Fasting Space

Did you watch the Super Bowl yesterday?

And, were you more dialed in on the game or the commercials?

I know some people who, go in each direction, so.

Always interesting to see the creativity
that people bring to, to that space, I say.

And then the type of space
I don't personally have a care who wins?

A Super Bowl game.

But, you know, I'm just watching it.

The types of thoughts I'm thinking, I just appreciating
the incredible amount of work that people put into it.

All of these young people, striving as, best they can,

trying to do,
you know, something incredible, reach the pinnacle of a sport.

And then it's like the same thing, you know, after the game,

winter, Olympics coming on.

It's like the same thing, right? Championship.

In any domain that people are competing on.

I just think, like, here are examples,
people bringing in, you know,

so much focus, incredible skill and dedication,

whether that's, you know, skiing or whatever.

Dial in on the foods,
you know, the whole experience, you know, super Bowl.

It's just a societal spectacle.

You know, it's an opportunity to get together, have a party,
you know, connect with people,

have some good food, celebrate, you know, so
so that is awesome.

The thought I would take us, today in some focused

thinking, is just dialing in on the mindset,

like this championship mindset,
whether it's the Olympics, whether it's a Super Bowl,

just the pattern, you know, the inspiration that we can,

gain from people who are striving,

in, in such a space.

You think, you know, in athletics,
you know, it's part of, like, health.

You know, I was thinking about.

Health and fitness.

And, you know, you look at some of the athletes, right?

Especially in the NFL, you know, these
some of these people's arms are like as big as my whole body.

You know, just the amount of, Work that it takes

to, to reach such a level of incredible strength.

I was thinking about our process of health. Right.

If we're trying to get healthier,
we're trying to get stronger.

Or trying to lose weight or,
improve metabolic parameters of some kind.

Okay.

We don't we don't need a lifetime in the weight room
and bulking up and some,

you know, we're not trying to be an NFL champion, right?

We're trying to be the champion
just of our life and our experience.

So I think do we think of it that way?

Like are we training the things that lead to our championship.

You know, what is
what is the we're talk about the mountain, we're climbing.

What is the game we're playing?

We can't look at it that way.

We're never like you know, in this game,
we're not competing with anyone other than ourselves.

You know, we're trying to be the best, healthiest,
strongest version of ourself.

Our self today versus our self yesterday.

Are we 1% better?

Are we climbing the path?

The big thing I was taking away as I was watching this,
I was thinking, okay, look at all these people.

Look at like the pinnacle of fitness.

Think of the training.

Think of the work, think of the dedication and the intensity.

Is this the type of mindset that we can bring,

you know, to our process and what we are trying to do?

I know I want that kind of mindset that like just

the dedication and intensity every day, bringing it.

There's a type of balance
I want to bring into our space, right.

Because I talk a lot, a fasting space.

Let fasting do the work. You can kind of flow through it.

Don't really have to do anything other than the mental work.

Of doing nothing, which is a trick, right?

It's like it's such an interesting space to me.

There's a lot of paradox
and interesting things happening in a fasting space.

There is one thing is it work
or is it not work well can certainly be intense, right?

A fasting space can be intense
because it's getting into a really

critical, important space in the body.

You know?

So it's might not be work in the traditional sense.

It might not be work.

Like the offensive linemen doing their drills
and pushing their sleds around and all this sort of stuff.

Right.

But it's it's own type of work.

And so our challenge in health, right, is finding our path.

What are the practices?

Maybe it's exercise, right.

Maybe it's the healthy eating.

Maybe it's balancing it out with abstinence from food.

Right.

The fasting space bringing everything into balance.

That's the path that lead to our championship, right?

Achieving our goal.

We're not trying to win some giant sports, competition.

Trying to align our way of being in the world
so that as we're walking forward in health,

we're doing it in the most thoughtful, way.

The thing I was thinking about.

Okay, usually I say thoughtful and gentle
because that's the way I lean everybody into it.

I try to say, hey, like,
I could just start in the easiest place.

Don't stress yourself out.

We're on a lifetime health journey here is like,
hopefully this is happening

over years
and years and years of building up this, health practice.

And then I watch the Super Bowl. It's,
like very intense, right?

Like especially football. Right?

People smashing each other.

That's what I was thinking.

I was like, well, it's the Super Bowl. Is it really healthy?

