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314 - Human Design Variables Series: Digestion Arrow · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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Welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, the show dedicated to
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helping entrepreneurs use human design to shift from hustle to
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flow without sacrificing results.
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Come here to become an unshakeable human and build an unshakeable business
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according to your human design.
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I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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Hello, and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, everybody.
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I'm your host, Nicole Laino, and you and I are here together.
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Pull up a chair, get cozy with me because we are going to be together
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for the next couple of episodes.
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So if you're catching this on the day that this drops, know that there are
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going to be three more of these coming up.
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And if you're catching this.
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A few days later, then you've got a few more to kind of binge around
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the same topic if it interests you.
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So, we've done a few series on this show before.
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We've done a series on profile lines, which was really, really loved by
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our audience, really received well.
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People really loved that series.
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And then we did another one over the summer on centers.
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And now we're going to dive into even a more intricate area of
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human design called variables.
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When you look at a human design chart, they're on either side of the head center.
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You'll see a set of arrows on each side, two arrows on each side of the head.
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We're gonna go through each one of those and we're gonna dedicate an
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episode to each arrow or to each color, because there's so much with these.
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And I wanna keep this simple because this is a very advanced area of human design.
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'cause we're getting to the substructure of the design.
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What's happening beneath the chart?
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It's something that we refer to as below the line.
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And I want to go through this because it can be highly
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impactful in your productivity.
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If you deal with things like brain fog or keeping on task or thinking
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clearly or feeling like you have little energy or lots of energy,
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all of this can be determined.
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And explain sometimes through your variables.
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If you feel like some productivity things work for you and others don't, and you
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don't know why, this might explain it.
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Variables can help you hone your particular point of view in the world.
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And if you're in business, your point of view matters.
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Your point of view is so crucial.
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To you being able to spread the message you're meant to spread.
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You have to see the world properly in order to really claim your place in it.
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And it can tell you your leadership style.
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It can tell you what you bring to your business.
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It can tell you what the dynamics on your team might be.
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If you have a group of people together and you do a team reading or something
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like that, which I do with people, I do with groups and I do with companies
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where I'll come in and I'll talk about the different dynamics on the team.
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And the variables can tell us quite a bit.
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So they are fascinating aspect of human design, but they can be confusing.
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And I'm going to do my best to keep these very simple and direct so that they're
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making the impact that they're meant to.
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So let me also say, we're doing a little contest.
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If you would like to be a guest on this show and have a
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little mini reading with me.
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All you have to do to enter Is to take a screenshot of this episode in your player.
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Post it on Instagram, tag me.
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I'm @NicoleLainoOfficial, tag me and tell us what you're loving about
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the series, share the series, tell everybody that you love it, tell us
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why and you will be entered to win.
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We will reach out to you and ask you if you want to be on the show
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and book a reading for you here.
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Okay?
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So super fun, very excited for you.
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We have one other thing that I want to tell you about.
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If you are interested in the variables, if this is something that you're
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like, this is really interesting.
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This is an area I want to dive into.
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I want to have this information for myself.
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We've actually created a guide for you that goes along with this series.
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It's called the Variables Guide, and all you have to do to download it is
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go to nicolelaino.com/variables, or DM me the word "Variables" on Instagram.
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I'm @NicoleLainoOfficial.
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And we will send it to you right there.
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And then you can have this, take it home, digest it, and dive in all on
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your own outside of these episodes.
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Okay?
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But we're gonna do an episode for each of the different arrows.
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And specifically what we call color, because like I said, these get to be a
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very nuanced area of the human design chart, but we're going to keep this
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very focused so that you guys all walk away with the value that you're meant
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to, what you're meant to receive here.
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Okay?
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I don't wanna confuse anybody.
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We do have another episode that we did a long time ago, I think
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we called it- What do the arrows in my human design chart mean?
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It's episode 129.
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If you want to go back and listen to that one as well, we've kind of talked
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about that from a different perspective where we talked about them as a whole.
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Today we're going to break down, we're going to go through the first arrow and
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then we're going to do the each of the other arrows in their own episodes over
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the next three episodes after this one.
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Okay.
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So variables are the substructure of the lines.
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So we all know about the lines.
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That's like that first series that we did back in like March, April
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of this year, the profile series, so I'm a 5'1 that's my profile.
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My conscious sun is gate 64.
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And if you look at the human design chart, you'll see gates running
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down each side of the chart in the little columns on each side.
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And each gate will have a dot and then another number.
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Another number that's 1 through 6.
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So, my conscious sun is gate 64, which is the gate of confusion.
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And it's in the 5th line.
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Now, that is a nuance to that gate.
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What we're doing is, they call human design the science of differentiation,
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it's our differentiation, how we are different from every
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other person on this planet.
