Clarity or Chaos: Which Path Will You Choose?

Hi everyone, it's Sachin and Deepa. Can you guys hear us? Okay. All right. Beautiful. It's so nice to be able to do this. How about technology, right? It does have some amazing, amazing advantages. I'd love to. I'd love to get everyone to show their faces on video. I know some of you have probably haven't had a haircut in a while or eyebrows are growing out, mustaches are growing in. I don't know what's going on, but I guess that's the advantage for me. I learned how to cut my own hair when I was 12 years old and have never gone to a barber ever since. And I know I'm bald now, but I've been cutting my own hair even when I had longer hair for quite some time now. So I'm pretty self sufficient in the personal grooming department. I'd love to use the chat. I think that'll help us get a lot out of this conversation. That way we're not interrupting each other. If you've got some background noise, then it's probably a good idea to mute yourself. So I'd love to get everyone to type into the chat where they're from so we can at least see where everyone's from and that would be a good place to start. I'm going to be streaming this in our Facebook community, so you'll just have to give me a couple seconds as I do that. But in the meantime, go ahead and type in in the chat exactly where you're from. See some familiar faces. Awesome. Okay, so if you're just joining us, everyone's typing in where they are from and I'm just streaming to our Facebook community. So just give me just two seconds as I do that and then we'll have a fun conversation with all of you. Okay, awesome. Looks like we're live in our Facebook community as well. Welcome everyone. Once again, it's Sachin and Deepa. Hi everyone. We're excited to hang out with you guys and gals and we're also excited to hear what everyone's been up to. So I want to make this as interactive as possible. I want to have some fun and some humor. And what I'm going to suggest is that we keep it good vibes only. So if you have something negative to say, keep it to yourself. If you've got something positive to say, then by all means, let's have a fun, meaningful conversation. We've got people here from all over the place. We've got people from Toronto, from California, from Ohio, Maryland, Ohio, Welcome. Keswick, Calgary, Mississauga. Got some neighbors in here. California. South Bend, Indiana.

Switzerland.

All right. Switzerland as well. Cool. So if you haven't already, go ahead and type in where you're from. And what I'd also love to know is, you know, what has been your biggest breakthrough so far? So you can go ahead and type that in. What have you realized about yourself, about your family, about your career, about God, whatever it is. But what's been your biggest, most positive revelation from all of this? I think for me personally, my biggest personal revelation has been that this is exactly what I wanted, not just for myself, but for a lot of people. Because one of the things that we tell our patients to do and where people get the greatest outcomes when we work with them is those people that actually have the time, the focus, the know how, and all the other objections in their life are removed and they can focus on themselves. And when you focus on yourself, that inadvertently, directly and indirectly focuses on your health. So, you know, there's all kinds of reasons to go to bed early. There's all kinds of reasons to. To be outside in nature right now. There's all kinds of reasons to spend time with your family. There's all kinds of reasons to learn how to cook and get familiar with foods and spices and how simple life can be. And simplicity, I feel, is one of the keys to success when somebody's on their healing journey. So this has given us, you know, maybe not in the way we want it to be, but it's given all of us a time to pause and reflect and focus on what's really important and start asking ourselves a new set of questions so that we can create a better, more beautiful life for ourselves. I hope none of you go back to the way things were. I know parts. Part of our bodies, part of our souls, is craving that conformity and that comfort zone. But I know for sure that your comfort zone is where your dreams go to die. And so this is an opportunity for us to get out of our comfort zone and. And be in a place where we can grow and we can expand and explore and try new things. And I bet you there's people on this call that wanted a break from work, that wanted to, you know, didn't want to see their boss or didn't want to do one more thing, and they needed a break. Some of us were on the brink of burnout. So this has given us a chance to rest and recover without having to ask for permission. You know, some of us are too afraid to ask for help. We're too afraid to ask for the time off. We're too afraid to tell people that, hey, we need to slow down a little bit. So, you know, the universe, God, whatever you believe in, has given us this moment to pause and really reflect and ask a few questions. So that's been my biggest takeaway. I'd love for Deepa to share hers. And if anyone wants to volunteer and take the floor. This isn't the Satchin and Deepa show. This is really our chance to come together as a tribe and a community. I'll read through some of the responses. But, Deepa, what's been your biggest takeaway so far?