You know, I've interacted with, quite a few former NFL and,

especially college players who, you know,

a lot of concussions
and a lot of downstream trouble from that.

So like, thankfully in our championship,
we're trying to do our health championship.

No, repetitive head injuries, please. Okay.

So I thought I would share and, this process for us today,

I found three quotes from famous NFL people

to kind of inspire the start of our week,

move us forward, try to bring into this space,

lean into it as gently as you want.

Absolutely.

Also, we want to, you know, bring in the intensity

to the extent that it feels good and we feel called to it.

That's what to me, I was saying last we think week,

I think exercise is a joyful expression.

That's what we want, a joyful expression of health
helps us to feel good, helps us to be strong.

Helps to burn off energy?

Absolutely it does
this be especially put that in a fasting space?

A powerful combo.

All right.

Check out this quote Emmitt Smith.

For me, winning isn't something that happens
suddenly on the field when the whistle blows in the crowd.

Roller
winning is something that builds physically and mentally

every day that you train, and every night that you dream.

Isn't that great?

See, I love that there's just so many good things in here.

We did this session, the other week on dreaming. Right.

So dream is such an underappreciated health practice
to really dive into it

and realize our subconscious, our whole being, is on our side.

We're on our own side even at night.

It's like problem solving, trying to move us forward.

Do we recognize the significance of that?

You know, we talk in here about like a health dream, right?

As like Emmitt Smith is dreaming of winning the Super Bowl.

And then he did, like multiple times.

So dreaming of victory.
You think a football player just dream?

Is this either
the dream is like focused dream come into reality.

We can have our own, dreams, right?

I titled that session
the other week. Weight loss dream. Right?

So we have, like, our dream, our vision, the thing.

Like, in the best reality that we can envision

our our strongest self is accomplishing something.

Okay?

We we set that dream, that vision in our,

waking mind, subconscious mind.

Be working on that when we're actually dreaming.

But look at all the wisdom baked into this,

little quote from, Emmitt Smith.

Right?

Process of winning.
Even winning a game. Right. Winning a game.

I mean, it's great, but like, the process from our purpose

is especially like the process of trying to win something,
that process of accomplishing our goal.

Say it's hitting a number on a scale, right?

This is showing us a process. Right?

And we've been dialing in on atomic habits
that we aren't just trying to reach a point in time.

And and that's a thing.

But that to that point is just one moment

on the curve of our life
that that we're building the process right now.

This is what permit is describing

building it physically and building it mentally.

Isn't that the core of what we're trying to do?

He's talking about training
like training to be a football player.

Right. The the best.

We're just training to be the strongest physically
and mentally version of ourself.

Same sort of mindset.

He's saying it here a daily practice every day
we're practicing and doing

the things that are running that system

is carrying us forward to our championship.

Right.

We're going to hit that championship.

That's the weight loss goal.

And then like for the NFL, right, for the Super Bowl.

That's like the pinnacle.

You can't you can't do anything else other than that.

Then we say okay we've just do it again. Right.

But look think of our health process.

We're going to build the systems.

We're going to train so that we are getting stronger.

We're moving on our path.

We have our vision that we accomplish,
and then we just flow right through it and keep going.

This is the experience of, health

and flourishing that I want, for all of us.

I so like it's taking the taking the pressure off.

We think like, okay, think a Super Bowl.

Think what it's like to be these young folks
playing in front of hundreds of millions of people.

It's a wild this quote is just showing us
it's taking all the pressure off.

Like the winning
isn't something that happens right in this intense thing.

Like it's just personal, right?

Taken out.

Take away the crowds, take away the lights,
the winning, the process, the health right that's happening.

Getting stronger, that's just happening in our everyday
things is just showing us like for our path.

Right? We don't need some big fancy things.

We don't need high tech processes or anything like

just our simple, basic
things are what are leading to incredible results.

That's what I take away.

From that quote.

Let me know if there are things that you have.

What are you seeing in that?

I'll tee you up the next one.

We got three quotes to from NFL folks.

Here's Jerry rice I love this one.

Today I will do what others won't.

So tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

This is inspiring to me
I love this, I'm getting fired up by it.

The success is in the process.

We are trying to accomplish a goal.

We are trying to have a health experience.

What are the steps that we have to take?

There's there's no process that I can conceive of.

Like you don't.

Things don't just happen, right?

There's now the spontaneous.

We say the goal doesn't achieve itself.

We have to achieve it.

