Latest / Whereabouts Tales | Stories of Belonging and Immigrant Experiences / Arjun Chhabra: The Mind's Role in True Healing #0047
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- 0:00Hello everyone and welcome to Whereabouts Tales Today,
- 0:03prepared to be inspired by a truly transformative journey,
- 0:07our guest Arjun Chabra shares his powerful story from India to
- 0:12healing in Spain, Arjun opens up about the profound loss of his
- 0:17mother to cancer, devastating experience that led him through
- 0:20depression and onto an unexpected path of self
- 0:23discovery. Join us as Arjun recounts his
- 0:26life growing up in a vibrant Mumbai, including his arranged
- 0:30marriage and the pivotal. Decision to move to.
- 0:33Spain with his wife. This movie United a passion for
- 0:37holistic Wellness, functional medicine, and mind expansion.
- 0:41Discover how he found happiness, embraced a life of purpose
- 0:44beyond financial gain, and how his unique insights into the
- 0:48mind body connection can help us all.
- 0:51Get ready for a deeply personal and inspiring conversation about
- 0:54resilience and the power of looking within.
- 0:59I'm Paul and this is whereabouts tips.
- 1:02Enjoy. Adrian, thanks so much for
- 1:11taking the time for whereabouts tips.
- 1:13It's absolutely my pleasure. It's a pleasure being here.
- 1:15Thank you so much for having me. Arjun's story, I call it from
- 1:19heartbreak in India to healing in Spain, he has a he has a
- 1:24powerful story about healing and transformation which is mixing
- 1:28mixed in the experts in urgent experts story.
- 1:33Maybe I try to I try to explain shortly how we got in contact.
- 1:39I've, I've seen your one of your posts on Reddit and I contacted
- 1:42you initially. I haven't knew that you are an
- 1:45expert as well, but I liked your your story and I contacted you
- 1:49because I want to talk to you. And during our initial
- 1:52discussion I discovered actually you are fitting the the model of
- 1:56the podcast, which makes it made it even more interesting for me.
- 2:00So to begin with, yeah, I mean, I was born in India and it so
- 2:07happened that life was just the usual normal, you know, going
- 2:11about university etcetera, etcetera.
- 2:13And and of course I did 3D animation and visual effects
- 2:18back then, thinking I would become an animator.
- 2:21That was animation the moment that's a Jurassic Park.
- 2:28That's it. I know what I.
- 2:29Have to do aim big. Exactly.
- 2:32So that's, I mean, pretty much I was fixated on, OK, this is what
- 2:37I've got to do. I know what I've got to do.
- 2:39But you know, it's unexpected things tend to happen.
- 2:43And so in the just before Christmas in the year 2012, so
- 2:50my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer.
- 2:52It was stage 1 breast cancer. And what so happened was, of
- 2:56course, to for getting the treatment done, she needed to go
- 3:00through a lot of tests, one of which was the mammograph.
- 3:04And during the mammograph, the lumbos and the cancer spread
- 3:09throughout the body. And within a matter of like four
- 3:12months, like in December, like just five days before Christmas
- 3:16or so, she was diagnosed with stage 1.
- 3:18And by March, end of March, she had reached the final stage of
- 3:23cancer. And it was, it was horrifying
- 3:27just seeing her every single day, just, you know, her health
- 3:31going down and down and down and not knowing what to do with the
- 3:35helplessness, trying to search for answers, nothing coming up.
- 3:40And very unfortunately, she passed away in April of 2013.
- 3:46And that was completely life changing because after she
- 3:51passed away, I was in a kind of a depression.
- 3:54I gained a lot of weight. I was almost touching 100 KGS
- 3:59and I really lost track of life, so yeah.
- 4:06I, I can imagine so first of all, I'm sorry to hear that.
- 4:09I, I know the story and even though I know the story still
- 4:11affects me also the second time when I hear it, to be honest,
- 4:14because it's, it's impressive. It's, it's one of the worst
- 4:18thing that we have from the medicals perspective in in the
- 4:212020 first century that apparently we are not able to to
- 4:25fix still. I know it sounds, it sounds
- 4:28crazy that I say fixed, but it's kind of we cannot really.
- 4:33It looks like we there is no really big interest in finding a
- 4:35fix for this. That's my feeling at least.
- 4:37You know, I definitely I wouldn't giving out information
- 4:42that will actually have solved get you censored and you know,
- 4:44as we know the means of media. Yeah, but definitely I will try
- 4:48and help you all out with what my journey has been because the
- 4:52the first thing that you know I lost of course the first thing
- 4:54for the first year I left all my work and I would just like
- 4:58depressed and. Sorry for interrupting you,
- 5:01Arjun. I have AI have two curiosities
- 5:03before we dig in deep into the story I have I have two
- 5:06curiosities. How was how was it to grow up as
- 5:10a kid in India. So I'm explaining why the why
- 5:12I'm asking you the story because we all know India for from the
- 5:17Bollywood movies. But I think that not everyone is
- 5:20singing on the street. But after the second word that
- 5:23they are speaking, absolutely, that's the first thing.
- 5:29But, and we all know India from like from travelling and so on,
- 5:32but we only know the, the tourist India, I, I, we have
- 5:35less experiences. So I had a guest in my show,
- 5:37actually she was living in India, but she made a real bad
- 5:41experience because it was happening during COVID when most
- 5:44of the things were in lockdown and so on.
- 5:46So she, she, she made the bad grown up, grown up experience in
- 5:50India. She end up marrying and, and,
- 5:52and that guy, but it, but that's a different story.
- 5:55So based on back to this question, how, how is it to to
- 6:00grow up in in India? Yeah, I'd be happy to share my
- 6:02experiences. And I just start by saying that
- 6:05your experience or one's experience of living in India
- 6:08would highly depend on where you are in India because you know,
- 6:11as you know, it's a large country.
- 6:13Absolutely every state has its own culture and language.
- 6:17And by the way, I am from Bombay, Mumbai and.
- 6:21A star, yeah. I was I always grew up and by
- 6:26the way, my wife also is from the same city and I do not
- 6:30believe if I told you that I had never even gone to the area
- 6:34where she ever lived before I because it's.
- 6:38Because the city, it's so big, right?
- 6:40And I myself till date, if I have to go around in the city, I
- 6:45wouldn't know all the ways myself.
- 6:49Crazy, crazy. I was always like limited to
- 6:53certain areas of the of the city because it's so big and of
- 6:57course we know which areas to avoid and except right,
- 6:59absolutely right. This.
- 7:01And generally, people tend to think, like, people tend to have
- 7:05a very stereotypical thinking, Oh, this is, you know, elephants
- 7:08walking on the street or this is happening.
- 7:10That is happening. Or the city is like, amazing.
- 7:12But every city in the world has it's like good and bad, you
- 7:17know, points and good and good and bad parts.
- 7:20I'm sorry. And so I grew up in a place
- 7:23called Bandra. And by the way, that was
- 7:26actually around that that area. In that area also, there were
- 7:29like a lot of Hollywood, sorry, Bollywood stars.
- 7:33Yeah. You know Salman Khan.
- 7:35Like not personally, but of course he used to live like 15
- 7:38minutes away from my house. OK, that's crazy.
- 7:45You know, I don't know if he's I don't know if I'm I'm going in a
- 7:49strange area where I'm going in a strange.
- 7:52I never thought I would reach in this podcast, but he he dated.
- 7:55I don't know if he dated or he married the Romanian actress.
- 7:58I have no idea. However, I can tell you this
- 8:02that the driver of Salman Khan, ex driver now he actually works
- 8:06for my dad. He has he had when I visited
- 8:10India, he had a lot of interesting stories to say.
- 8:13Just share and. Absolutely, absolutely can't
- 8:17imagine that. Sorry.
- 8:22Go on please. Yeah, no worries.
- 8:23So, yeah, I mean, Long story short, living in India is like
- 8:27in in Bombay. It was not like it was a totally
- 8:30different environment. I grew up in like English more
- 8:33or less whatever, like money, schooling and everything was one
- 8:36of the primary languages of communication.
- 8:38Like I was taught in English and everything was in English.
- 8:41So speak English wasn't a big, big deal.
- 8:44And you know, generally when I came, when I actually came to
- 8:47Spain, people like, oh, you speak English.
- 8:48I was like, of course, what do you think?
- 8:51Mostly honestly, there is no person for me that I met that
- 8:56didn't speak English. Like none.
- 8:59Yeah, because, you know, the primary, although Hindi is
- 9:04supposed to be the national language, however like official,
- 9:09like unofficially English is the language of, you know, that's
- 9:13generally spoken for communication, for business,
- 9:15etcetera, etcetera. So every let's say the official
- 9:20governmental language is Hindi but still every everyone is
- 9:25speaking English. Not I wouldn't say everyone
- 9:28because there's a class system, sadly in India and based on the
- 9:32class system, like the middle class and upwards always know
- 9:35English, almost always know English.
- 9:38But the lower class, I mean, it's, it's sad that they don't
- 9:41have the opportunity because their kids mostly go to
- 9:45government schools and in government schools, of course
- 9:47the government doesn't have like they don't spend enough.
- 9:50I'd say. I wouldn't say Indian government
- 9:51doesn't have money but I would just would say that they don't
- 9:53spend enough. So they generally don't have a
- 9:57good quality education and they don't end up knowing English
- 9:59most of them. I think the classes discussion,
- 10:01it's a general discussion urgent so, but I think the classes is
- 10:05not only in India, it's it's literally everywhere.
- 10:08And my, my personal view of of the world at the moment is that
- 10:13the gap is getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
- 10:16And whomever is in the lower classes getting lower and lower
- 10:19and lower lower, and whomever is getting in the bigger classes
- 10:22getting higher and higher and slowly the the actual middle
- 10:25class, the actual like working middle class is vanishing
- 10:29slowly. Yeah, that's absolutely true.
- 10:31My father had the same thing to say.
- 10:33I actually don't follow the news or economics.
- 10:36In fact, one of the subjects I had taken in university was
- 10:39economics and statistics and all those subjects.
- 10:42And I was like, why did I even do that?
- 10:45You're you're another. I love to, I love to understand
- 10:48how the economics are working all around the world because
- 10:51it's, it's interesting how I only follow them because it's
- 10:54interesting how people, how easy people are getting lied to
- 10:58because they don't understand the basics of economics.
- 11:01And that's I think even if you say, yeah, you don't like it, I
- 11:05think it should be a basic economics class there for
- 11:09everyone. Yeah, it's actually, you know,
- 11:11the way they presented and they teach it.
- 11:13They have these diagrams that don't make sense.
- 11:16I mean, they're not teaching it in a practical manner.
- 11:20I had I had one of my class in university and studying in
- 11:23Romania was public finances. Man, if you think economics is
- 11:26bad, you have to do public finances.
- 11:27Oh my God. This is this is man.
- 11:31It's nothing that you will ever use in this life and nothing
- 11:35that you are able to understand. And the teacher was, I don't
- 11:37know, 85 years old. So his mood in teaching was
- 11:41close to 0? That's awful.
- 11:45I think most people get burnt out, you know, I mean, I can't
- 11:47even blame the teachers. They get burnt out.
- 11:49And plus they are not in charge of deciding what will be taught.
- 11:52And like, sadly, the system, and I'm, I'm not saying it that it
- 11:56was an unintentional, I, I know that it, it, it has been
- 12:00intentional. Whatever we are taught in
- 12:02schools and universities is none of it is in is, is designed to
- 12:08make us smart or, or or that is directly applicable in our life.
- 12:13That can, that can make our life better.
- 12:16That's yeah, that's sad. The goal, the goal is to make us
- 12:19good soldiers. Yeah.
- 12:21We have to be honest, that's the goal and that's how the school
- 12:23is is treating us that out the school.
- 12:25If you get out of the of the of the hood, you can push back in
- 12:30the hood because everything that you do that it's unnormal.
- 12:33It's not like because you're not fitting in the hood, you're not
- 12:36a good soldier anymore. Absolutely.