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Now other people might have gate 64 as their conscious sun.
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Other people might have that in the fifth line.
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But then if we go a level deeper, to what we call color, we start to
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get another level of nuance to this.
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And that's what we're going to be discussing here because each arrow is
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part of the substructure of those lines.
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So we're getting to greater and greater detail about what makes
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you tick, about why some things work for you and some things don't.
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Why you're different than somebody who might have the same birthday as you.
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How these things change.
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I mean, we have the whole chart, but then we have something deeper.
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I remember Ra talking about this, where he takes out the chart with twins.
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This is the part that's different.
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They'll have everything else that's looks exactly the same.
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But then when you get to the substructure, because the timing is different.
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This area, the variables, I will say this, you do kind of need your
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exact birth time to really feel confident in this information.
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Some things don't move very much.
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The variables do.
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This is very sensitive to time.
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So I want to throw that out there just so if you don't know your exact birth time.
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This part, you may have to feel into it.
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You won't have a great answer on this.
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We won't be able to say exactly what your variables are.
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So let's talk a little bit about this.
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There are four arrows that we're going to talk about.
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There are four colors that are represented by each arrow.
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They're digestion, motivation, environment, and view.
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Today, we're going to go into digestion.
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Digestion is not just how you digest food.
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All that is a big part of it.
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What we're talking about is how you feed your body and how you feed your brain.
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This is the top left arrow and it is connected to your
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brain, your physical brain.
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So the brain that if we cut open your head and we took it out of
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your head and we held your brain in our hands, that physical brain,
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that's what we're talking about.
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We're not talking about the mind, which is different.
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That's your personality.
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We'll get to that in the next episode, I believe, is where we're diving into that.
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It's called your motivation.
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So digestion is about feeding your brain, feeding your body.
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We're on the unconscious side of the chart.
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So this is the part that it's not about our personality, it's
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about what feeds us unconsciously.
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What's feeding this vehicle that we're in.
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And specifically, the part that has to do with our brain and also,
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we can think about this, the gut brain, we hear that term, right?
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The gut brain connection.
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This is sort of gut brain, brain brain.
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Okay?
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Now how do we feed these things?
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We feed it with food.
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We feed it with information.
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We feed it with life.
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We're always taking something in.
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So how do we best take things in?
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What's the best way for each one of us?
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What's the quote unquote right way?
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The correct way?
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Now I always say, with anything with design, you really want to experiment.
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You want to try different things out, see what works for you.
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But what's fun is, what we're doing here, going through it this way, it's
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giving you the sandbox to play in and tell you that this is your sandbox,
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now play here, experiment here.
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Rather than picking up diet books or different books or tips or looking
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at people on Instagram, seeing what they're doing and taking that in and
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trying to do it yourself, instead you could say, oh, I understand
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why that doesn't work or this does.
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So when we're talking specifically about digestion, some of the problems
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that can be solved with this, or some of the problems that can come up if
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we're not nurturing our body properly with food and with information is that
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we can find that we are overeating.
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We might find that we have no appetite.
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We might find that we're not taking in information properly,
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that we become unproductive.
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Things feel harder.
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We might find that we have that brain fog.
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That I just don't have a clear mind.
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I'm not focusing well.
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If any of those things are true for you, then I encourage you to experiment with
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your digestion arrow with that type.
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It's also called determination, is the color theme.
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Okay?
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Let's go through these.
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There are six types, there are six categories, and then each category has a
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nuance to it, and we'll talk about them.
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But really download that guide if you want to go deep into this and you want
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to see all of the definitions for these.
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Because I'm going to talk about them, I'm going to riff on how they are
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different and how we approach them and why these things are so important
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and where they come from here, okay?
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So, each type, appetite is the first one.
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Appetite is the most primal.
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This is our earliest digestion profile and there are two types.
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There is consecutive appetite, there is alternating appetite.
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Now, what this is telling you is how much food do you need to take in?
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What structure should there be around that?
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Are you somebody who should eat structured, larger meals?
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Have three meals a day that are larger in portion, needing a
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lot of food to feed your brain.
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Is that correct for you?
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Is it best to have very clean, simple foods?
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Or are you on the other side where you can have a little bit more variation
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in your food and you are alternating?
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So you want to eat small meals throughout the day.
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Feeding your brain continuously, but smaller, you don't need as much food
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to get through the day, to stay clear.
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And if you eat too much food, if you're eating these big heavy
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meals, you will probably feel foggy.
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You will probably feel weighed down.
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You might feel that your body can't digest them.
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So it isn't necessarily, although what you eat does matter, this is that hunter
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gatherer type of digestion profile.
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I believe there is a hunter gatherer diet.
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Is it paleo that is there a hunter gatherer?