I think from all of this happening, my biggest takeaway has been this period of time is really a test to our mental strength and our mental outlook because you really see two sides of the coin. You see people that are freaking out and flipping out and, you know, I think fear and anxiety and uncertainty during this time is normal.

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But we can also make that shift. We can decide to go down the rabbit hole and get all caught up with all the things that are going on, or we can decide to make that shift and we can decide to choose a different path. Right. As Sachin was saying, this is a time for us to be grateful for all that we have. This is a time for us to actually slow down. This is a time for us to go within. This is a time for us to, you know, reflect on all that, all the things that we never had time to do. This is an opportunity that's been given to us to actually have the time to do those things, to have the time to just slow down and spend more time with our family. So I think that's kind of been my greatest revelation. Like, there have been days where I felt stressed about everything, but, you know, I always try to focus on the positive, make that shift in my mindset, to really focus on, hey, I woke up today, I still have a house, I have my family, I have my loved ones near me, and that's all I need, right? So I think it's been a great chance for us to all really reflect on what's important to us and what really matters to us. And that, for me, has been my biggest revelation out of all of this.

Now, we don't want to minimize some of the challenges that some people are facing. And I also want you to realize that it's not all sunshine and rainbows for us. We actually, next weekend had an event planned for 150 practitioners here in Toronto. We're all Excited. We have an amazing lineup of speakers and everything. Unfortunately, we had to cancel the event or postpone the event rather. But what we did instead was made the event available to everyone for a completely free and completely online. So sometimes you can, you know, when life hands you lemons, you can actually, you can. When life hands you lemons, you can make lemonade. But I also like to plant the seeds. So this is a good time to be able to plant some seeds that will, you know, bear you some fruit at some point in the future. This is a time to be kind to each other. This is a time to, you know, you know, show our love. Not just. Not just let people know we love them or know that we love them, but to actually show it in some way, shape, or form. It's probably never been easier to show someone you care about them just by simply checking in on them and things like that, and be there for your fellow human being, you know, as much as you can. And, you know, I also think it's important to have a sense of humor. I try to keep things, you know, pretty. Pretty engaging and light, you know, I don't know. I don't think anyone, any one of us on this call actually knows what's going on. We're being fed information from so many different directions. But what I do know I can do is control how I respond to things. I can't control what I'm being. What information I'm being fed. None of us can. But what we can all control is how we feel about what we're being fed. So I personally watch the mainstream media as a form of entertainment. And that's my viewpoint on it. It's entertainment. I view it that way. I filter it that way into my conscious and subconscious mind. I don't take it for face value. I don't know if anyone has ever seen the. I think it's the latest Mission Impossible. And it's a scene. There's a scene where they fool this guy into thinking his atomic bomb went off. And then he admits to it. And then the whole scene breaks down and the whole thing was completely faked. Like, it's almost like Hollywood laughing back at us to a certain degree, you know, like, there's so many people that, you know will tell you to be careful what you allow into your mind. Because when we're being fed a message of stress instead of a message of hope, our brain automatically shifts into fight or flight. It's impossible for it not to. If you had a blood sugar meter on, what you would see While you're watching the news, is your blood sugar going up as you're watching the news? Because your cortisol level goes up when you're watching the news. And cortisol's main function in your body is to raise blood sugar. When you increase blood sugar over 120, you actually decrease macrophagy function by 75%. So the white part of your immune system that goes in and kills things that don't belong in your body basically stop working or work 75% less effectively when you're under fight or flight type of stress situation. Because a white blood cell doesn't save you from a lion chasing you. So our body has this smart, amazing defense system, but if we're using it inappropriately, it's not going to work the way it's supposed to. And when we're stressed out, it affects our sleep. When we're stressed out, it affects, of course, our immune system, our digestive system. All the things that we're trying to heal right now are negatively impacted by stress. So if you're going to watch the news, then just have the goofy filter on, right? Like, just know that this is entertainment and watch it as such and deal with it as such. That's been helpful for me in doing all this. And then also knowing that no matter what happens, I think that the world that we're going to see moving forward is a world where positivity is rewarded, not greed. So you can be positive starting now, because that's going to be the currency of the future. I think people are going to deal with less of people's bullshit. At least I hope all of you deal with less of people's bullshit in your life. I hope you. This is a chance for you to filter your list of friends, right? Who do you want to cut off moving forward from this point? You know, you're the average of five people that you hang out with. Where are those five people that you want to hang out with? Who's calling you right now? Who's engaging with you and connecting with you right now? Those are your real. So this is important for all of you guys to understand. And I hope that, you know, this gives all of us a time to pause and reflect on what's really important to us. Okay, I'll let you go and then I'll. Is there anyone you can raise your hands or type in the chat? If there's anything that you'd like to say? We'd love to hear from some of you and see what you're doing to, you know, either add value to your communities or what you're doing that you're finding that's working with you from a coping standpoint.

