October 7, 2024 • 24 mins
Health Transformations with a Liquid GAPS Fast and Mastering Meditation Techniques
Could a simple two-day liquid GAPS fast transform your energy levels and boost your well-being? In this episode, I share my own journey with this intriguing approach to health, revealing how it led to a three-pound weight loss, reduced bloating, and made my mornings feel more vibrant. As a holistic health specialist and GAPS practitioner, I even tackle the taboo topic of bowel movements, which tell us so much about our digestive health. You'll also get a sneak peek into my plans for modifying stage one of the GAPS diet, as I consider incorporating solid foods like meats and vegetables in the evenings while continuing a liquid fast during the day, all while emphasizing the power of mindful eating.
Discover the art of circular breathing and how it can unlock deeper emotional access through continuous mouth breathing. This technique isn't just for the adventurous—it requires careful practice, especially if you have health concerns like anxiety or heart issues. I'll guide you on how to approach it safely and effectively.
Plus, learn practical, easy strategies for managing intrusive thoughts during meditation, turning those pesky distractions into opportunities for mindfulness. Whether you're a beginner or seasoned practitioner, you'll find tips on embracing the unique ways meditation can connect you with your inner self, from feelings to sounds, and everything in between.
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Sharise Parviz (00:00):
Good morning.
I wanted to do a quick littleupdate of what my weekend was
like.
It is now Monday morning and Ihad two days on my liquid Gaps
Fast and I feel amazing.
So just to let you know how Iam feeling, just in two days of
(00:20):
being on my liquid Gaps Fast, mybloating is down.
Two days of being on my liquidgaps fast, my bloating is down.
I have lost three pounds and Ihave my energy is I feel so much
more energetic and I feel goodand when I get up in the morning
I'm now really just able to hopout of the bed and just get
moving right away.
So just after two days and I'mjust feeling really positive and
(00:45):
and cleansed out.
There was a okay, so just real,real, quickly, just kind of
remind me of something.
There was a, there's a, a, anaturopath, another naturopath,
and she was saying that you know, bowel movements are a thing of
joy, or bring life joy orsomething like that.
(01:06):
I laughed, I thought I don'tknow if they bring me joy, but,
boy, when you have a good one,it sure does make you feel great
.
So sorry if that upsets you,but when you're in the field
that I am, which is a holistichealth specialist, traditional
naturopath, all herbalist andGAPS practitioner and doing all
the things.
I don't know.
Bowels are just a commonconversation at this point.
(01:27):
So it's, you know, everybodytells me about their bowel
movement.
So sorry if that offended youat all, but hopefully it doesn't
.
I mean, hopefully you knowwhere this is coming from, so
that doesn't surprise you anyway.
But so, yes, so you know,everything is moving beautifully
and I'm just feeling, yeah,just great after two days.
(01:48):
So what I've decided to do todaybecause today I was going to go
ahead and get started and moveinto stage one of GAPS and the
difference between, say, theliquid fast and stage one
specifically, is really addingin meats and vegetables, just
starting to eat, bring in solidsand that's really it.
I mean, the stage one reallyonly lasts about one to three
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days at the most, because it'sjust really about.
It's just really about gettingeverything, you know again more
cleaning out.
But there's not a lot of foodin it.
So you know it's uh, it cancause constipation and things
like that, but then again that'swhy you have your enemas.
So anyway, um, usually I it'sone to three days, it just all
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depends, as long as the foodthat's, you know, someone is
eating is, uh, tolerable, right,and and usually it is, you know
because it's a very, very mild,mild beginning.
But I've decided I'm going tokind of do a modified, because
I've been feeling so good on theliquid gaps fast and I'm not
too hungry at all, because everytime I get hungry I just have
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another cup of meat stock.
I'm just listening to the birdsright now, so getting the
morning sun time, so I thoughtwhat I'll do, though, is I'd
like to continue with the liquidfast, at least through the day,
and then so drinking thefermented brine, the fermented
drinks, having the meat stockwith just the liquid stock only,
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and herbal teas, and then greenjuices and so forth, and then
the evening for dinner and Ihave my dinner pretty early I
try not to eat past six, meaningI want to be done with my meal
by six, and the reason for thatis I like to give myself and
actually it's really beneficialto give yourself at least, I say
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, three hours, two to threehours, you know time before you
go to bed, between eating andgoing to bed, and so, especially
for heavy food, now, sometimes,if I'm still like a little
hungry, I may have a little bowlof my homemade yogurt or, you
know, my cultured cream with alittle bit of honey or what have
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you, you know, but I trydefinitely to not eat an hour
before bedtime, but I prefer tobe done by my food by six, and
then I go to bed at nine andthen I, of course, get up at
four.
So well, not of course, but Ithink I told you that yesterday.
So anyway, so, yeah, so I thinkI'm going to modify it and have
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my later meal, my meal.
I'll have one meal where I'lladd in to my stock the meats and
vegetables from it, and I madea meat shank, a beef shank stock
, which is yummy, yummy, and soI'll add the meat and the
vegetables and that'll be for myevening meal time and then the
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rest of the day I think I'll doliquids and I think I'll
continue that until I'm ready,till my body tells me okay, I'm
ready to eat more throughout theday, and we'll see how that
goes.