- 12:38And I, I did face that. I did face that thankfully my
- 12:42family was supportive. But I saw that, you know, people
- 12:45are not. People don't tend to like you.
- 12:48If you're not being a nice guy, you know, you're not, you're not
- 12:52being good towards the system. You're not doing what others are
- 12:56doing. So you're just like the old one
- 12:58out the black sheep. Absolutely.
- 13:00You're the black sheep, you know, I have.
- 13:02I have big struggles and I hope my my son will see this someday
- 13:06because I I'm struggling a lot with, with the fact that my son
- 13:10is going to a normal school and he's, I see his interest and his
- 13:15interest does not fit the, the let's say the teaching schedule
- 13:21or the teaching patterns because he's interested in the universe
- 13:26in planets and stuff. And nobody cares in the 1st
- 13:29grade, 2nd grade, nobody cares. And he's he likes Matt.
- 13:32He lost the calculation and stuff like this.
- 13:34And I love to do it because it's fun.
- 13:36He's not doing it because he has to Like, he's really enjoying
- 13:40it, playing with the numbers, understand how the numbers fit
- 13:43together. He's it's, it's, it's literally
- 13:45his game. And that's not something which
- 13:48is appreciated. So they told us.
- 13:50They told us, Yeah, you know, we do this year the numbers want
- 13:53one to 10. But he knows them, all of them.
- 13:55So I don't know what you're doing, Matt, but.
- 13:59You know, The thing is like, for example, your son is good at
- 14:02maths, right? He's good with numbers.
- 14:04Now, for example, there are like 10 other subjects and then they
- 14:07always take an average of the whole thing.
- 14:09And so let's say he does amazing in maths, right?
- 14:12Same thing happened to me and, and in in the local languages, I
- 14:15kind of almost flunked almost. And because of that, my average
- 14:19came down and I was known as that not so bright student,
- 14:23right? Exactly.
- 14:24Exactly. Then that becomes your identity.
- 14:28Which is absolutely. Crazy.
- 14:30And that directly impacts your belief systems about yourself.
- 14:34Absolutely. And that impacts the way you
- 14:37grow up as an into an adult and how how you perform in life,
- 14:40like how, what are your thoughts about yourself?
- 14:42What do you think about yourself there?
- 14:43There are traumas and there are trapped emotions and.
- 14:46Self-confidence. Self-confidence is affected, and
- 14:49as long as the self-confidence is affected, it's hard for you
- 14:51to perform because you don't think that you're doing it
- 14:53right. Yeah.
- 14:55And I can, I can just, you know, connect this again to our
- 14:58Wellness, because let's say, if your mindset about yourself is
- 15:03not positive in a way, it's actually negative, you know,
- 15:06based on how what people thought of you and that and you and, and
- 15:11then there was a self identity created and you started buying
- 15:14into that, right? And then you think very negative
- 15:17about yourself and you're stressed or why am I that way?
- 15:20Or why can't I be better or look at that person is better.
- 15:23And then because of all that going on, sometimes if that's in
- 15:26an extreme state, your nervous system shifts into a sympathetic
- 15:30dominant state, which is flight or fight.
- 15:33And what happens is most of the time when you're, when you're
- 15:36into those thinking, you know, your, your body's fluttered with
- 15:39cortisol and you're in this stress state and then your whole
- 15:43biochemistry changes. And if, if you keep staying in
- 15:46that state for too long, from over the years, suddenly you
- 15:49feel like, oh, you know, I have diabetes who have this, I have
- 15:52that. How did that happen?
- 15:54How did I have disease? How, how, how, oh, maybe it's
- 15:57normal. It's just a part of aging,
- 15:58right? That's what being thought that
- 16:00is the worst thing. Body reaction to everything like
- 16:03body reaction to to absolutely my I like this thing with that
- 16:08says that happiness is a choice because it's it's it's
- 16:12unfortunately true and unfortunately not so good
- 16:17accepted in the world because everything Yeah, how can you be
- 16:20happy with these issues that you have?
- 16:21It's just a choice if you decide.
- 16:23To and and and the biggest mistake that we can make is try
- 16:27to find the happiness in something or trying to wait till
- 16:31you have that thing that you thought about that goal you want
- 16:34to achieve for for being happy. People are not getting the fact
- 16:38that people are not getting the fact that that's an illusion.
- 16:41First, Second, that the way to the goal is more important than
- 16:46the goal, because the way to the goal takes takes longer time
- 16:50than the goal itself. And the satisfaction of the goal
- 16:53is a few seconds. But if we learn to enjoy the way
- 16:58to the goal, your life is much better.
- 17:00It's always the journey that matters.
- 17:02It's always absolutely. That's why we have a podcast.
- 17:05Not Wellness and beyond, Journey to Wellness and beyond.
- 17:08Exactly. It's a journey that matters.
- 17:11You were talking about you were talking about your mother's
- 17:14illness being a major turning point.
- 17:18Exactly. And so after she passed away, I
- 17:21continued. Actually, before, after I
- 17:24completed animation for this short period of time, because
- 17:27there was no animation industry back then.
- 17:30I'm talking about 2010 in India, right?
- 17:33If you wanted to become an animator, you needed to go to
- 17:36United States or Canada or Singapore or United Kingdom.
- 17:40And so at that point in time, like my parents said, you know
- 17:43what, hang on a little bit, maybe, you know, you can work on
- 17:46your portfolio. And I thought, OK, yeah, you
- 17:48know, let me just work on My Portfolio until the time, like
- 17:51my father said, why don't you just join me in the restaurant,
- 17:53the hospitality business, he had restaurants and just help me
- 17:56manage it. I'm fine.
- 17:57OK, I'll do that. And I'm glad I never went
- 18:00because like, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to spend
- 18:03that time with my mom the last 2-3 years.
- 18:07That's interesting. And so I also ended up like
- 18:10working in the hospitality industry for like about two to
- 18:13three years. And just after my mom passed
- 18:16away, which was a coincidence that a few months later, the
- 18:22place where I was helping my father with like I was managing
- 18:26with him, I was working under him.
- 18:28It went under redevelopment. So I like literally I had
- 18:31nothing to do. You know what I used to do?
- 18:33Like out of being so depressed and stressed, I used to just go
- 18:37and freaking wash my car for like 3 hours just just to divert
- 18:42myself. I didn't, I was like, I didn't
- 18:45know what life is. What should I do in life?
- 18:48Where am I going? I had no idea.
- 18:50I was totally clueless. Yeah.
- 18:54And of course, I mean, my father, he felt it.
- 18:57And he was like, you know, this guy needs a companion.
- 19:00He someone needs to handle this guy.
- 19:02Exactly. And I was, I was really
- 19:03depressed in life. And so at that point of time, of
- 19:06course, my family did come to the rescue.
- 19:08Of course, my family, my my dad, I have a brother.
- 19:10They also were very affected by that.
- 19:13And my brother was really determined to get healthy.
- 19:17And so he joined the gym. He pushed me in the gym.
- 19:19He said, no, you come with me, let's work out together.
- 19:23And my dad, he encouraged me to find someone because I didn't
- 19:27have a girlfriend. Nothing at all like as as a
- 19:31teenager, as someone like a young adult, as I was growing
- 19:35up, I was extremely shy, extremely shy.
- 19:39I mean, I wouldn't think of doing this in a million years
- 19:42back then. So yeah, my father encouraged me
- 19:50to find someone and I was like, I don't know.
- 19:53I don't know. I don't, I didn't really do
- 19:56anything about it. I was so discouraged eventually,
- 19:59you know, because arranged marriages are a thing in India.
- 20:02So he ended up like creating some account on some websites
- 20:06for me and not, not for planning, not for finding a
- 20:10girlfriend, but directly marriage.
- 20:11You know there are some mad sites and he hired agent.
- 20:18To find someone for me because, you know, there's a whole thing
- 20:21over there that people hire agents to find, you know,
- 20:25partners for their kids and. I have to come back and I have
- 20:30to interrupt you and I'm sorry for that.
- 20:31I I'm officially sorry again. Do you know you said you don't
- 20:35watch TV? You're not a big fan of TV,
- 20:37right? Yeah, I'm not.
- 20:40So there is this TV series which is called The Big Bang Theory.
- 20:43Yeah, that I have watched ESF, absolutely.
- 20:45OK, you watch. Have you seen the episode where
- 20:48Sheldon is explaining why the setup marriages are better than
- 20:51the love marriages? I.
- 20:52Don't remember that, I just saw it once.
- 20:55He's OK. He's talking to Raj in the show.
- 21:01And because Raj is upset that he's alone and he cannot find
- 21:04anyone, he said talk to your parents that they should find
- 21:06someone, somewhere to get married.
- 21:08Yeah. And he explains scientifically
- 21:10why the arranged marriage are better than they loved one.
- 21:13Because the arranged one, the family, make sure that you come
- 21:16together. You are you are on the same
- 21:18level and so on. So you don't have that love
- 21:21thing. Love is passing.
- 21:22It's OK. Yeah, actually, you know what?
- 21:24Actually it makes sense because if I get go to see like my
- 21:28relationship by the way, we just completed 10 years of our
- 21:30relationship. I'm sorry for interrupting to go
- 21:33on with that story. We just completed 10 years of
- 21:38being married, so that's that's huge at such an early age, I'd
- 21:43say. And I'm grateful because I got
- 21:46home and I definitely feel that nothing is.
- 21:48It's not just feel that has been confirmed that it wasn't a
- 21:53coincidence that I found my wife and I got married to her.
- 21:57It was just meant to happen. So it wasn't a family arranged
- 22:01marriage. It was yeah, but through a
- 22:05service, not the family arranged marriage.
- 22:07Like your parents knew their parents since 25 years and they
- 22:12exactly because it's a different perspective.
- 22:15We have to be honest because if we talk about family arranged
- 22:18marriage, when I give you the example, you grew together,
- 22:21maybe in the, I don't know, or your, your parents grew together
- 22:24and they know each other and before you were born, they got
- 22:27promised like they, they, they share the problems and said,
- 22:30yeah, they will, they will get together anyhow.
- 22:32And I think that's a bit more complicated than in this case
- 22:36was an arranged marriage, but through an A consultant because
- 22:40most probably they know what they're they are doing.
- 22:43Yeah, So that, that, that that was definitely different.
- 22:46My, my father didn't know her family vice versa.
- 22:51And so I think it was her father first, like her parents was
- 22:55coming to our place and just, you know, talking to me, saying
- 22:58if it's all fine. And then they arranged like
- 23:00another meeting in a hotel and like in a cafe and a hotel.
- 23:04And yeah, Long story short, I, I had no clue once again what I
- 23:09was doing. And I said yes to her, like, on
- 23:11a very serious note, you know, and she knows that I did tell
- 23:13her, look, you know, I don't know what I was doing.
- 23:16I was completely clueless. Well, I love your honesty.
- 23:20I love, I love your honesty. I would love honestly, I, I
- 23:24think you know, I love you couldn't you could we could do a
- 23:26discussion once about to explain me the process in detail the
- 23:29process, because I'm genuinely curious about the the actual
- 23:32process happening behind it. Yeah, absolutely.
- 23:34I'd love to share that. So it's like the agent was like
- 23:40sending some profiles because everything was online.
- 23:42So he was like recommending profiles from my dad, like, OK,
- 23:45you know, this, this would be more compatible because my dad
- 23:48had submitted. I don't know what my dad was
- 23:50doing. You know what he did?
- 23:51He asked me for pictures. And I thought that why is my dad
- 23:55asking me to get mad? And I gave him like, I had lost
- 23:58weight, I had lost excessive fats and I was, you know, down
- 24:01to like 75 KGS. I still gave him my pictures
- 24:05when I was still like almost like 95 KGS and all I was like,
- 24:09put those pictures. He's like, why are you not
- 24:10giving me a present current pictures, like just put those.
