January 21, 2024 • 12 mins
Ready to unlock the true potential of your health and happiness? Our latest episode is a call to break away from the confines of societal expectations and authority-imposed beliefs, paving your own path to health & authentic success. With a focus on the transformative power of self-determination, we delve into the art of independent thinking—because following the herd doesn't always lead to fulfillment. Our dynamic discussion explores the undeniable link between emotional well-being and physical health, highlighting scientific evidence that proves the profound impact of living a life fueled by personal passions and purpose.
In this empowering dialogue, we address the challenge of sifting through the deluge of information and expert opinions to establish your own truths. Trusting your intuition and experiences can be the ultimate guide to authenticity, even in the face of overwhelming research. We unravel the importance of evaluating information critically and share insights on how your unique perspective can contribute to a richer, more satisfying life. Join us for a thought-provoking session that promises to revolutionize your approach to decision-making and well-being.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello and welcome to the next episode in the innate
ability and health podcast, veryexcited to share some
information with you.
Today we're going to get rightdown into taking a look at how
to break free from things thatmay be holding you back in your
life, in your health, in yourhappiness, and we're going to
(00:24):
start with a very simple stepthat I think will make a lot of
sense to most people.
So I want to start with a quote.
This is from Mark Twain and hesaid Whenever you find yourself
on the side of the majority, itis time to pause and reflect.
So that's a really powerfulstatement and that has been
(00:45):
restated over the years.
I picked that quote becausemost of us know who Mark Twain
is, but it's been restated sinceancient Greek philosophers
stated similar concepts and allthe way up until your modern day
, entrepreneurs who talk abouttaking life by the horns and
(01:08):
doing things your own way, etc.
So this concept may not be newto you, but I want to really
help you dig in and find out howyou can use that concept to
look at your life and look atthe things that you're maybe
thinking with and change them.
And I'm not telling you what tothink I'm just telling you that
(01:29):
you need to think for yourselfin order to get to the optimal
state of health and happinessand success.
And behind that, that thinkingneeds to be self-determined, it
needs to be on your own terms,not so much because we want
everybody to be self-determined,because it makes people happy
or whatever, but you will notactually get the results you
(01:53):
want in life regarding yourhealth and your happiness and
your success if you're notself-determined about what
you're thinking.
And sometimes it's insidious.
There's so much media put outthere and authorities say this
and everybody seems to agreethat you just find yourself
naturally thinking these things.
It's kind of like a covertbrainwashing activity, almost
(02:13):
right.
So we want to make sure you'renot falling into that trap.
So let's take a look at how mostpeople accept information.
This isn't to say that you're100% guilty of this, but all of
us, I think, fall into this trapa bit to some degree.
So the first way that mostpeople accept information is
because of authority.
(02:34):
Somebody with a lot of letters,maybe like a PhD or an MD after
their name, says this is theway it is, and even if you don't
understand everything you'resaying, you think that oh, it
must be that way because that'swhat that person does for a
living, and it stops you fromtaking a look and seeing if that
(02:54):
is really the way it is for you.
Right, because you are the bestjudgment of how things are for
you, period.
In the other way that peopleaccept information Commonly is
group agreement, and this isn'tto say we agree with some unruly
mob.
I'm just saying the acceptablethings we find in life.
You know, everybody shouldFollow a certain path in life in
(03:17):
order to be happy.
Maybe that's not the paththat's gonna make you happy.
Everybody should eat to theirveggies and fruit and Grains and
whatnot in order to be healthy.
Right, that may not be whatmakes you healthy.
Everybody is different,everybody's unique.
But if you have these things inplace, where you're using
(03:38):
authority and you're usingwhat's agreed upon to live your
life, then it's likely you'remissing out on some things.
You haven't found the bestoptions for yourself, and
sometimes it's really hard.
So let's, let's be real.
You know we have to survive inthis economic situation we find
us ourselves in, where we haveto work, make a certain amount
(03:59):
of money and, unless you happento be in a position when you're
making more than you need, oryou're independently wealthy, or
that that that requires a lotof energy to keep up with just
that the day to day.
So you may not have a lot oftime to sit down and Re-evaluate
what's going on in the world.
You may have to just go withthings, and that's fine.
You want to carve out some timeas you go along and start
(04:22):
looking at things on your ownand and allow yourself to become
aware of some of thepossibilities that maybe the
what you've been told abouthealth or Accomplishment or
happiness or the way things work, isn't exactly the way things
work, right.
