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Send us a textCatch up with their wild antics on Instagram @skatewives or Ryan's personal insta @ryan.herronYOU can grab this illustration on all sort or merch on Tee-Public https://www.teepublic.com/mug/73279594-earth-air-waterYou want more illustrations? Head over to www.drawntoyourstory.com to see more illustrationsWhen you picture someone who skydives, cliff jumps, and skateboards, you might imagine a wild thrill-seeker living on the edge. Ryan Herron shatters this stereotype with his refreshingly calculated approach to adventure. "Adrenaline is what you get when you mess up," he explains, revealing how methodical preparation underpins his seemingly risky pursuits.Ryan takes us behind the scenes of Skatewives, the popular social media account he created with his wife Emily during their van life adventures across America. What began as Emily reluctantly filming Ryan's skateboarding tricks blossomed into content that humorously bridges the gap between skateboarding insiders and outsiders. Through Emily's fresh perspective, viewers gain insight into skateboarding culture's peculiar rituals that seasoned skaters take for granted.The conversation explores how skateboarding's unique mindset shapes character and decision-making. "I don't know that there's any other facet of my life where I have attempted something hundreds of times and failed," Ryan reflects, explaining how this perseverance transferred to his career building a cannabis data analytics company and navigating major life transitions. His story demonstrates how the determination to get back up after falling becomes a powerful life philosophy.Ryan's approach to risk—whether in business, relationships, or extreme sports—centers around process mastery rather than reckless abandon. A harrowing story about parachute line twists inside a cloud illustrates his thoughtful relationship with danger, where respect for risk leads to better preparation rather than fear-based avoidance. For anyone looking to push their boundaries while staying grounded, Ryan's journey offers a masterclass in calculated adventuring.Ready to explore the unexpected wisdom that comes from falling a thousand times, only to get up and try again? This episode will change how you think about risk-taking, perseverance, and finding flow in life's most challenging moments.Dang, if you read this far leave a comment below of you favorite animal and your favorite thing to do. And we will see what happens with my pen.Thanks Matty

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In this episode, it's all about "YOU"!Download and listen as Jimmy IV explains that your assignment right now and for the rest of the 2025 calendar year is YOU. Work on YOU, Water YOU. Invest in YOU.Know YourselfTo Improve Yourself SHOW LINKS:WebsiteInstagramFacebookApple PodcastStitcherSpotifyAudibleYouTube Voyage Baltimore Magazine Interview

**Replay of Brett Harmeling Episode: Original Air Date 1/17/23 We live in a society where reacting to health issues is the status quo. But when we are proactive about our mental and physical health, we can spend less time reacting. Today, Brett Harmeling is going to share some biohacking tips to heal your body, get healthy, and get you in your state of flow. Brett is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and investor involved in AI technology, real estate, and biohacking. Also a certified yoga instructor, Brett helps people unlock their full potential through energy optimization, movement, and biohacking. Here are some power takeaways from today's conversation: The importance of managing your energy How to find your way out of pain The power of creating and curating relationships Biohacking tips you should start doing today About Hives for Heroes How to get into the flow state Episode Highlights: [07:03] The Importance of Managing Your Energy Everything is energy and we absorb energy, whether that's good or bad. Because we're energetic beings, we vibrate with frequencies. When we're not connected to the frequency of love and gratitude, we become dysregulated. Therefore, learn how to manage your energy and how you show up in life because your energy introduces you before you even speak. [23:20] Biohacking Tips Spend time outside. We were not designed to be inside. Being inside is 75% more toxic than being outside. Breathing - The Wim Hof breathing method allows you to introduce more oxygen into your system. You're bringing more oxygen into your system, more oxygen means more energy. There's also a breathing technique to bring your heart rate down as you go to sleep. Nasal breathing and longer exhalation can put you to sleep almost immediately. Water - You don't need to drink as much water as you probably think. You just need to drink the right kind of water. It's quality over quantity. Sleep - A 20-minute power nap equals about three hours of regular sleep, but you have to train yourself to do it. 68 F is the optimal sleeping temperature. After the sun sets, your natural circadian response is to sleep. And so, the only light that you should be seeing is the same energy wavelength as candles and fires. Energy - There are tons of energetic sources that are around you (i.e. WiFi, electromagnetic frequencies, radiation, etc.) that are overstimulating your cells causing cellular degeneration or over cellular stimulation. Brett uses a device containing charged beads that mitigate and harmonize the energetic frequencies that his body is exposed to keep his aura clean. [42:44] How to Get Into the Flow State A flow state is a feeling where you get fully immersed in whatever you're doing. This is only created in pure presence and sound is an important way to get into a flow state. The vibrational frequency of love is 5-8 hertz. If you're listening to a sound that gets you to 20 hertz, it's almost impossible for your heart not to start opening up and breaking down those barriers that you put up around it. Other ways include supplements and high-vibe mushrooms. Whatever it takes you to get into that state of pure presence is how you can actually feel the flow state. Resources Mentioned: ⁠Happy Life Labs⁠ ⁠Hives for Heroes⁠ Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/brettharmeling⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠www.linkedin.com/in/bharmeling

I invite you to listen in as I share the sound healing history, science, and results it provides in our human bodies. The second part of this episode transitions into Angela Hendry sharing her expertise and experience in Sound Healing. She continues on with all the other healing modalities that she offers, including her upcoming Yoga Retreat in the Swiss Alps! Angela Hendry, is an international Yoga Teacher, Professional Coach, Health Astrologer, Certified Aromatherapist Holographic Sound- and Energy Healer. She was born and raised in Switzerland and lived in the U.S for over ten years. Angela is the founder of Modern Moon Mystic where she helps her clients find radiant health and well-being through Medical Astrology, Professional Coaching as well as Holistic practices like Aromatherapy, Herbs and Flower Essences, Yoga, Meditation, Sound- and Crystal Healing and more.   July 16th - July 21st, 2023 for more click here.withpodcast, instagram, and website at The book shared “The Hidden Messages in Water” You can listen for free for 30 days by going to www.audibletrial.com/dawnmaynor  Your free, 30-day trial comes with: 1 credit (2 credits for Prime members), good for any premium selection titles you like—yours to keep. The Audible Plus Catalog of podcasts, audiobooks, guided wellness, and Audible Originals. Listen all you want, no credits needed. To purchase your own bowl go to Life Changing Energy - Discount Code Manifest More Want to connect with more? Schedule a coaching session by private messaging me or check out my other free resources.   Instagram Manifest More With Dawn Maynor. Website link here to book me for Reiki, Dream Board Workshops, Yoga, Meditations, or take my Course Manifest More. Please share this podcast with a friend or on social media.  Thanks for tuning! Love, Manifest More With Dawn Maynor

Today I am going to be taking you through the final positive self talk scripts that have focused on the individual energies associated with all 12 signs of the zodiac Today it's the turn of Scorpio which is connected to the element of Water You may choose to listen to a self talk script during a particular zodiac season, ie; when the Sun is in a certain sign or you may wish to go deeper with your self talk, buy choosing to listen to a particular script when the Daily Moon is in that zodiac energy, or when you would like to embody a specific zodiac energy. You can do all of this whilst drinking your favourite cuppa As always the choice is yours! Let's get started and embody the grounding energy of Scorpio shiningstarrholistics.com

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Today I am going to be taking you through the 8th of 12 positive self talk scripts that are all going to focus on the individual energies associated with the 12 signs of the zodiac Today it's the turn of Cancer which is connected to the element of Water You may choose to listen to a self talk script during a particular zodiac season, ie; when the Sun is in a certain sign or you may wish to go deeper with your self talk, buy choosing to listen to a particular script when the Daily Moon is in that zodiac energy, or when you would like to embody a specific zodiac energy. You can do all of this whilst drinking your favourite cuppa As always the choice is yours! Let's get started and embody the loving cancerian energy shiningstarrholistics.com

We live in a society where reacting to health issues is the status quo. But when we are proactive about our mental and physical health, we can spend less time reacting. Today, Brett Harmeling is going to share some biohacking tips to heal your body, get healthy, and get you in your state of flow. Brett is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and investor involved in AI technology, real estate, and biohacking. Also a certified yoga instructor, Brett helps people unlock their full potential through energy optimization, movement, and biohacking. Here are some power takeaways from today's conversation: The importance of managing your energy How to find your way out of pain The power of creating and curating relationships Biohacking tips you should start doing today About Hives for Heroes How to get into the flow state Episode Highlights: [07:03] The Importance of Managing Your Energy Everything is energy and we absorb energy, whether that's good or bad. Because we're energetic beings, we vibrate with frequencies. When we're not connected to the frequency of love and gratitude, we become dysregulated. Therefore, learn how to manage your energy and how you show up in life because your energy introduces you before you even speak. [23:20] Biohacking Tips Spend time outside. We were not designed to be inside. Being inside is 75% more toxic than being outside. Breathing - The Wim Hof breathing method allows you to introduce more oxygen into your system. You're bringing more oxygen into your system, more oxygen means more energy. There's also a breathing technique to bring your heart rate down as you go to sleep. Nasal breathing and longer exhalation can put you to sleep almost immediately. Water - You don't need to drink as much water as you probably think. You just need to drink the right kind of water. It's quality over quantity. Sleep - A 20-minute power nap equals about three hours of regular sleep, but you have to train yourself to do it. 68 F is the optimal sleeping temperature. After the sun sets, your natural circadian response is to sleep. And so, the only light that you should be seeing is the same energy wavelength as candles and fires. Energy - There are tons of energetic sources that are around you (i.e. WiFi, electromagnetic frequencies, radiation, etc.) that are overstimulating your cells causing cellular degeneration or over cellular stimulation. Brett uses a device containing charged beads that mitigate and harmonize the energetic frequencies that his body is exposed to keep his aura clean. [42:44] How to Get Into the Flow State A flow state is a feeling where you get fully immersed in whatever you're doing. This is only created in pure presence and sound is an important way to get into a flow state. The vibrational frequency of love is 5-8 hertz. If you're listening to a sound that gets you to 20 hertz, it's almost impossible for your heart not to start opening up and breaking down those barriers that you put up around it. Other ways include supplements and high-vibe mushrooms. Whatever it takes you to get into that state of pure presence is how you can actually feel the flow state. Resources Mentioned: Happy Life Labs Hives for Heroes Facebook: www.facebook.com/brettharmeling LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bharmeling

Today I am going to be taking you through the 4th of 12 positive self talk scripts that are all going to focus on the individual energies associated with the 12 signs of the zodiac Today it's the turn of Pisces which is connected to the element of Water You may choose to listen to this self talk script during the season of Pisces or you may wish to go deeper with your self talk, buy choosing to listen to a particular script when the Daily Moon is in Pisces, or when you would like to embody the Pisces energy. Alternatively you may wish to listen or read the scripts that resonate with your Sun, Rising or Moon Signs. You can do all of this whilst drinking your favourite cuppa The choice is yours Let's get started and embody the fabulous Pisces energy shiningstarrholistics.com

GROW Greatness Reached over Oppression through Wisdom I go into a level of Deep consciousness within myself, that is Indescribableand I REFUSE to Allow Anyone or Anything to remove me Kings and QueensIt is my God given Joy that I was born with that The World and its problems Won't take awayGROWing in God Everyday       Love vs hateThe Felon, the EndMy second time working with this woman in six months of being there; these two just started this man and woman from across the waterYou can tell when someone is trying you;I'm already triedTried and tired my Patience is very thinSow Love, I learned, as the word says remove yourselves from evil doers       You Can Only Control You11 pm—> as the night wore on, I found myself avoiding conflict constantly.I went to work in another stationThat wasn't good enough, She wanted me back over there to ‘help'; to keep picking at meI couldn't see where she was on work because she refused to update the screen causing more chaos and confusion Bossing people around; I ain't the oneI guess he was enjoying the showMr ain't from here, he from over there, like herI guess they were bored cause he asked the boss to send me back over there, everyone, and I do mean Everyone is a manager down there, except me; I manage MeWhat he do that for?I gave them a show, i let them knowI didn't speak Not One Curse Word cause I wanted to be heard Royalty don't speak like that, but Trust, I was heard Loud and ClearWho wants to be micro managed?The Momentum was building!Sow Love, when I was asked to stand back beside her while she picked at everything I didFor the third and final time,I walked out, I slung the hat like a frisbee again, that was the third time and final time for meMisery Loves company, I'm not that companyThat store is so busy, it Never quitsThey had Good help but they didn't want it; I know what I'm doing and I work hard‘The Felon' was doing fine before I came, she made it after I left too It's one thing to be a felon, it's another thing to act like one

Daily Meeting - Personal Finances pt 47 Cures for a Lean PurseIncrease your ability to earnBob Proctor — What is The Law of Compensationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sdKmM3s788&t=2s The amount of money you earn is going to be in exact ratio for:The need for what you doYour ability to doThe difficulty in replacing youInsignificant wheels don't get the greaseYou cannot live a life in which you approach your life as an opportunity to increase your ability to earnIf you don't increase in value every area of your life, you're going to lose those thingsCompensation is anything you are in that has your attentionIf you have money problems, you have serious character problemsYou do not become the richest person in the world by thinking about saving moneyIn times of cutback, don't save; go make moreThe people who win during cutback seasons are the people who plant seedsCutting back is a vibration; it's an admission of “I don't have”Everyone wants to be on the mountain top; the problem is that gardens don't grow on the mountain topYou can only eat from the valleyThere's always somebody not being superstitiousBeing on the mountain top means you won already, but you can't keep “won already” to keep winningYou've got to go back to the valley and plant more seeds so you can eat on the mountain top longerEvery blessing you've gotten has come from the valleyStop hating those down periods in your lifePraise before your harvestIf you keep waiting to see what you're praising for, you're going to continue to wait to see what you're praising for Start thy purse to fatteningTake one-tenth of what you bring in and save it for the future. The book uses a coin analogy: for every nine coins you spend, take one and put it away for yourself.This is very sensible; a goal all of us should have.Pay yourself firstControl thy expendituresControl your expensesYou don't need everythingDon't buy frivolous things even if you have enough money to pay for them. Instead, make sure that you can continue to save one-tenth of what you bring in. For this reason, I write about frugality on The Simple Dollar.Make thy gold multiplyOnce you start to build up some savings, invest that money so that it will make more money for you.Another pretty clear point; if you start saving money, it shouldn't just sit in a mattress. Even a high-yield savings account is much better than that, and it can double your principal in about fifteen years.If you do not multiply your money, you're dead in the waterYou can have a lot of time and no money, a lot of money and no time, or a lot of time and a lot of moneyGuard thy treasures from lossNever lose moneyTo never lose money, you need a mentorThis one is interesting: you should only invest in things where the principal is safe. In other words, the book seems to discourage stock investing. I found this to be particularly interesting given that it was written in 1927, right in the midst of the first big American stock market boom. Of course, 1929 proved the author right.The more you multiply your money, the more you can go live your dreamsMake of thy dwelling a profitable investmentThe USA will allow you to write off a home, dollar for dollar tax write off up to $8 millionInsure a future incomeReal estate can be insuredInsure everything you have Increase thy ability to earnThe Goddess of Good Luck Lesson: Good luck favors the man or woman of actionA person of action is favored by the Goddess of Good LuckProcrastination upon decision-making only leads to regrets. Make decisions with all the good information that you have – either for or against an action – and carry out the decision. Indecisiveness does not bring good fortune.The more successful people you have around you, the better your garden isYou want to be a person who can nearby activate luck all the timeLucky people are always people who took actionThe more you're in the zone, the more Universe activates in that zoneGood luck hangs around actionImagine how good your life would be if you just activated good luckProcrastinators rarely get good luckThere's only 2 roads in life: the road to prosperity and the road to povertyThese 2 roads never cross and never go in the same directionThe moment you decide to change instantly, you're on the road to prosperityThe road to riches has nothing to do with the road to povertyClosing ThoughtsYou're going to be able to do great things poor or wealthyYou will get it one day; you're going to make itUnfortunately, you may take a longer road for you to get itThere are no mistakes If it takes you longer to get it, it's perfectIn the valley is where you truly become GodIn this present is only the deeds of your pastSometimes, you just have to walk out the nasty harvestRelease people from how you think they should respect youRelease people from the responsibility of doing right by youRelease yourself from what you've doneYou aren't making any money being mad that you don't have anyWhen you walk out that harvest, it'll come so fast you'll wonder where it was all those lean yearsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-secret-to-success/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Consider this one glass of white wine is equivalent to 29 gallons of water. And one glass of red wine is 32 gallons of water.  If you look at the entire wine region area in the U S wine grapes sipped a little over 1 trillion gallons of water from wells and rivers in one year alone. Climate change is going to increase the need for irrigation. We're already beginning to see that as summers become longer and hotter, and the winters become colder.  One study found  worldwide viticulture acreage will not be suitable for wine production by 2050. In California, where most of our grape-growing occurs in the United States. It's predicted wine grapes will decrease between 50-63% by 2050. The good news is there are ways to farm wine grapes that use less water and are more climate resilient. I learned this when I spent the day with Mike Benzinger, who was my tour guide and the founder of Benzinger family wines. On this episode you will:  Gain action tips to buy your next bottle of wineYou will learn why long root systems matter to save waterYou will get a simple introduction to biodynamic wineYou will gain simple strategies to find biodynamic wine Biodynamic wineDryfarmwine.com Use this link at receive an extra bottle free with your first orderTablas CreekBeckman Links and resources:Receive 15% off your next purchase at the EAT LESS WATER shop and the 10 TIPS to EAT LESS WATER and SAVE WATER during your SUMMER GATHERINGSFollow me on Instagram: @eatlesshttps://www.instagram.com/eatlesswater/?hl=enwaterFor more about me and what I do, check out my website. Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on future episodes released every Monday and (water) Wednesday. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a rating and review. It helps this podcast to be discovered by others who are ready to dig in too. There is power in the collective,Florencia

