November 24, 2022 • 52 mins
This week I’m joined by Keith Mitchell, a former professional football player in the NFL and now a meditation, yoga, and mindfulness teacher focused on sustainable living practices and whole body health.
After a spinal injury forced him to retire from his professional sports career, Keith was forced to reimagine his life. Since then, he has spent the last 20 years exploring the mind-body connection and bringing the tools of self-realization to people around him.
Today we’ll talk about the importance of sustainable and communal living practices in healing the body and the mind, the value of self observation and avoiding the victim state, and what strategies we can use to create the change we want to see in our lives. With the help of Keith Mitchell, we’ll discuss the healing power of being present, and what it means in our day to day lives.
After a spinal injury forced him to retire from his professional sports career, Keith was forced to reimagine his life. Since then, he has spent the last 20 years exploring the mind-body connection and bringing the tools of self-realization to people around him.
Today we’ll talk about the importance of sustainable and communal living practices in healing the body and the mind, the value of self observation and avoiding the victim state, and what strategies we can use to create the change we want to see in our lives. With the help of Keith Mitchell, we’ll discuss the healing power of being present, and what it means in our day to day lives.
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In our fast paced world, it'seasy to get swept up in the currents
that surround us. But we areauthors of our own life story, and
we are infinitely capable of creating thechange we want to see within us and
beyond. Welcome to Shaping Freedom,a show where we explore and share practical
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ways to cultivate extraordinary life experiences.I'm your host, Lisan Baskia. I'm
a teacher, an entrepreneur, anda life strategist. After a career as
a corporate executive, I embarked onmy own path of entrepreneurship to focus on
the human and spirit connection. Icome from generations of trailblazing entrepreneurs, artists,
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healers, and champions of human dignity. My life path number is five,
which represents a person who is afreedom seeker with the spirit of change
in adventure. This spirit runs throughoutthe Boskia family lineage. My big brother
je Michelle, is the most recognizablefreedom seeker in my family. This week,
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I'm joined by Keith Mitchell, aformer professional football player in the NFL
and now a meditation, yoga andmindfulness teacher focused on sustainable living practices and
whole body health. Today, we'lltalk about the importance of sustainable and communal
living practices in healing the body andthe mind, the value of self observation
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and avoiding the victim's state, andwhat strategies we can use to create the
change that we want to see inour lives. With the help of Keith
Mitchell, will discuss the healing powerof being present and what it means in
our day to day lives. Here'smy conversation with Keith Mitchell. It's a
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pleasure to meet you. I'm reallyexcited to have this conversation. Um.
I spent some time perusing your yourInstagram and uh, and looked up a
tiny bit about you. I typicallydon't like to look up a lot of
information about a person because I liketo, um, just kind of get
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to know who the person is andwhat's happening. Uh. So, um,
why don't we start with this?How are you doing? I'm well,
you know, I'm well, Ijust had a birthday pass and you
know, spend enjoying that piece.So I've been taking it easy. I
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was in Brazil, cancoon. Ilive in Mexico. So um, okay,
you know, it's just it's justalways this paradise here, and so
I'm I'm enjoying life. A coupleof companies I've started here and so just
enjoying it. Nice. Happy birthday. When was your birthday? It was
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the twenty fourth of July. Sonow it's been a couple of weeks,
but I guess I'm still celebrating becauseit's Leo's season. I know all about
the Leos. My daughter's a Leo, her my ex husband, her dad
is a Leo. My mom wasa Leo. I am around a ton
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of Leo's. And that particular weekthat you're talking about is also the week
where my daughter, ex husband,and mom all had their birthdays, the
twenty sixth, twenty eighth, andthe thirtieth, So that's a hot week
for me. So I know allabout the Leo's. I know it's Leo's
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season and all that good stuff.Happy birthday, sir, Well, thank
you so much, Thank you somuch. Yeah, you're welcome, You're
welcome. So you live in Mexico, yes, Carlin, Oh sweet,
I was in Mexico two weeks ago. It seems like a lifetime ago.
I was in Tuloom, Yeah,and it was amazing. I needed it.
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I had really just needed some timeaway, and so it was.
I was there for two weeks andI spent a week with some friends my
birthdays in September. And I'm avirgo, yes, and so I have
these two friends Amy and Nicole hiamyHin Nicole, who are also virgos,
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and so we have like this virgobubble, and I said I was going
away and we were planning to dosomething together, so they hung out with
We three hung out together for aweek and then I stayed for I think
five days by myself. But itwas incredibly healing, you know, really
beautiful, experienced really chill down thereand at a good time. It was
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nice. Yeah, it's it's beautifulhere. You know, it's different experiences
like living here too. You know, I get all remind yourself, I'm
not on vacation, you know.I kind of feel that way about San
Diego. I'm from the Northeast inBrooklyn, and uh yeah, Brooklyn born
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and raised. I always, youknow, pick up Brooklyn and I lived.
I've lived in New Jersey for liketwenty four years and moved here ten
years ago. So I've been bycoastal, but I feel that way about
San Diego. You know, it'slike always being on vacation. What took
you to Mexico? Tell me alittle bit I want to hear about you.
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Well, you know the piece.You know, we're going through covid
um and you know, I feelled my mission, and I guess this
is one of the reasons why Istarted, like one of my companies here,
a manufactory manufacturer, herbal herbal compounds, herbal medicines, and so I
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initially started in Honduras, and youknow, when I became vegan, met
doctor Savy and all that and startedlearning, it really began to be my
one of my missions that goes alongwith sustainable living. So the combination of
the medicine of nutrition and teaching thatto the sustainable living model, to communal
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living model is something that I'm reallyan advocate for and you know, I'm
initiating that, and so it landedme here in Mexico to start. And
then my goal is to go youknow, we're gonna build here, but
I'm gonna go further down south wherethere's better water connecting to the veins of
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the volcano. I don't know ifyou've ever heard of thermogenic water. I
have not so thermojeg. Water comesout of the ground nine point seven alkalinity.
Oh wow, okay, yeah,so the healing elements of water is
pretty phenomenal. And I learned thatfrom going to be and stay with doctor
Saby when he was alive. Ithink that there are so many healing properties
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that surround volcanoes because the energy aroundthem just seems so powerful. I spend
a lot of time in Hawaii,on the Big Island, and there's just
something about that energy that fortifies us. I agree. Yeah. So you're
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down in Mexico and one of thethings that I found really interesting and I
kind of perused, like I saidbefore, your Instagram, and I know
that you are. You founded theLighted Up Foundation. Is that the name
of it? Yes? Yeah,and I So there are a couple of
things that I found really interesting aboutyou. One is that you're a former
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football player turned person who is committedto from what I could tell you know,
mental emotional and physical health and lifeforce. I also see that you
seem to also really have a perspectiveon our narrative, and by our I
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mean just human narrative and how importantit is to create that narrative and understand
that we're all kind of contributing tothese pictures that people see and you know,
the way people's the way we identifyeach other and ourselves, and that
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piqued my interest very much. I'dlove to hear more about that well,
you know, the whole sequence howI see it, whether it be yoga,
meditations, all around growth and development. And due to the nature of
drama that we've experienced, it's kindof stunted our growth. Um, it's
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stunted our growth. And it's froma standpoint to be able to have conversations.
You know, two problems solve difficultconversations, you know, Um,
you know the reality of our bodiesand how our bodies correlate to our minds
and our ability to process information andthink and navigate through it. You know,
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uh, to to break free inour bodies. You know, the
stagnation, the the atrophy that goeson in our bodies. It's like,
you know, we're a culture ofpeople that have advanced so far and but
the initial, the present moment,we've we've escaped it. You know,
it's like we're not even in ourbodies when you go break down the concept
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of high blood pressure, sugar diabetes. It's the fact that you're in your
body, but your body is atrophy, you know. But then with the
first to talk about what we feel, you know, we have to decode
this. It's kind of like andit shows up really what I've realized from
studying like things like NP and neurallinguistic process and then programming. It's like
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we even have to decode our conversation, our messages. It's like, don't
you know what I mean? No, I don't know what you mean.
