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Sept. 22, 2026

Everything You Need Is Already Inside You

Everything You Need Is Already Inside You
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Dr. Doug welcomes back counselor and author Faust Ruggiero for a quiet conversation about what we are really doing when we reach for something outside ourselves. They talk about plant medicine and meditation, the childhood imprints that shape how we react, the difference between losing something and gaining something, and why real change is felt by next summer rather than by Christmas. An unhurried reminder that the work is mostly unpacking, not adding. https://faustruggiero.com

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Thank you. Thank you.

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I have spent years in conversation with people who are

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successful by every measure and still quietly restless, not broken,

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not lost, just aware somewhere underneath the noise that there

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is a version of their life that feels more honest,

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more grounded, more genuinely theirs. This podcast exists for those people,

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for the ones who are done performing and ready to

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go deeper.

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My name is Dr.

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Doug.

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Welcome to Inspire Vision. I am glad you are here. Faust,

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welcome back.

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It's a pleasure to be spending time with you again.

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I want the audience to know this is, what, our

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third time now, but one was in, what, 2020?

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One was in 2022.

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Here we are in 2026, and you have done some

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amazing things since then. You're a prolific writer, which is

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just amazing to me. But for the people who didn't

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hear our previous ones, let the audience know a little

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bit about your background.

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Absolutely.

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My name is Foster Ruggiero. I'm a counselor. I've been

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counseling people for, God, 45 years now, and I still am.

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And I've written seven books. I call the Fix Yourself

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Empowerment Series. And those have been doing nicely for me.

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I run a radio show, and... You know, I stay busy.

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I was going to retire, but retirement wouldn't let me in,

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so I have to keep on going.

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So, you know, what I find, which is always interesting,

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is we choose our professions. And many people, and one

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of the things I've been doing, and I don't even

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know if we talked about this years ago, but I

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have what's called a 4D personal portrait. And what that

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does is help people to understand how a number of things,

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but very importantly, what are the areas of professions that

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they would be most comfortable in? Because as you know,

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there's so many people in their midlife that are not

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feeling comfortable where they're working.

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Yes, they've been there their whole life.

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And so here you are, and I can tell you're

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totally comfortable in what you do as a counselor and

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so forth. What brought you to that point? What caused

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you to make the decision to go to school to

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get that type of degree and to become a counselor?

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You know, Doug, I've said this for years. There are

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people who get jobs, go into professions, and there are

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those of us who are fortunate enough to answer a call.

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And that's really what I did. I mean, this was

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what I was going to do from the time I

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was a kid. You know, I've always been fascinated with people.

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So by the time I got into high school, I

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knew it was going to be psychology. And then went

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to school and grad school and all those things we do.

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And came out and counseled in various places before starting

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a private practice back in 88, 1988. So still going.

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And you know what? I still love to be with people.

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You learn from every person that you meet. And it's

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just for me still a wonderful experience.

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You know, and there are so many counselors out there

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that I don't think have ever written a book. So

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what was the motivation for you to write? I think

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when we first talked, you'd only written one book. So

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what was the motivation for you to write seven books?

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Yeah. You know, it's interesting.

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I think I did it right. I didn't rush into

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it before I... wrote the first book. That's a mistake

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most people make. They start typing or dictating, whatever. I

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spent a year learning the whole publishing field and how

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it was supposed to work. I thought about doing a

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book for a long time. I knew what I wanted

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to write that first book, the Fix Yourself Handbook. I

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knew I wanted to give people a book that had many,

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in any case, turned to be 36 processes that they

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could work on. So when the time came, I sat

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down knowing what I had to do to at least

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move it to the next level. And I enjoyed the process.

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And when it hit the, you know, the agent said, here,

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let's get it to the copy editor. And the copy

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editor says, oh, yeah, you got something good going here. Well,

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that was nice to hear. But, you know, it's one

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of those things where you're an overnight sensation that took

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a decade to unfold. You know, people look now and say, oh, wow,

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that's so great. I said, yeah, but you don't know

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all those days that I spent inside dictating when it

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was sunny outside and everybody was hanging by the pool.

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You don't know those days.

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Well, and, you know, what's interesting is I've interviewed a

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number of people. And previous to our discussion here, folks,

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we were talking. And how many podcasts have you done now?

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I am. They tell me close to 700, 680, something

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like that.

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That's amazing.

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I've only done 530 plus, so there we go. But

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what fascinates me is that as I have talked to

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various people, and particularly where we're focused on helping someone

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truly to overcome, to transform, and in my mind, truly

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to become who they were originally and innately, One of

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the things that fascinates me is that one of the

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things that people have talked about is there's all sorts

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of processes, but one of them is writing, either writing

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a personal journal or whatever that happens to be. Just

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because now you've written seven, what have you found emotionally

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has that done for you when you have been able

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to put your thoughts down on paper and obviously in

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a book?

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You know... It's.

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Interesting you say that. I remember when I wrote the

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first book and then I read it. And then I

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went back, you know, because I'm counseling now. I had

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no thought in my mind to continue to write. I

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was glad I did that. But I started to realize

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I put all my thoughts in one place. And now

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I was actually drawing on what I wrote when I

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was counseling. So there was this reciprocity that I experienced.

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The other thing is the book, the first book was

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designed to get people from a point of conflict to

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inner peace, what I called pure love, what a Buddhist

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might call nirvana. It was designed to do that, and

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I started, and I began to realize that it was working.

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I was connecting with myself. So, you know, writing for

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me became, I hate to put it this way, but

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a spiritual kind of a journey, which is probably why

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I kept up with it, because I enjoyed it so much.

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Well, and I think helping people to understand, I don't

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know how often as you're counseling people, you recommend that

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they start a journal or they start writing something. Do

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you find you do that or is that not necessarily

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part of your process?

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It's not an integral part of the process, but I

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do talk to people. Do you write your thoughts down? Well,

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why would I do that? Well, just get them out.

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The emptying process is great, but then read them after

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you do that and see what they mean to you.

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It's a really nice way to to organize your thoughts

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and your feelings. So do I do that?

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Yeah.

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You know, some people, you know, that, you know, I

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know the guy that works in the foundry and barely

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writes his name is not going to come in. You know,

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he doesn't want any part of that. So you might

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scare people away. But then there are other people that say, well,

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I'll try it. And they come back and they say, well,

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I did some good things for me. So they'll keep

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it up. And then you have your journalers. You know,

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they started journaling before they even met me. You know,

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so then we just fine tune something.

