October 30, 2024 • 28 mins
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Sharise Parviz (00:00):
Welcome to Burn the Boats, baby.
This is Sharise Parviz, yourholistic health specialist, life
relationship and energy healingcoach.
Hey, so today I wanted to talkabout how the world for us would
be different if we decided whathealth meant to us, if we
defined what it meant to us.
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So before we get into that, Iwanted to give you an update on
what is happening at my at-homeretreat.
Things are going really reallywell.
I have a lot of energy.
I'm continuing to lose weight.
It's slowed down.
It used to be a pound a day andnow it's maybe about a pound
every three days maybe.
So almost two pounds a week, Ithink, was what last week was,
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and it still continues to movingdown and getting down, getting
into some clothes that I've beenin the back of my closet for a
while and I went oh, let's seeif that fits today and it does.
So, feeling good, sleeping great.
My sleep is doing really reallywell.
I'm able to kind of sleepthrough the night and still
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waking up every once in a whileand I just okay, you know, when
I wake up and something is on mymind instead of, like you know,
berating myself or waking uplike I need to get some sleep.
I need to get some sleep.
I kind of just let it okay.
What's the message?
What's happening?
What's my brain?
You know what's my brain, youknow thinking about, what is my
mind on that we need to dealwith, you know.
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And then it comes up and thenI'll pray about it and I'll do
some, you know, meditation inbed and I can then fall asleep.
So you know, the biggest thingif you wake up in the middle of
the night, I found that thebiggest thing that keeps us from
falling back to sleep isworrying about waking up and not
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going back to sleep.
So if you get up in the middleof the night, I would suggest
trying that, instead of likegoing looking at the clock and
going right, which only juststresses us out further and
we're trying to relax, we can goback to sleep further and we're
trying to relax so we can goback to sleep is to pray, to
meditate, to focus.
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Maybe do some focus meditationson your breath, on your
sensations in your body, doing abody scan, exercise, body
scanning, just kind of seeinghow you feel from head to toe,
and just focusing on your breathand allowing your body to just
to be and if something is onyour mind, give it to God and
through those activities notstressing out about waking up
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and not being able to sleep, butthrough those activities that
actually will help you to fallback to sleep At least it should
.
I have a whole in my wise andwild wellness way.
I have a whole lot of tips onhow to sleep, anyway, so, but
those are a few that I recommendthat I use on myself.
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You know, prayer, meditation,breath work, just focusing on
breath, nothing big, just focus,and and then maybe body
scanning and see where there'ssome tension and then just
letting it go right, okay, so,so, yeah, everything is going
really well and, uh, what elsegosh?
Uh, oh, well, today my husbandand I are going to a governor's
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event, so that should be kind offun.
We're looking forward to that.
We'll see how that goes, and Iguess that's it for updates.
So let's get to the topic of theday.
Okay, so what I wanted to chatabout is I was listening to a
podcast this morning and you mayknow her or you may not.
Her name is Dr Jennifer Daniels, and I don't know her story
completely, but from what Iunderstand and again, I could be
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wrong on details, but I thinkI'm close enough for you to get
the idea is she was a medicaldoctor and she actually served,
built her own facility, her ownpractice, like you know, the
whole building and all investedin her community that she grew
up in.
She grew up in the ghetto andsomewhere in New York Syracuse,
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new York, I believe and againthe details may be a little
shady on me right now I'm notsure but I believe it was
Syracuse, new York, and she grewup in the ghetto and she wanted
to go back and serve hercommunity and she did and, from
what I understand, she lost hermedical license because, well,
she wasn't doing what the youknow what the establishment was
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trying to make her do.
Right, she wasn't passing outpills like they were candy, so
she wasn't writing upprescriptions.
Other like pharmaceutical repswould come in and say, you know,
check your inventory and allthis, and checked her inventory
and saw that she was still hadso much inventory or what have
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you, and then they reported herand I can't remember, I don't
remember the details, this isjust from what I understand and
then she ended up losing herlicense and then going into debt
and she actually ended upmoving and she's now from well,
I shouldn't say now, but fromwhen I was listening to her
podcast or going back andlistening to her podcast in
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Panama.
So really great, interestinglady.
She is one that has broughtkind of like turpentine in the
foreground, turpentine therapyinto the foreground.
And let me just say anything Isay today is only for
entertainment and educationalpurposes only.
This is none of this is medicaladvice.
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This is all just us shootingthe you know what.
Okay, that's all we're doinghere today.
So anyway, she was a big onethat really was bringing the
whole turpentine protocol tolight and she did a lot of
research on turpentine and howturpentine back in the Merck
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manual of like 1899, I think itwas, it was everything.
It was there to cure everythingRight.
And then slowly and slowly andslowly it went out of favor,
mostly probably because drugscame into favor, but anyway.
And then she rediscovered it, Ishould say, back in the 90s,
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and she started working with herpatients with that had
wonderful, wonderful resultswith the turpentine protocol.
And I'm not going to discusswhat the protocol is and I'm not
suggesting you just sit thereand take a bottle of turpentine.
If that's something you'reinterested in, you can look her
up, Dr Jennifer Daniels, and Ithink her website is Vitality
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Capsules.
I'm not quite sure I thinkthat's right, but just look her
up and you can Google her, oryou know, duckduckgoer, or
whatever you do, and learn foryourself, right.
So, anyway, but if you've beenhearing about the Turpentine
Protocol, it actually stemmedall from her bringing it back to
light what they did a hundred,you know, or more, years ago,
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all right.