Yeah. So I was talking to a friend last week and was just asking her how things were going and she said, oh, we're at home. There's nothing else we can do. And I said, well, there is. There's lots you can do. This is a time for us to prioritize our self care. This is a time for us to prioritize health. This is a time for us to prioritize our sleep, to prioritize cooking good healthy food at home, to prioritize all these things. It's like we see all these articles now about immune health, but Immune Health is all about a healthy lifestyle. It's about what we've always been talking about as a community. It's about eating healthy, it's about sleeping, it's about avoiding toxins, it's about self care, it's about self love, it's about meaningful relationships. All these things impact not just our immune system, but our entire well being. So this is a time for us to focus on those things. So, you know, we really want to try to leverage this time. I know there's been lots of companies that are, you know, really giving back and doing things for free and you know, really trying to share with their communities. You know, I really love going to yoga class and my yoga studios doing free online yoga classes on their Instagram so anyone can access it, not just members of the studio. So this is a time for us to focus on these things because we're at home and we have the time to do so. So really try to leverage this time period as a, as a positive time period for, for yourself, for your family. This is a time for parents to role model good health to your children as well. So, you know, that's kind of what I would recommend in terms of doing some things at home while you're, while you have this time.

Okay. So I'd love to see any questions that some of you have or things that you want to share. So if you have any questions for myself or for Deepa, or for both of us or for anyone in the community, feel free to go and type that into the chat. We're happy to address any of those things. Looks like Hannah says she's got a bunch of people muted on Facebook. Yes, I can see why Dr. Sami says that this is a time for clarity and important for people's priorities in their life, really figuring those out. I definitely agree. Yeah, Tricia says that stakes are higher for practicing good health. You know, just, I think all of you kind of understand our message, which and our belief system and our value system is that health really begins in your home, nowhere else. I mean, that's where we want it to begin and that you are ultimately the doctor of the future. You know, with this multi trillion dollar medical system, the only advice that they've offered us is to stay inside, isolate ourselves and wash our hands. I mean, that's the only guidance that we're being given right now. And I think that that's a huge disservice because this is actually the way I view this. This is a great once in a lifetime, maybe opportunity where for two, three, four, maybe even eight weeks, you can really, you know, focus on yourself. And you know, it seems like from a government standpoint, to prevent like mass riots and looting and things like that. They're trying to keep us quiet by paying us a little bit of money, which I definitely appreciate. But, you know, it's for what it's worth, we got to make the most of that. And if our mortgages are on pause, or our rent is on pause, our expenses are on pause, then maybe we should use this time to kind of de. Stress, decompress a little bit and then really focus on working on ourselves. You know, one thing I'll tell you is that, and I say this to all my clients, is that if your health, for example, is a 6 out of 10, then everything in your life is a 6 out of 10 or less. So if your health is a 6 out of 10, how you are as a partner is a 6 or less. How you are as an Entrepreneur is a 6 or less. How you are as an employee or a business owner, or a member of your community, or an aunt or an uncle, spouse, whatever your roles are in Life, you're a 6 out of 10 or less in each and every single one of those roles. Now, if I move your health up to an 8 now, everything in your life, the potential for everything in your life goes up to an 8 or less. So this is an opportunity for us to be of more service, to be of more value, to be of greater capacity, to be of greater capability after we come out of this, whatever situation is however long it takes. However long it takes. Guys, we're all in this together. So that's one thing that I want to remind you of, is that no matter how long this takes, where all of us are in this together, there isn't like a certain group of people that are allowed outside and only you're stuck indoors, you know, and everyone's stuck indoors, right? Everyone's not working, like, unless there's. They're super essential. So we're all in this together. It's not like you have to feel like, oh my God, this is happening to me. You know, there's a collective, you know, issue going on for all of us. And so I know sometimes if it's just imagine this was you. Imagine you lost your job and you were financially struggling, but you were all alone and everyone else was, you know, everyone else's life was perfectly fine and unshattered. You would feel so alone. But the fact that we're all in this together allows us to go through these emotional roller coasters and challenges, whatever's coming up for us, but we're also able to be supported by other people. Like right now is the time if you need help. The likelihood of your friend answering the phone is so much higher than it ever was before. Sometimes we let calls go to voicemail because we're so busy. Sometimes we don't respond to texts because we're so busy, right? Sometimes we don't respond to emails because we're so busy. My email inbox is at zero right now because I've responded to every email, responded to