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Listen to Your Body: Spiritual Awakening Through Awareness, Healing & Intuition | Eye Opener Society · Eye Opener Society

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Hello and welcome to today's episode of Eye Opener Society. A little different
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because I'm going to lead it today.
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But today's topic, I really wanted to talk about the importance of listening
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to and honoring your body.
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And what brought it to my attention was because the last episode,
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when I got off of it, I was like, man, that was so chaotic. And I had so many
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cool things I wanted to talk about. I didn't feel like I got to any of them.
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But as soon as I went inside, I pretty quickly ended up getting a migraine.
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And for me, that always happens when I'm like going like all over the place.
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And I just was thinking if I had slowed down and listened to my body,
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I would have postponed recording it and I would have done a better job.
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But I was so focused on trying to make sure I like met all my commitments that
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day that I once again just kind of disregarded it.
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And so that's kind of what I wanted to talk about today with different things
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to do to kind of remind us to all come back to it because it's just so freaking important.
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Well, everyone, you heard from Lizzie, who started off the show today,
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and that's fantastic. I was waiting for this. She's done a great job.
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lizzie says we're going to be talking about our bodies and recognizing signs
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taking care of them because here's the deal just like lizzie said sometimes
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we forget or better yet we neglect our bodies because well
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Everybody uses that excuse, I'm too busy.
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I get that from everything, especially with meditation. It's just not true.
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We need to take care of this here body of ours because it houses something so
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incredibly important, which is our soul.
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Our soul's not going to feel better unless we feel better.
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And being mindful of certain things, key things, like Lizzie would have migraines and all.
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And so, Lizzie, you know when these migraines are coming, correct? Correct?
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If I'm paying attention, I do. And there's the key.
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We need to pay attention. We need to find all these little signs and something's going wrong.
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And then we can start to heal ourselves from there. On a personal note,
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I've noticed something about me.
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And I started to get some symptoms with something.
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Something that I think I need to get taken care of. and I start to do stuff
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naturally because I don't believe anymore in the doctors.
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I know pretty much what it is and I found ways to get around it.
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I'm not going to reveal anything because it's just going to manifest and I don't want that.
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But once we start to notice a sign where something's going wrong,
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if we immediately focus in on it,
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and take care of it and start picturing the healing process instead of picturing the actual problem,
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that's when we're going to actually get better.
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I agree. I agree. And I throughout the last couple of years,
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I've been trying very hard to tune more into my body.
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And something that I found is your body really is like your best friend.
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Like if you think about it, nobody has been through everything with you quite like your body has.
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And when you really slow down like in
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meditations and talk to it it'll tell you
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exactly what it wants whether it's like more nutrient
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more rest or whatever it is it's like your body
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will tell you but I think we're not
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we're not taught how to do that I agree with you
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I have a hard time with doctors a little bit sometimes no no
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hate to any doctors out there you're beautiful you know
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we just go about things just a little bit differently and I think that it's
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just so important to allow your body to tell you what's going on before letting
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everybody out and this isn't to say to not go get things typed out if you feel
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called to do though because that's part of your body's wisdom is when to tell you to do that you know.
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And you and I had an interesting conversation with empaths and how this affects them even more.
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Yeah, for sure. Like if you're used to walking into a room and being hit with
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all of these energies, right?
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And so now you're in a room with seven people and trying to coordinate the 12
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different energies that's going on in the group.
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You're not going to notice the physical sensations going on in your body that
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leads you to the hunger. Or you're only going to notice the point in time in
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which you're like, oh, crap, I have no energy and my brain isn't functioning well.
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Oh, correct. I need to eat some food.
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Yeah, I experienced that with my wife a lot. And that's mostly because she's an empath, too.
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And, yeah, I've always laughed at it. She says, I forgot to eat today.
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It's like, how do you forget to eat? I'm always worrying about that.
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But this is something that empaths do suffer from. And that's usually an issue.
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But as individual people We're all different, right?
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And we all have different ailments We all have different physical things going
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on with us We need to be very, very in tune with our bodies Which in turn,
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We're much more in tune than with our minds And I always say too It's mind,
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body, soul These are the things that we need to always be aware of and to always take care of. And.
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It goes beyond just the physical stuff like, hey, I could work out every day.
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That makes my body stronger.
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It's perfect. But people have limitations on that too as well.
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So everyone needs to apply because, again, Lizzie and I, we're not doctors.
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And again, yes, doctors are beautiful people. I just don't believe in the whole medical system.