So let's take a take a look atthis a little more, okay, so to
(04:45):
help make this sink in,sometimes we get into a position
where we're going for some sortof Situation with our health
and we're not sure why it keepscoming up.
Maybe we have gastrointestinaltrouble, or we constantly have
some sort of pain going on andwe take drugs for it, we take
(05:05):
supplements for it, we changeour style of living for it, we
exercise more, whatever we do,but we miss the entire thing of.
People tend to have moretrouble with our health when
they're not happy, and this is asimplicity that people is.
Well, everybody knows that.
Well, if everybody knows that,why don't everybody just change
(05:26):
their emotional state and Stophaving as much trouble with
their health?
Well, because there's notechnology exactly to do that.
Well, how do I do you just behappier?
Well, that doesn't reallyanswer the question, right, but
what is something that answersthe question?
Well, if you're doing what youwant to be doing in life, you're
following a purpose that youwant to be following and you're
engaging on a day-to-day basisin actions that forward what you
(05:49):
want to be doing in life andyou're enjoying it, it's a
pretty good chance that you'regoing to feel happier, your
emotional state is going to behappier.
And it's been found through manyscientific studies now that
when a person has a State ofhappiness, meaning they're
interested in life, maybethey're cheerful, enthusiastic,
(06:10):
maybe they have a strong desireto engage with what they're
doing on a day-to-day basis.
They're hormones balance.
Studies about this have goneback to the 1950s, right, and
when your hormones are balanced,your state of health Tends to
be pretty optimal.
Right, hormones run what goeson with your body.
So that's just on the physicallevel.
(06:32):
And then on the interaction andrelationship level, when you're
happy and you're Feeling goodabout yourself, you're more
likely to be outgoing and engagewith the people around you,
whether that's your immediatefamily, your spouse or your
friends, right, or yourco-worker, and that makes life
better too.
So it is really as simplesometimes as sitting down and
(06:52):
going, okay, well, am I doingthings that align with what I
want to be doing in life?
And then, okay, sometimes it'snot a perfect world.
We do have to make compromises.
While I need this much money,so I have to work at this job.
It's not really my optimal job.
Okay, how can we increase whatyou're doing in life so that it
(07:12):
does align with what you want tobe doing?
Maybe we can take a little timeon each weekend and you
dedicate that towards doingwhatever that project is.
You know, maybe it's becoming arunner You've wanted to do that
, or it's learning how to paint,or it's helping the community
(07:32):
improve the community.
Right, everybody has differentpurposes.
But you can get on this kind ofhamster wheel situation where
you're just running and runningand running and you're following
the conventional mold of youknow, if I have a family and I,
you know, follow the job exactlyand I treat people well, then
everything will be great and Iwill be happy.
(07:54):
And what next thing?
You find out that doesn'tnecessarily happen, right, you
don't have enough time to dowhat you want to do with your
family, and the boss at the jobmakes the job miserable and
whatever else may be occurring.
And next thing you know, you'rein a poor state of health and a
poor state of mind.
It's all because you haven'taligned things, and people
struggle with health andhappiness because they simply
(08:15):
haven't aligned their life.
And that is such a simplicity,but it is so true and so
powerful.
So again, if you're in thissituation where you're thinking,
well, everybody knows this, orProfessor Snodgrass said blah,
blah, blah, and therefore itmust be true, and yet you find
yourself not being as happy asyou could be or as healthy or
(08:38):
successful, then step back andgo.
Okay, that's maybe not trueLook for other answers but the
first step is you've got torealize that there's a
possibility that being inagreement with everybody, even
if they're people who are quoteunquote healthy and they look
really good on YouTube orInstagram or wherever you're
watching them, that's really nota good way of evaluating things
(08:59):
.
You have to evaluate it foryourself.
What is true for you, right?
So imagine yourself in a statewhere you're doing really well
and everything's optimal right,and then walk yourself back from
that.
That is a really simple way ofdoing this right.
And as you walk yourself backfrom, okay, here's my optimal
situation, health wise, familywise, career wise, whatever else
(09:22):
wise you want to put in there,even write that down.
Use that as your stable guideto taking a look at and
evaluating things.
Is this thing that's acceptedto be true about how you're
supposed to treat others workingfor me?
