July 4, 2025 • 40 mins
This episode is a masterclass in executive wellness for any leader feeling burnt out or out of balance.
We sit down with legendary wellness pioneer Udo Erasmus to rediscover what true health means and how to build resilience, not through hacks, but by tapping into daily stillness practices.
Udo shares the powerful story behind his lifelong journey, from surviving World War II to becoming a global advocate for holistic health.
He breaks down his revolutionary concept of "Total Health," rooted in 8 powerful pillars that cover everything from inner awareness and life energy to nutrition and emotional harmony.
This is your guide to beating burnout and achieving vibrant energy in your professional and personal life.
Timestamps:
00:00 – The Origins of Udo’s Journey
06:50 – The 8 Pillars of Total Health
19:20 – Stillness: The Missing Link in Leadership
24:20 – True Nutrition vs. Modern Diets
32:56 – Creating a Sustainable, Healthy Lifestyle
38:26 – The Practice That Changed Udo’s Life
Guest:
Udo Erasmus
Founder of Udo’s Choice | Wellness Pioneer | Author of Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill
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We sit down with legendary wellness pioneer Udo Erasmus to rediscover what true health means and how to build resilience, not through hacks, but by tapping into daily stillness practices.
Udo shares the powerful story behind his lifelong journey, from surviving World War II to becoming a global advocate for holistic health.
He breaks down his revolutionary concept of "Total Health," rooted in 8 powerful pillars that cover everything from inner awareness and life energy to nutrition and emotional harmony.
This is your guide to beating burnout and achieving vibrant energy in your professional and personal life.
Timestamps:
00:00 – The Origins of Udo’s Journey
06:50 – The 8 Pillars of Total Health
19:20 – Stillness: The Missing Link in Leadership
24:20 – True Nutrition vs. Modern Diets
32:56 – Creating a Sustainable, Healthy Lifestyle
38:26 – The Practice That Changed Udo’s Life
Guest:
Udo Erasmus
Founder of Udo’s Choice | Wellness Pioneer | Author of Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill
Host:
Melissa Aarskaug
Executive Connect | Website
YouTube: @ExecutiveConnect
Connect With Us:
Podcast Website: https://www.executiveconnectpodcast.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ExecutiveConnect
Social:
Melissa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-aarskaug/
Podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-executive-connect/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@melissa_aarskaug
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But I look back now and say, "What a gift?"
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Because we got stripped of everything.
We lost everything.
The community, the farm, the people, the houses, the furniture, the animals, the neighborhood,
we lost everything except the clothes we wore, the bodies we were in, and the life in those bodies.
And what runs your body is solar energy.
You are a solar energy gadget.
A fraction of solar energy is stored in bonds between atoms to make molecules.
(00:26):
You eat some of those as food in your cells.
Those bonds get broken.
That solar energy fraction is released and now you call them life.
And when life separates from the body, the body is finished.
Billing dimmed by stress or in the chaotic world today, meet Udo Erasmus.
In today's podcast, he spent 40 years cracking the code to vibrate and light up your life.
(00:53):
He's here with us to share his secrets from nutrition to inner harmony.
Udo is going to teach you how to glow from within, beat burnout, and even help the planet
while you're at it.
Get ready to unlock your happiness, healthiest self.
Welcome Udo.
All right, nice to be on.
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We're excited to have you on today.
We're going to cover a lot of brown.
Let's just start behind which drives you one of the things that I love is right when I
met you.
You're just a happy, positive, vibrant person.
And you've said your mission is to help 8 billion people tap into the light already within
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them.
What ignites this vision and how has it guided your work and wellness and nutrition over
the last several years?
Right.
It hasn't been 40 years.
I was born during the second world war.
I had a huge gift to be born in a war.
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I was on the fire egg line.
I was two years old.
That's it.
It was terrible at the time.
But I looked back and I was like, what a gift because we got stripped of everything.
We lost everything.
The community, the farm, the people, the houses, the furniture, the animals, the neighborhood.
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We lost everything except the clothes we wore, the bodies we were in, and the life in those
bodies.
So in a very simple start and I didn't get steamed into cultures and belief systems and
all of that because I didn't believe anything because I was just like, yeah, whatever they
say, you know, it's like you can't depend on any of that.
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Because they say, oh, yeah, we'll take care of you.
And then they should shoot at you, right?
So when I was six years old, it started for me.
I listened to people argue and it made me really uneasy because I was really shy.
I was very, very, very inward, right?
And they got so intense and it occurred to me, man, there must be a way that people can
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live in harmony.
And this little cocky voice of a six year old who doesn't know how complicated everything
is.
I'm going to find out how.
And that's been my driver all my life.
So it started with the war that that was the, that was the gift.
You know, and now we're drifting towards war just like after the first world war in
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Europe, they didn't practice peace between the first and second world war.
They had 21 years.
So they got the second world war.
Now we're drifting again because nobody's practicing peace.
There is actually peace everywhere, including in us, but we don't use that as a foundation.
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And when we don't have peace as a foundation, then we drift into all of the craziness that
just gets crazier and crazier with time.
And you can see it happening everywhere in the world these days, right?
So but that was the start for me.