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So, yeah, we, from headaches, I get these headaches too.
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And I know the three different kind of headaches that I get,
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whether it's from stress, clenching my teeth, or just because I'm tired.
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Those are the three headaches that I get.
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Each one that I get feels different. And they're painful at times.
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But then I know it's a sign for me to now stop, recognize that pain,
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and what I'm going to do with it.
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It's perfectly okay if Lizzie comes to me and says, Gary, I cannot record the
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show because of this migraine.
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It happens I'd much rather her say that Than for her to jump on here With an
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extreme headache To the point where she can't concentrate And focus on the show,
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That's not how we do things And in a spiritual community Especially metaphysics
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If we're doing Reiki If we're doing any other kind of modality We need to be
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in the perfect alignment Mind, body, and soul,
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Before we bring anything forward to our customers Or to our collective because
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we don't want to send that negative energy or that bad, painful energy to anybody else.
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And I think it's really important to kind of watch those symptoms,
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too, because a lot of the times when something goes wrong, at least in my body,
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I'll notice like a little thought that comes up and then I'll kind of disregard it.
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And then it's like little symptoms pop up. And if I pay attention to them,
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a lot of times I can kind of stop something from happening.
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Like my migraine for example for that last episode I
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didn't know in that time that I was about to get a migraine I didn't
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have any headache yet but I should have noticed how chaotic
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my brain was that day and how much more I was slurring my speech than like this
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my standard talking and because those are two usually the two things that really
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throw me off that there's like a disconnect something that's happening right
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and so I guess now the question is what do we do how do we how do we take care of ourselves better?
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How do we notice things in our bodies and what's going on?
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What are we looking for? Because sometimes the problems could be so,
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so small and minute that we just don't pick up on it.
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I like to do like a damage control, you know, after a workout,
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after a long conversation, if it was too emotional or something,
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take a moment now to disconnect yourself from that and do an actual physical check.
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How do I feel right now? Is there any pain? Do I feel tired?
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Do I feel hungry? These are the things. This is my way of going about it. This is what I would do.
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And occasionally I do say, how am I feeling right now?
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It's kind of a mental damage control that you could do on your body.
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As long as you practice that and you get yourself in that routine,
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this is one way to keep yourself in check.
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Yeah, for sure. I like that one. Another one that I do is I like right before
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bed, I like to lay down and just like talk to my body. You know, how's your day going?
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You know, I'll be kind of like goofy with it. And it's kind of funny,
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the different emotions that I'll start to feel that kind of come out of nowhere
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by just connecting to your body. There's so many different methods that you can do.
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There's lots of different visualizations that can help.
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But really, truly, if you just lay down and just like allow your body to relax and feel.
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You know, we spend all day long trying to force good posture,
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try to force a good attitude.
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We're doing so much that like your body just needs to like have a chance to
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relax and like do its thing.
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And the other thing I find a lot, and part of this comes from my massage therapist
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background, because I work with people who are working with other professionals.
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And a lot of the other professionals, whether it's like chiropractors or physical
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therapists, or even personal trainers, everybody has this very linear thinking.
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You know, when you stretch, you go up, you do a lot of things to the side.
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And then our lifestyles, everything's kind of like right in front of us or like right next to us.
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But as I've been doing these intuitive movement things, I'm trying to move really
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slowly so I don't trip off the camera.
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But you know, going down like this section right here, I'll watch people.
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And it's like, it has to go down forward more in order to come out.
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They're losing this whole range of motion. But the thing is,
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is this space up here is this really tense space. That's where a lot of people put their stress.
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People are very cliche in the way that they store their emotions.
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And so, you know, you got the weight of the world on your shoulders.
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You're having an inability to change your mind. You know, all of this sits right here.
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And then if we never take that muscle and really stretch it out and let it do
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its motion, that's how you get stored motion.
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So this is, I don't know, for the people who are on video, maybe this won't make as much sense.
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But if you underlace your fingers and you push them together and apart,
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that's how your muscle contracts and relaxes.
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But your fingers slash muscle fibers will get all tangled up and then it doesn't
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stretch and release the same way.
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And that's how you get stored emotions from a scientific aspect.
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It's actually the electric charge wasn't able to discharge and that's what holds
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the muscle fibers together.
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But so if you're always going straight up and down or straight to the sides
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or leaning forward, you're missing this whole space where your muscle wants
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to discharge this energy.