every communication that's come in because I'm craving communication right now. I'm craving connection right now. And I know all of you are as well. You know, we basically sent this email out two hours ago and you know, almost 50 people registered because we're all craving connection, right? Normally to put together people on a call like this would take a week of planning in our schedule would require like three emails going out and a follow up email and all these sequences and complexity. But instead people are craving connection right now so much more than anything else that it's easier to bring people together and, you know, it's easier to bring like minded folks in the same room, even if it's a zoom room. You know, my family the other day, it was my nephew's 18th birthday and we were able to, oh, my cousin, sorry, he's only 18, so I feel like he's my nephew. My cousin's birthday and we had like 50 people on a zoom call together and had it been in person, not all of us would have been there. So at least it was on zoom and all of us were there celebrating with him because our family's scattered all over North America. So it's a time where a lot of people are coming together. Our families Came together. Deepa just had a call with her international family a couple hours ago and I'm having this call with you guys and gals. So it's an amazing opportunity. Alright, out of curiosity, how many of you would be interested in a career in healthcare or a career in health coaching or services like that? I'd be definitely curious to see if anyone says yes to that. And if the answer is no, just maybe just type in no. Just so I know that you're engaged here. Now, when I say career, I guess I should be a little bit more clear. Maybe a career coaching people towards health, guiding people towards health with the ability to do it from the comfort of your own home over the Internet, for example. Kind of like how we're doing right now. So maybe a different type of healthcare practitioner than a traditional healthcare practitioner. Somebody who can help people in their homes, not necessarily in their office. Because I know that there's going to be a huge need for stuff like that in the coming months and years and decades. I don't think good health is ever going to go out of style. And I think that these type of events actually remind us of how important our health is. Our health is more valuable now than it's ever been and it's an appreciating asset. So having good health will never be a depreciating asset. As you get older, you get wiser, you make better decisions. You should be getting healthier, not sicker as you age. So one thing that we've been saying for a long time is that health is ultimately our responsibility, right? During the greatest crisis of our lifetimes, we're just being told to stay home and wash our hands. That's it. That's the best they've got, right? And not to take anything away from the people that are in the front lines, because trust me, I don't want to be on the front lines. I'll openly acknowledge that, okay? I don't have the courage to do that. So these people are super courageous. They're putting themselves at risk, they're putting their families at risk. I'm not willing to do that. So there are people that are. So I'm super grateful that they're doing this, but I think what they're also realizing is that the average person that's coming in has no idea how to take care of themselves, which means they have no idea how to take care of their families. And so when people emerge from this, you know, quarantine that's been imposed upon us, are they, are they given being given Any tools to make them healthier during that period of time, or is all they're being told to do just maintaining where their health is. And most people have deteriorating health. Unless you're doing things to actively improve your health, your health is deteriorating, you know, so this is important to recognize what, what tools were being provided or what tools were not being provided. And we've got to be our own best doctors, we've got to be our own health advocates more now than ever before. One thing that I'm actually doing is I'm taking a training course right now by Dr. Shiva, who's an MIT doctor and he invented email, but he's a systems based guy. So he actually looks at healthcare from a systems perspective. And that's how I look at healthcare. When people say I'm an expert in this problem, or in this problem liver disease or thyroid disease or autoimmune conditions, that in and of itself means that that person doesn't understand how systems biology works. Because nothing happens in isolation. You can't heal your liver unless you're healing everything. Can't heal your thyroid unless you're healing everything. Been saying this for years. The same blood goes everywhere. So if your blood is healing, it should be healing every organ cell system in your body. If your blood is inflammatory and destructive, it's going to be destroying and dissolving and toxifying every organ in your body. Now some organs have different thresholds of what they can tolerate, but they all are being destroyed. The same blood goes everywhere. That's why when somebody says, oh, you're just a diabetic, no, that's impossible. When somebody's saying you have heart disease, it's impossible to just. So what? Everything else in their body is perfectly fine. Every organ system is perfectly squeaky clean, except every blood vessel in their body. So you can see how compartmentalization of healthcare, even in a natural setting, can be very, very confusing to the average consumer. The average consumer is then led to believe that these organs are compartmentalized and separate from the rest of their body. And that's not how healthcare works. So I think all of us can agree to that. I don't think there's any lack