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance. -Matthew HenryLast week we were in the second session of Revelation 7. We read about the multitude before His throne, the diversity of people worshiping before Him from every nation, tribe, tongue. This week we finish off Revelation 7 with verses 13-17The PassageThen one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.“Therefore they are before the throne of God,    and serve him day and night in his temple;    and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;    the sun shall not strike them,    nor any scorching heat.For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,    and he will guide them to springs of living water,and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”The ListHe allows the elders initiate conversationThe great multitude that is before his throne from every tribe, tongue and nation are the ones that have come out of the great tribulationHe washes those from the tribulation in his bloodThose he washes in blood makes them white and pureThose who come out of the great tribulation have the privilege of being before His throne, serving God day and night in the heavenly templeHe shelters the overcomers with his presenceThose who came out of the tribulation shall no longer hunger thirst or be struck by the scorching sunThe lamb is in the midst of the throneThe lamb will shepard those that came out of the great tribulationThe lamb will guide the overcomers to the springs of living waterGod will wipe away every tear from the eyes of those that came out of the tribulationThe DeclarationsYou allow the elders initiate conversation before your throneThose who came out of tribulation are before your throneYou wash those from the tribulation in your bloodYour washing blood makes us white and pureThose who come out of the great tribulation have the privilege of being before your throne, serving you day and night in the heavenly templeYou shelter the overcomers with your presenceThose who came out of the tribulation shall no longer hunger thirst or be struck by the scorching sunYou are the lamb and you are in the midst of the throneYou, the lamb will shepard those that came out of the great tribulationYou, the lamb will guide the overcomers to the springs of living waterYou will wipe away every tear from the eyes of those that came out of the tribulationSubmit feedback or content: website: beholding.caemail: johan@beholding.caSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/beholding/exclusive-content

In todays episode we discuss how many people think about doing things or talk about doing things, but never truly take action. They hold themselves back thinking about the 'what if's' or make excuses to push things off like 'I'll start Monday.' The hard truth is, if you've been on the fence for a while or tiptoeing around the action you need to take to create change and are still talking about it, you're a broken record. So, stop talking about it and accept where you are OR COMMIT  to taking action.This doesn't have to be extreme or CRAZY, we aren't about the all or nothing or extremes – by now you all should know that. BUT you CAN take action today You can go for a 10 min walkYou can drink more waterYou can choose a salad with grilled chicken or salmon over a burger and fries or HECK even just a burger with a side salad is a good startYou can choose to ask for helpYou can choose to get into bed earlier instead of watching another episode on NetflixYou can choose to get up earlier and have time to collect yourself instead of starting the day in a rush and frantic. THERE'S A LOT YOU CONTROL RIGHT NOW... SO JUST START DOING SOMETHING. You'll be better, happier, and healthier for it. Join our private FitMom Lifestyle community HEREWant to schedule a strategy call with us? Schedule HERETo connect with Liz Roman click HERETo connect with Becca Chilczenkowski click HERERead More on FitMom Lifestyle HERECheck out Liz's NEW COOKBOOK, FitCookery HERECheck out our PLANNER, Win The Day HEREThis episode is brought to you by FitMom Lifestyle Marketing and Production by brandhard Want to check out some of our favorite supplements like the Daily Greens, Digestive Enzymes, and some of the best tasting protein to help you recover from your workout (Fruit D Loop is one of our favorites) visit 1stPhorm now.Looking for high quality supplements at a discount? Purchase through our Wellevate account HEREIt's hard to find high quality meat these days. It's also hard to find time to keep going to the grocery store all the time. Butcher Box sources their meat and seafood from trusted sources across the country and delivers your 100% grass-fed grass-finished beef, free-range organic chicken, free wild-caught seafood right to your door. It's a no brainer. Visit Butcher Box now.Please do us that favor and share this with your friends and family so we can reach more lives around the world!

Water: You need it to live, yet you probably drink far less than you should. Most of us know that proper hydration is good for our health, but we're busy. Really busy.   We've all been there; you know you should drink more water but do you actually do it? How can you remember to drink water when you are always busy? How can you start drinking the right amount of daily water for you effortlessly when there's just too much going on every single day? And how do you even know how much water you should be drinking in the first place?   Most of us don't drink enough water. We drink too much coffee, tea, and other unhealthy drinks. But why is that? There are a lot of reasons, but the solution is pretty simple!   When you're so busy and caught up in your work, even drinking a glass of water can sound like another chore. After hours of productivity and making sure you get everything done right, you still feel draggy, sometimes irritable, but most of the time fatigued! But what if I told you, these were all symptoms of not drinking enough water?   In today's episode, I'm going to share with you my 7 favorite tips for drinking more water effortlessly! That's right. No more excuses because these tips are easy to implement and, most importantly, work!   Throw everything you know about water out, and completely start fresh! You'll see in a few days how much better you're doing by becoming more hydrated. Make a huge difference by changing your water mindset while having fun and actually winning it! You got this beautiful!   Grab your water, and let's get to it!   Beautiful woman, if you are struggling with your pain and fatigue, or whether you KNOW you have some form of autoimmunity or SUSPECT you may, you have support right here.   There are several ways you can reach out to me for what you need or are ready for. Book you FREE Clarity Call here: https://p.bttr.to/3dzZLs1 Join me in my FB Group, Combatting Your Autoimmunity Gods Way to be supported, encouraged and educated in your health https://www.facebook.com/groups/933692933927629   Want more tips on how to regain your energy in a natural way using clear daily action steps along with some delicious and supportive recipes? Grab my FREE Foggy and Fatigued Blueprint Here: https://www.subscribepage.com/foggyandfatigue   This is the time for you to take back control over your health and get some much needed support and accountability along the way! Want to learn how you can order your own lab tests online? Reach out!   Connect: www.treasuredwellness.com www.michelle@treasuredwellness.com   https://www.facebook.com/twellness   https://www.instagram.com/mmccoy.treasuredwellness/

We get to create the stories of our life. But sometimes we hold on so tightly to the stories that we create that they can negatively impact our mental health and money. In this episode, I speak with Dr. Varun Gandhi about the power of stories. Dr. Varun Gandhi is a life orchestrator, soulpreneur, Angel investor, inventor, philanthropist, and a water doctor. We talk about how to create or rewrite our life story in a way that serves our purpose, our finances, and our mental health. “Paying attention to what stories we are creating will help us reduce the anxiety and the unnecessary stress that's going on in our lives.” - Dr. Varun Gandhi  What You Will Learn From This Episode How stories can improve our mental health How we can manage or let go of the painful or harmful stories that we create in our life How to rewrite our story to support our mental health and move on to the next chapter of our life Tips to combat stress and anxiety Discarding unhelpful money stories + steps and tools to create new ones How to zoom out from hard/painful moments and see the bigger picture without falling into despair About Dr. Varun Gandhi: Dr. Varun Gandhi is a life orchestrator, soulpreneur, Angel investor, inventor, philanthropist, and water doctor. He enjoys orchestrating businesses, events, and ideas about the self (self-image)! He is currently focused on creating a digital course called What's Your Story, which allows you to create your Life Film, a chart consisting of your memories, experiences, and defining moments that have left an impression. Each of these moments has a lesson to be learned for you. Your ‘My Life Film' also allows you to create a new meaning to your past experiences, create a new future YOU, and write affirmations that help maintain the new you! Resources: How To Craft Your Story To Get More Press by Melanie Lockert Your Body's Many Cries for Water: You're Not Sick; You're Thirsty: Don't Treat Thirst with Medications by Batmanghelidj, M.D. Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life by Deepak Chopra Chronic Pain and Emotional Trauma: An Interview with Kent Bassette and Dr. Howard Schubiner of This Might Hurt Film Connect with Dr. Varun drvarungandhi.com Instagram Connect with Melanie mentalhealthandwealth.com melanielockert.com Instagram Support the podcast through Ko-Fi Buy Melanie's book “Dear Debt” Contact: mentalhealthandwealthshow@gmail.com  Want more content and support? Sign up for the Mental Hump Newsletter and get our free Mental Health and Money inventory worksheet. You can sign up at MentalHealthandWealth.com. Also, we host a Mental Health and Wealth Hangout every other Thursday over Zoom at 5 pm PT to chat about all things money and mental health. Join here! Follow us on Apple Podcast or Libsyn! Love the podcast? Leave a review on iTunes!

Personal Finances pt 47 Cures for a Lean PurseIncrease your ability to earnBob Proctor — What is The Law of Compensationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sdKmM3s788&t=2s The amount of money you earn is going to be in exact ratio for:The need for what you doYour ability to doThe difficulty in replacing youInsignificant wheels don't get the greaseYou cannot live a life in which you approach your life as an opportunity to increase your ability to earnIf you don't increase in value every area of your life, you're going to lose those thingsCompensation is anything you are in that has your attentionIf you have money problems, you have serious character problemsYou do not become the richest person in the world by thinking about saving moneyIn times of cutback, don't save; go make moreThe people who win during cutback seasons are the people who plant seedsCutting back is a vibration; it's an admission of “I don't have”Everyone wants to be on the mountain top; the problem is that gardens don't grow on the mountain topYou can only eat from the valleyThere's always somebody not being superstitiousBeing on the mountain top means you won already, but you can't keep “won already” to keep winningYou've got to go back to the valley and plant more seeds so you can eat on the mountain top longerEvery blessing you've gotten has come from the valleyStop hating those down periods in your lifePraise before your harvestIf you keep waiting to see what you're praising for, you're going to continue to wait to see what you're praising for Start thy purse to fatteningTake one-tenth of what you bring in and save it for the future. The book uses a coin analogy: for every nine coins you spend, take one and put it away for yourself.This is very sensible; a goal all of us should have.Pay yourself firstControl thy expendituresControl your expensesYou don't need everythingDon't buy frivolous things even if you have enough money to pay for them. Instead, make sure that you can continue to save one-tenth of what you bring in. For this reason, I write about frugality on The Simple Dollar.Make thy gold multiplyOnce you start to build up some savings, invest that money so that it will make more money for you.Another pretty clear point; if you start saving money, it shouldn't just sit in a mattress. Even a high-yield savings account is much better than that, and it can double your principal in about fifteen years.If you do not multiply your money, you're dead in the waterYou can have a lot of time and no money, a lot of money and no time, or a lot of time and a lot of moneyGuard thy treasures from lossNever lose moneyTo never lose money, you need a mentorThis one is interesting: you should only invest in things where the principal is safe. In other words, the book seems to discourage stock investing. I found this to be particularly interesting given that it was written in 1927, right in the midst of the first big American stock market boom. Of course, 1929 proved the author right.The more you multiply your money, the more you can go live your dreamsMake of thy dwelling a profitable investmentThe USA will allow you to write off a home, dollar for dollar tax write off up to $8 millionInsure a future incomeReal estate can be insuredInsure everything you have Increase thy ability to earnThe Goddess of Good Luck Lesson: Good luck favors the man or woman of actionA person of action is favored by the Goddess of Good LuckProcrastination upon decision-making only leads to regrets. Make decisions with all the good information that you have – either for or against an action – and carry out the decision. Indecisiveness does not bring good fortune.The more successful people you have around you, the better your garden isYou want to be a person who can nearby activate luck all the timeLucky people are always people who took actionThe more you're in the zone, the more Universe activates in that zoneGood luck hangs around actionImagine how good your life would be if you just activated good luckProcrastinators rarely get good luckThere's only 2 roads in life: the road to prosperity and the road to povertyThese 2 roads never cross and never go in the same directionThe moment you decide to change instantly, you're on the road to prosperityThe road to riches has nothing to do with the road to povertyClosing ThoughtsYou're going to be able to do great things poor or wealthyYou will get it one day; you're going to make itUnfortunately, you may take a longer road for you to get itThere are no mistakes If it takes you longer to get it, it's perfectIn the valley is where you truly become GodIn this present is only the deeds of your pastSometimes, you just have to walk out the nasty harvestRelease people from how you think they should respect youRelease people from the responsibility of doing right by youRelease yourself from what you've doneYou aren't making any money being mad that you don't have anyWhen you walk out that harvest, it'll come so fast you'll wonder where it was all those lean yearsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-secret-to-success/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hey, Green Junkie!Did you know that the air inside of our home contain more than 5x the amount of contaminants than the outside air? Crazy, right?While we can't completely eliminate all contaminants from our life, there are a lot of simple steps we can take to detox our homes and make them as healthy as possible and in today's episode I am showing you just how easy it can beHere's what to expect:How to keep out outside contaminants from entering your homeSimple trick to cut down on vacuum and sweeping timeDecorate your home and detox at the same timeSafer cleaning products for your homeMake your house smell good without the cost to your healthDetox free laundryHow to get cleaner drinking waterYou'll discover that and so much more in this episode.By the end of this episode, Green Junkie, you'll be more confident in knowing that through simple changes you and your loved ones will be breathing healthier air inside your home.If you love this podcast be sure to leave a review and share a screenshot of this episode to your IG stories. Tag @greenjunkiepodcast so I can shout you out and publicly say thanks. Thanks for listening and being here.Your green bestie,Xoxo Stephanie Previous Episodes Mentioned: Episode #9: How to Reuse What You Already HaveEpisode #16: How to Green-Up Your Clean UPEpisode #18: The Importance of Connecting with Our EarthSourceshttps://www.goodgirlgonegreen.com/detox-your-home/https://www.goodgirlgonegreen.com/dryer-sheets-alternatives/https://www.healthline.com/health/taking-off-your-shoes#shoe-removal-tipshttps://www.madesafe.org/whats-in-that/candles/https://www.mrwatergeek.com/why-filter-water/#:~:text=Filtering%20Water%20Means%20Cleaner%20Air%201%20Filter%20Out,Water%20Means%20Fewer%20Sick%20Days%20More%20items...%20https://www.lung.org/clean-air/at-home/dust-briefinghttps://www.lung.ca/lung-health/air-quality/your-healthy-home/faq-indoor-air-qualityResources: Alternatives to Conventional Dryer Sheets7 Ways to Clean with VinegarSnag 1 on 1 Eco-Conscious Coaching with meFollow me on InstagramFollow me on TwitterCome join the Green Junkie Facebook GroupBecome a Green Junkie Insider and gain access to bonus contentProduced by: Alecia HarrisMusic By: Liz Fohle

Jesus Walks on Water You have probably heard Jesus walked on the water. You might even know the story where Peter got out of the boat and he himself walked on water. How can a story of Jesus walking on water help you today? Join us as we study John 6 and I believe you […] The post Let's Talk Jesus – Jesus Walks on Water appeared first on Navigation Church.