I hear what you say, right, you know. It's like we're kind
of condition in that sense. Soso the missing element and really the malnourishment
piece that I've kind of identified isour inability to inability to connect in the
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ways that we desire to and whatare the ways that you think people should
be connecting, Well, all thesefacets, I mean, I feel when
we look at the scheme of things, because I'm a big advocate of self
examination, you know, to observeyourself kind of like even when I picked
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up the from from film study whenit comes to sports, you know,
it's like the bias that we havewith ourselves through the experiences we tend to
be more biased for ourselves than thereality, so it takes us away from
reality. So I remember in sports, I was like, no, I
didn't commit the pilotee. No,I didn't do what they said. I
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was on the side. But thenwe go back to the tape, it
clearly shows something different and it relatesin the sense of our interactions. No
I handled that perfect. I was, I was nice, I was I
was forgiving, I was compassionate.And then you go back in the tape
be like, no, and maybeI wasn't so much. Something else is
happening there right right, yeah,And then what we find ourselves in the
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victim states, and it never allowsus to really get what I feel we
want, you know, out oflife, out of the ability that we
get to have these moments of togetherness, whether it be with the family members,
significant others, romantic relationships. Howeverthey line up the ability that we
have or the ideas inside that wewant to connect and show ourselves to the
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world. We contract and we buildfences because we have this idea that we
want to protect ourselves from the world, and then we begin to imprison ourselves
from our own selves. Absolutely,yeah, but we don't have to do
that. We don't have no,we don't yea, and it doesn't make
sense and it's not going to happenbecause we actually are all part of each
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other in the same way that everyliving being is on this planet. And
I think that, you know,things happen in our lives where we choose
sometimes to make a decision to moveaway versus move closer, right, or
to protect ourselves like you're saying,or to decide that people who wear red
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sneakers are people who are going tohurt me. So you know, every
time I see a person wearing ared sneaker, I'm going to run,
you know, in the opposite direction. You know, I'd be curious to
know do we even know this?Do we recognize they're saying, we use
and I don't really prefer cliches,but it's a concept of you don't know
what you don't know, And dueto the state of your conditioning and being
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in these ways so long around otherpeople so long, well we feel this
the norm. It's the only thingthat we've seen. So in some cases,
I feel maybe we don't know,we don't know what we're doing.
You're saying, yeah, I thinksometimes we're on autopilot. I feel when
you learn, when we look atand consider the way that we're learning,
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because we're all learned behavior, andwe take for granted the fact that communication
doesn't just happen from a verbal situationI think is verbal. However, the
bigger, greater version of the communicationand learning for us is the body language,
so the person's doing and so subconsciously, I feel we don't and haven't
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really considered how we've learned the variousbehaviors. And that's why this is why
I say, you know, it'sand again I'm using another cliche, and
I don't really like cliches, butbut this is I think it's really appropriate.
It's like, if you feel you'reenlightened, go live at home for
a couple of days, and let'ssee, right, be around your family
and see what happens exactly, becauseyou're going to have to deal with you
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they are you? Right? Right? Yeah? Right? What does it
mean to be enlightened? To you? I feel enlightened men comes and boils
down to really how much we canactually deal with the truth. I feel
it's about tangibilities. I feel ifif we have concepts that don't have an
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application to the here and now onthis plane, Well, then how do
they serve the purpose? You know? If I'm living for another life,
another place, you know, well, then I can't complain about this moment
here and then when it's time togo, which I've you know, I
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always say fortunate and unfortunately. We'vegotten a chance to work with a lot
of people from the health perspective thatsome have progressed and made it and some
have it. And what I findis consistently, when it's time to go,
no one wants to go. Andso if it's our true conviction that
we're living for another time, anotherplace, well then why is no one
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ready to go when it's time?So that gives me the intel and the
data that we want to be here. We just don't know how to be
here with joy and with pleasure.We don't know how to be here at
peace. Well abundance, you know, you know, it's we're abundant,
like you know. One of thereasons why I do retreats in the Honduras
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is uh At Sabi's place, whichhe opened it up in the eighties.
I'm not I'm not sure if you'refamiliar with us village. I'm not so
I want to hear about it.It's a healing center in La Sable,
Honduras, and in what I findof being in like places like Mexico,
but in particular Honduras. As I'mmentioning that, um, you know,
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mangoes grow in the summer, uhsourur side, Bananas, avocados grow around
the property. So if you everget hungry, just go pick it off
the tree. We're in the spaceof abundance, but we just can't see.
We don't have an awareness of ofall the things that we can attain.
And you know that it's like it'sso simple, but it's we've made
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it so complex with ideas and beliefsthat have no really reference of my life
progressing from A to B to Cto D and so forth. And so
through the practices as I teach yourmeditation contemplation, asking yourself the question and
answering it, you know, askyourself the real question and answering it as
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authentic and as truthful as you canto yourself, and sitting into silence and
see how and if you actually sharedyourself the truth. You know, It's
like, that's what I'm contemplating.That's what I'm focusing on, because the
biggest thing is we try to deceiveourselves and we've done that, We've shown
that throughout the whole experience. Yeah. Yeah, I think enlightenment for me
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is about how much how far you'rewilling to shed a light on yourself,
like how much of yourself you're lightingup, and how willing you are to
see what's really happening, not justwhat you wish would happen, or not
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just how you think it should happen, but what's really really happening, so
that you can understand and of coursecorrect I guess where you're operating from a
place that's not coming from a placeof love and abundance and kindness, and
the courage to see what's really happening, and the courage to look not to
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set other people, but to reallylook at yourself, you know, and
to have that conversation with yourself,because so often we are focused on,
or people are focused on looking atwhat other people do and how other people
are doing it, and in doingthat as a defense mechanism, you miss
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important information you know about you.You know, it's not about what that
person has done, it's like,where are you in that story? You
know, I think it's really importantthat we keep ourselves in the story,
like, don't run away, keepourselves in the story of what's happening.
Yeah, yeah, I agree.I like that. I like that that
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I that version. And that's oneof the things in the reasons why I
even called my foundation the Lighted UpFoundation, because in the state of of
you know, in America's you know, all these organizations doing the same thing,
they didn't know each other, theydidn't collaborate with each other. And
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why because they're all bidding on thesame dollars. And so what I did
with the light Up Foundation really wasto let these organizations identify and know one
another, and so, hey,we're not on opposition. We're not playing
a football game here. We're lookingto collaborate as humans to work for the
bigger and greater cause. If that'struly our mission. And so that's why
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I even call it the Lighted UpFoundation for the community, to recognize who's
in the community, to extend howwe can actually build together and work together.
And so I'm totally in alignment withwhat you just said. So what
is the Lighted Up Foundation? Whatare you doing and how can people help?
Well, what we're doing here nowit's a little different shifts due to
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you know, COVID and so forth. We would do our events in the
States and we will raise money,and the money we will raise, we
would give the money to the localorganizations around to you know, continue to
help and do what they're doing insociety. We've taken a different turn again.
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Like I said, my mission herenow is to go into the sustainable
living model. And so what thatlooks like is communal living. You can
call it a modern day ostrom ifyou will, where people come retreat and
and learn the practices of development ofto being more human. A place where
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people can come and we can cultivatewhole brain thinking you know, uh,
you know, things of that nature. So that's what we're focusing on.
My company here in Mexico. It'scalled Therapy T E R R A p
I. And so it's, uh, it's a start to the greater thing
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that I want to do, becauseagain, all this is therapy, This
is all uh mental health, Thisis all uh, you know, protecting
and preserving our minds so we cansolve our problems if we can't, if
we can't think proper. We can'twe can't extend anything to the next generation.
You know. So that's that's ourmission. That's on so many levels.
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Yeah, that's really um amazing.It seems like you, like everything
you're doing really comes back to thisissue of mental health and like you said,
preserving the mind. Where does thatcome from? I know a lot
of times, you know, andI don't know a lot about your story,
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you know, through your athletic careerto where you are now. Where
does this desire to help in theway that you've chosen to help come from?
Well, my last season, Iplayed linebacker. I was you know,
I was a hitter I throughout highschool, college, pro football.
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You know, linebackers are one ofthe most aggressive positions on the field,
where the alpha mel hitting people atfull speed. You know, we grow
the big next at twenty inch nextand you know, and my body couldn't
take anymore, and so it leftme in a situation. I was diagnosed
with a spinal contusion. And oneparticular game, my last game, actually
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I'm on the feel, laid out, I could move and you know,
I had bruised my spine. Ihad suffered this contusion and it left me
in a state of paralysis for awhile, and so and then realizing how
much damage when I began to reflecton what I had actually done to my
body throughout the years, and youknow, it just put me in that
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space of realizing the healing that Ineed to take part in. Also,
it gave me in a reflection ofwhere I was mentally, you know,
and what insanity that I built upto actually be able to excel in such
a game. You know, nowI'm not looking at this as at as
a victim. I was looking atit as the observer and not did I
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even have regrets even of playing thegame, but just observing as I wanted
to realize how my health and mylife going for it would look like.
It was more the focus on,you know, cutting the chords and moving
into the next paradigm of my existenceand what that was going to look like.
So I needed healing. So Ibegan to search out the world and
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find places people I could study withto to learn and heal on top of
living an extensive life myself at thattime. So it's put me on that
journey of just healing and educating myself. I think it's one of the most
important things that we can do isto understand that we're here and we have
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these experiences, and to understand thereflections when they present themselves. Right,
because what you could have done wastended to the physical aspects, you know,
the things that had that happened toyou physically that were in conflict with
how you wanted your body to be. But the fact that you were willing
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to see that there really was botha physical and a mental saying happening and
at play and making the decision togo off and start that journey for yourself
is inspiring. And I think thatthat's really that's really what it is.