of agreement there in terms of this systems biology based approach. And in fact, a few months ago I had lunch with Jeffrey Bland and this is exactly what we talked about. We talked about how even natural integrative medicines, because they're becoming hyper specialized, are not using a systems biology approach. And so that segmentation is actually detrimental to the public's perception of how the healthcare system should actually work. And so the future of healthcare is the exact opposite. So instead of people being super specialized, they will be super generalized. So if Hannah were to come to me, the worst thing I could do for her is fix one part of her body. That's the worst thing I could do for her. The best thing I could do for her is teach her how to fix every part of her body simultaneously at the same time. To me, that type of health care, that type of awareness, is priceless. And it's also timeless because the things that you learn that make every part of your body healthy at the same time, every time. And if you could tap into that anytime you wanted to, and you had the tools and resources to tap into that anytime you wanted to, that's a priceless form of health care. Now imagine you could take that form of healthcare and you could teach it to your children. Now, the greatest advantage we can give our children is not money, because as you can see, money is fake, right? They could just keep printing more, throwing it into the system, just keep printing more and completely devalue the currency that you already have. And so that money can be very quickly become worthless. But health will always be priceless. So I feel there's going to be a huge surge of people. I used to call this the super bowl moment. I didn't know it was going to be a pandemic moment, but I always dreamed of a day where this type of health care would be sought after by people, where people would be seeking it out and it would be their top priority. And that moment has actually come. People want health. They want answers, they want leadership. They want to know how to take care of themselves. And I predicted many years ago that the healthcare system would actually implode on itself. So, not to say I told you so, but I've been saying this for a very long time because we've seen this coming. And the practitioners that I coach, you know, I've been telling them this for a long time, that this is going to come. I didn't know it was going to happen this year. Okay? So I don't think anyone knew what was going to happen this year on January or on December 31st. Nobody had this on their vision board. At least nobody on this call did. But we've got to make the most of it now. And this is our chance to send a message to ourselves, to our families, to our communities, what's actually important to us. And for my fellow healthcare practitioners, I see Carlos on here. What's up Brother, this is a chance to send a message to our patients that do you want whole body health, whole system health, or do you want isolated fragments of health? Because isolated fragments of health ultimately is not how the body works. Yes, Hannah says it's an illusion of health. Absolutely. So it's time for all these illusions in our lives to dissolve and for us to take full ownership. Now, here's what I'll here's the good part about all this, is that true health care is usually free, immediately accessible, and pretty much works for everybody. That's true healthcare. So true healthcare is usually free or pretty close to free, immediately accessible and works pretty much for everybody. So you want to install into your life specific principles that are going to help you move your health in the right direction. This is a good time for all of us to focus on our sleep, a good time to focus on our communication skills with each other, but also with ourselves. It's a good time to pay attention to our thoughts and our dialogue. It's a good time to pay attention to the food that we're eating. It's a good time for us to pay attention to our time in nature. And not just time in nature, but our true connection with nature. You know, I see so many people walking through the woods and that's great, you know, that's half the battle. But really being still in the woods, not walking through them, but having stillness in them, that's going to be what you should be seeking. So think about your mind, right? So people race through their minds and just like they race through the woods, it's when we can be still, that's when we can actually activate and conjure up the right side of our brain. So when you're going for a walk, walk up really close to a tree and stare at the bark, stare at the little ants and little creatures that are crawling on it, stare at the moss, like get up really close to it and these patterns and shapes will start actually unlocking and activating your right brain, which activates and unlocks your creativity. And so it's pretty cool what happens when you're able to do that. You'll get answers to questions that you've been ruminating on for sometimes weeks or months or even years will come to you because now you're in a relaxed, parasympathetic, right brain activated state of mind. The greatest thinkers of our time and the greatest thinkers in the past would always spend significant amounts of time in nature in order for them to unlock their creativity. I don't think they knew what I just told you, but I think they intuitively knew that that was the right thing to do. See, here's the thing. You don't have to understand how and why things work. I don't understand how a calculator works. I don't understand how my computer even works. But that doesn't mean that I can't use it. That means it doesn't mean I can't do something beautiful with it. That doesn't mean that I can't leverage its sophistication to make my life