And then it was kind of like I was very, I was insecure.
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I didn't know what I could count on.
So I was a very sciencey, you know?
You know, I want to find out everything about everything, how everything works because when
you know how the nature of things, then they become predictable and reliable.
So I got into science, then I got into the biological science because human beings and
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living things are unbelievably fascinating.
And it's part of still part of this journey of how can people live together in harmony.
And then I got into psychology, how thinking works because that's part of it.
And then I got into medicine because I wanted to know what health is, but we only learned
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about disease.
So I only lasted a year in medicine.
And we were told that a doctor should know what, he should sound as though he knows what's
going on even when he doesn't.
That finished my medical career because I wasn't going to lie to people for a living.
No, I'm a farm boy, right?
We call that lying.
And we call it, he and now we call it PR, right?
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All right.
So anyway, so then I went back into biochemistry and genetics because biochemistry and genetics
pretty much are the foundation for everything, the trees and the birds and the people and everything
going on here.
And then I, but there was something missing.
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I didn't, you know, we studied biology, biology is a study of life, but we never learned
about life and biology.
We learned about form and function.
We didn't learn about soul in psychology, psychology means study of soul.
We learned about thoughts, beliefs and emotions.
I wanted to know what soul is, I know I wanted to know what life is.
And so I left university.
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And then I got into kind of the more, you know, if you, if you want to study human nature,
then you got to study the people who addressed issues of human nature, who was that?
Well in the Western world, it was Socrates.
And then the other one would have been Jesus, right?
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So what did they say?
Socrates said, no, thyself.
And it's like, what the hell does that mean?
How do you know yourself?
Well, you ain't going to know yourself unless you spend time with yourself, right?
You know, whatever you learn is by because you focus on it.
Well, if you don't spend time being with yourself and noticing what is in yourself in whatever
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way that happens, right?
Then you're not going to learn much.
So we mostly spend a world out there, our life out there or in our heads, but never in
the space that our body occupies.
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Don't just watch acts.
Yeah.
I saw I want to kind of dive into a couple things you said.
I think one of the things in talking to you is how to apply human well-being no matter how
old you are and where you are in your journey.
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So I want to dig into some of your ideas that you champion in your work where you talk about
total health as something designed by nature that has eight key parts.
What are one of those parts?
Kind of two questions.
What are the eight pieces and what of the eight pieces do you think people easily overlook
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in their lives?
Right.
You're exactly two sentences ahead of me.
Is that's where I was going?
Okay.
So if you look at human nature, you know, human nature was not invented by lawyers or governments
or the medical profession or any other experts, human experts came from nature.
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Right.
You're a creature of nature.
If you take your clothes off, you're a naked creature in nature.
And everything about you except for your clothes is natural from nature.
And what your body is made from is either water or from air, oxygen or from soil through
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plants through food.
And your whole body is made out of food, water and air.
And what runs your body is solar energy.
You are solar energy gadgets.
A fraction of solar energy is stored in bonds between atoms to make molecules.
You eat some of those as food in your cells.
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Those bonds get broken.
That solar energy fraction is released and now you call it lice.
And when life separates from the body, the body is finished.
So something is running it.
Lice is running it.
And you are actually that life.
What do we most miss?
Lice is the energy.
So we miss that one because we're always using it because that's how our biochemistry works,
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but that's also how our limbs work and our muscles work.
Right.
So we're using that.
We're not paying attention to being present to what that energy actually is and what it
feels like because that energy is actually unconditional, empowering love for
the body.
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So we are unconditionally empowering, lead love by life.
So if you're looking for love, sit still, tune in, enjoy.
Okay.
But the thing we miss most is behind that flow of energy is an awareness, which is completely
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stable, which is complete peace.
And there is peace everywhere in the universe, more than hydrogen, more than any molecules,
the same amount of space because it's everywhere inside you and outside of you and it's completely
stable.
There's nothing going on.
It is a foundation.
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It is a container.
And that's what we miss the most.
So everything that happens on this planet happens in perfect peace, but I'll take you to Ukraine
for a second, you know, in Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, peace is everywhere and the
peace is including the pieces in the warriors, around the warriors in front, below, between
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above the warriors.
But the warriors are not focused on the peace that is everywhere.
They're focused on an idea in the head, you're my enemy, I'm going to kill you and the other
guys, you're my enemy, I'm going to kill you.
So in perfect peace, they have a war.
Wait.
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And then the question you have to ask, well, if that's true, that peace is everywhere as the
foundation of all existence, then what are we choosing to put into that peace?
Because we have the choice to put in it, whatever we want.
You could put peace into peace, you could put love into peace, and you could put harm into
those into peace.
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And when we drift, because we lose our, because we don't build our lives on a foundation
of peace, then somebody bumps into you and you bump into them back a little harder.
That's called escalation, right?
And then it goes back and forth and then over 10, 20, 30, 40, now it's been about 70
years since the last war, 1945, right?
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So we're all drifting in the direction of escalation and getting crazier, crazier,
and getting stupider and stupider and getting more and more polarized.
And eventually we're heading toward serious, physical, destructiveness that comes from the
mental negativity that comes from bumping into people and not letting it go.
