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139 : The Microbiome Is Crazy Cool | Why You Need to Pay Attention for Mind Body Spirit · The Everyday Awesome Project

• 0:27
  Samantha Pruitt: Hey, beautiful humans.
• 0:29
  Samantha Pruitt: Sam Pruitt here.
• 0:31
  Samantha Pruitt: How is everybody?
• 0:33
  Samantha Pruitt: I'm doing a solo today.
• 0:35
  Samantha Pruitt: Coach Polly is out and about, and I am on my own.
• 0:40
  Samantha Pruitt: Actually, you might be hearing this while technically I'm literally out on my own, crossing the Sierra Nevada mountain range on foot for about 20 days.
• 0:52
  Samantha Pruitt: I will be doing the entire John Muir Trail solo.
• 0:55
  Samantha Pruitt: So you might be hearing this while I am literally on my own in the wilderness.
• 1:01
  Samantha Pruitt: I can't wait.
• 1:02
  Samantha Pruitt: But I want to share something with you first before I go.
• 1:04
  Samantha Pruitt: A lot of stuff has been going on, as you can imagine, in my body in preparation for this, in my mind and preparation for this big experience I'm about to have.
• 1:18
  Samantha Pruitt: And in fact, in my spirit and in my soul and in all parts of me.
• 1:23
  Samantha Pruitt: So what's been coming up is something I want to talk about today with you in this solo episode.
• 1:31
  Samantha Pruitt: The word is integration.
• 1:36
  Samantha Pruitt: Integration.
• 1:38
  Samantha Pruitt: Let me first define it out of the gate as Polly, Coach Polly loves to do.
• 1:43
  Samantha Pruitt: Integration is the process of combining separate parts or elements into a single, cohesive and functional whole.
• 1:55
  Samantha Pruitt: Integration is the process of combining separate parts or elements into a single, cohesive, and functioning whole.
• 2:18
  Samantha Pruitt: Definitely post-50.
• 2:19
  Samantha Pruitt: I'm turning 57 this year.
• 2:22
  Samantha Pruitt: And in particular, thinking about different elements that make me a human and how these elements or my parts and pieces can either work together in synchronicity or work in conflict over my lifetime, actually.
• 2:42
  Samantha Pruitt: Some of you may know I'm doing a class, a Buddhist class called A Year to Live.
• 2:47
  Samantha Pruitt: And it is a year long.
• 2:50
  Samantha Pruitt: It's pretty intense.
• 2:52
  Samantha Pruitt: And part of what we do in that course is we do a life inventory.
• 2:56
  Samantha Pruitt: So that's probably why some of this stuff is coming up for me.
• 2:58
  Samantha Pruitt: But I really want to share these concepts with you and also have you give some thought to this now.
• 3:07
  Samantha Pruitt: You don't need to be in a course for sure.
• 3:09
  Samantha Pruitt: You can be doing this at any time, whether it be a life review or just what I'm about to propose today as a concept.
• 3:19
  Samantha Pruitt: Okay.
• 3:20
  Samantha Pruitt: So what I'm proposing today is that you think, like I'm thinking, about the integration of my parts and pieces.
• 3:31
  Samantha Pruitt: When we are integrated, these parts and pieces of ours, working together, all of these parts and pieces in synchronicity, or when we are not, when they are working in conflict, you know, challenge can arise.
• 3:46
  Samantha Pruitt: So either causing flow and joy when they are working together, or causing blocks and suffering when they are working against each other.
• 3:58
  Samantha Pruitt: You know, like being a whole person and really feeling deeply connected to who you are and operating from that place of knowing, versus the ongoing daily struggle many of us face, including me, with the voices in our head, the stories in our minds, and the emotional pain in our heart that is caused when we are just not sure.
• 4:26
  Samantha Pruitt: And the people, circumstances, and world around us seem to be determining our fate instead of us.
• 4:32
  Samantha Pruitt: I know I've totally been there.