So anyway, I was listening to apodcast of hers this morning and
she talked about how, you know,we are already healthy, all the
health we need we have.
And you know, just maybeconsider what she was saying.
If we could define what healthmeans for us beyond the labs,
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beyond the white coats, beyondwhat any expert or what the
leading doctors say, or what thetrend of the moment is, is what
is healthy, and we define whatthat is ourselves by determining
if we have enough health tolive the life that we want to
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live.
And if we have enough health tolive the life we want to live,
then we're healthy.
And it's not about some outside, external, you know, checkmark
verification.
Hey, you're healthy, right?
It's about how we feel and arewe able to do the things that we
want to do in our life.
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So, for instance right, I'lltake me for instance my goal
I've decided and if you've beenfollowing along is not only do I
want to get to dancing again, Iwant to get back to my
professional level fitness andability, that's what I want to
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get.
So I'm going to determine,since that's the level I want to
get to, of course I'm going tobe looking at my diet and my
training and my stretching andall of these things that will
put me back into the place whereI was professionally dancing,
in that type of level, thatfitness level.
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Okay, that's where I want to be.
Now, your goal in life may notbe the same, you know.
You might want to just be ableto enjoy, enjoy playing with
your kids or your grandkidswithout pain.
You might want to just be ableto climb the stairs without
getting out of breath.
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You might want to run amarathon.
You might just want to gobiking or walking with your
friends.
Whatever that is, whatever itis that you want to do in your
life, whatever the activity isthat you want to put into your
life and have more to do, havemore of in your life, determine
your health.
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Can you do those things?
If those are things that youwant to do, you determine what
you want to do.
Can you do it?
And if not, what might need tobe shifted in your life?
What might need to be modified,adapted, eliminated, replaced,
to have you attain that healththat will give you the freedom
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to do the things that you enjoyand desire to do?
And so, in that thinking, it'snot about the lab reports, it's
not about the yearly tests, it'snot about and I'm not saying go
do tests, don't do tests.
You do what's right for you.
That's between you and you.
You know you got to do that,you got to be, you got to do
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what your conscious tells you todo.
I, personally, I don't do tests.
I haven't done a medical testin quite some time.
I'm not saying that's for you,but I haven't.
Now my husband has.
And because, um, when we weretesting his liver for, uh, his
numbers, when his med?
Because when he was on thedrugs, but he hasn't done it
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since, right, once we goteverything back to normal.
He hasn't done it since.
And so the?
So that's a decision you haveto make on your own, whether
you're going to go to thedoctors every year or whatever,
whatever, and get all the testsand get everything checked.
And you know, now you'vereached age 50.
So you go in for thatcolonoscopy because that's that
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milestone.
And then you're way before that.
What is it?
Age 40?
I think it's 40.
I don't know.
It was when I was, when I was40.
You know, and you got to get tostart your yearly mammogram.
Now that's changed.
It's no longer yearly, but youget the idea right.
Every age comes with its own.
Now look what we get to do atthe doctor's office.
Okay, anyway, so instead of allof that, I'm just saying not
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that you can't do it.
You can do that and do this orjust do this.
So whichever one is right foryou, determine your health based
on the ability to do the thingsyou want to do in your life.
And if you can't do the thingsthat you want to do in your life
, what can you do so that youcan?
What things?
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Maybe it's food, maybe it'syour diet, maybe it's activity.
You know.
If you want to play with yourkids or your grandkids, you know
what can you do.
If you want to play with yourkids or your grandkids, what can
you do?
Can you start exercising, Canyou start walking, can you start
doing things that help to buildup your stamina and help to
build up your energy and maybelose some weight?
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I'm not saying that's what youneed, I'm just giving you
examples.
I mean, I wouldn't know becauseI don't know, we're just
talking, but that is somethingthat, if I had you as a client,
for instance, I would go throughall of the questions that I
need to.
We love to do.
So you know, if there is a, youknow, a master level athlete,
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right, and you know they'redoing all of the marathons or
performing at the Olympics,competing at the Olympics or
whatever you know, you would saythey're really healthy, you
know they're really fit, they'rereally strong, right.
And then you have thegrandmother who walks the block
three blocks.
You know, or're really fit,they're really strong, right.
And then you have thegrandmother who walks the block
three blocks, you know or walksa mile every day or around, you
know the block three times,whatever, right, and they do it
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and they love it and they'reenjoying themselves, right.
Would you say that the, theathlete, is healthier than the
grandmother?
Yeah, I guess you would.
In in today's, you know goingand looking at.
Going and looking at from like,from the doctor's point of view
, from lab work or from fitnesslevel or muscle versus whatever
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fat.
All the tests, all that woulddetermine that yes.
However, the grandma may notwant to ever become an advanced
athlete.
She has no desire.
She's just happy to be walkingaround the block three times or
to walk a mile to the store orwhatever it is.
To her, that's healthy.
She's doing what she loves todo and having a blast doing it.
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She's enjoying it.
So, yeah, she's healthy for herand he's healthy for him.
So now I'm just going to let'sjust assume they're living very,
very healthy lifestyles,because, I'm sure you may or may
not know this, there are plentyof quote unquote athletes.
I know, because being in thefitness industry, that are very
unhealthy.
Just because somebody looks fitdoesn't mean they are.
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But if you're an elite athlete,no, you got to have to put it
together.
You know you can't, you can'tbe, you can't be cheating on
your.
You know you're a fine.
You know you got a motor thathas to run beautifully.
You're not going to put crap init.
But anyway, the point is, let'snot get off track.
