May 7, 2025 • 23 mins
Something remarkable happens when we reconnect with the earth beneath our feet. As I navigate my cancer journey, I've been drawn back to the Gardens of Hope—our 2.5-acre botanical sanctuary in California—where the most profound healing often happens with dirt under my fingernails.
This episode shares the story of Todd, a Marine veteran whose body bears the scars of combat and countless injuries. After spending just days working in our gardens, he experienced what seemed impossible: "For the first time in 20 years, I'm not in pain." His transformation mirrors what I've discovered during my own healing—that therapeutic horticulture isn't just about pretty flowers, but about reconnecting with fundamental healing frequencies we've lost touch with in modern life.
When we walk barefoot on soil, touch plants directly, listen to water flowing, or simply breathe deeply outdoors, something shifts physiologically. Our bodies exchange electrons with the earth. Our attention diverts from suffering. The water within us—remember, we're mostly water—responds to these surroundings and even our thoughts, as Dr. Emoto's fascinating water crystal research suggests. These aren't mystical concepts; they're observations from someone witnessing unexpected healing firsthand.
The path toward health doesn't require abandoning your life as I temporarily did mine. It starts with just 15 minutes daily—a small commitment that often naturally expands as benefits appear. Begin by honestly assessing your current state across all pillars of health: sleep, nutrition, movement, stress, and connection. Envision where you want to be, then take one small step. Like pushing a boulder, the initial effort is hardest, but momentum builds with each push.
Whether you're facing serious health challenges or simply sensing there's a better version of yourself waiting to emerge, I invite you to join our growing community of people committed to intentional healing. Subscribe to dive deeper into these concepts, and consider what might change if you gave your health just 15 focused minutes today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello and welcome back to the Healthy
Living Podcast.
I'm your host, joe Grumbine,and today we're going to have a
special episode.
I've been spending a lot oftime publishing subscriber
episodes and you know my cancerjourney has been really taking a
(00:22):
lead in my life, so obviouslyit's a focal point and I don't
want to take away from that.
But this is not a podcastspecifically about my cancer
journey and before we get intothe topic of today, I do want to
acknowledge some people thathave been very supportive and
(00:52):
the people that have beensubscribing and getting deep
into the journaling of thisday-to-day experience
rollercoaster ride and miraclesand all the things that are
happening rollercoaster ride andand and miracles and all the
things that are happening.
You know, I just couldn't, Ican't express how impactful this
(01:12):
has been and yet, at the sametime, the podcast has continued
to grow.
We've had some incredibleguests, I'm booking some amazing
guests and I'm watching thelistenership increase.
I'm watching the subscribershipincrease.
I'm watching the quality of thecontent and the quality of the
(01:36):
guests improving and it's reallyexciting, as this has always
been my dream to build acommunity centered around
healthy living and it'shappening.
It's happening and some of youlisteners may want to get more
involved and you're going tohear more and more about the
Gardens of Hope.
(01:56):
That's the nonprofit that wehave a two and a half acre
botanic garden out here in Paris, california garden out here in
paris, california, and we openour doors for therapeutic
horticulture and all sorts ofhealing mind, body, spirit, and
I've been an integral part of itfor 30 years.
My wife and I built the placeover the last 30 years and in
(02:19):
the last two years thisnon-profit's really starting to
come to life and it's turninginto a wellness center on its
own right and it's developingorganically and beautifully and
effectively.
And I'm going to talk a littlebit about today, about this
therapeutic horticulture and thewhole idea of therapeutic
(02:45):
horticulture is just that beingoutside in nature, being in the
open air, getting sunlight onyour skin, breathing the air,
being around plants, beingaround the soil, the animals
that come just nature istherapeutic.
And this week we had a veteranMarine and his name is Todd
(03:11):
Colburn and he's becoming anactive part of this organization
.
He's actually building ourwebsite but, more important than
that, he's spent the betterpart of a week out here and this
guy is an incredible guy.