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You know, and it's interesting how over time I have heard,

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you know, write, write, write, write, write, and I've just

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can't do it, can't do it.

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I just can't do it.

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And all of a sudden, in the last number of months,

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I am just writing, writing articles for Substack. And it's

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amazing to me as thoughts come into my mind and

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it's like, okay, here's what I want to talk about

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this time.

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It's amazing.

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As you say, as you go back and then start

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to read them, it just... renews something within you and

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helps you to think even more and create greater curiosity.

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So your first book we know about, what was the

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next book that you wrote and why that one?

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Now, you know, it's 2019 in December, the first one

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came out. Now we're moving down a few years and

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I'm watching this country go into the pandemic. And I'm

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watching the way people are responding or overreacting. And I

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said the anxiety level was through the roof. And I thought, well,

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you know, I talked about that a lot in the

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first book. So two things happened. I said, I'm going

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to go anxiety next because I think people need to

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get an idea of what it's all about, how they're

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reacting to it, and kind of a roadmap through it

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so you can learn how to deal with it. I

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wanted that. That was certainly something that I thought was

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very important. And then I also wanted to, it made

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me look and say, well, gee, you know, I've got

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36 chapters in the first book, all talking about different things, anxiety, depression,

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what have you. I think I'm going to take some

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of those chapters and expand on them. So now I

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had the anxiety chapter written. It was almost like an outline.

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I said, okay, here's all the things I've done. I

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think I'm going to see what turning this into a

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manuscript began to look like. So I wrote the outline,

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which is how I write. I research it. I know

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the points I want to do. Then I write an outline,

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chapter by chapter outline. Then I write in order to

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satisfy that outline. And so I wrote the outline and said, okay,

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this looks like something I'm going to try again. That

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was a whole lot different than the first time around.

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I wasn't typing, I was dictating. My thoughts were coming out,

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just really going. I'm a much better dictator than I

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am a typer, Doug. You know, spellcheck. I burn spellcheckers out,

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let me say that.

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Yeah, yeah, I.

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Get it. So I began doing that. And now we talked,

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we looked at the pandemic, anxiety, and people were getting

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back and saying, this is helping me, you know. And

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that's where I started to say, Start journaling your thoughts.

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Where's the emotion coming from? And when I write, if

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you remember, I write short chapters. I like to put

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a lot of information in seven or eight pages. Then

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I want action steps because I want to make it practical.

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I want to give them, okay, here's your information. Now

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do this. And they were coming back and saying, yeah,

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those steps. Now I was taking those and that's something

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to grab onto in this pandemic because I was spending

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all my time in the house doing crazy things that

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were just killing me.

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Yeah, and you know, you talk about anxiety during the pandemic.

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That hasn't gone away. And in fact, what fascinates me,

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and again, you know, since you and I have talked,

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I've been doing a lot of fun things. I've created

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this concept, and it's based on everyone else's work, so

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I cannot take personal credit for it. But emotions and

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the emotional levels. And it's interesting, here we are, we've

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gone from anxiety now down, down, down that path of

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emotional levels to anger. And now we see such anger.

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But here's my question for you. As you look at

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people who are now experiencing anxiety, anger, it's always been

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my understanding, and I don't know how you feel about

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this as a counselor, as a professional counselor, but how

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much of that is related to inner imprints that people

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have developed and experienced from childhood on rather than a

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brain type of situation in other words you know a

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lot of people say well you know what you're experiencing

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anxiety because your brain is working this way or that

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way rather than saying you're experiencing anxiety because and then

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going back into that situation in childhood that initiated that

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whole concept of experiencing events and creating anxiety within themselves?

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over the years of counseling is that the more negative

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kinds of things, anxiety, depression, anger, those things, they have

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a tendency to work backward. When we get in those

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frames of mind, we tend to think about... well, that

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happened when I was a kid, and this is happening

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even at work. This is going on now, and I

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don't like this, but they're unresolved issues. I call them undercurrents,

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and they flow all the time, and if we don't

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resolve them, if we don't get to a point where

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they either don't have impact on us or we at

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least know how to deal with those, then it's like

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it goes back and gets pain buddies, if you will.

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Let me just grab onto this, and now we We

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think we have rational reasons for why we feel the

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way we do. You know, that's the same thing we've

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talked about for years. Why do you go to counseling? Well,

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we want to resolve some of those issues, you know,

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so that they don't keep coming up. And how do

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you know you have them? When you get angry, when

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you get depressed, when you get anxious. Are you going backward?

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Are you remembering what happened as a kid? Or this bully?

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Or that time that didn't work out? Or this guy

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did this to me? Or those types of things, or

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what I did. What did I do that maybe I

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hurt someone else and I'm a bad person? We tend

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to go back and get those things when we feel

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the anger, the depression, and the anxiety come up.

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I think about Buddhism.

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study that. And it's fascinating to me, as Buddha taught,

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that You know, that suffering, that anxiety, all that we

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experience can be done away with it. And it's not

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that the events go away, because they don't. But our

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response to those events changes. And to me, it's fascinating,

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you know, as you talk about it, that, you know,

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here's an event that occurs. It's our inner self that

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determines the way emotionally that we respond to that. And

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so my question for you is, and everyone has their

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own methodology, but as you're working with people, you know, obviously,

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number one, they've got to be able to recognize it.

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But secondarily, how do you help them? What are some

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of the processes that you go through with them and

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guide them in order for them to be able to

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recognize that this is this is a childhood imprint or

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this is an imprint from somebody that said something to

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me when I was a teenager or whatever, even as

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an adult. What are some of the processes you help

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them to not only recognize that that's what's going on,

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but again, when I had my dental practice, my assistants

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used to get so upset because I'd ask them five

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questions at a time.

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But I'm doing the same thing to you now.

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But as we get there, then how do they set

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that aside so that it's not affecting them to the

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degree so that they're not reacting?

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In fact, I just wrote an article on this.

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How we react rather than act, how we are at

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the effect rather than at cause in our emotions. How

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do you help people, number one, to recognize it, number two,

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to understand that that's what's affecting them, and number three,

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How do they then start to put that aside? I

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don't think that they eliminate it, but I think that

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they're able to put it aside, develop neural pathways so

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that it no longer is affecting them.