We have to take the steps through
whatever path we're trying to do.

We have to open up, the space

and shape and form it in some fashion.

We say, well, some others peoples are not doing that.

That's what Jerry rice says.

You want to accomplish something that most people don't do,
transform yourself into a healthier person.

Just like the caterpillar emerging from the cocoon
is something totally different.

Well, like,
this is what we're trying to do on the channel, right?

Dial into them.

Transformational mindsets.

How do we transform our mind?

The mind is what drives
everything we have to transform our thinking.

Most people do not want to transform their thinking.

That is a a tall order, right?

Because like everything we've gone through,
through all of our thinking,

complacency is the default, way of being.

We get into habits and grooves
that are very hard to get back out of,

because the longer we participate in them,

the more solidified, the more normal they become.

This is why, to me, the true path toward weight

loss is a path toward transformational thinking.

To just hit the superficial layer first say,
oh wait, this is this is what, society says.

Weight loss is easy.

This is what everybody tries to sell you just,
you know, fill in the blank.

You just buy my gym membership, you just eat my special bars,

you just buy my special pharmaceutical product.

Everything going to be fine, right?

When the reality is that there is a much deeper layer
that we need to get to.

This is what I want to help people get to.

This is the unlock.

To me, the unlock is mental.

When you flow into a space and we start to really

realize the way reality is that the mountain is us,

and that the mountain is our interaction

with society,
that we actually have to change our way of being right.

This, this is what has to happen, whether it's in any way.

So I'm going to start exercising as a changing,
a way of being.

I'm going to start changing the types of food that I eat.

This is one of the core decisions
or ways that we be in the world.

People define themselves by the type of diet they eat.

Say I am vegetarian, you know, like they identify with it.

I am a keto, you know, practitioner.

Like whatever it is I am.

Yet, you know, we make it so personal.

It's like to change that, you know, so deep

into our emotional space to open up fasting space,
probably an even bigger ask,

you know, to say,
hey, I'm a person in the midst of a consumption culture.

Just celebrates like just constant consumption.

Say, I'm going to take a pause from that.

I'm going to step in a different direction.

You get it.

But a really change your thinking to do that.

That's why this, this quote really resonated with me today.

I'll do what others want.

Other people, you know, we don't need to compare.

I don't want to set up anything
where we're comparing ourselves to others,

but we, you know, just we can compare ourselves to ourselves.

Say, in the past, I wouldn't have done it
and I wasn't accomplishing, you know what?

I want it.

It's like, are we opening up the spaces, you know,

for ourselves to take the healthy path?

If we say, I don't think this society
heading in the healthiest direction,

I want to do something other people not doing, you know?

To me, this is inspiring.

This is telling us, I say, let's actually do it, you know,
what are the things that are difficult?

This is what I was thinking
watching the Super Bowl last night, thinking about

how hard people train the intensity.

And okay, so in that training, you say in the moment

you're lifting the huge weights, you're doing the sprints.

Like just think so intense. This is not comfortable.

And to train at a championship level,
well that's not comfortable.

I'm looking at all these people yet
all these people doing it and loving it

and accomplishing something of great value.

I was just reflecting like, this is what a human being does.

Like this is like really
what it to me is like human beings do hard things, you know?

I talk a lot.

We try to make our process as easy as possible,
and that's true.

I want to do that for people.

I want to make a fasting process a healthy eating process,
a total lifestyle, health and flourishing processes.

Easy to do, as attractive to do as possible.

Say, you know, because from a certain perspective
you say it is an easier way of being.

And I do believe that.

But there's two sides to look at it from everything.

Also, it's intense and also it's its own type of work.

And so we want to find this balance, to find the
the grace, the peace with things to recognize.

Hey, that I don't really have to do very much
and we can flow to our great health.

And then also to bring in this sort of championship

Super Bowl mindset of like,
we are training ourselves to the pinnacle of our capacity,

you know, to really bring an intensity to our life
because, like, we can see, from

just the example, like just if you don't like the Super Bowl,
look at the Olympics, you know?

The dedication and intensity to accomplish something great.

And you say,
well, accomplishing something great, getting a gold medal,

you know, being better than other people say, well,
you know, there's a certain appeal to that,

but like, how much nicer is like not to compete,
you know, no zero sum games.

You know, our own path of health.

This is a type of championship that I say, like, let's do this
because we can all just work on it together.

Nobody loses. This is what I like.