- 24:13I don't care because somewhere in my heart I didn't want to get
- 24:15married any which way. So so the Asian contacted and
- 24:21shorts and go to my dad and my dad was passing.
- 24:24Sometimes I think it depends on the sometimes it was a pet at
- 24:27the parents who had created a profile.
- 24:29Sometimes it was a girl itself who had created the profile.
- 24:33So my dad passed me a few numbers and I was like, and then
- 24:36eventually he spoke to this agent.
- 24:39The agent said you should absolutely meet these people.
- 24:42They seem like they're searching for exactly what you are
- 24:46searching and it's like compatibility.
- 24:48My dad spoke to her dad and then they visited our place.
- 24:54We had a general chat, what do you do, blah, blah, blah.
- 24:57And eventually they kind of liked me.
- 25:00And then they they went and they told my, I mean, my wife said,
- 25:04yeah, you know, he's guys, he's lost weight, you know, don't go
- 25:06on those pictures because I was like, I don't want to marry this
- 25:08guy. He's like 100 KGS, you know,
- 25:10he's like some more wrestler. So in reality, he looks better,
- 25:19yeah. That's what they said.
- 25:24And then she was like, OK, I'll meet him, but I can promise
- 25:26anything. And so we met in a, in a cafe
- 25:29and at first like I think she was even, I was just like
- 25:35sitting quietly and I was just like generally looking.
- 25:38I don't know if she felt threatened or what.
- 25:40And they just like after just having a general chat where we
- 25:43didn't talk at all, they said go, go and talk.
- 25:46You're both go and talk to each other.
- 25:48And then I think she was feeling awkward.
- 25:51And then she even asked my brother to come along and like,
- 25:53what the hell Is she in the. Yeah, But any issues, of course,
- 25:58my brother didn't come along. We, we, we walked for like an
- 26:02hour just in the hotel because it was a cafe in a hotel.
- 26:06I don't know what came over me because that was not me at all.
- 26:09I generally would never do this. I don't know why.
- 26:12I just started telling her everything about my life, which
- 26:15never happened ever. Like even when my dad introduced
- 26:18me to other girls, I never did that.
- 26:20In fact, I was always opposing and and and and just going out
- 26:24of context and, you know, talking to their family.
- 26:27But somehow I don't know why I did that.
- 26:29I have no idea. And yeah, from there, just
- 26:36tortured. And then we had, like, photons
- 26:38to meet. So she was supposed to come and
- 26:41meet me for a walk. And then eventually, I was not
- 26:43even allowed to have dinner with her.
- 26:45She had to come home early. I mean, yeah, I don't know.
- 26:47I mean, the things are strict in India still.
- 26:48I can't believe it was 2014 fifteen.
- 26:56And we just had like 3 opportunities to meet.
- 26:59And we had to provide an answer whether it's a yes or no.
- 27:04And I don't know what I was doing.
- 27:07To be very frank, it was a risk, no denying that.
- 27:09I just said yes. No clue why.
- 27:14But look, you I have to say it's still a different version for
- 27:19the one from the one that I know because initially the variant
- 27:23that it's known in Europe is that you are you'll get your
- 27:26arranged marriage and you have no saying in it.
- 27:28Yeah, but this is in your case was different.
- 27:31So yeah, I would say it's different.
- 27:34I found the code in the meantime and I feel it's important to
- 27:37read it. So the I found a quote from
- 27:40Sheldon and I. I find it just super
- 27:43interesting. Instead of relying on the
- 27:46fickle, on the fickle nature of romantic attraction, which is
- 27:50rooted in a complex and often unreliable blend of pheromones,
- 27:54social conditioning, and unmet childhood needs, arranged
- 27:59marriages are based on compatibility factors like
- 28:02education and socioeconomic status and long term goals
- 28:06evaluated by experienced elders. It's not romance.
- 28:09It's match matching by data. Absolutely it wasn't.
- 28:11Romance. It wasn't romance.
- 28:15I'm sorry, I had to I find that I searched for the quote.
- 28:18That's one point that's true. And actually, if you ask her, I
- 28:23think she'd also say the same thing, that she just went with
- 28:26the flu and she wasn't sure what she was doing.
- 28:29So you got married. When did you how did you decided
- 28:33to move move out of India? So after we got married, we
- 28:38founded a brand because we were introduced to the idea like one
- 28:41of my dad's partners, my dad, because I was just alone and
- 28:44depressed at home. My dad wanted me to do
- 28:46something. The restaurant was closed.
- 28:48He, his business partner, had an idea where he he introduced like
- 28:52a handmade clothing, hand loom clothing from villages.
- 28:57He said let's do something about it, but then eventually, Long
- 29:00story short, didn't work out with him because, you know, he
- 29:02had a different perspective and I had different perspectives.
- 29:05So I just said, I'm sorry, let's part ways.
- 29:08And but I did like the idea of doing something.
- 29:12I mean, I had no clue what I had to do.
- 29:14I said, OK, well, maybe we can do something on the same line.
- 29:17So this was again, dumb of me that just because, you know, I
- 29:22got married and of course I felt that all girls know design, all
- 29:26girls know about clothes. So it's perfect, you know, maybe
- 29:29I can handle the logistics and she can handle the designing and
- 29:32everything because she knows everything.
- 29:33Every girl knows about design and style and fashions.
- 29:37Collars. Collars.
- 29:39I don't know any colors. Yeah, but actually that was a
- 29:41mistake. But any which was we learned we
- 29:44we we fell face flat, but we learned eventually we of course,
- 29:49we Co founded a brand Justinzie. It was natural for it was a
- 29:55natural light organic cotton clothing brand.
- 29:57And what we actually and actually what happened was after
- 30:01I got married, there was one important point I forgot to
- 30:03mention that since I wasn't on social media, I told you I was
- 30:06extremely shy. So but Julie was my wife was on
- 30:10social media. So I told her about, you know, I
- 30:14really want to do something, you know, find why my mom got
- 30:18cancer. What's the whole deal behind
- 30:20cancer? Why can't they help people and
- 30:22cancer like on the safe people? So she started searching and she
- 30:25came across certain posts on Facebook about time Charlene
- 30:29Bollinger. I don't know if you've heard
- 30:30about them the truth about cancer.
- 30:32It's a very nice documentary. I'll just leave it at that.
- 30:35Like I said, I don't want to get your Bodka censored.
- 30:39So from there it entire the whole can of worms that point
- 30:46and and we started researching from there, you know, attending
- 30:51online events, webinars and from there it just opened our way of,
- 30:58you know, researching about the topic, getting to know and
- 31:00learning about health. So actually we started our
- 31:03journey in health unofficially, that was in 2016.
- 31:08And from there we learnt, OK, environmental toxins is a big
- 31:11thing. You know, accumulation of
- 31:13toxins, it does affect the body and you know, that's one factor
- 31:17that why it can contribute to cancer, right?
- 31:21And so we, we, I also felt it. The idea of introducing natural
- 31:25dyed organic cotton clothing. Natural dyed is very important
- 31:28because the skin is like a big mouth and it's constantly
- 31:32absorbing. Even if you wash AT shirt that's
- 31:34chemically dyed like 1000 times doesn't mean that the skin will
- 31:37stop absorbing the chemicals, especially if it has like
- 31:41certain amount of, you know, certain treatments done, you
- 31:45know, to, to have to give a feel, a certain feel to the
- 31:48fabric. So we started diving into that
- 31:53and my role was, you know, taking care of the logistics and
- 31:55she was always, you know, writing the blogs, making the
- 31:57social media content and talking to people.
- 32:00And so we, we, I also had a documentary.
- 32:03I don't know whether you got a chance to take a look.
- 32:05There's also a documentary on the I, I, I'll forward it to you
- 32:08later on our website have placed a documentary.
- 32:11We had a documentary. So we ran the brand from 2000,
- 32:14like late 2015. We established the brand 2016
- 32:18and what again, we were only, we were only India wasn't ready.
- 32:23People were like, why should I spend $35 for AT Shirt?
- 32:28I mean, I have my own and oh, to save the environment or cancer.
- 32:33Oh God, I mean, there's so much of toxins, there's so much of
- 32:35pollution. Why should I bother about AT
- 32:36Shirt? You know, that was a mentality
- 32:38back then, back then. I think now it's changed or it
- 32:41has shattered changing at least. So we said that we will and be
- 32:47our clients were all from United States, Canada, you know, New
- 32:51Zealand. They were shipping
- 32:51internationally, but we were facing heavy losses because of
- 32:55the logistics, you know, T-shirts getting lost and people
- 32:58saying that oh, you know, people are not buying again.
- 33:00And because of custom duties, the price of the T-shirts is
- 33:04almost doubling because of customs and shipping and really
- 33:08didn't make sense. So we said, OK, you know what, I
- 33:10think the best thing to do is just shift out of India and we
- 33:17and United States was not on the list because, you know, to
- 33:19establish a business over there was a big no, no.
- 33:22I mean, you, you need a huge capital for that.
- 33:25So we chose being sunny, country friendly people.
- 33:29At that point in time, we thought, yeah, I mean, you know,
- 33:32we need to run a brand. So language shouldn't be a big
- 33:35problem. You know, I mean, we don't have
- 33:36to really talk a lot with people.
- 33:40You know, we just need to establish our brand and it's
- 33:42like more European and international from there.
- 33:44It'll be much nicer and we left India in 2019, almost end of
- 33:502019. Oh my God.
- 33:54Guess what? We.
- 33:55I see what's coming. Exactly, and imagine having
- 33:59shifted to Spain, not knowing Spanish, to a city called via
- 34:03the Lead, which you haven't heard of I'm pretty sure.
- 34:07I heard because I'm watching football.
- 34:08Oh, you OK? Perfect.
- 34:09Yeah. But you know what?
- 34:12To find a person who speaks English over here is extremely
- 34:15rare. I mean, of course, now that we
- 34:18have lived here for like 6 years, we know people who speak
- 34:21English. But otherwise, like as a newbie
- 34:24to find people over here, people generally don't speak English
- 34:27over here, at least not in public.
- 34:29So and, and we came here, we just established ourselves like,
- 34:33OK, yeah, March, we're going to start our brand.
- 34:36Guess what? What happened in March 2020?
- 34:40That's what I said. I see what's going.
- 34:43And that was a point and you know, when we came to Spain, we
- 34:47sold everything we had. We got every every penny we had
- 34:52with us that we owned. And we ended up reinvesting
- 34:58everything in re education because you're like, first we
- 35:01waited, we waited for like 6-7 months, OK, now things will come
- 35:06back. But then we saw that things are
- 35:07just getting worse and it's impacting the economy.
- 35:11How are people, I mean, people wouldn't want to spend like
- 35:14again, like $30 on AT shirt. Like, Oh my God, this is not the
- 35:18time. This is not the time.
- 35:20So I mean, Juhi had already signed up for herbalism because
- 35:24when she was writing the articles for natural dyeing,
- 35:28what were they using for natural dyeing?
- 35:29They were using herbal ingredients and herbal
- 35:32ingredients had medicinal properties.
- 35:35So she took up herbalism back in India as a hobby never expected
- 35:40would be something mainstream she'd ever do.
- 35:42And I took a personal training because, you know, going to the
- 35:46gym really helped me. You know, it made me, it gave me
- 35:50the confidence. You know, when I, when I lost
- 35:52the body fat, it gave me a whole lot of confidence.
- 35:55And I, I decided to take up nutrition.
- 35:58I did sports nutrition. Then thereafter, of course, we,
- 36:01we did have a base. We don't have knowledge, but we
- 36:04just couldn't have gone out and help people just that way
- 36:07because we thought people wouldn't trust us because we
- 36:09don't have certifications. So we, we, we ended up gathering
- 36:15certifications. You know, I ended up starting
- 36:17function medicine for three years and then autonomic
- 36:20response testing and what not. And guess what?
- 36:25We, we got into depths because, you know, I mean, I don't speak
- 36:29the language. How am I going to get a job over
- 36:31here? I don't even have a permit for a
- 36:34job. But I, I have to, I have to come
- 36:37back a bit. Why?