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You know, Doug, it's a wonderful point. When we counsel people,

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we want them to understand what they're experiencing and how

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they're experiencing that. We want them to understand how they're

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interpreting it. because that's very important in terms of how

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they're going to deal with it. We want them to understand.

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And then as they're interpreting, how they're processing their emotions

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and their thoughts about it, and then how they're going

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to respond to it. And so when you say, okay,

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what's commonsensical here? The first step in that process that

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you're talking about, slow down. You got it. We are

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going at it, particularly in the Western world, we're going

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100 miles an hour and no brake pedals. You know,

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you can't process your emotions. You can't think about what's

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going on in your life. If you're running, the first

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thing I tell them is we've got to slow you down.

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Then you have to be willing to go through the process.

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You're going to get committed to this and understand that

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it's going to take some time. But the key to

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that is there's no end time. The end time will

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be when we stop breathing. During that period of time,

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our brains will continue to learn. So since that's going

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to happen, why not feed that with information and emotion

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that's healthy and feels good for us? So we want

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to make this a journey that's going to be there

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every day of your life. You want to keep on learning.

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You want to keep on processing good information and doing

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things that help you connect with yourself. And then finally,

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what's out there? What's out there is 10% of it, really.

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Most of it's here. And we do the opposite. We're

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so concerned about what's out there and we forget about

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going in and being strong inside.

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Okay, so you talk about depression, anger. I don't have

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the whole list of all of your seven books, but

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do you find that each one of those, I know

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that you've got your depression, your anger, your addiction. Is

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it You wrote on individual topics. Are there specific things

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that are distinct and individual to those emotional situations, or

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is it more of a common overview?

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Both. And if you think about it, that makes good sense.

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If I'm going to be anxious about something, I might

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get angry. I might start spinning it in my head.

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I have a book on internal language. Now I might

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spin it there and do hopefully something good, but maybe

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something not so good. I might get depressed. I might

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pick up more alcohol or marijuana than I should. So

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all those things can connect. But on the other hand,

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they have their own causal agents, if you will. They

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have their own way they develop inside us and how

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they rearrange our lives. So we have a tendency to

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take something, for example, we'll use an example, we'll use anger.

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We get angry and then what happens? Now we think

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it's only here. Well, the whole body gets involved. and

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it gets intense, and the adrenaline pumps, and cortisol levels rise,

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and now we're in this thing where we start to

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get furious, and now what happens is we start thinking, well,

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that guy did this, and I don't like it because

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of that, or I'm turning it on myself, and I

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don't like me, so now my internal world gets not

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only angry, it starts to get dark. I may feed

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it with a substance. Now I might start to get depressed,

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and And boy, now I'm dealing with all those kinds

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of feelings. So it starts, all of them have their

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own individual components. But on the other hand, they can

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grab each other and bond together. And now you have

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this whole mess. And that's where people get lost. I

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don't know where to go with this. You know, I'll say, well,

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let's start the counseling. I don't even know where to begin.

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I always say, it doesn't matter where you begin. I'll

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get us back to the starting block. You just start talking.

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Well, and you get into this whole concept, and I

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don't know how much you believe in it, but this

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whole concept of the quantum field, quantum area of our lives,

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and how so often the energy that we have created

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within ourselves is what we attract.

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And do.

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You find that that's the case with people that you're

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working with, that as they start to change that, internal

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aspect of themselves and to start to minimize and move

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away from those imprints and so forth, that they start

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to experience different things in their lives?

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Well, there's no doubt about it. Not only do we

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attract people, whether it's positive or more negative, we search

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them out consciously because they don't challenge what we're dealing with.

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You know, if I'm not feeling good about myself, I'm

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probably not apt to go out bond with somebody close,

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bring someone close who has a life that's in tune.

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And that might say to me, well, I don't know

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about that thing you're doing. I don't want to hear that.

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On the other hand, once I start to realize myself,

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once I start to feel good, now I want more

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people there because I want to keep that process going.

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We just got to get that wheel turning. Once we

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get that going, Yeah, then they'll consciously seek out other

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people to become close to who are positive forces.

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Well, and I love to talk about the positive somehow.

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We end up talking about the negative sometimes. But this

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is one thing that comes to my mind is social media.

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And it's fascinating to me as I go on to Facebook.

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And I have a number of friends that are just,

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you know, they produce beautiful pictures and their thoughts and

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so forth are wonderful. And then I have really good friends.

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who are angry and they just keep posting all of

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this stuff. And I think, you know, for people who

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are experiencing that anger in their lives, it seems from

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what you're telling me is they will continue to listen

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to social media that talks about anger, that is anger.

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And the more that they do that, the deeper they

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bury themselves in that pit of anger.

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And, you know, we see that all the time. People are,

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you know, on Facebook. And you can see, even the

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ones that are posting great positive things, we're not sure

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about all that because I'm going to tell you how

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wonderful my life is. I'm living it. I don't think

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I need to tell you about it. But, you know,

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we here, we have been taught in this culture and

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many cultures about time management and being productive. But what

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we don't talk about is energy management, internal energy management.

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We don't talk about that. And what I say to

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my people is, hey, regardless of what you do, think

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about trying to infuse that with positive energy. And when

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you're done doing whatever you do, be able to ask

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yourself the question, did I feel good about that? Did

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it make me feel good? Did it put me in

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a position to succeed? Did it put me in a

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position to feel good about myself and the people around me,

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to connect deeper inside myself? Did it do those things?

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That's what positive energy is. And that's what we need

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to be focusing on. We focus on time management and

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we watch the clock and we have to be productive

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and get this done and get that done. And we

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measure ourselves that way. But we don't measure ourselves according

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to the energy that we're experiencing, that we're fostering in

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ourselves and that we're giving off. We don't put a

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lot of conscious energy into that.

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Well, and you know, it's interesting.

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I just did an interview the other day and briefly, uh,

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someone mentioned talking a little bit about plant medicine and,

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you know, in kind of a positive way, but, you know,

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here in Thailand, I see, you know, we talk about

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the people just being so much at peace, even, even

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in the type of lives, you know, they're lucky if

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they're living off of two, $ 300 a month. Um, and,

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and yet to a large degree, and it's really true, um,

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You know, when I meet people, they're kind, they're loving,

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they're respectful. They're always, in fact, it was really interesting.