He's been through more dramaand trauma in his life than
(03:36):
probably any dozen people I knowhave.
He hasn't done the things I'vedone and I haven't done the
things that he's done, and wehave a deep mutual respect for
each other and I've alwayswanted to serve veterans in a
way that could bring themhealing and restoration, and
(03:57):
it's a simple idea.
I just think that you, you knowthese people have chosen a path
that is unlike many and have putthemselves at risk and in
harm's way and in many ways inharm's way that they didn't know
about or expect to serve andprotect, have turned on them in
(04:23):
many ways, and people don'tbelieve in what they were doing,
or the government is thegovernment and doing what it's
doing and done, and they getleft out in the cold, they get
left in a bad way in many, manycases, and every once in a while
, some hope comes through andsome answers and some solutions,
(04:49):
and I believe the gardens are abig part of this.
And so, while I've been dealingwith this cancer battle, this
journey, this, it's a journeymore than a battle.
It's a struggle for sure.
It's a journey more than abattle.
It's it's a struggle for sure,um, but I, I always find my way
back to the gardens and afterthis last week, which has been
(05:13):
probably the most difficult week, or last two weeks really been
the most difficult two weeks ofmy life A couple of days ago, or
yesterday in fact, I was ableto get back outside and got my
hands in the dirt and I got tospend some time with Todd and
this guy has got years ofinjuries.
This guy's broken more bonesthan Evel Knievel and is a
(05:39):
martial arts trainer and acombat fighter and just he's got
a beat-up body.
He's had numerous accidents andinjuries that are, just, you
know, guys in pain all the time.
And after four days of beinghere and a lot of it was just
(06:02):
walking around and he helped mework on the irrigation systems
and did some, you know, notphysically strenuous work, but
he set up an electroculturesystem, which is amazing and
we'll be talking more and moreabout that as we're getting into
healthy living and the quantumside of things and how things
(06:24):
work and and things that work.
But uh, he set up these copperpoles in the garden and and, uh,
connected them to crystals andit sounds funky and weird, but,
um, we're watching it work andit was wild because a couple of
(06:46):
days into it he was having someissues.
Because, you know, we got thisneighbor that has a cow and I
don't know.
Either the cow just had a calfor they don't feed it right, or
whatever.
It was moving all night and hewas having a rough night and we
figured out a way to get himsome peace, in spite of the cow,
(07:07):
and the next morning he wentoutside and was out there
working, did some, planting, didsome you know, just different,
different activities out here inthe garden.
And when I walked around withhim he says you know, joe, he
says I'm not in pain.
For the first time in 20 yearsI'm not in pain.
For the first time in 20 yearsI'm not in pain.
(07:27):
And it's wild because I havebeen in pain and discomfort
myself for the last severalmonths as a result of this giant
tumor sticking out of my neck.
And I thought to myself youknow, it's funny, i'm'm not
either and all I was doing waswalking around in the garden
(07:52):
acknowledging the sights and thesounds and marveling at the
bees flying around or listeningto the sounds of the birds,
hearing a hawk overhead,smelling a scent of a lemon tree
, listening to the watersplashing you know we got a
little stream out here andseeing the little fishes
(08:14):
swimming around in there, ormaybe watching the chickens
whatever it is picking avegetable and eating it, um it
it.
I think in some ways it justtakes your mind off of the
suffering.
You know, pain, as I'm learningabout it, is as much in your
(08:34):
head as it is in your body andwe spend time thinking about it
and dwelling on it and hurting,and I think it helps to cause it
to continue to hurt.
It's like a fire, you know.
You stare at it and give it alittle wood and it burns
(08:57):
brighter, but you look away fromit and you don't notice it so
much.
And even though it might beburning there, don't notice it
so much.
And even though it might beburning there, it's, it's not
burning you and I think that'spart of it.
I think part of it.
Actually, uh, touching theground, touching plants, putting
your feet on the ground,there's an actual electron
(09:21):
exchange that happens there andI believe there's a lot of
healing that happens from justconnecting with the earth
directly.