And I will continue to do myenema and at least once a day
for right now, and my detox bathand my prayers and my
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meditation.
So, yesterday, what happenedyesterday, yesterday has been
this weekend's been really good.
I haven't done a lot ofphysical activity because, being
on a liquid fast, I'm not tiredor a lack energy in that sense,
like, oh my gosh, I'm dragging.
Like I said, I feel better, Ifeel great, but you know, I also
don't want to overdo it, right.
So I do what you know, mildwork, whatever my body feels
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like, and my body just felt likemaybe doing some walking.
So I did some walking and, ofcourse, I did my yoga, my gentle
yoga, meditations, breath workthat I mentioned, and the breath
work that I did I thought I'dshare that with you is a it's
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called circular breathing.
Well, there's different types ofbreathing techniques that are
called circular breathing.
This is one type that's calledcircular breathing or continuous
breath, and so what you do withit is it's mouth breathing.
So typically you want tobreathe through your nose right,
and I'll talk about thatanother time but you typically
you want to breathe through yournose and so, but in this
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particular case, this is mouthbreathing and you're not
breathing fast, you know,through your mouth, but you're
just breathing continuously.
You're inhaling and exhalingwithout pausing in between.
A lot of times.
If you notice when you breathe,you may find that when you take
an inhale.
Between your inhale and yourexhale you take a slight pause,
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and you may notice that you dothat.
So this, there is no pause,it's just one breath, and it's
called circular breathing orcontinuous breathing, because
you're thinking about likeyou're breathing in this circle
and as I do this breath, Iactually imagine it's like my
breath going up the clock, likeinhaling up the clock and then
exhaling down the clock, and upthe clock and down the clock.
And when you breathe in this way, I'm not quite sure what the
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reasoning is.
I'd have to like to researchthis a little bit more as I
delve deeper into the breathwork, variations of different types
of breathwork and why certainbreathworks do certain things.
But you know, I think a lot ofit is just opening up the throat
, and so what happens is that alot of emotions and so forth
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come this way right, can comeforward in breathing this way,
and I think a lot of the reasonswhy that is is that accessing
more emotions or accessing, Iguess, just more emotional
connection is.
It's almost the same way thatsinging does.
You know one of the things youknow, you as a singer, you know
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they say, speaking is the voiceof the, you know, of the head
right, but singing is the voiceof the soul and you know, when
you're opening your mouth andyou're taking inhale and you're
exhaling and you're singing andyou're singing a note and your
throat is open and your mouth isopen, it is such a vulnerable
place to be right, I mean,because you're making the sound
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and it's just out there, youknow.
But the thing is, everything isopen, everything is open and
the deep breathing and theopenness of the throat, I think
just really brings up, allowsthe emotions to come up and come
out, and I think it's the sameway with this breathing.
So the way you do this circularbreathing, if it's something
you want to try, up and come out, and I think it's the same way
with this breathing.
So the way you do this circularbreathing, if it's something you
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want to try and not everyone,this isn't recommended for
everyone to try and again, I'mnot recommending it.
This is not medical advice,this is none of that.
This is all just forentertainment and educational
purposes only.
So, but there are some folksthat probably shouldn't try
doing the circular breathing.
Folks that may have anxiety arediagnosed and again, I don't
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like to use the word diagnosed.
But if you have been diagnosedschizophrenia or bipolar or so
forth but if everything is goodand you feel like, yeah, you
know, I'm not doing too badly,all right, also maybe some heart
problems I'm trying to rememberall the disclaimers here the
heart problems, bipolarschizophrenia, anxiety, right,
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hypertension, so forth.
So if you're, you know, goodhealth and it's not major.
But if you're in good health,then try it or not, right, this
is all up to you to decide whatto do.
So what you do is just you finda comfortable position to either
sit or lie down, but you wantto be comfortable.
But you also want to have astraight back, not rigid but
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straight.
You want to make sure you havelength through the torso so that
you're making room for thebreath to come into the lungs
and to leave the lungs, so we'renot sitting and collapsing.
Or, if you're laying down, youwant to lay straight on your
back and opening up the chestand opening up the diaphragm
area which is right below yourribs, and allowing that to move
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and be free.
Okay, move and expand.
So in that position of sittingor lying down, in a not a rigid
but in a very comfortable butstraight position, you want to
open your mouth and you're goingto inhale and exhale without
stopping.
It sounds like this.
Hopefully that you heard that,um, and it's just.
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You know, you may find a littlebit that like when I was doing
it I know I did it for which is,if you're not used to doing any
kind of breath work, don't dothat.
But you know, do it for maybe30 seconds, Do it for a minute,
do it for however long iscomfortable for you.
Anytime you do any kind ofbreath work or meditation work
or anything really anything new,start small, low and slow is
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the game.
That's what I always say Lowand slow.
Go low and slow Because you'rebreaking in, right, you're
testing the waters, but alsoit's no different than going to
the gym.
When you go to a gym, right, youdon't go to the gym and it's
the first time you've been tothe gym in forever, or maybe
it's your first time you've everbeen to the gym at all and
you're not really worked out oryou're new.