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And so the other thing that I really recommend people doing is really branching
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out and trying to be very circular in their motions, in the way that they're
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handling all of their self-care.
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Everything is so streamlined and linear that you actually stop yourself from
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being able to communicate with your body because you're only looking at these
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tiny little pieces. You got to like allow everything to flow through.
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I got two thoughts because the other thing, the one thing I love doing,
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and if you're watching me on TikTok, you see me do it, earthing.
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Take your shoes off, take your socks off, and go walk in the bare grass. Touch the earth.
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The benefits are so amazing. Until you actually do it and you're actually thinking
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about it, because I know sometimes people run around barefoot and all,
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but they're not understanding what they're actually doing, where you're discharging
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all that static that builds up inside of your body and it's being discharged
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into the ground, the grounding portion of it.
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Sometimes I'm in pain and, you know, whether it be a lower back pain or,
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you know, even a leg pain, I do some earthing.
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I just rub my feet, you know, across the grass as I'm walking,
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walk back and forth a few times.
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That pain starts to reduce to the point where I don't even feel it anymore.
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Completely amazing. So earthing is one of my biggest things,
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Meditation, another one Because when you're in a meditative state You can picture
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everything in your body And you can rebuild your body And rebuild cells and
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everything else Just by thinking about it It's probably more advanced But the more you meditate,
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the easier this becomes. That's why I say you have to meditate.
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And then I want to bring up something else that you talked to me offline about
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and the indoctrination part where we sometimes forget to pee,
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eat, simply because of the indoctrination, especially in schools and all.
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So if you wanted to bring that up on this here episode.
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Yeah, for sure. I think about it even like down to when like little kids are
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little, You have to rely on the adults around you for to get the color cup you
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want. You know what I mean? For all of these things.
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And then you get into school and you have to wait to pee.
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You have to wait to eat. You have to wait to discharge the energy in your body.
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You know, everything, your time, your fun, everything is structured and given to you on a plate.
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And then when we leave school, we do the same thing in college.
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We do the same thing at our jobs. We'll do it in our relationships.
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And you know it's like everything it's like we kind of just.
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Our body is an inconvenience. Caring for it, like the timing of all of it,
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a lot of us treat it as an inconvenience.
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And that's why a lot of us don't notice anything's wrong until we're having
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bad enough where we do have to go to the doctor.
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It's because we're expecting you to, you know, you want to get sick once you
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have more PTO available at work.
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And it just doesn't really work like that you can't wait until
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you have time to take time for your body
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because your body will fucking make you
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you know what I mean and so if
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you really think that you don't have time to care for your body then
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make the time because it'll take far less time and it all comes back from that
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indoctrination because you know I don't want to get too conspiracy theory but
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if you are so busy mindlessly working to make other people money that you're
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not paying attention to your body and then you have no time and you're doing
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all these convenience foods and things,
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then it's really easy for them to make money for, you know, the food that goes
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into your mouth, the health care that comes out of it, you know,
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and everything in between it.
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It's like it creates a nice little network all because you don't honor your body.
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It's funny that you mentioned that because, you know, the other problem with
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that, especially I'm taking workplaces,
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not all of them, but some of them, like mine, the environment that you're in,
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if you're in an older building and there's mold or asbestos or, you know,
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bad HVAC systems, poor lighting, all of this damages your body.
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And then what you have mentioned too, your body can't wait.
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If I feel like screaming or.
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There's no reason I shouldn't just scream, let it out.
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If I feel I got to get up and move around, I should be able to get up and move around.
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Now, maybe not all places are that that restrictive, but however,
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at the same time, we weren't really designed for all of this.
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We were designed to act upon any impulse that we have.
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So if we do need, oh, wow, I'm really feeling anxious.
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If I walk or if I do some running, it will help me.
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But if we're trapped inside a work environment it's hard
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to do that and so that's where all this indoctrination
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all this is why it becomes more unhealthier on our
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body so I don't mind you doing the conspiracy portion
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of it because I totally agree with you and I love conspiracies so but you're
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right and I appreciate you bringing that up because it's important it is a lot
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of stuff environmentally not just within our work environment but just pollution
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and the polluted waters, the things we're drinking,
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the processed foods we're eating, it all factors into our bodies.
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That's why we need to listen. When something's happening, maybe we need to make
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those changes and not being lazy about it.
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Because so many people say, oh, I've really, I can't stop eating sweets.
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Maybe sweets are killing you. Maybe you should think that way.
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Changed your whole mind. That's what I do when it comes to sugar. I say, it's poison.
