Empower the Power of the Zero Stress Zone

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Washington, welcome to inspire Vision.
Our sole purpose is to elevate the lives

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of others and to inspire you to
do the same. Becky Silvan, how

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are you doing. I am doing
awesome. Happy to be here with you

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again. This is yeah. You
know, it's great to have you back

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on the show. Last time we
talked about a bunch of different things,

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and today we're going to talk about
some new things. And what I'd love

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for you to do is to kind
of share with the audience who you are,

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how you've reached this point in your
life, and talk about a couple

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of the books that you've written,
and then we'll get into the conversation.

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Awesome, Thanks Doug. So I
am a lifelong seeker. I love learning

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and developing new strategies, and I've
already been trained in ancient wisdom teachings and

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modern science and technology. So I've
blended those two areas studying with great masters

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in the world to really deliver personal
development for clients as well as really just

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helping people achieve better health, better
well being and physically, mentally, psychologically,

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spiritvirtually every aspect. So my first
really best selling book is Escape from

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Anxiety because what I found was that
I was suffering from a lot of anxiety,

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which is what set me on this
path, and I needed solutions.

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And as I found the solutions and
found that they worked, I thought,

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you know, other people need to
know this, and so Escape from Anxiety.

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Supercharge your life with powerful strategies from
A to Z or simple bite sized

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techniques that people can read through and
pick and choose what they can try,

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what resonates with them, and what
they can use in their lives. And

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a lot of my path actually was
precipitated by training with a world yogic master,

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Shri. I'm Richi and he's known
as Yogi Amritisai, and he really

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opened my eyes and my third eye
especially to see beyond, to really understand

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how to manage anxiety in a different
way. And he set me on that

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path so intensely that I ended up
working for ten years with him on a

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book that is called Embodying the Power
of the Zero Stress Zone. So that

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was a great journey and it's really
been exciting to work with him. I'm

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now working on another book with him, and the man is ninety one years

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old, but he is truly an
enlightened master and clears a bell and just

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functions on gamma levels more than anybody
else I know in the world. So

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it's been really an honor and a
privilege to work with him well. And

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that's amazing. As I mentioned to
you a little bit earlier, you know,

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I'm over here in Thailand right now, and it is just amazing me

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the culture of the Buddhists and the
meditation that they go through, and to

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see these people who in many cases
are so poor that you know, in

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the US, we would look at
that and go wow. And yet here

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they are smiling, happy and seem
to be very very okay, and not

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a lot of stress in their lives. And I know that maybe a generalization,

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but I've seen it enough that I
recognize that there's some things going on

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that we can learn from these people
that really can help to remove that stress

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and to help us to feel that
sense of peace. That's kind of the

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goal that I said for myself while
I'm over here for a few months,

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is how can I achieve a greater
sense of peace through meditation, through some

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of those types of things. So
let's talk a little bit about what are

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the real life effects of stress,
and let's talk about that first, and

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then we can talk a little bit
more about how we can overcome that and

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so forth how to manage it.
Yeah. I love that you're in Thailand

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and that is so cool. I
want to beam myself over there. I

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think stress has really taken over humanity
and fears. We are living in very

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uncertain times and they're kind of accelerating. So I think that what I see,

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especially my clients, is just total
fear. And when we get into

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that fear and stress level, we're
really not functioning at our best. In

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fact, we're hardly functioning at all. And so what happens when we're stressed

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is it creates tension physiologically in our
bodies, and our bodies stop working properly.

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Because stress was meant for short bursts
so that we can survive and manage

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to live through to the next moment
and get away from that ferocious tiger.