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his is the Learning by Proxy podcast for Edition 59. If you do not enjoy reading long-form, get the gist of it in about 10 minutes. This time in the podcast - Signal is adding insult to injury to FacebookAmerica is under attack and not a shot firedChinese entrepreneurs are getting into hot waterYou can find the whole blog at this link.Also, follow me on Twitter @viveksrn to know when the newsletter drops.What we think, we become ~ BuddhaYou can follow my podcasts here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.learningbyproxy.com

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You brought me to the desert so You could be my waterYou brought me to the fire so You could be my shieldYou brought me to the darkness so You could be my morning lightIf You brought me this far, if You brought me this farWherever you lead me, I know you won't leave meWherever you call me, You will make a wayWherever we're going, I will be holdingTo the promise you have madeYou will make a way

Jonas, der Lockenkopf mit dem Muskeltonus einer olympischen Turnerin, zu Gast in Veits Wohnzimmer. Die beiden beschäftigen sich mit dem perfekten T-Shirt, der Analyse männlicher Trinktypen - Veit ist Typ Beyoncé, Jonas der Hybrid! Was Ernie und Bert mit 5G und anderen Verschwörungstheorien zu tun haben, der Mallorca Kosmos - Geschichten aus dem wahren Leben und welche Vorzüge der Dalai Lama gegenüber Bezos hat. Dies und vieles mehr in Folge 8…Anregungen, Feedback, Wünsche und Kritik gerne über Instagram an @veiwa

Prepare for disaster is a motto I grew up with living in rural Michigan. Back in the day, when the power went off due to a winter storm, it could be off for several weeks. Today we have much better electrical systems and our current provider has kept us in good shape. We have never been without power for more than a few days. But even that can be disastrous if we are not prepared. Today I want to talk about how we prepare for disasters that may or may not happen. First, let me take a moment to say welcome to all the new listeners and welcome back to the veteran homestead-loving regulars who stop by the FarmCast for every episode. Thank you so much for your time and attention. I appreciate you all so much and I couldn’t do it without you. It’s midwinter and life goes on here at the homestead. Our Virginia Homestead Life Updates The cold weather has been consistent for weeks. Not too cold, getting just below freezing at night and 40s and sometimes 50s during the day. This is a typical Southwestern Virginia winter. I look for a few days of freezing weather sometime in the near future. A typical winter will have at least four or five days when the temperatures drop all the way to the teens and occasionally single digits overnight. That four or five day stretch usually happens at least once and sometimes twice, usually in January. It hasn’t happened yet. Still waiting for that shoe to drop. We did have some unseasonably cold weather in December, but January is proceeding right long the normal line. Cows The cows are handling the cold weather as they always do. It amazes me that these animals can go through the winter without seeming to notice it too much. I go out there and the cows are moseying around, eating grass and/or hay looking like they don’t have a care in the world. If they are eating, they are laying down, relaxing and chewing their cud, again, like they haven’t got a care in the world. Personally, I don’t handle cold very well, but I’m so glad they do. Donkeys The donkeys handle the cold very well also. Their coats are full and thick. Just about everyday they come up to the milking shed looking for a treat. Scott or I will give them a small handful of sweet feed and a petting. When they are finished, they head on down to the creek and out to pasture with everybody else. Our donkeys are the friendliest animals on the homestead. Sheep and Goats The sheep and goats always prepare for disaster in winter. They have really thick coats. Our goats are cashmere goats. They have a really thick undercoat of cashmere that they shed in the spring. Our sheep are hair sheep which means they also grow a thick coat of wool and shed it in the spring. No shearing for these sheep. I was watching the ewes graze in the front pasture. Just like the cows, not a care in the world. Quail The quail are even more amazing to me. They have feathers and I can’t see that they have any extra feathers for winter. Whatever they have is what they have and that’s it. My ladies and gents have it better than they would out in the wild. There is a box shelter where they can get completely out of the wind. They can huddle together for added warmth. Sometimes I go out there and they are kind of fluffed up, but other than that, not a shiver. Nature is amazing. Garden This time of year is the time to plan for the spring garden. What plants will we grow? How many? What will be rotated to another location? And so on. I’m a bit behind on getting started with that but I just can’t seem to drum up the energy. It’s too cold and I don’t want to think about going out in the garden when it is cold. Anyway, I’ll get to it in the next couple of weeks. Creamery The creamery roof is nearly complete. Scott is putting the finishing touches on the peaks. He spent much of the day yesterday rigging up a way to safely move around up there. Today he is full steam ahead getting those ridge caps completed. Still to come is all of the ends of the building above the ground floor. I think they are called dormer walls or something like that. It’s basically the area from the top of the block building to the peak of the roof. All of that will be covered in the same metal as with the roof. It’s cold out there every day. And every day Scott is out there working in it. He doesn’t mind the cold and he prepares for it with layers of clothes. Preparing for Disaster Speaking of being prepared, let me get into how we prepare for disaster. Some of it anyway. I could probably talk all day long about how we created and executed our plan. Some of it is still in progress. No matter where you are in the world, there is always something you can do to prepare for disaster. You simply never know when power is going to be out or something disrupts the flow of goods. For instance, I got caught short this summer because there was a shortage of canning jars and lids. In the end, I did have enough for what I needed to save our harvests, but it was touch and go sometimes. Recently I came across canning jars while in town and I purchased just about everything they had on the shelf. Still no lids but I got a better stock of jars than I have had in the past. We learn from our mistakes. Let’s start at the beginning. The first thing to stock up on is water. Water You should always have water on hand or access to clean water. Making this happen doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. Today, we have a hand pump connected to our well so we can always get water when needed whether we have power to the well pump or not. Still, we keep water on hand in the house. While it’s easy to go out there and hand pump some water, it is still easier to reach back in a closet or go into the spare bathroom and get some water for cooking, cleaning and flushing. The recommended amount of water you will want to store is 7.5 gallons of water per person per month. A family of four would have 15 gallons of water stored if preparing for a short-term disaster lasting a few days or weeks. That’s where you always start. How much do I need for 2 to 4 weeks? Then get it done. You have the blue 5-gallon containers at Lowe’s, Home Depot, the grocery, and so on. Invest in a few of those and you are good to go. Strapped for cash? Buy one a week or even one a month. Your stored water will need to be refreshed regularly. Either use it or pour it out, but replaced what you have stored in the containers every 6 months or so. You don’t have to get there all at once. But you do want to get your water situated first. Food The second item is food. This one is a little trickier and takes quite a bit more time. So, start now. There are many methods for building up your food stores. Set several goals with this one. How Many Days to Prepare for Disaster? First, how many days of food do you need to store? That depends. Start with a week, then go to a month, then three months and so on. Ideally, you get to a place where you have a full year’s worth of food stored for your entire family. That may seem like a lot and it actually is a lot. But for my peace of mind, I wanted a full year of food. You may make your cutoff date sooner – and some even plan for longer. What Food Should Be Stored? Second, don’t store anything your family won’t eat. What are you eating right now? That’s what you want to stock up on. Forget the MRE’s and whatever else might sound great or someone might try to sell to prepare for disaster. What you want is food that your family regularly eats. Most foods have a shelf life of at least a year. If you rotate what you have saved, using the oldest stuff first and adding back what you have used in the back of the shelf, you can come up with a system that keeps you stocked up at all times. This is the first in, first out method. Instead of having one box of cereal, you have 12, or whatever you determine is the right number. Buy an extra box or two whenever you shop, or whatever you can afford. Build up slowly. You’ll be there before you know it. Bulk Foods One of the best ideas for food is to store some products in bulk containers. I’m talking about beans, rice, sugar and wheat or flour. You can live a long time on beans and rice. And if you are into making your own bread, having wheat or flour on hand at all times is a great idea. This is another place to build slowly. The pieces you need to do this part effectively are: 5-to-6-gallon food-grade plastic buckets, mylar bags, oxygen absorbers and a standard household iron. The mylar bag goes in the bucket. The beans, rice, wheat, or flour go in the bag. Toss in a couple of oxygen absorbers and seal the bag with your iron. The oxygen absorber will suck out all the oxygen in the bag, And the sealed bag without oxygen will keep the food fresh for up to 30 years. I said 5 or 6-gallon buckets, but you can use smaller buckets. I like the larger buckets because I can buy 40 or 50 pounds of beans or rice and it fits in the larger bucket. Canned Goods Let’s talk about canned goods. These can also last for a very long time – not so much as the beans and rice, but still a long while. Those “use-by” dates on the can are not expiration dates. They are CYA dates for the manufacturers. As long as the can is not damaged and the seal is in place, canned food in jars and metal cans will last for years. Food in jars needs to be kept out of the light. And all canned foods need to be kept at room temperature or lower. Keep that in mind when you are planning where to store your stuff. Strapped for space? Under the bed works pretty well. Use that cabinet space up high that is empty because you can’t reach it easily. Find used shelving at yard sales and put it up in your garage. Lots of ways to make the space you need. And don’t forget the can opener. Not one of those electric ones. No! a hand-operated can opener is needed. Self-Protection I’m not going to talk about this one because I’m not educated enough to know what to say. We do have weapons and ammo and such but Scott handles all of that. I’ll just mention it here and say find someone who knows what they are talking about with this and follow their podcasts or YouTube videos. It’s definitely important. And don’t forget to get the proper training. It’s no good to have weapons you don’t know how to use safely and care for properly. Energy Needs This is the last piece I’m going to touch on today. There is so much to cover on this topic I couldn’t possibly do it justice. So, I’m just going to give you a bit of information to get you started. Every person’s situation is different and your energy needs are going to be different. Gasoline Keep extra gasoline on hand. That’s an easy one. We try to keep 12 containers at all times. I must say, we are not as efficient at this as could be desired. If you have 12 containers of gasoline labeled one each month, rotate through that stock at a particular date in the month. In other words, in January, you empty the container labeled “January” into one of your car gas tanks. Pick a day of the month that you do this. The first, 15th or last day of the month are good choices. Take the empty container and refill it. That newly filled container won’t be emptied for a year and it will require a fuel stabilizer to keep it fresh and usable. Generator Having a generator that has enough power to run your refrigerator and freezer is a great tool. Again, add these things as you can afford them. Get your food stores up to a couple of weeks at least before moving on to a generator. Your generator will need to be started once a month to keep it in tip-top shape and so you know it is in good working order. You don’t want to be without power and find out that your generator is no longer working. Living off the Grid You may decide to go completely off the grid – or at least be prepared to go completely off the grid. That takes a great deal of planning and the choices are endless so I’m not going to go into that topic. But I will say keep in mind that, while solar sounds really good, if you don’t live in a really, really sunny place it may not be the option for you. There are other options. Having a wood burning stove is always good. At the very least you can use your gas grill to cook meals – if you have planned ahead and have an extra propane tank or two. We took out our electric stove and put in a gas stove. The oven won’t work but the surface burners can be lit with a match. Keep some of those on hand. I like using what I’m used to using for cooking, so this works for me. We have the wood burning stove as well – complete with an oven. I really should learn how to cook on that thing in the event we run out of propane. Communication This is the toughest one to get prepared for in my opinion. How do we communicate? As long as the cell towers are up and running and your phone battery is charged, we can communicate. Well, we would have to climb way up to the top of our property and then maybe, just maybe, we would get a cell signal. Right now, we have all sorts of social media where we can find out what is going on with family, friends and co-workers. But what if you didn’t have that? How would you get in touch with people? Could you get in touch with people? This topic requires some deep thought, lots of planning, and practice sessions to make sure your plans work. You don’t want to be isolated. There is a significant amount of banning of communication going on in the large tech communities. They have a great deal of power. Indeed, more power than the US government. They can turn off anyone with the push of a button. They can make you disappear. You might want to consider broadening your reach to smaller platforms if you can find one that works for you and your family. I have created a page on a site called Locals. You can find me on locals by searching for peaceful heart farm. Once you’ve joined my community, you can post whatever you’d like on my page. We can have a conversation and share insights. I think I’m going to end there. Final Thoughts The animals go on and on and don’t give a thought to whether there is power to heat the house. And as long as the grass and hay keep coming, they are good to go. For us, it’s more complicated. As I said, I don’t like being cold. I’m grateful for our wood burning stove. It saves on electricity in the winter and is quite useful in a pinch for cooking. I’ve spent years gathering food, both for ourselves and now saving up in case our neighbors are not prepared or not financially able to make it happen. And our water supply will also help out – and indeed has – helped out our neighbors. There is so much more to prepare for disaster but these two pieces are key. Water and food. Start today. You just have no idea when the power lines are going to go down with a winter storm, a hurricane, tornado and so on. It may be only a couple of days but it very well could be weeks. Remember hurricane Sandy and what a disaster that was and not so long ago. If you enjoyed this podcast, please hop over to Apple Podcasts or whatever podcasting service you use, SUBSCRIBE and give me a 5-star rating and review. 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If you’re ready to do the Daniel fast, you will need some tips on what food to eat and what to avoid. Let’s take a look at this Daniel fast food list and some Daniel fast recipes you can prepare for this type of plant based fasting. Here are the different foods you should eat on the Daniel Fast. 1. Fruits There's nothing wrong with eating fruits. Fruits are good but I really want you to only eat them fresh or frozen.I don't want you eating canned fruits. I would say dehydrated is okay, but most people don't dehydrate their own fruits. They buy dried fruits and dried fruits have a very high concentration of sugar and that's going to create cravings.  2. Vegetables.  Once again fresh. You can go with frozen, you could go with dehydrated. Now I dehydrate a ton of vegetables out of my garden. I have kale in Mason jars that I save for our smoothies and things like that. In fact, smoothies is a perfect food for during a fast.  3. Whole Grains You’ve got your amaranth, oats, but if you were to buy a steel cut, it would be a better option. So any of your whole grains, if they are unprocessed or very little processed, that is good enough for the Daniel fast. But I don't keep oats and buckets in my pantry. I always buy them steel-cut.  4. Bread It’s the perfect food for the Daniel fast, as long as it is made of whole grains and is minimally processed. If you make the bread that I teach you, then that is okay. Except I want you to eliminate the eggs and I want you to eliminate the honey.  Now, someone challenged me in one of the prepper classes that I was teaching and asked, “Can you make bread without honey or oil?  So I did, I made bread with wheat. It could be any whole grain, your whole grain, water, salt and yeast. And it was delicious.  So if you're not going to use eggs in your bread, but you still want it to taste good, you could use instead, you could use some flaxseed and it would give you the fiber. It would give you the protein. It would give you some oils and it would give you that elasticity that the eggs contribute to the bread.  5. Nuts and seeds I prefer that you not eat peanuts just because we really are going to actually have a spiritual benefit of this fasting, but we're also going to have a physical benefit . And sometimes peanuts, they just, the way they're processed, the way they're grown, you know, they just have some issues about them, which I'm not really going to go into on this video that I, I really believe you'd have better health benefits if you eliminate a peanuts, but all the other nuts just go ahead and enjoy. And nut butters would be good as long as the ingredients are just the nuts and maybe some salt.  6. Legumes Chickpeas are great. When you eat foods like lentils and chickpeas, you're going to have a healing effect in your gut that all of a sudden your microbiome.  7. Water You should drink plenty of water. I’ll use lime or sometimes lemon, cucumber and even some celery and blended up with some parsley and a little bit of lemon.  Herbal teas are fine, but just really keep it to a minimum. 8. Vinegar and Other Flavoring Next, we have vinegars. Vinegars are fine to just get a good quality. Other flavorings for cooking that I use Bragg's liquid aminos all the time. I love this product that would be very good to use in your cooking stir fries would be great stir fries, not the same as a fried vegetable with you know, batter and all of that. Salt and herbs as seasonings are fine on the Daniel fast. You should try new ways to cook foods that are just very tasty for your family. We have a lot of recipes in this Daniel fast book and my cookbook that I think are going to become family favorites and it's just a great time to experience the Daniel fast.  Daniel Fast Food to Avoid 1. Oils Any of your good quality olive and avocado oil that you find a good quality would be good I really don't want you doing vegetable oils or canola oil unless it's organic or safflower oil. Coconut oil will be very good as well.  2. Animal Products Now, remember, we're not doing any animal products. We're going to remove all animal products for this time period. Eggs aren't very healthy for you, and I want you to eliminate them for three weeks.  I have a whole video on the physical benefits and the spiritual benefits of the Daniel Fast where I discuss why this is such a great healing experience and it is going to create amazing healing for you and for your body.  I hope this helps, and if you have questions, please feel free to comment below, so I can help you out as you do this wonderful Daniel fast.