I mean, I think that that'swhat's up for us, you know,
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if we choose to see it.You know, sometimes we do, sometimes
we don't. There's nothing wrong ifwe don't. But I think that that
is where the real opportunity is forchange and to increase you know, love
and abundance, or the ability torecognize that or acknowledge that there truly is
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abundance in the world. Is tolike really take a look at what's happening
and how we're interacting with each otherand with ourselves, and how we're contorting
ourselves into these roles that you know, we choose. So it's really,
like you said before, this decodingand how important that is, yeah,
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and really and checking in with ourselvesand seeing how we how we navigate,
you know, yeah, you know. And it comes down to like saying,
in a class, I would havewhat are your attributes? What do
you think what are the things thatyou feel that you're good at, and
what are the things that you feelyou're not so good at? And then
then in sports we would have anoff season. And even as humans,
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we don't necessarily have an off season, but we begin to put these ideas
in the frontal lobe of our minds, our brains, and so as we
identify these attributes and so called weaknesses, we can actually put some emphasis to
better these places where we say we'reweaker and even acknowledge these places where we
say that we're weaker. So whenwe presented the time and the opportunity,
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we can positions ourselves to win rightand winning we need to have success,
have constructive comes, and the thingsthat we want to accomplish. I live
life in the way that you reallywant to live life, where you are
the one you know, you're makingthose decisions or you're taking accountability for the
decisions that you're made. Exactly.Yeah, So tell me about this program.
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You said something about um Ula Village. What is that US village is?
Basically, so when I one ofthe things that I found I saw
I saw TLC Lisa left Die Lopez. She was and Honduras. She was
with doctor Savy, and I waslike, oh this is I had known
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her and I had known her boyfriendat the time, Andre Risen, and
I was like, uh okay,Honduras. It sounds it seems like a
place I need to go, andI just I didn't know how I was
getting getting there. You know.The thing is, I've always lived that
life like from the standpoint I sawsomething on television, I saw something in
the world. I want that.I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna get
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that. That was my mindset,and so I ended up in Lossabres.
You're talking about planes, trains andautomobiles, you know, to get there,
and so you know, meeting himand having someone even to the fact
that a mattitude to look like metalk about nutrition. I never heard that
before, you know, and mostpeople think athletes eat a special diet.
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We really don't, you know.And I had a horrible diet, and
so I had no conception of nutritionin respect to this conversation of talking about
it. And so by going there, I knew that I needed to detox
my body. I need the clans. I knew I had so much inflammation.
I knew I had so much thingsgoing on in my body that I
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couldn't think straight. I couldn't.I mean, and when you think about
it, like if bodies in pain, as you begin to even as we
age and we lose a sense ofmobility, that directly affects our ideas about
the vitality that we have. Youknow, it puts us in a mindset
about our possibilities and what's possible,what's not possible. We can't do what
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we can do. And so Ibegin to just go into this thing I
needed to cleanse. And doctor Sabywas there and phenomenal teacher to come to
find out and to know all thelegacy that he created. I'm not sure
if you're aware of doctor Savy Andso yeah, well, doctor Sabe started
healing and healing things that Western medicinesaid couldn't be done, and he defended
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himself against the state and the SupremeCourt in the State of New York.
And one he's the only natural pathhas ever done that. And I'm talking
about cancer's age, the various thingsagain that they say couldn't things cannot be
reversed in the body. He hewas setting the precedent. This is back
in the eighties. Wow, andso um, just learning how to eat.
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You know, we have a greatpart of the population we have eating
disorders, you know. You know, and if we understand that eating reflects
our moods, our hunger reflects ourmoods, these things go together with the
way that we when we talk aboutdeveloping this emotional body, well, these
things go are part of this thingbecause we're medicating ourselves to behave certain ways
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and we don't even know it throughfood, through food or what we call
food. And so and so Ibegan to go through a one on one
with just learning how to nurture myself, you know. And so I've and
and through that whole process. Thisis why I consider, you know,
the food is the base medicine.However, on the communal side, humans
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are the first lineage to that medicine. Human to human connectivity is the highest
form of that nerveshment. And ifI had to break it down even further,
I would share with you this wateris one hundred and two minerals,
right, and liquid in a liquidform, you know, air is water
or minerals in a labor form,we breathe it in. Right. Food
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is a manifestation of those minerals.Humans are that same one hundred and two
minerals of connectivity that we desire,and through malnourishment, we begin to compensate.
So I begin to learn how tonurture myself. And then through the
practice at USA, I teach peoplehow to move through their bodies because the
next thing you've got to circulate,because I call a nutrition information, Now
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I got to circulate that information throughmy body, and through the process we've
got an assimilation. I don't wantto go through a teaching staatee, but
we got to assimilation. Now.It's okay. I'm trying not to be
super selfish because it's really interesting.Just before this interview, I had a
session with a Theta session and wewere talking about challenges that I've been having
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with just the same exact thing thatyou're talking about in terms of like connection
to my body. And I knowa lot of things about a lot of
things, and there are some thingsthat I have turned a blind eye to
with regard to the ways that I'vebeen treating my body or the way that
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I've over valued emotional and mental health, sometimes at the expense of understanding or
accepting the acknowledging that my body isactually part of that. So it's actually
a very timely discussion. And soyeah, I'm super super interested in hearing
about this, and I think it'syou know, I think it's important for
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people also to understand that there isa way to see there's a mindset that
you can get into to help youto really see food and nutrition and care
for what it is and it's notabout going and always a lot of us
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have been taught to eat in away that actually is not in our best
interests. A lot of us havebeen taught to treat food or like you
said, things that really aren't foodas a way to kind of fill a
void that could be emotional or mental. Right, So I think there has
to be this this integration that happensso that a person can show up fully
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mentally emotionally and physically and spiritually exactlyand the thing between, you know,
with the age of information again,we have to decode the information because now
it's all everywhere. So knowledge initiallyI was well, I mean, you
know, it wasn't it's rampant.You didn't have all the facebooks in the
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instagrams, you know, talking aboutI started my journey two of five around
there. You know, it wasn'tso prevalent. So you have to go
search out, you know, theinformation. So that now, so the
challenge is today we got to setwe got to search out the valid information,
right and so we create a simpleconcept for people. So so when
people want to learn, I takethem to this place and I'll do it.
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I've been fifteen times. I'm goingto and we're creating our own now.
But I've used that as a platformof just that I see as necessary
because we have to. We haveto realize what we're how we're fueling,
you know, we're fueling consciousness towhat we consume, and then the variations
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of how we consume, in thevariations of how to move our bodies.
This is the one on one thatwe're not privy to and in some cases,
we get certain ages even we don'tlook and search out help, and
so we get to go through animmersion of where your body can actually experience
eating a certain way and moving acertain way, and then you feel like
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you've never felt before. Sometimes peopleget locked in in a sense of their
bodies are living a certain way andthey's like, well, this is all
this this, this is all Igot, This is all as possible for
me. In a lot of cases, in a week's period of time,
we show you something totally different.I mean, I've had people not that
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you're the ambition is to lose.Because you lose, you're gonna find.
But when the body is aligned,it drops. It naturally it drops.
So it doesn't mean in a lotof cases that is armor that you felt
you needed to protect yourself due tothe emotional eating. That emotional eating is
feeding a part of your body thatyou feel subconsciously that you want to protect.
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So you get to dissolve that absolutely, and then things look different.
Once you metabolize the body, it'sit's a whole nother, it's a whole.
It's like now you're letting that Lamborghiniout out that garage, you're taking
the dust off of it, andI think it's ready to go, you
know. So that's what's possible.So tell me about this program that you
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have. So you said that you'restarting one. You were going down to
Unduras to do this, and nowyou're creating this space and programs for yourself.
Tell us a little bit about that. Well we are. We're going
September fourth through the eleven that's comingup soon. My facility here is going
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to more or less be the manufacturingstandpoint of how we you know, produce
the compounds. Compounds meaning has Iput herbs together and to work with different
pathologies, we use all alkaline ingredientsthat means seven point two and above basically
from my teacher savings concepts, andwe attack the variations of the disease several
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different ways. And then we justuse the intelligence of the universe. Nature
has given us everything. You know, like every part of the body that
you have a description. I gota plant called eyebright looks just like your
eye. And we don't think,you know, when you think of in
medical one of the biggest reasons forthe disease is dehydration. And we don't
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we negate the idea of like Okay, what if I hydrate my eyes if
I'm suffering from dehydration I don't drinkenough water. What if what if I
hydrate my eyes within or put itin my eyes and watch how my vision
changes. But we've been educated togo and get glasses, you know,
but we've never executed the simplicity oflike just handling the thing, you know,
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the medicine of how that can helpme. And then when you steal
all the mus coming out of youreyes at night when you wake up,
you know, it's like, wow, I never thought I could flush out
my eyes and then I would clearmy vision, you know, Or just
things like that that we begin toadd to people's you know, concepts of
thinking about health or their health,and you have drastic changes, you know.