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It's the fight or flight mechanism.
That's a biological built in, you know,

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technique that we just have naturally.
The problem is we're in constant stress

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now, and so when you are
stressed, all the energy goes into your

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extremity, so you can run away
or fight or freeze in place. And

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so there's a lot of tension in
that. But it's only meant for very

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short bursts and then you're supposed to
recover. We're not recovered. We're in

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that heightened stress constantly. What's happening
is we're energy, you know, and

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we're in this energy field, and
the energy is being siphoned away so that

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we have the strength to do what
we need to do to survive, and

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it's taken away from non essential biological
functions like our digestion. I was just

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on a call last night where we
were talking about people with so many digestive

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issues. That's why, because you're
so tense and stressed, people get headaches,

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people get a lot of physical symptoms, and guess what, that unrelenting

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stress shuts down the immune system,
so you're going to get sick. It

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leads to disease, And it's just
a phenomenon that is very true, and

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a lot of people, to be
honest, they don't even realize their stress

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because it's become such a norm for
them that they just live at that level

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until something happens and suddenly they're sick, or they have an accident or you

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know, now they've had the wake
up call. So it's very paralyzing and

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very nuctive to stay in that state. Yeah, it is, and I

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think a lot of times people don't
realize. Also even in relationships with friends,

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significant others, family, when they're
experiencing all of that stress, all

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of a sudden, that reactiveness comes
out much more than normally it would because

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they're feeling the stress. And even
though they may not, you know,

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correlate the stress that they're feeling with
whatever is happening at a given moment,

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the reality is that stress is always
there, so you know the fact that

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yeah, relationships with family, with
significant others, with friends, as well

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as as you say, the health
issues that can come and you know,

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I mean medicine has now shown the
relationship between stress and all of these various

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diseases and health issues. So it's
really something I think that's so important to

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talk about. And you know,
there are so many different approaches that people

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have to try to reduce stress,
and I think some work, some don't

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work, and maybe for some people
it depends on what they're looking for.

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But one of the things that I
have found is this constant sense of meditation

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and mindfulness and what that can do. Would you mind sharing with the audience

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what your experience with that is,
particularly is you've done some of these studies

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and writing these books, so much
goes into that. But as I mentioned

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a moment ago, the first step
is really awareness. Most people don't accept

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that they're stressed. They just know
they don't feel good, but they're not

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really realizing what this conditioned patterning of
being in stress has done to them.

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So really the first step is awareness. So when you say mindfulness, that

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really is important to pay attention on
purpose and when you are stressed, then

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you can develop what I call into
ruptors that stop that pattern because stress becomes

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a habit. I work with a
lot of clients with like post traumatic stress

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disorder, and what I find is
that they keep defaulting back to that stress

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place in terms of coping skills because
they haven't developed other coping skills that's been

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their skill. They just go right
into that panic, panic attack, or

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stress, and so they're just not
functioning well. So meditation is another level.

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So okay, I want to go
back to awareness for a minute.

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A lot of your show, a
lot of people talk about awareness, and

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what I find is people go through
life not being aware. But the question

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is, for those that are listening
today to the show, how does someone

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what are some of the signs that
they can see that suddenly will help them

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to become aware. Okay, you
know what, seeing these different signs in

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my life tells me that I'm experiencing
some stress. So now I've got to

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really focus on that and figure out
what's going on. Wow, there's so

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many symptoms that come up, so
not sleeping, developing insomnia where your thoughts

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are just running away with you all
the time, and you just can't relax,

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constant exaggerated worries, not being able
to eat or overeating, you know,

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emotional eating, just not being able
to really make decisions because hey,

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you're not sleeping well and you're not
managing the stress very well. What are

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some of the other things, I
mean illnesses, you know, headaches,

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backaches, A lot of the aches
and pains can really be completely related to

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stress. In fact, the American
Institute a stress to a study and it

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showed over many many years that seventy
to ninety percent of visits to primary care

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physicians are for stress related symptoms.
People feel like they're having, you know,

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heart attacks or you know, it's
just it's all that tension. And

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for your listeners or viewers, you
know, they can feel it for themselves

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right now, just by tensing their
hands into fists and holding that tension and

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then take a deep breath in and
hold your breath and hang on to that,

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and notice how that feels in your
body. You'll feel like you're blocked,

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like the energy is no longer flowing, which is exactly what's happening when

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you stay in that high stress level. Your body is not functioning properly.