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So remind me what the eight, you're just quickly, what are the eight key parts?
Yeah, I, is this eight parts or ten parts?
This depends on how you look at it.
But number one is what I just talked about.
Number one is internal awareness.
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When you bring your focus to the core of your being, in the core of your being is your
access and is your point and access to a piece that goes from your core all the way
out to infinity, not limited to your body and every human being at every point in space is
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a center of that piece that is infinite.
Yeah, that's number one.
If you miss that, you're living without foundation and when you live without foundation, then everything
goes.
Then you drift, then you then you then you then you go downhill.
Okay?
The effort needs to be made to be present to peace and we're not doing that.
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Second is the life in, in that space and that's, I call that life energy and its nature is
a flow of unconditional and powering love for, you know, runs everything.
It's the master in the body, the master in and of the body.
So that's number two.
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Number three is the shine of that love into the world and I, you can call that positive
mind or I call it inspired for purpose and fundamentally when you feel cared for by
life, it's not about you anymore.
So okay, I'm taking care of, if I don't know, if I don't feel cared for, I know where to
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go because I am cared for within my being and so I just have to connect to it, focus on
it, bring the focus inside, when I feel that, all of a sudden it's like, what's left to
do on this planet?
Well, it's not about me and me getting myself taken care of anymore because I am taking
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care of it.
Oh, okay, where can I help?
Where can I help?
What needs to be done?
How can I make the biggest splash for good that's possible to, to, to make in the time
that I have on this planet?
Okay?
That's just because I feel cared for it.
If I don't feel cared for, I'm always going to be looking to do something that will take
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care of me.
How will that take care of me?
And I won't do things that I can't see how they would take care of me even if they
need to be done, right?
So really important that we deal with that inner presence that is already there that
we are not taking time to focus into.
That's number three.
Physical body, everybody talks about that, food and fitness, digestion, rest, all of the
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physical stuff.
Then the number five is protective mind.
That's how do you make it safe for you to live your life.
And it's also about reproduction and parenting and education because that's the survival.
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Those are the survival issues, right?
And then obviously getting food and shelter and clothing and all of that.
That's number five, number six is social group.
You know, you live with eight billion other people and there are, it's about connecting,
connecting and communicating and contributing and working together on big projects.
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And then it's about membership and the threat of exclusion if you don't follow the rules
of your group.
So you have to navigate that.
We need to be embracing the uniqueness of the members because the uniqueness is what brings
their contribution.
And when you dampen down the uniqueness, then you dampen down the contribution.
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And so what happens if you, you know, if you're not nice to people and you don't encourage
them, well, then they shut down and they just do the minimum and they don't do what they
could be doing to make it better for everybody.
Right?
So that's numbers six, number seven is natural environment.
That's where all our resources come from freely given unless somebody, you know, says, I
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own this and then tries to sell you what he got for free.
Right?
So all our resources also we're talking about water, air, earth, soil, plants, animals,
other human beings, microbes, right?
All of that.
And you basically, you're basically a creature in nature.
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And how do you live aligned with nature, which is mostly resources, 99% resources, 1% danger
because, you know, tidal waves and earthquakes and volcanoes and, you know, rock slides and
things like that.
So there's gratitude for resources and respect for the power for its power.
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Right?
So that's number seven.
Number eight is infinite awareness.
That's about coming to terms with and accepting the fact that your body is a terminal condition
doing its short dance in an infinite universe and being okay with that, you know, it's
okay that one day my body will quit.
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Why is that?
Because something in me is indestructible and will never die.
The awareness, not both the internal and the infinite awareness, they're forever, they're
formless and indestructible.
I call it beyond health because it's out of the realm of even all of that.
And dying and being born and getting sick and getting healthy.
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This is way beyond that.
The energy that keeps you alive, that is life, never dies.
I call that perfect health.
And if you allow that to flow without interference through your system and you bring it, the building
blocks it needs, which come from food, water and air and you don't interfere with your thinking,
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you don't interfere with its function by your thinking.
Then it is perfect health and it will keep, it will keep building, maintaining, repairing
the body and it will give you the longest life if you live it on a foundation of peace and
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of love.
And I'm not talking about hippie stuff although you could do it that way too.
But I'm talking about this is like as real, peace is real and it's a presence and love is
a presence and it's a feeling.
And if you sit with your focus inside the space, your body, your body, your body, you will
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experience both of those.
So the thing to always do, how many executives spend time in their lives every day where
they take some time, five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, an hour probably is it would
be really good measure.
An hour where they leave all of their stuff outside, turn off all the distractions, sit with
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themselves and discover what that is that they're sitting in.
Because that's where the peace comes from, the wisdom comes from, the insight comes from,
the confidence comes from, the wholeness comes from, there are no, there's no, no roses
in that space in that stillness.
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Right?
So yeah, I want to talk a little bit about that.
Let's talk a little bit about, there's some key things that you said there.
So one of which is sitting quiet without yourself.
I mean in today's world we have ping-pings here, the everything is, you know, hitting us
whether it's our phone call or our TV or any of the electronics we have around us.
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But I feel like you were saying kind of at the beginning, a lot of people are stressed and
burnt out, they're not connecting with themselves, they're really responding and reacting to
what's happening in their life.