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I got so tired of people. And the minute I

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met them here, they say, how old are you?

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How old are you?

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And this has been going on for three years. And

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I have been, it just drives me crazy. Maybe that's

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one of my imprints, right? But just the other day,

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my wife and I were talking and she finally explained

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it to me. She says, Doug, They want to know

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how old you are because the words that they use

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will show respect based on your age. And they will

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use different words to refer to you depending on your age.

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And I thought, wow, that is amazing. But here's the

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other thing that I've seen is that there's a tremendous

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amount of alcoholism. And you mentioned that a little bit.

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00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:58.319
But you know, to me, I see that, you know,

456
00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:02.089
as they go through, then ultimately in the evening, they're drinking,

457
00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:04.809
they're drinking, they're drinking. And I suspect that they're doing

458
00:27:04.849 --> 00:27:09.150
that to just emotionally overcome some of the frustrations that

459
00:27:09.210 --> 00:27:10.230
they're experiencing.

460
00:27:11.130 --> 00:27:12.930
And we don't have to get into that.

461
00:27:13.049 --> 00:27:15.859
But I do want to ask your professional opinion about

462
00:27:15.980 --> 00:27:18.700
plant medicine, because there's so many people out there now

463
00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:23.079
that are promoting going on this journey with the plant medicine,

464
00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:25.059
and it's going to really heal you.

465
00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:26.230
Emotionally and so forth.

466
00:27:27.089 --> 00:27:30.609
Now they're talking a lot more clinically, at least a

467
00:27:30.650 --> 00:27:35.529
little bit, about mushrooms and microdosing that and so forth.

468
00:27:36.670 --> 00:27:39.799
Just for my own personal curiosity, I'm interested in what

469
00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:43.240
you think about that, what you've seen via the research,

470
00:27:43.539 --> 00:27:48.900
and what's the difference between doing it with care and

471
00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:52.660
guidance and mentorship versus trying to do it on your

472
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:54.569
own thinking that's going to solve some issues.

473
00:27:55.849 --> 00:27:58.829
Well, as you were talking, Doug, I'm saying to myself,

474
00:27:58.869 --> 00:28:01.390
that's what I was saying to myself, you know, uh,

475
00:28:01.930 --> 00:28:05.509
you see an ad somewhere and it's plant-based this and it's,

476
00:28:05.930 --> 00:28:08.029
and you say, Oh, now I got to get some

477
00:28:08.069 --> 00:28:09.410
of that. And I'm going to get some of that.

478
00:28:09.809 --> 00:28:11.490
By the time you're done, you can have a box

479
00:28:11.549 --> 00:28:13.990
this big full of all the things you're supposed to

480
00:28:14.009 --> 00:28:20.569
be taking. And, um, no guidance whatsoever. At the very least,

481
00:28:20.710 --> 00:28:24.759
I say, get it from respectable sources. But the better

482
00:28:24.819 --> 00:28:28.160
thing to do is if you've decided to go in

483
00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:33.539
that direction, identify someone who can be your mentor or

484
00:28:33.579 --> 00:28:38.380
your guide and can get you through that. That's common sense.

485
00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:43.170
I like that particular way of going rather than medicinal approaches.

486
00:28:43.210 --> 00:28:46.809
Medicinal approach is when, you know, chemical... Those, in my mind,

487
00:28:46.829 --> 00:28:52.750
are always the last resort. You're psychotic. The bipolar is

488
00:28:53.089 --> 00:28:55.329
so bad, and we may need to get you at

489
00:28:55.450 --> 00:28:59.869
least break the cycle. But a thing I've always said

490
00:28:59.930 --> 00:29:02.170
is we've been on the earth for all these years.

491
00:29:03.309 --> 00:29:06.809
We are of the earth, if you will. Obviously, things

492
00:29:06.849 --> 00:29:09.869
like that are going to work, but we've gone so

493
00:29:09.930 --> 00:29:11.609
far the other way. You can't just put the brakes

494
00:29:11.730 --> 00:29:14.339
on and say, okay, now I'll start doing this. You've

495
00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:16.609
got to learn how to do that You have to

496
00:29:16.650 --> 00:29:20.559
learn how to think while you're taking those instead of

497
00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:24.559
the traditional approaches. How you rearrange your day. All of

498
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:28.740
this is all entwined. You just don't stop and then

499
00:29:28.819 --> 00:29:32.200
pick that up. What you'll find out is some things

500
00:29:32.220 --> 00:29:34.910
will make you feel a little bit better. You'll talk

501
00:29:34.930 --> 00:29:36.990
yourself into some of it. But for the most part,

502
00:29:37.329 --> 00:29:39.950
you'll walk away saying, well, I didn't feel that much different.

503
00:29:40.009 --> 00:29:45.430
because it's not just those particular approaches, those things you're

504
00:29:45.450 --> 00:29:48.269
going to put in your body. It's your lifestyle that's

505
00:29:48.349 --> 00:29:51.680
part of it, too. And you've got to change both.

506
00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:54.849
If you're willing to do that and learn about it,

507
00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:58.099
just like I said when I was writing books, I

508
00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:01.619
learned about the publishing industry first. My advice to all

509
00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:05.759
your listeners is before you make all these changes, learn

510
00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:08.259
about them. Take some time and say, you know what?

511
00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:11.359
I'm going to learn. I'm going to read from the

512
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.200
right places, not from Facebook. I'm going to read from,

513
00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:16.950
you know, maybe it's the Mayo Clinic. Maybe, you know,

514
00:30:17.329 --> 00:30:21.710
maybe it's university studies. If you don't know how to

515
00:30:21.789 --> 00:30:24.990
read research, maybe find someone who does and can interpret

516
00:30:25.009 --> 00:30:28.809
some things for you. You know, of course, being, you know,

517
00:30:29.490 --> 00:30:34.650
A bit of a researcher myself, I've always written research

518
00:30:34.750 --> 00:30:37.349
early on. I know how to read them. I know

519
00:30:37.390 --> 00:30:39.450
how to go to the sources and get the right thing.

520
00:30:39.789 --> 00:30:45.490
Most people don't. So become knowledgeable about that whole enterprise

521
00:30:45.549 --> 00:30:47.750
before you even enter into it.