Is that what is healthy for youis what's most important, and
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maybe us determining our ownlevel of health for our lives is
what's important versus whatwe're told is healthy.
Because, let's be honest, Idon't particularly believe in
labs, not for myself and not formy clients.
If they want to go and get it,they're more than free to do it.
I can look at them.
But here's the thing about labsLabs are a moment in time.
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It's like a freeze frame.
Right there you go.
Labs are a moment in time.
It's like a freeze frame, rightthere you go.
And you know our bodies, ourmetabolism, is changing all day
long, so our bodies areconstantly fluctuating one way
or the other.
And so when we get a lab testdone and we look at it, we think
, oh, my gosh, that's what'shappening every moment of my
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life, is it?
No, not really.
It's a moment in time, okay.
So as long as we understand,hmm, this is a moment in time,
then we don't get too wrapped upin it.
Now again, this is not healthadvice, this is just my hey.
Like I said, we're justshooting it here, okay.
So the other thing about labtests is they keep changing,
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they keep, they keep you movingthe goal further and further
away, right, the carrot on thestick is further and further
from us, right?
They keep pushing it furtherand further out.
So, where you know, I meanthere was no worry about high
cholesterol until cholesteroldrugs came out, okay.
And I remember when I was in mytwenties, like after my second,
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the birth of my second baby, Iwas 27.
I went to the doctors and didall the blood tests, because I
did all that and my cholesterolis at 240.
Oh, I'm not 27.
Okay, 240.
My cholesterol is at 240.
Oh, 27.
Okay, 240.
My cholesterol is at 240.
And the doctor's going, youknow, you really want to think
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about getting on cholesterolmedication.
And I looked at her and I went,yeah, no, thank you, but no.
And I just thought that was thecraziest thing.
I'm 27 years old, I feel great.
Why would I get on drugs, right?
So, um, so, anyway, I think onmy last cholesterol check I had
was a few years ago and guesswhat?
It was still at 240.
It hasn't changed right now.
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Here's the thing.
I'm not going to get intocholesterol.
I can get on that another day,but here's the thing is that you
know they're constantlychanging.
So I think cholesterol was at200 and now it's like 180, and
all that right, because,honestly, because they're just
drugs.
How can we prescribe more ofthem?
Well, we just keep lowering thenumbers of what is healthy.
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So you know, with that, how doyou know what you're trusting?
I mean, there was a time whencigarettes were healthy for you
and you know, nine out of 10doctors recommend this brand
right, or?
Oh my gosh, what else?
I mean, how many things throughour medical history have we
been told is a healthy standardthat we find out later is
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completely wrong.
I mean what we have going ontoday.
We have the whole bodypositivity and that weight and
being overweight is really not ahealth concern.
Okay, right, we've knowndifferently forever, so now it
automatically isn't.
Now, I'm not talking aboutshaming someone because they're
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overweight, not at all.
But what I am talking about islet's be real, we can love the
person Absolutely.
It's not about shaming theperson, but we want them well.
And so when we are tellingpeople who are, who are obese,
and that, yeah, you don't needto lose weight, you don't need
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to lose weight, you're fine,you're healthy, look at you, you
know weight has nothing to dowith health, okay, and it does
and we see it Right.
So we know it.
Okay, I mean, some things arejust logical and make common
sense.
We know it.
So, that being said, you knowwhy wouldn't we want someone to
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be as healthy as they can be?
It's not about body shaming,but it is about loving somebody
enough to be honest with themand to care about them, enough
to do something about it.
Right, to let them know,because by ignoring it and
avoiding it, we're not beingpositive, we're not supporting
them, we're just setting themoff to an earlier grave.
We're not supporting them,we're just setting them off to
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an earlier grave, anyway.
So, that being said, the wholepoint I'm saying on that is that
the doctors are changing.
Well, the doctors, not thedoctors, really.
The doctors are just goingalong with what they're being
told to go along with, but theestablishment right, the
industrial medical complex, allof that they are constantly
changing the rules on us.
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So I don't know.
You know you can get your labs.
You cannot get your labs, butyou know what could be healthy.
You know, one year iscompletely unhealthy, the next,
you know, maybe not every year,but you understand what I'm
saying.
So what do we believe?
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Well, if you're going to go getyour labs, get your labs done,
but then ask yourself how do Ifeel, though?
How do I really really feel youmight want to do this, or don't
get your labs done anddetermine your health based on
are you able to do the thingsthat you want to do?
And, if not, what are thethings that you can do in your
life to help you to get to thatplace of health so you can do
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what you want to do, your levelof health that you want?
Okay, I'm going to expand onthat and say it's not just our
physical health, because I workwith clients.
I work with people on, again,as a holistic health specialist
holistic, you know.
I work with them on all thedifferent levels their mental
state, so not just theirphysical, but their mental,
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their emotional, theirrelationship.
So you can do the same thingwith that.
So you can do the same thingwith that.
You can say what is it?
What would a healthyrelationship look like?
For instance, a healthyspiritual life for me, a healthy
mental life.
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What do I want more of in mylife?
What do I want to think andfocus on, versus what I don't
want to think and focus on?
What do I want?
More peace and calm in my life.
You know, in spiritually.
I mean, do I?
I know that there's, you know,the church lady that sits next
to me in church and she knowsevery verse in the Bible, from
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every book and verse and chapter, and she can quote it all from
six different translations.
She's so much spiritual than Iam, more spiritual than I am.
She's a real christian.
Okay, I mean, I've, you know,we've been there saying that.