• 4:35
  Samantha Pruitt: Well, I don't know about you guys, but I am totally game also for less suffering and more joy.
• 4:41
  Samantha Pruitt: And in fact, I've been investing a lot of time and energy in this part of my personal development.
• 4:47
  Samantha Pruitt: You know, the more integrated and tapped in I am to my own flow, the more motivated and productive I am, and the more mentally, physically, emotionally healthy I become.
• 5:02
  Samantha Pruitt: So today, the three elemental aspects of the human puzzle I specifically want to talk to you about are number one, the mind and its mental parts, number two, the physical body parts, and number three, the spirit or the soul parts.
• 5:23
  Samantha Pruitt: And I want to have this connection convo with you today as an invitation for you to also become more integrated, understanding these various parts of yourself and how they should work and can work together.
• 5:38
  Samantha Pruitt: Hopefully, thinking about yourself in this way also might help ease some of your own suffering and allow you to tap into more joy.
• 5:47
  Samantha Pruitt: I mean, there's no reason for me to hog and hoard all the self-love over here.
• 5:54
  Samantha Pruitt: No matter what you're hearing out there, there is plenty of this good stuff to go around.
• 6:02
  Samantha Pruitt: Also, I think that integration is a worthy goal along the entire lifetime trail we each walk.
• 6:10
  Samantha Pruitt: Because the more integrated our parts are, the more the more whole, whole we are.
• 6:17
  Samantha Pruitt: But not just as our own best possible human being, living with peace and joy in ourselves, but additionally as a you know, as functioning within a society person, you functioning within a society person who can offer gifts to make the world a better place.
• 6:37
  Samantha Pruitt: Lord knows we need more of that right now, and the universe is out recruiting.
• 6:43
  Samantha Pruitt: All right, so let's get started.
• 6:45
  Samantha Pruitt: First off, okay, just visualize that we are each a puzzle with millions of pieces.
• 6:55
  Samantha Pruitt: All of those pieces make up the story of our life.
• 7:00
  Samantha Pruitt: And so when we are building a puzzle, what you generally do is you separate the box of pieces into cups or buckets or piles in order to make sense of it all.
• 7:10
  Samantha Pruitt: When you're putting these pieces together as a final complete project or piece of art, you generally separate them out into piles first.
• 7:19
  Samantha Pruitt: And I know those of you nerds like me who have made puzzles before, or maybe you make them now, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
• 7:26
  Samantha Pruitt: The straight line pieces create the border of the puzzle, and so they all go into one pile.
• 7:35
  Samantha Pruitt: The really complex and colorful and dynamic pieces that create the interior center of the puzzle go into a separate pile.
• 7:43
  Samantha Pruitt: Because those will be the most complicated to put together.
• 7:46
  Samantha Pruitt: Generally, they are the part, the puzzle part pieces of the object, the image, or the central art.
• 7:54
  Samantha Pruitt: And then lastly, the last pile, generally are the blank or the open spaces that are very simple.
• 8:01
  Samantha Pruitt: They can be one color, like of the air, of the light.
• 8:05
  Samantha Pruitt: Sometimes they're of the sky, of the earth, the grounding elements that hold the project, the image, or the art piece in place.
• 8:13
  Samantha Pruitt: Three piles of puzzle pieces so far.
• 8:16
  Samantha Pruitt: Do you have this visualized?
• 8:19
  Samantha Pruitt: Okay, now let's use this analogy to think about these three piles of puzzle pieces in the same way that we might think of ourselves also as three piles of personal elements, human parts or pieces, and our own unique personal puzzle.
• 8:38
  Samantha Pruitt: Pile number one.
• 8:40
  Samantha Pruitt: Those types of straight border pieces that are most like our mental elements.
• 8:47
  Samantha Pruitt: You know, where all things need to make sense and be linear.
• 8:50
  Samantha Pruitt: It's our thinking, our rational self, our logical brain, our mind.
• 8:56
  Samantha Pruitt: Our mind takes all of the information in, disseminates it into something that we can comprehend in order to form ideas, structure concepts, and then process it all to guide our actions.