522
00:30:48.109 --> 00:30:53.150
Well, and it's interesting. They will do that. I just

523
00:30:53.210 --> 00:30:56.900
read a book about an individual that went through this

524
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:01.470
process of four or five times of wanting to feel better,

525
00:31:02.289 --> 00:31:05.569
doing a little bit of some type of drug, whatever

526
00:31:05.609 --> 00:31:08.930
it happened to be, and I feel better, and all

527
00:31:08.950 --> 00:31:11.759
of a sudden it becomes an addiction. And now all

528
00:31:11.779 --> 00:31:14.960
of a sudden they're no longer in control. They're totally addicted.

529
00:31:15.779 --> 00:31:20.259
And I think that becomes the danger in all of this.

530
00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:25.720
But here's, again, a curiosity question. Based on your understanding

531
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:30.049
and experience, I love meditation. You know, as I shared

532
00:31:30.069 --> 00:31:33.029
with you earlier, I went to a workshop, a week-long

533
00:31:33.049 --> 00:31:34.450
workshop with Joe Dispenza.

534
00:31:35.130 --> 00:31:37.269
And, you know, he's kind of one of those gurus

535
00:31:37.369 --> 00:31:38.190
on meditation.

536
00:31:38.450 --> 00:31:44.859
And I have found that absolutely meditation is an extraordinarily

537
00:31:44.970 --> 00:31:50.279
safe way to start to truly understand yourself, bring up

538
00:31:50.339 --> 00:31:53.519
those issues and being able to put them aside and

539
00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:57.000
so forth. When you start talking about some of these

540
00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.859
other things, they can either be there of value or

541
00:32:00.900 --> 00:32:05.039
they can become addictive. But here's my question. What is

542
00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.619
it about meditation? What is it about certain plant medicines?

543
00:32:09.269 --> 00:32:12.890
What does it do to the brain, to the mind,

544
00:32:12.990 --> 00:32:18.109
to whatever that is, that allows you to start understanding

545
00:32:18.130 --> 00:32:21.569
some of those deeper situations that are going on? And

546
00:32:21.809 --> 00:32:25.950
as you identify them, then obviously it becomes how do

547
00:32:26.309 --> 00:32:29.630
you then push them aside and overcome them, or at

548
00:32:29.670 --> 00:32:33.099
least push them aside. But what is it about that,

549
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:35.940
what does it do to the brain that allows us

550
00:32:36.019 --> 00:32:37.019
to bring that up?

551
00:32:39.059 --> 00:32:43.240
There's a unique thing that happens, or doesn't happen actually,

552
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:48.480
with those ways of doing things. The body accepts those

553
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:55.089
and can assimilate them without resistance, without side effects. you

554
00:32:55.130 --> 00:32:58.210
take the medication, you take something to make you feel good,

555
00:32:58.250 --> 00:33:01.670
you drink alcohol or smoke your pot, all those things

556
00:33:01.730 --> 00:33:08.059
have the positive rewards you feel. Then they have all

557
00:33:08.099 --> 00:33:10.599
the negative symptoms that we like to call side effects

558
00:33:11.180 --> 00:33:13.920
that the body can't work well with. So it's really

559
00:33:13.940 --> 00:33:18.710
a self-defeating way to do things. Meditation doesn't have any

560
00:33:18.769 --> 00:33:22.230
of that. In all the books I've written and and,

561
00:33:22.369 --> 00:33:25.650
and if you put all the chapters together, I'm probably

562
00:33:25.710 --> 00:33:30.549
talking 150 chapters, you'll probably find in, in my, um, uh,

563
00:33:30.869 --> 00:33:36.200
in my action steps, you'll find the words yoga, meditation, uh,

564
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.680
you know, those, those natural kinds of things, you'll find

565
00:33:39.700 --> 00:33:42.940
that over and over again. Um, you know, my wife

566
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:47.180
and I both meditate. Uh, I started that as a,

567
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.160
in high school, there was a, Maharishi making the rounds,

568
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:57.190
and it was transcendental meditation. It was wonderful. We're just

569
00:33:57.230 --> 00:33:59.869
hitting college, and this is going around, and we all

570
00:33:59.890 --> 00:34:02.349
said how cool this is going to be. And then

571
00:34:02.410 --> 00:34:04.829
I started doing it, and it took about a month

572
00:34:05.329 --> 00:34:08.260
to get it to do what I needed to do.

573
00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:12.760
But it's that type of thing that removes all that

574
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:16.599
external stuff, gets you deep inside yourself, the energy comes,

575
00:34:16.829 --> 00:34:20.010
Now we're talking that positive energy I talked about before.

576
00:34:20.530 --> 00:34:23.110
It really connects you with that. We all have that,

577
00:34:23.590 --> 00:34:25.829
but it connects you with it. But there are no

578
00:34:26.050 --> 00:34:30.489
side effects to these things. All the natural things don't

579
00:34:30.530 --> 00:34:32.309
have side effects. I shouldn't say all, but most of

580
00:34:32.329 --> 00:34:35.130
them do not have the side effects that the chemical things.

581
00:34:35.190 --> 00:34:37.869
I just heard someone say that if you take one drug,

582
00:34:37.929 --> 00:34:39.989
it has 50 side effects in your body. I don't

583
00:34:40.030 --> 00:34:43.230
know whether that's true or not, but it has several

584
00:34:43.250 --> 00:34:46.179
because it has to run through every part of your body.

585
00:34:47.210 --> 00:34:53.090
So plant-based everything, sure, wonderful. Anything your body doesn't naturally

586
00:34:53.170 --> 00:34:59.110
try to resist, that's what's good. And these types of

587
00:34:59.650 --> 00:35:03.309
processes work well because there's no resistance factor. The body

588
00:35:03.730 --> 00:35:07.750
welcomes them in. And if it does that, then your

589
00:35:07.789 --> 00:35:10.349
ability to go to deeper levels is always there.

590
00:35:10.989 --> 00:35:13.389
And I assume as long as you're doing it under

591
00:35:13.449 --> 00:35:19.010
guidance and in microdosing, Because ultimately, if you don't, it

592
00:35:19.030 --> 00:35:20.150
can become an addiction.