Nobody losing in the type of championship mindset
that I am bringing to people.

Everybody can just get better and everybody wins.

I love that.

How excited do we get for our team?

You know how excited.

Do we get that excited about our own self?

You know, like we'll cheer on these other people
doing their thing.

Can we cheer on our own self?

That's what I was thinking too. Watching it
like I was seeing it. People.

So like you see the fans like the screaming people like,
oh my gosh, it's like the best day of my life.

My team won. Okay.

You know, that's great.

I don't want to discourage it.

But what about your real team
which is like actual you on your journey.

Do do people get that psyched up like, oh my gosh,

like I am winning this health journey.

Like,
are we really giving ourselves like, look, I made a change.

Look, I did a thing.

Look, I got to the gym.

Look, I opened up these things like, then the crowd goes wild.

You know what I mean?

Like, if we had people cheering for us,

the way fans cheering for people in the Superbowl,
how much of a difference would it make?

I, I think it'd make a huge difference.

There's two files ago. Is it two files ago?

I did the marathon.

This. Yeah.

Man, this last year, I just did the half marathon.

It was it was nicer. It's tough out better.

But, man, finishing the marathon.

That was two years ago.

I mean, you go through these things, okay?

When you set up the, Marathon, you set out on a marathon.

There are tons of, People cheering when you start out.

And then you go through these big stretches
where there's nobody there.

You're just doing the work, nobody cheering for you.

But I tell you.

And then when you get back toward the finish line,
you get back to the space.

All of a sudden there's crowds of people cheering.

It gives it does give you a boost.

It does give you a boost.

Queen of Heaven says I have a different view. Share your view.

I love all views. Share your views.

Yeah. Mike Tyson was on there.

Mike Tyson, I saw that He was talking about some healthy
trying to get some healthy food.

Is he really, in good shape?

Oh, man. Yeah, yeah, I see that.

This is, What is it means, really, to be healthy, you know?

And who are,
who are we seeing as healthy and and we can look into that.

I was saying a little about that, about,
okay, football in and of itself.

Is it really healthy?

We're giving, you know, thousands
and thousands of young people traumatic brain injuries.

You know, that's the side of it that is not healthy.

And I'm not encouraging anybody to, to do that.

Yeah. The body's in bad shape.

I, extremely appreciate, these, perspectives.

We don't want to brutalize ourselves, you know?

Nothing to glorify about, getting a traumatic brain injury.

the side of, the training that I'm talking about.

You know, a football player like you.

You can't argue the fact
these are some of the most incredibly powerful,

strong people in the world,
and they have incredible dedication to it.

And so, I was listening. Yeah.

I'm from outside of green Bay.

So, you know,
I grew up, go to Lambeau Field and watch the Packers play.

I followed the Packers.

I'm much more of a Packers fan than a football fan.

I'll tell you.

Yeah, there's a there's a whole nother aspect to this
that is not necessarily healthy.

The financial the financial things.

But I was listening to a Packers coach one day,

one of the star players for the Packers
was, was holding out for a bigger contract.

And, and so he had a contract,
but he didn't show up to the training camp that there.

So then they weren't paying him.

And they're, you know, they're having all these negotiations.

And then the guy goes on his social media.

I don't remember who it was.

Maybe this was even before social media,
but the guy was, you know,

talking to reporters or something,
and he was training with some Olympic track star.

So he was it a wide receiver?

Was it something, you know, he's training. Training.

He says, look, I'm in really good shape.

And, and I'm not missing out on anything on your little,

you know, football camp,
you know, and I'm going to be in great shape.

And the coach was like, you know, it's fine
if you go run around the track with an Olympic star.

But, I just want,
you know, after you get done running around the track,

I want you to run straight into your garage door,
you know, five times my car.

Ouch. Not good for you.

Don't run into the, garage door.

Okay?

But that's the NFL.

It's not that healthy in that part.

But we can be inspired, I say, by the dedication and,

the intensity that people bring to a healthy process.

How do you really change your mind?

Okay, here's a great question.

We spend a lot of time, thinking about that.

Let me down in this corner.

I got one more quote for us, Vince Lombardi.

Okay.

The only place where success comes before
work is in the dictionary

from Vince Lombardi, famous, NFL quote.

Coach, how do you really change your mind?

Let's connect it into here.

It takes work to change your mind.

You say my goal is to change my mind, right?