No, okay, good, then thatdoesn't become a part of the
(09:43):
thing that supports your idealsituation in life, where you
want to be and how you want tobe right.
It really does come down tosimply taking a look at what it
is you want in life, what areyour purposes and what is your
ideal setup, and then evaluatingeverything else against that,
(10:04):
not against what is majorityaccepted or what the authorities
say.
Get the difference there, andthis is very important.
So if you were to go, here arethe things I want to do in life,
here's the ideal way I want mylife to be operating on a
day-to-day basis, and here'ssomething long-term, and then
you use those things to evaluatewhether exercising was going to
(10:28):
work for you, right?
And you use those things toevaluate whether you wanted to
prioritize more time at work orwith the family.
Not because you read somethingin Cosmopolitan that says a
professor studied many peopleand found that if you do
blah-de-blah then you will mostlikely feel better about
yourself, right?
(10:48):
No, okay, that doesn't work.
Make your own evaluationsYou're an intelligent person and
evaluate it against your ownpurposes and your own state that
you want to be in your idealstate that you want to be in,
right?
Don't evaluate it againstauthorities or what everybody
else seems to say.
Hopefully this makes sense, butit's really important.
(11:09):
The first step, really andgetting to that state that you
want to be in whether it'soptimal health, happiness,
success it should be acombination of all of them is to
sit back and reflect on what itis that you're using to run
your life.
Are you just doing things basedon what authorities say and
(11:29):
what the majority says, or areyou actually looking for
yourself, coming to your ownconclusions and using other
people's information as support,but throwing it out if it
doesn't align with what you areevaluating and looking at?
Right, and that's where thejourney to true health and
success begins.
It's not with a step of readinganother book that somebody else
(11:51):
wrote and figured out somethingabout.
Right, it's not to say you maynot get amazing things out of
there, but they will not becomevaluable to you unless you
evaluate them for yourselves.
So the way you want to come to aconclusion on a piece of
information is to read it andthen see if it's true for you by
looking at it yourself andseeing if you can apply it in
your life.
(12:11):
And only if it's true for youand you evaluate it to be true,
is it then true?
It doesn't matter how manyscientific quote unquote studies
can be done.
You know not to put a negativespin on anything, but a lot of
these studies are financed bypeople who want a certain
outcome, and unfortunately, theyget that outcome and then it's
promulgated through differentmagazines, the internet et
(12:33):
cetera.
Right?
So you have to learn to thinkfor yourself, and that's the
first step towards health andhappiness.
If you have any questions, Iwould love to hear back from you
, and again, if you have anywins or gains, I'd love to hear
about them as well.
Thank you and have a great day.
Hello and welcome to the next episode in the innate
ability and health podcast, veryexcited to share some
information with you.
Today we're going to get rightdown into taking a look at how
to break free from things thatmay be holding you back in your
life, in your health, in yourhappiness, and we're going to
(00:24):
start with a very simple stepthat I think will make a lot of
sense to most people.
So I want to start with a quote.
This is from Mark Twain and hesaid Whenever you find yourself
on the side of the majority, itis time to pause and reflect.
So that's a really powerfulstatement and that has been
(00:45):
restated over the years.
I picked that quote becausemost of us know who Mark Twain
is, but it's been restated sinceancient Greek philosophers
stated similar concepts and allthe way up until your modern day
, entrepreneurs who talk abouttaking life by the horns and
(01:08):
doing things your own way, etc.
So this concept may not be newto you, but I want to really
help you dig in and find out howyou can use that concept to
look at your life and look atthe things that you're maybe
thinking with and change them.
And I'm not telling you what tothink I'm just telling you that
(01:29):
you need to think for yourselfin order to get to the optimal
state of health and happinessand success.
And behind that, that thinkingneeds to be self-determined, it
needs to be on your own terms,not so much because we want
everybody to be self-determined,because it makes people happy
or whatever, but you will notactually get the results you
(01:53):
want in life regarding yourhealth and your happiness and
your success if you're notself-determined about what
you're thinking.
And sometimes it's insidious.
There's so much media put outthere and authorities say this
and everybody seems to agreethat you just find yourself
naturally thinking these things.
It's kind of like a covertbrainwashing activity, almost
(02:13):
right.
So we want to make sure you'renot falling into that trap.
So let's take a look at how mostpeople accept information.