So you don't go.
And you don't go pick up the$100 or $100, 100 pound
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dumbbells and start doing biceps.
You don't do that, you know.
Maybe you do biceps with noweight at all.
Maybe you do biceps with fivepounds, right, two pounds,
whatever it is what'scomfortable for you that you can
do at that time.
And then, as you you know, youget.
You continue to go to the gymand you keep working out and you
keep progressing through.
You begin to increase yourweight, right, and there's no
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difference.
When I was a personal trainer,you know I would develop a plan
for a client and you know everytwo weeks we'd increase the
weight, but we'd only increasethe weight by two and a half to
five pounds, right, depending on.
You know how they were doing,but most of the time it was no
more than five pounds and thatwas every two weeks.
So you always want to startslow and slow and allow your
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mind.
In this case, when you're doingmental, or you're doing
meditations, or you're doingbreath work or you're doing, or
even if you're doing like someof the life coaching strategies
that I use and we're practicingthese strategies so that you can
use them on your own indifficult situations.
But you don't.
You start with less challengingsituations to practice the
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tools.
So you start less challengingand then you move into more
challenging.
You never just want to jump in.
I mean you can, but more thanlikely you'll.
You know you could get hurt,which we don't want, or you just
go too far too.
I mean you can, but more thanlikely you'll.
You know you could get hurt,which we don't want.
Or you just go too far, toofast and then you burn out.
And then you don't do that.
A lot of people do that, right.
They go to the gym, they giveall they got and they work out
their you know, work their buttoff and then they're in so sore
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the next day they don't go backto the gym.
It's better to go low and slowand consistency and progression
right, simple, simple.
Keep it simple.
Keep it simple.
So you may just want to trythis breathing.
If you want to try thisbreathing, if you feel this
breathing is something thatcould benefit you, or just want
to give it a try and see whatcomes up.
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You know, 30 seconds, 15seconds, whatever.
Try it for five breaths total.
That's it.
Inhale and exhale as one setand try five sets of the
breathing.
If you like it, continue.
But be aware that there aresome things.
If you continue for like 45minutes you might start to feel
thirsty, your throat gets dry.
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Take time, take sips of water.
You may find that you want totake it slow because sometimes
through breath work, if you'renot used to it, it could cause
headaches.
It could cause tension tohappen in the body.
You know so.
You know like muscular tension,you just so.
You really just want to go slow, okay.
So I really don't recommend ifyou're listening to this you
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want to try it.
If you've never done it, do fivesets of breath.
That's if I were to recommendanything, which I'm not, but if
I were to, that's what I woulddo.
I would tell someone who wasjust beginning no more than five
sets, just test the watersright, and then, if you really
want to get into breath work,you know you might want to get
with somebody who could teachyou some breath work.
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My goal is to start courses andget them out onto the internet.
Right now I'm working in person, but eventually I will.
Anyway, but the nice thingabout that breath work is it
just really starts to open up.
Well, for me I'll talk aboutfor me my heart a little bit.
A lot of different emotionscame up right, a lot of
different emotions, and Iaccepted him, you know, and
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talked with him and got to justbecome aware of them.
And whenever I do breath work ormeditation, you know, a lot of
times people get turned off bydoing anything like that because
they're told you know, makeyour mind silent and you know,
don't think and you know, makesure that you're focusing on
this and keep turning your mindback and keep turning your mind
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back.
Here's what I want to say.
I guess this is my big takeawaythat I want to share with you,
and because I think I could go alot of different places right
now, but let me just keep itclear and keep it concise.
If you start meditating orbreath work or anything like
that, it's okay for your mind tothink.
Your mind is going to do whatyour mind is going to do, right.
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Your heart, well, it beatsright.
Your heart beats.
Your lungs they breathe rightand your mind, it thinks.
So your mind, your brain, isjust doing what it's meant to do
, what it was created to do.
We don't want to beat it forwhat it's created to do.
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So how do you handle whenthoughts, intrusive thoughts or
thoughts you know that distractyou come into your mind when you
are meditating or doing breathwork?
You have a lot of differentoptions, really.
Well, not a lot, but you havequite a few different options
and allow them, allow them.
Oh, that's interesting, okay.
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And if it's something that'sjust kind of interfering a
little bit, you'd say, oh okay,I see you and I imagine putting
it up on a shelf.
I imagine two things.
If it's just a thought that I'mjust coming in but it really
doesn't have any purpose in mylife, it's just kind of like, oh
, that's kind of a randomthought, okay, then I will
imagine it either floating awayon a cloud or floating down a
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river and just letting it go,just saying hello, all right,
you know, thank you for sharing,and let it go.
If it's a thought especially ifyou're doing meditation or
breath work or something likethat, trying to quiet the mind a
little bit and you've got asuper big day ahead or you're
coming off something, I do oneof two things.
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One thing I'll do is if athought pops in and I know it's
something that I want toremember, I'll put it on.
I imagine putting it on a shelfsaying thank you, let me deal
with you after my time right now, after I meditate.
Or let me deal with you aftermy breath work right, and I just
imagine sticking it in a shelfor I imagine putting it in a
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bubble and just putting thatbubble aside.