Well, maybe you haven't, but Icertainly have.
I'm just not christian enough.
But do I really?
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Is that really what I really?
I mean, you could do it if youreally wanted to.
You can sit there and memorizepassages and books, and it's
beautiful that somebody can dothat.
I think it's don't get me wrong, and that's for her.
But what does spiritual healthmean for you?
Is it more prayer time with theLord?
Is it just more contemplation?
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Is it whatever it is for you?
You know you have to decidethat and I don't want to keep
throwing ideas out, because thenit's kind of like I'm feeding
it to you and when I pose thesethings to you I don't want you
to take on my ideas.
I want you to come up with yourown.
So I always kind of try to holdback giving a lot of examples
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because I don't want that to getin your brain, so because I
want you to come up with yourown.
So, looking at your spirituallife, looking at your
relationship and I don't justmean your romantic relationship,
it could be any relationshipwith your kids, with your boss,
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with your coworkers, with yourfriends, with whatever.
Choose a relationship, look atit and go is this as healthy as
it could be?
Now, obviously, when you'redealing with more than one
person, you kind of want to beon the same.
You may want to have thatconversation of what does a
healthy relationship look liketogether?
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Right, but you could ask howcan I make this relationship?
How can I make my spirituallife?
How can I make my mental life?
How can I make all of thishealthier for me, the kind of
health that I want?
It doesn't have to look likeanybody else's right To be
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healthy.
So that's something you know.
I'm just contemplating hereAgain, I'm just going through my
own brain and kind of coming upwith these thoughts as I'm
talking to you about it.
But to make a list, maybe takingevery area of your life
physical, mental, spiritual,emotional relationships and you
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can list your relationships orwhatever else.
Whatever you know, I'm going tosay buckets.
Whatever bucket in your lifethat you have work, it could be
hobbies, it could be anything.
Just think about all justbrainstorm, think about all the
different areas of your life,put it down on paper, you know,
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and, as this is just as anexperiment, and think to
yourself what does a healthy,what does this look like, this
area look like when it's healthyfor me, and describe it, write
it down, what does it look likebeing healthy?
And then, once you've done that,for all the areas, any areas,
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or just one area that you'd liketo focus on, then I think the
next step would be I'mcontemplating this with you is
looking at your life likelooking at your day, like a
normal, average day, kind ofgoing through your life and
looking at everything that youdo, everything that you do, all
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the activities and this is justkind of like an awareness
exercise and looking at you know, what you do, and looking at
everything as being malleable,everything that you're doing,
being shiftable, being adaptable, that you're doing being
shiftable, being adaptable,something that could either be
eliminated or modified to fitinto the vision of health you
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want in that area.
And so when you look at thingswith a curiosity and with a
wonder and with a possibility of, hmm, how can I make my life?
And looking at all the thingsthat you do on a daily basis,
how can I maybe just tweak themso they can help me to achieve
the health I want in this area?
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I don't know, it sounds like afun exercise, so it might be
something.
I think that's something.
I'm going to try and see what Iwant to do.
So let's recap you determinewhat is healthy for you.
All right, that that's whatwe're going to do.
We're not going to listen tothe experts, who always change
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their mind anyway.
I mean, you can, if you want,but on top of listening to the
experts, you can do this too.
Or you can say, eh, forget theexperts, I'm just going to do
this too.
It's up to you, your decision.
No medical advice here.
All right, let you list all thedifferent areas of your life
that you would like to focus onbuilding more health in your
physical life, mental life,spiritual life, relationships
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and anything else that you canthink of.
And then you look at what itmeans to you to define.
Define what health means inthose areas.
Write it out.
Def at what it means to you todefine.
Define what health means inthose areas.
Write it out.
Define what health means in thearea of your physical life,
your mental life, your spirituallife, your emotional life, your
relationships, et cetera, etcetera.
Then next, look at your day andeverything you do.
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I mean every bit of money youspend, every, every action you
take.
Is there anything?
And looking at everything youdo, I mean every bit of money
you spend, every action you takeis there anything?
And looking at everything withcuriosity and as though
everything is shiftable,changeable, malleable, adaptable
or maybe even eliminatable,possible eliminating.
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What are the things that you doin your life that can be
modified in some way to help youbuild health in that area?
And I would only start with onearea.
Don't go overboard.
Start with one area in yourlife and see if you can bring
more health into it.
But just make sure that,whatever your health is, it is
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defined by you, not by someonewho really doesn't understand
you, doesn't understand yourlife, doesn't understand your
desires, doesn't understand yourdreams, doesn't understand your
goals, can understand youbetter than you.
No one, no expert, no one canunderstand you or have the
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answers better than you do.
You do.
You have them, we all do.
We all have them inside of us.
So tap into that and definewhat health means for you.
So tap into that and definewhat health means for you.
Hmm, all right, I'm ready to go.
I'm gonna go make my list rightnow.
So have a great day and I willtalk to you soon.
Remember, burn the boats, baby,take the island and commit to
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the path ahead.
Yeah, I'm cheesy because I'mfeeling cheesy today.
All right, bye-bye.
Welcome to Burn the Boats, baby.
This is Sharise Parviz, yourholistic health specialist, life
relationship and energy healingcoach.
Hey, so today I wanted to talkabout how the world for us would
be different if we decided whathealth meant to us, if we
defined what it meant to us.
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So before we get into that, Iwanted to give you an update on
what is happening at my at-homeretreat.
Things are going really reallywell.
I have a lot of energy.
I'm continuing to lose weight.