We have to change our mind
to change our way of being in the world.

We have to change our way of being in order
to get different results.

So if we are trying to accomplish something,
we're trying to have success

or trying to win this championship of our life,
our experience, you know?

Got to do the work to do it.

Say we're trying to change our mind takes work.

We have to do, the work.

I say, that's what we're doing right
now, this process, carving space

out of our life to focus very intentionally,
thoughtfully on it, right?

To ask the questions.

I don't think that there is necessarily one answer to it.

We change our minds in different ways.

Because our situations are unique,
but we have the same tools to do it right.

We open up space to ask.

That's the perfect question to ask.

Like, how do I do it?

We have to know what our mindset is

in order to change it in the first place.

We have to see the habits and patterns that we're engaging

in, in and see their effects in order to have the vision,

in order to have the dream, in order to see
that there could be a path to somewhere different.

Reality is complicated, right?

So this would be another way that we could look at this.

We say reality is complicated. You take something.

There's a lot of good and good
and bad in the midst of everything.

And we can bring that into our own life, and we can see.

We want everything black and white.

But life is a lot of gray, right? Right.

If everything was always perfectly clear to.

It would be easier. Perhaps.

But then there's a lot of gray, and it's like,
what really is the best path?

You know, it would bring, bring this comment and, Serena's
and the GLP one,

I saw that commercial, you know, I watch, I,

I as I've enjoyed watching this with my family,
I especially, you know, I watch other things

just to know what are people talking about because,
you know, everybody's going to be talking about something.

And so I did see that.

And of course, that, piqued my interest.

We got Mike Tyson, lecturing on health

and Serena Williams,
inspiring us to take pharmaceutical products.

So it's, you know, it's an interesting collection.

There is a lot of gray area happening in those spaces.

I would say.

Sometime
I want to dive in and do, like a whole deep session on

GLP one is very, very interesting space.

I've kind of had it.

We've had many little discussions about it, a very,
very gray area in my mind.

Of course, I want, anything that can help a human being.

And, that is definitely true.

GLP one can help a human being.

Therefore it is in a category that is, something that,

I mean, I've prescribed GOP ones to hundreds
and hundreds of people for over a decade.

I have a lot of experience with it.

And I've seen the good and bad of it, you know,
which is the gray

and, People have been harmed by it that I've given it to.

I, I never want to harm a human being, you know what I mean?

This is the core of medicine to me is first, do no harm.

This is the most important thing we are lacking in,

a very thoughtful application of first doing no harm.

In many times in the health care system.

A woman I gave a GLP one to almost immediately

upon getting having their first injection,
started having severe abdominal pain,

and they ended up having severe pancreatitis
and almost dying in the hospital for weeks.

It was horrific. That's real.

You say it now
like that's on the very edge of the curve over here.

You know there's not.

Out of all the people that take it, it's rare
that someone has that.

I think less than 1%, less than 1%, certainly less than 1%
have such a severe outcome.

This is one of the very worst outcomes.

Other people have more mild versions of that not so severe.

And we flow it on the other side.

People who have incredible
results are also on the other end of the tail.

And these are,
of course, are the people that, talk the most about it.

And, between these two extreme outcomes,
incredibly good outcomes

with no side effects,
I say incredible, terrible side effects, no benefit.

You know, there's a lot of middle in that space.

And, you know, half of that curve
is, is people having some okay results.

You know, like,
maybe not as good as you hoped, but like, okay.

And then on the other side of the curve is people
maybe having some results but not feeling quite so good,

you know, because there's a lot of that is affecting
how our GI system is operating.

And, So when I look at that whole curve.

I've had two people and two people out of hundreds
who have, had severe pancreatitis from it.

And, I feel terrible about it.

You know, it's, to tell you as a human
being to go through an experience

to meet with a patient,
come in, and someone is coming to you for help.

You're trying to help them in the greatest,
way that you can.

Is that, like,
I want to give anyone anything that would help them?

So I prescribe this medicine to you.

You inject it into your body,
and to have them almost die and have to have to come back

after being through this horrific experience, you know,

you know, you just say sorry enough.

Really sorry about that.

Feels pretty inadequate.

I'll tell you, it feels pretty inadequate to just say sorry.

So I stopped doing it.

I'll tell you, I stopped doing it because I'm just

telling you, I, I never want to experience that again.

I'll just tell you.

This is why I have dialed in on the natural processes.