So I'm saving it for later.
Now, if I really know that I'vegot, my mind is busy, busy,
busy, busy and I don't feel likeI can really calm it down to
just breathe and just be.
I'll put some post-it notes bymy side.
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I love my post-it notes, Igotta tell you, and I'll take
post-it notes and a pen and ifI'm meditating and if I'm
breathing or doing somethingthat I would like to just calm
my mind down a bit more.
But something keeps popping up.
If it's something that'simportant, I'll just jot it down
.
You know you can learn to comein and out of your meditation,
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which is a very important skill,useful skill to have as you
learn to meditate, because youwant to bring that mindfulness
and that meditative.
You know calming energythroughout your day and if you
can learn to do that, then itjust makes your day better.
You know, in relationships andso forth, to be able to tune in
to that meditative energy andone way to learn how to do that
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is when you're meditating.
You know, allowing yourself tocome in and out of it.
So one way is you come out, youjot it back, you jot it down,
put it aside and you go backinto your meditation or your
breath work.
So, and the other thing, though,is that, whatever thoughts that
come into your head, don'tjudge yourself.
Congratulate yourself, becauseif you catch yourself kind of
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drifting into something that'skind of like, well, that's not
where I was going or that wasnot the intention of my
meditation, right, If you haveone, congratulate yourself
because you just noticed it, youjust became mindful and you
were meditating and realizedthat you were no longer
meditating, and so that's amoment of success actually.
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So congratulate yourself forthat.
Also, understand that when wego to a place of meditation,
when we bring our heart ratedown and we're settling down and
our breath and our breathing isslowing down and our mind is
opening and our heart is opening, you know answers could come.
That's another reason whypost-it notes might be good,
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especially if you're praying forsomething or you're seeking
guidance.
When you seek the guidance andyou ask the questions and you go
into meditation.
Sometimes, if you go intoprayer and you pray and then you
sit in meditation after theprayer, you know that's when
answers can come and that's okay, that I mean, that's wonderful,
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I'm not just okay.
But allow it, jot it down, jotit down.
There's nothing wrong withdoing that anyway.
I guess that's all I wanted toshare is that if you started
doing any kind of meditation orany kind of breath work, don't
be afraid or don't feel you'refailing.
I think that's what it is.
A lot of people, oh, I can'tmeditate, you can.
It's not that.
It's not that, there's not that.
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When people make things solegalistic that you have to do
it this way, that's the problem.
Everybody has their own way ofmeditating.
Everybody has their own way ofbeing and what works for one
person doesn't work for allpeople.
You know, when I work withguided meditations in my group
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classes, you know I say the wordimagine because not everybody
visualizes.
Some people imagine throughkinesthetically, they can feel
it in their body, right.
So if I lead someone through aguided meditation, some people
are very visual and they willsee my guiding, right where I'm
guiding them.
But some people will feel it,some people will hear, some
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people will or just imagine, orsome people see words, right.
So everyone, you know.
So everyone has their own wayof imagining.
It isn't always visual, and I'ma very visual person, but not
everyone is, and that's okay too.
There's nothing wrong with that.
You don't have to be a visualperson to meditate.
You can sense into your tune,into your sense of you know,
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hearing, sense of feeling.
Right, it doesn't have toalways be visual.
So what I would suggest let'sget down to conclusion here,
because I'm kind of ramblinghere, sorry about that, but what
I would suggest is that if youtry, if you're new and you want
to embark on any kind of breathwork or any kind of meditation,
go low and slow.
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Even if you start meditating.
I would say no more than twominutes to begin, no more than
two minutes.
Allow thoughts to come, allowthoughts to go, welcome them in
and then set them off, put themon a shelf, let them flow down
the river or through the clouds,or put it down on a post-it
note and go right back in towhatever you're doing.
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No judgment, just awareness,just acceptance.
It's all part of you, you know.
We accept who we are, we acceptwhat we are, we accept the good
, we accept the bad.
When we come to a point ofacceptance, then guess what we
can be free and then all thosethings that we work so hard to
stop and we work so hard to, youknow, restrain and put away and
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they're no good.
And all this, and you know what, those parts of us that we
would like to see evolve into ahigher part of who we are, the
higher self, will happen.
But it will happen throughsaying I see you, I acknowledge
you, you're here for a reason.
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Let's find out why, right.
So love yourself, acceptyourself, be aware and allow.
Allow your thoughts, allow yourmind, allow your brain to do
what it's meant to do, which isto think it's okay.
All right, I'm out of here.
I'm just rambling and beating adead horse, you know.
Anyway, have a great day.
I'll let you know how.
I'm not sure when I'll beposting.
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I'm out of here, I'm justrambling and beating a dead
horse.
You know.
Anyway, have a great day.
I'll let you know how.
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I'll be posting on a dailybasis or if I'll post a summary
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It's just me and youchit-chatting and I'm just
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All right, all right, have abeautiful day and we'll chat
soon.
Bye-bye, get out in the sun.
Good morning.
I wanted to do a quick littleupdate of what my weekend was
like.
It is now Monday morning and Ihad two days on my liquid Gaps
Fast and I feel amazing.