It's slowed down.
It used to be a pound a day andnow it's maybe about a pound
every three days maybe.
So almost two pounds a week, Ithink, was what last week was,
(00:44):
and it still continues to movingdown and getting down, getting
into some clothes that I've beenin the back of my closet for a
while and I went oh, let's seeif that fits today and it does.
So, feeling good, sleeping great.
My sleep is doing really reallywell.
I'm able to kind of sleepthrough the night and still
(01:04):
waking up every once in a whileand I just okay, you know, when
I wake up and something is on mymind instead of, like you know,
berating myself or waking uplike I need to get some sleep.
I need to get some sleep.
I kind of just let it okay.
What's the message?
What's happening?
What's my brain?
You know what's my brain, youknow thinking about, what is my
mind on that we need to dealwith, you know.
(01:29):
And then it comes up and thenI'll pray about it and I'll do
some, you know, meditation inbed and I can then fall asleep.
So you know, the biggest thingif you wake up in the middle of
the night, I found that thebiggest thing that keeps us from
falling back to sleep isworrying about waking up and not
(01:49):
going back to sleep.
So if you get up in the middleof the night, I would suggest
trying that, instead of likegoing looking at the clock and
going right, which only juststresses us out further and
we're trying to relax, we can goback to sleep further and we're
trying to relax so we can goback to sleep is to pray, to
meditate, to focus.
(02:09):
Maybe do some focus meditationson your breath, on your
sensations in your body, doing abody scan, exercise, body
scanning, just kind of seeinghow you feel from head to toe,
and just focusing on your breathand allowing your body to just
to be and if something is onyour mind, give it to God and
through those activities notstressing out about waking up
(02:33):
and not being able to sleep, butthrough those activities that
actually will help you to fallback to sleep At least it should
.
I have a whole in my wise andwild wellness way.
I have a whole lot of tips onhow to sleep, anyway, so, but
those are a few that I recommendthat I use on myself.
(02:53):
You know, prayer, meditation,breath work, just focusing on
breath, nothing big, just focus,and and then maybe body
scanning and see where there'ssome tension and then just
letting it go right, okay, so,so, yeah, everything is going
really well and, uh, what elsegosh?
Uh, oh, well, today my husbandand I are going to a governor's
(03:19):
event, so that should be kind offun.
We're looking forward to that.
We'll see how that goes, and Iguess that's it for updates.
So let's get to the topic of theday.
Okay, so what I wanted to chatabout is I was listening to a
podcast this morning and you mayknow her or you may not.
Her name is Dr Jennifer Daniels, and I don't know her story
completely, but from what Iunderstand and again, I could be
(03:43):
wrong on details, but I thinkI'm close enough for you to get
the idea is she was a medicaldoctor and she actually served,
built her own facility, her ownpractice, like you know, the
whole building and all investedin her community that she grew
up in.
She grew up in the ghetto andsomewhere in New York Syracuse,
(04:06):
new York, I believe and againthe details may be a little
shady on me right now I'm notsure but I believe it was
Syracuse, new York, and she grewup in the ghetto and she wanted
to go back and serve hercommunity and she did and, from
what I understand, she lost hermedical license because, well,
she wasn't doing what the youknow what the establishment was
(04:31):
trying to make her do.
Right, she wasn't passing outpills like they were candy, so
she wasn't writing upprescriptions.
Other like pharmaceutical repswould come in and say, you know,
check your inventory and allthis, and checked her inventory
and saw that she was still hadso much inventory or what have
(04:51):
you, and then they reported herand I can't remember, I don't
remember the details, this isjust from what I understand and
then she ended up losing herlicense and then going into debt
and she actually ended upmoving and she's now from well,
I shouldn't say now, but fromwhen I was listening to her
podcast or going back andlistening to her podcast in
(05:11):
Panama.
So really great, interestinglady.
She is one that has broughtkind of like turpentine in the
foreground, turpentine therapyinto the foreground.
And let me just say anything Isay today is only for
entertainment and educationalpurposes only.
This is none of this is medicaladvice.
(05:33):
This is all just us shootingthe you know what.
Okay, that's all we're doinghere today.
So anyway, she was a big onethat really was bringing the
whole turpentine protocol tolight and she did a lot of
research on turpentine and howturpentine back in the Merck
(05:53):
manual of like 1899, I think itwas, it was everything.
It was there to cure everythingRight.
And then slowly and slowly andslowly it went out of favor,
mostly probably because drugscame into favor, but anyway.
And then she rediscovered it, Ishould say, back in the 90s,
(06:14):
and she started working with herpatients with that had
wonderful, wonderful resultswith the turpentine protocol.
And I'm not going to discusswhat the protocol is and I'm not
suggesting you just sit thereand take a bottle of turpentine.
If that's something you'reinterested in, you can look her
up, Dr Jennifer Daniels, and Ithink her website is Vitality
(06:35):
Capsules.
I'm not quite sure I thinkthat's right, but just look her
up and you can Google her, oryou know, duckduckgoer, or
whatever you do, and learn foryourself, right.
So, anyway, but if you've beenhearing about the Turpentine
Protocol, it actually stemmedall from her bringing it back to
light what they did a hundred,you know, or more, years ago,
(06:59):
all right.
So anyway, I was listening to apodcast of hers this morning and
she talked about how, you know,we are already healthy, all the
health we need we have.
And you know, just maybeconsider what she was saying.