easy, to use it to do things that are meaningful for me. So health is the same way. You don't have to know how anything works in order for you to be able to apply it. The application is where the result comes from, not from the knowledge. So many of us have been fooled with this idea. It used to be such that in order for you to know what I know, you would have had to gone to school for a long time. So I see Valencia on here, I see Carlos on here, I see a few other healthcare practitioners, I see Jen on here, and I think most of us, and I see Dr. Heather. I think most of us would wholeheartedly agree that there's so much that we know, but there's so little of what we know that we actually apply. And the things that we didn't learn in school are the things that we can, I can say with certainty, are the things that actually get results for our patients. I know there's times where I need to have my background and my training and my designations and those type of things, but 95% of the time, it's the things that I didn't learn in school that I'm actually applying that's helping me get the results for my clients. Because again, real health, true health, is free, accessible, and works on everybody. You don't have to know why or how things work. We learn how and why things work. I don't have to know a 12 hour dissertation on sleep to go to sleep at 9 o' clock and have that strategy work for me. It works for me whether I know how it works or not. And it works every single time, every single day. So it used to be that to know this information and to know how and why things work, you had to go to school for a pretty long period of time. And that information was not available to people because we didn't have the Internet. We didn't have, you know, all the things that we have right now that make information accessible to us. Information used to be very Very valuable. Now, information has basically zero access point. It's at. Basically, there's zero access point. To get to information, you can just type in any question you want into your phone and get the answer. And if you spend at least an hour researching something, you can know a lot about a particular topic. Especially if you find the right resource, a trusted resource, to educate you, you can know more than your practitioner even knows because they might be focused on something else. Their interest might be something different. So information has been decentralized and democratized. It's available to everybody. So you're going to see in this new era coming up that because we can access all of the world's information at our fingertips, the value isn't going to be there. The value is going to be in the application of what the information is. So if I spend an hour giving somebody advice, and let's say I charge them, you know, $500 for that advice, they can make that same advice worth $0, or they can make that same advice priceless. The way they make it worth $0 is they don't apply it. The real value starts when the customer gets off the call or when the customer leaves the office, not when they're in the office. If I tell them to go to bed at 10 o', clock, there's no value in that unless they go to bed at 10 o'. Clock. But if they go to bed at 10 o' clock, and they do that as many nights as possible for the rest of their life, now that information became priceless. It just keeps paying over and over and over again. That's the power of working with somebody who advises you on what to do. It's a skill that gets better over time versus pills that run out over time. Skills only get stronger and better established over a period of time. So this is why we teach these things to our clients. I'd love to see if anyone. I'm just kind of on my soapbox here, but I'd love to see what kind of feedback you guys have about this, what questions you have for us. We're happy to share. And, you know, I know all of you are kind of tuned in. I'd love to hear what comments you have. And if anyone get wants to jump on board, then I'm happy to give you the floor as well. Is there anything you want to add?

No, I think you pretty much summed it up.

Let's see. Charmaine saying, in our home, we're loving this opportunity to homeschool our kids and teach them life skills that they do not learn in school. Yeah. This is a great time for all of us to learn how to garden. Right. This would be a great time for us to learn how to plant things and to watch them grow. You know, one of the things that very important for our brain is watching things grow, and that increases our dopamine levels. It increases our reward centers and promotes healthy reward center function in our brain, because we're actually watching something grow on a daily basis, and then we're harvesting it towards the end. So it's this risk versus reward loop that we keep filling. What I've typically found is one of the things that a lot of people struggle with is rewarding themselves. So I feel like a lot of people do work, they put themselves out there, and they do things and they accomplish goals, but then they don't reward themselves. Or when they do reward themselves, they sabotage themselves. So you might have somebody who follows their dietary guidelines for a week, and then they go and sabotage themselves by eating something that they shouldn't be eating. Now, the reason people will use food as a source of pleasure is because fatty foods, particularly sugary foods and rich foods, stimulate our body's reward center. And it gets our brain to produce a little bit more dopamine, or in some people, a lot more dopamine. Some people genetically need to experience more pleasure or experience more pleasure with the same stimulus based on their unique genetic makeup. So some people are more prone to addiction than others, and the reason for that has to do with their unique chemistry. But