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And so now you've got a vehiclethat's that's open. It's like,
wow, okay, we did this. Now what else is possible? You
know? It's a beautiful thing.Yeah, it really is. You mentioned
an LP um. Tell me aboutyour experience with NLP. Well, you
know, LP is the words weuse and a lot of the words of
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getting been conditioned to us, andso how we communicate, you know,
how we use words and it's what'sso interesting is code to fire. You
know, I kind of result too. I have a picture I don't know
if you can see Francis Chris Welson, uh Majors. You know, psychologists
who study the psyche of of ofour culture. And she came up with
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a really amazing philosophy. She worethe icest papers, and she she talked
about her teacher, Nearly Fuller,and he makes a very interesting comment from
the standpoint of if I know howsomething is put together, but then I
know how I can take it apart. And so when we're talking about reinventing
or healing ourselves, we've put thisthing together that sustained us, that's got
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us here and medicated us to behere. Now, if I can understand
that that concept in which I've createdme, now I can undo that to
realize to me that I want tobe because I'm here exactly made it.
I don't have to fight anymore.I don't have to do that old fight
that I can. I can doit in a whole different way. That's
right. You know, always alwaystalk about the concept of ease and grace,
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you know, you know, that'show I can navigate that's how I
can move. So I begin tothink of ways in which I can focus
and and live my life this way, because when you talk about peace,
peace has a lot to do witha lot of agreements, absolutely, yeah,
agreements and dismantling. You know,there's some acts, there's some actions
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that need to be taken sometimes toget to a place of peace. And
peace is not the same for everybody, you know, and you know
a lot of times that peace hasa lot to do with us just softening.
It's just softening. You know.We go around with this brute force
trying to prove and do this,and like, I've had to fight my
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whole life type thing. And thereality reality, you don't have to fight
like that, a ten round fight. You don't go around just brute force.
This finesse game. This is afinesse game for the long haul.
You know, people go around tryingto knock each other out, and in
spurts, you won't last very long. You're gonna get injured, you're gonna
hurt yourself. You can't you can'tfunction like this right, But for the
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long haul, it's a finesse game. He's in grace and so that's how
we begin to cultivate the ideas ofpeace. It's a practice. You mentioned
your program is September fourth through theeleventh. When is your next one?
And who should be thinking about going? It sounds to me like it should
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be anyone who wants to live ahealthy your lifestyle and who wants to connect
to their body and all of that. Yeah, but you know, it's
a commitment, and and you knowit's commitment, and you've got to be
you know, you have to feelyour worth it in a lot of cases,
and if it's not mine, itcould be anyone else's. But we
have to invest. It took alot of investment to be in the spaces
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that we've gotten ourselves into. Youdid a lot of work to get yourself
in the you know you're feeling sonow the same thing on that back end.
Has that happened, you know,and we have to be okay with
that and we have to trust inthat because again, you know, we've
shown ourselves as you get to examinehow did I get here? Well,
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a lot of that getting there iscontributed to you. You took step after
step, you know, energy afterenergy to put it there. So now
let's put some energy getting ourselves out, not what they're telling us to do,
not what the status quo saying weshould do. Because we see those
else too, I realize some otherways and what best way do nature?
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No, it's funny we always talkabout when we say words like peace and
practice and um, you know,doing the work. We seem to talk
about it from the perspective of gettingto the place that you want to go,
but we don't often or it's itlooks different when we think about it
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from the perspective of how hard you'reyou're working and all the effort that you're
putting in to be in the placethat you're in right now, even if
it's not where you want to be. There's a strategy to that. That's
something that I've learned. I actuallyhave a lot of experience in NLP as
well, which is why that piquesmy interest. And in NLP there's this
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idea that there's a strategy for everything, and if you want to make change
in your life, or if youwant to head in a direction that's different
from where you are, take alook at the strategy that you're following and
practicing and working hard at. Youknow, to understand how to shift things
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so that you can really be whereyou need to be exactly. Yeah.
So it practice is not just alwaysabout like the hum and the you know
in yoga or meditation and other things. It's understanding the practices all of it.
It's all practice because what you'll findthe status quo has these things,
it's got us doing hobbies and ithas no application. And this is why
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for those who are listening, Numberone, what do you want to do?
Number two, why do you wantto do it? Three? How
do you plan on doing this thingyou want to do? And number four
what is the constructive result of doingthis thing that you want to do?
And these are keys that you attainto and everything that you do. And
again this philosophy of I incorporated fromFrancis Christ Welsing and nearly Fuller that I
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use from the standpoint of a mindfulthe standpoint because it's the same concept that
allowed me, as being a successfulathlete, to be able to in seconds,
you know, go through my keysto realize what the opposing team was
wanting to do. And so asI do it over and over and over,
now that that time, you know, begins to be shorter and shorter
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less effort, it begins to justbe automatic as I incorporate to this the
way, you know, from thestandpoint of this is just how I am.
This is how I focus, ishow I do everything that I do,
you know, and this is howpractice begins to be your habit and
then your habits become your lifestyle.What did you have to if you're willing
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to share this, what did youhave to take away in order to get
to the path that you wanted tobe on? Well, you know,
it's like, um, you knowhow they say, I guess the first
thing that comes to my mind isthe the journey is the destination. You
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know. It's like my commitment wasto the commitment. My my energy was
all about the commitment. And Iwas committed and I am committed. I
wasn't attached. I wasn't attached towhat it's going to look like, how
I'm going to get there. Myidea was committed to just doing the work
you know I had. You know, I put I put things along the
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way that I wanted to accomplish,things that would keep me motivated around a
discipline. You know, that's justthe nature of my life and how I've
been I like to center everything arounda discipline to find motivation and inspiration.
And so I sustained the course andI enjoyed every moment. It's like I
would call it even because I'm stillon it. Obviously, it's it's a
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life university, you know, andthrough your experiences, were to take in
the data, learn from the data, and to be masters of the things
that we desire to do, notjust to do them, like just to
be doing them randomly, but intentionallydoing and living the way we choose to
live. And then by doing so, then you command and you step into
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these places with annoying Yeah. Yeah, that's a whole other way of being.
That's that's presence. When I teachpresence. Presence is all about the
innate wisdom knowledge that you were grantedthrough the universe. You know, the
five senses, going through all theelements of As I'm listening, as I'm
speaking, I'm grounded, I'm breathing, you know, I'm in tune to
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you. You know, it's likethe whole thing is working for me.
This is how I share the practice, you know. It's about it's about
how can I make use of thisin my day to day life? Yeah?
Well, I see that, anduh, and I have to tell
you, I, um, youknow, you're you seem to be living,
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you know, walking the talk andliving the life that you're teaching people
to live. And I commend youfor that. It's inspiring, It truly
is. And I looked and acouple of times I saw you doing some
things in the gym and I waslike, Oh, this dude's in shape.
It's a beautiful body and he's doingthat work. And I think I
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love that the idea that it's notjust about the esthetics, it's about,
you know, the quality of whatyou're putting into your body so that you
can dust off that Lamborghini as yousaid, you know, and then also
factoring in that it's not just aboutthe physical, it's also all the other
things that contribute to you being awhole human being. Or do you recognizing
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that you're a whole human being?And so I commend you for that.
And we need so much of this, all of it. Where can people
hear more or find out more?And what do you want people to know?
Well, my website Keith Mitchell fiftynine dot com. Um, you
know what what I want people toknow is, you know, and I'm
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not trying to be cliche from thestandpoint of the power or the the potential
of our power, and we havethe greatest power within. However, it's
it's we're living. If you lookat potential, for the most part,
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we're denying ourselves the greatest opportunity thatwe could ever experience. The heaven is
right here, the heaven that youwill know as as me, Keith,
as you Lisa, and your nameup the side. Everybody says, yeah,
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well, this is it. Andand no matter what your age is,
no matter where you are in yourlife, no matter what your predicament
is, you have a breath.You have an opportunity. And I just
want to see us live it.I just want to see us evolve and
grow. And even as we youknow, I think there's an African proverb
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says each one teach one. Wecan pass that baton as we learn and
go, even at the various agesof our lives. If we go to
the end of our lives, wecan pass that baton to the next generation
to open up those doors for them. So even so, we got such
a pull, we got such aneffect that we can have on the world.
And that and that's that's just aside effect if you're creating your own
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world, you know, living yourown truth. And so that's what it
really I get excited about and seeingand Jesus like by having an opportunity to
be able to be a part ofthat and facilitate that for someone, it's
like there's nothing better than the world, absolutely know, because the legacy isn't
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just about you know, the moneyis you leave, you know, to
people, to other generations, andeven if you don't have children, you
know, we are contributing every day, yes, you know, and we
are. There's an emotional legacy thatgets left behind either the spaces we're in
or to the children or people thatare in our lives. And to be
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more aware of that and to bewilling to take on the accountability of taking
care of yourself so that we canteach other people to do the same,
you know it there. I lovedone of the posts that I saw this
morning on your page. I don'tcall your handle, I don't know what
you call it on Instagram, butit was this um group of children in
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school and it was like a positivething that was happening in the classroom,
and I loved that because what thatfor me said was exactly what you just
expressed, which is that there's somuch beauty. There's so much beauty.
There's so many wonderful things that wecan be focusing on. There's the beauty
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that's within us and that we canbring out of ourselves and you know,
share with the world so that wetruly can acknowledge that things are okay and
can be okay. Yes, youknow. And it's really about sharing love
and taking accountability for that for theconversations that we're having. So I just
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want I want to thank you.I want to thank you for taking time
to chat with me. Yes,thank you, thank you for having me.