So much so I've.

I've, I talk, you know, I was having,
An ice water with a fellow doctor the other day.

Say, have a drink. It was an ice water.

And we're talking about it, you know, and,

the experience of prescribing these things and, you know,
they prescribe a lot of them.

Most doctors do. Everybody does.

I just had to stop because I had to say,
what is the way to move through a space

that ensures that I never harm anyone again?

You know what I mean?

I never want to, like, I'm just going to do that.

And I know I was proposing this with the doctor
I was talking with

and they're like, yeah, but look at all the people
that you're not helping by not doing it.

And I'm like,
but this is the ethical principle of first do no harm.

Like we have to start from a foundation
where we don't harm anyone.

And, And then from that lens,
then we flow out and try to help as many people as possible.

This is what I'm really trying to do.

Find a way of being for myself in the world
where I never harm anyone again

through any sort of pharmaceutical side effect,
but I help as many people as physically possible, right?

That's why I came to YouTube,
which is a space where I, you know, can share

ideas and thoughts with many, many people. Right?

Anybody could connect.

This is what I want to do
is just to have a conversations like this.

You know, to just say,
I'm never going to argue with any doctor

or pharmaceutical company
rep that these products couldn't help somebody.

I never would have prescribed them in the first place.

If I thought that they didn't. That's the gray area.

Of course I prescribe them.

I prescribe them a lot for type two diabetes.

And here the gray area gets even grayer
because they can super help people with type two diabetes.

They absolutely lower blood sugar.

And you can use a GLP one medicine to replace

many other medicines that also have their own side effects,
especially insulin.

So for many years, I did a lot of work to try to transition

people with type two diabetes from insulin over to GLP ones,

because then you can stop, insulin or at least cut it back.

Insulin, the main side effects cause, a lot of weight gain.

And so to switch from a weight gainer

drug to a weight loser drug,

you know, has huge implications for someone's physiology.

I mean, it really does. And so you say that is more gray.

So right, right now I'm consulting with, quite a few people
in my private practice with type two diabetes.

It's like a lot of gray area here.

Like, you know, to me, the the area is somewhat less gray
if it's just for weight loss.

I say I feel less good about it.

And you say, well, how about people with type two diabetes
isn't isn't that more clear?

I would say, well,
like the easy thing to say is just to say yes.

And I mean, I think it is.

And but the deeper level of it.

Is that I think we've really,
you know, societally as a medical system.

I'm not saying this to individual people, but like just
in the medical system, I think we've just lost our way.

I think the medical system has completely lost its way.

Its, we have been completely overrun by a financial

and pharmaceutical, construct
that we've even lost our understanding of what,

you know, diseases basically are
and even what a lot of physiology is in the body.

And the reality, as I see it, is that it is possible.

I've walked this path with hundreds of people,

is possible to reverse the experience of type two diabetes.

I'm not saying that that's easy.

It is.

It takes, a huge effort and dedication, to do it.

But the practices to do it are the things that we talk about
to open up fasting space and choose the healthiest,

real, foods and to, exercise

in a way that is bringing joy into the body

and to dial in on the mental health practices
that help to balance,

literally, the physical hormones in our body
that are driving so much of the insulin resistance

and cortisol and all of these things
to bring all these things into balance.

It is possible to accomplish everything
that a pharmaceutical does

through these natural practices
without any of the cost or risk.

That's just that's the reality.

The reality is that you can do that.

I never tell anybody it's easy.

But from that place you say, if this is what's possible

and if actually this is what most of all of human

history has been up until the present moment,
there's never been these pharmaceutical things.

There's never been synthetic peptide hormones,
like an entire society has not had to rely on expensive

synthetic rundowns in order to try to find health.

And when you start to look at it,
you see this is very, very abnormal.

Like everything that is happening is actually very abnormal.

It's the deviation,
as I see it, from the things that are normal.

What is normal in human physiology
is that I mean a human being.

Look at us.

Look at these things. It's mostly arms and legs.

You know which move right.

These this is a movement machine, this body.

We are supposed to be active
and we are doers and movers and creators.

Right.

So like the sedentary aspect of our society,
we've we've tracked this right out of the Industrial

revolution, the, the coming to form

our entire society on the backs of the fossil fuels.

Right?

So that we can just drive everywhere and everything
does everything for us.

Right. There's certain benefits to that.

But like, well, like we are having a way of being here
that is very, very abnormal.