593
00:35:20.170 --> 00:35:23.250
It can become an addiction, plus you can do damage

594
00:35:23.309 --> 00:35:29.920
to yourself. Whether it's a drug or what we're talking

595
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:33.480
about now, it doesn't matter what it is. It's designed

596
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.880
to do a certain way in certain amounts. And like

597
00:35:37.059 --> 00:35:39.420
anything else you put in your body... You want to

598
00:35:39.460 --> 00:35:42.980
get to know your body first. If you come and say,

599
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:45.880
I need an anxiety medicine, I'm going to say, let's

600
00:35:45.900 --> 00:35:47.940
get to your doctor. I need your whole blood work

601
00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:51.139
up first before I even suggest for you to do

602
00:35:51.179 --> 00:35:53.639
that because we don't know what's going to go on.

603
00:35:55.269 --> 00:35:57.150
This is no different. You're going to put something in

604
00:35:57.170 --> 00:36:00.969
your body. Let's go find out where all those levels are,

605
00:36:01.050 --> 00:36:03.889
all the hormones, all the chemical levels are in your body.

606
00:36:04.230 --> 00:36:07.750
Let's find out how your organs are doing because When

607
00:36:07.789 --> 00:36:12.110
you put this in your body, it's going to work

608
00:36:12.210 --> 00:36:16.489
with everything inside you. So before we do that, we

609
00:36:16.530 --> 00:36:18.949
want to get a good idea of who we are

610
00:36:19.030 --> 00:36:22.210
inside there. We want to get an idea of, you know,

611
00:36:22.389 --> 00:36:25.969
can I do this? If so, you know, what are

612
00:36:26.010 --> 00:36:28.750
those levels? And who's going to monitor me? And if

613
00:36:28.829 --> 00:36:31.769
I start to go off, will I understand that? Or, well,

614
00:36:32.070 --> 00:36:34.389
you know, can I go back to my mentor and say, well,

615
00:36:34.409 --> 00:36:36.389
this is how I felt a little bit. Is that normal,

616
00:36:36.989 --> 00:36:41.269
you know? And the natural way for people is, well,

617
00:36:41.289 --> 00:36:44.110
that felt good, so I'll do a little more. I'll

618
00:36:44.150 --> 00:36:47.090
feel even better. It doesn't work that way. It never does.

619
00:36:49.219 --> 00:36:50.940
And it's interesting.

620
00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:55.880
You talked earlier a little bit about anger and anxiety

621
00:36:55.940 --> 00:37:01.280
and how that raises chemicals in your brain. And ultimately,

622
00:37:01.619 --> 00:37:04.920
if you get into the biochemistry of the body, you know,

623
00:37:05.059 --> 00:37:09.179
raising of this chemical within the brain raises other chemicals

624
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:12.579
within the body. And how often do you find that

625
00:37:12.659 --> 00:37:16.159
people who are experiencing anger, who are experiencing all of

626
00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:21.400
that and not really effectively dealing with it, are finding

627
00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:23.389
also that it's affecting their health?

628
00:37:25.070 --> 00:37:25.590
And it is.

629
00:37:25.630 --> 00:37:28.789
You know, it was so interesting when I started counseling,

630
00:37:28.809 --> 00:37:30.900
oh gosh, when I came out of grad school in 1980. Now,

631
00:37:32.969 --> 00:37:36.409
I'm into my private practice, you know, eight years later

632
00:37:36.429 --> 00:37:40.690
and people coming into the office, maybe, maybe 5% of

633
00:37:40.730 --> 00:37:48.340
them were on pharmaceuticals. Today, 70% are on pharmaceuticals. That

634
00:37:48.510 --> 00:37:51.360
tells you where the culture went. That tells you we

635
00:37:51.389 --> 00:37:55.500
want quick fixes. We, you know, we see the commercials

636
00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:58.219
on television and they give you all the disclaimers about

637
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.000
all the horrible things that can happen to you. We

638
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:03.809
run right over those and We take those because we

639
00:38:03.829 --> 00:38:07.929
want those so badly. Once again, if you're going to

640
00:38:07.989 --> 00:38:13.139
do all these natural things, go slow. Learn about them.

641
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:15.820
Get into your body a little bit at a time.

642
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:19.639
Respect your body enough to say, I'm going to go slow,

643
00:38:19.739 --> 00:38:23.699
give you a chance to adjust to this, and then

644
00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:26.119
I'm going to be able to learn how to work

645
00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:30.260
with that along the way. That's your formula for success.

646
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:33.360
So as you have worked with people, and I don't know,

647
00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:35.559
you might have a story which I would love to hear.

648
00:38:37.090 --> 00:38:40.190
Have you worked with people who came in, and whether

649
00:38:40.210 --> 00:38:44.170
they're on medication or not, but they are experiencing the anxiety,

650
00:38:44.230 --> 00:38:47.190
all of that, but they're also experiencing really poor health.

651
00:38:47.829 --> 00:38:50.760
And as you've worked with them, and as you help

652
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:54.619
them to really overcome a lot of that and ideally

653
00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:57.059
start to reduce some of that medication and so forth,

654
00:38:57.849 --> 00:39:00.889
Have you seen some stories of people who literally have

655
00:39:00.949 --> 00:39:04.099
moved from extremely poor health to good health?

656
00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:06.480
Many.

657
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:12.440
When people come in my office, they'll say, point me

658
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:14.579
in the right direction. Give me all the things I want.

659
00:39:15.500 --> 00:39:19.519
Help me move forward. And the first thing I say is, no,

660
00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.320
let's remove all the things that you're doing that are bad.

661
00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:26.019
And they say, you have to be kidding me. And

662
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:29.789
I say, well, you have anxiety. How much coffee do

663
00:39:29.809 --> 00:39:34.219
you need? drink every day? Energy drinks? Carbs?

664
00:39:34.500 --> 00:39:34.760
Sugar?

665
00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:38.739
How much of all those? And they look at that. Now,

666
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:42.599
when I said, all I want from you, we'll start

667
00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:45.510
working on things that are bothering you. We'll start doing

668
00:39:45.550 --> 00:39:47.670
some positive things. I don't want you to think all

669
00:39:47.690 --> 00:39:49.690
we're going to do here is make you uncomfortable. But

670
00:39:50.889 --> 00:39:53.639
let's make a deal. Let's get that down to a,

671
00:39:53.949 --> 00:39:55.789
you don't need more than a cup of coffee a day.