You know we're so disconnectedanymore.
We, we live in concretebuildings, we wear rubber shoes,
we have wi-fi signals allaround us.
(09:42):
We're in cars with rubber tires, we're not really connected to
the earth, hardly at all anymore, and I think that's a big
difference to how we were inyears past, you know, when we
had a simpler life, whenbuildings were not so tall and
cars were not so prevalent.
(10:02):
Even shoes were not such a bigthing, you know?
Um, I know I'm kind of ramblinga little bit, but hell, it's my
show, I can do what I want.
I just want to bring back theidea and the importance that
(10:24):
getting outside, spending sometime around water Remember,
we're mostly made of water.
You think about what wouldhappen if the water on this
place dried up and just go lookat the moon or Mars you know
there's no water.
Well, whatever the water that'sthere, we don't know where it's
at and there's nothing.
Everything's dust, dust androcks.
(10:47):
That's what this world iswithout water.
So we think about that and yougo.
Well, why aren't we spendingmore attention with water, more
time?
Do we drink bottled water outof plastic bottles?
We we pour hot coffee intoplastic line cups and drink it,
(11:07):
that we're consuming hugeamounts of toxins in this water
that we drink, and yet itdoesn't have to be that way and
we could take care and even justbeing around water.
I don't know if you know about Idon't remember the guy's first
name, but Emoto who discoveredthe effect of sound and words on
(11:35):
water and was able tophotograph the water crystals
and really demonstrate theeffect.
You know, it's pretty wild.
If you are to study his work,you'll see these images where
somebody would say I love youand they froze the water after
(11:56):
those words were said and thecrystals are beautiful and
perfect and the very same waterthey took and said I hate you
and other nasty things.
And they took and said I hateyou and other nasty things and
they froze that water and thecrystals were warped and twisted
.
And that was such a powerfulexperience to me that I have
(12:25):
taken time to bless a cup and I,when I think to do it and I
think to do it at least daily,many times a day sometimes,
especially as I'm working athealing myself and I say I love
you, I bless you, I thank you, Iheal you, and then I drink the
water and I I say to myself itcertainly couldn't hurt and it
(12:48):
probably helps.
And if you're following alongwith the real details about this
, you'll realize that truemiracles are happening right now
in this healing journey, and Ihave no doubt that the water
plays some role in it.
(13:10):
I know that healing is a verycomplicated concept and that's
why I'm sort of bringing thetopic of this podcast at least
my personal episodes back to it,because my goal isn't to tell
you how to heal yourself the wayI did.
(13:32):
My goal is to give you thought,to consider some actions.
The most important thing Ithink about healing is
identifying a problem.
What are you trying to solve?
What are you doing?
What's the issue at hand?
You know, get to know yourself.
Take some time, take account,start journaling yourself.
(13:56):
You know how do you feel,what's up, what's right, what's
wrong, what would you like?
What do you want to change?
Take stock of yourself.
You know how often do we dothat.
We whine and bitch and complainabout things all the time, and
maybe we have goals and we'reachievers, but how often do we
really take account of where weat do an audit?
(14:17):
Um, I think if you are able todo that, then you create a place
where you can heal yourself,because you can tell when you're
healing.
I think we don't pay attentionso much of what we do in our
life.
You know we live these livesand routines.
(14:38):
How's it going today?
Oh, same old, same old.
You know I went to work.
I woke up, got out of bed,dragged a comb across my head.
You know everybody's got theirroutine and to what end.
Right, you go to bed, you'retired, you're frustrated, maybe
(14:59):
you don't sleep good.
How many people sleep good?
I think that's one of the mostimportant things.
We talk about sleep.
We'll continue talking aboutsleep.
But really I think if we canassess ourselves and determine
what's good and what's not, thenwe can begin to chart a path.
(15:21):
And I can tell you from thiscancer journey and the layers
that are involved that areaccomplishing the healing that I
am seeing.