I want to talk a little bit about how people can start reconnecting with their inner sense
of harmony.
And that is exactly what you said by turning your phone off, connecting with yourself and
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having that relationship where, oh, I'm not feeling too good today or hey, I have this hunch,
I need to call my mom or whatever those guiding into, I'm going to call it intuition that's
telling you to do, you can't have those happen in your life if you're not plugged into your
own source and really figuring that out.
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So I want to talk a little bit about how can people find that inner harmony to guide
them through their lies in a practical way that's healthy?
Yeah.
Okay.
So if you're stressed and you're overwhelmed and you're anxious and you're depressed and
all of those things that we call mental, mental, unstable, mental illness, mentally, not
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well, all of that, whenever, even right in the middle of that, the peace in the core of your
being is not in any way affected by all the things you stress about, including your thoughts
of stress.
The peace is not affected by your stress and the love, the life energy is not affected
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by any of those things.
So it's good to remember when you get really crazy in your head that something in you is
not crazy.
So that there's two of you in a sense.
One is the stress part.
That's its job to deal with the environment and where a lot of the stress comes from is that
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we live in a world where everything is changing and we don't want it to change.
And so we'd like to control it and we can't control it and it's out of control and oh my
God, what am I going to do now?
Right?
At the same time that everything that can change will change, let it change.
Because if you're in peace in the core of your being and you feel loved by life, it's
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okay to live in a world of change.
It's not simple.
But we're used to stressing about things.
We're not used to tapping into the place in us that is our stability, that is our refuge,
that is our safety.
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And both are always there.
So it's literally a matter of which one are you going to focus on?
And of course because we focus on stress so much and we're not very good at focusing
on peace, love and inspiration only because we don't practice it.
So what's the recommendation?
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Practice it, get good at it, get better at it.
I've been doing a practice like this over over 50 years.
And I started, I wasn't good at it.
I couldn't even sit still for five minutes because I had so much going in my head but gradually,
gradually, gradually, and I liked the feeling.
I liked the peace and I came out of a war.
So I have a standard that I can measure it by.
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I liked the feeling for the first six months every time I sat still, I started to cry.
All of my, you know, no particular memories or anything, but just all the tension that
I had never released in my life started, started leaving me.
And then when it's after six months, all the crying was done.
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And so now it's still, it's always about going deeper, work in progress.
I'm a work in progress.
I will be a work in progress as long as I live.
And I have never seen how deep it goes because I don't, I think it's instantly deep.
And it just the peace just gets better.
And by the way.
One of the things I love about what our time together is, you know, one of the hottest things
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I hear right now is everybody's getting healthy.
They want to be in better health.
You know, psychologies become really big right now.
Counseling and coaching have like everybody's a life coach now.
And so I want to talk a little bit, I mean, that's a huge topic right now.
This, you know, holistic wellness, health, psychology.
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I want to get your thoughts on how you see nutrition today as we move through 20 to 25.
Well, the body's always been made out of food.
And in nature for every creature that eats, the standard was fresh, whole, raw, organic,
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local, maybe to some extent, season based, right?
And for humans, probably if you trust the research, probably more plant than animal based,
not necessarily only plant based, but more plant than animal based.
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Okay, because plants are the foundation of the entire food chain.
So if you eat a cow, a cow is made out of grass, so we sometimes joke and say, well, you know,
cow is just a more concentrated form of vegetable, right?
So, but it was always fresh, whole, raw, organic.
Well, when you go and look in your cupboards and your fridge and you look at how much of
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what you have in there and then how much of what you eat is fresh, whole, raw, and organic,
there's a pretty big gap between what you're doing and what is nature's mandate.
Close that gap, head in the direction.
You know, if you go from frying to cooking, from cooking to blanching, from blanching to raw,
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as much as you can.
If it's contaminated, you have to cook it to kill the bugs, right?
But head in that direction and then instead of using artificial molecules that never
existed in nature and therefore don't fit in the body and have side effects, we call them
pharmaceutical drugs or industrial chemicals.
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You know, minimize your use of those.
Where did the plants get their protection from?
Where did the animals get their protection from?
Well, the plants made all kinds of really interesting molecules that we can't make, but when
we eat the plants, then we get the protection they made for themselves against viruses,
bacteria, and other things, right?
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Then we get the protection in our body from the work that the plants did for themselves.
Well, so where should we focus?
Well, spices, cloves, are unbelievably antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, anti-cardio,
anti-diabetic, you know, some of the bigger, the strongest, by the turmeric, amla, right?
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There's all kinds of different spices in different places in the world that have anti-inflammatory,
anti-collestral, anti-just about everything that's bad benefits, used them liberally in your
foods.
So you know, if you have inflammation, omega-3's decrease inflammation and they do it very
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well, and most people don't get enough omega-3's, like 99% of the population does not get enough
omega-3's for optimum health, but they're very sensitive molecules, so they need to be
undamaged.
And so the omega-3's that people are getting are partially damaged, and the damaged molecules
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don't belong in your body, so they don't work well in your body, and those products lose
their benefits when you let them be damaged, or when you damage them in the frying pan.