This was the perfect conversation at theperfect time for me. It really
was. I really appreciate it.Thank you, Thank you. I hope
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you found today's conversation with Mitchell aboutthe mind body connection and the power of
self observation inspiring and meaningful. Iknow I did. Remember that your health
and well being is connected to thethings you put into your body, whether
those be the thoughts in your head, the food on your plate, or
the media you choose to consume.And remember always that the journey is the
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destination and the simple act of beingpresent can make all the difference in your
world. Keith's website will be linkedin the show notes, as well as
more information about the Usha village inHonduras. Thank you so much for listening.
In our fast paced world, it'seasy to get swept up in the currents
that surround us. But we areauthors of our own life story, and
we are infinitely capable of creating thechange we want to see within us and
beyond. Welcome to Shaping Freedom,a show where we explore and share practical
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ways to cultivate extraordinary life experiences.I'm your host, Lisan Baskia. I'm
a teacher, an entrepreneur, anda life strategist. After a career as
a corporate executive, I embarked onmy own path of entrepreneurship to focus on
the human and spirit connection. Icome from generations of trailblazing entrepreneurs, artists,
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healers, and champions of human dignity. My life path number is five,
which represents a person who is afreedom seeker with the spirit of change
in adventure. This spirit runs throughoutthe Boskia family lineage. My big brother
je Michelle, is the most recognizablefreedom seeker in my family. This week,
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I'm joined by Keith Mitchell, aformer professional football player in the NFL
and now a meditation, yoga andmindfulness teacher focused on sustainable living practices and
whole body health. Today, we'lltalk about the importance of sustainable and communal
living practices in healing the body andthe mind, the value of self observation
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and avoiding the victim's state, andwhat strategies we can use to create the
change that we want to see inour lives. With the help of Keith
Mitchell, will discuss the healing powerof being present and what it means in
our day to day lives. Here'smy conversation with Keith Mitchell. It's a
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pleasure to meet you. I'm reallyexcited to have this conversation. Um.
I spent some time perusing your yourInstagram and uh, and looked up a
tiny bit about you. I typicallydon't like to look up a lot of
information about a person because I liketo, um, just kind of get
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to know who the person is andwhat's happening. Uh. So, um,
why don't we start with this?How are you doing? I'm well,
you know, I'm well, Ijust had a birthday pass and you
know, spend enjoying that piece.So I've been taking it easy. I
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was in Brazil, cancoon. Ilive in Mexico. So um, okay,
you know, it's just it's justalways this paradise here, and so
I'm I'm enjoying life. A coupleof companies I've started here and so just
enjoying it. Nice. Happy birthday. When was your birthday? It was
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the twenty fourth of July. Sonow it's been a couple of weeks,
but I guess I'm still celebrating becauseit's Leo's season. I know all about
the Leos. My daughter's a Leo, her my ex husband, her dad
is a Leo. My mom wasa Leo. I am around a ton
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of Leo's. And that particular weekthat you're talking about is also the week
where my daughter, ex husband,and mom all had their birthdays, the
twenty sixth, twenty eighth, andthe thirtieth, So that's a hot week
for me. So I know allabout the Leo's. I know it's Leo's
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season and all that good stuff.Happy birthday, sir, Well, thank
you so much, Thank you somuch. Yeah, you're welcome, You're
welcome. So you live in Mexico, yes, Carlin, Oh sweet,
I was in Mexico two weeks ago. It seems like a lifetime ago.
I was in Tuloom, Yeah,and it was amazing. I needed it.
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I had really just needed some timeaway, and so it was.
I was there for two weeks andI spent a week with some friends my
birthdays in September. And I'm avirgo, yes, and so I have
these two friends Amy and Nicole hiamyHin Nicole, who are also virgos,
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and so we have like this virgobubble, and I said I was going
away and we were planning to dosomething together, so they hung out with
We three hung out together for aweek and then I stayed for I think
five days by myself. But itwas incredibly healing, you know, really
beautiful, experienced really chill down thereand at a good time. It was
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nice. Yeah, it's it's beautifulhere. You know, it's different experiences
like living here too. You know, I get all remind yourself, I'm
not on vacation, you know.I kind of feel that way about San
Diego. I'm from the Northeast inBrooklyn, and uh yeah, Brooklyn born
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and raised. I always, youknow, pick up Brooklyn and I lived.
I've lived in New Jersey for liketwenty four years and moved here ten
years ago. So I've been bycoastal, but I feel that way about
San Diego. You know, it'slike always being on vacation. What took
you to Mexico? Tell me alittle bit I want to hear about you.
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Well, you know the piece.You know, we're going through covid
um and you know, I feelled my mission, and I guess this
is one of the reasons why Istarted, like one of my companies here,
a manufactory manufacturer, herbal herbal compounds, herbal medicines, and so I
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initially started in Honduras, and youknow, when I became vegan, met
doctor Savy and all that and startedlearning, it really began to be my
one of my missions that goes alongwith sustainable living. So the combination of
the medicine of nutrition and teaching thatto the sustainable living model, to communal
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living model is something that I'm reallyan advocate for and you know, I'm
initiating that, and so it landedme here in Mexico to start. And
then my goal is to go youknow, we're gonna build here, but
I'm gonna go further down south wherethere's better water connecting to the veins of
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the volcano. I don't know ifyou've ever heard of thermogenic water. I
have not so thermojeg. Water comesout of the ground nine point seven alkalinity.
Oh wow, okay, yeah,so the healing elements of water is
pretty phenomenal. And I learned thatfrom going to be and stay with doctor
Saby when he was alive. Ithink that there are so many healing properties
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that surround volcanoes because the energy aroundthem just seems so powerful. I spend
a lot of time in Hawaii,on the Big Island, and there's just
something about that energy that fortifies us. I agree. Yeah. So you're
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down in Mexico and one of thethings that I found really interesting and I
kind of perused, like I saidbefore, your Instagram, and I know
that you are. You founded theLighted Up Foundation. Is that the name
of it? Yes? Yeah,and I So there are a couple of
things that I found really interesting aboutyou. One is that you're a former
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football player turned person who is committedto from what I could tell you know,
mental emotional and physical health and lifeforce. I also see that you
seem to also really have a perspectiveon our narrative, and by our I
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mean just human narrative and how importantit is to create that narrative and understand
that we're all kind of contributing tothese pictures that people see and you know,
the way people's the way we identifyeach other and ourselves, and that
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piqued my interest very much. I'dlove to hear more about that well,
you know, the whole sequence howI see it, whether it be yoga,
meditations, all around growth and development. And due to the nature of
drama that we've experienced, it's kindof stunted our growth. Um, it's
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stunted our growth. And it's froma standpoint to be able to have conversations.
You know, two problems solve difficultconversations, you know, Um,
you know the reality of our bodiesand how our bodies correlate to our minds
and our ability to process information andthink and navigate through it. You know,
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uh, to to break free inour bodies. You know, the
stagnation, the the atrophy that goeson in our bodies. It's like,
you know, we're a culture ofpeople that have advanced so far and but
the initial, the present moment,we've we've escaped it. You know,
it's like we're not even in ourbodies when you go break down the concept
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of high blood pressure, sugar diabetes. It's the fact that you're in your
body, but your body is atrophy, you know. But then with the
first to talk about what we feel, you know, we have to decode
this. It's kind of like andit shows up really what I've realized from
studying like things like NP and neurallinguistic process and then programming. It's like
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we even have to decode our conversation, our messages. It's like, don't
you know what I mean? No, I don't know what you mean.
I hear what you say, right, you know. It's like we're kind
of condition in that sense. Soso the missing element and really the malnourishment
piece that I've kind of identified isour inability to inability to connect in the
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ways that we desire to and whatare the ways that you think people should
be connecting, Well, all thesefacets, I mean, I feel when
we look at the scheme of things, because I'm a big advocate of self
examination, you know, to observeyourself kind of like even when I picked
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up the from from film study whenit comes to sports, you know,
it's like the bias that we havewith ourselves through the experiences we tend to
be more biased for ourselves than thereality, so it takes us away from
reality. So I remember in sports, I was like, no, I
didn't commit the pilotee. No,I didn't do what they said. I
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was on the side. But thenwe go back to the tape, it
clearly shows something different and it relatesin the sense of our interactions. No
I handled that perfect. I was, I was nice, I was I
was forgiving, I was compassionate.And then you go back in the tape
be like, no, and maybeI wasn't so much. Something else is
happening there right right, yeah,And then what we find ourselves in the
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victim states, and it never allowsus to really get what I feel we
want, you know, out oflife, out of the ability that we
get to have these moments of togetherness, whether it be with the family members,
significant others, romantic relationships. Howeverthey line up the ability that we
have or the ideas inside that wewant to connect and show ourselves to the
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world. We contract and we buildfences because we have this idea that we
want to protect ourselves from the world, and then we begin to imprison ourselves
from our own selves. Absolutely,yeah, but we don't have to do
that. We don't have no,we don't yea, and it doesn't make
sense and it's not going to happenbecause we actually are all part of each
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other in the same way that everyliving being is on this planet. And
I think that, you know,things happen in our lives where we choose
sometimes to make a decision to moveaway versus move closer, right, or
to protect ourselves like you're saying,or to decide that people who wear red
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sneakers are people who are going tohurt me. So you know, every
time I see a person wearing ared sneaker, I'm going to run,
you know, in the opposite direction. You know, I'd be curious to
know do we even know this?Do we recognize they're saying, we use
and I don't really prefer cliches,but it's a concept of you don't know
what you don't know, And dueto the state of your conditioning and being
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in these ways so long around otherpeople so long, well we feel this
the norm. It's the only thingthat we've seen. So in some cases,
I feel maybe we don't know,we don't know what we're doing.
