Weight Loss Dream
Welcome.
So nice to have you with me here in this space.
Fasting space.
Today I invite you to do a little dreaming with me.
We're going to talk about
two types of dreams.
Big awake dreams.
A vision and aspirational vision that we have.
Going to sink into a reflective, thoughtful space here.
Brought us this footage of this peaceful little waterfall.
Try to center ourselves.
Ground ourselves in this space.
Listen to the sound of the water.
Listen to the sound of the music.
It's dissolving away.
Any stress.
Helping us to focus in.
And health.
Centering ourselves and things of true meaning.
In our life.
Help us to identify
the purpose, the path.
Both for this day, especially for this day.
And then opening up our mind to the dream.
What is the possibility?
What can be in the year to come and beyond?
That's the.
The waking intention.
The weight loss dream. The health dream.
And then the deeper
level.
Like, let's touch on sleep.
The profound
positive health space of sleep
that connects us to an actual dream.
Dream.
When you start to think about it.
One of the most incredible things, actually.
There's something we take for granted.
The ability, the experience to dream.
Do you have a dream?
A health dream, a health, a vision?
Is it a weight loss goal?
Feel free to, share.
Especially if it is helpful for you.
Have you written it down yourself?
Part of the thing. Sharing it. Writing it down.
Have you written out, the vision.
I'm going to lead us in just a little bit,
through a little mini exercise that you could do yourself.
So we're trying to lean into a dream when we think, okay,
what even is it?
The suggestion I'm going to make today, when we're talking
about an actual dream
or a sleep, we're getting deep in your subconscious.
Part of what it is,
do you agree, is a problem solving space?
Do you ever had it
where it's like you're working on something,
you're trying to figure it out?
It's like.
And you sleep and it's like there's an unlock.
Have you ever had that? Things look better.
Look at this quote.
Sleep on it.
Things will look better in the morning.
Nobody I can attribute that to you. Right?
That's just common knowledge.
Common wisdom.
Why is that, though?
Because
if we're getting good sleep
and we talk about the priority of it,
how do we fill our life with every practice
that helps our sleep to be the highest quality,
so that we can get a dream
so that our brain can be working, solving problems for us.
Have a good sleep hygiene.
We're accumulating experiences
in our life and we have struggles.
We have obstacles.
This is the big thing we're trying to do on this channel.
Overcome every obstacle. I believe this.
I believe that every weight loss and health obstacle
we're facing,
we can overcome it in some fashion.
What was the day we were talking this week about
opening up the possibility
that a success can look different than we envision.
Something from Atomic Habits
that are, oh, if we're so focused only on our goal
that we're dialed in, it creates only
the possible scenario that we envision
is the only way we can succeed.
When think what a dream space is.
Think when we're dreaming.
When we're awake, what are we doing?
We might say, oh, we have a silly thought.
We have something that's like, what if there were no rules?
What if there were no anything?
And we just try to be creative.
We say, what if this could happen?
Says like, a dream doesn't even have to be real, right?
And then think what an actual dream is.
Be totally strange.
And we are like, all the weirdest thing had this dream.
The weirdest thing happened, you know,
because there's no constraints.
Dream is getting us into a space with anything is possible.
This is a type of,
thing we really want in our life.
We did this session in the fall, remember?
Clues to the weight loss puzzle.
We're trying to build a healthy space, a health experience,
a health environment for ourself.
Is what I'm trying to do here
with the sounds in the
the space.
Like here is a peaceful space.
It feels, doesn't it?
Like kind of like a perfect space, I hope.
Okay, I could spend some time
here, could sink into this space.
All right.
So like, our dream is like anything is possible.
This is opening up
many avenues of, things that could be a success.
It isn't just one point in time.
It isn't just one goal. It isn't just a number,
remember?
It's a way of being.
That's what we're trying to develop here.
Just sit in a space like this, say,
I can't just be in this sort of space for a little while.
I don't have to rush anything.
Clear the mind.
Clear the thoughts.
Open this space from everything that is getting jammed in.
And all the culture, all the everything,
all the stress, every bad thing that is
happening everywhere on the planet now.
People trying to convince us on a news set.
If you're not aware of all these things, you're
not being responsible.
Keep consuming my product.
Do you see how fasting is giving us a way to push back?
I'm a model for so many areas of our life
because it's all the same.