- 36:38Why I do it? Because it was closest to
- 36:41Madrid. Makes sense, right?
- 36:44I opened the map and you thought Madrid is bloody expensive with
- 36:49they what's closest? Yeah, Oh.
- 36:51Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Plus, if you if you live in the
- 36:55outskirts in the region of Madrid, Madrid in the region,
- 36:59it's gonna take. In the metropolitan area.
- 37:01Exactly. It's gonna take exactly the same
- 37:03amount of time travelling from Vaidali to Madrid.
- 37:07Absolutely. 30 minutes by train. Yeah, OK.
- 37:11That was the first question. Second question, OK.
- 37:14You bought the train ticket, you took everything what you had at
- 37:17the train ticket. I'm sorry, a plane ticket took
- 37:19everything what you had. How was the You took an Airbnb
- 37:23first or you had an apartment hunting process?
- 37:25Wow, that was a very good question.
- 37:28Tell you what. We had a hard time getting an
- 37:31apartment. No one was giving us an
- 37:34apartment. Look at how the system is.
- 37:37They expect us to have a residency card, but you cannot
- 37:41get a residency card unless you don't have an apartment.
- 37:46I love this. So bad.
- 37:49But it's everywhere in Europe. I don't know.
- 37:52Nobody's thinking this through. It's the same in Germany, it's
- 37:54the same in Portugal, Same everywhere.
- 37:56I'm telling you, I talk to a lot of people now.
- 37:58It's the same everywhere. Yeah.
- 38:00Exactly. You know how we used to like, we
- 38:01didn't know Spanish, right? So that time we used to like, I
- 38:05used to write on people, convert, like the English text.
- 38:08And then I was like, Hola, Hola, yeah, espero, espero, espero.
- 38:11And I used to just start reading it out to them.
- 38:13Sometimes they used to lose patience and they used to cut
- 38:16the call. Absolutely.
- 38:17And I started going to the office and bugging them.
- 38:20Nothing happened. And, and day and night I was, I
- 38:24was on the phone, you know, looking at like private listings
- 38:26and all, you know, and there was this app called idialista.
- 38:31I know, right? And so over there, I found like
- 38:34a private listing and I contacted this person and I
- 38:38said, and at first they said no. I said, hey, hold on.
- 38:43Why don't you just meet us in person before you say no, Don't,
- 38:46don't just say no just like that.
- 38:48I'm absolutely fine if you meet, if after you meeting us, you say
- 38:51no, I wouldn't say anything. And I send them our documentary.
- 38:56And so when they saw the documentary, they knew we were
- 38:58genuine. We're not going to RIP them off.
- 39:01OK, makes sense. It was it was an elderly couple
- 39:05and they, they got their son because they didn't know
- 39:08English, Spanish. So they got their son to
- 39:15translate. They met her.
- 39:17They showed us a house and it's beautiful traditional Spanish
- 39:21house right in front of a nice beautiful church, Iglesia.
- 39:26And it's right in the center. And they just agreed.
- 39:31They agreed. And it was like, wow, that was
- 39:34no coincidence, that is. Again.
- 39:38True. No coincidence.
- 39:39Also what happened was we also found a Spanish teacher even
- 39:43before we got a house. Again, that was, it was just out
- 39:48of the blue. We were at the cafeteria
- 39:51ordering a sandwich and the person was not understanding.
- 39:55She called someone from inside the kitchen.
- 39:57She just knew fluent English. And then we just happened to ask
- 40:00her, please, can you help out the Spanish, please?
- 40:03You know, just and then and she was a student.
- 40:05She was a literature student by chance.
- 40:08And she ended up like teaching her Spanish for like 3 years.
- 40:11She, she did a great job and she became one of her good friends.
- 40:15Also the owners were really supportive.
- 40:19And this is this is where I come, you know when I say that,
- 40:21you know, the Spanish people are really amazing.
- 40:23They're very friendly. We have had amazing experience
- 40:26in Spain. I have come to love Spain like
- 40:28really. And after they gave her the
- 40:31house, they got like a new mattress for us, you know, the
- 40:34bottle of wine, etcetera, etcetera.
- 40:36And then they the first weekend they invited us, come, we'll
- 40:39take you for a walk. We'll show you around the city.
- 40:41We'll show you. And you know, the way we were
- 40:45communicating, always had the phone in my hand with the Google
- 40:48translator on and always like something that says stick it on
- 40:50their mouth, please, I need to translate.
- 40:56And they started teaching us Spanish like, you know, while
- 40:58walking, pointing to the wall. Parrid, Parrid.
- 41:02They started like teaching us Spanish that way and it was a
- 41:05beautiful experience. They were really helpful and
- 41:08until date we know know them and we go out with them and we are
- 41:12really grateful for whatever happened and the people will
- 41:14have been really amazing and supportive.
- 41:17I have to say Spain is a different kind of culture
- 41:20because of the Latino heritage. Most probably they are extremely
- 41:23friendly, but they are genuinely friendly.
- 41:25So they are not friendly only for for the what's for the
- 41:29appearances. They are genuinely friendly and
- 41:31they are, yeah, having a different way of, of, of living
- 41:34their life. What was the biggest cultural
- 41:42shock after you landed? People don't like coming to each
- 41:47other's houses, they don't like inviting people to our houses.
- 41:50Everyone wants to meet in a bar. You can't meet.
- 41:54You can't go to someone's house, you have to meet in a bar.
- 41:56That's the whole culture over here.
- 42:00I mean, I like it. But it's strange to invite
- 42:04someone. Yeah, OK, that's a good one.
- 42:09I haven't had that one. What about?
- 42:10So I had, I had in episode 6, I have, I had Kev and Cat.
- 42:16They were living in a in a small village in Spain.
- 42:19And the the thing that they said at the beginning was the biggest
- 42:23impact for them is that was was the middle of the day where
- 42:28everything is dying for 1-2 hours.
- 42:30Yeah. Like is that is that something
- 42:33which is happens? I'm in bio elites.
- 42:35OK, it's a smaller, it's a smaller.
- 42:37You'll you'll get a lot of hate now.
- 42:40Things are closed like from 2:00 PM until like 4-5.
- 42:44Especially in summers and especially in August, almost
- 42:49everything is closed like most people are on vacations.
- 42:52And ask the reason we. Don't expect anything to be open
- 42:55except supermarkets and, you know, big shops.
- 42:57There there is an explanation what they what they everyone
- 43:00saying in the comments that they are doing because of the heat,
- 43:02because nobody's outside during two between 12:00 and 2:00 or
- 43:0512:00 and 3:00 because of the heat.
- 43:07Yeah. So they close all the stores.
- 43:10Yeah. What about the what about the
- 43:12food adaptation? Arjun, how did that went?
- 43:16Yeah. Well, you know, the food was
- 43:19really different, but I should say the quality of food is
- 43:22really high. I mean, it's amazing.
- 43:25Like, you know, like having a tomato in India and a tomato in
- 43:28Spain. You can taste the tomato in
- 43:30Spain and the tomatoes India is like super bland.
- 43:34There's no taste to it, right. So that was amazing.
- 43:37Like have like tasting things like vegetables and fruits for
- 43:40the first time. That was the most amazing part,
- 43:43so. That's so interesting, man.
- 43:46That's so it's, you know, it's, it's one of the things that that
- 43:49it's true when you say the money can buy this experience of
- 43:52tasting a vegetable like it doesn't matter the money that
- 43:55you have and you can pay for it. It's still important from
- 43:57somewhere and doesn't taste like it should be.
- 43:59Yeah. And I feel really, I am really
- 44:01grateful. I have so much of gratitude
- 44:03that, you know, we get such high quality food because I know when
- 44:06you talk about Wellness, like food is so important and, and,
- 44:11and people have a misconception that, you know, natural food
- 44:15like fruits and vegetables, you know, it's bland and you know,
- 44:18it's hard to eat, but you know, it's hard to 18 because food is
- 44:22like, it's not tasty. I mean, we make such amazing
- 44:24food. It's really amazing.
- 44:26By the way, you know, since to be on that topic and you asked
- 44:29me about our experiences and the experience in Spain, it was a
- 44:35bit difficult to adjust to the culinary experience, especially
- 44:38in why I believe because you have mostly Spanish food and
- 44:42Spanish food mostly means heavy on meats, less vegetables, more
- 44:48cured meats, come on so, and mostly breads.
- 44:53That totally goes against, you know, our beliefs of Wellness.
- 44:58So that means we had to recreate food at home, make it more
- 45:02tastier. Like we delve into early.
- 45:06We kind of learned cooking because back in India we never
- 45:08used to cook. I'm a big fan of Indian food.
- 45:13Oh yeah, I'm a big fan of Indian food.
- 45:16And since I think the last two months, my, my wife and my kid
- 45:21became also a big fan of Indian food and we cooked that quite
- 45:24often at home. But I'm pretty sure that the old
- 45:27recipes are different than my recipes.
- 45:29And everything is different in in the own country that you have
- 45:35it in your own country like. Actually we don't like the the
- 45:41way we cook is like we divide our tasks.
- 45:43So I cook half the time, she cooks half the time.
- 45:46And so she, like Indian food is only cooked like twice in a week
- 45:49because it's too elaborate, it's too time consuming.
- 45:53Right. So most of the time we are, we
- 45:56are, we are like we are cooking like really simple dishes, very
- 45:59earthy. And also because I think there
- 46:02is one positive, one negative thing about Indian food.
- 46:06And I don't, I don't mean to criticize Indian food.
- 46:08Of course, anyone from India, you are allowed to.
- 46:11Yeah. I think that someone from Spain
- 46:14told me that, you know, we use so many spices, we overcook the
- 46:18food in India, that we have really forgotten the taste of
- 46:21Indian food, like we have really forgotten the taste of
- 46:23vegetables. Although I can't really blame
- 46:25because vegetables don't have taste in India.
- 46:27That's the problem. That's I, I heard an
- 46:29explanation. I had the I had a colleague
- 46:32which was coming from India and I asked exactly this, why, why
- 46:35so many spices? And the argument that he gave me
- 46:38makes sense. He said, you know, fruits and
- 46:42vegetables don't have that many. If we have them, they are
- 46:44blended, they don't have a really good taste.
- 46:46And 2nd you have to make the rice taste different because
- 46:48other rice it's boring which makes.
- 46:50Sense. Makes sense.
- 46:51Yeah. So at least over here, it's so
- 46:53easy. Like if you want, I can show you
- 46:55what I ate today because I clicked the picture.
- 46:57I just send it to my wife. She's not over here right now.
- 47:00So I can I can show you what I just made right now before, you
- 47:04know, coming online, you can see this.
- 47:07So that's, that's brinjal, you know, and, and just chicken,
- 47:12soy, just brinjal and chicken. Yeah, simple.
- 47:17I mean, simple food doesn't need to be difficult.
- 47:19You know, I, I prepare, people complain you can't be healthy.
- 47:24I can't be healthy. I can't eat healthy because I
- 47:26don't have the time to cook. I take 20 minutes.
- 47:29I take 20 minutes to cook. Arjun, we are born excuses.
- 47:35Yeah, natural born excuses. This is This is Mexican salad.
- 47:39It took me 20 minutes to prepare this.
- 47:41You can just see all the colourful vegetables I had.
- 47:44Vegetables. Leafy greens.
- 47:47Since we started talking, I struggled to remember the name
- 47:50of the of the food that I cooked this weekend.
- 47:54And unfortunately I can't. And maybe you can help me.
- 47:57Is the, is the dish where you have the cheese, the small
- 48:00slices of cheese, like the the special Indian cheese?
- 48:03I don't know how. Unfortunately, I don't remember
- 48:05the name exactly. Pannier.
- 48:06Thank you. You see, you see, I know it's
- 48:08easier for you, so. And I had paneer.
