Struggling to find true balance amidst the chaos of daily life? Wellness expert David Delrahim joins us to unlock the secrets of achieving holistic balance—not just physically, but emotionally, mentally, energetically, and spiritually. Discover how revisiting childhood belief systems can lead to emotional equilibrium and why inner balance is the bedrock for outer stability. David shares actionable insights on managing diet, desires, and reactive behaviors, and highlights love as the ultimate harmonizing force to navigate life’s disruptions.
From the producers of PBS's American Health Journal and Innovations in Medicine. Thank you for listening to Better Wellness.
Episode Transcript
You know, our busy lifestyles can make us feel
like our lives are out ofbalance.
Can changing your diet or justtaking a walk in nature the key
to getting peace back in yourlife?
Welcome to Better Wellness, apodcast that explores the newest
innovations in true wellness.
I'm your host, roland Perez, asthe executive producer of the
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American Health Journal for morethan 25 years and produced over
530-minute award-winninghealthcare television shows and
aired nationally on PBS with anaudience of over 100 million
viewers.
But better wellness is morethan that Not only keeping your
body healthy, but developing themindset and balance that
prevents illness.
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Our guests are experiencedexperts in the world of staying
healthy, young and well.
My guest is David Delrahim, awellness expert, noted visionary
in the field of wellness, andtoday he's going to share how we
can find that balance in ourlives to create harmony.
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Welcome, david, nice seeing youagain.
Please tell me a little bitabout balance in life.
I'm sure not standing on oneleg right.
David Delrahim (01:17):
Well, when we talk about the balance, we
immediately think about thephysical balance.
Can I stand on one leg, justlike the way we do it in yoga,
or can I stand on my head andstill maintain that posture for
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a few seconds minutes?
But the balance is really morethan that the balance in
emotions, the balance in mind,the balance in energetic, even
the balance in spirituality, andone thing that I have
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personally noticed in my yogapractices that I cannot really
stand on one leg and have aphysical balance if my emotions
is out of control or if my mindis just wobbling, it's just
going all over.
So, in order to get to thatphysical balance, even if we
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want to get there, we alreadyhave to get to a certain point
in balance with our emotions andwith our mind, and that is a
complete balance.
And, of course, there are somany things that are throwing us
out of balance, even our eatinghabits, the desires that we
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have.
You know that is why we haveobesity.
Granted, there are some ofthese things, you know what
could be genetic, but I'm justtalking about the consumption,
the place, our place of foodthat is out of balance.
Roland Perez (03:09):
Why they call it a balanced diet.
David Delrahim (03:12):
Exactly so.
Our eating is out of balance,our drinking is out of balance,
the way we think, the way we arereactive, our emotions,
everything is out of balance.
So, while we are trying tostand on our one foot, that is
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not really a totalrepresentation of balance, and
one of the reasons that wemeditate, we calm our mind, is
to create that inner balance.
So before we really practiceoutward balance, we need to
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start practicing inner balance.
Everything starts from inside,going out, not from outside
going in.
It's one way, because the otherway is just not sustainable.
We are the variable Outsidenature, nature, nature is fixed.
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What is between nature and usis a layer of chaos that is
throwing us off.
In order to withstand thatsheer size out of balance chaos,
we have to stabilize ourselves,and that stabilization comes
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from inside.
And if we are not, if we cannotwork on it, we will always be
wobbly.
Roland Perez (05:02):
I had a physical therapist once who I was
listening to the person next tome you know how physical therapy
places are, they're just bigrooms and I was watching this
person who had problems withbalance and she said to this man
she said you have to reach anatural zone, you have to find
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the balance.
You have to find that naturalarea in your standing where
you're going to the left, youaren't going to the right.
Your natural state is a naturalbalance and when you're young
you have that wonderful naturalbalance.
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Either by trauma or by age, youhave lost it.
By an inner ear.
You have lost that balance.
I'm looking at it on anemotional state.
What you were just is to keepthat balance, always keeping
that balance in your mind.
How do you do that?
David Delrahim (06:10):
Well, a lot of the out-of-balance elements come
from our belief system that isjust out of alignment with
nature, with the truth.
So we are causing our own painthrough certain belief system
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and we need to audit that.
What?
Maybe it worked for us at ageseven, when we were getting
programmed by our parents.
It needs to be revisited by age17.
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And then what is going to workat age 27?
And then what is going to workat age 27?
Probably you got to get rid ofsome of those belief systems
that we adopted back in age 17.
So we're always evolving.
That is what the growth is.
Roland Perez (07:17):
Evolution.
Otherwise we are thatseven-year-old kid in the body
of 47.
And those are some of theproblems that people who have
mental illness.
They never really let go of ahurt that had at 17.
They never evolved from thatemotion, from that emotion and
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it just when they now are 35,they're off balance because
they're still living in the pastof something that stops them
from having the calmness ofbalance.
Because there is a calmness inbalance when you know that
things are balanced at home andthings are coming, when you know
that things are balanced athome and things are coming.
As a young man I remembercoming home from the office and
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it was a good day at the officeand I came home and I could
smell food and it was all.
It was just a wonderful day.
David Delrahim (08:22):
And it was, and one of the reasons that it was,
it was just balanced.
So if I want to pick oneelement, just one, I don't have
a luxury of picking two or three, just one.
That truly can createharmonization and balance for
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the mankind, for the humankind,is love, Just one love.
You go home if you know love iswaiting for you.
You want to get there soonerthan later.
You have a hope that you gethome and you will be very well
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received with love.
You're going to immerseyourself.
You're going to forget aboutall the troubles that you had
all day with the field of chaos.
Roland Perez (09:20):
You get disconnected, Get home and then
everything balances Right withthe field of chaos.
You get disconnected, get homeand then everything balances.
David Delrahim (09:27):
Right.
When we go to nature, the treesand birds and oceans and the
creeks and the runnings and thebreeze that come through, what
do we feel?
We feel loved.
These are all love.
It's a frequency of love and weget harmonized through that
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channel.
We human can do that, but ittakes a certain consciousness to
understand that we are capableof opening that channel to each
other and to ourselves.
Roland Perez (10:13):
One thing I've noticed about you is that you
surround yourself.
When I came up the driveway theother day, I noticed a
waterfall.
And then I was at one of yourplaces and there's a waterfall.
And then across the street,there's another one of your sub
areas that you do and there's awaterfall.
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Alright, what's with thewaterfall?
What do you find in a waterfall?
And is it true that you havewaterfalls in a lot of different
places?
David Delrahim (10:46):
That is very true, but for many years I want
to say for the past 30 yearsthat I started developing I
always incorporated a waterfall.
First of all, water isconsciousness.
So having the water at thecorner or at the entrance, I
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want to introduce everyone tothe consciousness of the water.
The running water continues tochange the energy that is in
that space.
I'm putting it at the entry,hoping to cleanse the people's
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energy as they come in, hopingthat continues the energy, the
unwanted energy that is comingto the business or to the space,
to the business or to the space, making people think for a
second or two about nature,water connecting.
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Hopefully I can participate inrelaxing their brain and their
process of harmonization.
Roland Perez (12:12):
Again, thank you, david, for filling us in on
balance, balance of life andwhat nature can bring to us,
even with beautiful waterfalls.
I want to thank our audienceand I hope you found something
from the conversation today thatDavid shared with us that can
help you enhance and put somebalance back in your life.
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And remember the BetterWellness podcast is available
just about anywhere, includingSpotify, Amazon Music and
iHeartRadio.
So once again, thanks forsupporting Better Wellness.
I'm your host, roland Perez.
Thanks for listening.
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