So just to let you know how Iam feeling, just in two days of
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being on my liquid Gaps Fast, mybloating is down.
Two days of being on my liquidgaps fast, my bloating is down.
I have lost three pounds and Ihave my energy is I feel so much
more energetic and I feel goodand when I get up in the morning
I'm now really just able to hopout of the bed and just get
moving right away.
So just after two days and I'mjust feeling really positive and
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and cleansed out.
There was a okay, so just real,real, quickly, just kind of
remind me of something.
There was a, there's a, a, anaturopath, another naturopath,
and she was saying that you know, bowel movements are a thing of
joy, or bring life joy orsomething like that.
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I laughed, I thought I don'tknow if they bring me joy, but,
boy, when you have a good one,it sure does make you feel great
.
So sorry if that upsets you,but when you're in the field
that I am, which is a holistichealth specialist, traditional
naturopath, all herbalist andGAPS practitioner and doing all
the things.
I don't know.
Bowels are just a commonconversation at this point.
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So it's, you know, everybodytells me about their bowel
movement.
So sorry if that offended youat all, but hopefully it doesn't
.
I mean, hopefully you knowwhere this is coming from, so
that doesn't surprise you anyway.
But so, yes, so you know,everything is moving beautifully
and I'm just feeling, yeah,just great after two days.
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So what I've decided to do todaybecause today I was going to go
ahead and get started and moveinto stage one of GAPS and the
difference between, say, theliquid fast and stage one
specifically, is really addingin meats and vegetables, just
starting to eat, bring in solidsand that's really it.
I mean, the stage one reallyonly lasts about one to three
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days at the most, because it'sjust really about.
It's just really about gettingeverything, you know again more
cleaning out.
But there's not a lot of foodin it.
So you know it's uh, it cancause constipation and things
like that, but then again that'swhy you have your enemas.
So anyway, um, usually I it'sone to three days, it just all
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depends, as long as the foodthat's, you know, someone is
eating is, uh, tolerable, right,and and usually it is, you know
because it's a very, very mild,mild beginning.
But I've decided I'm going tokind of do a modified, because
I've been feeling so good on theliquid gaps fast and I'm not
too hungry at all, because everytime I get hungry I just have
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another cup of meat stock.
I'm just listening to the birdsright now, so getting the
morning sun time, so I thoughtwhat I'll do, though, is I'd
like to continue with the liquidfast, at least through the day,
and then so drinking thefermented brine, the fermented
drinks, having the meat stockwith just the liquid stock only,
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and herbal teas, and then greenjuices and so forth, and then
the evening for dinner and Ihave my dinner pretty early I
try not to eat past six, meaningI want to be done with my meal
by six, and the reason for thatis I like to give myself and
actually it's really beneficialto give yourself at least, I say
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, three hours, two to threehours, you know time before you
go to bed, between eating andgoing to bed, and so, especially
for heavy food, now, sometimes,if I'm still like a little
hungry, I may have a little bowlof my homemade yogurt or, you
know, my cultured cream with alittle bit of honey or what have
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you, you know, but I trydefinitely to not eat an hour
before bedtime, but I prefer tobe done by my food by six, and
then I go to bed at nine andthen I, of course, get up at
four.
So well, not of course, but Ithink I told you that yesterday.
So anyway, so, yeah, so I thinkI'm going to modify it and have
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my later meal, my meal.
I'll have one meal where I'lladd in to my stock the meats and
vegetables from it, and I madea meat shank, a beef shank stock
, which is yummy, yummy, and soI'll add the meat and the
vegetables and that'll be for myevening meal time and then the
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rest of the day I think I'll doliquids and I think I'll
continue that until I'm ready,till my body tells me okay, I'm
ready to eat more throughout theday, and we'll see how that
goes.
And I will continue to do myenema and at least once a day
for right now, and my detox bathand my prayers and my
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meditation.
So, yesterday, what happenedyesterday, yesterday has been
this weekend's been really good.
I haven't done a lot ofphysical activity because, being
on a liquid fast, I'm not tiredor a lack energy in that sense,
like, oh my gosh, I'm dragging.
Like I said, I feel better, Ifeel great, but you know, I also
don't want to overdo it, right.
So I do what you know, mildwork, whatever my body feels
(05:30):
like, and my body just felt likemaybe doing some walking.
So I did some walking and, ofcourse, I did my yoga, my gentle
yoga, meditations, breath workthat I mentioned, and the breath
work that I did I thought I'dshare that with you is a it's
(05:51):
called circular breathing.
Well, there's different types ofbreathing techniques that are
called circular breathing.
This is one type that's calledcircular breathing or continuous
breath, and so what you do withit is it's mouth breathing.
So typically you want tobreathe through your nose right,
and I'll talk about thatanother time but you typically
you want to breathe through yournose and so, but in this
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particular case, this is mouthbreathing and you're not
breathing fast, you know,through your mouth, but you're
just breathing continuously.
You're inhaling and exhalingwithout pausing in between.
A lot of times.
If you notice when you breathe,you may find that when you take
an inhale.
Between your inhale and yourexhale you take a slight pause,
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and you may notice that you dothat.