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You're not optimizing and so you're starting
to develop blockages. And it can be

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from holding on to emotions, it
can be from relationships. But again with

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awareness, that is the big,
huge leap into understanding and accepting that Okay,

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wait a minute, I am not
reacting well to the situation. I'm

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feeling uncomfortable. What can I do
about it? And then that would be

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the next step. Okay, great
grace, So let's talk about what are

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some of those steps. There's a
lot of different things that people can do,

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and based on your experience, you
know, I don't know that one

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thing fits all people. I think
that there are different approaches based on the

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personalities and you know how they're approaching
things. What have you foundered some of

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the ways in which people can get
help or help themselves to reduce that stress.

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So it really, as you say, it's so individualized, because excuse

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me, what works for one person
may not work for another. But what

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works for everyone is breathing. So
when you are like out of control and

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you're feeling worried and you just you
can't figure out what to do next,

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if you just pause and take some
very slow, deep breaths, just breathing

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in slowly breathing out slowly. That
calms the nervous system. Another really quick

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solution is just to do a big
yawn, you know, or a big

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side just breathe in and ah,
and that helps release that tension level.

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Now it's only momentary, so it's
just a short intervention, and to do

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something longer you really want to begin
to quiet your mind. And in mindfulness

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we talk about not suppressing your thoughts, but learning to be in harmony with

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those thoughts, so you just accept
them and become the observer. So now

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in yoga with Yogi Amrit Desai in
particular, it's really about becoming witness because

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you are not your thoughts. You're
not your body, you're not your name,

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you're not your bank account, you're
not any of those things. You

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are the observer. You are separate. So when you begin to observe and

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see, oh my gosh, look
at me. I'm in such stress,

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Look how tight I am, now
you can really begin to let go of

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that by again, just I love
breathing because one of the key things to

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really managing the anxiety is the stresses, the fears, is being present being

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as totally says, the power of
now, and you can't really breathe in

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the past, and you cannot breathe
in the future. So breathing really does

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bring you present and allows you to
be right here, right now. And

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again, I have clients who have
really crippling anxieties and difficulties, and when

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we just together do a breathing exercise
for a few moments and bring them back

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to the present, they feel good, They're okay. Right in that moment,

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they're all right, they can handle
life, everything's good. So then

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it's teaching them to expand that experience
and take it now into the next moment

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without me, and the next moment
after that, and be able to use

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that in their lives to mitigate those
panic attacks or those moments where they're just

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feeling out of control. And we
can each do it, but the bottom

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line is it takes practice. So
you can't just say, oh, I'm

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going to do that and then it
happens. You have to begin to pattern

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it into your lifestyle. And you
know, in the neurosciences we've learned about

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brain plasticity that you can change these
habits that aren't serving you and you can

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groove new habits. But it does
take thirty ninety days to do that.

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So you have to commit to it, you have to be vigilant, and

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believe me, it's worth it because
you become happier, more productive, your

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relationships get better, your work gets
better, everything improves. When you are

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able to really manage with more empowering
skills on a day to day basis,

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it changes everything well. And you
know what's interesting. You know, not

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everyone, but so many people are
so focused now on their physical leld and

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so they get it out and they
were exercising for an hour or for half

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an hour, for two hours,
whatever that happens to be. And yet

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how often do people take the time
to really reduce that stress, take the

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time to do that breathing, take
the time to do that. Because physically

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it's one thing to get into shape, it's another thing to get into that

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mental state of peace and lack of
stress. You know, when we talk

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about mindfulness, would you mind defining
for the audience, based on your experience,

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what is the meaning of mindfulness?
So as we use that in our

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discussion, people will understand what we're
talking about. Right. So John copboard

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Zinn, who basically coined mindfulness way
back when at Harvard talks about it as

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paying attention on purpose without judgment,
as if your life depends on it.

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being witness or observational and just being
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mindfulness, and that might help your
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of thinking about, Okay, what
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on your hands? So you're activating
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with that feeling, so tasting eating
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types of moments can help bring you
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of mindfulness. Okay, And you
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you to commented, you know,
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that peace and get all the rest
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thoughts just keep coming in. So
when we're mindful, what do we do

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with those? What do we do
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other thoughts start coming in again to
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That's a really good question. Do
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thoughts every hour? That's a lot
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yeah. It's also interesting is we
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why is that? Well, we
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for all those negative things to see
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our thoughts are dangerous because we are
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world. And when you begin to
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you can begin to change it.
Let me give you in a quick