So you know, so I think when it comes to all of that, heading in the direction of how it
was in nature, because every creature in nature eats fresh, raw organic, local, except for
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us, every creature, except for us in the animals we feed, and then the animals we feed get
the diseases we get from feeding ourselves the same stupid way, right?
So, but then if you want to talk about aging, because there's longevity and vitality and
anti-aging, you talk about anti-aging, well, if you practice peace in your life, it literally
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reverses aging.
Hmm, how cool is that?
There's good research on that, and if you feel loved and you put out love, and you don't
like create wars in your own mind, because that's that stress you create yourself, and that
works on you, like if I hate you, you know, I saw this saying the other day, when you hate
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someone, you're more, you hurt more by the hate than the other person, because the other person
can walk from it and you're sitting in it, right?
So hate makes you age, oh yeah, well that makes sense, stress, you know, I mean even stress,
right?
When things happen and change and don't want them to change, you're creating the stress
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for yourself by wanting things that change to be different than they are, right?
You want things to be different, so you use change as an excuse to stress yourself.
Well stress makes you, stress ages you, and in fact if you get in, if you use enough things
as an excuse to stress yourself, you'll burn yourself up, right?
You know, like Salier talked about first you get the stress, then you get adaptation, and
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that already gets you aging because your heartbeat goes up and your blood pressure goes up,
and your alert, your sense of something's after me goes up, right?
And if you do that long enough, then you exhaust your immune system and you burn out, right?
So there has to be time to refresh yourself, you know, it's what is it called, recreation,
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you know, recreation, you know, when we go out and have fun, you call it recreation, but
the word actually means recreation, it's time we spend recreating our body, time we spend
relaxed, time we spend in fun, time in time we spend in doing, you know, even challenges
that we find interesting, and in good company and in good feeling and in contentment.
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And all of them slow down aging and or even reverse aging.
So it's like we have like this whole universe where all the good stuff and all the bad
stuff is possible.
And the question I, you know, I have to ask myself, then maybe everybody should ask themselves,
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what am I picking out of this total, could be totally negative and totally positive, where
am I on that continuum?
What am I picking?
What am I picking moment to moment?
Let's pull that back a little bit.
I think we've become, you know, a culture that is impatient with health and wellness.
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We want to be like you're young tomorrow.
We were, how do I say this?
We just don't have the patience to sustain long term health.
Like we, everybody gets on the train in January, we're going to get a gym membership,
we're going to clean up our diet.
And by February, everybody's back to the fast food.
They put the weight back on and then some.
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And so I want to talk a little bit about maybe some tips that you can share with our listeners
on how they can be seen a left full-blown lifestyle change.
It's not just a, you know, a diet or a one-time thing.
I think I want to get your insights on how our listeners can boost their health and
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feel more in tune with themselves to live their best lives.
Yeah, I would, I will always end up going back to, you know, so I could just say, know
myself, you know, what was Jesus' deal?
Well, he said, Kingdom of Heaven is within you and by Kingdom of Heaven, what's that?
All the good stuff.
Well, however you frame it, all the good stuff, right?
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It's within you.
Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
And then the second thing was seek first the Kingdom and then everything else will
fall into place.
Now we've all heard that.
There's not somewhat no one in the Western culture who hasn't at least heard that.
How many of you have accepted that the Kingdom is within you and how many of you have made
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effort and we don't even get told how we should make that effort.
How should you seek the Kingdom?
Very simple is it's within you, you need to bring your focus inside.
That means you need to disconnect from all your senses taken out into the world.
You need to take its time for a space, by the way, all the masters did that.
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They all had a stillness practice, right?
And then when you go into that, that's where you get your best pay off of all the things
to do.
It's not stem cells and it's not all the fancy molecules that most of that is driven
by commerce and going home in a way that drive for that is heartache.
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First of the heart, that uncomfortable feeling in the chest that people get when grandma
dies or a dog runs away or somebody betrays them or they get dumped in a relationship,
you feel it in your chest, uneasy, uncomfortable, painful, right?
Has lots of names lonely, longing, blue, empty, restless, yearning, striving, you know, so
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lots of words for this feeling.
It's triggered by lots of things in the outside world that where we try to find permanence
in what changes, which doesn't can't happen.
And it's the call to bring you that, the cause of it from our disconnection that happened
after birth, because we were connected in the room, we were connected because there was
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no place to go or nothing to do.
So we were in that place of peace and of love, right?
So we got disconnected, heartache is the call to bring your focus back inside to that place
where your connection to your indestructible nature is already waiting to be rediscovered.
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Always been there, will always be there.
And so when I say eight billion people, you know, every human being has the master living
within them.
It wasn't like they were a couple of people who were really cool and everybody else is stupid.
Everybody is born a Christ child.
Everybody born a Buddha child.
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Everyone has that perception, has that peace, has that love within them all the time, whether
they're aware of it or not.
And what if we decided, what is eight billion people all decided to bring, to spend time,
to re-quaint themselves with that unbelievably beautiful essence of their being?
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How would that change their behavior?
How would that change?
How we live with each other, how we treat each other, how we share, you know, how we make
it work for everybody.
Would that happen?