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It's an addictive substance, more so than drugs. And I keep thinking about that.
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So I don't do it. I don't eat the sweets.
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That's the way you got to train yourself. This is how you listen to your body.
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Is there anything else you'd like to add there, buddy?
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No, I'm just going to say that's beautiful. I'm glad you brought it up because
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we talked about this before, too.
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And here's the last bit that I think really confuses people.
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Because what you said there is so true
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for so many people sugar causes so
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many problems in so many people's bodies to the
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point where I was convinced that it had to be
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causing a problem in mine too and over the years I've done this multiple times
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where I completely cut out sugar from my diets like at one point I was on like
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a raw vegan diet like I was so determined to just put only good things in my
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body that I actually felt like crap all the time through a lot of it.
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And I get that people say it's because sugar is an addiction,
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right? And so you have to let it go through.
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But you know, if you're not eating any sugar for six months,
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and nothing changes, you still feel like crap, and you eat the sugar,
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and now you just suddenly feel better.
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Maybe that sugar could actually be important for you.
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The thing is, is one person for their body, they might need four hours of physical
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activity for their body to feel good, and another person might only need 30.
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Um, there's this theory about what blood type you have and what like foods you're supposed to be eating.
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I don't know if it's true or not, but I did look up mine one time and it told
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me mostly nuts and berries.
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Well, I, that's, that's what I could do all day. I could just totally snack
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on things and then have like a nice big iron rich meal, like a couple times a week.
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And that's probably what's easiest and best for me.
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That might be a coincidence with the blood thing, but it's
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funny in my house because um we all
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eat so very differently and so watching the
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things that cross in but I've always let my 11 year old pick what she eats she
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has to try whatever I make but if she doesn't like a vegetable I don't make
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her eat that vegetable we find another vegetable that she does like and what
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uh what's interesting about that is she eats so much more vegetables than everybody else around me.
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And she's the only kid I know.
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And one of the few people I know that can say, I think I need more iron. I think I need more salt.
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I think I need to drink more water today.
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You know what I mean? Like, and it's so cool, but like the thing is,
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is most of us back with that indoctrination, we're taught this much protein,
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this much carb, this much, you know what I mean? All these things,
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you finish what's on your plate.
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You don't eat your cookie until after her you
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don't get it unless you finish the plate all these all these rules
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i never did with her i put the cookie right on the plate if she ate the cookie
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first for dinner well like that's the first part of her dinner you don't get
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a cookie at the end you know but all of these things it accidentally tricked
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her into teaching herself how to listen to her body which is really interesting
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because she actually does a far better job at it than i do.
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That's pretty amazing. I love this episode.
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I think it was informative and I was completely unprepared for it,
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but yet we had talked about it because we were going to talk about diets and all that too.
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We had that one on the back burner as well. And I think this can play in and
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maybe we'll have another episode based on that too down the line.
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But I do want to let everybody know That we are going to be interviewed By our
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old listener friend, Brittany,
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We're trying to get her onto the next episode If it all works out schedule-wise
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This is going to be a lot of fun,
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Because Brittany's going to sit And she's going to interview us And we're going
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to be talking about the church And she's going to be Well,
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she'll be interviewing us about the church And I'm looking forward to that Because
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Lizzie and I are going to get to sit back And be interviewed by somebody else
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And this way we don't got to stress over what we're saying All we got to do
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is answer questions, but I think it's going to be informative as well, because...
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Getting the word out about the church, because that's the next big news that,
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you know, we got so many ideas and it'd be nice to start getting some of those
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ideas out on that episode.
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And then speaking of your daughter, we're going to try and get your daughter on too, as well.
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We got to contact her agent and everything else and see if we can't schedule something.
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But I think that episode, and I'm not going to give any revelations why and
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all, it's going to work out beautifully. I'm looking forward to that too as well.
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And we have so many more ideas, but keep following us. Check the synopsis.
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I want everybody to check out the website for our church.
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Lizzie still owes me a biography because her biography is not up yet.
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But the website is a work in progress. But Lizzie and I are both a work in progress as well.
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And so is the church. So that website is going to grow and build right along with it.
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So get in now in the earliest points This
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week you can watch us grow We got some ideas too in regards
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to that So everybody just stick with us Because we got so many beautiful things
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happening I want to thank you so much for tuning in Don't forget about our Wednesday
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night guided meditation episodes And my solo Saturday episodes as well Lizzie,
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thank you again for being here with us.