Bible Readings: Psalm 31:14-16; 104:24, 27-28; Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11; Galatians 4:4; Mark 1:15; John 2:4; 7:6,30; 12:23, 27; 17:1; Galatians 6:9-10; Psalm 92:12 (all NIV)  Prayer:  ‘Lord, I have time', by Michel Quoist, cited in Still Waters, Deep WatersYou who are beyond time, Lord, you smile to see us fighting it.And you know what you are doing.You make no mistakes in your distribution of time to me.You give each one time to do what you want [them] to do. But we must not lose time,          waste time,          kill time,For time is a gift that you give us,But a perishable gift,A gift that does not keep. Lord, I have time,I have plenty of time,All the time that you give me,The years of my life,The days of my years, The hours of my days,They are all mine.Mine to fill, quietly, calmly,But to fill completely, up to the brim,To offer them to you, that of their insipid waterYou may make a rich wine such as you made once in Cana in Galilee.I am not asking you tonight, Lord, for time to do this and then that,But your grace to do conscientiously, in the time that you give me, what you want me to do References:Rowland Croucher (Ed.), 1987, Still Waters, Deep Waters: Meditations and Prayers for Busy People, pp. 292-298. 

KIDS VIDEO & RESOURCES:SUNDAY WORSHIP LYRICS:YOU’LL COME I have decided, I have resolvedTo wait upon You, LordMy rock and redeemerShield and rewardI'll wait upon You, LordAs surely as the sun will riseYou'll come to usCertain as the dawn appearsYou'll comeLet Your glory fall as You respond to usSpirit rainFlood into our thirsty hearts againYou'll come, You'll comeWe are not shakenWe are not movedWe wait upon You, LordMighty delivererTriumph and truthWe wait upon You, LordAs surely as the sun will riseYou'll come to usCertain as Your word enduresChains be brokenLives be healedEyes be openedChrist is revealedIN CHRIST ALONEIn Christ alone my hope is found,He is my light, my strength, my songThis Cornerstone, this solid GroundFirm through the fiercest drought and storm.What heights of love, what depths of peaceWhen fears are stilled, when strivings ceaseMy Comforter, my All in AllHere in the love of Christ I stand.In Christ alone! - who took on flesh,Fullness of God in helpless babe.This gift of love and righteousness,Scorned by the ones He came to saveTill on that cross as Jesus died,The wrath of God was satisfiedFor every sin on Him was laidHere in the death of Christ I live.There in the ground His body lay,Light of the world by darkness slain:Then bursting forth in glorious dayUp from the grave He rose againAnd as He stands in victorySin's curse has lost its grip on me,For I am His and He is mineBought with the precious blood of Christ No guilt in life, no fear in death,This is the power of Christ in meFrom life's first cry to final breath,Jesus commands my destinyNo power of hell, no scheme of man,Can ever pluck me from His handTill He returns or calls me homeHere in the power of Christ I'll stand.ALL WHO ARE THIRSTY All who are thirstyAll who are weakCome to the fountainDip your heart in the stream of lifeLet the pain and the sorrowBe washed awayIn the waves of His mercyAs deep cries out to deep (we sing)Come Lord Jesus comeCome Lord Jesus comeCome Lord Jesus comeCome Lord Jesus comeWHO YOU SAY I AMWho am I that the highest KingWould welcome me?I was lost but He brought me inOh His love for meOh His love for meWho the Son sets freeOh is free indeedI'm a child of GodYes I amFree at last, He has ransomed meHis grace runs deepWhile I was a slave to sinJesus died for meYes He died for meWho the Son sets freeOh is free indeedI'm a child of GodYes I amIn my Father's houseThere's a place for meI'm a child of GodYes I amI am chosenNot forsakenI am who You say I amYou are for meNot against meI am who You say I amYOU ARE LIFEYou have come and we have found life everlastingNow alive to know Your freedomNever endingYou alone have made a way for usIn Your love You are lifeI'm living in the light of my SaviourDancing in the arms of foreverI'm singing like I'm walking on waterYou are life alive in meFrom greyest skies to living colorYou have called usIn Your life Your light uncoveredThe world to see nowYou alone have made a way for usIn Your love You are lifeI'm living in the light of my SaviourDancing in the arms of foreverI'm singing like I'm walking on waterYou are lifeAlive in meI give my life to follow'Cause Your love is all I want nowYou are lifeYou are life alive in meFor all the world to find Your loveFor all the world to see that You are GodForever be lifted highFor One who holds the universeAnd every beating heart across the earthJesus be lifted highYou are lifeDISCUSSION QUESTIONS:1. What is your reaction to a picture of Jesus as Gentle and Lowly? What is easy to embrace? Hard to embrace? Why?2. Which word best describes the current state of your soul: laboring, heavy, tired, weary, energized, restful?3. Which piece of this invitation feels most meaningful to you: come to me, take from me, learn from me?4. What does it look like for you to come to Jesus afresh today?