Of course, because when I feel cared for, all that's left to do is help, right?
But we don't say, I don't say like, like a lot of people say, well, if you help enough people
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get what they want, then you'll get what you want.
No, no, no, that's backwards.
This is the gift you were given.
Nobody can enjoy what this is, except me, right?
For me and you, for you.
If you don't enjoy the gift of life in human form that you've been given, it's a wasted
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gift because nobody else can enjoy it for you.
So the masters, the smart guy said, seek first that gift.
I'm paraphrasing that, right?
Ask first that gift, be fully present in all of your being because that's where the most
incredible experience is always available to you.
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And by the way, that experience is more incredible than any other experience you're ever going
to have.
Yep, I agree.
You know, I kind of been closing here.
I want to get one thing that you hope listeners take away, whether it's nutrition, health
awareness or anything that we talked about today, just some quickly and closing.
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Is there any final thoughts you want to share?
Yeah, I was taught to do a method to bring my focus in because I didn't know.
It was like I in Western world, the hell are you talking about, right?
And I was like 1972.
So the guy who showed me how to do my stillness practice wrote a book recently, it's called
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Here, Hear Yourself.
Hear Yourself, How to Find Peace in a Noisy World.
Get the book, read the book and in that book you can access him.
He's on the internet.
He's been doing this work for, well, let's see, I met him in 1972 at that point.
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He was 14.
He began when he was eight.
He grew up in the family of a teacher of this kind of, you know, expert, basically a master
or teacher of this kind of practice.
And so he was 14.
I was 30.
I learned the practice from him.
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It's a very useful practice.
And read the book and see if it resonates with you.
And it's a story basically of his life and where he's been and what he's done and what
he thinks about.
It's a, it's, that'd be a good way to do it.
If you're not, if you can't sit still yet, read the book.
It's called Hear Yourself, How to Find Peace in a Noisy World.
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I love it.
Udo, thank you so much for being here today and sharing your light and your knowledge
with our listener.
You can connect with Udo, sign up for his free newsletter and grab his book until next
time.
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Thank you so much for being here, Udo.
All right.
Thank you.
But I look back now and say, "What a gift?"
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We lost everything.
The community, the farm, the people, the houses, the furniture, the animals, the neighborhood,
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And what runs your body is solar energy.
You are a solar energy gadget.
A fraction of solar energy is stored in bonds between atoms to make molecules.
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You eat some of those as food in your cells.
Those bonds get broken.
That solar energy fraction is released and now you call them life.
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All right, nice to be on.
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We're excited to have you on today.
We're going to cover a lot of brown.
Let's just start behind which drives you one of the things that I love is right when I
met you.
You're just a happy, positive, vibrant person.
And you've said your mission is to help 8 billion people tap into the light already within
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them.
What ignites this vision and how has it guided your work and wellness and nutrition over
the last several years?
Right.
It hasn't been 40 years.
I was born during the second world war.
I had a huge gift to be born in a war.
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I was on the fire egg line.
I was two years old.
That's it.
It was terrible at the time.
But I looked back and I was like, what a gift because we got stripped of everything.
We lost everything.
The community, the farm, the people, the houses, the furniture, the animals, the neighborhood.
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We lost everything except the clothes we wore, the bodies we were in, and the life in those
bodies.
So in a very simple start and I didn't get steamed into cultures and belief systems and
all of that because I didn't believe anything because I was just like, yeah, whatever they
say, you know, it's like you can't depend on any of that.
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Because they say, oh, yeah, we'll take care of you.
And then they should shoot at you, right?
So when I was six years old, it started for me.
I listened to people argue and it made me really uneasy because I was really shy.
I was very, very, very inward, right?
And they got so intense and it occurred to me, man, there must be a way that people can
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live in harmony.
And this little cocky voice of a six year old who doesn't know how complicated everything
is.
I'm going to find out how.
And that's been my driver all my life.
So it started with the war that that was the, that was the gift.
You know, and now we're drifting towards war just like after the first world war in
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Europe, they didn't practice peace between the first and second world war.
They had 21 years.
So they got the second world war.
Now we're drifting again because nobody's practicing peace.
There is actually peace everywhere, including in us, but we don't use that as a foundation.
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And when we don't have peace as a foundation, then we drift into all of the craziness that
just gets crazier and crazier with time.
And you can see it happening everywhere in the world these days, right?
So but that was the start for me.
And then it was kind of like I was very, I was insecure.
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I didn't know what I could count on.
So I was a very sciencey, you know?
You know, I want to find out everything about everything, how everything works because when
you know how the nature of things, then they become predictable and reliable.
So I got into science, then I got into the biological science because human beings and
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living things are unbelievably fascinating.
And it's part of still part of this journey of how can people live together in harmony.
And then I got into psychology, how thinking works because that's part of it.
And then I got into medicine because I wanted to know what health is, but we only learned
(04:50):
about disease.
So I only lasted a year in medicine.
And we were told that a doctor should know what, he should sound as though he knows what's
going on even when he doesn't.
That finished my medical career because I wasn't going to lie to people for a living.
No, I'm a farm boy, right?
We call that lying.
And we call it, he and now we call it PR, right?
(05:12):
All right.