We've designed our entire cities.

It's it's hard to even get anywhere.

It's like to even to get to food, to get our kids to places
they need to go without even driving.

So people don't walk.

I mean, people used to walk, you know, this
like it's a thing that people used to did.

We've created entire environments that make it difficult

to be a healthy human being, you know, like that's.

It's not optimal.

I will say that.

And then across every domain we can do that.

Like we say, we have even a word now called organic food.

Like like we just go back
100 years that nobody would understand what that meant.

There was just food.

Like the idea that we've created food
that isn't real, you know?

I mean, that's the part that I agree with Mike Tyson.

You know, I don't see of Mike Tyson,
the healthiest person in the world, you know, certainly not.

But I agree with the perspective
that we should be eating real food, like every human being

that ever existed until just a few,
just a generation or two ago.

You know, it's like you couldn't even that do it, you know,

like the poorest people in the world

say, if if you at least if you got a food,
you know, it's a real food because what else could it be?

You know? Now we're in a scenario you don't even know.

It is like, hardly real or not, you know,
and you know, this is see across every domain

we we see how abnormal the situation is.

And then of course, historically a fasting space
just be a normal part of being a human being.

This would just happen. And and.

And then you go on the deeper level
and you start looking into it

and you realize, well, for thousands of years

people have looked to fasting as a health
and healing practice,

not as some sort of punishment,
not as some sort of anything else other than as as

you start practicing it, as you start experiencing it
and you realize, like, you can feel better,

like you can optimize your health,
you know, physicians as far back as Hippocrates,

you know, like the first recorded observers,
you know, discuss like, hey,

this fasting is like incredible health benefits.

So you put all these conversations together,

across all the domains of health and, and our way of being.

It's very hard to come to that space then.

On a deep and profound level
and say the the answer and the response to all of this is,

is to just continue stepping in in all of this process
and we'll just give ourselves a shot.

And then that's going to fix everything.

It's like, do you see how broken it all is and dysfunctional?

And do you see that the body itself is not broken?

Do you see, as I'm laying this out,
that the society is broken,

that that the dis health,
the disease is external to us, right.

We are existing in this whole we're floating
in this soup of dysfunction and then and we just absorb it

into our being and then, then
and then that dysfunction is coming into the body

manifests as disease in the body.

And so the path of healing from

that is the path of like
I was using the metaphor of the squash, right.

It's got that thick skin to protect the interior of it.

Like where all the nutrients, the seeds,
like the things that protect,

we want that sort of idea to ourself.

Right? The cocoon.

We need a healing space.

Fasting is a healing space is one type of healing space

where we're building a wall,
where we're cordoning off a piece of time.

We're saying, I'm protecting myself.

I'm completely insulating myself
from all of these societal factors.

We did the session on all the fast
and nasty chemicals of industrial society

that are wrecking our hormones,
and just damaging the body, leading to cancer

and every horrific thing
say it's like for at least this period of time,

you know, because, okay, choosing healthy foods,
we say it when we can dial in a lot on it.

I've described the incredible variety of types of diets

that people could eat across many different things,
that the reality as a human being

can flourish on many different types of foods,
as long as they are whole natural foods.

You know that the body historically
has been eating for millennia, right?

The body is designed to eat a part of the earth, right?

Do you believe that we, the earth is here?

We're we're formed out of the earth.

We from dust to dust. Right.

And we're back to the Earth.

It is a cycle.

Living things, going through the cycle.

We want to be participating in that cycle.

Gotta dial in.

Got to change our relationship with food.

Fasting is giving us space to get outside of it
so that we can reflect on it, right.

Do you ever experience that you're in the moment
of some situation?

It's very hard to be objective.

Maybe you're having an argument with somebody you're
you're you're angry, right?

It's very hard to be objective and rational
if you're in the middle of an argument.

Right.

But you take a little space, right?

You just let it breathe, like literally.

Calm everything down.

You can start to engage the rational mind again.

And you can, you know, be more productive, right?

You can have a better conversation.

Think about our conversation with food.

Give it some space.

When we're in the middle of it, we're just eating what we eat.

We're just we do not thinking about okay fasting.

We open that up.

Now we have some space about it.

Just like the conversation in some argument can be better.

When we give it space.

We give some space to our relationship
with food to reflect on it.

Yeah, I say give grace to yourself.

You know, we go through very, very difficult seasons.