We're so stoked to have one of our favourite guests, Rhonda Chang, back on the podcast with Mason today. Initially we weren't sure whether our SF community would be ready to receive Rhonda's wisdom, however, to our absolute delight everyone frothed on her first episode - you can check it out here. We always knew we had to have Rhonda back on to continue sharing her deeply authentic application of the traditional philosophy and practice of true Chinese medicine, or what Rhonda refers to as 'Yi'. Rhonda has a brilliant article explaining the difference between Yi and what many of us know as modern Traditional Chinese Medicine, I highly recommend you check it out here.  Mason and Rhonda discuss: Yinyang wuxing theory and how that relates to the body and organ systems. The qualities of the five elements; Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal.  The spirit and body as inspearable parts of the whole, and the importance of holding this view when working to heal dis-harmony in the body, mind and spirit.  Rhonda's classification of  tonic herb. How the practice of Yinyang wuxing is a method of healing, and not a 'medicine'.   Who is Rhonda Chang? For the past 40 years Rhonda Chang has been involved in the study and practice of traditional healing. The journey has been long and tortuous. Rhonda began her studies at the Beijing College of Traditional Medicine. After graduation Rhonda worked as a physician at a number of hospitals in China. In 1986 she migrated to Australia and opened her own treatment clinic.  Rhonda operated her clinic up until 2012, where she felt that government regulation was overly restricting her practice of healing and that the professionalisation of TCM in Australia had subordinated it to modern medicine. Since then Rhonda has focused her energies on writing books and promoting a return to traditional YinYang Wuxing healing principles. Resources:Rhonda Website Rhonda Podcast Rhonda Books   Rhonda's Facebook Group     Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason: (00:01) Rhonda, thank you so much for joining us again.   Rhonda: (00:05) Thank you for having me.   Mason: (00:07) Absolute pleasure. It was by far one of the favourite podcasts from the community that we've ever had.   Rhonda: (00:15) Nice to hear. Yes.   Mason: (00:16) Yeah. A big feeling of nostalgia for everyone, I think, as they returned to our roots.   Rhonda: (00:24) I'm so glad, actually, a general public and so interest in this kind of talks, which very encouraged.   Mason: (00:35) Good. I didn't know either how, whether our community would be ready or willing to have the conversation, but people who have never studied Chinese medicine have written to me, old friends saying I listened to that podcast and I really resonated. So I'm encouraged as well. So we covered so much of, especially the content in your book, Chinese medicine, masquerading as Yi. And I got to get my pronunciation of Yi.   Rhonda: (01:11) Yes, that's right.   Mason: (01:12) And then what was that? Sorry.   Rhonda: (01:15) I said, I'm calling the Yi, just tried to separate from the Chinese medicine because when you talk about Chinese medicine, when you're using that word or even traditional Chinese medicine, people get confused to this modern Chinese medicine, seems they've taken over the name, so I prefer to call Yi as a..   Mason: (01:35) I agree. It's almost in the long run. It is going to be less energy to just return to a classical word. Like Yi, we do tell people, if we're speaking English, we will refer to classical Chinese medicine as Yi and masquerading Chinese medicine is TCM, but still you're right. But Chinese medicine-   Rhonda: (01:59) It's hard to. Yes. I think this medicine, it's not really about a Chinese, it's about the philosophy. So I called them Yi because of that. Even before the Western medicine come from China, the Yi, didn't have a Chinese there and only the Western medicine got into China and then they try to separate. So they call the CE, which is a Western medicine and the Gong E, Chinese medicine. So that's how the name come from and that's only last the 100 years. So before that it was just Yi. That's what I actually like to go back to Yi.   Mason: (02:38) Huge distinction. That already takes so much of the commodification of this medicine out because Yi belongs to the earth. It doesn't belong to a nation, a civilization.   Rhonda: (02:58) That's right. Very much. It's not about the Chinese. It's about the tradition of the healing. So it's about the earth and the moon and the sun and the us and the oldest class. Yes. So it is.   Mason: (03:11) Just as we go into discussing the concept of what Yi is at its essence and the yinyang wuxing cycle. I just found a quote that you had on your Facebook group, which I encourage those who want to study more yinyang wuxing yi is that the Facebook group?   Rhonda: (03:34) Yes.   Mason: (03:36) A quote from the book of changes, when the sun reaches its Zenith, it will decline when the moon reaches its fullest, it will wane heaven and earth, wax, and wane. They all comply with the regulation of time, let alone people let alone ghosts and spirits.   Rhonda: (03:53) Absolutely. Yes. I love that phrase.   Mason: (03:57) It really sets us up for where we're going to be going today in this continuation of health and harmony.   Rhonda: (04:04) Well, if I'm going into that, it's a lot to talk about it. And that's what I'm writing this, I'm writing this a new course. It's about how the sun positioned the moon and the world. We call that the sun position on earth. We call the (inudiable), which heaven kind of a positioning on earth. And then the moon time circle around which it gives us that sense of time. Isn't it? So the time and the position, how they form that so-called the yinyang wuxing was here and our body with the meridians and the organs. Yes. But I wouldn't go through that because that's a lot of new names that people won't really get it so quickly, but we just talk about Yin and Yang and we'll see how the wuxing. We cut off of how the wuxing concept came from, but we just talk about what is the wuxing now in which we call that Woodfire and Metal and Water.   Rhonda: (05:09) In my other courses, I actually explained how this concept came from. It wasn't just abstract. It was exactly from the sun, the moon and on the impact on us, that's how that happened. But we'll talk about wood, because everything got a Yin and Yang, which we call that Yin is kind of a contraction and Yang is expansion. So everything got Yin a Yang, like a wood. The Yang of the would erect the Yin of the Woodcontract isn't so that bending and that solid. So they go Yin Woodand become solid. So that actually we say everything, just about all wuxing, everything you see it's about wuxing thing, kind of variation and different ways of presenting. So as our body basically have this Woodthing, organs, we call wuxing organs.   Rhonda: (06:15) So your liver is like a Woodso the Yang of the would make you errect isn't it. And so the Yang of the liver makes your body straight and the Yin of the body flexible. So you can bend. And then that's what organs are. Your body also is said, Yin and Yang that, what is the Yin of the body is your flesh, your bones and your muscles and all this material and the Yang of your body is your spirit. So what is spirit and the body do is spirit using your body to perform their desire or their thoughts? like what, we call thoughts. So your body is actually responsible to perform what your spirit wants. And then your spirit actually depends on the body to perform.   Rhonda: (07:23) So if there's no body they can't perform, and if there's not spirit, the body will rot because the spirit makes the body lively. The spirit is a Yang. Anyway, that's in the book. I explain the more detail. So we say what the spirit do for your Woodis... So if your spirit, Yang of the wood, Yang of the spirit, the Woodspirit, I call them a striving tool. What they do is they make you kind of you want to fight. And the stand for yourself strong. The Yin make you flexible and acceptable go along with it. So, but if your Yin is not good, what do you do? You fight? And that if your Yang is no good, you kind of timid.   Rhonda: (08:19) So you can't cope with the problems and hide yourself because you're scared. So that's how everything you got. If you have a problem with your muscles? So if you muscle can't move or tight, always what we say, that you've a Yin problem, isn't it? So if you are muscles can't get you erect, so we say that it's your Yang problem. And you can actually look at all this and then your body too like Kidney. Kidney is Water. Most people can relate to these, isn't it? Because Kidney  really is a Water organ. So what that Water do is that it's got Yin and Yang, which this Yin and the Yang of the organ study, or even in the traditional texts, it hasn't really explicitly describe this insight or Yang side of each organ.   Rhonda: (09:26) They can quite often, you hear people say, this herb's a good for your Kidney  energy, but what is Kidney  energy? So instead Yin and young it's completely different because the Yin of the Water make you sink, isn't it? The Water go down and the Yang of the Water make you go up, you vibrate and so make you move. So what the Kidney  do is reserve, Kidney  reserves your body energy, your heat, because they call the steam, the Water is called a steam. And then they reserves your heat that make things a moving and then transform to wood, because the Water create a wood. But if Water is all frozen, they are hard to create any of these. When they say Yang in the Water, and then the Wood start to grow. So this is the relation of that Wood thing Water create wood.   Mason: (10:27) It'll be warm. We warm up the Water. We create vapour that can rise up to the liver.   Rhonda: (10:31) That's right. It's not that it has to rise up to liver the make the Water runny, so the liver. What they do is that when they evaporate, they go up to the sky. Isn't it? That in the Water. So that's our Lung . That's in organ, that's our Lung . A Lung is like our sky and in the small world. And then the Water rising up where the Lung does like the sky does they can gather the Water. And then when they do it, they give us a rainfall. So they gave a moist to all over the world. And that's what your Lung that's exactly. So Lung get us all the moist from the Kidney  rising. And then Lung also does is a separate from the bad/good, or what do you call it? A turbid and the fresh. So they gave us a fresh rain and that makes your body fresh.   Rhonda: (11:20) We'll talk about Kidney . That's what is in Yin side and Yang side of Kidney . So what the spirit do with the Kidney  Yin and young is your Yang of the spirit to get govern the Water we call that enduring. What they do is because a Kidney  actually is Water. Water really can hold on anything, absorb anything, but then it pushes everything. It can actually destroy everything. How does steam like Metal and the storms and the Water can destroy them, isn't it? But on the other hand, Water is the softest thing. So it actually takes everything. Anybody can go in there. Isn't it? Anything can get into it. So that's the Water. So what happened is if you have good Kidney  energy, you tend to bury a lot of things. You can handle a lot of things. And if you don't have a lot of Kidney  energy, you can't hold on anything. You look at everything you think that's too big for me. So you don't have the Kidney  Yang energy, but if you don't have a Kidney  Yin energy, of course you dry it out. Yes.   Rhonda: (12:42) So that's the Kidney . Kidney is a Water organ. So it's a Yin in nature. So what they most like is a Yang Qi. A lot of people say your Kidney  deficiency very rarely is your Kidney  Water Yin deficient, because unless you don't drink and you drink, you got Kidney  Water really. But if not hold Water, is Yang problem. But sometimes that your Water is that ge a so slow and rotting, but that's complicated. That's not just your Water problem, that's your soil problem because the Water is not bounded. so there're no banks and they flooded everywhere. And of course your problems. It's all linked. That's why we call it the soil.   Mason: (13:28) To spleen, to clean it up. [crosstalk]   Rhonda: (13:36) We get it from the liver, which is the wood, and now we'll go backward. Okay. And what create the Woodis the Water and what creates the Water is the metal. And then that's kind of a people feel very difficult to understand how the Metal create the Water, isn't it? Because of Metal have this nature gather the things. They're kind of a concentrate, isn't and then they separated the pure, the cleaner, so that's what Metal's kind of nature. So if you put a Metal outside and you find in the humid, they all running Water, isn't it? Especially the cold, you can see the Water or running outside. So that's what I do that draw the kind of moist. And then they gave them around Water. So they create Water. That's what Metal create the Water in the nature as well.   Rhonda: (14:27) Like there're stones and you find all the rivers with the stones, because they gather them them and then they make them separate them, clean them and leave them running. So that's what your Lung s, because of your Lung s gathers Qi, air and then gathers moist in the body and in the whole system is actually acting as a gatherer, hold everything together. So that's why you get Qi so you body actually in the one piece rather than floppy. So if you see somebody very floppy, you find themselves can't breathe very well. So what happened is it's a Lung metal. It doesn't work well. So you body is not gathered and it's kind of sloppy. That's what it gets. So that's what the Metal does and middle actually we say in naturally, how does it, they gathering so they're kind of dry, so they liked the Water. And I mean, they, they gathers those moist. They collect the moist and then they`cannot dry. So if you have a Lung Metal indeficient, you don't gather the moist and you get a very high fever because you can have dry cough and the sore throat and a fever start because you body it got too hot. And then if you go to a Lung Metal or Yang deficient or problems, I don't like to say deficient because the most time some people ask me, what's the deficiency and damage. I used two words; damage and deficient. Deficiency doesn't imply you got a kind of a disease. It's not rotten. It just weak in that site. But when you have damage, that means that the function is got something else in there, like a rubbish in there or darkness or there's something blockage.   Rhonda: (16:33) So it's a more damage and that's what Metal does. So when the Yang is deficient, you get a mucus, you cough and you get thick and you body even smell, odors, because your Lung is not giving you fresh, separate the turbid and the freshness. And then in the body, other senses, they use the Lung actually get the things together and the separate them. So then use a large intestine to dispose all the waste. That's what we do the poo, which is our body's kind of waste. And also they dispose from the skin. So that's why in the Nei Jing says that the Lung actually controls your skin. In my book, I actually talk about skin represent all organs as well. So each organ have problems or showing skin as well. But that's one Metal and what created the Metal is soil. We all know, that isn't that? So soil actually got up. People translate this as earth. I don't like to use nice earth because earth is like the whole globe, but soil is just...   Mason: (17:59) Yeah, exactly. I get that.   Rhonda: (18:03) That's soil. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.   Rhonda: (18:04) It is that actually. So the soil, what soil does is soil actually sticky at her [inaudible 00:00:18:13]. So everything gets them to the soul. That's what the soil is nature. So, when the Yang of the soil it's loosening kind of like separately. So when you actually have things into the soil and you'll find that they take everything. They're not like metal. Metal is gathering, kind of consolidate them, but soil just take everything. And now what they do is that process now. So then they process them into whatever. So what it does in your body. The soil does is that you take all the food into the soil, isn't into your soil organ, which we call the Spring   soil. And then what it does is they separate from, I mean, not separate, they process them. So then into all your organs need.   Rhonda: (19:09) So they make into what you need. I mean, people say nutrition, you have to eat certain things. You don't because the soil actually have collect all the information as well, not as collecting, what do you call the food or things. And they collect all information from all of your organs to say what they need. And then it processed food and supply it to make the Yin and the Yang kind of a balance into certain parts of the body. So if your Kidney  need the most, they probably kind of gathers, kind of sorted out most things that supply to the Kidney  and if you kind of wherever you need it, it's actually processed there. So, that's what I call sorting you know, sorting out. So why is [inaudible 00:02:04]. That's what soil does.   Rhonda: (20:06) So if you have problems with the soil, I mean, apart from the food you... Can't take, if your Yang of the Yin soil problem, you just don't want to eat this. You can't take things eat. And then if your soil is not a processing and then not sorting, and you find you eat but you get hot, thick coat all the time, you feel sluggish and you don't have the enough taste of the food. You might have taste of food, sorry. You just don't feel fresh and after eating you just feel heavy. So if you don't really have, if you have a Yin problem of the soil, you do actually have trouble to taste the food because your organs are not really telling your body what they need. Yeah so, that's you just don't know and you can eat, but you just don't know what is right for you.   Rhonda: (21:05) So you don't get the message yeah, properly. Yeah. So the body in the emotional thing as what we call the soil. Soil is the reason, like the reasoning, because of they have all the message coming to you and then it's sorting out thi and then they're sorted out, work out what all this message is about. So I called them the reasoning. And this is, if you have a problem, you know how the people do like that. They have so much things and they just feel their head is too heavy. So they don't know, they can't work out things. So, that's when the Yang problem, when there's a Yin problem you just can't receive. You don't really know the message.   Mason: (22:28) Yeah. You just finished talking about the the reasoning Ju   Rhonda: (22:31) Yeah. Reasoning Ju . Yeah. I called them my Ju.   Mason: (22:34) Will?   Rhonda: (22:37) That's right. That's will. You know, reasoning will, you could say, but I call them a Ju because it's not just the will. It's about more meaning. It's like sometimes it's not what you will, what you wish to do, but it is like inbuilt, you just want to be proud. It's not your will to be your wish to be proud but you kind of that's all your nature is, so we call that Ju it's like, you stand for, you can't help yourself. Yeah.   Mason: (23:14) That Ju being essentially the been the spirit of each organ that you've been talking about.   Rhonda: (23:20) That's right. Yes, and so when we talk about the soil the Ju that's what the spirits actually using the Spleen soil to kind of act in their reasoning. The reasoning took out the Yin and Yang. They ying make you kind of receiving and the Yang make your working out what they all mean. So yeah, that's the soil. And the back after the soil, it's the fire. Yeah. I mean, what goes backward? Because we came from the woods. It's easy to talk this way. Yeah. So, when we say fire. Yeah. That's right fire. Fire is your Heart  . Yeah. Because we say we got all this heat in the body, isn't that where they come from, it's come from the nature and is maintained by the nature. So how you get this heat? It's not, I mean, we say we've got a food and a we burn.   Rhonda: (24:25) It's not true. As soon your spirit goes, you don't burn, isn't it. You don't have the heat. So it's your spirit that actually connect your body with the nature and that with the sun, the moon and the nighttime, that's why you need to cover up because of spirits resting. So it needs you hold on to what you get in the day, so that your time and spirits open. I mean your Heart   actually got a Yin and Yang. The Yang actually release to get the spirit out. So the spirit make your body active and you connect to the world and you're interacting with each other. And the nighttime spirits go inside and they rest. So that's what a Heart   does, Heart   in kind of the ground. So it makes you hold back and the Yang make your rise. So the spirits up, and that's when you're acting.   Rhonda: (25:19) So that's what the Heart   majorly do. That's why we say the house of your spirit. Yeah. That makes your body kind of warm, make your body active. When you're active, you tend to create a heat. Isn't it? So that's because your spirit and the make your active, make you kind of strong and then make your rice heat. Yeah. So, but then of course, if you're done really reserve a lot of heat in the Kidney , when you create this heat, you don't just expense spend it. It's like have a bank. That's in your Kidney , Kidney . I always tell people I say your bank. So if you drink a lot of freezing cold Water, you use your banking savings to warm up that Water and that kind of yeah, drain a little bill. I always say that fill the Waterville that they're heating the Fire   bill is a lot...   Rhonda: (26:14) A lot cheaper than the body's Kidney Water heat bill. Where we got to actually the fire. Yeah. So, that's what a Fire   does. And then if you, I call this a spirit to control your Heart   fire. I called them aspiring Ju. It's like you aspired to do things. You kind of have a lot of desire. You're active and you're bright and you can see your eyes actually kind of light. That's why you actually see something you really like to do. So we said, this is your desire. That's where your Heart   Yang Fire   and the Yin make your ground says, don't go mad, don't go. Like you see something I want to buy all of it, and then you're what do you got the Yin side of that, the aspiring Ju is saying, no be careful with your money.   Rhonda: (27:14) So then ground you down and to make you calm. So when is it make you're active, when it make you calm so that's what it does. Yeah. So if you find that lot of people when we call them a Heart  broken in English. Isn't that? So, so called a Heart  broken is your Yang of the Fire   damaged. Your Heart   Fire   damaged. So then you just look, everything bland. You don't really have any desire. You just lost yourself. Yeah. But when in that kind of cases, what I do is that I use your Kidney , our warm your Kidney . I use a lot of foods. These things make the Fire   actually make the Heart   fire, the body of the Fire   kind of warm. So they're helping, what do you call that aspirant Ju. Your helping your Fire   spirit to, to perform.   Rhonda: (28:06) So, and then also you ground this Fire   into the Kidney s. So then you gave them a support, sort of give them a lasting kind of heat. So gradually they feel back to themselves and that they're running again. So that's how you work with the spirit and the body. Yeah. I mean, people think oh, that's only the spirit, but you work because it's spirit and body inseparable. When is separated the body will die and rot away and the spirit of become ghost. So it's, don't know where to go and lets your journey finish and you know where you go. So, that's a fire. And then what create Fire   is the wood. So we come back to this cycle. So it Woodcreate fire, Fire   create the soil, soil create the Metal and Metal create the Water and Water get back to work.   Rhonda: (28:55) So, that's how every organ is in the body. So then you may say, what about my arm, what my fingers? So your fingers or your arms, it all have this, a five elements as well. So every five organs control every part of the system. Yeah. So if you say you're tense your tight muscle, then we say, okay, maybe your liver WoodYin have a problem. Isn't it? But if you actually have say rash or something on your arm then what we say is a liver WoodYang damage because your liver actually is your blood ocean, it's all of your body blood. And then when liver WoodYang damage, you blood does flow free. So that's why you get the problems with the, what do you call them? That blood problems. When you see the rashes it's always Blood stagnation. Yeah. Stagnation. So we called them liver WoodYang damage. Yeah. Always.   Mason: (30:01) And I really liked in your book, you're taught like you really, you, you were talking about the blood vessels and this really allowed me to drop in to see the liver would medicine to be that Yang is that a erectness of the blood vessel as if we have no yin, we run the blood runs too hot. But as soon as you bring in that Yin and that suppleness and that bend to the vessels, all of a sudden there's more of like a babbling brook and they can cool down.   Rhonda: (30:27) That's how it is. Yeah. That's yeah. That's basic five so-called the five elements and the five organs and then controls your body sickness. Yeah. I mean, any sickness, you give you any kind of example, you can include these five elements in the Yang side and the way you work that out and you can choose your acupuncture points or you can actually using your herbs. And yeah, you'll find.. Because in one of the blog, I think I write about how you recognise herbs. I mean, people, we were educated in the university says all this spirit of herb or they called Shen Nong...   Rhonda: (31:09) You know, like what they translated is he actually carried a little where you had a picture, carry a little basket and go around in the nature and the collecting herbs and the tasting herb's. And it says the three times he almost died and it's all, that's all lies because the Shen Nong is the emperor. How could he actually carry a basket to go around the mountains, asking people? He organised this. But what he did was he didn't really organise these people to go around to see what people using for herb. Because a lot of people don't know enough herbs why does he? How can he get all this message information? In fact, he sent the scholars out who actually going to testing or collecting or watching how animals and all the herbs are growing. And then they separate them into yinyang wuxing nature. And then they can use say I think I saw one of your herbs or two.   Mason: (32:14) That's Eucommia everybody. Yeah.   Rhonda: (32:20) Yeah. And then it says, it's very kind of it's good for your so-called Kidney . And they're also good for your bones and the muscles. Isn't it? So what you do is that if you're actually kind of peeling the skin and you're breaking them, it's got that kind of fine fibre and the really elastic that's what actually works on your liver. It's a give you liver Woodkind of a Yang and Yin because it's a flexible, that outside is a firm is hard and they grow in the cold areas. Yeah. Generally they don't like, like Queensland weather, and yeah they liked the colder places. So what they do is when you actually Yang, you like yin. So they actually kind of warm things. So that's the way they strengthen your bones. So Kidney  controls the bones. So that's why we say that actually help your Kidney .   Rhonda: (33:20) Yeah. Give you the flexibility as well as the strength of the bones. Yeah. So yeah. That's how you're actually watching all the herb. So then when you got this problem, you say, okay, well I'll have this, but of course, a lot of things that have different degrees. I like to use a lot of herbs, which they call the poisonous. It's not because they poison it's because they got strong kind of a yinyang nature. So when we talk about poison is not talking about like a Western terms of poison for more, formaldyhde, benzene, that's absolutely poison. And then you can't get away that not benefit from it. But when we say poison, it's like, they go the strong yinyang nature. So if you like a actonite, fu zi what we'll call it (inaudible). That gives you so much heat. And if you're overtaking can dry up and you die, of course, and you get a spasm and then you kind of, you got rid of all your moist and then you die.   Rhonda: (34:20) It does. But when you're actually eating them properly and processing properly, it just beautiful power. And I use that. And I like, because that gave you absolutely desirable strength to correct the sickness. So if somebody freezing cold, I mean, cold. It's not just you feeling cold, but internally cold, like everything, not running, people get a blue lips and the blue toenails, everything. So that means that you're, there's nothing flowing. Isn't it?   Rhonda: (34:56) There's not enough heat. You use that. It's so useful because I say most of the problems is your lack of a Yang team, the heat, because your body is Yin and most of your problem is the Yang problem. You don't have enough power, enough strength. We all desire power. Isn't it? In every way. So that's actually I like those kind of herbs and also some herbs. I mean, that's most people say my tastes not very good because all my formula is so strong. It's because there's some of the herbs, like a myrrh and frankincense it's got that kind of really terrible taste, but they get so beautiful to clean up your blood, blockage. Like if you had a, it's I called my liver WoodYang herbs it very beautiful to help your blood flow smoothly and it cleaner.   Mason: (35:56) Yeah. That was the myrrh and frankincense, you said? Yes. Yes.   Rhonda: (36:00) So that kind of things. And the myrrh and frankincense.   Rhonda: (36:03) Yeah. So it's that kind of things. And [inaudible 00:36:04] doesn't have any kind of too strong effect. So they don't really hurt at all. I think that you can actually making the little tablets every day having been it's definitely good for you cleaning up, but yeah,   Mason: (36:17) a bit of a tonic.   Rhonda: (36:18) Hmm. Yeah. Oh, it's it's yeah. Well, one we called tonic and I kind of a field. Yeah. What is tonic? Everything is tonic.   Mason: (36:30) Yeah you're right.   Rhonda: (36:31) Everything make your body flow is tonic. And when you need it, it helps you flow. That's tonic, isn't it. But so, there's no bad herb or good herb to me but, some herbs like a Ginseng. I call them because they're so they're strong, they're good. But then at the same time, it doesn't give you any kind of off the balance. Those herbs, so you could say them tonic, actually. Yeah. You can just, long-term taking them. And without any problems, like food, almost like food, they just don't taste as good as food, but then they act like a food. Yeah. So those things you could say are tonic and they actually benefit every parts of your body. And also like a liquorice, that goes your wuxing organs and also help you kind of breaking down any kind of problem, harmonise. It's kind of a soft up of any poisons, anything, any in your body. So you don't call them tonic. Yeah. That's   Mason: (37:34) We could have, we could, because we, we love the tonics here. We love the tonic herbs.   