• 9:08
  Samantha Pruitt: Thoughts, thinking, stories, the storyline, you know, if you will, of your daily life.
• 9:14
  Samantha Pruitt: That's one pile.
• 9:16
  Samantha Pruitt: Your unique pile of your mental pieces.
• 9:21
  Samantha Pruitt: Pile number two.
• 9:23
  Samantha Pruitt: You know, we all have that pile of curvy, often confusing, colorful, dynamic centerpieces that are like our physical existence, our body.
• 9:35
  Samantha Pruitt: The human body is a freaking miracle.
• 9:38
  Samantha Pruitt: We live inside a constantly changing and adapting container of trillions of cells, all operating in synchronicity, guiding a myriad of systems that have come together in order for the human body to actually function minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, to keep us alive for weeks and months and years and a lifetime.
• 10:04
  Samantha Pruitt: That's the intricate, messy middle pile of pieces, the physical body.
• 10:10
  Samantha Pruitt: And then the third pile, and lastly, the third element of pile of pieces is our spiritual part reflected in the normal earth and sky pieces of a puzzle.
• 10:24
  Samantha Pruitt: We too are breathing air, grounded by the earth, and have natural access to reverence towards the unknown and grasp for meaning and purpose.
• 10:37
  Samantha Pruitt: This spiritual element makes it all worth it.
• 10:40
  Samantha Pruitt: And at the same time, makes it all a great mystery.
• 10:45
  Samantha Pruitt: So now what?
• 10:48
  Samantha Pruitt: Why do I see these three piles of puzzle pieces, personal elements of you as commanding integration?
• 10:57
  Samantha Pruitt: Well, let's revisit what integration is.
• 11:00
  Samantha Pruitt: Integration is the process of combining separate parts or elements into a single cohesive and functioning whole.
• 11:11
  Samantha Pruitt: Whole cohesive, connected, allowing for maximum strength, flexibility, full momentum forward.
• 11:26
  Samantha Pruitt: All parts put together into one.
• 11:29
  Samantha Pruitt: All pieces combined into one piece, the art of your life, the work of art is called you.
• 11:40
  Samantha Pruitt: Now, I'm not saying this is easy.
• 11:44
  Samantha Pruitt: Here are a few steps to personal integration.
• 11:47
  Samantha Pruitt: Here's what's required, really, if you're interested in being a more integrated human being.
• 11:52
  Samantha Pruitt: Because I sure the hell no I am.
• 11:56
  Samantha Pruitt: Number one, the human has to be awake.
• 11:59
  Samantha Pruitt: Awake.
• 12:01
  Samantha Pruitt: Number two, the human has to be aware.
• 12:04
  Samantha Pruitt: Aware.
• 12:07
  Samantha Pruitt: The human needs to hold space for themselves and the rest of humanity as we struggle along this bumpy ride together.
• 12:17
  Samantha Pruitt: The human needs to remove obstacles by climbing over, under, or around people, places, and things that try to divert them from the path.
• 12:30
  Samantha Pruitt: The human needs to offer compassion, self-acceptance, and time to themselves as they do this work.
• 12:40
  Samantha Pruitt: This work of integrating yourself into the whole person might take a lifetime, but you are worth it.
• 12:51
  Samantha Pruitt: I am worth it.
• 12:54
  Samantha Pruitt: Knowing yourself and working to unify yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually is the work of heroes and legends.
• 13:04
  Samantha Pruitt: Be the hero of your own story.
• 13:07
  Samantha Pruitt: Be the hero of your own life.
• 13:10
  Samantha Pruitt: Become a legend.
• 13:12
  Samantha Pruitt: The world needs more legends.
• 13:15
  Samantha Pruitt: Remember, my beautiful humans, how your life feels is everything, and how it looks is not.
• 13:23
  Samantha Pruitt: Become a legend, the world needs more legends.
• 13:25
  Samantha Pruitt: I'll see you next week.