

So when I read that big achievements pressuring us as like,

oh, oh, oh, but it's like there's another thing

who doesn't want to become
an increasingly better version of ourself?

You know, I was like, I do, you know, that's why I sit around
and I read inspiring books and,

you know, I tried to have the best thinking,
how do we dial in everything?

So I was like, you know, sometimes I think also like

pressure is what turns the coal into diamonds, right?

So like pressure I see if we, you know, I like for fasting.

I like a weightlifting analogy. Right.

You lift weights to get strong is a pressure on it
and then things respond and resilience.

If there's a book on my reading list, The Comfort Crisis,

which just the title is brilliant

and resonates with me, like to be our best.

Don't we need some amount of resistance to it?

Don't we need some pressure?

And so, you know, I maybe this little self critique
thinking, I'm always saying, oh, take the pressure off.

Take the pressure off. Really.

We want to find the balance,
but we want the right amount of pressure

where we're not overwhelmed, but we're inspired
and like that, that a certain amount of pressure.

Right.

The sailboat, the wind is putting pressure on the sail.

Right. And so this is what we want.

I love the analogy.

We're sitting in a sailboat. Let fasting do the work.

Because if we're just sitting in the boat and the wind
is blowing, it's going to take it, you know, across the lake.

Have a beautiful journey on the boat.

This is like we're sitting in our body here.

Even if we're not exercising. Right.

Heart is always beating.

A thousand processes are running.

It's like a furnace inside the body.

So, you know, people say a lot, okay, health space, weight
loss space.

We're in a metabolic space.

Metabolism can be so frustrating
because as you say, well, the metabolism has slowed down

maybe for many different reasons, you know,

but we think that that is a permanent space.

But all of a sudden fasting is showing us, oh, we open up
some space.

Metabolism is still going.

Metabolism is just the collection of all the processes
that are running in the body.

If we can sit in a space, we can see, well,
the heart is beating, right.

You can feel the pulse, you can see it as happening.

It's like the sailboat is sailing, the wind is blowing.

So there's a certain amount of pressure there.

There's a certain amount of force is happening.

They think just sitting here.

Think of the goal we're trying to accomplish.

You know so much in our reductionist society,
we say we boil it down to a calorie,

say we're trying to create a flow of calories out of the body,
fasting space,

stopping the calories flowing in.

We see the heart beating, taking energy
to do that in a hundred other things.

Brain is energy hungry, always burning,
and we can feel the heat radiating off of us.

The energy is flowing out.

See, this is putting a pressure toward our goal,

even by doing nothing in that space, I love that.

So we're just trying to dial in the right balance of that.

Absolutely.

So that we can accomplish our purpose.

I absolutely love it.

Yes, maybe this is the motivation
we got to try to bring it back around

the sense of accomplishment we can both remember

from the past accomplishment that we've had.

Looking to the goal that we have,
we're going to complete that circle.

It's giving us inspiration
and bringing everything into the present moment.

Like, I like looking forward.

I like looking to the horizon, bringing it back around

into the present moment,
bringing the accomplishment already here

and the encouragement from it
so that it's like circling around.

Really love that.

Big, challenging passage. This was for me.

Your big life change can force you to level up
in every way imaginable.

I don't know much. I can imagine quite a lot of different ways.

Okay, so when I was reading that, I'm like,
oh man, is it really true?

Like. Don't you want to do it?

We just want it to be at the rate
that we can handle, you know?

So this is the balance to it.

I want to level up in every way imaginable.

I want you to be able to level up in every way
that you possibly want to be leveled up in.

And so I say one step at a time, right?

What is your step for today?

How are you leveling up today?

Got our four domains our fasting space, our eating space,

our movement space, our mindfulness space.

I usually try to have like one extra focus.

I try to do all these things, you know, in a day.

You know,
I think I don't know how the computers, you know, working.

It's I feel like it's just listening to me.

Like I was just talking.

The other was it just yesterday about I was describing a video

I saw once where it was like the influencer person said,

they designed like the perfect routine
with all of the health practices.

And they got up and they did their yoga
and had their special supplements and smoothies,

and they did a meditation and a thing and like,

like they finished their wellness routine by 3 p.m..

I just mentioned that on the screen, you know,
because I thought it was funny.

And then that video popped up on my YouTube
when I was just there.

I'm like, you know, I don't know, YouTube is listening.

Bless you. Oh, man.

What a world.

Overcome the fear of the unknown.

Step into it and familiar.

Size your family.

Size yourself with it.

Make it a part of you.

Yes, that is how you overcome it, they say so
this is what a journey is to me.

We are on a journey, all of us together, stepping

forward in health, leveling up our life.

We are getting used to it.

Taking a step every day.

The opportunity stretch ourselves just a little bit.

Oh, that's what I was finishing that story.

Okay, try to do all four of these things every day.

That's what I try to do. But I'm not.

I don't have any wellness routine
that's stretching out till 3 p.m., right?

As a I'm trying to take a walk. Right.

Walk the dog. That's what I do.

And then, you know, some other bonus thing.

More intensity.

Take some space for mindfulness.

For me, it's pulling out the journal.

I try to write one line
at least every day, like there's a mini thing.

Like just write out one line. It could.

I might even try to write two words.

Tough day, you know, just get it out.

These things don't have to take a long time

fasting, of course, at no time to a day.

And then try to do one thing to say, I'm
going to take one moment of my day,

try to level up eating decision.

Oh, man.

So within these days, within these four things
that I try to bring all these things

in, I try to pick like one extra key thing, like two days ago,

I had an extra hyper exercise.

I went on a big, big run and that was like,

you know, that was like my big thing for the day.

So I say, where's the energy?

You know, in a day, you know,
is it like, I mean, I'm going to feel stretched in a direction.

Which one of these do you want to do?

Maybe it's like I'm going to try to carve out an extra
ten minutes on the mindfulness today

and really sit with this sort of reflection.

What does it mean to level up?

Have I leveled up in one area?

Am I feeling called to level up in a different area?

That might be the highest yield thing to do,
and then to really think about

what does it mean
to kind of stretch into something at the next level?

That's what it's saying here, I think.

Step into the unknown.

Familiarize yourself with it.

Make it a part of you
when that you're certain you're prepared for.

That's like stepping into it.

And I love how this ends that you deserve.

I think, you know, we've gotten into some deep places

that maybe somewhere underneath
many of the emotions that we have underneath

eating patterns that haven't been serving us, like,
are there deep emotional sort of things maybe.

Do we not believe we even deserve it?

And maybe we have to come to some amount of acceptance
actually, first,

that actually I am deserving of good health,
I am deserving of good things and flourishing.

And you know, this can actually be

ironically, you say, how is it
one of the most difficult barriers to overcome

to really be okay with ourselves,
having some good things and some flourishing?

So if if you get into a space, you opening some meditation
and you're realizing, like,

I don't know if I'm like in that space
or what does that even mean?

Like, don't force anything like this was saying,
this is challenging.

Don't force ourselves in other processes before
we're really good with ourselves first.

You know, otherwise it'd be very difficult to sustain.

That's what I think.

I hope you have a beautiful day
and I will chat with you again soon.