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example, because this was very palpable
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years ago. I was playing singles
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playing at night, and my team
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I was playing a woman who was
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on red clay, which makes the
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left handed, she was making bad
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I was telling myself, I hate
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she's so much younger. I can't
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do this? I hate myself for
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my gosh, I'm losing so badly
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reciting I'm a person of great value
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I just kind of kept repeating I'm
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better, and I'm an expression of
the divine. And actually, as I

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shifted into saying I'm an expression divine, I started feeling stronger. I started

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feeling more powerful, and guess what, two and a half hours later,

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I walked off the court victorious.
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mind. I changed my thoughts,
and we all have that capacity. It's

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just starting with awareness again and then
noticing, oh my gosh, why am

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I telling myself that I'm valueless or
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destructing and I'm hurting myself by doing
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about ourselves a little bit more and
love ourselves and give ourselves good input and

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positive input. So I've developed a
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that just help reinforce. And I've
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like cognitive behavioral therapy, and I'll
say to them, well, when somebody

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asks you, how are you feeling, just tell them, oh, I

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feel fine. And this one young
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he said, you want me to
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just try it. I just want
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how it feels. And within a
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his father called and his father didn't
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bubbly. And I'm feeling great.
And it just took changing that mindset.

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But again, it takes practice.
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takes really paying attention to what you're
telling yourself and change that. And what

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would you suggest to people as far
as focusing on that, how much time

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during the day should they devote to
that mindfulness, to that sense of just

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really focusing on the breath and focusing
on a sense of peace and eliminating some

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of that stress from their lives.
What would you suggest as far as the

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time frame. So I'm a big
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chunks of time to do this,
because nobody has the time, nobody wants

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to do that. So what I
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really to do it throughout the day, and particularly begin to do it when

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you're feeling stressed, you're in traffic, you're late for an appointment. That's

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the time not to tense up.
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so let go of that tension,
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something positive. Look out at the
trees that are surrounding you rather than the

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traffic that's blocking your path. So
you can change any moment. And so

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if you begin to condition yourself to
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end of the day, you're going
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the other thing to really do,
I'm going to toss this in really quick

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at the end of the day is
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just take three minutes to write down
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that you're grateful for. Because what
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to see the things that are positive
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will help you on this path throughout
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oh, gee, I'm going to
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grateful that happened while that person just
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just I'm so pleased that I had
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like law of attraction, you begin
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because now you're seeing them more so
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what you're worried about and what's difficult. Now you're changing the pattern and you're

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seeing the things that are really good
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and that begins to really change the
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and you know, I love that
because you're right. So often people try

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to set aside some time in the
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and yet in the middle of the
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you know, to be able to
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just stop for a minute when you're
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you know, breathing in, breathing
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a few minutes. And as you
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of a sudden, as you're focusing
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move away. Here's the other interesting
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this, but there's been some studies
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really advocate a very deep breathing type
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penal gland in the brain. And
as people do that during the day,

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what they don't realize is they're taking
in that deep breath and doing that a

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few times, they're literally instigating that
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then releases substances to help heal the
body. Absolutely absolutely, and it really

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does make a difference because, let's
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We're breathing very shallowly, and if
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more shallow and we're kind of hunched
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breath. Now you're oxygenating your cells
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force energy we call it in yoga, prana, in chigong, we call

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it chi energy. And we are
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I never like to call problems,
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not really being filled up with that
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our vital energy in very unproductive ways. We're wasting it, and so we're

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harming ourselves by doing that. So
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being able to take those deep breaths. And the other thing I wanted to

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mention two is in the neurosciences,
the concept is especially for brain health,

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to take a break from whatever you're
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hours, especially if you work at
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up, stretch, do some deep
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especially if you're sitting, which is
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being able to move the energy through
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sure. And you mentioned yoga.
Now, I know that you talk a

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bit about integrative approach to yoga for
improved benefits. What yoga? That's a

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tough one. I've tried it a
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so many different types of yogas and
so many definitions of what yoga is.