So this, there is no pause,it's just one breath, and it's
called circular breathing orcontinuous breathing, because
you're thinking about likeyou're breathing in this circle
and as I do this breath, Iactually imagine it's like my
breath going up the clock, likeinhaling up the clock and then
exhaling down the clock, and upthe clock and down the clock.
And when you breathe in this way, I'm not quite sure what the
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reasoning is.
I'd have to like to researchthis a little bit more as I
delve deeper into the breathwork, variations of different types
of breathwork and why certainbreathworks do certain things.
But you know, I think a lot ofit is just opening up the throat
, and so what happens is that alot of emotions and so forth
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come this way right, can comeforward in breathing this way,
and I think a lot of the reasonswhy that is is that accessing
more emotions or accessing, Iguess, just more emotional
connection is.
It's almost the same way thatsinging does.
You know one of the things youknow, you as a singer, you know
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they say, speaking is the voiceof the, you know, of the head
right, but singing is the voiceof the soul and you know, when
you're opening your mouth andyou're taking inhale and you're
exhaling and you're singing andyou're singing a note and your
throat is open and your mouth isopen, it is such a vulnerable
place to be right, I mean,because you're making the sound
(08:06):
and it's just out there, youknow.
But the thing is, everything isopen, everything is open and
the deep breathing and theopenness of the throat, I think
just really brings up, allowsthe emotions to come up and come
out, and I think it's the sameway with this breathing.
So the way you do this circularbreathing, if it's something
you want to try, up and come out, and I think it's the same way
with this breathing.
So the way you do this circularbreathing, if it's something you
(08:26):
want to try and not everyone,this isn't recommended for
everyone to try and again, I'mnot recommending it.
This is not medical advice,this is none of that.
This is all just forentertainment and educational
purposes only.
So, but there are some folksthat probably shouldn't try
doing the circular breathing.
Folks that may have anxiety arediagnosed and again, I don't
(08:55):
like to use the word diagnosed.
But if you have been diagnosedschizophrenia or bipolar or so
forth but if everything is goodand you feel like, yeah, you
know, I'm not doing too badly,all right, also maybe some heart
problems I'm trying to rememberall the disclaimers here the
heart problems, bipolarschizophrenia, anxiety, right,
(09:16):
hypertension, so forth.
So if you're, you know, goodhealth and it's not major.
But if you're in good health,then try it or not, right, this
is all up to you to decide whatto do.
So what you do is just you finda comfortable position to either
sit or lie down, but you wantto be comfortable.
But you also want to have astraight back, not rigid but
(09:39):
straight.
You want to make sure you havelength through the torso so that
you're making room for thebreath to come into the lungs
and to leave the lungs, so we'renot sitting and collapsing.
Or, if you're laying down, youwant to lay straight on your
back and opening up the chestand opening up the diaphragm
area which is right below yourribs, and allowing that to move
(10:02):
and be free.
Okay, move and expand.
So in that position of sittingor lying down, in a not a rigid
but in a very comfortable butstraight position, you want to
open your mouth and you're goingto inhale and exhale without
stopping.
It sounds like this.
Hopefully that you heard that,um, and it's just.
(10:36):
You know, you may find a littlebit that like when I was doing
it I know I did it for which is,if you're not used to doing any
kind of breath work, don't dothat.
But you know, do it for maybe30 seconds, Do it for a minute,
do it for however long iscomfortable for you.
Anytime you do any kind ofbreath work or meditation work
or anything really anything new,start small, low and slow is
(11:00):
the game.
That's what I always say Lowand slow.
Go low and slow Because you'rebreaking in, right, you're
testing the waters, but alsoit's no different than going to
the gym.
When you go to a gym, right, youdon't go to the gym and it's
the first time you've been tothe gym in forever, or maybe
it's your first time you've everbeen to the gym at all and
you're not really worked out oryou're new.
So you don't go.
And you don't go pick up the$100 or $100, 100 pound
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dumbbells and start doing biceps.
You don't do that, you know.
Maybe you do biceps with noweight at all.
Maybe you do biceps with fivepounds, right, two pounds,
whatever it is what'scomfortable for you that you can
do at that time.
And then, as you you know, youget.
You continue to go to the gymand you keep working out and you
keep progressing through.
You begin to increase yourweight, right, and there's no
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difference.
When I was a personal trainer,you know I would develop a plan
for a client and you know everytwo weeks we'd increase the
weight, but we'd only increasethe weight by two and a half to
five pounds, right, depending on.
You know how they were doing,but most of the time it was no
more than five pounds and thatwas every two weeks.
So you always want to startslow and slow and allow your
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mind.
In this case, when you're doingmental, or you're doing
meditations, or you're doingbreath work or you're doing, or
even if you're doing like someof the life coaching strategies
that I use and we're practicingthese strategies so that you can
use them on your own indifficult situations.
But you don't.
You start with less challengingsituations to practice the
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tools.
So you start less challengingand then you move into more
challenging.
You never just want to jump in.
I mean you can, but more thanlikely you'll.
You know you could get hurt,which we don't want, or you just
go too far too.
I mean you can, but more thanlikely you'll.