what I've learned over the years is many people don't reward themselves properly. They reward themselves with sabotaging behaviors. And so instead, one of the things that you can do is, as you're accomplishing goals, let's say you clean your closet out, have a mini goal for yourself. Okay? Buy yourself something small, but something nice, something that you'll use over the years. So buy yourself a kitchen tool that you might use on a daily basis, or buy yourself a camera that you might use to do your Facebook lives or to help you promote your business. I like to purchase or I like to invest in things that are anchors. And every little thing on my desk or artwork around my home is a little trophy for me accomplishing specific goals that I set out for myself. So I get to be constantly reminded of accomplishing that goal, and it fulfills those reward centers. You want to do things to reward yourself on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Don't just have one reward at the end of the year or at the end of a major task, have many rewards built in to and so that you're winning, you feel like you're winning constantly. You don't feel like you're winning at the end of six months or at the end of the year, you feel like you're winning the entire time. So, you know, reward centers are very important. And you know, this is where dopamine really comes in. So the way you make dopamine is by making sure you get enough tyrosine in your diet, which is an amino acid, as well as vitamin B6, iron. Those are the three main elements that you need. The best way to increase dopamine. There's a couple ways to increase dopamine. The easiest way is to get outside in the morning. So even if you just go outside, even if it's a cloudy day and just spend five minutes, I actually don't even care if you check your email while you're outside, because your brain is going to be flooded with so much light, even checking your email, even if you do that, you're probably not going to do it very long because you're going to just naturally relax and you're naturally going to kind of succumb to the beautiful surroundings. But getting outside and exposing your brain, your eyes to bright light like that, even if it's cloudy, it's still enough of a stimulus, will increase your dopamine levels. Another way to increase dopamine levels is to take a cold shower. I know it doesn't sound very exciting right now. One of the things that I'll do, I did it this morning, is I'll take a shower. Like I'll take a sauna, I'll do a hot sauna. And then the cold shower actually feels very invigorating. But if you kind of wake up cold, taking a cold shower doesn't sound very exciting. But that's one way. Another way to increase your dopamine, even if you just do it for 30 seconds, you feel so good afterwards and you feel such a sense of accomplishment. Again, that's that dopamine pathway. You get such a sense of accomplishment because you realize shortly after doing it that you didn't die, number one, and number two, that you're probably less than 0.001% of people that took this action in the morning. So you're already winning, you're already physiologically winning, and you're ahead of the curve and you're ready to have a pretty amazing day. So dopamine is very dependent on light stimulation. And then again, the Cold stimulation can be quite powerful. Now, bonus points, if you take a cold shower outside and hose yourself down, those are like mega bonus points. That's probably the most insane way to raise your dopamine, but I'm sure that would work as well. In case you're wondering, being outside also helps you regulate your sleep cycle. So a good day, a good night's sleep doesn't start in the evening. It actually starts in the morning. And by exposing yourself to light, our brain kind of gets a sense of what time of day it is. It enables it to set your biological clock in the evening. As much as possible. You want to turn off all overhead lighting, because in nature, lighting would not be coming from straight above us. It would be coming from us at face level if there's a fire, or slightly below us if we're sitting by a campfire. So our brain determines how shadows are cast and the frequency of light in order to determine what time of day it is. So I wear blue blockers in the evening, we turn off as much as we can, all the overhead lighting, and we have up lighting coming instead. So up lighting would be coming from lamps that are set on the ground. So we have a salt lamp that you can set up. We have a lamp. We have this argonite lamp in our TV room, and we'll turn that one on, which has a nice yellow glow to it. So, you know, use warmer temperatures in the evening, and then cover up your skin as much as you can, because your skin is also a photoreceptor. So we don't just perceive light information with our eyes, we perceive it with our skin. So our skin is also an organ that perceives light, and this has been very well documented in the literature. So cover up your whole body if you can, and protect it from artificial light exposure. So if you're wearing blue blockers, but then you're wearing a tank top and shorts, and you're exposing yourself to all this light, you're not doing your. You're still doing yourself a disservice. Artificial lighting decreases melatonin by 40%. Natural lighting, like candlelights and fires and moonlight, only decrease it by about 2 to 5%. So there's a significantly less reduction in melatonin production if we're exposed to artificial light versus natural light like fire or moonlight. So just something for you to keep in mind. Now's a good time to light a fire. It's almost the start. Well, it's the start of spring already, but it's cold enough that you could light a fire in the evening if you wanted to. And now is a good time for those stories that you had to read about.