You're saying, yeah, I thinksometimes we're on autopilot. I feel when
you learn, when we look atand consider the way that we're learning,
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because we're all learned behavior, andwe take for granted the fact that communication
doesn't just happen from a verbal situationI think is verbal. However, the
bigger, greater version of the communicationand learning for us is the body language,
so the person's doing and so subconsciously, I feel we don't and haven't
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really considered how we've learned the variousbehaviors. And that's why this is why
I say, you know, it'sand again I'm using another cliche, and
I don't really like cliches, butbut this is I think it's really appropriate.
It's like, if you feel you'reenlightened, go live at home for
a couple of days, and let'ssee, right, be around your family
and see what happens exactly, becauseyou're going to have to deal with you
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they are you? Right? Right? Yeah? Right? What does it
mean to be enlightened? To you? I feel enlightened men comes and boils
down to really how much we canactually deal with the truth. I feel
it's about tangibilities. I feel ifif we have concepts that don't have an
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application to the here and now onthis plane, Well, then how do
they serve the purpose? You know? If I'm living for another life,
another place, you know, well, then I can't complain about this moment
here and then when it's time togo, which I've you know, I
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always say fortunate and unfortunately. We'vegotten a chance to work with a lot
of people from the health perspective thatsome have progressed and made it and some
have it. And what I findis consistently, when it's time to go,
no one wants to go. Andso if it's our true conviction that
we're living for another time, anotherplace, well then why is no one
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ready to go when it's time?So that gives me the intel and the
data that we want to be here. We just don't know how to be
here with joy and with pleasure.We don't know how to be here at
peace. Well abundance, you know, you know, it's we're abundant,
like you know. One of thereasons why I do retreats in the Honduras
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is uh At Sabi's place, whichhe opened it up in the eighties.
I'm not I'm not sure if you'refamiliar with us village. I'm not so
I want to hear about it.It's a healing center in La Sable,
Honduras, and in what I findof being in like places like Mexico,
but in particular Honduras. As I'mmentioning that, um, you know,
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mangoes grow in the summer, uhsourur side, Bananas, avocados grow around
the property. So if you everget hungry, just go pick it off
the tree. We're in the spaceof abundance, but we just can't see.
We don't have an awareness of ofall the things that we can attain.
And you know that it's like it'sso simple, but it's we've made
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it so complex with ideas and beliefsthat have no really reference of my life
progressing from A to B to Cto D and so forth. And so
through the practices as I teach yourmeditation contemplation, asking yourself the question and
answering it, you know, askyourself the real question and answering it as
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authentic and as truthful as you canto yourself, and sitting into silence and
see how and if you actually sharedyourself the truth. You know, It's
like, that's what I'm contemplating.That's what I'm focusing on, because the
biggest thing is we try to deceiveourselves and we've done that, We've shown
that throughout the whole experience. Yeah. Yeah, I think enlightenment for me
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is about how much how far you'rewilling to shed a light on yourself,
like how much of yourself you're lightingup, and how willing you are to
see what's really happening, not justwhat you wish would happen, or not
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just how you think it should happen, but what's really really happening, so
that you can understand and of coursecorrect I guess where you're operating from a
place that's not coming from a placeof love and abundance and kindness, and
the courage to see what's really happening, and the courage to look not to
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set other people, but to reallylook at yourself, you know, and
to have that conversation with yourself,because so often we are focused on,
or people are focused on looking atwhat other people do and how other people
are doing it, and in doingthat as a defense mechanism, you miss
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important information you know about you.You know, it's not about what that
person has done, it's like,where are you in that story? You
know, I think it's really importantthat we keep ourselves in the story,
like, don't run away, keepourselves in the story of what's happening.
Yeah, yeah, I agree.I like that. I like that that
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I that version. And that's oneof the things in the reasons why I
even called my foundation the Lighted UpFoundation, because in the state of of
you know, in America's you know, all these organizations doing the same thing,
they didn't know each other, theydidn't collaborate with each other. And
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why because they're all bidding on thesame dollars. And so what I did
with the light Up Foundation really wasto let these organizations identify and know one
another, and so, hey,we're not on opposition. We're not playing
a football game here. We're lookingto collaborate as humans to work for the
bigger and greater cause. If that'struly our mission. And so that's why
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I even call it the Lighted UpFoundation for the community, to recognize who's
in the community, to extend howwe can actually build together and work together.
And so I'm totally in alignment withwhat you just said. So what
is the Lighted Up Foundation? Whatare you doing and how can people help?
Well, what we're doing here nowit's a little different shifts due to
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you know, COVID and so forth. We would do our events in the
States and we will raise money,and the money we will raise, we
would give the money to the localorganizations around to you know, continue to
help and do what they're doing insociety. We've taken a different turn again.
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Like I said, my mission herenow is to go into the sustainable
living model. And so what thatlooks like is communal living. You can
call it a modern day ostrom ifyou will, where people come retreat and
and learn the practices of development ofto being more human. A place where
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people can come and we can cultivatewhole brain thinking you know, uh,
you know, things of that nature. So that's what we're focusing on.
My company here in Mexico. It'scalled Therapy T E R R A p
I. And so it's, uh, it's a start to the greater thing
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that I want to do, becauseagain, all this is therapy, This
is all uh mental health, Thisis all uh, you know, protecting
and preserving our minds so we cansolve our problems if we can't, if
we can't think proper. We can'twe can't extend anything to the next generation.
You know. So that's that's ourmission. That's on so many levels.
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Yeah, that's really um amazing.It seems like you, like everything
you're doing really comes back to thisissue of mental health and like you said,
preserving the mind. Where does thatcome from? I know a lot
of times, you know, andI don't know a lot about your story,
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you know, through your athletic careerto where you are now. Where
does this desire to help in theway that you've chosen to help come from?
Well, my last season, Iplayed linebacker. I was you know,
I was a hitter I throughout highschool, college, pro football.
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You know, linebackers are one ofthe most aggressive positions on the field,
where the alpha mel hitting people atfull speed. You know, we grow
the big next at twenty inch nextand you know, and my body couldn't
take anymore, and so it leftme in a situation. I was diagnosed
with a spinal contusion. And oneparticular game, my last game, actually
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I'm on the feel, laid out, I could move and you know,
I had bruised my spine. Ihad suffered this contusion and it left me
in a state of paralysis for awhile, and so and then realizing how
much damage when I began to reflecton what I had actually done to my
body throughout the years, and youknow, it just put me in that
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space of realizing the healing that Ineed to take part in. Also,
it gave me in a reflection ofwhere I was mentally, you know,
and what insanity that I built upto actually be able to excel in such
a game. You know, nowI'm not looking at this as at as
a victim. I was looking atit as the observer and not did I
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even have regrets even of playing thegame, but just observing as I wanted
to realize how my health and mylife going for it would look like.
It was more the focus on,you know, cutting the chords and moving
into the next paradigm of my existenceand what that was going to look like.
So I needed healing. So Ibegan to search out the world and
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find places people I could study withto to learn and heal on top of
living an extensive life myself at thattime. So it's put me on that
journey of just healing and educating myself. I think it's one of the most
important things that we can do isto understand that we're here and we have
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these experiences, and to understand thereflections when they present themselves. Right,
because what you could have done wastended to the physical aspects, you know,
the things that had that happened toyou physically that were in conflict with
how you wanted your body to be. But the fact that you were willing
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to see that there really was botha physical and a mental saying happening and
at play and making the decision togo off and start that journey for yourself
is inspiring. And I think thatthat's really that's really what it is.
I mean, I think that that'swhat's up for us, you know,
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if we choose to see it.You know, sometimes we do, sometimes
we don't. There's nothing wrong ifwe don't. But I think that that
is where the real opportunity is forchange and to increase you know, love
and abundance, or the ability torecognize that or acknowledge that there truly is
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abundance in the world. Is tolike really take a look at what's happening
and how we're interacting with each otherand with ourselves, and how we're contorting
ourselves into these roles that you know, we choose. So it's really,
like you said before, this decodingand how important that is, yeah,
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and really and checking in with ourselvesand seeing how we how we navigate,
you know, yeah, you know. And it comes down to like saying,
in a class, I would havewhat are your attributes? What do
you think what are the things thatyou feel that you're good at, and
what are the things that you feelyou're not so good at? And then
then in sports we would have anoff season. And even as humans,
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we don't necessarily have an off season, but we begin to put these ideas
in the frontal lobe of our minds, our brains, and so as we
identify these attributes and so called weaknesses, we can actually put some emphasis to
better these places where we say we'reweaker and even acknowledge these places where we
say that we're weaker. So whenwe presented the time and the opportunity,
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we can positions ourselves to win rightand winning we need to have success,
have constructive comes, and the thingsthat we want to accomplish. I live
life in the way that you reallywant to live life, where you are
the one you know, you're makingthose decisions or you're taking accountability for the
decisions that you're made. Exactly.Yeah, So tell me about this program.