It is intricate and detailedand it has taken every ounce of
my awareness for the past sixmonths to be able to accomplish
(15:47):
what I've done.
And I've had to sacrifice mybusiness.
I've lost, basically, mycompany.
I had to move back home.
I don't have really much of anincome source right now.
As a result, I've had to let itgo.
I had to let go all the peoplethat were surrounding myself and
all the life of activism andall the things I've done.
(16:10):
I let go of most of that and inits place has come this
beautiful community that eachmember has offered some element
that I've been able to weaveinto my healing.
And that's not all, clearly,that's.
(16:32):
That's just a piece of it.
There's been a lot of hard workand research and studying and
effort and trial and error andall of those things, but that's
when my life was at stake and Ididn't have a choice, or my
choice wasn't a good one anyways.
I can only imagine what it'slike raising kids, running a
(16:54):
business, going to work, dealingwith whatever relationship,
chaos, sports, hobbies,addictions, you know it goes on
and on and on Right.
And how do you find any time tofind your health in that world?
To find your health in thatworld and I would propose this
(17:19):
If you can take 15 minutes a day, just 15 minutes a day, and
dedicate to your health and saymaybe 15 minutes turns into an
hour.
I mean, I'm one of these guysthat when I get into something,
15 minutes turns into threehours, just like that.
(17:40):
You know, pretend it's a videogame or whatever, or something
that you're totally into.
And if you could just startthat with 15 minutes and say,
I'm going to begin a journey tohealth and maybe establish a you
are here on the map and maybeestablish a destination when do
you want to be?
Maybe it has to do with yourweight, maybe it has to do with
(18:04):
your cholesterol, your A1C, yourwhatever, whatever the thing
that you are working on, yourstrength, your physique, your,
whatever, it doesn't matter.
It's your body, your desire,your dream, your health.
But if you could establish astarting point and a destination
(18:28):
and commit to giving yourself15 minutes a day.
Now, if you go back and look,I've done numerous podcast
episodes with a guy namedRichard McKeown and his
Biohack40 program and I went ona journey of doing a thousand
push-ups in a day and it startedwith one.
And it's the same principlewhere you can take one thing, so
(18:53):
start with one.
I'm going to take 15 minutes,one block of time, about five
minutes, if you need to Oneminute, start with one.
I'm going to take 15 minutes,one block of time, five minutes.
If you need to One minute,start with one, and tomorrow
give it two and add a littlesomething to it every day and
you will find that in no timeyou will have moved the needle
(19:13):
and you will have moved theneedle in a place that you'll
notice.
And when you notice the needlemoving, you'll be inspired to
move it more, and I can tell youthis with certainty.
I've done this in numerous waysin numerous facets in my life.
(19:36):
Looking back on things thathave worked in my life, and
every time I got the ball movingand I kept it moving.
And you know there's some lawof dynamics that say objects in
motion want to stay in motionand objects at rest want to stay
at rest, and I believe there'sdefinitely truth to that, and so
(19:59):
I think that's going to be thatthe focus of this episode is.
I I really want.
I feel that this podcast hasalways been purposeful and with
a goal of creating a community,and we've got 50, 60 guests that
(20:20):
have been on the show.
They're wide ranging, from alldifferent types of people and
all different types ofexpertises, but really through
it all, the central theme hasbeen to build a community around
healing and healthy living.
Build a community aroundhealing and healthy living, and
(20:42):
I've realized that thisexperience I'm going through has
given me a tool that's bringinginspiration to people, and I
have more and more peoplereaching out to me saying hey, I
listened to your podcast.
I feel inspired to do somethingand I said, wow, then let's use
it.
Feel inspired to do somethingand I said, wow, then let's use
it.
And I believe that that canhappen here, and there's so many
(21:03):
people that have similarsituations, and there's better
speakers than me and betterpodcasts or whatever.
It doesn't matter.
The point is, there's so manypeople that need so much help
that you can take thisexperience and you can take that
first step and make a decision.
(21:24):
I have literally stared death inthe eye and I had a decision to
make.