This isn't to say that you're100% guilty of this, but all of
us, I think, fall into this trapa bit to some degree.
So the first way that mostpeople accept information is
because of authority.
(02:34):
Somebody with a lot of letters,maybe like a PhD or an MD after
their name, says this is theway it is, and even if you don't
understand everything you'resaying, you think that oh, it
must be that way because that'swhat that person does for a
living, and it stops you fromtaking a look and seeing if that
(02:54):
is really the way it is for you.
Right, because you are the bestjudgment of how things are for
you, period.
In the other way that peopleaccept information Commonly is
group agreement, and this isn'tto say we agree with some unruly
mob.
I'm just saying the acceptablethings we find in life.
You know, everybody shouldFollow a certain path in life in
(03:17):
order to be happy.
Maybe that's not the paththat's gonna make you happy.
Everybody should eat to theirveggies and fruit and Grains and
whatnot in order to be healthy.
Right, that may not be whatmakes you healthy.
Everybody is different,everybody's unique.
But if you have these things inplace, where you're using
(03:38):
authority and you're usingwhat's agreed upon to live your
life, then it's likely you'remissing out on some things.
You haven't found the bestoptions for yourself, and
sometimes it's really hard.
So let's, let's be real.
You know we have to survive inthis economic situation we find
us ourselves in, where we haveto work, make a certain amount
(03:59):
of money and, unless you happento be in a position when you're
making more than you need, oryou're independently wealthy, or
that that that requires a lotof energy to keep up with just
that the day to day.
So you may not have a lot oftime to sit down and Re-evaluate
what's going on in the world.
You may have to just go withthings, and that's fine.
You want to carve out some timeas you go along and start
(04:22):
looking at things on your ownand and allow yourself to become
aware of some of thepossibilities that maybe the
what you've been told abouthealth or Accomplishment or
happiness or the way things work, isn't exactly the way things
work, right.
So let's take a take a look atthis a little more, okay, so to
(04:45):
help make this sink in,sometimes we get into a position
where we're going for some sortof Situation with our health
and we're not sure why it keepscoming up.
Maybe we have gastrointestinaltrouble, or we constantly have
some sort of pain going on andwe take drugs for it, we take
(05:05):
supplements for it, we changeour style of living for it, we
exercise more, whatever we do,but we miss the entire thing of.
People tend to have moretrouble with our health when
they're not happy, and this is asimplicity that people is.
Well, everybody knows that.
Well, if everybody knows that,why don't everybody just change
(05:26):
their emotional state and Stophaving as much trouble with
their health?
Well, because there's notechnology exactly to do that.
Well, how do I do you just behappier?
Well, that doesn't reallyanswer the question, right, but
what is something that answersthe question?
Well, if you're doing what youwant to be doing in life, you're
following a purpose that youwant to be following and you're
engaging on a day-to-day basisin actions that forward what you
(05:49):
want to be doing in life andyou're enjoying it, it's a
pretty good chance that you'regoing to feel happier, your
emotional state is going to behappier.
And it's been found through manyscientific studies now that
when a person has a State ofhappiness, meaning they're
interested in life, maybethey're cheerful, enthusiastic,
(06:10):
maybe they have a strong desireto engage with what they're
doing on a day-to-day basis.
They're hormones balance.
Studies about this have goneback to the 1950s, right, and
when your hormones are balanced,your state of health Tends to
be pretty optimal.
Right, hormones run what goeson with your body.
So that's just on the physicallevel.
(06:32):
And then on the interaction andrelationship level, when you're
happy and you're Feeling goodabout yourself, you're more
likely to be outgoing and engagewith the people around you,
whether that's your immediatefamily, your spouse or your
friends, right, or yourco-worker, and that makes life
better too.
So it is really as simplesometimes as sitting down and
(06:52):
going, okay, well, am I doingthings that align with what I
want to be doing in life?
And then, okay, sometimes it'snot a perfect world.
We do have to make compromises.
While I need this much money,so I have to work at this job.
It's not really my optimal job.
Okay, how can we increase whatyou're doing in life so that it
(07:12):
does align with what you want tobe doing?
Maybe we can take a little timeon each weekend and you
dedicate that towards doingwhatever that project is.
You know, maybe it's becoming arunner You've wanted to do that
, or it's learning how to paint,or it's helping the community
(07:32):
improve the community.
Right, everybody has differentpurposes.