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You might find that a paleo diet might work really well for you if
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you have an appetite profile if you have an appetite digestion profile.
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That might feel nurturing to you, that might feel good for you.
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That might not feel good for me.
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Because actually mine doesn't have nearly as much to do with what I eat.
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It's more how I eat it.
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So this is why it's so important is because it will tell you what's
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important for you to pay attention to.
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I can eat most things.
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There are plenty of things that I can't eat, but I've figured out
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what they are, eliminated them or reduced them by quite a bit.
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And I feel better.
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I have more energy.
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My brain is clearer.
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My mind is clearer.
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Okay.
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So that's what you can start to benefit from playing with your digestion.
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Now, the second profile is taste.
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There is open taste and closed taste.
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Really what taste is about is selection.
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Choosing your food.
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Choosing it based on your taste.
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I know this might not sound terribly groundbreaking for something when
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we're talking about food, but if you think about information, if
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you think about the way you take in information, it will be selective.
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It will be you choosing.
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There is a bit of a connoisseur in the taste category here.
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So if you have open taste, you are going to be choosing different things.
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You're going to maybe try the buffet and then you're going to
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decide and you're going to say like, okay, I've tried it all.
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I'm never eating any of that stuff again.
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I'm only eating this thing.
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Now you might feel like maybe you were told when you were a
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kid that you were a picky eater.
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Taste people tend to be picky eaters, but you're meant to be.
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You know what you like, and you're not really meant to eat the things that
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other people tell you you should like.
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It's really yours.
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Closed, you might only eat one thing.
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You might be like, I only like this thing from this place.
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Because the ingredients feel good and that's you being in
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tune with what is right for you.
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So you are just sort of the ultimate decider in this.
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It's your intuition that's going to guide you there.
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It's just sort of a natural feeling of what is right for you.
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You can take this to impeccable taste.
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Right?
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You might only eat certain types of fish.
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You might only eat things prepared a certain way.
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All of this would fall into that taste category.
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So the conditioning for this would be people telling you, you should
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try more things, you should be more open, you should try all this stuff.
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And you're really like, well that's not me.
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Maybe you feel forced into that, and you shouldn't.
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Don't acquiesce to people who are telling you to do it their way.
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Don't just give up your power.
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Stand in your power and be like, no, that's not my way.
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I know what I like.
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And I don't like that.
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I don't need to try it.
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If you're closed taste you probably will not try many things.
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And people might ridicule you for that.
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So all of this is about empowering yourself.
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And then experiment.
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See really if you eliminated the things that you didn't choose.
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How do you feel?
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When you're very selective about your food, when you're selective
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about the ingredients, when you're selective about where you shop, right?
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All of this might be the organic only people.
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It's what feels right to you.
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You might be like, I only eat cheese from France.
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That might be how you are.
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There's a bit of the diva here.
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Like I said, it's a connoisseur.
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The third piece, the third digestion profile is thirst.
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Now this one, it has to do with liquids.
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It does, but what we're dealing with here is now we're getting from what we eat to
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more the quality of the food that we eat, the quality of the liquid particularly.
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The quality of liquids.
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What we're really getting at is body temperature.
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Your body temperature needs a certain temperature of liquids.
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Now again, this all might sound a little crazy, but please try it.
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See if it works for you.
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Because you have hot and you have cold.
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If you have hot thirst as your digestion type, then you are meant
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to drink hot and warm things.
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If you have cold, you're meant to drink cold.
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This is about what we're getting to here now, it's about how the food is processed.
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It's going to also be hot foods, cold foods.
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It's going to extend past just the liquids, but this
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is what we're getting at.
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We're getting to like how the food is prepared.
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So if you are cold thirst and you find that you're not digesting well,
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and all the food that you eat is hot or over prepared, over processed.
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Then you're really going to want to look at that like I say, experiment with it.
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Try things.
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See how you feel before you throw it out as woo woo.
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But also, don't just take me at face value.
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Try it.
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See what it is.
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Because really what we're doing here is we're balancing your body temperature.
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In order for your body to digest the food properly, in order for it to break it down
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properly, It needs a certain temperature.
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You run hot, therefore you need cool things, right?
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Your digestion has a certain temperature, so you're counterbalancing
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it with the hot or cold food.
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That's what we're talking about here.
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Now, you might also find that you prefer hotter or colder
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climates based on this as well.
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Again, something for you to experiment with.
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If you're looking for productivity, can you play with that?
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Can you play with being warm or being cold?
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You might find that that's just a natural state for you.
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Okay?
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Now, touch is the next digestion profile.
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Touch just like all of them, has two variations on this.
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Now we're getting, so appetite, taste, and thirst have to do with what you
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take in and the quality of that food.
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It's about the internal process of the food and of the information.