Everything matters. Everything is connected.
Fasting space, giving us an
opportunity, a calling to say, hey,
I'm gonna carve out some space
in my diet from food so I can open up
some space in the body,
use the energy that is already within me as why
it is such an empowering practice.
Realizing the power that's in the body.
Giving us a pattern for the mental space.
It's where we're at right now. Dialing in.
Maybe both together for grabbing a coffee.
We're in a fasting space, very thoughtfully,
trying to open up a mental space
to hear, hear, to say,
hey, if we clear out some of the stress,
some of the burdens that we're carrying,
what can come into that mental space, maybe a dream,
maybe something bigger.
And maybe this dream is like a problem solving dream because
we'll be sad
over the fall in that book, thinking fast and slow, multiple
operations are running in the brain.
We have our conscious layer, but we have this deeper
subconscious layer that's always working.
It's always trying to make associations,
give us, solutions to problems.
Sometimes that is good. Most of the times that is good.
Sometimes that is bad
because that can help us reinforce habits that we don't want.
That's why we're trying to build these spaces.
So thoughtful
to help us flow in the best way.
Help these subconscious processes really do
serve us in the best way.
But one of the ways that they serve us
creative problem solving.
And when we give space.
For that, turn that conscious layer down a bit.
Stop filling every space.
It's like fasting space in the mind,
giving opportunities for these deeper layers
to start serving us
in the most profound way they can.
Check out this quote from a neuroscientist
that I was reading.
Sleep provides emotional first aid
and a unique form of informational alchemy,
allowing for new connections between existing ideas
crucial for creativity and problem solving.
Yeah, this is summarizing
so much of what we want going on right?
Emotional first aid could use some of that, right?
We all could.
That's like the other quote things
going to look better in the morning, right?
Because
a good sleep and a dream.
It's like
healing emotional wounds.
Part of what we need to do,
solving problems.
Like I see a lot, we got
different situations in our life.
We're all unique.
We have our own, life, our own experiences,
our own correction of traumatic
and difficult things that have happened to us, our own habits
that shape our behavior and experience.
But now we want to be very intentional.
What I'm going to say
is we want to try to even shape that dream experience.
The dream is us.
The dream is us in a totally open mental space.
When we're asleep, we've completely shut off
the cognitive layer.
Every type of judgment
and bias that we bring to something while we're awake.
Okay, that layer is shut off and we're sinking down
into that deeper level that is trying to solve problems.
And I would say, do you have you experience this
if we'll bring attention to it
even before we're going to bed, say,
hey, this is like the top priority
that I gotta figure out, like,
tell those centers, hey, I want you working on this.
Maybe you're taking an inventory of the day.
Maybe you did not flow through a space.
Like, if we're going to bring it right into the health space,
maybe there are some spots in my day.
I did not make the best health decision, but I want to need
to figure out that way of being in that space.
I say load that in
to the intention in the dream space.
Check out this power powerful
quote from a dream researcher, Dieter
Merritt.
The dream's power lies in the fact that it's so different
to mode of thought
that it supplements and enriches
what we've already done while awake.
Is like a whole nother avenue.
So we're here in a health space.
We're trying to walk on a health path.
It's like we're marshaling all of our resources and here is,
you know, one of the most out of the box
thoughts that I can bring you.
We spend all our time.
How much time do we spend thinking,
shaping our day, shaping our actions, shaping
everything we're consciously aware of?
How much time do we spend thinking about the other,
you know, third to half of the day,
you know, for getting eight hours, a third of the day,
we're spending in what hopefully can be a deeply creative,
thoughtful, restorative, rejuvenating practice
sleep positive, sleep feeding forward into every other space.
And then the dream state.
Really helping us unlock what is the barrier you have?
What is the struggle you have?
What is the path that you're on?
A dream?
Maybe we don't think of it this way.
It's trying to help you walk that path.
When you really dial in on the dream.
Can you see in it?
We don't analyze dreams a lot.
I think in our society.
But you can analyze a dream
if you say, this is what I'm really trying to move forward.
Can you remember a dream? Okay, we'll go through the practice.
Of how you might do it.
Is it your brain?
Is it trying to give you a message?
It's like, hey, I've been working on this problem for you.
Think it's us?
I'm trying to solve this problem for myself.
That's what the brain is saying.