So anyway, so then I went back into biochemistry and genetics because biochemistry and genetics
pretty much are the foundation for everything, the trees and the birds and the people and everything
going on here.
And then I, but there was something missing.
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I didn't, you know, we studied biology, biology is a study of life, but we never learned
about life and biology.
We learned about form and function.
We didn't learn about soul in psychology, psychology means study of soul.
We learned about thoughts, beliefs and emotions.
I wanted to know what soul is, I know I wanted to know what life is.
And so I left university.
(05:56):
And then I got into kind of the more, you know, if you, if you want to study human nature,
then you got to study the people who addressed issues of human nature, who was that?
Well in the Western world, it was Socrates.
And then the other one would have been Jesus, right?
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So what did they say?
Socrates said, no, thyself.
And it's like, what the hell does that mean?
How do you know yourself?
Well, you ain't going to know yourself unless you spend time with yourself, right?
You know, whatever you learn is by because you focus on it.
Well, if you don't spend time being with yourself and noticing what is in yourself in whatever
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way that happens, right?
Then you're not going to learn much.
So we mostly spend a world out there, our life out there or in our heads, but never in
the space that our body occupies.
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Yeah.
I saw I want to kind of dive into a couple things you said.
I think one of the things in talking to you is how to apply human well-being no matter how
old you are and where you are in your journey.
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So I want to dig into some of your ideas that you champion in your work where you talk about
total health as something designed by nature that has eight key parts.
What are one of those parts?
Kind of two questions.
What are the eight pieces and what of the eight pieces do you think people easily overlook
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in their lives?
Right.
You're exactly two sentences ahead of me.
Is that's where I was going?
Okay.
So if you look at human nature, you know, human nature was not invented by lawyers or governments
or the medical profession or any other experts, human experts came from nature.
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Right.
You're a creature of nature.
If you take your clothes off, you're a naked creature in nature.
And everything about you except for your clothes is natural from nature.
And what your body is made from is either water or from air, oxygen or from soil through
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plants through food.
And your whole body is made out of food, water and air.
And what runs your body is solar energy.
You are solar energy gadgets.
A fraction of solar energy is stored in bonds between atoms to make molecules.
You eat some of those as food in your cells.
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Those bonds get broken.
That solar energy fraction is released and now you call it lice.
And when life separates from the body, the body is finished.
So something is running it.
Lice is running it.
And you are actually that life.
What do we most miss?
Lice is the energy.
So we miss that one because we're always using it because that's how our biochemistry works,
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but that's also how our limbs work and our muscles work.
Right.
So we're using that.
We're not paying attention to being present to what that energy actually is and what it
feels like because that energy is actually unconditional, empowering love for
the body.
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So we are unconditionally empowering, lead love by life.
So if you're looking for love, sit still, tune in, enjoy.
Okay.
But the thing we miss most is behind that flow of energy is an awareness, which is completely
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stable, which is complete peace.
And there is peace everywhere in the universe, more than hydrogen, more than any molecules,
the same amount of space because it's everywhere inside you and outside of you and it's completely
stable.
There's nothing going on.
It is a foundation.
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It is a container.
And that's what we miss the most.
So everything that happens on this planet happens in perfect peace, but I'll take you to Ukraine
for a second, you know, in Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, peace is everywhere and the
peace is including the pieces in the warriors, around the warriors in front, below, between
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above the warriors.
But the warriors are not focused on the peace that is everywhere.
They're focused on an idea in the head, you're my enemy, I'm going to kill you and the other
guys, you're my enemy, I'm going to kill you.
So in perfect peace, they have a war.
Wait.
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And then the question you have to ask, well, if that's true, that peace is everywhere as the
foundation of all existence, then what are we choosing to put into that peace?
Because we have the choice to put in it, whatever we want.
You could put peace into peace, you could put love into peace, and you could put harm into
those into peace.
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And when we drift, because we lose our, because we don't build our lives on a foundation
of peace, then somebody bumps into you and you bump into them back a little harder.
That's called escalation, right?
And then it goes back and forth and then over 10, 20, 30, 40, now it's been about 70
years since the last war, 1945, right?
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So we're all drifting in the direction of escalation and getting crazier, crazier,
and getting stupider and stupider and getting more and more polarized.
And eventually we're heading toward serious, physical, destructiveness that comes from the
mental negativity that comes from bumping into people and not letting it go.
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So remind me what the eight, you're just quickly, what are the eight key parts?
Yeah, I, is this eight parts or ten parts?
This depends on how you look at it.
But number one is what I just talked about.
Number one is internal awareness.
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When you bring your focus to the core of your being, in the core of your being is your
access and is your point and access to a piece that goes from your core all the way
out to infinity, not limited to your body and every human being at every point in space is
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a center of that piece that is infinite.
Yeah, that's number one.
If you miss that, you're living without foundation and when you live without foundation, then everything
goes.
Then you drift, then you then you then you then you go downhill.
Okay?
The effort needs to be made to be present to peace and we're not doing that.
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Second is the life in, in that space and that's, I call that life energy and its nature is
a flow of unconditional and powering love for, you know, runs everything.
It's the master in the body, the master in and of the body.