Rhonda: (37:40) Or you could say they're tonics, yeah. I think that's the kind of, yeah.   Mason: (37:44) I think it's a good distinction you make there that anything used appropriately can all of a sudden become a tonic because you're using it within its,you know, within its yinyang wuxing nature. That's right. Yeah. It will bring life.   Rhonda: (38:00) That's right. Yeah. Yes. And especially I would call it. Actonite is a beautiful, tonic is a strong strongest tonic, but of course you got to take a little bit of careful. So you will not really kind of using them. Like you, don't [not, 00:02:20], I mean like some people, if they have a bit of, you got to know the body condition like that. And then you may not talk about it as the general tonic, like, say, you can just eat, but I'll definitely say that's a very strong tonic. Yeah. But some herbs like, like Ginseng I'm talking, it doesn't give you, it doesn't matter what your body condition, you take it, it's always nice. So, I mean, in the modern sense, you say that's tonics, you know? Yeah.   Mason: (38:49) Yeah. But I mean, even with, because we're taught, like, what we were talking about before was with, with the Shen Nong for Everyone, I do encourage everyone quite often, I'll remind everyone again, it's nice to have a few of them the Shennong Divine Farmer Materia Medica. I believe, well, the pronunciation Shennong Ben Cao Jing.   Rhonda: (39:06) Yeah. That's right. Ben Cao Jing. Yeah.   Mason: (39:06) Ben Cao Jing. Ben Cao Jing, I think is how they say it's a translation. I'd like everyone to have a copy or two, if they're interested in that's where we see, as you were saying, the poison inferior herbs, the regular herbs, and the superior herbs.   Rhonda: (39:26) Yes. That's right, yes. Yes. The superior herbs. Yes. There's no damage and there's no problem. Yeah.   Mason: (39:33) But even with the ginseng, I mean, as you said, we call it ginseng or (inaudible), like a tonic. However, there's still always going to be, you know, a time when it's not appropriate or a time when you... So therefore you've needed to put understanding of the herb in order to ensure that it stays a tonic and not harmful, folks. So you're never going to not...yeah.   Rhonda: (39:57) It's like ginseng. I mean, it generally good, but sometimes you're taking them when it's not, so-called, appropriate. It's not really kind of correct to your condition in not, you don't notice anything. You just feel like you waste your can put into the soil, the soil say that's not needed. So it's probably the way or get rid of them as a waste, you know? Like, so that's how, how, how things are, you know, like sometimes like say when you're so thirsty a drop of Water, you appreciate so much, isn't it? But when you don't need too much and you have it, you just feel all "ahh", holding onto your stomach. You think I'll having, 'm drunk , you know? So everything got a kind of, yeah, you got to understand the, the concept of the yinyang wuxing and your body. And then you can actually work them better.   Mason: (40:52) Well, and that's, and that's why, you know, at SuperFeast, that's why we focus on the superior herbs because there are herbs that people can engage with without causing damage to the body. But what I like about them is, as you said with Water, you know, if you're, if you're not thirsty and you're hydrated and all of a sudden you drink a lot of Water, you'll feel something without doing much damage, but you will learn-- you'll also learn something about your body and you'll learn something about the elements. So you've done no damage. And you've learned about how, you know, how to look after yourself, which is, that's what I like about superior herbs as well.   Rhonda: (41:26) Well, that's very important, but that also, when you talk about this herbs, like yeah, individual herbs, you can actually make them like, say superior and inferior or whatever. But if there's herbs, formulas, if you make it into a formula and you can actually balance them all and the benefit, all of the things,you know, like in my book, I've got this RCN formula and which,you know, like the Kidney , Kidney  formula, Kidney  energy yeah. That's, that's basically balances every part of the body and the people taking them, like every daily things, because it, it just help you reserve your heat, helps you reserve your energy.   Mason: (42:19) Well, this is where I like your book. I mean, I've read a lot about the five elements,you know, which I know is even that translation doesn't really do justice to what we're talking about with the wuxing organ or organ system. And what I really, really love about this continue as I, as I learn more and more about the elemental cycle, is that when we think about the liver physical anatomy, the organ, yes, of course I can get my hands under my liver and under my ribs and I can feel my physical organ. But when I drop into my body, when I get out of my head and stop thinking about anatomy, when I drop into my body, I can't think about this reductionist organ. I can't isolate it. I can't feel isolation.   Rhonda: (43:11) Hm!   Mason: (43:11) I can't feel necessarily phase one and phase two. But, when I come, because ,that's a very stagnant system, when I come fully into the yinyang wuxing cycle, I can really get a sense of the quality of Woodinternally.   Rhonda: (43:28) Yes. And then you feel freer thinking, that's why I'm really against this so-called modernised or what they call the modern Chinese medicine because they using this anatomy. And they actually limit your thoughts, because when you're thinking about anatomy and you're thinking about the materials and you don't think about a spirit part, and you don't think about the cooperation and you don't think about, and then if you say "My arm got a problem", or "I've got a rash" and you think about rash rather than thinking about what is going on in the wuxing organs, isn't it. So then you limited yourself and then you try to find the so-called herbs that cure rash. And then when it doesn't work and you're going to find another one, you're going to find another one. And whose is it for?. I mean, individually, you might going to try everything and after a while you just give up, because you're just going to disappointed.   Rhonda: (44:22) Then you go to Western medicine and, but, if you stop thinking that you're thinking about a blood, you thinking about that this rash as a blood not flowing. So then you thinking about a liver with Yang damage and you suddenly thought, "Oh, what actually makes the woot erect?" And you start looking at the herbs and you start looking at a surround you and the food, everything. So you're suddenly free and you have a hope and you do have hope and you can find everything around you to help. So that's how important is you have this kind of concept of yinyang Wuxing.   Mason: (45:05) Yeah. It helps so much in a day-to-day level, too, you know. And as you were, you were talking about, you know, your Kidney  formula that helps bring a flow to every part of the body. If you're waiting for a symptom, if you're waiting, if you're in a, if you're in an anatomical reductionist mindset, it makes it very difficult to be dedicated and feel that what you are wanting is to support Yin Yang transformation consistently through the body, you don't get attracted to maintaining harmony,   Rhonda: (45:37) That's right, yeah. And then also you lose power. You lose your own power. So as you say, if you thinking about yinyang wuxing, you suddenly connect yourself to the whole world, whole nature, and you suddenly feel freer. You don't waiting for the drug company, give you information, what the drugs do or something, and you suddenly thinking, okay, everything surround me. "What things can help me?" And you really do freer and you become active and you become emotionally. You're not going to be too sad, and just waiting there to tell you, then tell you how long you're going to live and what condition you're going through. All that. Yeah, you absolutely can convert that problems. Every problem, all kind of problem. If you're thinking about that nature where you can, a lot of people feel very difficult belief because, I had a patient and then she got home with all the herbs once. And then her son was telling her: "Mum, you just going backyard and collecting all this rubbish and then you boiling up and your drinking.   Rhonda: (46:35) And I said to her, and then, so when he came, I said, "You think you can just go into the shops and buy these little chemical drug and you take, you don't even know what it is. And I said, do you have absolutely any idea what's in there or what they do? You just got to trust. Isn't it? I said, I'd rather trust, nature than trust all those people." Because quite often these drugs, they, they kind of telling you one thing, but it's only about it. You know, you do a PhD for three years, isn't it? Three, four years maximum. And then you, you, you announce something. It says, Oh, I had this, rats test or something. And that developed this, something, something. And then for that life, you're not people don't live like rats in a few years. We'll live like a 70,80.   Rhonda: (47:25) Now people even like, you know, 90 years. You don't know in 20 years down the time, if you actually 30 and 20 years' time, you have a problem with this. It's only about a, what do you call it? A 50's and irreversible, or the problem happens. So I say, I definitely trust nature better because you're part of nature. Really? You thinking a lot of people, I mean, I, once actually there was somebody, I can't remember her name, very famous for, you know, television or radio person. And then she said, "Yeah, I wonder where we come fro. You know, you come from the earth and the heaven, earth, soil, create you. That's what it is." We were kind of almost like isolate ourselves so much from nature. And now we're thinking we come from somewhere else. But if you're thinking about yourself, you do come from nature, whatever the problem you have, it's in the nature. Of course, the chemical things that we created and damage ourselves, but still there's nature way to get you corrected. So you got to look for it. I mean, there's always that.   Mason: (48:42) I love it! Before we go. Just wanted to touch on one last little piece that I think is really important when discussing yinyan wuxing. Yeah. And then I'll let you go. And then I'm going to have to ask you back on the podcast to talk about herbs. Just a little distinction that I think what has happened as a hangover from the colonisation of Chinese medicine and Western medicine thinking is that when we talk about liver Yang Qi and Yin Qi that people, and I'll just speak for myself, I've had to really work, to not relate to, okay, I have Yin Qi I have damaged or low Yand Qi. And now I just need to increase the Yin Qi so that I've got my Yang Qi and I've got my Yin Qi in the liver. I put them on the shelf in my liver and then I'm healthy, cause I've got both those things, but it's a transformation.   Rhonda: (49:39) That's right. That's right. So you can't really just thinking, "Oh". I mean, sometimes it's like that, like say, I eat something really bad and you suddenly get a, you know, like a kind of a diarrhea or even poison feeling. You know, you feel really bad, you just give a big cleanup herb. So, so get the, you know, get rid of the rubbish and the Yang is rising again, and then you fine, and that kind of a single problem is like that. But if it's something a bit deeper and the more problems, like a, almost a little bit of chronic and you can't work on that, you got to think about it, say, okay, you've got to cut him off. Of course, you know, the rotten trees, the rotten fruit, rotten things, you got to cut them off. Otherwise they do kind of affect the tree regrow and sometime they drop off anyway.   Rhonda: (50:28) But other times that you got to cut off. So how do you cut off? It's not operation, you've got to use the herbs. So which I kind of strong and get rid of a poison, you know, like sometimes a little bit of harsh or some herb's a little bit of poisonous even, you know, get rid of the rubbish. And then on the other hand, what you do is that you got to support your body to regrow. Isn't it? Regrow that liver wood. So what do you do? You work on the Kidney , you work on the heat in the Kidney . So you get a Water kind of flow and you get the nutrients grow. So that's when you actually get the liver recovered. So that's how you do. But also sometimes, you know, a lot of people I used to see, because I think I had quite a good practise and I had a lot of people refer, but often you're not   Rhonda: (51:18) People come in with very complicated problems. Very few people come to me just for flu or something. I love those because you gave a few packet, they gone, they finished. But quite often, you get very complicated cases and all mess up. And then some people come to me say, "I can't take any herbs. I take it. I react. You know, I get a very bad feelings, even food, and I'm just sensitive to everything." So what are you going to do with this kind of things is so what we say, your soil, you're not soaking up. Everything is too messy. So what are you going to do? You got to loosen the soil, gets things moving a bit. So you don't really treat the regional problem and you treat the soil, you get the soil loosened, you get all the things sorted out who belong to who, and then, you know, and then you sat working on that side.   Rhonda: (52:07) So it's... Yeah. It's all.   Mason: (52:12) sorry.   Rhonda: (52:13) Sorry. It's all kind of connected interconnected. That's why wuxing can't be separated no, but say, if you have a or you just lack of Water, you pass out, what do you do? You can Water. And that's very simple problems, but once things are connected or complicated, like a flu, some people get a cough, you know, really bad cough. And then in my book, I think I had this case and that it just can't get over it. And then you have all kinds of a Lung herbs it's not working. So what do you do is that you work on the soil because soil create the metal. So you got to actually help them get a soil rising and then get the, what do you call that metal? Get the Lung metal, new metal. So then you work along that way and the school. And sometimes you, you know, your liver problems and you actually work on Lung because the Lung controls the, what do you call Lung Metal controls the liver wood. So you can have use Metal herbs and to chop off some of the, you know,bad wood.   Mason: (53:18) Yeah. Getting rid of some of the putridness.   Rhonda: (53:21) So all these herbs are very real, this philosophy, and this theory in a clinical practise is very, other say, direct help. You can't get away. And when you work on that, it's just so it's freer. Yeah.   Mason: (53:40) That's all we want. Like, that's something again, like you go, well, let's remove the blockage or restore the ability to create so that we are back into, into a flowing of harmony of, oh, what you that's. The other thing I wanted to bring up is that the Qiqua continues to be of a transformation for me because it's like, we're not just trying to restore a Qi.   Mason: (54:03) Patient for me because it's like, we're not just trying to restore a Qi in restoring Qi it is non-stop Qihua so we'll finish on this I think it's a nice distinction.   Rhonda: (54:10) Yeah. What is Qiqua you know if you, actually learned the [mandarin language 00:54:20] , have you heard that, the [mandarin language 00:54:19] this is the one which I have to talk about it, which I'm writing in this course, it's called the [mandarin language 00:54:29] it's the yun it's you know yunqi. You've heard about Yunqi it's like a luck people say it's luck but it's not. It's the sun movement, sun position on earth and the time that created this atmosphere, that's called the Qi. And how this Qihua how this changes is the Yin and the Yang kind of meeting together. If you talk about [mandarin language 00:01:02] I think it's got the oldest, lots of your kind of terms-   Mason: (55:02) Yeah. Correct.   Rhonda: (55:03) which is the time of the earth, you know, like a time movement of the earth, which is time we call the time. And that actually kind of work with the sun position and create these atmosphere, the qi, weather. So this weather changes it's called follow this wuxing cycle, you know, from Spring   to summer and to really hot heat, and then to dampness, and then to, what do you call them? Dry Autumn and try the cold Winter. So that's kind of what they call the little qi. We call the liuqi. This six Qi is the dry is the Metal and the Water the cold is the Water. And then the Spring   is what we call the Wood the you know, in the early Spring   is the wood. And then the rising heat, which we call the [foreign language 00:56:09] , like a main heat, the initial heat. And then there's a, [foreign language 00:56:14] which is called a spreading heat. And this is the six Qi where the Fire   has two parts. One is initial and one is spreading. So this, after all, it's a five qi, this is the circulation of the Qi and that's called a qihua from one transformed to the other. It's called a qihua. Yeah. That's how it is. Yeah.   Mason: (56:40) And if we get into that flow, then we can enjoy life.   Rhonda: (56:43) Yeah because it always says that so-called this qihua is following so-called the season, but in your body actually this qihua actually there's this qihua. I just writing because very confusing one part because they suddenly changed a position and then people can't understand, because it always say day and night is a combined creator something it's like, say, you know, your, what do you call that Water? You know, all the wood, say, for example, your trees, if you only have the daytime, you don't have nighttime it doesn't really go isn't it? So it's actually night and day joined together and then create the wood. So there's certain position, certain time. So that's what we call the [inaudible 00:57:36], which is again too many new terms. [laughing 00:57:36] But that's how the qihua come from. That's how the Qi and how the change, how the transformation is about. Yeah. That's a it's a, what do you call that? It's kind of a field there's for thousands of years I will say I'm reading all kinds of books nobody explained the way, because in the old times, maybe that's just like a common sense.   Mason: (58:00) Yeah.   Rhonda: (58:00) So they don't have to explain a lot of things in detail, but to us now, we,re just lost because they say this, and you're saying, why this come from? Where are they from? You just don't understand it's like when you're using computer, you know, you tap tap and everything come up and you say, how did this derive? And you don't know because we're so used to this. And now we think we're just using them, but we don't really care about the initial. And then you can't develop it. So good mathematics. Mathematician has to go through this from one plus one, or, you know, dividing and plus, they have to go through these steps. So rather than just using computer and to get the result. So this has being a hard work for me.   Rhonda: (58:44) Yeah.   Rhonda: (58:44) I'm trying to explain them the way that we can understand. It's like a one plus one, how this come from and you got to, I mean, there's a result there, but we don't have the steps coming from. So I'm trying to work through this. It's like a, [mandarin language 00:05:02] you know a lot of people say [mandarin language 00:05:05] is like a five, you know, heavenly, stance but really it's the position of the sun because in the book of a change, you know, they say it's position and time, everything is a position time that's what the book of change is about, time and position. That's how you are, you know, because you're born here and in this time, that's crazy if you put your Yin like another place, you'll be different, isn't it?   Mason: (59:36) [Aggreeing 00:59:39].   Rhonda: (59:37) So they'll be all different. Like, yeah. So everything is a position and time. So what is the position? Position is the same position to the earth that gave you the position. If we didn't have the sunrise sundown, you want to have a sense of position. There's no position. It's not everything be the same, isn't it in the back.   Mason: (59:59) [Aggreeing 01:00:03].   Rhonda: (59:59) So that's position and that's what we call the [phase said in mandarin language 01:00:06] and the [foreign language 01:00:06] is the time. So I worked this out and then there's not many people really talk about that directly. So I actually explained everything like that book of change, and also about the [mandarin language 00:06:21] and the, you know, this [inaudible 01:00:22] called the [foreign language 01:00:22] it's all about this time and position, and that's how you treat the people and treat them, you know, choosing your point choosing herb's. So, yeah, anyway.   Mason: (01:00:34) Well, no pressure because I know it's going to take a little bit of time, but well we're waiting, we've got a lot of people that told us they're going to be waiting for that course, but we're patient that's okay. We know. Well, because you've got the step of doing the de-colonisation, which is huge. And, and that's something I really appreciate your time.   Rhonda: (01:00:54) I'm glad that you did because of that took me eight years to get that down. But now I feel thinking back I say what's all that point to talk about how the change should really just working on energy to say how it really is carried forward with real herbs, real medicine, real healing [laughing 00:07:12] but anyway, it is because if you don't really kind of separate yourself from this modern and this [inaudible 01:01:21] you lost yourself, you can't go back to the roots unless you're really careful understand this is, you know, you push this off, then you can clearly know where your role is. Yeah. One so your listeners actually wrote to me and said that she wants to going to study Chinese medicine, you know, like become a practitioner. And she said, "Which of your book should I read?", I said that the first book will prepare you not to get a poisoned by them.   Rhonda: (01:01:49) [Laughing 00:07:52].   Rhonda: (01:01:49) And the second book, give you a clue how the real medicine should go. And now I say, you get this ready and then you go into the course and you might not get yourself too confused and too damaged. Yeah. I mean, at the moment, people has to go through this course to get a qualification to be able to practise. But in the future, I think we're going to have a set up a new practise again, we call the Yi practise which is not governed by this Chinese medicine. So like when Chinese medicine first started, there's no recognition there is nothing, but we were freer, well, alternative healing, but now they've become a complimentary. So it's not really powerful anymore. So we're going to set up a new one, which I call the Yi-practise and we're not going to govern by name so we're going to set up all this our way. [Laughing 01:02:42] That's if I get there anyway,that's the aim, because I want this, the Yi to be stand on it's own again rather than to be kind of a, what do you call set? Like a hot, somehow got to hold on to somebody else to do it because we were independent kind of healing system. Yeah. Can't be combined. It's not the same thing. Yeah.   Mason: (01:03:07) No, it's not. Yeah. It's not. Yeah. It's not some little novelty on the side to be complimentary to western medicine.   Rhonda: (01:03:15) Plus it's very very powerful, it's not really, I would say it's more powerful and the safer than drugs and cheaper really. I mean-   Mason: (01:03:24) So much cheaper.   Rhonda: (01:03:25) Oh so much cheaper. Really you just have a little bit bottle of tablets, the herbal tablets, or you have a package of herb's and people say, oh, $20, $30 a day but then you know how much drugs you're going to take and how much expensive is that? And how much environmental damage and how much really it's what do you call it? Animal tests, all these things go on. It's just terrible really.But anyway, I won't go through that. [laughing 01:03:53]   Mason: (01:03:56) Now we're going to get to that. I mean, just the amount of disease that's going to get prevented because people get into a mindset of continuation and harmony and-   Rhonda: (01:04:05) Yes yeah. And it's powerful really. It's not a yeah. Somebody also wright to me, I think from your course also said you know, before they always thought that, you know, they hear all the talks about how Chinese medicine are not very good and then said that after listening to your podcasts and I realise, actually, I'm so happy that it's powerful kind of a practise. I said it is. Modern Chinese medicine is not powerful because they, they don't have principles you know, they don't have a proper guide and if you have a proper guide this is a very powerful medicine very much.I mean healing. I still try not to say medicine, it's a healing. It's a very powerful healing. Yeah. Very, very good.   Mason: (01:04:57) Alright great.   Rhonda: (01:04:57) So anyway, yes,   Mason: (01:04:59) Everyone, everyone go out and buy Yinyang Wuxing Spirit, Body, and Healing. This book is amazing. It's one of those ones, buy a couple and go and give it. We've had a lot of acupuncturists listen. And a lot of Chinese medicine students listen to the podcast as well and express how much they've appreciated it. [crosstalk 01:05:20] Talk a lot about how, you know, they felt that. They were trying to come back to the roots-   Rhonda: (01:05:27) Yeah.   Mason: (01:05:28) Not knowing how so it's been nice to provide some guidance as well.   Rhonda: (01:05:32) Thank you for your promotion on this [Laughing 01:05:34] because we [crosstalk 01:05:34] we want more people to know [laughing 00:11:38].   Mason: (01:05:39) Well, that's, I mean, when I got into this, I just wanted to see people not degenerate early in life and have space to evolve and become better people. That's like very simple when I was like all right I like Daoists philosophy and I like the herbs that the Taoists were saying like you're saying, "Oh, you know, these are the superior herbs and they can be used like a food to keep everything rolling and in harmony" I was like, "that's a good outlet" But it doesn't stop there because herb's are such a small part. It's this [crosstalk 01:06:11] it's so much more.   Rhonda: (01:06:13) It's all the philosophy and the, even the outlook of life and [crosstalk 01:06:19] everything involved. Yeah and practise as well. Yeah herbs, acupuncture. Yeah, I mean later, maybe while I get my course ready and I can talk to you a little bit more about how acupuncture, how yourself can actually help yourself acupuncture and the knowing a few of the points and the how you can do it. Yeah. Because [crosstalk 01:06:40] yeah, because yeah. Well, for a lot of people, you don't have to know everything about accupuncture. We'll just teach you a little bit, easily point, very easy and the safe points and how you treat the general field problems, very simple ones and all easy ones. But there's also powerful. It's like your tonics.   Mason: (01:06:59) Like a [inaudible 01:06:59] yeah [crosstalk 01:07:03] . Well, yeah. Medicine isn't to be institutionalised and it's never so complicated that you can do all nothing.   Rhonda: (01:07:13) Yeah. Well, for a thousand years in China, medicine healing wasn't the, what do you call it? The institutionalised, wasn't govern. It's the people actually in public, accept you. If you don't work, who's going to see you. And the only way you work, you got the good names and then people will follow you and the people will treasure your skills, you know, and they're always, they call it a scholar physician and then there's also just the technicians. Yeah. I mean, people with a simple problem, maybe you go to a technician and the people actually have a real problem or rich people and they all go to this scholar physicians, and they all know everything about it. You know, like a philosophy, Daoism and Yin and Yang and the wuxing and the book of change all these things and then they become a physician practitioner. Yeah. I mean, scholar, physician. Yeah. So there's a difference in it yeah. But anyway.   Mason: (01:08:15) It's definitely something worth preserving-   Rhonda: (01:08:19) Yes.   Mason: (01:08:19) Even if it rather become the dominant medicine, preserving it so it's present on the earth.   Rhonda: (01:08:24) Yeah. I wanted it to be a dominant medicine because that will be so good for earth. You know, there will be no poisons to create in the river and in the Water system. and then in the air, it's just good for everybody.   Mason: (01:08:40) Well, let's hold that vision will allow our spirits to shine through our organs and help that vision. [Laughing 01:08:46]. Rhonda thank you so much. We love you and we look forward to having you back on the podcast, whether that's talking about the course or I'd love to just go through and talk about many of the herbs, your favourite herbs as well.   Rhonda: (01:09:05) We can actually also talk about some particular cases that you've sometimes you know, you have a people asking, then we talk about how these yinyang wuxing principles actually should guide them into this, the healings and all that. Yeah. I, well, that's kind of a chats. It's good. It's good for my inspiration too, but I keep the acupuncture part I need more time to get my things working out for us. Yeah.   Mason: (01:09:36) We're not going anywhere.   Rhonda: (01:09:40) [Laughing 01:09:40] At school.   Mason: (01:09:40) We'll wait patiently and I'll just make sure everyone goes and jumps on your newsletter list on your website and also Facebook group yinyang wuxing yi, Y-I.   Rhonda: (01:09:52) Yeah. Well, I mean, at the moment maybe people get disappointed because I don't do too much. I just got a feel I'm on the Facebook at the moment are putting on few of, what do you call them? The words at the moment I'm teachng field Chinese classical Chinese words where they come from, what they mean, because this is important for me in the future with the course. If you don't understand the words in that translation, it just doesn't work the same. So eventually I'll be the charts, everything going to be in Chinese. So I want people to know that basic and then later because yeah, you can actually make a translation of charts, but then I feel there's not too many words to learn and if people understand that and they eventually will, you can actually read the Chinese chats, you know, you can go in there to search your own kind of answers for lots of things. So I feel, yeah, that's what I'm doing at the moment. Yeah. My husband doing all this animation and the words [crosstalk 01:11:01] He actually write for me first and as well so I just can, I did a little bit and have a look is right and then maybe I add something up. Yeah. That's all. So we're doing that to get the words going at the moment. Yeah. And-   Mason: (01:11:17) Amazing.   Rhonda: (01:11:18) Hopefully I can get a course of ready soon.   Mason: (01:11:21) Great. We look forward to it. Okay.   Rhonda: (01:11:23) Thank you. Thanks very much .   Mason: (01:11:24) Good bye for now. Speak to you next time.   Rhonda: (01:11:27) Thanks so much. Yeah. Okay. Bye.