Hey, this is the best that we can come up with right now.
Some creative solution.
Say, sometimes it looks kind of weird.
You might have to
search for the meaning, but it's often there.
Okay, this is a section
from the Creative Act,
to juggle some of our, books here.
Chapter is entitled memories and the subconscious,
and we'll start in an interesting little space
and then flow into this dream exercise that they have.
When presented with new instrumental tracks
for the first time,
some vocalists record the first sounds out of their mouth
with no thought or preparation.
Even right there, that's interesting
just to think about, okay?
Just letting that first subconscious thing flow out
before we even think about it,
that's already dialed in to this process.
It might seem random words
or sounds that aren't even words at all.
It is not uncommon that out of the gibberish,
a story may unfold or key phrases may appear.
Think about where we're going about this with a dream.
Just seems like gibberish. Like what is going on?
Oh my gosh, this weird thing happened is like,
what is going on?
But just like you can see with this, okay,
can the story unfold out of it?
There's meaning to it.
There's purpose.
The brain's doing it for a reason.
Most definitely.
Know it.
Active attempt to write this process.
The work is being created on a subconscious level.
The material exists hidden within.
This is where I'm trying to help us get to
that. A dream completely personal, right?
You can't. You are having the experience.
The brain is having the experience.
And why.
And part of a process probably operating on many levels.
Some researchers say it's helping us form and solidify
memory of our experience.
Clearly seems to be involved in trying to help us
with problem solving.
There are practices that can assist
in accessing this deeper well inside yourself,
which I say is in fact yourself.
For example.
Here's an intense exercise.
You can try an anger releasing exercise
where you beat on your pillow for five minutes straight.
Very difficult to do.
They say, and after five minutes you be worn out.
You are releasing the anger, he says.
More difficult than you think to do
this for the full duration.
Time yourself, go hard and then immediately
fill five pages of writing with whatever comes out.
After this.
Well, I
haven't done that, but that would be an intense
process, right?
That would get the energy flowing out and say,
that is anger releasing.
And then the subconscious, where presumably,
at least in some part.
Anger and emotions are residing.
So we want to get that out.
Like here, they're talking about a creative process.
Try to write a song or make a painting or whatever.
Our creative process is like.
How do we move forward in health?
How do we create our way of being so that we flow through
all of our health decisions and health spaces?
The most beautiful fashion?
The objective, he says, is not to think about it.
Avoid directing the content in any way.
Just write whatever words spill forth.
Okay, so there would be an intense exercise.
Also part of that anger releasing.
Remember, we did that session
letting go of anger to this would be a great,
Practice to pair with something like that.
There is an abundant reservoir of high
quality information in our subconscious.
Finding ways to access it can spark new material to draw from.
The psyche has admittance, admittance
to universal wisdom deeper
than what we can come up with in our conscious mind.
It provide provides a far less limited view.
An oceanic source.
Do you believe that?
Have you seen that in your life?
Have you experienced that is true?
That if you have a dream, that's sometimes
an answer, a solution comes like where did that come from?
See, the subconscious having access
that's just in our brain, you know, because of how it works,
that in that state it can connect.
Or is it connecting is something more broadly?
Who knows?
We don't know, he says. How it works.
We don't know why it works.
Yet many artists tap into something beyond themselves,
or at least they feel that they are.
However it works
without recognizing how the process in play
purely through accessing the subconscious.
Often reaching these states is outside of our control.
Some the artists have created their best work
while feverish with their temperature over 103
trance like, trance like condition bypasses
the thinking part of the brain.
Taking us toward the dream state
is very interesting.
Remember, the guy that wrote this book is one of the most
successful music producers of all time.
He's recorded with all these incredible artists.
There's great wisdom in a transitional realm
between wakefulness and sleep right before you fall asleep.
What thoughts or ideas come to you?
You can see that as we're
shutting down, that consciously,
or all the judgments are stopping
all the limiting beliefs
that we have about ourselves are going away.
Right?
That liminal space.
What thoughts come to you in those moments?
How do you feel when you wake
from a dream?
In the wisdom tradition of Tibet,
among other states, that a dream state is just as real
or just as unreal as the waking state.
Keeping a dream journal can be a you of use.
Place a pen and paper next to the bed
and I love this much better to have a pen and paper
than a digital device, right?
If we're trying to have the best sleep state, right?