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Now when we get to touch, sound, and light, which are the other digestion
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profiles we're going to go through.
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We're getting more to the environmental conditions that you consume things in.
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We're getting to that feminine side of things, which is more how than what.
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Now when we come to this one, touch, we have calm and nervous.
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So the environment that you're in, is it a calm environment or is it
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a more kinetic, busy environment?
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Is there emotional stimulation when you eat, when you work?
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I work from home, but thank God my husband is here and it can feel like
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distraction, but I need activity.
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I need things around me in order for me to balance and be able to, work productively
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in a way that feels fun and easy for me.
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So again, something that we experiment with.
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That's through my trial and error, figuring out how I could work with that.
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And I noticed sometimes if I've been alone too long, if I'm too quiet for too long,
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suddenly I'm like, I can't do anything.
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I can't get into action.
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So I need to create some emotional stimulation.
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I need to be in an environment that is buzzing a little
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bit because mine is nervous.
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But some people have calm where they need the opposite.
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Thankfully, my husband has the same one.
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I always go in and I'll eat lunch with him so that we are together
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and we can stimulate each other.
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We can talk, we'll have a podcast going.
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There's just something happening in the room and that helps our digestion.
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It also, it means that we're not as hungry.
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We don't eat as much.
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We eat the right amount of food for us and then we move on.
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I'm not hungry for the rest of the day.
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I'm not finding that I'm hungry later on.
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And I'm also finding that I'm not losing my appetite.
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Sometimes if I'm sitting by myself, if I'm home alone and if my husband
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and son go out, and they're not here, I don't eat while they're not here.
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I'm like not hungry.
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There's nothing going on.
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If it's too quiet and I'm too still, the last thing I'm thinking about is food.
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That's by design.
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That's how my digestion works.
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The next type is sound.
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Again, the quality of the environment.
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What are the environmental conditions?
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Is it high sound or low sound?
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Is it lots of noise or very, very little noise?
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Experiment with this and see how you do by creating the environment for you to
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digest information and food properly.
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See what works for you.
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See how it affects you.
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Try these things out.
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Turn on some music, put on the TV.
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Go outside, go out to a restaurant where there's some noise going on or not.
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Or eat in total silence and see how that affects you.
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Are you more satisfied with your meal?
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Or are you hungry right away?
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If you find you're hungry all the time, can you look at it and say, am I eating
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in a quiet environment and I'm really meant to be in a high volume environment?
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These are the things that you can start playing with.
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The last one is light.
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This one's tricky and one of them is way more tricky than the other.
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And again, we're getting to experiment.
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Do your best.
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I have found from lots of clients that have this particular one,
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this is what my son has, is light.
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And there's direct light and indirect light.
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Direct light meaning that you need to be in sunlight..
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You need natural light to eat and to digest information and
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to digest things properly.
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Okay?
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And indirect light means you need the opposite, you need darkness.
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That can be weird, right?
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How do you eat during the day?
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Like, when are you eating?
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I guess it becomes easier In the winter months when it gets dark at
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5 o'clock, you can eat dinner but I don't know this one feels tricky.
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With my son, I do wait until the sun comes up before I give him his breakfast and
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I do make sure that he eats before the sun goes down I'm not him and he doesn't
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really know what we're doing, I just tell him that that's how we feed him.
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So I can't get a read from him personally, I just know he seems healthy and clear
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and has lots of energy and is not hungry all the time anymore than children are.
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He seems fine.
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But I have had several clients come to me either through readings or in my
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program who have had direct or indirect light and they've said it has been
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very helpful for them, particularly the more sensitive types, so projectors,
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reflectors, have said that PHS, the variables, have really helped them
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to tune in and balance themselves on an energetic base frequency level.
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Right?
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So, this one I have heard from several people that whether it's
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easy for them or not, and some that were in, like Eastern Europe.
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Where it's dark for a good portion of the day at certain times of the year, and
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they're like, I make it work, and they're direct light, and they make it work.
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But they have found that it's worth the trouble of making it work, or they've
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gotten lights that are supposed to mimic sunlight, and played with things
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and tried to work it that way and experiment with things that way to see
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if it helps, and they say that it does.
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So those are the six different digestion profiles and then the
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two variations for each of them that you will find on your chart.
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And these are the things that will nurture your brain and your body in
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a proper way, in the correct way, so that you can be clear headed.
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You can be focused and you can be digesting your food and not
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feel hungry all the time and just generally feel healthier on an
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energetic and a physical level.
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So, I hope that you enjoyed the episode.
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I hope that you're excited for the next three episodes in this series
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where we will dive into the other three variable types which are
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motivation, environment, and view.
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We're going to dive into all of those, and they're going
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to each get their own episode.
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