- 48:11I cooked paneer. Of course, if you want to cook
- 48:13naan bread besides it, of course, it takes a bit more
- 48:16time, right. But in the meantime, you can do
- 48:18this naan bread with yogurt as well.
- 48:20And it's it's not so critical. Well, I want to say the paneer
- 48:25itself took me 25 minutes to make.
- 48:28It's. I'm sorry.
- 48:30I mean, it's excuses only excuses everywhere.
- 48:37Yeah, it's, it's, it's always the case.
- 48:40We you know, we always take the hard, we always take the easy
- 48:45decisions which help us today. But we never think about the
- 48:48future. We never think about the moment
- 48:52in which we should take the hard decisions for today to help us
- 48:57in the future. Because if you take the easy
- 49:00today, it will be hard in the future.
- 49:01If you take the hard today would be easy in the future.
- 49:04So you have to choose your heart.
- 49:06Actually, this is what they are doing.
- 49:07Or you are postponing the heart, nothing else.
- 49:09Absolutely. And there was one thing I found
- 49:11out because after doing function medicine, autonomic response
- 49:15testing and all these things, especially after being
- 49:16introduced to Doctor Dietrich Klingheart, Greg Braden, Bruce
- 49:19Lipton, Doctor Julius Penza. What I found was that you know,
- 49:23when there is a misalignment with what you think you and, and
- 49:28the way you want to feel in your body, like you want to feel
- 49:30healthy, you want to be healthy. If there's a misalignment,
- 49:34you're really not going to take the actions.
- 49:36Your body's not going to come to a place of healing.
- 49:39So that's why interestingly, you will not believe Julie ended up
- 49:43like taking up all my studies, my syllabus and starting
- 49:46function medicine herself, although I have the certificate,
- 49:49but she ended up doing a far better job than me.
- 49:52And I, I, I completely shifted into the mind space because I
- 49:55felt that the mind was something really we needed to focus on.
- 50:00Like for example, you, you just said right now that people don't
- 50:03take action. People don't think long term.
- 50:06But I feel there's a reason why because people are too stressed
- 50:09in life, because people are too, too much lost in the past or in
- 50:13the future. They're not living in the
- 50:15present moment. They are.
- 50:18They're lost. They're lost, and sometimes
- 50:20they're burned out and they feel that, you know, I don't care.
- 50:26I don't care if I live or die or I don't care.
- 50:28Whatever happens tomorrow, I am stuck today.
- 50:31What am I supposed to do? I would I would make the
- 50:35statement would be different. I would say it's not about I
- 50:37don't care. It's about I wanted to have it
- 50:39easy today. Yeah, I just want to have it.
- 50:42I I developed a habit beginning of 21.
- 50:45I also have a bad history of weight.
- 50:48I I had my best. I was 200 kilograms almost.
- 50:52So a really bad history with weight.
- 50:55And at the beginning of 21, I was around about 151 sixty, I
- 51:01start to do walks, like literally only walks, but the
- 51:04beginning because you cannot really run with that weight.
- 51:08And I, I end up doing it every morning between 5:00 and 7:00
- 51:12because due to my working schedule, that was the only time
- 51:15slot that I could afford to have two hours in which I could
- 51:18because then I took my son to school.
- 51:20Then I came back from work. I want to spend some time with
- 51:22my kid and so on. And I, I had to prioritize
- 51:24somehow. And man, from the winter, which
- 51:27I decided I will do that every morning, it was easy.
- 51:30But man, the hardest two weeks of my life were at the beginning
- 51:33where I swear all the cots every morning when I woke up and I
- 51:36said, OK, I cannot go today. No, today it's raining.
- 51:41It could be it will rain. No, today's too warm.
- 51:43No, today's too. No, it's today's 502.
- 51:46I care. I will not make it every excuse,
- 51:49every excuse possible because I wanted to have it easy.
- 51:55Adrian, I want to, I want to ask you a question.
- 51:56You said that you, you told us about the trainings that you
- 52:00took you and, and, and your wife.
- 52:02What was the aha moment? And you said, oh, this area that
- 52:05we go into, it's, it's something that we meant to be here and we
- 52:10are able to help people. So The thing is that first of
- 52:18all, the one thing I realized a little lot of context, but I'll
- 52:24start from here, that healing can only happen when we are in
- 52:29alignment with who we are supposed to be originally and
- 52:35why we are you, right? Second thing that we need to
- 52:39realize that we cannot, someone cannot come and heal us.
- 52:45That healing cannot happen outside of us.
- 52:48There is no pill, there is no magic solution.
- 52:52There is no this one person. It's healing is a state of mind.
- 52:56Healing is to be in alignment of accept and acceptance of that
- 53:00healing energy. It's about creating an
- 53:03environment, you know, where it's not just the body, but it's
- 53:08like when we align the mind and the body and finally we create
- 53:12an environment where it can heal itself.
- 53:14Like we have already been given the systems and speaking now,
- 53:19elaborating on more what you asked me, hoping I got the
- 53:22question is when I dove into the area of the mind.
- 53:28And then Speaking of mind expansion at right now that I'm
- 53:32doing since almost like the past one year, mind expansion is
- 53:36about going beyond the the daily life that we live.
- 53:41That's beyond the third dimension where we are living
- 53:45and experiencing space and time to access that profound part of
- 53:50our subconscious which has which is timeless and has answers to
- 53:55everything and to realize one thing that we come here with
- 54:02certain goals and motives. Goals for experiencing things
- 54:09for aligning with certain things we need to do, like with a
- 54:12purpose and as long as we are and the the compass that guides
- 54:18us to let us know, hey, I'm on the right track.
- 54:21I'm walking in the right. I'm, I'm walking straight like
- 54:24I'm walking where I'm supposed to is how we feel.
- 54:28If if I am, for example, now today I'm working as a mind
- 54:32expansion coach and I'm also launching the service of inner
- 54:35wealth mentor. And I whenever I think of this,
- 54:39I feel so excited and I'm naturally good at it.
- 54:42And that is not something that I've like.
- 54:44I think of myself. Is that what people have been
- 54:46telling me since so long? And I just had that aha moment.
- 54:50Oh my, I'm just doing it naturally.
- 54:52Why don't I just do it, you know, as a profession.
- 54:55It's why why don't I include it in my profession?
- 54:58So I, I got excited with the idea, right.
- 55:03And so that's again, you bring your mind in alignment.
- 55:07You know, when you're when you're living life with
- 55:09excitement, you're happy because happiness is a state of mind.
- 55:13You're also creating that space for the body to heal.
- 55:16And because you're shifting your nervous system state as well to
- 55:19the parasympathetic mode. So automatically when you're
- 55:22happy in life, you're going to be like, let me take care of
- 55:25myself. I want to be better.
- 55:28I'm happy. I just want to do the good
- 55:29stuff, you know? I don't want to brood and sit
- 55:31and eat cookies, you know. So I think if that answers your
- 55:37question, I don't know if that answers your question.
- 55:39Yeah, that was exactly the question.
- 55:43And how do you, because you mentioned already that you are a
- 55:48mind expansion code. Yeah, how does it look like for
- 55:53someone working with you? Yeah, sure.
- 55:55So what happens in mind expansion is, but first of all,
- 55:59you need to trust in yourself and in the process and allow
- 56:02things to come to you. That's the very first thing.
- 56:05So when first people come to me and say, hey, I'm interested to
- 56:07do this. I mean, the first thing, I give
- 56:10them certain meditations or I prepare them, whatever they
- 56:15prefer by first, because a lot of us are living outside, we
- 56:22never turn our attention inside, right?
- 56:23Our attention is always outside. So first thing is to, at least
- 56:27for a week or so, train ourselves to be more attuned or
- 56:32be more conscious about what's inside of us.
- 56:36That's like shifting the focus slowly away.
- 56:39And then once I prepare the person, once the person prepares
- 56:42themselves, then the day of the session is, you know, of course
- 56:46we have a big interview like, OK, what's your life been like
- 56:49so far? What are the hurdles that you've
- 56:50been facing and what answers are you looking for?
- 56:55And then after, when the, when we have all that information in
- 56:58place, then we start by first some breathing exercises and
- 57:03getting the person into an elevated state of emotion.
- 57:06That's really important. And bringing that, bringing that
- 57:09coherence in all the regions of the brain, right, And the heart
- 57:12and the brain coherence as well. And then using breathing
- 57:16exercises. And from there, we slowly start
- 57:19shifting the person's consciousness beyond this
- 57:26space-time continuum where we are constantly living in day in
- 57:30and day out. That is, we do it using
- 57:33visualization and imagination. That is the bridge.
- 57:37That is the bridge. And that is the one thing I'm
- 57:39really going to, I'm actually also writing a book.
- 57:42So that is something that I have, I'm going to really write
- 57:46in depth about because there's a there's a misconception that
- 57:50something that is imagination is false.
- 57:53But let me tell you one thing that you know, people say, oh,
- 57:56it's imagination or it's, I don't know, I just made it up.
- 57:59It's not true. It's not true, right?
- 58:02But let me tell you something that the world we live in today
- 58:04and everything we see around us, the technology, every little
- 58:09furniture, every little thing that we see around those was
- 58:12Once Upon a time a part of someone's imagination, am I
- 58:15right? And the one thing that we come
- 58:18to realize is that everything already exists in timelessness.
- 58:25We never create anything, we never destroy anything.
- 58:28Everything just changes form because everything is energy,
- 58:30right? So during now coming back to the
- 58:33topic of what happens during the session is once the person
- 58:37transcends or sense of shifts your consciousness beyond the
- 58:41space-time continuum, they access the feel of time
- 58:45timelessness, or some people like to call it the Akashic
- 58:48record. You know, it's it has many names
- 58:50or a deeper profound part of the subconscious.
- 58:53And then they call upon the guidance of their divine team of
- 58:56the higher self. Now the higher self is the part
- 59:00of the person that's timeless, multidimensional in nature.
- 59:04And it's, imagine this, I'll give you an example that it's
- 59:08someone standing on a mountain. It's part of you and you're down
- 59:11in the valley and you can only see what's right in front of
- 59:14you. But that part of you that's
- 59:16standing on the mountain can see your entire path, where you have
- 59:19walked, where you are going, etcetera, etcetera.
- 59:22And it's constantly communicating with you.
- 59:24That's what we call intuition, right?
- 59:26So during the session, this becomes really strong.
- 59:31It starts communicating with you very strongly.
- 59:33And every person has a different experience.
- 59:36Like some people have had like guides directly being channeled
- 59:39through them, the higher self being channeled through them,
- 59:41answers coming to them. Sometimes, although I never
- 59:45promote that, it's for healing. There was a case once where one
- 59:49of my clients had like a precancerous skin condition and
- 59:54that that higher self for that part of that person said that,
- 59:58you know, disease is not a part of my life journey because I'm
- 1:00:02meant to do this, this, this, this.
- 1:00:03And that's the reason why I chose this family lineage.
- 1:00:07And so let's get rid of this. So people have had different
- 1:00:12experiences, like sometimes they see the past, sometimes they
- 1:00:15talk to their future self, sometimes they talk to their
- 1:00:19parallel self, sometimes they see colours, sometimes there's
- 1:00:21emotion release. The thing is, every session I've
- 1:00:24had with every single person has been so different.
- 1:00:27I can't even say that two sessions were the same.
- 1:00:33Oh, it's I have so many questions.
- 1:00:36Fire away, I'd be happy to answer.
- 1:00:38That how do you how do you so you said you are clearly
- 1:00:44focusing on self healing. Do you think there is a part of
- 1:00:51functional medicine that is somehow influencing your ability
- 1:00:58to enable that in someone? I would just say that in there
- 1:01:04is, like I said, there's no one solution.
- 1:01:07There are, there are various aspects.
- 1:01:09So the way I would describe it is that there are 4 levels.
- 1:01:12I wouldn't count the fifth level, which is the sole level
- 1:01:15because nothing can ever go wrong on that level, right?