We want to be limiting the blue light we can.
I talk about this as much as you want. It's the blue light.
The most stimulating hits.
This center in the brain,
called the super charismatic nucleus, produces serotonin.
When that light is hitting it.
Serotonin producing alert fullness. Wakefulness.
Okay, as the blue light,
especially light of all kinds, is going down,
ECN super charismatic nucleus shifts over to making melatonin.
Melatonin, your familiar sleep hormone,
helps us to sleep.
Made in the brain by the brain in the absence of light.
So if we're trying to do a dream exercise,
stick with the pen and paper
so that you're not blasting the brain,
disrupting these very delicate natural cycles
that can lead us into a dream state.
Pen and paper next to the bed.
If you're heading to sleep,
you can write down if you have a beautiful thought,
because you'll lose it right now.
Like a lot of times you say, do you ever have it?
You have a thought that's like, oh, I want to capture that.
I won't remember it in the morning, right?
If you have the pen and paper,
even if it's dark, which it should be in your room,
totally dark.
If you have the pen and paper, scribble it.
You get the idea of it.
Then you'll be able to remember it.
You look at it,
you remember it. It doesn't have to be perfect.
Something to hang on to the thought.
And then as soon as you wake up,
begin writing immediately with as much detail as possible
before doing anything else.
Try to limit unnecessary movement.
Simply turning your head too much can be enough
to dislodge the dream from the memory.
Have it on a table where you can reach for it.
The first thoughts you have was that
have you experienced that you had a dream?
It felt so profound.
You're like, oh, that was a really interesting,
you know, and it's hard to extract all the information
right away.
And you're like, oh, I need to remember this.
And so you start telling the story to yourself,
but then it kind of fades.
It very can be very hard to remember.
Are you someone who can remember your dreams easily?
I, I've talked to a lot of people about dreams.
Some people can really remember it.
I don't know if it's a skill or not.
Some people just can't remember
and they'll say, like, I don't.
I don't even have any.
This has been studied in sleep labs
where they show people getting in the REM sleep.
They're clearly having dreams. Can't remember it.
Some people can.
Don't be discouraged if you're not having these.
You know.
Spaces where it's like,
oh yeah, it's like clearly like the vision just came to me.
Okay.
Some people have an experience like that.
Many people don't.
Don't feel bad if you're not having it.
Just focus on the good sleep hygiene, realize
these things are happening, maybe still do this exercise,
even if you're not remembering some,
you know, crazy or profound dream.
Like what are the first thoughts that come?
I do like this exercise
trying to
create which everything we're trying to do on this channel
in this space, right?
We're trying to capture as much positivity and value as we can
so that every part of our being is just
flowing forward in health.
Here, we're recognizing, okay,
these first moments of waking on that intersection, okay,
we're sitting right on that edge
between the subconscious and the conscious.
Can we take value even from that space?
As you write, the picture will develop.
You'll remember more of a story.
Hopefully. I say
more of the setting, more of the details
than when you first set the pen to paper.
I have not done this exercise.
I just read this yesterday, but I want to do it.
I can see the value in it.
I've said a lot of the power of journaling.
Journaling I try to do every day.
This is like taking the power of journaling and bringing it
right into that space to actually physically write it.
And it just sounds so awesome.
The more you do
the practice morning after morning,
the better you will get at it.
Help you recall your dreams.
Let me know if you experience that.
I'm going to definitely try it out.
It may also help to set an intention
to remember your dreams before going to sleep.
This I totally agree with.
Set the intention to remember the dreams
and then, like we were saying, set the intention
of using that space powerfully, telling the brain
help me solve this problem.
Help me develop the way of being.
What is the unlocks that I can flow through this space?
See is one thing to know about health practices.
I've tried to lay these out.
The health practices. We all have a common toolkit.
We can all exercise, to
the extent that we are able and desiring to do it.
And we can all try to choose the healthiest foods, minimizing
the processed foods, trying to keep the toxic stuff out.
We dialed super into that yesterday.
We all have the option, if we're called to do it, to open up
a fasting space of his little or as much duration
as brings benefit flowing into our life.
Okay, so we have these common things we can understand that.
We have the emotional tools that we
we talk about therapy and all this sort of things.
Journaling and meditation, creating space.
These are the tools that we all have.
And so it's fairly simple, right?