What was I going to do?
And I made a decision at thatmoment.
You're probably not in thatplace and you have all the power
to make all the decisions, soI'm going to hope that at least
(21:48):
somebody that's listening tothis decides today to say I'm
going to decide to make my lifebetter today and I'm going to
take the time.
I'm going to decide to givemyself 15 minutes a day, and
maybe more, to just dedicate tomy health, and I'm going to
start by evaluating where I am,what I like about myself, what I
(22:10):
don't.
I'm going to look at everything, lay it all out, all the
pillars of health, sleep anddiet and exercise and stress and
all the others.
I'm just going to say this iswhere I am and then I'm going to
look at where do I want to beand then I'm going to begin
crafting a strategy to get there.
So I'm super grateful toeverybody who has participated
(22:36):
and I'm just thankful for allthe supporters, all the
subscribers, all the listeners,all the guests, everybody behind
the scenes that's been helpingmake this happen, and I
encourage you to let's get outthere and live All right.
Thank you, we'll talk to younext time.
Well, hello and welcome back to the Healthy
Living Podcast.
I'm your host, joe Grumbine,and today we're going to have a
special episode.
I've been spending a lot oftime publishing subscriber
episodes and you know my cancerjourney has been really taking a
(00:22):
lead in my life, so obviouslyit's a focal point and I don't
want to take away from that.
But this is not a podcastspecifically about my cancer
journey and before we get intothe topic of today, I do want to
acknowledge some people thathave been very supportive and
(00:52):
the people that have beensubscribing and getting deep
into the journaling of thisday-to-day experience
rollercoaster ride and miraclesand all the things that are
happening rollercoaster ride andand and miracles and all the
things that are happening.
You know, I just couldn't, Ican't express how impactful this
(01:12):
has been and yet, at the sametime, the podcast has continued
to grow.
We've had some incredibleguests, I'm booking some amazing
guests and I'm watching thelistenership increase.
I'm watching the subscribershipincrease.
I'm watching the quality of thecontent and the quality of the
(01:36):
guests improving and it's reallyexciting, as this has always
been my dream to build acommunity centered around
healthy living and it'shappening.
It's happening and some of youlisteners may want to get more
involved and you're going tohear more and more about the
Gardens of Hope.
(01:56):
That's the nonprofit that wehave a two and a half acre
botanic garden out here in Paris, california garden out here in
paris, california, and we openour doors for therapeutic
horticulture and all sorts ofhealing mind, body, spirit, and
I've been an integral part of itfor 30 years.
My wife and I built the placeover the last 30 years and in
(02:19):
the last two years thisnon-profit's really starting to
come to life and it's turninginto a wellness center on its
own right and it's developingorganically and beautifully and
effectively.
And I'm going to talk a littlebit about today, about this
therapeutic horticulture and thewhole idea of therapeutic
(02:45):
horticulture is just that beingoutside in nature, being in the
open air, getting sunlight onyour skin, breathing the air,
being around plants, beingaround the soil, the animals
that come just nature istherapeutic.
And this week we had a veteranMarine and his name is Todd
(03:11):
Colburn and he's becoming anactive part of this organization
.
He's actually building ourwebsite but, more important than
that, he's spent the betterpart of a week out here and this
guy is an incredible guy.
He's been through more dramaand trauma in his life than
(03:36):
probably any dozen people I knowhave.
He hasn't done the things I'vedone and I haven't done the
things that he's done, and wehave a deep mutual respect for
each other and I've alwayswanted to serve veterans in a
way that could bring themhealing and restoration, and
(03:57):
it's a simple idea.
I just think that you, you knowthese people have chosen a path
that is unlike many and have putthemselves at risk and in
harm's way and in many ways inharm's way that they didn't know
about or expect to serve andprotect, have turned on them in
(04:23):
many ways, and people don'tbelieve in what they were doing,
or the government is thegovernment and doing what it's
doing and done, and they getleft out in the cold, they get
left in a bad way in many, manycases, and every once in a while
, some hope comes through andsome answers and some solutions,
(04:49):
and I believe the gardens are abig part of this.