On episode 054 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin. They discuss the notion of American exceptionalism, its foundations in the oppression of black and indigenous communities over centuries, and how it manifests today in relation to the pandemic.Greg Grandin is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including most recently The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, and The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes in American History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in the UK. He is also the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first book, The Blood of Guatemala, won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for the best book published on Latin America, in any discipline. He has published widely in, among other places, The New York Times, Harper’s, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Hispanic American Historical Review, and The American Historical Review. A graduate of Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, Professor Grandin received his doctorate at Yale University, where he studied under Emilia Viotti da Costa. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences._________________________________Bertolt Brecht | "Everything Changes"Everything changes. You can makeA fresh start with your final breath.But what has happened has happened. And the waterYou once poured into the wine cannot beDrained off again.What has happened has happened. The waterYou once poured into the wine cannot beDrained off again, butEverything changes. You can makeA fresh start with your final breath.

Bread in its most simple form is Flour, Water, Salt and Yeast. There are many ways to change the ratios of the ingredients and add other ingredients to change the outcome.   Growing up my mother made bread frequently and I learned from a young age that bread is very forgiving. Many recipes will have you measure precisely to the gram and if you follow those recipes you will end up with amazing bread. But you can make delicious bread without all the stress of precision. Flour- I like to use white whole wheat flour and add vital wheat gluten to help improve the texture of the bread. Water- You can use water or milk. Some recipes add eggs and/or fat making them enriched doughs. My Food Processor Bread Dough adds eggs and fat. Yeast- There are two common types of yeast. Active Dry Yeast and Instant (or Rapid Rise) yeast. I like to buy yeast in bulk and keep it in the freezer. If a recipe calls for 1 packet of yeast, that is 2 ¼ teaspoons of bulk yeast. Active Dry yeast requires the step of “blooming.” You sprinkle the yeast over warm water or milk to activate the yeast. It will start to foam and bubble. Instant yeast lets you skip this step and you mix it with the other dry ingredients. Salt- It is best to add the salt just before kneading the dough. You want to let the flour hydrate and the yeast to activate for at least 5 minutes before adding the salt. This is called autolyse. One of my favorite ways to make bread is to mix and shape it at night, let it rise slowly in the refrigerator overnight and bake it in the morning. This works well with cinnamon rolls and monkey bread. Full show notes here. Food Processor Bread Dough Fast Soft Pretzels Pizza Dough (From Pizza Nerds Podcast)