We can take a few moments and we can talk out the tools.
But how do we implement them.
Dream.
From one point of view a lot of sleep researchers say,
oh, this is the integration of our experience.
This is taking the previous day,
consolidating it, forming the memory like so.
We are learning from it.
I love that.
Memories can also be thought of as dreamlike.
They're generally a more romantic story
than a faithful document of a life event.
There's good content that can be found
in these dreamy recollections
that we have of past experiences.
Thinking of these recollections,
another way to bypass the conscious mind.
Tap in to something larger than ourselves.
What do you think of that process?
Are you going to try it out?
Have you had an experience like that where you have found
benefit in that space where it's like,
yeah, this did help me solve a problem.
This is helping me live more in alignment,
with the process that I am moving toward.
I've definitely experienced it.
I talked a lot on the channel, bringing awareness to things,
fasting, giving us one model in one domain of our life,
bringing awareness to things.
Can bring awareness to hunger.
Can bring awareness to our relationship with food.
Can bring awareness
to the way that we're using food as a coping mechanism
to deal with deeper emotional, things in our life.
These deep emotional things.
That's like the stuff of dreams, right?
Do you ever have it?
You have emotional experiences you might have.
Dreams are reflecting right in life.
You can see, oh, it's helping me process,
have some traumatic thing.
It might be a bad dream, you know, it's like.
This is the path of how we work through that.
It's like not every dream is some blissful thing
where we're just floating through some wonderful thing.
Of course we have nightmares and difficult,
things
dream part of the process.
You say we have to take space to heal.
We're trying to work through trauma and say,
how do you release it?
Like dream can be part of that.
This is part of however the brain is working, the processing,
everything that's happening
behind the scenes.
I think dream just as an analogy.
What we're seeing maybe, is just what's really happening.
You think of this idea sinking deep.
I like the idea with fasting sinking into it.
Talk about the surface level,
that there's just a surface part of fasting
which can be very effective.
Maybe all we need is a surface, you know,
think of like the surface we get out in our sailboat.
I love this analogy. Or in the sailboat?
Sailboat, the
breeze or the gentle breeze just flowing across the lake.
We float across the lake.
Not so much work to do
as long as we're not dragging the anchor behind the boat.
We did that session letting go of a weight loss anchor.
So that we can drift forward.
Sailboat is, is not a submarine, Ryan.
Sailboats floating on the surface.
And so that, to me, is just like 16 eight.
Maybe all we got to do open up kind of an eight hour window
where we're eating.
Open up this other window.
We just do a simple practice like that.
Maybe that is enough of an unlock on a weight loss path.
I think for a lot of people
going into a 16 eight healthy meals,
it's okay.
You go online, you go on YouTube, you type in
intermittent fasting, millions of videos.
I mean, there's a community of people online on this planet,
right, who get it right, who say, oh, this has helped me.
This works for me.
And then the big picture in the, in the broader
reality of the world, it's just a tiny, tiny,
minuscule fragment of people that are even aware
that this is something that can be a health practice.
So if somebody is coming in here, they're saying,
what is this space?
What is fasting space to say?
This could be like a dream.
This could be like a weight loss dream.
Do you mean that a weight loss process
could be as simple as doing nothing?
This is what I'm telling you.
This could be like a dream come true.
That's what I want for people to say.
I don't have to spend tons of money
on gym memberships and trainers.
You can do it if you want it, but don't feel pressure for it.
Getting a gym membership is about being strong,
which is something
I is a highly beneficial thing.
But it's a different space
and getting extra energy out of the body
in a fasting space
to say, here's how we take the pressure off.
Like this would be a weight loss dream.
Lose weight without putting pressure and judgment on myself.
Lose weight just by opening up a space
and two meals in a 6 to 8 hour window.
That's just the surface level of it.
Maybe that's the way we float
through a beautiful space like this.
Most people's experience
is that that type of process, 16, eight, two meals
a day, is a gentle process,
gentle to stick with as you adjust to it.
Not so intense, like something like,
oh man, that's the next level.
Say, I'm just going to eat once in a day.
Most people experience that as more intense.
Some people don't find that, intense.
Bless you.
Some people say, oh, that just feels natural.
See, that's great.
Let's see.
That's starting to get deeper in the fasting.
That's maybe not quite as much of a sailboat.