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As you talk about integrative approach to
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Amritsai and he was one of the

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first to bring yoga to the West
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he has developed is an integrated Amriate
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a methodology to really connect with ourselves
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a totally integrated way. And so
his approach has been to develop two parts

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to each asena, each yoga pasture. And it's not about the power,

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it's not about doing it perfectly,
but it's really about observing, being the

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witness and being fully engaged in the
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pasture is hatha yoga, which is
the traditional yoga postures that most people who

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do any yoga at all have experienced. So that's an active, intentional movement.

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The second part of every posture is
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you close your eyes, you go
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vital life force energy and how it's
flowing through your body. And so that

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really gives you a chance. If
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posture of consciousness, so it really
allows you to feel what is going on

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in your body because, frankly,
Doug, most of us function in our

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minds, you know, our egos
take over, and this is a way

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of integrating mind, body, heart
and spirit. And as you do the

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active posture, you do it fully
and completely, but without getting edgy on

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the edge, without criticizing yourself.
Oh I can't do that. Oh my

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side hurts all you know, I
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not capable. Well, those are
all those thoughts we were talking about a

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moment ago that you that's not what
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it, it's not a matter of
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being present with what is as is
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that allows us to come into the
now, because what Yoga Decide teach is

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that too many of us really are
living in the past. Our fears and

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anxieties now are because of something that
happened some other time. You know,

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we might have been in a relationship
with someone, and so now we've just

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met someone at a party and he
so reminds us of who we had this

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horrible experience with, and we hate
this person we just met. What that's

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not real, that's not as is. And so then what often happens is

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because of these past experiences, now
we're trying to protect our future, which

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hasn't even happened yet. So now
we're, you know, putting off our

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happiness or our well being to some
future point when all everything aligns just right

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and we find the right maid or
the right relationship, and now we're we're

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not in the present again. So
it's yoga teaches us to be in the

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present, to accept what is as
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together. And what Yoga decided does
so brilliantly is he's brought it to a

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third eye integration. So the pine. The land is actually biologically like the

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eye, only it isn't connected by
nerves. But it is our connection to

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our higher power or to the energy
beyond us that we are all part of.

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That, we are all connected to. You know, doctor Joe Dispenser

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calls it the quantum field, so
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or you know, doctor Bruce Lipton
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energy field. Some people call it
God. I mean, it's whatever your

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interpretation is. But the point is
there is clearly something way beyond us.

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And when you begin to connect to
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and you are contributing to that,
and your negative thoughts actually are having a

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negative effect on that huge energy field. So when you change it to positive

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thoughts, it begins to have a
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know, we're looking at our world
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as you pointed out, people go
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yell at their spouse. You know
that's not peace. So the piece has

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to start within you, because you're
part of that bigger energy field, and

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you're influencing that energy field by your
actions. So every action you take and

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make. You have to really be
mindful about and pay attention so that you're

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contributing in positive ways. Assuming that's
what your intention is. That's my mission.

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I want to lift the world as
much as I can and everything I

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do. And you know, I
love that you talk about the quantum field

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and that energy and all of that
that's out there. It's been very interesting

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here as I've visited different temples and
as I've started to study the lives of

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some of these incredibly honored individuals,
not only the Buddha but others who have

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followed after him, and listen to
the stories of some of the miracles that

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they have performed. Is they got
to that point of mindfulness and sense of

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peace, to the point where really
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world and the stress and so forth. All of a sudden, they're doing

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some things that are what we would
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doing that? Because they're tapping into
an energy And as you say, doctor

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Dispenser talks about the quantum field,
it doesn't matter what you say. It

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is but realizing that there is an
energy outside of us that we all have

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the ability to access, and as
we access that in the right way that

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is able to come in and heal
us emotionally, heal us, physically,

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heal us, and mentally. All
of those type of things are able to

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be done as we really focus on
that mindfulness in that sense as you say,

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with yoga, whether it's yoga or
combination yoga, yeah, I've tried

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yoga, I'm sorry, But meditation
and however that looks, it's amazing how

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people can tap into that and experience
those miracles in their lives. Even as

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you say, it may be some
of those subconscious limiting beliefs of experiences in

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the past as children or whatever,
that all of a sudden they can be

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released and you can start to feel
the greater sense of peace and freedom because