If we could define what healthmeans for us beyond the labs,
(07:24):
beyond the white coats, beyondwhat any expert or what the
leading doctors say, or what thetrend of the moment is, is what
is healthy, and we define whatthat is ourselves by determining
if we have enough health tolive the life that we want to
(07:48):
live.
And if we have enough health tolive the life we want to live,
then we're healthy.
And it's not about some outside, external, you know, checkmark
verification.
Hey, you're healthy, right?
It's about how we feel and arewe able to do the things that we
want to do in our life.
(08:10):
So, for instance right, I'lltake me for instance my goal
I've decided and if you've beenfollowing along is not only do I
want to get to dancing again, Iwant to get back to my
professional level fitness andability, that's what I want to
(08:30):
get.
So I'm going to determine,since that's the level I want to
get to, of course I'm going tobe looking at my diet and my
training and my stretching andall of these things that will
put me back into the place whereI was professionally dancing,
in that type of level, thatfitness level.
(08:53):
Okay, that's where I want to be.
Now, your goal in life may notbe the same, you know.
You might want to just be ableto enjoy, enjoy playing with
your kids or your grandkidswithout pain.
You might want to just be ableto climb the stairs without
getting out of breath.
(09:13):
You might want to run amarathon.
You might just want to gobiking or walking with your
friends.
Whatever that is, whatever itis that you want to do in your
life, whatever the activity isthat you want to put into your
life and have more to do, havemore of in your life, determine
your health.
(09:33):
Can you do those things?
If those are things that youwant to do, you determine what
you want to do.
Can you do it?
And if not, what might need tobe shifted in your life?
What might need to be modified,adapted, eliminated, replaced,
to have you attain that healththat will give you the freedom
(09:56):
to do the things that you enjoyand desire to do?
And so, in that thinking, it'snot about the lab reports, it's
not about the yearly tests, it'snot about and I'm not saying go
do tests, don't do tests.
You do what's right for you.
That's between you and you.
You know you got to do that,you got to be, you got to do
(10:17):
what your conscious tells you todo.
I, personally, I don't do tests.
I haven't done a medical testin quite some time.
I'm not saying that's for you,but I haven't.
Now my husband has.
And because, um, when we weretesting his liver for, uh, his
numbers, when his med?
Because when he was on thedrugs, but he hasn't done it
(10:37):
since, right, once we goteverything back to normal.
He hasn't done it since.
And so the?
So that's a decision you haveto make on your own, whether
you're going to go to thedoctors every year or whatever,
whatever, and get all the testsand get everything checked.
And you know, now you'vereached age 50.
So you go in for thatcolonoscopy because that's that
(10:58):
milestone.
And then you're way before that.
What is it?
Age 40?
I think it's 40.
I don't know.
It was when I was, when I was40.
You know, and you got to get tostart your yearly mammogram.
Now that's changed.
It's no longer yearly, but youget the idea right.
Every age comes with its own.
Now look what we get to do atthe doctor's office.
Okay, anyway, so instead of allof that, I'm just saying not
(11:20):
that you can't do it.
You can do that and do this orjust do this.
So whichever one is right foryou, determine your health based
on the ability to do the thingsyou want to do in your life.
And if you can't do the thingsthat you want to do in your life
, what can you do so that youcan?
What things?
(11:40):
Maybe it's food, maybe it'syour diet, maybe it's activity.
You know.
If you want to play with yourkids or your grandkids, you know
what can you do.
If you want to play with yourkids or your grandkids, what can
you do?
Can you start exercising, Canyou start walking, can you start
doing things that help to buildup your stamina and help to
build up your energy and maybelose some weight?
(12:01):
I'm not saying that's what youneed, I'm just giving you
examples.
I mean, I wouldn't know becauseI don't know, we're just
talking, but that is somethingthat, if I had you as a client,
for instance, I would go throughall of the questions that I
need to.
We love to do.
So you know, if there is a, youknow, a master level athlete,
(12:36):
right, and you know they'redoing all of the marathons or
performing at the Olympics,competing at the Olympics or
whatever you know, you would saythey're really healthy, you
know they're really fit, they'rereally strong, right.
And then you have thegrandmother who walks the block
three blocks.
You know, or're really fit,they're really strong, right.
And then you have thegrandmother who walks the block
three blocks, you know or walksa mile every day or around, you
know the block three times,whatever, right, and they do it
(12:59):
and they love it and they'reenjoying themselves, right.
Would you say that the, theathlete, is healthier than the
grandmother?
Yeah, I guess you would.
In in today's, you know goingand looking at.
Going and looking at from like,from the doctor's point of view
, from lab work or from fitnesslevel or muscle versus whatever
(13:19):
fat.
All the tests, all that woulddetermine that yes.
However, the grandma may notwant to ever become an advanced
athlete.
She has no desire.
She's just happy to be walkingaround the block three times or
to walk a mile to the store orwhatever it is.
To her, that's healthy.
She's doing what she loves todo and having a blast doing it.
(13:40):
She's enjoying it.
So, yeah, she's healthy for herand he's healthy for him.
So now I'm just going to let'sjust assume they're living very,
very healthy lifestyles,because, I'm sure you may or may
not know this, there are plentyof quote unquote athletes.
I know, because being in thefitness industry, that are very
unhealthy.
Just because somebody looks fitdoesn't mean they are.
(14:02):
But if you're an elite athlete,no, you got to have to put it
together.
You know you can't, you can'tbe, you can't be cheating on
your.
You know you're a fine.
You know you got a motor thathas to run beautifully.
You're not going to put crap init.
But anyway, the point is, let'snot get off track.