We're trying to make it as much of a sailboat as possible.
The human system, metabolism,
our experience with hunger,
adaptable and changeable over time.
My experience was
took three four weeks
of eating one meal a day
before it start to felt pretty normal,
and I flowed through that space for quite a while.
And that's the the big part of how I lost,
weight that I had accumulated during my residency training.
Like, I couldn't keep doing that forever
because I lost all the weight that I wanted there.
To back off on that.
I don't need something that powerful.
And then, of course, you can sink deeper and deeper into it.
Have a whole fasting day, human body, very,
very capable of doing that.
Now we're getting into very, very deep
and powerful weight loss space.
Maybe we call that the weight loss submarine.
You know, if we're heading deep, sinking deep into it.
big part of
Weight loss dream that I have, you know, broadly for people.
But I would wish that this,
channel could be that this experience could be
that we're able to present these things in such,
thoughtful, simple, easy to understand way
that people that it just resonates
and that people can see it and say, oh, I could do that.
You know, it's like we're in the middle of this culture
that is about consumption all the time.
Say, oh, I can see it, though.
I can see that the body is strong.
I can see that the body is designed to be able
to flow through this space without struggle.
I think that I can do that.
Like, why not just try it out?
People try it out.
People realize all the barriers that have existed
aren't real.
They exist within this culture that is not healthy.
When we change our mind,
when we open up, it's what the dream is helping us to do
when we just unlock the judgment, the habits, the patterns
that are not really taking a certain good direction.
Like we are saying,
it's only a tiny amount of people that we can, just that
it could open up and grow,
that we can have a fasting culture, that
that would facilitate a more broadly, a health culture
that is about doing every healthy thing
helps everybody to get more active and stronger.
Dials in on the importance of healthy food
and so that we reform
and change our health system
so that the access that people have access to it,
as many people as possible,
as much nourishing, healthy, nutritious food
that is creating life,
to be flourishing in the body,
in the fasting space helps
people normalize the hormonal structure,
normalize the metabolism.
My weight loss dream is to create
keto friendly and positive fasting habits.
I love it!
Yeah, these are bringing in like just two of the best things.
Keto in general is just getting every processed thing out,
especially all, you know, all the processed carbs
especially, you know,
such a powerful thing to pair
a keto process with a fasting process so powerful.
So set.
That is the vision. Thanks for sharing.
That said, that is the vision.
And then just think of this analogy.
The sailboat moving toward it,
always being gracious to yourself with it,
getting that journal flowing,
writing out the experience with it.
What has worked?
What has not worked, where are the barriers?
Where are the struggles and be taking that journal?
Reading it before bed is like just programing in okay,
this is what we can learn from this day.
Helping all that subconscious
thinking to be also super learning on it dialed in.
So bring
that forward into the most powerful practice.
See, this is a practice.
See, we try again tomorrow.
Like that quote.
Sleep on it and things will be better in the morning.
Every day we have an opportunity to practice health.
We make the best decisions that we can, recognizing
where human beings are.
For we're not perfect, but perfection is not required.
Just learning and growing and developing,
every day to the best of our ability.
When we approach any health practice like that,
we're staying far away from any kind of judging ourselves.
We're not putting pressure on ourselves.
We're using the health practice
as a way to flow back out into the rest of life.
I think we got enough stress and pressure
with every other thing that we have to do.
Shouldn't the health practice
far from like, like so many times, people
stressing out about a diet,
stressing out about an exercise, stressing out,
it's like adding a burden on top of every other thing
that we have in life.
From my vision,
the health process should be where the energy comes from,
that setting, the pattern that flows outward so that, like
the health is happening through these practices,
we're choosing the healthy foods that are giving us energy
and helping us feel good.
And we're opening up a fasting space.
Where is seeing that energy is released,
should be feeling more energy in a process,
and I want the health process to be overflowing
out of that health space in every other area.
That is what is what I mean by like flourishing and vitality
and trying to build a mindset
and a way of being that is like that.
The health processes, oral health,
the emotional health practices, the coping mechanisms
that that the food choices
and the intentionality and the movement
and all these things flows together
so that the the difficult relationships,
the things that happen to us that we wish they weren't,
that were grounded in.
That was the positive part of the anchor, right?
We said anchor we don't want like dragging along the lake
while we're trying to move.