And so, while I've been dealingwith this cancer battle, this
journey, this, it's a journeymore than a battle.
It's a struggle for sure.
It's a journey more than abattle.
It's it's a struggle for sure,um, but I, I always find my way
back to the gardens and afterthis last week, which has been
(05:13):
probably the most difficult week, or last two weeks really been
the most difficult two weeks ofmy life A couple of days ago, or
yesterday in fact, I was ableto get back outside and got my
hands in the dirt and I got tospend some time with Todd and
this guy has got years ofinjuries.
This guy's broken more bonesthan Evel Knievel and is a
(05:39):
martial arts trainer and acombat fighter and just he's got
a beat-up body.
He's had numerous accidents andinjuries that are, just, you
know, guys in pain all the time.
And after four days of beinghere and a lot of it was just
(06:02):
walking around and he helped mework on the irrigation systems
and did some, you know, notphysically strenuous work, but
he set up an electroculturesystem, which is amazing and
we'll be talking more and moreabout that as we're getting into
healthy living and the quantumside of things and how things
(06:24):
work and and things that work.
But uh, he set up these copperpoles in the garden and and, uh,
connected them to crystals andit sounds funky and weird, but,
um, we're watching it work andit was wild because a couple of
(06:46):
days into it he was having someissues.
Because, you know, we got thisneighbor that has a cow and I
don't know.
Either the cow just had a calfor they don't feed it right, or
whatever.
It was moving all night and hewas having a rough night and we
figured out a way to get himsome peace, in spite of the cow,
(07:07):
and the next morning he wentoutside and was out there
working, did some, planting, didsome you know, just different,
different activities out here inthe garden.
And when I walked around withhim he says you know, joe, he
says I'm not in pain.
For the first time in 20 yearsI'm not in pain.
For the first time in 20 yearsI'm not in pain.
(07:27):
And it's wild because I havebeen in pain and discomfort
myself for the last severalmonths as a result of this giant
tumor sticking out of my neck.
And I thought to myself youknow, it's funny, i'm'm not
either and all I was doing waswalking around in the garden
(07:52):
acknowledging the sights and thesounds and marveling at the
bees flying around or listeningto the sounds of the birds,
hearing a hawk overhead,smelling a scent of a lemon tree
, listening to the watersplashing you know we got a
little stream out here andseeing the little fishes
(08:14):
swimming around in there, ormaybe watching the chickens
whatever it is picking avegetable and eating it, um it
it.
I think in some ways it justtakes your mind off of the
suffering.
You know, pain, as I'm learningabout it, is as much in your
(08:34):
head as it is in your body andwe spend time thinking about it
and dwelling on it and hurting,and I think it helps to cause it
to continue to hurt.
It's like a fire, you know.
You stare at it and give it alittle wood and it burns
(08:57):
brighter, but you look away fromit and you don't notice it so
much.
And even though it might beburning there, don't notice it
so much.
And even though it might beburning there, it's, it's not
burning you and I think that'spart of it.
I think part of it.
Actually, uh, touching theground, touching plants, putting
your feet on the ground,there's an actual electron
(09:21):
exchange that happens there andI believe there's a lot of
healing that happens from justconnecting with the earth
directly.
You know we're so disconnectedanymore.
We, we live in concretebuildings, we wear rubber shoes,
we have wi-fi signals allaround us.
(09:42):
We're in cars with rubber tires, we're not really connected to
the earth, hardly at all anymore, and I think that's a big
difference to how we were inyears past, you know, when we
had a simpler life, whenbuildings were not so tall and
cars were not so prevalent.
(10:02):
Even shoes were not such a bigthing, you know?
Um, I know I'm kind of ramblinga little bit, but hell, it's my
show, I can do what I want.
I just want to bring back theidea and the importance that
(10:24):
getting outside, spending sometime around water Remember,
we're mostly made of water.