But you can get on this kind ofhamster wheel situation where
you're just running and runningand running and you're following
the conventional mold of youknow, if I have a family and I,
you know, follow the job exactlyand I treat people well, then
everything will be great and Iwill be happy.
(07:54):
And what next thing?
You find out that doesn'tnecessarily happen, right, you
don't have enough time to dowhat you want to do with your
family, and the boss at the jobmakes the job miserable and
whatever else may be occurring.
And next thing you know, you'rein a poor state of health and a
poor state of mind.
It's all because you haven'taligned things, and people
struggle with health andhappiness because they simply
(08:15):
haven't aligned their life.
And that is such a simplicity,but it is so true and so
powerful.
So again, if you're in thissituation where you're thinking,
well, everybody knows this, orProfessor Snodgrass said blah,
blah, blah, and therefore itmust be true, and yet you find
yourself not being as happy asyou could be or as healthy or
(08:38):
successful, then step back andgo.
Okay, that's maybe not trueLook for other answers but the
first step is you've got torealize that there's a
possibility that being inagreement with everybody, even
if they're people who are quoteunquote healthy and they look
really good on YouTube orInstagram or wherever you're
watching them, that's really nota good way of evaluating things
(08:59):
.
You have to evaluate it foryourself.
What is true for you, right?
So imagine yourself in a statewhere you're doing really well
and everything's optimal right,and then walk yourself back from
that.
That is a really simple way ofdoing this right.
And as you walk yourself backfrom, okay, here's my optimal
situation, health wise, familywise, career wise, whatever else
(09:22):
wise you want to put in there,even write that down.
Use that as your stable guideto taking a look at and
evaluating things.
Is this thing that's acceptedto be true about how you're
supposed to treat others workingfor me?
No, okay, good, then thatdoesn't become a part of the
(09:43):
thing that supports your idealsituation in life, where you
want to be and how you want tobe right.
It really does come down tosimply taking a look at what it
is you want in life, what areyour purposes and what is your
ideal setup, and then evaluatingeverything else against that,
(10:04):
not against what is majorityaccepted or what the authorities
say.
Get the difference there, andthis is very important.
So if you were to go, here arethe things I want to do in life,
here's the ideal way I want mylife to be operating on a
day-to-day basis, and here'ssomething long-term, and then
you use those things to evaluatewhether exercising was going to
(10:28):
work for you, right?
And you use those things toevaluate whether you wanted to
prioritize more time at work orwith the family.
Not because you read somethingin Cosmopolitan that says a
professor studied many peopleand found that if you do
blah-de-blah then you will mostlikely feel better about
yourself, right?
(10:48):
No, okay, that doesn't work.
Make your own evaluationsYou're an intelligent person and
evaluate it against your ownpurposes and your own state that
you want to be in your idealstate that you want to be in,
right?
Don't evaluate it againstauthorities or what everybody
else seems to say.
Hopefully this makes sense, butit's really important.
(11:09):
The first step, really andgetting to that state that you
want to be in whether it'soptimal health, happiness,
success it should be acombination of all of them is to
sit back and reflect on what itis that you're using to run
your life.
Are you just doing things basedon what authorities say and
(11:29):
what the majority says, or areyou actually looking for
yourself, coming to your ownconclusions and using other
people's information as support,but throwing it out if it
doesn't align with what you areevaluating and looking at?
Right, and that's where thejourney to true health and
success begins.
It's not with a step of readinganother book that somebody else
(11:51):
wrote and figured out somethingabout.
Right, it's not to say you maynot get amazing things out of
there, but they will not becomevaluable to you unless you
evaluate them for yourselves.
So the way you want to come to aconclusion on a piece of
information is to read it andthen see if it's true for you by
looking at it yourself andseeing if you can apply it in
your life.
(12:11):
And only if it's true for youand you evaluate it to be true,
is it then true?
It doesn't matter how manyscientific quote unquote studies
can be done.
You know not to put a negativespin on anything, but a lot of
these studies are financed bypeople who want a certain
outcome, and unfortunately, theyget that outcome and then it's
promulgated through differentmagazines, the internet et
(12:33):
cetera.
Right?
So you have to learn to thinkfor yourself, and that's the
first step towards health andhappiness.
If you have any questions, Iwould love to hear back from you
, and again, if you have anywins or gains, I'd love to hear
about them as well.
Thank you and have a great day.
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