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You said something about um Ula Village. What is that US village is?
Basically, so when I one ofthe things that I found I saw
I saw TLC Lisa left Die Lopez. She was and Honduras. She was
with doctor Savy, and I waslike, oh this is I had known
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her and I had known her boyfriendat the time, Andre Risen, and
I was like, uh okay,Honduras. It sounds it seems like a
place I need to go, andI just I didn't know how I was
getting getting there. You know.The thing is, I've always lived that
life like from the standpoint I sawsomething on television, I saw something in
the world. I want that.I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna get
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that. That was my mindset,and so I ended up in Lossabres.
You're talking about planes, trains andautomobiles, you know, to get there,
and so you know, meeting himand having someone even to the fact
that a mattitude to look like metalk about nutrition. I never heard that
before, you know, and mostpeople think athletes eat a special diet.
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We really don't, you know.And I had a horrible diet, and
so I had no conception of nutritionin respect to this conversation of talking about
it. And so by going there, I knew that I needed to detox
my body. I need the clans. I knew I had so much inflammation.
I knew I had so much thingsgoing on in my body that I
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couldn't think straight. I couldn't.I mean, and when you think about
it, like if bodies in pain, as you begin to even as we
age and we lose a sense ofmobility, that directly affects our ideas about
the vitality that we have. Youknow, it puts us in a mindset
about our possibilities and what's possible,what's not possible. We can't do what
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we can do. And so Ibegin to just go into this thing I
needed to cleanse. And doctor Sabywas there and phenomenal teacher to come to
find out and to know all thelegacy that he created. I'm not sure
if you're aware of doctor Savy Andso yeah, well, doctor Sabe started
healing and healing things that Western medicinesaid couldn't be done, and he defended
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himself against the state and the SupremeCourt in the State of New York.
And one he's the only natural pathhas ever done that. And I'm talking
about cancer's age, the various thingsagain that they say couldn't things cannot be
reversed in the body. He hewas setting the precedent. This is back
in the eighties. Wow, andso um, just learning how to eat.
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You know, we have a greatpart of the population we have eating
disorders, you know. You know, and if we understand that eating reflects
our moods, our hunger reflects ourmoods, these things go together with the
way that we when we talk aboutdeveloping this emotional body, well, these
things go are part of this thingbecause we're medicating ourselves to behave certain ways
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and we don't even know it throughfood, through food or what we call
food. And so and so Ibegan to go through a one on one
with just learning how to nurture myself, you know. And so I've and
and through that whole process. Thisis why I consider, you know,
the food is the base medicine.However, on the communal side, humans
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are the first lineage to that medicine. Human to human connectivity is the highest
form of that nerveshment. And ifI had to break it down even further,
I would share with you this wateris one hundred and two minerals,
right, and liquid in a liquidform, you know, air is water
or minerals in a labor form,we breathe it in. Right. Food
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is a manifestation of those minerals.Humans are that same one hundred and two
minerals of connectivity that we desire,and through malnourishment, we begin to compensate.
So I begin to learn how tonurture myself. And then through the
practice at USA, I teach peoplehow to move through their bodies because the
next thing you've got to circulate,because I call a nutrition information, Now
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I got to circulate that information throughmy body, and through the process we've
got an assimilation. I don't wantto go through a teaching staatee, but
we got to assimilation. Now.It's okay. I'm trying not to be
super selfish because it's really interesting.Just before this interview, I had a
session with a Theta session and wewere talking about challenges that I've been having
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with just the same exact thing thatyou're talking about in terms of like connection
to my body. And I knowa lot of things about a lot of
things, and there are some thingsthat I have turned a blind eye to
with regard to the ways that I'vebeen treating my body or the way that
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I've over valued emotional and mental health, sometimes at the expense of understanding or
accepting the acknowledging that my body isactually part of that. So it's actually
a very timely discussion. And soyeah, I'm super super interested in hearing
about this, and I think it'syou know, I think it's important for
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people also to understand that there isa way to see there's a mindset that
you can get into to help youto really see food and nutrition and care
for what it is and it's notabout going and always a lot of us
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have been taught to eat in away that actually is not in our best
interests. A lot of us havebeen taught to treat food or like you
said, things that really aren't foodas a way to kind of fill a
void that could be emotional or mental. Right, So I think there has
to be this this integration that happensso that a person can show up fully
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mentally emotionally and physically and spiritually exactlyand the thing between, you know,
with the age of information again,we have to decode the information because now
it's all everywhere. So knowledge initiallyI was well, I mean, you
know, it wasn't it's rampant.You didn't have all the facebooks in the
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instagrams, you know, talking aboutI started my journey two of five around
there. You know, it wasn'tso prevalent. So you have to go
search out, you know, theinformation. So that now, so the
challenge is today we got to setwe got to search out the valid information,
right and so we create a simpleconcept for people. So so when
people want to learn, I takethem to this place and I'll do it.
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I've been fifteen times. I'm goingto and we're creating our own now.
But I've used that as a platformof just that I see as necessary
because we have to. We haveto realize what we're how we're fueling,
you know, we're fueling consciousness towhat we consume, and then the variations
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of how we consume, in thevariations of how to move our bodies.
This is the one on one thatwe're not privy to and in some cases,
we get certain ages even we don'tlook and search out help, and
so we get to go through animmersion of where your body can actually experience
eating a certain way and moving acertain way, and then you feel like
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you've never felt before. Sometimes peopleget locked in in a sense of their
bodies are living a certain way andthey's like, well, this is all
this this, this is all Igot, This is all as possible for
me. In a lot of cases, in a week's period of time,
we show you something totally different.I mean, I've had people not that
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you're the ambition is to lose.Because you lose, you're gonna find.
But when the body is aligned,it drops. It naturally it drops.
So it doesn't mean in a lotof cases that is armor that you felt
you needed to protect yourself due tothe emotional eating. That emotional eating is
feeding a part of your body thatyou feel subconsciously that you want to protect.
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So you get to dissolve that absolutely, and then things look different.
Once you metabolize the body, it'sit's a whole nother, it's a whole.
It's like now you're letting that Lamborghiniout out that garage, you're taking
the dust off of it, andI think it's ready to go, you
know. So that's what's possible.So tell me about this program that you
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have. So you said that you'restarting one. You were going down to
Unduras to do this, and nowyou're creating this space and programs for yourself.
Tell us a little bit about that. Well we are. We're going
September fourth through the eleven that's comingup soon. My facility here is going
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to more or less be the manufacturingstandpoint of how we you know, produce
the compounds. Compounds meaning has Iput herbs together and to work with different
pathologies, we use all alkaline ingredientsthat means seven point two and above basically
from my teacher savings concepts, andwe attack the variations of the disease several
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different ways. And then we justuse the intelligence of the universe. Nature
has given us everything. You know, like every part of the body that
you have a description. I gota plant called eyebright looks just like your
eye. And we don't think,you know, when you think of in
medical one of the biggest reasons forthe disease is dehydration. And we don't
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we negate the idea of like Okay, what if I hydrate my eyes if
I'm suffering from dehydration I don't drinkenough water. What if what if I
hydrate my eyes within or put itin my eyes and watch how my vision
changes. But we've been educated togo and get glasses, you know,
but we've never executed the simplicity oflike just handling the thing, you know,
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the medicine of how that can helpme. And then when you steal
all the mus coming out of youreyes at night when you wake up,
you know, it's like, wow, I never thought I could flush out
my eyes and then I would clearmy vision, you know, Or just
things like that that we begin toadd to people's you know, concepts of
thinking about health or their health,and you have drastic changes, you know.
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And so now you've got a vehiclethat's that's open. It's like,
wow, okay, we did this. Now what else is possible? You
know? It's a beautiful thing.Yeah, it really is. You mentioned
an LP um. Tell me aboutyour experience with NLP. Well, you
know, LP is the words weuse and a lot of the words of
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getting been conditioned to us, andso how we communicate, you know,
how we use words and it's what'sso interesting is code to fire. You
know, I kind of result too. I have a picture I don't know
if you can see Francis Chris Welson, uh Majors. You know, psychologists
who study the psyche of of ofour culture. And she came up with
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a really amazing philosophy. She worethe icest papers, and she she talked
about her teacher, Nearly Fuller,and he makes a very interesting comment from
the standpoint of if I know howsomething is put together, but then I
know how I can take it apart. And so when we're talking about reinventing
or healing ourselves, we've put thisthing together that sustained us, that's got
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us here and medicated us to behere. Now, if I can understand
that that concept in which I've createdme, now I can undo that to
realize to me that I want tobe because I'm here exactly made it.