- 1:01:18But let's talk about the other 4 levels, the soul level, nothing
- 1:01:21can go wrong. It's so the soul is perfect.
- 1:01:24And so, but we have the physical level, we talk about the
- 1:01:27biochemistry, right? And then we have the mind, we
- 1:01:32have the biofil, right? And then we have that multi
- 1:01:35dimensional, that timeless mind, right?
- 1:01:38And so at different levels, for example, at the mind level, we
- 1:01:40can have traumas, belief systems that prevent us from healing.
- 1:01:45Like some people say that no matter whatever I do, I won't be
- 1:01:48able to heal myself. Like subconsciously they feel
- 1:01:51that, but they don't realize that, right?
- 1:01:54Or maybe there is there is true that disease that they're
- 1:01:58having. Maybe they are getting attention
- 1:02:00there. That's that's what they're
- 1:02:01liking. And they don't realize that also
- 1:02:04that's the reason why they're holding onto the disease or the
- 1:02:06body's holding onto the disease. But that's not the only reason,
- 1:02:09let's say on the physical region, like you just pointed
- 1:02:11out, function medicine. So let's say that they can be
- 1:02:15toxic toxins, the accumulation of toxins, right?
- 1:02:19They can be parasites, they can be viral activations like the
- 1:02:23nervous system, which is again the immune system.
- 1:02:25Nervous system is like well integrated.
- 1:02:28Function medicine taught me one thing that the body is not
- 1:02:32separate compartments. You know, you go to an opera and
- 1:02:36it's everything is a Symphony. Everything, everything is
- 1:02:39playing in a Symphony, right? That's that's how the body
- 1:02:41works. And I'm not criticizing the
- 1:02:44conventional medicine. Everything has its time in
- 1:02:46place. If someone who is dying will
- 1:02:49come to us and say help me when we can't do anything right, you
- 1:02:53need to go. To the magic.
- 1:02:54System, right. So conventional system does have
- 1:02:57a role to play in saving the lives of people in acute
- 1:03:00situations, in emergency situations.
- 1:03:03But then when we once the person is out of that danger, then they
- 1:03:08need to look at, OK, what's going wrong?
- 1:03:11Why is the body not working? In Symphony, everything is
- 1:03:15connected. That's what function.
- 1:03:16Medicine taught me this. This is the one thing.
- 1:03:19Look, it's not that one course I did or that one book I, I read
- 1:03:23that gave me the answers. It was the 100 things I did and
- 1:03:28the little things that came from each piece that completed that
- 1:03:32puzzle, that big picture, that the question I had What is
- 1:03:35cancer? How do you make the difference
- 1:03:38between the solutions that you have to apply?
- 1:03:41It's it's something based on feeling.
- 1:03:43So basically in every person's case, like I, I told you, me and
- 1:03:46my wife, we work together because in every person's case,
- 1:03:50believe it or not, the solution is different.
- 1:03:54The reasons are different why the person is having the
- 1:03:56disease. In fact, as I walked along, I
- 1:03:59was like mapping my mom's case. I was, I was literally just
- 1:04:03going through my mom's case, always thinking like doing her
- 1:04:06case study and saying that why she had it.
- 1:04:09And then they came a point in time that I hit the nail.
- 1:04:13Now I know why she had it. I know what I could have done.
- 1:04:18So The thing is, for example, I'll give you an example, like
- 1:04:21let's say there is this guy who works in an office and has been
- 1:04:27working, doing that for last 25 years, right?
- 1:04:30Not very happy about it. Has low self esteem, low
- 1:04:34self-confidence and has like digestive issues, right?
- 1:04:40And has developed like chronic, you know, issues with bowel
- 1:04:45movements and acid reflux and whatnot.
- 1:04:47And has like a lot of allergies and like skin issues.
- 1:04:52And it's, it's really becoming worse.
- 1:04:54And this person comes to us. So the way we work with this
- 1:04:58person is on varied levels, for example, using function
- 1:05:01medicine, clinical globalism. Now that part is more taken up
- 1:05:04by my wife. We'll first, first thing we'll
- 1:05:07see is, OK, let's get rid of the things that are right now
- 1:05:13affecting the person. Like let's eliminate those
- 1:05:15things as a temporary fix. Let's bring in the things that
- 1:05:17will bring down the inflammation because inflammation is high,
- 1:05:20right? And once we do that, then we
- 1:05:23start working on the person's mindset.
- 1:05:25Like first, not directly. The I mean depends person to
- 1:05:28person and choices. Let's say, what belief systems
- 1:05:31is this person housing? Because Novus is somehow also
- 1:05:34has a direct impact with the gut, right?
- 1:05:36You know, you people have Novus, they have butterflies in their
- 1:05:38stomach. And also that's a direct
- 1:05:40correlation with the chakra system.
- 1:05:43You know, that's the, the, the solar plexus, the root chakra,
- 1:05:47right? So something is going on with
- 1:05:50their mindset and that and every organ is also connected with a
- 1:05:53root chakra with with a certain chakra with a certain energy
- 1:05:56point, right. So basically it's all about like
- 1:06:01working like in a multi dimensional way.
- 1:06:03OK, for example, this person is having now digestive issues and
- 1:06:06you even introduce hopes because remember hopes that also they
- 1:06:09have energies, Flower senses have energies.
- 1:06:14So for example, you, you take a vegetable, you there's something
- 1:06:18called as a colon photography. You keep a flower or a fruit or
- 1:06:22a vegetable. You see that it hasn't light
- 1:06:24emissions, Bioforton light emissions.
- 1:06:26So people forget this, that this is a multi vitamin and this is a
- 1:06:31fruit or a vegetable. This is are not compatible with
- 1:06:34the body. But sure, we can use it as a
- 1:06:36temporary fix. We can use it in and it's also
- 1:06:39some part of us, which is assuming that it can help.
- 1:06:43You know, our belief systems are really strong.
- 1:06:45Our belief is the strongest of all, I'd say.
- 1:06:49And that's why you can get the same supplement to 10 different
- 1:06:52people and each person will have like, you know, like half of
- 1:06:56them can have a different effect and half of them will have no
- 1:06:58effect because it's also their belief system coming into play
- 1:07:01as they call the placebo effect. Absolutely.
- 1:07:03Right. So when you see these light
- 1:07:06emissions as well, you realize that now, for example, function
- 1:07:10medicine doesn't talk about the interaction of the gut bacteria,
- 1:07:15the the energetics, but it does talk about like, for example,
- 1:07:18the piece of the puzzle that I got from function medicine is
- 1:07:21that how would the gut bacteria react to a supplement versus a
- 1:07:28food, like a food or a vegetable?
- 1:07:30It's going to be entirely different, you know, because
- 1:07:32they also have their own energetics.
- 1:07:34Yeah, I think I'm, I'm going too much in depth right now.
- 1:07:37I didn't want to really bore your audience as well.
- 1:07:40It's, it's, it's really interesting.
- 1:07:42You said two things which I heard also from different
- 1:07:45sources as well, that inflammation is something which
- 1:07:47is really bad in general for us on a lot of levels and the gut
- 1:07:51bacteria. But this topic with the gut
- 1:07:53bacteria is something which developed or expanded a lot in
- 1:07:56the last year, years. I would dare to say one or two
- 1:08:00years because there was not something that was so good known
- 1:08:04until now. That was at least my feeling.
- 1:08:07But I would like to go back to information.
- 1:08:09So you say basically you're fixing the inflammation first no
- 1:08:12matter what? You have to bring it down.
- 1:08:15What is inflammation? See, inflammation is like, see
- 1:08:19generally also just by living and breathing, as we live and
- 1:08:22breathe the mitochondria, because of the mitochondria,
- 1:08:26there is certain inflammation taking place in the body.
- 1:08:29And that's fine. That's a natural process of the
- 1:08:30body. That's why we age.
- 1:08:33We can't stop that, right? But generally, given the
- 1:08:36lifestyles we live, especially in cities, that inflammation is
- 1:08:39generally high because of given lifestyles, nutrition, because
- 1:08:44of mindset, you know, I mean, shifts the nervous system.
- 1:08:47So for healing to happen, we need to bring down the
- 1:08:51inflammation. What does that include?
- 1:08:54Also shifting the nervous system, getting the person to a
- 1:08:56relaxed state. Because remember now there are
- 1:09:00certain things I don't agree with function medicine, you
- 1:09:03know, because I have these logical questions in my head
- 1:09:07now. But I do understand the approach
- 1:09:09as well. For example, they say let's heal
- 1:09:11the gut. But OK, healing the gut is a
- 1:09:14temporary fix, but why is the tissue turnover not taking place
- 1:09:18in the gut? Well, the gut, there is tissue
- 1:09:20turnover supposed to take place in the gut, right?
- 1:09:22Why is it not happening? So one of the part of the reason
- 1:09:26why is that the nervous system is not in a parasympathetic mode
- 1:09:30that is essential for healing, resting, digesting.
- 1:09:34It's not happening. Like for example, you're eating
- 1:09:36something really basic as this. A person is eating, thinking
- 1:09:39about their boss, thinking about their work or thinking about who
- 1:09:42I have these projects to manage and blah, blah, blah.
- 1:09:45What is happening? The nervous system has shifted.
- 1:09:47They don't realize that. And now because the nervous
- 1:09:50system has shifted into a sympathetic dominant state, the
- 1:09:54blood flow is now focused on the extremities and not in the core
- 1:09:58and the And the food has to be digested in the core of the
- 1:10:01stomach acid is infected, right? So yeah, Speaking of these
- 1:10:05things, I don't even know what we were talking about any.
- 1:10:11I asked about the information. I can't.
- 1:10:14Just keep going, you know? Yeah, I know, I know.
- 1:10:16I, I see, I see that your passion.
- 1:10:18I love that. I love the fact that that, and
- 1:10:21of course it's really good and you have the time to invest to,
- 1:10:23to invest, to invest the time to investigate these things.
- 1:10:27If, if you'd be to, if it would be to give one advice to to
- 1:10:32someone living in this crazy busy world and it would be 1
- 1:10:36advice to reduce inflammation. What would that be?
- 1:10:40It would start with being in the present moment and being
- 1:10:44grateful for the things you have, choosing happiness and
- 1:10:49choosing the present moment over the past or the future.
- 1:10:53The reason being it's it's your beliefs.
- 1:10:56Your state of mind is not just what dictates your well-being,
- 1:11:01as in physical well-being, but also dictates the quality of
- 1:11:06your life, your relationships and everything else.
- 1:11:14The state of mind is a critical 1 and I think the thing which
- 1:11:21effects our state of mind a lot. So the connection between body
- 1:11:28and emotions is somehow also trauma.
- 1:11:35And usually we focus with trauma for trauma, usually mostly in
- 1:11:39the childhood. I think it's a has a huge
- 1:11:43influence of course. But like the the details that
- 1:11:47you are mentioning, the stress, the work stress, the
- 1:11:52relationship with the boss, the project which is not going well,
- 1:11:55the results of the project which are not the expected ones and
- 1:11:58everything which is stressing you in the in the daily world.
- 1:12:01Do you think we can categorize this as trauma as well on a long
- 1:12:06term? Absolutely.
- 1:12:08I mean, and that's a good point to raise about trauma that a lot
- 1:12:12of us because you know, as we have children, you're like
- 1:12:15sponges, especially from the age of 0 to 7.
- 1:12:18And children just absorb everything.
- 1:12:20Like even if someone tells them, like a teacher or
- 1:12:22unintentionally a parent tells them something, they something
- 1:12:27that is like, Oh, you, why did you do that?
- 1:12:29You don't understand it. They get sheltered at or
- 1:12:31something happened. They see something traumatizing.
- 1:12:33It just gets stored within them. And as they grow up, they are
- 1:12:38actions and reactions are based on the trauma that they are not
- 1:12:41even aware of and things like that.
