Sachin Patel (speaker) presents three simple, free methods to accelerate the body's healing by modeling how children behave when unwell: (1) fast (avoid eating while staying hydrated) so the body can focus on repair rather than digestion; (2) lean into sleep and improve sleep quality via daytime sunlight exposure and reduced evening artificial light; and (3) embrace silence/inner reflection, breathing, and meditation to tune into bodily signals. He frames illness as sympathetic-dominant/catabolic and emphasizes that the body is its best healer.
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Good morning and hello, my friends. It's Sachin. I trust that you are having an awesome, awesome day. In this quick video, I want to talk about the three absolute fastest ways for you to heal. And this is something that you can actually model after your children. So when your children don't feel well, you will notice that they automatically default into doing these three things. And next time they do this, I want you to pay attention instead of resist what they're doing, because they're so much more tuned into their body than we are. So these three things are simple, effective, yet free, which makes them hard to believe, and sometimes that stops us from actually doing them. And I'm curious if you're doing any of these three. You might be already without knowing it or without having the full awareness. So if you're not feeling well, chances are that your body is in a state of sympathetic dominance. And sympathetic dominance means your body is in a state of fight or flight. And it's in our fight or flight state that our body breaks things down. Okay? It breaks down fat into glucose or oftentimes glycogen into glucose. I should say. It breaks down muscle tissue when it needs to, breaks down cartilage and connective tissue. Just like when we're exercising, these are the things that start happening. So we go into what's called a catabolic state instead of an anabolic state. An anabolic state is when you grow, repair, regenerate, reproduce, and rejuvenate the. Those are the things that you are seeking. So let me teach you the three best ways to do that. So the first one is to fast. Okay, so stop eating. Every time you eat, your body has to shift focus from healing and repairing to digesting and assimilating and absorbing and then processing. So one way to heal faster is to stop eating. That's why your kids, when they don't feel well, they don't want to eat. That's why oftentimes you don't feel well, you lose your appetite. It's your body telling you to stop eating. And sometimes you'll even feel nauseous because your body doesn't does not want you to eat. It wants you not to eat. So stay hydrated, but maybe lay off the food for a little bit until you start feeling better. And a lot of times that will make a big difference. The next thing you often feel when you're not feeling well is tired because your body's telling you to sleep. So lean into sleep. Don't take stimulants. Try to fight it. Don't take medications to try to plug through the day. Listen to your body. An extra solid night's sleep is far more effective than taking a medication or a drug that makes you feel better. But then you're sicker longer, you're feeling unwell longer. Listen to your body and give yourself some time to lean in. One of the best ways to improve sleep is what I'm doing right now. And that's getting as much sun as you can, bare chested if possible, bare backed if possible. And today I'm actually wearing shorts, so freedom level 100 right now. So I want you to try to get deeper, better, more meaningful sleep. And that starts by getting sunlight midday in the morning and then winding down in the evening. And after the sun goes down, you minimize overhead and artificial light exposure. And the last thing that can be very helpful is silence. So for some of you, that might mean going inwards and reflecting and just getting quiet and listening to what your body's trying to tell you. Oftentimes it knows the answer, but we're not quiet enough to hear its whispers. And you also want to perhaps use this as an opportunity to focus on breathing and meditation. And this is what our children do. They don't want to talk to us, right? They want to stop talking. They want to stop eating. Okay. And they want to go to sleep. So when you're not feeling well, those are the three fastest, simplest, freest things that you can do to immediately start moving your health in the right direction. So hope you're having an awesome day. Hope you found this helpful. And if you did, please share it. I'm always here to help, Always here to serve by teaching you how to use your body as its most powerful tool. Nothing can fix your body better than it can fix itself. Just remember that one sentence will serve you for the rest of your life. Nothing can fix your body better than it can fix itself. And it's really our time to tune in and really tap into what our body's trying to tell us. And the three things that it's always trying to tell us when we don't feel well. Stop eating, sleep, stop talking, and reflect inwards. Anyways, I gotta run. Got a busy day. Lots of love to you. Hope you found this helpful. Please share and have an awesome day. Bye for now.