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you've been able to release those absolutely
and potentially. The father of yoga said

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stillness leads to seeing. So just
by stilling the mind, quieting those thoughts,

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and being in meditation, even just
for a minute, can begin to

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help you see the reality as it
is instead of all these filters of your

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past or even past lives that interfere
with your ability to really perceive what really

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is happening. And we do create
our own world and Doug, I'm going

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to throw a little winger in because
I've been working with a technology company for

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the last couple of years and I'm
seeing now we're developing new technologies that actually

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help activate even deeper changes on a
cellular level that help our biology function with

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more energy and vitality. So this
has been really interesting. The inventor,

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I think is an alien or a
time traveler from the future. But I

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am getting absolutely incredible results because I
do have clients who, you know,

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say they can't meditate, and even
though I teach them techniques, they're still

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challenged. And so this technology is
non invasive. It uses light therapy basically,

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and I'm having amazing results with it
and talk about healing. So I'm

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seeing a future. You know,
in biblical times people live to eight hundred

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years. I'm seeing a potential for
longevity now with a combination of the you

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know, ancient wiz the teachings which
clearly help heal and change things on a

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cellular level and connect us to the
field. But I'm also seeing technologies now

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that are coming through, that are
available now that are really helping us live

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our lives with more vitality and more
health and when we're healthier, we're happier

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because we can do more and we
can be in relationships without being burdens or

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without having such challenges that we can't
enjoy the relationship. Well, and you're

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right, there are so many new
technologies out there. As you talk about

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light therapy, I know the best
one technology. I actually know someone back

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in the US who uses a very
specific type of light therapy to help people,

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particularly young people who have experienced trauma
to their heads, concussions, and

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they're seeing a direct relationship often between
concussion and suicide, and they're having tremendous

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success us in alleviating some of those
issues with someone who's experienced concussion, whether

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it's some football or whatever that happens
to be I happen to come across an

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electronic device that has the ability to
really help reduce some pain and chronic pain

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and those type of things that I've
found to be very very helpful. So

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you're right, it's amazing the technology
that this is a technology I'm using.

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Okay, it's really remarkable, and
it's in Thailand, really okay, available

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in about one hundred and forty countries
now. Okay, So for those of

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you that are not watching and just
listening on podcasts. She just raised her

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wrist and has something on her wrist. It's a little patch, little white

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patch that is signaling my body to
create certain responses energetically. So it's really

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a remarkable technology. And it was
actually invented back at well. Photo therapy

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has been around forever, but this
technology was applied back in two thousand and

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four, developed for the Navy Seals. So it was through the US government

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that this inventor started this and now
it's gone so much further and he's done

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so much more with it and is
continuing. So it's quite remarkable to me

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to be that's amazing. That's amazing. And so you know, you teach

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in your mind body Fitness for Life
program, what are some of the things

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that you teach in that program as
you're working with clients. So part of

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what I have recognized has been really
important for people to embrace is a combination

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of lifestyle choices that help body and
mind just function more optimally. So it's

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a combination of many things. And
you know, we have, I feel

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a medical system that's great for emergencies, but for real illness, it's just

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treating symptoms and it's just not looking
at the root cause. And so the

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root cause is often an imbalance of
one lifestyle element, and it could be

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from not getting enough sleep, which
is really critical for restoration of body and

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mind, to not getting enough exercise
to keep the body moving. Especially older

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people tend to get slower in getting
out and moving, and just getting out

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and walking for ten minutes can make
a huge difference. And then nutrition is

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really critical, and this is where
I see big gaps in the medical arena

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because doctors don't even study nutrition,
and it is so important. And I'm

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seeing more and more, sadly how
corrupt our food systems are and how toxic

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so many of our foods are.
So I'm a big advocate for really educating

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people, and it's a lot of
what I do with my clients is making

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them aware of good choices and making
sure that they're really paying attention to what

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they're putting in their bodies, because
food is medicine. It's light, it's

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energy, it's information, It feeds
our cells, and it really helps clear

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the mind if you're eating the right
foods, and MUCKs up the mind if

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you're not. Hydration is another important
part many clients I've had really had anxiety

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because they weren't drinking enough fluids to
keep their body and mind functioning properly,

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and they started suffering symptoms that they
thought were anxiety or depression, and it

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was really dehydration. So simple,
right, but major. So it seems

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to me that we have denied a
lot of just our human biological needs in

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ways that have certainly not been productive
for us. So really important to develop

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a balance. And of course love
relationships are an important component of that connection.