- 1:12:44Sometimes they get diagnosed at and labels get put on them or
- 1:12:48that this person is behaving or the person gets, you know,
- 1:12:53people start saying, Oh, this is, you know, he has a very
- 1:12:55short tempered nature. He's a very short tempered kind
- 1:12:58of a guy or whatever. It's actually the traumas and
- 1:13:01the emotion that left between us.
- 1:13:03But it's absolutely doable to work on them to liberate them,
- 1:13:08starting by first asking where is this trauma coming from?
- 1:13:13And, and once again, how can you get in the into that state of
- 1:13:17asking and realizing that by being grounded in the present
- 1:13:20moment, by being present for yourself and by stop worrying
- 1:13:24about what's the future. And that's why people also
- 1:13:26recommend meditation. What are you doing in
- 1:13:28meditation? You're coming into the present
- 1:13:31moment. And, and I understand that some
- 1:13:32people don't like to do that or they feel they can't do that.
- 1:13:35They're absolutely fine. Go for a walk, do anything that
- 1:13:39that grounds you, that allows you to be in the present moment.
- 1:13:42It's not essential that you really need to sit down and
- 1:13:45close your eyes if you can't do that, right?
- 1:13:47So that's that's the first thing.
- 1:13:49Once you get into that present moment, once you are within
- 1:13:52yourself, once you shift your focus inside of you start asking
- 1:13:55questions to yourself, the answers will surface, if not
- 1:13:58immediately, you will get to know why.
- 1:14:00And once you know the answer of what this what is causing this
- 1:14:04emotion, what was the trauma, What was the thing, accept it
- 1:14:09and just allow it. Just let it go.
- 1:14:13It's as simple as that and everything is your belief and
- 1:14:17intention. Remember, if someone is just
- 1:14:19doing this work without believing or like having an
- 1:14:23intention towards doing it, it's not going to work.
- 1:14:28Correct, complicated question. Now I had really problems to
- 1:14:36formulate it during while preparing this episode.
- 1:14:40But there is a there is a thing which always comes into my mind.
- 1:14:43You're coming from a country which is, I don't say pretty
- 1:14:47religious, but has a good relationship with the gods.
- 1:14:53You are living in a country which is extremely religious and
- 1:14:58has a good relationship with one God.
- 1:15:01I emphasize this because I think it's important to understand for
- 1:15:06everyone watching this that there is not only one.
- 1:15:10Everyone has his own system of beliefs, but somehow we are all
- 1:15:13focusing in the same direction. How do this?
- 1:15:17How does the mental healing fit together with spirituality?
- 1:15:24I feel first of all, spirituality is just A tag.
- 1:15:26Even I try to avoid that. I, I, I try and avoid using that
- 1:15:30tag. I don't want to use any tags
- 1:15:32because a lot of times tags such as spirituality also get
- 1:15:35misused, right? I really feel that first of all,
- 1:15:39we need to stop distinguishing and second of all, we need to
- 1:15:43make peace with all perspectives that are around us.
- 1:15:47First step towards healing is saying it's OK if there are
- 1:15:52other perspectives are out there.
- 1:15:54That is not what I choose to believe, but that's fine.
- 1:15:57I accept and I respect the other person's perspective and I will
- 1:16:02have my own perspective and my own belief.
- 1:16:04I don't need to go out and make a point about it.
- 1:16:07It's fine, you know, if the other person believes something
- 1:16:09else. And also realizing that at the
- 1:16:11end of the day, we are just over here, you know, this play is
- 1:16:16going on, a drama is going on and very soon this play will be
- 1:16:21will come to a conclusion and then the players will shift
- 1:16:24their rules and then there will be another play.
- 1:16:27So, so there is always a bigger picture to life.
- 1:16:30There is always more to life. And I think somewhere, if you
- 1:16:33learn, and this is the the real healing that happened with me
- 1:16:37when I was your in a very totally different environment,
- 1:16:40that I got that opportunity also to look within myself is to let
- 1:16:44go of the things of the emotions that don't serve you anymore.
- 1:16:49Because you know, you do, you know, once you start doing that,
- 1:16:53you'll realize how much baggage you've been holding on to.
- 1:16:57And you have no idea. Like once you start letting go
- 1:16:59of that baggage, how light it feels and how clear that
- 1:17:05connection becomes with you and your higher self.
- 1:17:08You don't need to sit and meditate or have sessions for
- 1:17:10that. You, you took over my next
- 1:17:13question, but was the was the healing moment after losing your
- 1:17:21mother when you discovered I don't call it spirituality now
- 1:17:26because I'm afraid, but do you when you discover I'm just
- 1:17:29joking, but when you discovered this, the deepness of the soul
- 1:17:36or what do you think was your healing completed?
- 1:17:40I feel that it was it, it, it was very recent.
- 1:17:44It was just very recently, around a year ago that I had
- 1:17:47this experience where I was literally the first ever time I
- 1:17:52experienced nothingness. I was in this black space.
- 1:17:58It was not darkness. It was very comforting.
- 1:18:00It felt it was everything in this space.
- 1:18:03And also this realization. There were a lot of things, you
- 1:18:05know, when I was asking the questions, then the answers were
- 1:18:09just coming to me. They're all thinking and, and
- 1:18:12there was a lot of realization. There was some some knowingness
- 1:18:15that just came within me. And I just realized that exactly
- 1:18:18the thing I told you that we are playing that this, this is like
- 1:18:22a play that's happening, right? And we are all here to do
- 1:18:26fulfill our roles and energy can never be destroyed.
- 1:18:30It changes form. And so we never have anything to
- 1:18:33worry about. We just need to understand that
- 1:18:36at the end of the day, we are all one and we might be, we're
- 1:18:41having this experience, we're having this illusion, but it's
- 1:18:43not a bad thing. We need to go through
- 1:18:46transformation. We need to evolve, we need to
- 1:18:47have fun. And so I think we just need to
- 1:18:50flow through life with forgiveness, with love and
- 1:18:56knowing that at the end of the day, it's all going to come back
- 1:18:59to that oneness. And that was the biggest thing.
- 1:19:03I I don't know if I answered that well, but if I answered
- 1:19:06that clearly, I would say that was a point of healing for me.
- 1:19:14You, you answered it correctly and and it's not about the
- 1:19:18correctness of the answer, but you understood the question.
- 1:19:20You exactly told me what, what I had, the result, what I, what
- 1:19:24I'd expected. I think it's clear then that the
- 1:19:28the healing is happening through love and it's not it's
- 1:19:33unnecessary love in the way that that we know it from here.
- 1:19:37I think it's love in a way that we don't know.
- 1:19:39It's still if we don't get there.
- 1:19:42And it's more like, I think it's more like an acceptance because
- 1:19:47we have to find the serenity to accept the things that we are
- 1:19:50not able to. Influence.
- 1:19:51It's all about acceptance. It's only about acceptance.
- 1:19:54Exactly, Arjun, tell us about the the Wellness resource
- 1:20:01library that you're creating. Yeah.
- 1:20:03So, you know, when my mom was ill, I realized what I didn't
- 1:20:08have. I didn't have support.
- 1:20:11I didn't have information. And realizing now that we have
- 1:20:16the answer and knowing that the answer is not one thing.
- 1:20:19It's not one formula. It's not, it's not some single
- 1:20:23pill or a supplement. Me and Joey, we have decided to
- 1:20:27come together and create this library Wellness and beyond.
- 1:20:30We are, we are still creating a lot of resources for it to all
- 1:20:33the all the knowledge that we have gained, our experiences
- 1:20:35that we have gained and we'll be gaining down the line.
- 1:20:39We're going to make videos, PDFs, just create resources and
- 1:20:43we want to offer it to the people at a very low price
- 1:20:46because we wanted to be accessible by everyone.
- 1:20:49We wanted to be affordable and as of now we have not launched
- 1:20:53it, but when we launch it, the price is going to be like €36 a
- 1:20:56month, around $39.00 more or less.
- 1:21:00And so that'll, and, and we'll, we'll also do like we'll be
- 1:21:03answering questions over there. People will be helping each
- 1:21:05other. And just to make sure that the
- 1:21:09things that I never had when my mom was ill and I wish I had, I
- 1:21:14want to make it available for the people so that they never
- 1:21:17feel helpless in life, that they have all the knowledge they
- 1:21:19need. So that's the one thing we are
- 1:21:22creating. And of course, me and Julie, at
- 1:21:24the moment, it's on a hold because, you know, because of
- 1:21:28some circumstances with family, Julie had to travel back.
- 1:21:32So the podcast and the E postcard, as we call it, is on a
- 1:21:36is on a hold. So once she gets back, we'll be
- 1:21:39continuing it. So we also send out these Sunday
- 1:21:43E postcards for, you know, just to keep in connection with
- 1:21:47people sharing what's been happening with us and also
- 1:21:50sharing anecdotes and small pieces of like information that
- 1:21:54can be useful for people and some things about, you know, the
- 1:21:58mind or whatever it is. It's like something interesting
- 1:22:01that people can also can do just to keep in touch with us.
- 1:22:06Via sub stack. Yeah, we have to mention whoever
- 1:22:09wants to. I don't know if I'll be
- 1:22:11continuing with sub stack because since we are creating
- 1:22:14this the library on WordPress, I'm using WordPress and so we
- 1:22:18are creating this library on the website so that it's easier for
- 1:22:21people. They don't have to go to a third
- 1:22:23party place and do all of that. So we are thinking of shifting
- 1:22:26the the E postcard as well to the website just so that
- 1:22:31everything. Is.
- 1:22:33I will link everything below. Thank.
- 1:22:38You, Sir, you've also mentioned writing a book, Yes.
- 1:22:43Can you give us a sneak peek? Sure.
- 1:22:45So I'm writing this book as of now, I'm just trying to include
- 1:22:51whatever feels right. This book is to give clarity to
- 1:22:55people about what Wellness is, what healing is, what has been
- 1:23:01my journey, my experiences so far, that people can learn from
- 1:23:04it and grow from it. It's going to be something
- 1:23:07different. It's, I'm definitely telling and
- 1:23:09there's one thing for sure that it's going to be really hands
- 1:23:11on. It's not like it's knowledge you
- 1:23:15learn, you know, it'll be something that people can read
- 1:23:19and take action accordingly to improve their lives.
- 1:23:23And I think might take around a year for me to complete.
- 1:23:26I'm not sure. I'm just writing it.
- 1:23:28I don't even know how long it will be, but I'm just writing
- 1:23:31it. That makes sense.
- 1:23:33Makes episode I just don't want. It's a creative process.
- 1:23:36It's a creative process and I don't want to put it in a box in
- 1:23:39any way. I just want it to be.
- 1:23:42I just have one intention as I write this book to make it as
- 1:23:46useful as as it can be for the people that people can really
- 1:23:50make good use of it because I really want I've, I know my
- 1:23:53purpose in in this life is to make people realize what
- 1:23:58Wellness is, to make people to get them closer to Wellness so
- 1:24:03that they can live a more fulfilled and whole life, an
- 1:24:06abundant life. It's an important topic and
- 1:24:11unfortunately the discussion about Wellness and happiness,
- 1:24:16it's a bit frowned upon in in the world that we are living
- 1:24:19because people are focusing on careers.
- 1:24:22People are focusing on things which are reachable, like
- 1:24:26tangible, something that they can touch.
- 1:24:29And there's something that they think is not worth investing in
- 1:24:32because they are not feeling anything actively as they are
- 1:24:35investing, even though it's a process that will help every of
- 1:24:40us for long, long term. And I think it's a topic that
- 1:24:44should come more and more in the discussion because it's making
- 1:24:48the difference between a population which is mentally ill
- 1:24:53because of stress, because of issues that they are that are
- 1:24:56are pushing us in different directions and then population
- 1:25:00which is happy. Actually, I wouldn't blame the
- 1:25:04people for feeling so, because we live in a time when there's
- 1:25:08an overload of information and there's every expert, every
- 1:25:12group you can think of out there speaking about stuff.