You know you could get hurt,which we don't want.
Or you just go too far, toofast and then you burn out.
And then you don't do that.
A lot of people do that, right.
They go to the gym, they giveall they got and they work out
their you know, work their buttoff and then they're in so sore
(12:56):
the next day they don't go backto the gym.
It's better to go low and slowand consistency and progression
right, simple, simple.
Keep it simple.
Keep it simple.
So you may just want to trythis breathing.
If you want to try thisbreathing, if you feel this
breathing is something thatcould benefit you, or just want
to give it a try and see whatcomes up.
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You know, 30 seconds, 15seconds, whatever.
Try it for five breaths total.
That's it.
Inhale and exhale as one setand try five sets of the
breathing.
If you like it, continue.
But be aware that there aresome things.
If you continue for like 45minutes you might start to feel
thirsty, your throat gets dry.
(13:37):
Take time, take sips of water.
You may find that you want totake it slow because sometimes
through breath work, if you'renot used to it, it could cause
headaches.
It could cause tension tohappen in the body.
You know so.
You know like muscular tension,you just so.
You really just want to go slow, okay.
So I really don't recommend ifyou're listening to this you
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want to try it.
If you've never done it, do fivesets of breath.
That's if I were to recommendanything, which I'm not, but if
I were to, that's what I woulddo.
I would tell someone who wasjust beginning no more than five
sets, just test the watersright, and then, if you really
want to get into breath work,you know you might want to get
with somebody who could teachyou some breath work.
(14:19):
My goal is to start courses andget them out onto the internet.
Right now I'm working in person, but eventually I will.
Anyway, but the nice thingabout that breath work is it
just really starts to open up.
Well, for me I'll talk aboutfor me my heart a little bit.
A lot of different emotionscame up right, a lot of
different emotions, and Iaccepted him, you know, and
(14:45):
talked with him and got to justbecome aware of them.
And whenever I do breath work ormeditation, you know, a lot of
times people get turned off bydoing anything like that because
they're told you know, makeyour mind silent and you know,
don't think and you know, makesure that you're focusing on
this and keep turning your mindback and keep turning your mind
(15:06):
back.
Here's what I want to say.
I guess this is my big takeawaythat I want to share with you,
and because I think I could go alot of different places right
now, but let me just keep itclear and keep it concise.
If you start meditating orbreath work or anything like
that, it's okay for your mind tothink.
Your mind is going to do whatyour mind is going to do, right.
(15:27):
Your heart, well, it beatsright.
Your heart beats.
Your lungs they breathe rightand your mind, it thinks.
So your mind, your brain, isjust doing what it's meant to do
, what it was created to do.
We don't want to beat it forwhat it's created to do.
(15:49):
So how do you handle whenthoughts, intrusive thoughts or
thoughts you know that distractyou come into your mind when you
are meditating or doing breathwork?
You have a lot of differentoptions, really.
Well, not a lot, but you havequite a few different options
and allow them, allow them.
Oh, that's interesting, okay.
(16:10):
And if it's something that'sjust kind of interfering a
little bit, you'd say, oh okay,I see you and I imagine putting
it up on a shelf.
I imagine two things.
If it's just a thought that I'mjust coming in but it really
doesn't have any purpose in mylife, it's just kind of like, oh
, that's kind of a randomthought, okay, then I will
imagine it either floating awayon a cloud or floating down a
(16:34):
river and just letting it go,just saying hello, all right,
you know, thank you for sharing,and let it go.
If it's a thought especially ifyou're doing meditation or
breath work or something likethat, trying to quiet the mind a
little bit and you've got asuper big day ahead or you're
coming off something, I do oneof two things.
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One thing I'll do is if athought pops in and I know it's
something that I want toremember, I'll put it on.
I imagine putting it on a shelfsaying thank you, let me deal
with you after my time right now, after I meditate.
Or let me deal with you aftermy breath work right, and I just
imagine sticking it in a shelfor I imagine putting it in a
(17:17):
bubble and just putting thatbubble aside.
So I'm saving it for later.
Now, if I really know that I'vegot, my mind is busy, busy,
busy, busy and I don't feel likeI can really calm it down to
just breathe and just be.
I'll put some post-it notes bymy side.
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I love my post-it notes, Igotta tell you, and I'll take
post-it notes and a pen and ifI'm meditating and if I'm
breathing or doing somethingthat I would like to just calm
my mind down a bit more.
But something keeps popping up.
If it's something that'simportant, I'll just jot it down
.
You know you can learn to comein and out of your meditation,
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which is a very important skill,useful skill to have as you
learn to meditate, because youwant to bring that mindfulness
and that meditative.
You know calming energythroughout your day and if you
can learn to do that, then itjust makes your day better.
You know, in relationships andso forth, to be able to tune in
to that meditative energy andone way to learn how to do that
(18:23):
is when you're meditating.
You know, allowing yourself tocome in and out of it.
So one way is you come out, youjot it back, you jot it down,
put it aside and you go backinto your meditation or your
breath work.
So, and the other thing, though,is that, whatever thoughts that
come into your head, don'tjudge yourself.