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Belonging being part of something more than
oneself, having friends, having family

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really really important. And I'm very
fortunate in that I don't know if you're

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familiar with blue zones, but I
happen to live in a blue zone area,

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and this is an area where we
really have healthy options more accessible.

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We even have what they call Moi
groups, which came from Japan, where

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groups of people get together to walk
together once a week, and so they

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have their tribe that they go walk
with, and it just helps encourage community

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working together as well as benefiting your
physical health by getting out and walking.

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So all of those things are really
important. And lastly, one of the

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things that I'm a big advocate of
is really getting out in nature, and

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I'm so envy is that you're in
Thailand, although I'm in Zaplos Flora,

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which is also quite beautiful with palm
trees in the Gulf of Mexico. And

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in fact, just two days ago, I was air boating in the Everglades

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with some scientists who were talking to
us about the water systems and how all

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of that gets filtered through the Everglades, and I mean that was just,

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Ah. You feel spiritual when you're
in nature because that is that connection to

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that energy level, that quantum field
beyond us, and it's always very harmonizing.

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So if someone isn't comfortable meditating,
just walk out and look at the

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trees or look at the sky and
just do that for five minutes and that's

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calming and comforting and energizing. So
that can make a difference. Well,

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you know, it's interesting you talk
about nutrition. You know, I've lived

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with high cholesterol my whole life,
and I finally found a nutritional physician MD,

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like you know, like you say, they're few and far between,

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and so every six months he started
having me move more towards this a very

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specific type of program of eating more
healthy foods, getting rid of some of

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the unhealthy foods, taking some supplements
and so forth, and boom, there

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goes the cholesterol. It's just perfect. And we test every six months and

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sure enough, it's just remaining in
balance. And it's only because I've changed

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that nutritional experience for myself. And
I think that, you know, you've

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really hit on a key point there
that nutrition isn't just the only thing,

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but there's all these elements that people
will just start applying them in their lives.

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It can literally change their health and
their mental well being and their physical

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well being by doing some of those
things. It sounds like you've made major

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changes. I mean in Thailand nutritional
approach. That's awesome. Good for you,

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that's pretty great. Well, I'm
enjoying it. And you know,

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Peggy, this again once again,
I mean you were on how many years

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ago were you on? What was
it? It was in twenty twenty one?

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Yeah, I was going to say
at least a couple of years.

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Yeah, So this is great because
we're talking about a whole different element here.

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But I appreciate so much. So
I'd love for the audience to know,

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number one, how to find your
books number two, how to find

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you if they feel like, you
know what, I'd really like to talk

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00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.599
to Peggy about what I'm experiencing because
I know you do that personal coaching too,

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Yes, I do. So.
Books are all on Amazon, so

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00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.920
you can just look up my name
and the books will come up. And

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00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:49.599
mindbodyfitnessflife dot com is the best place
to just connect to my website. I

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00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.719
have a lot of free things on
the website, so please feel free to

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00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:59.360
look around. Also, on the
new technology, you could go to Live

536
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:04.800
Younger Today dot com and you'll learn
about that. And that's again just I

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00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:07.079
feel like that's the future and we
have it right now, which I really

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love. So those are probably the
best places to connect with me, and

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I'm more than happy to serve.
I feel like that is my mission.

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And you know, if as we
do these programs, Doug, I just

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feel like, you know, if
one person benefits, gosh, we've made

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a huge impact. And so that
makes me very appreciative to have this opportunity

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to share this with you and to
be back on air with you. I

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00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.280
remember having a great time a couple
of years ago, and it's always wonderful

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00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:40.079
to chat with you well and I
appreciate you being on the show, so

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thank you so much, and folks, thanks for listening. I hope you've

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getting some key little ideas here that
might be a value to you, and

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we look forward to having you join
us again, sir, with