Is that what is healthy for youis what's most important, and
(14:24):
maybe us determining our ownlevel of health for our lives is
what's important versus whatwe're told is healthy.
Because, let's be honest, Idon't particularly believe in
labs, not for myself and not formy clients.
If they want to go and get it,they're more than free to do it.
I can look at them.
But here's the thing about labsLabs are a moment in time.
(14:46):
It's like a freeze frame.
Right there you go.
Labs are a moment in time.
It's like a freeze frame, rightthere you go.
And you know our bodies, ourmetabolism, is changing all day
long, so our bodies areconstantly fluctuating one way
or the other.
And so when we get a lab testdone and we look at it, we think
, oh, my gosh, that's what'shappening every moment of my
(15:06):
life, is it?
No, not really.
It's a moment in time, okay.
So as long as we understand,hmm, this is a moment in time,
then we don't get too wrapped upin it.
Now again, this is not healthadvice, this is just my hey.
Like I said, we're justshooting it here, okay.
So the other thing about labtests is they keep changing,
(15:31):
they keep, they keep you movingthe goal further and further
away, right, the carrot on thestick is further and further
from us, right?
They keep pushing it furtherand further out.
So, where you know, I meanthere was no worry about high
cholesterol until cholesteroldrugs came out, okay.
And I remember when I was in mytwenties, like after my second,
(15:56):
the birth of my second baby, Iwas 27.
I went to the doctors and didall the blood tests, because I
did all that and my cholesterolis at 240.
Oh, I'm not 27.
Okay, 240.
My cholesterol is at 240.
Oh, 27.
Okay, 240.
My cholesterol is at 240.
And the doctor's going, youknow, you really want to think
(16:19):
about getting on cholesterolmedication.
And I looked at her and I went,yeah, no, thank you, but no.
And I just thought that was thecraziest thing.
I'm 27 years old, I feel great.
Why would I get on drugs, right?
So, um, so, anyway, I think onmy last cholesterol check I had
was a few years ago and guesswhat?
It was still at 240.
It hasn't changed right now.
(16:39):
Here's the thing.
I'm not going to get intocholesterol.
I can get on that another day,but here's the thing is that you
know they're constantlychanging.
So I think cholesterol was at200 and now it's like 180, and
all that right, because,honestly, because they're just
drugs.
How can we prescribe more ofthem?
Well, we just keep lowering thenumbers of what is healthy.
(17:01):
So you know, with that, how doyou know what you're trusting?
I mean, there was a time whencigarettes were healthy for you
and you know, nine out of 10doctors recommend this brand
right, or?
Oh my gosh, what else?
I mean, how many things throughour medical history have we
been told is a healthy standardthat we find out later is
(17:25):
completely wrong.
I mean what we have going ontoday.
We have the whole bodypositivity and that weight and
being overweight is really not ahealth concern.
Okay, right, we've knowndifferently forever, so now it
automatically isn't.
Now, I'm not talking aboutshaming someone because they're
(17:47):
overweight, not at all.
But what I am talking about islet's be real, we can love the
person Absolutely.
It's not about shaming theperson, but we want them well.
And so when we are tellingpeople who are, who are obese,
and that, yeah, you don't needto lose weight, you don't need
(18:08):
to lose weight, you're fine,you're healthy, look at you, you
know weight has nothing to dowith health, okay, and it does
and we see it Right.
So we know it.
Okay, I mean, some things arejust logical and make common
sense.
We know it.
So, that being said, you knowwhy wouldn't we want someone to
(18:29):
be as healthy as they can be?
It's not about body shaming,but it is about loving somebody
enough to be honest with themand to care about them, enough
to do something about it.
Right, to let them know,because by ignoring it and
avoiding it, we're not beingpositive, we're not supporting
them, we're just setting themoff to an earlier grave.
We're not supporting them,we're just setting them off to
(18:50):
an earlier grave, anyway.
So, that being said, the wholepoint I'm saying on that is that
the doctors are changing.
Well, the doctors, not thedoctors, really.
The doctors are just goingalong with what they're being
told to go along with, but theestablishment right, the
industrial medical complex, allof that they are constantly
changing the rules on us.
(19:12):
So I don't know.
You know you can get your labs.
You cannot get your labs, butyou know what could be healthy.
You know, one year iscompletely unhealthy, the next,
you know, maybe not every year,but you understand what I'm
saying.
So what do we believe?
(19:37):
Well, if you're going to go getyour labs, get your labs done,
but then ask yourself how do Ifeel, though?
How do I really really feel youmight want to do this, or don't
get your labs done anddetermine your health based on
are you able to do the thingsthat you want to do?
And, if not, what are thethings that you can do in your
life to help you to get to thatplace of health so you can do
(20:00):
what you want to do, your levelof health that you want?
Okay, I'm going to expand onthat and say it's not just our
physical health, because I workwith clients.
I work with people on, again,as a holistic health specialist
holistic, you know.
I work with them on all thedifferent levels their mental
state, so not just theirphysical, but their mental,
(20:22):
their emotional, theirrelationship.
So you can do the same thingwith that.
So you can do the same thingwith that.
You can say what is it?
What would a healthyrelationship look like?
For instance, a healthyspiritual life for me, a healthy
mental life.
(20:42):
What do I want more of in mylife?
What do I want to think andfocus on, versus what I don't
want to think and focus on?
What do I want?
More peace and calm in my life.
You know, in spiritually.
I mean, do I?
I know that there's, you know,the church lady that sits next
to me in church and she knowsevery verse in the Bible, from
(21:04):
every book and verse and chapter, and she can quote it all from
six different translations.