Today is a Thought of the Walk (TOTW) day and I had a good one ready on champagne and hookers, but with so many folks panicking about the coronavirus, I decided to do a show on how to prepare for the coronavirus in 7 days if you are not already prepared. This comes from the point of view that panic is not needed and I hope that some of the tangible things I suggest with help people be in a better place should this event impact you, while not spending a bunch of money on things that you will never use. Direct Download Thank you to Patrick Riley for composing and recording the new show introduction. What to you all think? Main Topic of Today's Show: Prepare for the Coronavirus in Seven Days Handle the "Big Three" first: Food Document what you have eaten or plan to eat this week - expand that to a month and make a list of needed ingredients Audit what you already have Buy enough of those items for a month, minus perishables that will not last a month If the perishables that will not last a month are required for balanced nutrition, replace the perishable version with non-perishable (canned, frozen, something else that does the same thing and will last) If you cannot afford a month of groceries at one time, fall back on staples - rice and beans - Mormon Pantries are a great place to get these. If you do this, make sure you include purchase of salt and spices if you can afford it! ensure you have enough pet food Note: Paper products like tampons, TP and other needed items are included in this planning process. Water You should plan 2 gallons per person per day for hydration and sanitation, but many cannot store that much water! Water Storage ideas: 5 gallon buckets from lowes, ziplocks, etc A water filter can help you not have to store as much - and no this is not an affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-SP128-Filtration-System/dp/B00FA2RLX2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sawyer+mini&qid=1582908972&sr=8-1 Video on how to use this filter for higher volumes than hiking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHnxaIuII8g Boiling and iodine and bleach can all be used to sterilize water. Use a pillow case or t shirt to remove debris from water if filtering "yucky" water to extend the life of your filter Sanitation The n95 Mask is not a silver bullet - resist the temptation to overspend on one while people are panicking about this single item Some construction respirations can help reduce exposer to airborne illness Know how to set up a quarantine room in your home (This is a best practice for many illnesses) Know what to sterilize beyond the obvious to combat the spread of germs (doorjambs, keyboards, remote, etc) Stock rubber gloves, sanitizer, bleach, etc. (Boiling kills things if you do not have this stuff and a gallon of bleach goes a very, very long way - no need to buy a case of it!) A word on handling human waste should your sewage fail After you have addressed the above (in 7 days I hope), address the next layer over time: Medical Symptom - friendly meds: fever, congestion, couching, sore throat, diarrhea Herbal support (Learn 2-3 basics): Mullein for congestion and cough is usually easy to find, stock herbals teas and honey for comfort Prescriptions for humans Prescriptions for animals Ensure that you're as healthy as possible through proper nutrition, hydration, getting enough sleep Shelter & Travel In some disasters such as flooding and tornadoes, you end up needing backup plans for shelter. In this case if you are quarantined you get to stay in your home! Business travelers: add a few extras to your luggage and be ready to stay with a friend if you are worried about getting stuck Financial Are you ready to pay your bills for a few months without income? If not, start saving now! If not be ready to (ONLY in the event of not having the income due to quarantine): contact your mortgage company for extensions, seek a small loan from a personal contact, bank or credit union) Only if there are no other options: cover a real need, like your mortgage, with a credit card --- hopefully no one ever needs to do this Consider talking with your boss about if you can work from home and continue to earn in the event of disruption Do you have time to build a side income in the interim If you get quarantined and need to take any of the above loans: use the time with your family at home to come up with a new financial plan that eliminates debt and increases savings The purpose of this episode is the help folks who are not ready for an even like the coronavirus to be as ready as they can be should it have an impact on day-to-day life in the short term Once you have the peace of mind that you have done what you can, I encourage you to learn a bit about Modern Prepping - a term coined by Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast. Rather than preparing for "The Zombie Apocalypse," he encourages people to be ready for life's likely events: Job loss, family illness, external event such as a hurricane, forest fire or minor civil unrest. Because being ready for things likely to happen throughout your life puts you in a position to handle the more extreme things IF they come up without wasting time and money on things you will never use. If you find this information helpful, please share it with folks who may also benefit.  Make it a great week! ### GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up LFTN Gift Registry Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/lftncoffeebreak/ Instagram: @nicolesauce Twitter: @nicolesauce

During this holiday, you might be exposed to lots of factors that could trigger illnesses and sicknesses. But you do not have to turn to flu shots or artificial precautions to keep your immune system strong. Yea! Your body already has an inherent ability to regulate and adapt to the physical and chemical changes that we face every day. All you need is to support your immune system with some natural measures- and that’s the essence of Chiropractic.   At our Chiropractic office in Elizabeth City, NC, we have guided a lot of our patients to try simple natural methods to supercharge their immune system. I also want to help you stick to the natural and safer way.   Without much ado, check out the natural tips to supercharge your immune system below:   1. Eat a Balanced Diet Your body needs the right amount of nutrients to combat diseases, common cold, flu, and allergies, which are common during this holiday season. Therefore you need to stick to eating a balanced diet with an adequate amount of protein, carbohydrate, and healthy fats. Hippocrates once said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” You don’t have to rely on over-the-counter drugs to boost your immune system. Just stick to a diet rich in whole foods and fiber; your immune system will thank you for the charge.   2. Exercise You can supercharge your immune system tremendously by exercising at least thirty minutes a day for five days every week. More so, you’ll enjoy a better night’s sleep and keep cold at bay by exercising regularly during this holiday season. Remember, you don’t necessarily have to work out outdoors. You can use a nearby gym or do at-home workouts.   3. Get Plenty of Rest Your body needs some time to rejuvenate after helping you accomplish many tasks, digest your food, and do your daily job. So, don’t make the mistake of stressing yourself or sleeping less. Stress has a chronic effect on the immune system and may increase your vulnerability to illness. The best way to help your cells repair themselves and regenerate is to get a good amount of sleep- which is why it is recommended to get at least 7 hours of sleep every night. Some people ask, “Dr. Jason, do I really need to sleep for up to 7 hours?” My response as an experienced chiropractor has always been, “Only if you want to keep your immune system strong.” More so, getting adequate sleep helps your body produce hormones such as serotonin, melatonin, prolactin, and growth hormones- all of which helps to keep your body functioning properly.   4. Drink Plenty of Water You need water to help your body perform many necessary functions like providing oxygen to your blood, clearing of toxins out of the body, circulating nutrients and white blood cells to your body tissue, and lots more. That’s why doctors recommend drinking at least eight glasses of water daily.  So, if you’ve not been taking enough water, you can start this holiday to help supercharge the immune system and keep your body hydrated to perform basic functions optimally.   5. Get Plenty of Vitamin C Vitamin C helps with a lot of functions like preventing cold and allergies and helping your body to repair and regenerate tissues. More so, Vitamin C acts as a natural antioxidant, supporting a healthy immune system. You can get plenty of vitamin C from oranges, red and green peppers, broccoli, tomatoes, and red cabbage.   6. Eat Foods Rich in Zinc Zinc is an essential mineral for restoring and repairing cells, which keeps the immune system in good condition. Some foods like Brussels sprouts, legumes, green beans, berries, corn, and dates contain a fair amount of zinc per serving. Besides, the added fiber helps the digestive system. Also, zinc helps to block viruses from gaining full access to your cells. So ensure you eat foods rich in zinc this holiday season to supercharge your immune system to combat diseases, cold, and flu, and allergies.   If you really want to enjoy your holidays, ensure you watch what you eat and drink. And don’t forget to exercise and get plenty of rest.  Avoid using any medication or traditional treatment measure to boost your immune system to avoid the numerous side effects attached.  Also, ensure you keep good hygiene. You can consult your Chiropractor for more tips to supercharge your immune system.       

We all know that one way to be an Awesome is to be generous with giving to others, and the holidays are filled with ways to practice generosity! But sometimes giving to others can get a little messy, no matter how good our intentions may be. This week. Meg is joined by Rebekah and her husband Nate who returns to Sorta Awesome to give us some fresh perspectives on having the right mindset when it comes to giving to those in need at the holidays. As the executive director of a homeless shelter, Nate has seen it all when it comes to the responses of both the givers and the recipients of gifts at the holidays, and his wisdom and experience are so valuable. Then Meg shares some Dos and Don’ts to keep in mind when it comes to giving internationally. All of that plus a cute party dress, junk food on YouTube, and feeling strong as a mom in Awesome of the Week!Sorta Awesome’s Amazon shop!https://www.amazon.com/shop/sortaawesomeTHANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:Rothys: Go to rothys.com/awesome to check out the latest stylesThirdLove: Go to thirdlove.com/AWESOME to find your perfect-fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchaseFirst Leaf: For six bottles of wine at $29.95 and free shipping, go to tryfirstleaf.com/awesomeBombas: Save 20% by visiting bombas.com/awesome and enter the offer AWESOME in the checkout code spaceKopari: Go to koparibeauty.com/awesome and see how you can save $5 off your first orderLegacy Box: Go to legacybox.com/AWESOME to get 40% off your first orderThank you to all of our Sorta Awesome sponsors!SHOW NOTES:Rebekah's AotW - Oxiuly Party Swing Dress https://amzn.to/2oTS7mmNate's AotW - One Bite Pizza Reviews Meg’s AotW - MommaStrongSorta Awesome Ep. 59 Crushing misconceptions about homelessness with Nate HofferMeg’s series on Lebanon and the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Part 1, 2, and 313 Things I Want American Christians To Know About The Stuff You Give Poor Kids by Awesome Rachel Pieh JonesWorld VisiionHeifer.orgcharity :: waterYou can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!Find Rebekah on her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter!

Rejection was a big cloud over Brenda's life for a long time. It was like a pillar from the time she was born. As the youngest of 5 children, for years she allowed rejection to shape the way she saw people and things, how she interacted with others, and even the attitudes she held onto. And for a time, all this culminated into leading a promiscuous and risky life. She eventually realized that she had to get to a place where she wasn't seeing herself through the eyes of her critics. She realized that weaknesses do not define us. Everybody has pluses and minuses. She eventually turned her life around by first letting go, and then trusting a higher power, her faith, and herself. Brenda believes that “When people are able to discover their purpose and walk in their destiny, their happy factor increases.” She's a testament to that. It took years to discover her purpose, but when she did she was able to live life authentically and rise up to her best self every day. She's on a mission to help others do the same. Show Notes In this episode, you won't want to miss Brenda's story. Listen in to what she's learned on the journey to live her purpose. Key takeaways include: Intentionality vs. "Life Happens" The need to let go to have a winning life Create yourself vs. find yourself Who defines you? What defines you? Paying attention to a higher power or Kisses from Heaven We are all multi-faceted diamonds Plan your work and work your plan Use your tapestry of talents Have a Dream Party Who is your reference group? You hold the pen to your life and you get to define you Books She Recommends: If You Want to Walk on Water You've Got to Get out of the Boat by John Ortberg Influencers In Her Life: Maya Angelou Colin Powell Warren Buffett Life Coaches: Tony Robbins and Lisa Nichols Contact Info: Website: https://www.breakthroughforlife.com/ YouTube Channel: Breakthrough With Brenda More Info: After 25 years of corporate level management for companies like Unisource Worldwide, Mitchell Williams Law Firm, and Toshiba America, Brenda founded Breakthrough for Life, a life coaching business committed to reaching out to help others break through to their next level of living. As the founder of Breakthrough for Life, Brenda Underwood is a Certified Growth Coach trained by Jennie Turton via Lifeforming Leadership Coaching and Professional Coach trained by Lifeforming Leadership Coaching.  She has spent the last decade mentoring and coaching people from every walk of life, helping them to win at life. Educated in both accounting and biblical studies, Brenda has a worldview that touches hearts and balances budgets, literally!  Through her corporate career and ministry service, she has a unique understanding of the dynamics of both corporate and personal breakthroughs. She understands, that the most successful businesses require successful people. The reality is the two are intertwined and happy people make happy employees.  When people are able to discover their purpose and walk in their destiny their happy factor increases. Brenda has the capabilities necessary to coach individuals into personal breakthroughs that lead to successful lives. She has an astonishing knack for helping individuals reach to the heart of the barriers they face every day. By tearing down the roadblocks and breaking through the blind spots her clients are able to win at life. Music by Jonn Serrie Website: http://www.thousandstar.com/ Record Labels and Links to Jonn's Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Rejection was a big cloud over Brenda’s life for a long time. It was like a pillar from the time she was born. As the youngest of 5 children, for years she allowed rejection to shape the way she saw people and things, how she interacted with others, and even the attitudes she held onto. And for a time, all this culminated into leading a promiscuous and risky life. She eventually realized that she had to get to a place where she wasn’t seeing herself through the eyes of her critics. She realized that weaknesses do not define us. Everybody has pluses and minuses. She eventually turned her life around by first letting go, and then trusting a higher power, her faith, and herself. Brenda believes that “When people are able to discover their purpose and walk in their destiny, their happy factor increases.” She’s a testament to that. It took years to discover her purpose, but when she did she was able to live life authentically and rise up to her best self every day. She’s on a mission to help others do the same. Show Notes In this episode, you won’t want to miss Brenda's story. Listen in to what she’s learned on the journey to live her purpose. Key takeaways include: Intentionality vs. "Life Happens" The need to let go to have a winning life Create yourself vs. find yourself Who defines you? What defines you? Paying attention to a higher power or Kisses from Heaven We are all multi-faceted diamonds Plan your work and work your plan Use your tapestry of talents Have a Dream Party Who is your reference group? You hold the pen to your life and you get to define you Books She Recommends: If You Want to Walk on Water You’ve Got to Get out of the Boat by John Ortberg Influencers In Her Life: Maya Angelou Colin Powell Warren Buffett Life Coaches: Tony Robbins and Lisa Nichols Contact Info: Website: https://www.breakthroughforlife.com/ YouTube Channel: Breakthrough With Brenda More Info: After 25 years of corporate level management for companies like Unisource Worldwide, Mitchell Williams Law Firm, and Toshiba America, Brenda founded Breakthrough for Life, a life coaching business committed to reaching out to help others break through to their next level of living. As the founder of Breakthrough for Life, Brenda Underwood is a Certified Growth Coach trained by Jennie Turton via Lifeforming Leadership Coaching and Professional Coach trained by Lifeforming Leadership Coaching.  She has spent the last decade mentoring and coaching people from every walk of life, helping them to win at life. Educated in both accounting and biblical studies, Brenda has a worldview that touches hearts and balances budgets, literally!  Through her corporate career and ministry service, she has a unique understanding of the dynamics of both corporate and personal breakthroughs. She understands, that the most successful businesses require successful people. The reality is the two are intertwined and happy people make happy employees.  When people are able to discover their purpose and walk in their destiny their happy factor increases. Brenda has the capabilities necessary to coach individuals into personal breakthroughs that lead to successful lives. She has an astonishing knack for helping individuals reach to the heart of the barriers they face every day. By tearing down the roadblocks and breaking through the blind spots her clients are able to win at life. Music by Jonn Serrie Website: http://www.thousandstar.com/ Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Part 4 of the Preparedness Series we talk today about water. Water is one of the most important resources we need to live. Recall the old saying of 3's? You can survive for 3 Minutes without air (oxygen) or in icy waterYou can survive for 3 Hours without shelter in a harsh environment (unless in icy water)You can survive for 3 Days without water (if sheltered from a harsh environment)You can survive for 3 Weeks without food (if you have water and shelter) Tonight lets talk about these three's and what three days means to you. Visit the new Group on facebook dedicated to these podcasts. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1388671741234748/ Call in to chat (713) 955-0518 Connect with your host DJ Cooper Facebook Twitter on the web

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Mikaila/Frankie talks queer friendships, with recordings from the Narrm Melbourne launch of graphic memoir Eyes Too Dry, speeches from co-creators Jessica Tavassoli and Alice Chipkin, as well as their editor Emma Jenson. We read a poem in Jess Hanman's name and also play tribute to him, as it was the 1st anniversary of his passing on April 2nd 2017. Thinking across the airwaves about brother-friends, lover-friends.Buy a copy of Eyes Too Dry here.Tunes:Arm Around You -- Arthur RussellBach's Prelude Yo-Yo -- Two Steps on the WaterYou and Me Both -- Arthur RussellHeld Apart -- Arca  

I think this episode & the paradigms we'll discuss can change your life. I really do, if you'll choose to let them. Here's the thing: life is hard. Hard things happen. Many of us choose to let these tough circumstances influence our choices. It doesn't have to be that way. In fact, if you want to live your best life, if you have to be your healthiest, happiest self, you need to change that patterned response. In today's episode I'm going to be sharing some theories about hard things, about the challenges of life and the opportunity we have to allow those hard things to help us grow, improve and excel instead of cower, complain and withdraw. These are choices. Welcome to the human experience - sometimes it's really challenging. How will you respond to those challenges? Will you become soft? Will you become hard? Will you develop, grow and improve? http://primalpotential.com/190-this-can-change-your-life Resources In today's episode I talk about stories & situations that I believe can change your life. I believe they can help you go to the next level. I believe they can turn you from your victim & excuse mentality to your warrior and conquerer mentality. I share a commencement address by David Foster Wallace called "This is Water" You can read the entire speech here.  I also share a fairly cliche anecdote about enduring hardships. You can read the story of the carrot, the egg and the coffee beans here.  Wait list for the Summer Fat Loss Fast Track  Do It Anyway Podcast Episode

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