672
00:39:56.090 --> 00:39:58.610
Your body actually has everything you need it inside it

673
00:39:58.670 --> 00:40:02.469
to have all the energy you need. So let's get

674
00:40:02.510 --> 00:40:04.619
that out of there. Let's get those carbs out. So

675
00:40:04.659 --> 00:40:07.780
we start and put a good diet and you know,

676
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:11.420
a good eating plan for you. Let's do that. Let's

677
00:40:11.500 --> 00:40:14.179
talk about your sleep cycle and how you're doing because

678
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:19.559
sleep is huge in every, uh, everything your body experiences,

679
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:22.489
every system in your body relies on whether your cells

680
00:40:22.550 --> 00:40:26.750
are going to get what they need in deep sleep.

681
00:40:27.550 --> 00:40:30.250
Let's get all those things going because if you think

682
00:40:30.329 --> 00:40:33.230
that I'm going to give you some things to do

683
00:40:33.869 --> 00:40:36.309
and give you some things to take and that's going

684
00:40:36.329 --> 00:40:39.530
to change everything and you keep on doing all the negatives,

685
00:40:39.610 --> 00:40:44.190
all you're going to do is nothing. You're going to

686
00:40:44.230 --> 00:40:47.000
keep on living what you're living and And what you'll

687
00:40:47.099 --> 00:40:50.219
see almost every time is that you'll feel better for

688
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:53.679
a month. Then you'll stop feeling better again because your

689
00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:57.599
negative behaviors will counteract all the positive. So we're going

690
00:40:57.619 --> 00:41:01.130
to purge. Those people that are willing to do that,

691
00:41:01.789 --> 00:41:04.389
I see great gains. I see people coming in that

692
00:41:04.949 --> 00:41:09.369
are just pictures of horrible health. And then I see

693
00:41:09.409 --> 00:41:11.130
them now, and every now and then I'll see them around,

694
00:41:11.150 --> 00:41:13.730
they're smiling, and they'll say, still doing what you told

695
00:41:13.769 --> 00:41:15.510
me to do. I don't have those things in my

696
00:41:15.550 --> 00:41:19.880
life and I'm feeling good. And then we can talk about,

697
00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:22.340
you know, if someone's having five cups of coffee a

698
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:26.840
day and I say, well, let's start meditation. Well, you know,

699
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:28.969
I might as well hit them with a stick because

700
00:41:28.989 --> 00:41:33.030
they're not doing it in one place long enough, you know?

701
00:41:33.090 --> 00:41:34.989
So I say, you're not going to meditate. You're not

702
00:41:35.010 --> 00:41:37.650
going to, you can try yoga. You'll do some of that,

703
00:41:38.250 --> 00:41:41.960
you know, but If you're putting those accelerants in your

704
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:44.380
body and you're not sleeping and you go to bed

705
00:41:44.380 --> 00:41:46.570
3 o'clock in the morning and you get up 7

706
00:41:46.570 --> 00:41:49.030
o'clock and you say, yeah, I only need 4 hours

707
00:41:49.090 --> 00:41:51.369
of sleep. And I say, no, that's impossible. No one

708
00:41:51.429 --> 00:41:53.789
just needs 4 hours of sleep. That's just what you're

709
00:41:53.849 --> 00:41:54.170
used to.

710
00:41:54.829 --> 00:41:58.329
Yeah, yeah. And it's fascinating. You know, you talked about coffee.

711
00:41:58.769 --> 00:42:02.320
I don't drink coffee, but I've really studied because, you know,

712
00:42:03.500 --> 00:42:06.400
I want to understand is coffee good, is coffee bad?

713
00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:08.800
And the studies have shown, at least that I've seen,

714
00:42:09.289 --> 00:42:12.570
You know, one cup of coffee has some value in

715
00:42:12.610 --> 00:42:12.989
your life.

716
00:42:13.590 --> 00:42:14.170
You know, one.

717
00:42:14.230 --> 00:42:17.909
And that's where the challenge becomes. One has value. Multiple

718
00:42:17.949 --> 00:42:21.719
becomes something entirely different. For me, I decided, okay, I'm

719
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.159
going to find the pure cocoa. I researched this out.

720
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:25.699
And it's like, all right, it's going to have the

721
00:42:25.739 --> 00:42:29.199
same positive effects without the negative effects of coffee. And

722
00:42:29.539 --> 00:42:33.239
so that's where we go. But, you know, for people

723
00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:35.809
to understand, and I appreciate what you said, for people

724
00:42:35.849 --> 00:42:40.659
to understand that the, the life they're experiencing, the health

725
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:44.969
that they're experiencing can have so much to do with

726
00:42:45.010 --> 00:42:49.710
that inner turmoil that they're experiencing that goes way back

727
00:42:49.789 --> 00:42:53.780
to childhood and beyond. And to understand that they can

728
00:42:53.860 --> 00:42:57.539
improve their health by following the steps that you share

729
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:00.719
with your patients, I think is just amazing.

730
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:05.119
Well, you know, we all have this inside us. That's

731
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:07.190
what I try to tell people. I say, you know,

732
00:43:07.429 --> 00:43:10.809
You're looking at me and you'll say, well, look at you.

733
00:43:11.269 --> 00:43:16.010
I'm 70. I'll be 72. And they say, geez, you're

734
00:43:16.150 --> 00:43:18.429
slim and you work out every day and you're in

735
00:43:18.469 --> 00:43:21.380
great shape. And I say, listen to what you just said.

736
00:43:21.389 --> 00:43:24.719
I eat properly. I get the right amount of sleep.

737
00:43:26.380 --> 00:43:31.260
I don't put negative anything in my body. Like I

738
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:35.019
tell them, you wouldn't dump orange juice in your car tank.

739
00:43:35.610 --> 00:43:38.030
It doesn't belong there. Why do you put junk in

740
00:43:38.070 --> 00:43:41.650
your body? I don't do that. And it's not because

741
00:43:41.710 --> 00:43:44.199
I'm trying to live to be 100. It's because I

742
00:43:44.260 --> 00:43:47.360
want to get up and maximize my potential and feel

743
00:43:47.579 --> 00:43:51.860
good and feel connected and relaxed every day. I want

744
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:54.300
to feel that inner peace that's so important to me.