Congratulate yourself, becauseif you catch yourself kind of
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drifting into something that'skind of like, well, that's not
where I was going or that wasnot the intention of my
meditation, right, If you haveone, congratulate yourself
because you just noticed it, youjust became mindful and you
were meditating and realizedthat you were no longer
meditating, and so that's amoment of success actually.
(19:07):
So congratulate yourself forthat.
Also, understand that when wego to a place of meditation,
when we bring our heart ratedown and we're settling down and
our breath and our breathing isslowing down and our mind is
opening and our heart is opening, you know answers could come.
That's another reason whypost-it notes might be good,
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especially if you're praying forsomething or you're seeking
guidance.
When you seek the guidance andyou ask the questions and you go
into meditation.
Sometimes, if you go intoprayer and you pray and then you
sit in meditation after theprayer, you know that's when
answers can come and that's okay, that I mean, that's wonderful,
(19:51):
I'm not just okay.
But allow it, jot it down, jotit down.
There's nothing wrong withdoing that anyway.
I guess that's all I wanted toshare is that if you started
doing any kind of meditation orany kind of breath work, don't
be afraid or don't feel you'refailing.
I think that's what it is.
A lot of people, oh, I can'tmeditate, you can.
It's not that.
It's not that, there's not that.
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When people make things solegalistic that you have to do
it this way, that's the problem.
Everybody has their own way ofmeditating.
Everybody has their own way ofbeing and what works for one
person doesn't work for allpeople.
You know, when I work withguided meditations in my group
(20:32):
classes, you know I say the wordimagine because not everybody
visualizes.
Some people imagine throughkinesthetically, they can feel
it in their body, right.
So if I lead someone through aguided meditation, some people
are very visual and they willsee my guiding, right where I'm
guiding them.
But some people will feel it,some people will hear, some
(20:57):
people will or just imagine, orsome people see words, right.
So everyone, you know.
So everyone has their own wayof imagining.
It isn't always visual, and I'ma very visual person, but not
everyone is, and that's okay too.
There's nothing wrong with that.
You don't have to be a visualperson to meditate.
You can sense into your tune,into your sense of you know,
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hearing, sense of feeling.
Right, it doesn't have toalways be visual.
So what I would suggest let'sget down to conclusion here,
because I'm kind of ramblinghere, sorry about that, but what
I would suggest is that if youtry, if you're new and you want
to embark on any kind of breathwork or any kind of meditation,
go low and slow.
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Even if you start meditating.
I would say no more than twominutes to begin, no more than
two minutes.
Allow thoughts to come, allowthoughts to go, welcome them in
and then set them off, put themon a shelf, let them flow down
the river or through the clouds,or put it down on a post-it
note and go right back in towhatever you're doing.
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No judgment, just awareness,just acceptance.
It's all part of you, you know.
We accept who we are, we acceptwhat we are, we accept the good
, we accept the bad.
When we come to a point ofacceptance, then guess what we
can be free and then all thosethings that we work so hard to
stop and we work so hard to, youknow, restrain and put away and
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they're no good.
And all this, and you know what, those parts of us that we
would like to see evolve into ahigher part of who we are, the
higher self, will happen.
But it will happen throughsaying I see you, I acknowledge
you, you're here for a reason.
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Let's find out why, right.
So love yourself, acceptyourself, be aware and allow.
Allow your thoughts, allow yourmind, allow your brain to do
what it's meant to do, which isto think it's okay.
All right, I'm out of here.
I'm just rambling and beating adead horse, you know.
Anyway, have a great day.
I'll let you know how.
I'm not sure when I'll beposting.
(23:07):
I'm out of here, I'm justrambling and beating a dead
horse.
You know.
Anyway, have a great day.
I'll let you know how.
I'm not sure when I'll beposting.
I'll be posting on a dailybasis or if I'll post a summary
at the end of my first week.
But either way, go ahead andmake sure that you subscribe to
my email list on my website,wwwshariceparvizcom.
I don't know why everybody sayswww, just charisparvizcom.
You already know it's www andsign up for my newsletter.
(23:29):
Also, there's a lot of freebieson my website, as well as a
Know your why, which is awonderful exploration on why you
want what you want, the realdeep purpose of what will keep
you driving to success, towardsyour goal, whatever that is,
finding out the real reason whyyou want it.
(23:50):
Anyway, and I will post theseon trying to work out how to get
these on Spotify and we'refiguring that out, but in the
meantime it will be on mywebsite and then I'll also post
it on X as well, if you have anyquestions about what I'm saying
, because I'm just like I toldyou initially I'm going off the
cuff.
It's just me and youchit-chatting and I'm just
(24:11):
sharing.
I'm walking down my lane andI'm just seeing you standing
beside me and we're just talking.
Seems like I'm doing all thetalking.
You should talk more, but youshould, because what I would
love for you to do is that if Isay anything and you have
questions on it or curiositiesabout it because I'm not going
to depth like I would if I wasworking with clients or so forth
(24:31):
I'm just giving you an overview.
But if you have questions.
Please feel free to email mecontact at chariseparvizcom, and
you can do it right from mywebsite as well.
All right, all right, have abeautiful day and we'll chat
soon.
Bye-bye, get out in the sun.
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