You think about what wouldhappen if the water on this
place dried up and just go lookat the moon or Mars you know
there's no water.
Well, whatever the water that'sthere, we don't know where it's
at and there's nothing.
Everything's dust, dust androcks.
(10:47):
That's what this world iswithout water.
So we think about that and yougo.
Well, why aren't we spendingmore attention with water, more
time?
Do we drink bottled water outof plastic bottles?
We we pour hot coffee intoplastic line cups and drink it,
(11:07):
that we're consuming hugeamounts of toxins in this water
that we drink, and yet itdoesn't have to be that way and
we could take care and even justbeing around water.
I don't know if you know about Idon't remember the guy's first
name, but Emoto who discoveredthe effect of sound and words on
(11:35):
water and was able tophotograph the water crystals
and really demonstrate theeffect.
You know, it's pretty wild.
If you are to study his work,you'll see these images where
somebody would say I love youand they froze the water after
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those words were said and thecrystals are beautiful and
perfect and the very same waterthey took and said I hate you
and other nasty things.
And they took and said I hateyou and other nasty things and
they froze that water and thecrystals were warped and twisted
.
And that was such a powerfulexperience to me that I have
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taken time to bless a cup and I,when I think to do it and I
think to do it at least daily,many times a day sometimes,
especially as I'm working athealing myself and I say I love
you, I bless you, I thank you, Iheal you, and then I drink the
water and I I say to myself itcertainly couldn't hurt and it
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probably helps.
And if you're following alongwith the real details about this
, you'll realize that truemiracles are happening right now
in this healing journey, and Ihave no doubt that the water
plays some role in it.
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I know that healing is a verycomplicated concept and that's
why I'm sort of bringing thetopic of this podcast at least
my personal episodes back to it,because my goal isn't to tell
you how to heal yourself the wayI did.
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My goal is to give you thought,to consider some actions.
The most important thing Ithink about healing is
identifying a problem.
What are you trying to solve?
What are you doing?
What's the issue at hand?
You know, get to know yourself.
Take some time, take account,start journaling yourself.
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You know how do you feel,what's up, what's right, what's
wrong, what would you like?
What do you want to change?
Take stock of yourself.
You know how often do we dothat.
We whine and bitch and complainabout things all the time, and
maybe we have goals and we'reachievers, but how often do we
really take account of where weat do an audit?
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Um, I think if you are able todo that, then you create a place
where you can heal yourself,because you can tell when you're
healing.
I think we don't pay attentionso much of what we do in our
life.
You know we live these livesand routines.
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How's it going today?
Oh, same old, same old.
You know I went to work.
I woke up, got out of bed,dragged a comb across my head.
You know everybody's got theirroutine and to what end.
Right, you go to bed, you'retired, you're frustrated, maybe
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you don't sleep good.
How many people sleep good?
I think that's one of the mostimportant things.
We talk about sleep.
We'll continue talking aboutsleep.
But really I think if we canassess ourselves and determine
what's good and what's not, thenwe can begin to chart a path.
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And I can tell you from thiscancer journey and the layers
that are involved that areaccomplishing the healing that I
am seeing.
It is intricate and detailedand it has taken every ounce of
my awareness for the past sixmonths to be able to accomplish
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what I've done.
And I've had to sacrifice mybusiness.
I've lost, basically, mycompany.
I had to move back home.
I don't have really much of anincome source right now.
As a result, I've had to let itgo.
I had to let go all the peoplethat were surrounding myself and
all the life of activism andall the things I've done.
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I let go of most of that and inits place has come this
beautiful community that eachmember has offered some element
that I've been able to weaveinto my healing.
And that's not all, clearly,that's.
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That's just a piece of it.
There's been a lot of hard workand research and studying and
effort and trial and error andall of those things, but that's
when my life was at stake and Ididn't have a choice, or my
choice wasn't a good one anyways.
I can only imagine what it'slike raising kids, running a
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business, going to work, dealingwith whatever relationship,
chaos, sports, hobbies,addictions, you know it goes on
and on and on Right.