She's so much spiritual than Iam, more spiritual than I am.
She's a real christian.
Okay, I mean, I've, you know,we've been there saying that.
Well, maybe you haven't, but Icertainly have.
I'm just not christian enough.
But do I really?
(21:26):
Is that really what I really?
I mean, you could do it if youreally wanted to.
You can sit there and memorizepassages and books, and it's
beautiful that somebody can dothat.
I think it's don't get me wrong, and that's for her.
But what does spiritual healthmean for you?
Is it more prayer time with theLord?
Is it just more contemplation?
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Is it whatever it is for you?
You know you have to decidethat and I don't want to keep
throwing ideas out, because thenit's kind of like I'm feeding
it to you and when I pose thesethings to you I don't want you
to take on my ideas.
I want you to come up with yourown.
So I always kind of try to holdback giving a lot of examples
(22:07):
because I don't want that to getin your brain, so because I
want you to come up with yourown.
So, looking at your spirituallife, looking at your
relationship and I don't justmean your romantic relationship,
it could be any relationshipwith your kids, with your boss,
(22:27):
with your coworkers, with yourfriends, with whatever.
Choose a relationship, look atit and go is this as healthy as
it could be?
Now, obviously, when you'redealing with more than one
person, you kind of want to beon the same.
You may want to have thatconversation of what does a
healthy relationship look liketogether?
(22:49):
Right, but you could ask howcan I make this relationship?
How can I make my spirituallife?
How can I make my mental life?
How can I make all of thishealthier for me, the kind of
health that I want?
It doesn't have to look likeanybody else's right To be
(23:10):
healthy.
So that's something you know.
I'm just contemplating hereAgain, I'm just going through my
own brain and kind of coming upwith these thoughts as I'm
talking to you about it.
But to make a list, maybe takingevery area of your life
physical, mental, spiritual,emotional relationships and you
(23:32):
can list your relationships orwhatever else.
Whatever you know, I'm going tosay buckets.
Whatever bucket in your lifethat you have work, it could be
hobbies, it could be anything.
Just think about all justbrainstorm, think about all the
different areas of your life,put it down on paper, you know,
(23:52):
and, as this is just as anexperiment, and think to
yourself what does a healthy,what does this look like, this
area look like when it's healthyfor me, and describe it, write
it down, what does it look likebeing healthy?
And then, once you've done that,for all the areas, any areas,
(24:13):
or just one area that you'd liketo focus on, then I think the
next step would be I'mcontemplating this with you is
looking at your life likelooking at your day, like a
normal, average day, kind ofgoing through your life and
looking at everything that youdo, everything that you do, all
(24:36):
the activities and this is justkind of like an awareness
exercise and looking at you know, what you do, and looking at
everything as being malleable,everything that you're doing,
being shiftable, being adaptable, that you're doing being
shiftable, being adaptable,something that could either be
eliminated or modified to fitinto the vision of health you
(24:57):
want in that area.
And so when you look at thingswith a curiosity and with a
wonder and with a possibility of, hmm, how can I make my life?
And looking at all the thingsthat you do on a daily basis,
how can I maybe just tweak themso they can help me to achieve
the health I want in this area?
(25:18):
I don't know, it sounds like afun exercise, so it might be
something.
I think that's something.
I'm going to try and see what Iwant to do.
So let's recap you determinewhat is healthy for you.
All right, that that's whatwe're going to do.
We're not going to listen tothe experts, who always change
(25:39):
their mind anyway.
I mean, you can, if you want,but on top of listening to the
experts, you can do this too.
Or you can say, eh, forget theexperts, I'm just going to do
this too.
It's up to you, your decision.
No medical advice here.
All right, let you list all thedifferent areas of your life
that you would like to focus onbuilding more health in your
physical life, mental life,spiritual life, relationships
(26:02):
and anything else that you canthink of.
And then you look at what itmeans to you to define.
Define what health means inthose areas.
Write it out.
Def at what it means to you todefine.
Define what health means inthose areas.
Write it out.
Define what health means in thearea of your physical life,
your mental life, your spirituallife, your emotional life, your
relationships, et cetera, etcetera.
Then next, look at your day andeverything you do.
(26:25):
I mean every bit of money youspend, every, every action you
take.
Is there anything?
And looking at everything youdo, I mean every bit of money
you spend, every action you takeis there anything?
And looking at everything withcuriosity and as though
everything is shiftable,changeable, malleable, adaptable
or maybe even eliminatable,possible eliminating.
(26:46):
What are the things that you doin your life that can be
modified in some way to help youbuild health in that area?
And I would only start with onearea.
Don't go overboard.
Start with one area in yourlife and see if you can bring
more health into it.
But just make sure that,whatever your health is, it is
(27:09):
defined by you, not by someonewho really doesn't understand
you, doesn't understand yourlife, doesn't understand your
desires, doesn't understand yourdreams, doesn't understand your
goals, can understand youbetter than you.
No one, no expert, no one canunderstand you or have the
(27:37):
answers better than you do.
You do.
You have them, we all do.
We all have them inside of us.
So tap into that and definewhat health means for you.
So tap into that and definewhat health means for you.
Hmm, all right, I'm ready to go.
I'm gonna go make my list rightnow.
So have a great day and I willtalk to you soon.
Remember, burn the boats, baby,take the island and commit to
(28:03):
the path ahead.
Yeah, I'm cheesy because I'mfeeling cheesy today.
All right, bye-bye.
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