- 1:25:16I don't want to say it. I don't want to be one of them,
- 1:25:18and I'm not one of them. My goal is not to teach you what
- 1:25:21to be. The next expert for you is to
- 1:25:24make you realize that everything you need is inside of you and
- 1:25:28awake to awaken people to their own power.
- 1:25:32I'm allowing myself to make a joke and I said for only $999 I
- 1:25:37can teach you how to discover yourself.
- 1:25:40And of course, in part like I'm also, I'm about to launch
- 1:25:44another service, which is called inner wealth mentorship.
- 1:25:48And it might not be for everyone, but one thing is for
- 1:25:50sure. And me and you he will
- 1:25:51definitely there's this one goal.
- 1:25:55We make sure that Wellness is affordable, accessible, easy and
- 1:25:59doable. Understandable for everyone, and
- 1:26:04I think that's the whole point of a lesson beyond.
- 1:26:10Besides the, besides the library, besides the book that
- 1:26:14you are writing, is there something else that you are
- 1:26:20planning to do in the near future?
- 1:26:21OK. I'm creating a business plan for
- 1:26:25creating for a Wellness Center in the northern region of Spain.
- 1:26:30So far it's the northern region of Spain I found was much more
- 1:26:33favourable for such a thing. The idea is to get like like for
- 1:26:38example, the architecture of the place would be based on more
- 1:26:40sacred geometry, right? It'll be an it'll be a
- 1:26:45non-native EMF free space for and and it'll there will be
- 1:26:51different. The idea is to have different
- 1:26:53modalities available for the person over there as put their
- 1:26:56choosing or recommendations there a place where they can
- 1:26:59come, where there'll be food, which will be from the farm to
- 1:27:01the table, there'll be workshops, there'll be treats.
- 1:27:04It'll be some place that people can come to for healing, for
- 1:27:07learning, for growing. And so I'm creating a business
- 1:27:10plan for that. I'm writing a book, me and juvie
- 1:27:13both. We are creating this resource
- 1:27:16library online, which we are going to make it really
- 1:27:18affordable. And at the same time, I've
- 1:27:20realized that one of the skills are one of the deepest passion
- 1:27:24that I have is also for coaching people.
- 1:27:27And so I'm going to launch this in a wealth mentorship, which
- 1:27:30will be in Group and one-on-one. So these are like all the things
- 1:27:33that I'm doing, at least on my part.
- 1:27:35And as Chuy will be focusing and being a part of the Wellness
- 1:27:39Center, and she'll be focusing on, you know, of course,
- 1:27:42educating hope people with hopes, connecting people and
- 1:27:46making them, really making them realize that how potent and
- 1:27:51powerful hopes are and how people can leverage hopes in
- 1:27:54their life. I see something which I don't
- 1:27:58see often. I see that money is not in your
- 1:28:00focus. No, it's not, although it has
- 1:28:04been difficult, it's it's been a struggle because but I realized
- 1:28:08one thing that, you know, abundance will come, but what's
- 1:28:11more important than money in abundance is, is getting people
- 1:28:15to the place of Wellness so that it's not the same result.
- 1:28:19It's not the same outcome that my mom had that they should
- 1:28:21have. When was the moment when you
- 1:28:25realized then money should not be in the main focus, that money
- 1:28:30is a side effect? The moment when the pandemic hit
- 1:28:34and we couldn't continue with our business, the reason why we
- 1:28:37got on to this profession and it was very clear that this was how
- 1:28:41it was meant to be, that we had this knowledge and it was very
- 1:28:46obvious that we would walk on this path.
- 1:28:48And as I walked on this path, we both walked on this path.
- 1:28:51There was only one goal, to not have people lose their lives the
- 1:28:55way my mother did. Because there is information out
- 1:28:59there. There is support and help out
- 1:29:00there. And if the person has access to
- 1:29:03all these things, there's no reason to fail or to fail.
- 1:29:07There's always a way, there's always a doorway, there's always
- 1:29:10a solution. You just need to believe and
- 1:29:12keep going. Don't give up hope.
- 1:29:18Nice one. I have to say nice one was an
- 1:29:23extremely fun conversation for me.
- 1:29:25It was deep but those extremely fun.
- 1:29:28I'm generally interested in this topic because I think money
- 1:29:32should never be the focus of any of us.
- 1:29:35Money is a side effect that is there and we needed to survive.
- 1:29:38For sure it's a need, but it's not the basic.
- 1:29:41Need no abundance. As we solve.
- 1:29:45And that shouldn't be the focus ever.
- 1:29:47It should be following your passion and serving the people.
- 1:29:50Exactly, exactly. Find what you like and try to
- 1:29:53try to make people happy, making them happy.
- 1:29:56You'll make yourself happy as well.
- 1:30:00Usually before we wrap it up, I have a small amount of rapid
- 1:30:06fire questions I call them. They don't necessarily have to
- 1:30:09be rapid fire, but they are tailored on the guest and I
- 1:30:16always try to make them as as specific as possible.
- 1:30:21India or Spain for food? Believe it, I'm shocked.
- 1:30:29I. Can't have spicy food, I can't
- 1:30:31have too many spices it feels. I'm I'm shocked now, first thing
- 1:30:40you do in the morning. Meditate.
- 1:30:46You don't take your phone and scroll on TikTok.
- 1:30:50I I have to drag myself to social media.
- 1:30:52I don't like to use social media.
- 1:30:54Seriously, I'm never on social media.
- 1:30:56It's a punishment. I'm just joking, I'm just
- 1:30:58joking. I think most of the people are
- 1:31:00starting the day with half an hour dumb scrolling on TikTok or
- 1:31:03what. However, the system would be I'm
- 1:31:04not on social media so. I would say recollecting my
- 1:31:07dreams, I'm just there and I'm thinking what I dreamt of
- 1:31:10because I'm also getting to listen this.
- 1:31:13It's interesting, it's it's an interesting world, this of one
- 1:31:17of dreaming. I have to say I'm I'm fascinated
- 1:31:20about how our brain is working during.
- 1:31:22Can I see something I haven't shared?
- 1:31:25Of course. Around 3 months before my mom
- 1:31:29even was diagnosed with cancer in my dream I it was very clear
- 1:31:35I saw my mom she was lying on a pair of Matt sticks and it got
- 1:31:40lit on and at that point in time we had I had no clue even what
- 1:31:44cancer was and my mom will ever get it.
- 1:31:46Three months before my mom, around 3 months before my mom
- 1:31:49got got diagnosed with cancer and ever since there have been a
- 1:31:54lot of messages that have been coming to me through dreams.
- 1:31:57I have just very recently started realizing that.
- 1:32:02There are there is a lot of dream interpretation in the
- 1:32:05culture where I'm coming from in Romania and also you can make an
- 1:32:10episode on that you. Should actually there is a
- 1:32:13friend of mine that I'm is he's a co-author and we're planning
- 1:32:18to create like a lucid dreaming course together.
- 1:32:20And I'm also very curious about lucid dreaming.
- 1:32:23And one of the parts I want to go down on, which I'm actually
- 1:32:26already on is how to activate our, let's say, in our abilities
- 1:32:31that have been shoved off and is never get spoken about like P
- 1:32:35cognition or or let's say remote viewing or out of body
- 1:32:41experience. This out of body experience is
- 1:32:45something which is coming now with divided different topic.
- 1:32:48But this out of the body experience is quite common in
- 1:32:52people who are in brain death that you you hear it in in the
- 1:32:57stories quite a lot when they are in the brain dead, either in
- 1:33:01cardiac a rest or if if they had their heart stopped for a while
- 1:33:06and then they're getting resisted.
- 1:33:07And they said they all said they had the feeling of being and out
- 1:33:10having this out of body experience.
- 1:33:13But we can have that experience even without being into a near
- 1:33:16experience, of course. And I want.
- 1:33:18As far as I know, meditation is something which can bring you
- 1:33:21close to that. And lucid dreaming, it's
- 1:33:23supposed to OK, it's the first. That's why I want to like really
- 1:33:27master lucid dreaming and that's one of the parts I'll be going
- 1:33:30down. I'm already going down and
- 1:33:32working on towards and eventually I will be once I
- 1:33:35master these things and I and I do these things, I would be, I
- 1:33:39would be happy to teach it to the other people.
- 1:33:42You're going on interesting rabbit holes.
- 1:33:46Sorry, it was, it just shifted away from being rapid.
- 1:33:50I told you the answer is not be happy.
- 1:33:52Rapid. Worst health myth you've ever
- 1:33:57heard? Multivitamins is everything.
- 1:34:02Take a multivitamin. You'll be.
- 1:34:09Fine, there is a multivitamin juice that I know it's also
- 1:34:12healthy herbal tea or greens multi herbal.
- 1:34:18Tea. Very powerful.
- 1:34:19Which greens? I haven't taken a pill in seven
- 1:34:23years, thanks to Joey's hopes. Interesting.
- 1:34:28Interesting. If you weren't doing this,
- 1:34:33Adrian, what would you be? Doing animation without.
- 1:34:40A doubt he would be one of the guys behind the CGI's in Game of
- 1:34:43Thrones for sure. Actually animation, 3D
- 1:34:45animation, I'll be like more like Toy Story.
- 1:34:49OK, nice. For moving the dinosaurs, you
- 1:34:51know the action. May have you thought to to to
- 1:34:56use the experience that you have in animation to explain dreams
- 1:35:00or explain the the the the let's say the mental struggle somehow?
- 1:35:06Actually, no, because animation takes a very lot of time and
- 1:35:09very lot of work and I have to be more exposed to the screen,
- 1:35:12which I at this point don't want it.
- 1:35:14I want to reduce it in fact. So as as much I love animation,
- 1:35:18I think that I want to serve the people and get to this goal,
- 1:35:23which is far more important than me than my liking or
- 1:35:26entertainment. Of course, I feel very excited
- 1:35:28and I know it's my purpose as well.
- 1:35:31Maybe someday, when I get to the point where I have achieved my
- 1:35:35purpose, my goal, then I might start giving some time to
- 1:35:38animation. Give me one Spanish word that
- 1:35:44describes your journey. Evolution, Evolution.
- 1:35:50That wasn't easy. I could have translated Arjun.
- 1:35:57Thank you for such an open and inspiring conversation.
- 1:36:00Thanks to you for having me. I appreciate it a lot.
- 1:36:05I appreciate the I appreciate everyone who's a who is eager to
- 1:36:09talk about this open as you because we need to have
- 1:36:13different perspective on even on healing, we need to have
- 1:36:16different perspectives because it cannot be one solution that
- 1:36:19fit. And if anyone listening to this,
- 1:36:21they want they have something to say or they want us to cover
- 1:36:24something. I mean, there's like a button on
- 1:36:27our website. They can even drop in and say
- 1:36:29hello and ask a question and we'd be happy to address it on
- 1:36:32our podcast and whatever. Wellness and Beyond dot ES the
- 1:36:39podcast name. Exactly the vodka's name.
- 1:36:42Journey to Wellness and beyond. Absolutely your Instagram
- 1:36:46Wellness and beyond under score ES Yeah, but.
- 1:36:48I. Have don't have I forgot
- 1:36:50something? Don't use Instagram I'm.
- 1:36:53Sorry, not you. Most probably not you.
- 1:36:56Have I forgotten something? Tell people where they can find
- 1:36:58you and how can they contact. You you can find newsletter, you
- 1:37:02can find everything on the website Wellness and beyond dot
- 1:37:04ES. You can even write to us from
- 1:37:06there. It's all there.
- 1:37:09Thanks a lot for your time. I hope that we could do this
- 1:37:13again one day and I hope that when you have the book out or
- 1:37:17when you are ready to get the book out, we can do an episode.
- 1:37:22Absolutely, I'd love to, and it was my passion and my utmost
- 1:37:25pleasure to be here and to have this conversation, this amazing
- 1:37:28conversation with you. Thank you so much for having me.
- 1:37:32Thank you so much as well. Yeah, and see you next.
- 1:37:35Time next time. Bye.