Food is a coping mechanism, right?

Food helps people don't stress it because it doesn't work
right.

Food is powerful.

The way we interact with it, very powerful.

We develop habits because of situations like this.

We get into a difficult season.

We start stress eating right.

We start trauma eating right.

We eat as a way to get through grief.

And it works right in the short term. Right?

So I eat that. You feel better. Right?

And then that builds the reward pathways

that keep that cycle going long after it is serving us.

Right. And then it creates its own problems.

That's
what drives the weight gain in the habits and the things.

So a fasting space gives some space to it.

And so yeah, those few seconds, you know, is it worth it.

You see a few seconds, a squirt of dopamine,
you know, it's like, oh, it feels good.

And then it's back to this is what creates the cycle.

Then you need to do it again.

You want to get out of that sort of cycle.

So this is this is what we're sinking in. Queen of Heaven.

This is the original question.

How do you change your mind?

How do you change your thinking and experience?

You have to give it space. We're giving it space right now.

And we're asking the deep questions
and we're sinking into it about

what does it mean in my life right here, now,
while I'm struggling with grief and difficulty?

That's why this is, to me, the real path

out of it isn't just to say like, oh, will you just eat 1600
calories and like, you're golden, you know,

because, really, the journey is about this is like how?

Because we're all going to flow through seasons
of difficulty and struggle and grief

and we all have the experience of living here

in this world, this modern world, with all of its benefits.

And then we've illustrated through the difficulty of it.

How do we navigate and flow through that?

You have to be very, thoughtful to do it
if you're not thoughtful about it.

See what I just do, what everybody else does.

We just flow through it.

It's like you're going to end up where everyone else ends up.

You want to be like Jerry rice.

Say, I want to end up somewhere different.

Get it be different.

To do it to be different, we have to think differently.

All I can say is I.

I certainly wish it wasn't the case, you know? And you just.

Wish that, the difficulties

that we have to face were not, the way they are.

I send you my best thoughts and prayers,
in for you in the midst of it.

Look toward the light.

That's what I say.

In the midst of darkness, we look toward the light.

And we realize that many things in life are on a cycle.

And it's very hard to see that at the bottom of the cycle.

The saying is, the night is darkest

just before the dawn, right before it turns.

To to be in the valley.

And the darkness just can help sometimes to realize,
like we're closer to the bottom than the top means.

Life is a cycle.

There's a we're very much more likely to be experiencing
the upswing in the future.

That's like looking toward the light.
A bunch of different thoughts.

We got a bunch of different thoughts
flowing around here right now, which I like.

The GLP ones is floating around in our discussion here.

Industrial society, the way the world is, you know.

The gray area of what it really means to be healthy

and what our society holds up as, exemplars of health.

All of these things in the mix.

And then we just take it then into our own life,
which we can experience

like this in the midst of all these things,
a lot of gray area in life.

This is why we have a lot of grace with ourselves.

Recognize that it is actually difficult
to be healthy in the modern world, and we all do our best.

We carve out spaces like this be as intentional
and thoughtful, as we can.

Try to let go, or maybe more thoughtfully integrate

and accept the experiences of the past that have shaped us.

Release our expectations about the future
where our anxiety resides.

Focus on this present day.

Find gratitude. Peace, contentment.

Here in this present moment.

Take a deep breath in this space.

Breathe out any of the stress, tension,
the negative experience of having.

Just let them flow out with a breath.

Recognize the things that are present
right here in this moment.

The good things.

The fact that even in the midst of all the gray area

and the darkness
and the confusion that we have been given a beautiful gift

in some way to be here, present in this moment right now,
and we can find gratitude for that.

And we say,
we don't understand why the world is the way it is,

and why the difficulties have to be there.

But we realize that, love, light and beauty is also here,
and we look toward it.

Even if we're not seeing it now, we know it's real, right?

You know it, right? Love is real. Love is here.

We look toward the light and we try to make it happen.

We open up space to allow that into our life in this day.

And we take the most positive, healthy,
thoughtful step forward.

In this day that we can.

Having grace for ourselves.

If it doesn't go the way we want, we say, hey, it's okay.

I did my best.

I did the best that I could.

That's what we're going to try to do.

I'm going to try to do it myself right now.

Encourage you take the best step that you can.

In this day, we will reconvene tomorrow,

take another step forward and health.

Really nice to have you here. Have a great day.