745
00:43:55.059 --> 00:43:57.400
And that's what fuels me. I tell them I get

746
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:00.260
up in the morning. I don't have accelerants in my life.

747
00:44:01.179 --> 00:44:03.280
I don't know how I go to sleep at the

748
00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:07.139
end of the day. everything we need is already inside us,

749
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:10.639
but we have to unpack all the garbage and then

750
00:44:10.699 --> 00:44:14.579
be willing to have that nice, easy life. They don't

751
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:16.840
want that. They want all the highs yet. They like

752
00:44:16.889 --> 00:44:19.840
the highs. Highs without the lows.

753
00:44:21.369 --> 00:44:23.889
As we come to a close, what would be a

754
00:44:23.949 --> 00:44:26.769
message that you'd like to share with the audience that

755
00:44:27.230 --> 00:44:28.170
could stay with them?

756
00:44:30.349 --> 00:44:33.150
You know what is a good message? It's to understand

757
00:44:34.030 --> 00:44:38.639
your brain, for example, as a learning machine. It learns

758
00:44:38.780 --> 00:44:42.099
by what we do, and it normalizes what we do.

759
00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:46.599
So if we continue to introduce a pace into our

760
00:44:46.659 --> 00:44:50.760
lives which is so accelerated that it hurts us, if

761
00:44:50.820 --> 00:44:55.150
we put all these artificial everything in our body, if

762
00:44:55.210 --> 00:45:00.090
we don't exercise, the body is meant for movement, if

763
00:45:00.150 --> 00:45:02.389
we don't get the right amounts of sleep, all those

764
00:45:02.469 --> 00:45:05.389
kinds of things, well, then we're not going to get

765
00:45:05.429 --> 00:45:08.230
to where we want to go. However, if you want

766
00:45:08.269 --> 00:45:11.550
the true natural way to live life, it's void of

767
00:45:11.750 --> 00:45:15.840
all that garbage. It is not the ups and downs.

768
00:45:15.889 --> 00:45:18.840
It's pretty much a straight line, and that's where peace

769
00:45:18.900 --> 00:45:23.920
is found. If you want that, you can have it. However,

770
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:28.260
you're going to get a little uncomfortable when we get

771
00:45:28.300 --> 00:45:31.480
to the purging part, and this goes away and that

772
00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:34.679
goes away. And we want to try to help you

773
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:38.579
not focus on what you're losing, but what you're gaining.

774
00:45:39.699 --> 00:45:41.460
And if you can do that and say, I'm going

775
00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:44.800
to stay consistent. I'm not going to stop doing this.

776
00:45:46.940 --> 00:45:50.059
Your next year, if you start that now, by next summer,

777
00:45:50.380 --> 00:45:53.360
you'll be saying, what different person I am. But you

778
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:55.920
will not say it by Christmas. You will say, I'm

779
00:45:56.139 --> 00:45:59.519
really different. But you will not feel it that fast.

780
00:45:59.880 --> 00:46:03.829
You've done this to your Your body and your mind,

781
00:46:04.429 --> 00:46:06.389
and they're connected. That's the only thing you have to understand.

782
00:46:06.409 --> 00:46:08.690
People think it's our body and our mind. It's one.

783
00:46:08.710 --> 00:46:13.070
And your brain controls every system in your body, and

784
00:46:13.110 --> 00:46:15.710
your brain can't function unless what you do to your

785
00:46:15.750 --> 00:46:20.400
body is healthy. So that reciprocity is so important. Work

786
00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:24.690
with that. Commit to making the change. Don't resist it.

787
00:46:24.900 --> 00:46:28.090
Do the work, and don't put an end date on it.

788
00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:28.840
You'll be fine.

789
00:46:29.380 --> 00:46:29.889
I love it.

790
00:46:29.940 --> 00:46:33.510
Welcome. So how do people find your books and how

791
00:46:33.530 --> 00:46:34.429
do people find you?

792
00:46:35.630 --> 00:46:39.699
Best place to do that is my website, my name, fostergerald.com.

793
00:46:40.300 --> 00:46:43.380
Everything about me is there. Excerpts from the books are there.

794
00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:49.929
There's a contact link. Anyone that is interested in contacting

795
00:46:49.969 --> 00:46:51.909
me and either telling me I'm wonderful or I'm full

796
00:46:51.949 --> 00:46:55.010
of you-know-what, they can do that there. But I do

797
00:46:55.050 --> 00:46:57.349
get back to people. Wonderful.

798
00:46:57.449 --> 00:47:01.730
And Faust, Again, I'm so glad. I am so glad

799
00:47:01.769 --> 00:47:04.250
to have you back on the show again. This has

800
00:47:04.269 --> 00:47:04.969
been amazing.

801
00:47:04.989 --> 00:47:08.130
It's been a pleasure. I've been looking forward to it

802
00:47:08.230 --> 00:47:10.260
and it's been an absolute pleasure.

803
00:47:10.409 --> 00:47:13.420
And I'm looking forward in a couple more years with

804
00:47:13.460 --> 00:47:15.820
your next five to seven books that we.

805
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:17.119
Can do this again.

806
00:47:20.219 --> 00:47:24.420
Anyway, folks, thanks for listening. I hope you've enjoyed this.

807
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:29.059
You know, I can tell you I love I love

808
00:47:29.099 --> 00:47:33.360
talking to him. His insights are incredible. I can guarantee

809
00:47:33.380 --> 00:47:36.619
you his books are incredible. So go get them and

810
00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:38.980
start to read them and hopefully get some.

811
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:42.380
Help with what you're dealing with. Anyway, this is Dr.

812
00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:49.929
Doug. Hopefully you'll join us again soon saying namaste. Every

813
00:47:49.989 --> 00:47:53.690
conversation on this podcast eventually comes back to that same question.

814
00:47:53.789 --> 00:47:58.210
Not how do I get more? But is this actually...

815
00:47:58.250 --> 00:47:58.849
who I am.

816
00:47:59.590 --> 00:48:02.480
If something you heard today moved you just a little

817
00:48:02.539 --> 00:48:05.619
closer to an honest answer, that is enough.

818
00:48:07.329 --> 00:48:11.369
I'm Dr. Doug. This is Inspire Vision. Until next time.