I don't have to fight anymore.I don't have to do that old fight
that I can. I can doit in a whole different way. That's
right. You know, always alwaystalk about the concept of ease and grace,
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you know, you know, that'show I can navigate that's how I
can move. So I begin tothink of ways in which I can focus
and and live my life this way, because when you talk about peace,
peace has a lot to do witha lot of agreements, absolutely, yeah,
agreements and dismantling. You know,there's some acts, there's some actions
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that need to be taken sometimes toget to a place of peace. And
peace is not the same for everybody, you know, and you know
a lot of times that peace hasa lot to do with us just softening.
It's just softening. You know.We go around with this brute force
trying to prove and do this,and like, I've had to fight my
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whole life type thing. And thereality reality, you don't have to fight
like that, a ten round fight. You don't go around just brute force.
This finesse game. This is afinesse game for the long haul.
You know, people go around tryingto knock each other out, and in
spurts, you won't last very long. You're gonna get injured, you're gonna
hurt yourself. You can't you can'tfunction like this right, But for the
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long haul, it's a finesse game. He's in grace and so that's how
we begin to cultivate the ideas ofpeace. It's a practice. You mentioned
your program is September fourth through theeleventh. When is your next one?
And who should be thinking about going? It sounds to me like it should
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be anyone who wants to live ahealthy your lifestyle and who wants to connect
to their body and all of that. Yeah, but you know, it's
a commitment, and and you knowit's commitment, and you've got to be
you know, you have to feelyour worth it in a lot of cases,
and if it's not mine, itcould be anyone else's. But we
have to invest. It took alot of investment to be in the spaces
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that we've gotten ourselves into. Youdid a lot of work to get yourself
in the you know you're feeling sonow the same thing on that back end.
Has that happened, you know,and we have to be okay with
that and we have to trust inthat because again, you know, we've
shown ourselves as you get to examinehow did I get here? Well,
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a lot of that getting there iscontributed to you. You took step after
step, you know, energy afterenergy to put it there. So now
let's put some energy getting ourselves out, not what they're telling us to do,
not what the status quo saying weshould do. Because we see those
else too, I realize some otherways and what best way do nature?
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No, it's funny we always talkabout when we say words like peace and
practice and um, you know,doing the work. We seem to talk
about it from the perspective of gettingto the place that you want to go,
but we don't often or it's itlooks different when we think about it
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from the perspective of how hard you'reyou're working and all the effort that you're
putting in to be in the placethat you're in right now, even if
it's not where you want to be. There's a strategy to that. That's
something that I've learned. I actuallyhave a lot of experience in NLP as
well, which is why that piquesmy interest. And in NLP there's this
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idea that there's a strategy for everything, and if you want to make change
in your life, or if youwant to head in a direction that's different
from where you are, take alook at the strategy that you're following and
practicing and working hard at. Youknow, to understand how to shift things
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so that you can really be whereyou need to be exactly. Yeah.
So it practice is not just alwaysabout like the hum and the you know
in yoga or meditation and other things. It's understanding the practices all of it.
It's all practice because what you'll findthe status quo has these things,
it's got us doing hobbies and ithas no application. And this is why
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for those who are listening, Numberone, what do you want to do?
Number two, why do you wantto do it? Three? How
do you plan on doing this thingyou want to do? And number four
what is the constructive result of doingthis thing that you want to do?
And these are keys that you attainto and everything that you do. And
again this philosophy of I incorporated fromFrancis Christ Welsing and nearly Fuller that I
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use from the standpoint of a mindfulthe standpoint because it's the same concept that
allowed me, as being a successfulathlete, to be able to in seconds,
you know, go through my keysto realize what the opposing team was
wanting to do. And so asI do it over and over and over,
now that that time, you know, begins to be shorter and shorter
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less effort, it begins to justbe automatic as I incorporate to this the
way, you know, from thestandpoint of this is just how I am.
This is how I focus, ishow I do everything that I do,
you know, and this is howpractice begins to be your habit and
then your habits become your lifestyle.What did you have to if you're willing
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to share this, what did youhave to take away in order to get
to the path that you wanted tobe on? Well, you know,
it's like, um, you knowhow they say, I guess the first
thing that comes to my mind isthe the journey is the destination. You
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know. It's like my commitment wasto the commitment. My my energy was
all about the commitment. And Iwas committed and I am committed. I
wasn't attached. I wasn't attached towhat it's going to look like, how
I'm going to get there. Myidea was committed to just doing the work
you know I had. You know, I put I put things along the
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way that I wanted to accomplish,things that would keep me motivated around a
discipline. You know, that's justthe nature of my life and how I've
been I like to center everything arounda discipline to find motivation and inspiration.
And so I sustained the course andI enjoyed every moment. It's like I
would call it even because I'm stillon it. Obviously, it's it's a
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life university, you know, andthrough your experiences, were to take in
the data, learn from the data, and to be masters of the things
that we desire to do, notjust to do them, like just to
be doing them randomly, but intentionallydoing and living the way we choose to
live. And then by doing so, then you command and you step into
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these places with annoying Yeah. Yeah, that's a whole other way of being.
That's that's presence. When I teachpresence. Presence is all about the
innate wisdom knowledge that you were grantedthrough the universe. You know, the
five senses, going through all theelements of As I'm listening, as I'm
speaking, I'm grounded, I'm breathing, you know, I'm in tune to
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you. You know, it's likethe whole thing is working for me.
This is how I share the practice, you know. It's about it's about
how can I make use of thisin my day to day life? Yeah?
Well, I see that, anduh, and I have to tell
you, I, um, youknow, you're you seem to be living,
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you know, walking the talk andliving the life that you're teaching people
to live. And I commend youfor that. It's inspiring, It truly
is. And I looked and acouple of times I saw you doing some
things in the gym and I waslike, Oh, this dude's in shape.
It's a beautiful body and he's doingthat work. And I think I
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love that the idea that it's notjust about the esthetics, it's about,
you know, the quality of whatyou're putting into your body so that you
can dust off that Lamborghini as yousaid, you know, and then also
factoring in that it's not just aboutthe physical, it's also all the other
things that contribute to you being awhole human being. Or do you recognizing
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that you're a whole human being?And so I commend you for that.
And we need so much of this, all of it. Where can people
hear more or find out more?And what do you want people to know?
Well, my website Keith Mitchell fiftynine dot com. Um, you
know what what I want people toknow is, you know, and I'm
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not trying to be cliche from thestandpoint of the power or the the potential
of our power, and we havethe greatest power within. However, it's
it's we're living. If you lookat potential, for the most part,
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we're denying ourselves the greatest opportunity thatwe could ever experience. The heaven is
right here, the heaven that youwill know as as me, Keith,
as you Lisa, and your nameup the side. Everybody says, yeah,
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well, this is it. Andand no matter what your age is,
no matter where you are in yourlife, no matter what your predicament
is, you have a breath.You have an opportunity. And I just
want to see us live it.I just want to see us evolve and
grow. And even as we youknow, I think there's an African proverb
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says each one teach one. Wecan pass that baton as we learn and
go, even at the various agesof our lives. If we go to
the end of our lives, wecan pass that baton to the next generation
to open up those doors for them. So even so, we got such
a pull, we got such aneffect that we can have on the world.
And that and that's that's just aside effect if you're creating your own
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world, you know, living yourown truth. And so that's what it
really I get excited about and seeingand Jesus like by having an opportunity to
be able to be a part ofthat and facilitate that for someone, it's
like there's nothing better than the world, absolutely know, because the legacy isn't
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just about you know, the moneyis you leave, you know, to
people, to other generations, andeven if you don't have children, you
know, we are contributing every day, yes, you know, and we
are. There's an emotional legacy thatgets left behind either the spaces we're in
or to the children or people thatare in our lives. And to be
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more aware of that and to bewilling to take on the accountability of taking
care of yourself so that we canteach other people to do the same,
you know it there. I lovedone of the posts that I saw this
morning on your page. I don'tcall your handle, I don't know what
you call it on Instagram, butit was this um group of children in
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school and it was like a positivething that was happening in the classroom,
and I loved that because what thatfor me said was exactly what you just
expressed, which is that there's somuch beauty. There's so much beauty.
There's so many wonderful things that wecan be focusing on. There's the beauty
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that's within us and that we canbring out of ourselves and you know,
share with the world so that wetruly can acknowledge that things are okay and
can be okay. Yes, youknow. And it's really about sharing love
and taking accountability for that for theconversations that we're having. So I just
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want I want to thank you.I want to thank you for taking time
to chat with me. Yes,thank you, thank you for having me.
This was the perfect conversation at theperfect time for me. It really
was. I really appreciate it.Thank you, Thank you. I hope
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you found today's conversation with Mitchell aboutthe mind body connection and the power of
self observation inspiring and meaningful. Iknow I did. Remember that your health
and well being is connected to thethings you put into your body, whether
those be the thoughts in your head, the food on your plate, or
the media you choose to consume.And remember always that the journey is the
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destination and the simple act of beingpresent can make all the difference in your
world. Keith's website will be linkedin the show notes, as well as
more information about the Usha village inHonduras. Thank you so much for listening.
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