Anchor is about like the storm is happening
and we are grounded and solid,
and the waves in the wind are not pushing us around.
So many incredible analogies of water.
And just think of the water flowing. This is,
you know, a dream, a vision.
Can we be like the water flowing through this stream?
Is this like our life?
Water is giving us the example.
The water is not struggling here right?
This is how we want to be with our obstacles.
Water is flowing through here.
Goes where the energy is flowing and taking it.
Think of your day like the course of this stream.
Right flowing through it.
Stone is here.
Okay, well.
I'm not going to be angry at it.
I'm not going to try to smash it.
Look what the water does.
It just.
Just finds the way through.
Is what we're doing in our way of being.
Trying to find a way of being in the world,
flowing through a space.
How do I be healthy in this scenario?
Look at this specific space. The water is flowing.
It's like,
how do you flow through this landscape with these obstacles?
That's like, this is my life.
These are the
relationships, the experiences, the responsibilities.
How do we flow through this in a way
where we're making the health choices
that are moving us forward without struggling,
or we're overcoming the obstacle
by flowing around and through it?
Attacking it from every angle.
If we want to bring some more energy, we can think, okay,
stream is flowing down the mountain.
It's like also we've got the path
we're trying to climb up the mountain.
We've done that thinking
the mountain is the obstacle.
Our health path
that we're trying to walk up so that we overcome it.
I always love to try to do this.
Invert the thinking. Right.
So we've got one analogy
climbing up the mountain and overcoming it.
And the other way the water is this mountain
stream flowing down gently.
Maybe one day you need one perspective and the other
one day the energy is flowing.
You've got the attitude.
You say, I'm a human being.
I have powerful overcoming this.
And we're hiking up the mountain, right?
And another day it's like you're feeling
a little more overwhelmed by things you say.
I think I'm feeling more like the mountain stream day today.
Here.
I'm just gonna let the flow happen.
Like I say, let fasting do the work. That's.
Maybe that one is more like the flow sort of idea.
So we got many health practices every day.
Doesn't have to be the same. We're here on a fasting channel.
Fasting space
doesn't mean that fasting has to be the priority of every day.
All our health practices, very flexible experiences.
Maybe one day the hiking up a mountain path
is energizing
you to, like, really lean into some more movement.
Say, I'm going to go take another walk.
I'm going to literally be walking down my path.
know, that can be very, very good for the body, very healthy.
Another day, say, hey man, I need a serious mental health day.
Maybe that's like opening up
some fasting space is taking pressure off the day.
Less to do, less dishes and everything.
Maybe that's more like the stream flowing down.
Can just picture that flow back and forth through life.
That's like this river winding through the space.
Opening up space for the dreams, the bigger vision.
Like anytime we start something.
That was what I was reflecting on this week too.
Okay, we did some deep thinking on atomic habits
about the process of building a strong
and stable foundation, about putting in the work
that is building compounding process.
And at the start of that we say, well,
can take a while to build that up
before it really starts to ramp up.
So here at the end of
this is kind of like the weight loss dream of our week.
We had our experience during the week.
We did all this thinking.
It's like, think of this as like a day.
All these experiences happened
like the day's over, going to bed, going to sleep.
That's like consolidating that week.
I like this thought.
This is where we're at in this space,
bringing our week to a close.
All the thinking has happening on laying the foundation
and building the habits and practices,
creating the experience for ourselves.
So we're floating through it.
And now here we are, the end of the week.
We've just opened up this space.
Consolidate the thoughts.
Float into our weekend.
Our weekend is going to be hopefully.
This powerful space, health space.
Hopefully you have opportunities.
Maybe you have to work the weekend,
but maybe still in this weekend.
Whatever your experience is, you can have some just space
cut off the screens.
Cut out every stressful influence.
Open up some space this week. Maybe do some journaling.
Maybe do some reflecting on this week on the health
path, opening up this space,
and then charging up through the weekend so we can head back.
Another step forward next week.
Really happy to be taking these steps with you here.
Thank you for being here.
I hope you have a fabulous day.
Stepping forward and health.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend
that is moving you forward in health.
I will look forward to
continuing on the journey with you like a day.
All these experiences happened
like the day's over, going to bed, going to sleep.
That's like consolidating that week.
I like this thought.
This is where we're at in this space,
bringing our week to a close.
All the thinking has happening