And how do you find any time tofind your health in that world?
To find your health in thatworld and I would propose this
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If you can take 15 minutes a day, just 15 minutes a day, and
dedicate to your health and saymaybe 15 minutes turns into an
hour.
I mean, I'm one of these guysthat when I get into something,
15 minutes turns into threehours, just like that.
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You know, pretend it's a videogame or whatever, or something
that you're totally into.
And if you could just startthat with 15 minutes and say,
I'm going to begin a journey tohealth and maybe establish a you
are here on the map and maybeestablish a destination when do
you want to be?
Maybe it has to do with yourweight, maybe it has to do with
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your cholesterol, your A1C, yourwhatever, whatever the thing
that you are working on, yourstrength, your physique, your,
whatever, it doesn't matter.
It's your body, your desire,your dream, your health.
But if you could establish astarting point and a destination
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and commit to giving yourself15 minutes a day.
Now, if you go back and look,I've done numerous podcast
episodes with a guy namedRichard McKeown and his
Biohack40 program and I went ona journey of doing a thousand
push-ups in a day and it startedwith one.
And it's the same principlewhere you can take one thing, so
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start with one.
I'm going to take 15 minutes,one block of time, about five
minutes, if you need to Oneminute, start with one.
I'm going to take 15 minutes,one block of time, five minutes.
If you need to One minute,start with one, and tomorrow
give it two and add a littlesomething to it every day and
you will find that in no timeyou will have moved the needle
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and you will have moved theneedle in a place that you'll
notice.
And when you notice the needlemoving, you'll be inspired to
move it more, and I can tell youthis with certainty.
I've done this in numerous waysin numerous facets in my life.
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Looking back on things thathave worked in my life, and
every time I got the ball movingand I kept it moving.
And you know there's some lawof dynamics that say objects in
motion want to stay in motionand objects at rest want to stay
at rest, and I believe there'sdefinitely truth to that, and so
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I think that's going to be thatthe focus of this episode is.
I I really want.
I feel that this podcast hasalways been purposeful and with
a goal of creating a community,and we've got 50, 60 guests that
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have been on the show.
They're wide ranging, from alldifferent types of people and
all different types ofexpertises, but really through
it all, the central theme hasbeen to build a community around
healing and healthy living.
Build a community aroundhealing and healthy living, and
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I've realized that thisexperience I'm going through has
given me a tool that's bringinginspiration to people, and I
have more and more peoplereaching out to me saying hey, I
listened to your podcast.
I feel inspired to do somethingand I said, wow, then let's use
it.
Feel inspired to do somethingand I said, wow, then let's use
it.
And I believe that that canhappen here, and there's so many
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people that have similarsituations, and there's better
speakers than me and betterpodcasts or whatever.
It doesn't matter.
The point is, there's so manypeople that need so much help
that you can take thisexperience and you can take that
first step and make a decision.
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I have literally stared death inthe eye and I had a decision to
make.
What was I going to do?
And I made a decision at thatmoment.
You're probably not in thatplace and you have all the power
to make all the decisions, soI'm going to hope that at least
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somebody that's listening tothis decides today to say I'm
going to decide to make my lifebetter today and I'm going to
take the time.
I'm going to decide to givemyself 15 minutes a day, and
maybe more, to just dedicate tomy health, and I'm going to
start by evaluating where I am,what I like about myself, what I
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don't.
I'm going to look at everything, lay it all out, all the
pillars of health, sleep anddiet and exercise and stress and
all the others.
I'm just going to say this iswhere I am and then I'm going to
look at where do I want to beand then I'm going to begin
crafting a strategy to get there.
So I'm super grateful toeverybody who has participated
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and I'm just thankful for allthe supporters, all the
subscribers, all the listeners,all the guests, everybody behind
the scenes that's been helpingmake this happen, and I
encourage you to let's get outthere and live All right.
Thank you, we'll talk to younext time.
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