So that's number two.
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Number three is the shine of that love into the world and I, you can call that positive
mind or I call it inspired for purpose and fundamentally when you feel cared for by
life, it's not about you anymore.
So okay, I'm taking care of, if I don't know, if I don't feel cared for, I know where to
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go because I am cared for within my being and so I just have to connect to it, focus on
it, bring the focus inside, when I feel that, all of a sudden it's like, what's left to
do on this planet?
Well, it's not about me and me getting myself taken care of anymore because I am taking
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care of it.
Oh, okay, where can I help?
Where can I help?
What needs to be done?
How can I make the biggest splash for good that's possible to, to, to make in the time
that I have on this planet?
Okay?
That's just because I feel cared for it.
If I don't feel cared for, I'm always going to be looking to do something that will take
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care of me.
How will that take care of me?
And I won't do things that I can't see how they would take care of me even if they
need to be done, right?
So really important that we deal with that inner presence that is already there that
we are not taking time to focus into.
That's number three.
Physical body, everybody talks about that, food and fitness, digestion, rest, all of the
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physical stuff.
Then the number five is protective mind.
That's how do you make it safe for you to live your life.
And it's also about reproduction and parenting and education because that's the survival.
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Those are the survival issues, right?
And then obviously getting food and shelter and clothing and all of that.
That's number five, number six is social group.
You know, you live with eight billion other people and there are, it's about connecting,
connecting and communicating and contributing and working together on big projects.
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And then it's about membership and the threat of exclusion if you don't follow the rules
of your group.
So you have to navigate that.
We need to be embracing the uniqueness of the members because the uniqueness is what brings
their contribution.
And when you dampen down the uniqueness, then you dampen down the contribution.
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And so what happens if you, you know, if you're not nice to people and you don't encourage
them, well, then they shut down and they just do the minimum and they don't do what they
could be doing to make it better for everybody.
Right?
So that's numbers six, number seven is natural environment.
That's where all our resources come from freely given unless somebody, you know, says, I
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own this and then tries to sell you what he got for free.
Right?
So all our resources also we're talking about water, air, earth, soil, plants, animals,
other human beings, microbes, right?
All of that.
And you basically, you're basically a creature in nature.
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And how do you live aligned with nature, which is mostly resources, 99% resources, 1% danger
because, you know, tidal waves and earthquakes and volcanoes and, you know, rock slides and
things like that.
So there's gratitude for resources and respect for the power for its power.
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Right?
So that's number seven.
Number eight is infinite awareness.
That's about coming to terms with and accepting the fact that your body is a terminal condition
doing its short dance in an infinite universe and being okay with that, you know, it's
okay that one day my body will quit.
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Why is that?
Because something in me is indestructible and will never die.
The awareness, not both the internal and the infinite awareness, they're forever, they're
formless and indestructible.
I call it beyond health because it's out of the realm of even all of that.
And dying and being born and getting sick and getting healthy.
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This is way beyond that.
The energy that keeps you alive, that is life, never dies.
I call that perfect health.
And if you allow that to flow without interference through your system and you bring it, the building
blocks it needs, which come from food, water and air and you don't interfere with your thinking,
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you don't interfere with its function by your thinking.
Then it is perfect health and it will keep, it will keep building, maintaining, repairing
the body and it will give you the longest life if you live it on a foundation of peace and
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of love.
And I'm not talking about hippie stuff although you could do it that way too.
But I'm talking about this is like as real, peace is real and it's a presence and love is
a presence and it's a feeling.
And if you sit with your focus inside the space, your body, your body, your body, you will
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experience both of those.
So the thing to always do, how many executives spend time in their lives every day where
they take some time, five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, an hour probably is it would
be really good measure.
An hour where they leave all of their stuff outside, turn off all the distractions, sit with
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themselves and discover what that is that they're sitting in.
Because that's where the peace comes from, the wisdom comes from, the insight comes from,
the confidence comes from, the wholeness comes from, there are no, there's no, no roses
in that space in that stillness.
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Right?
So yeah, I want to talk a little bit about that.
Let's talk a little bit about, there's some key things that you said there.
So one of which is sitting quiet without yourself.
I mean in today's world we have ping-pings here, the everything is, you know, hitting us
whether it's our phone call or our TV or any of the electronics we have around us.
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But I feel like you were saying kind of at the beginning, a lot of people are stressed and
burnt out, they're not connecting with themselves, they're really responding and reacting to
what's happening in their life.
I want to talk a little bit about how people can start reconnecting with their inner sense
of harmony.
And that is exactly what you said by turning your phone off, connecting with yourself and
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having that relationship where, oh, I'm not feeling too good today or hey, I have this hunch,
I need to call my mom or whatever those guiding into, I'm going to call it intuition that's
telling you to do, you can't have those happen in your life if you're not plugged into your
own source and really figuring that out.
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So I want to talk a little bit about how can people find that inner harmony to guide
them through their lies in a practical way that's healthy?
Yeah.
Okay.
So if you're stressed and you're overwhelmed and you're anxious and you're depressed and
all of those things that we call mental, mental, unstable, mental illness, mentally, not
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well, all of that, whenever, even right in the middle of that, the peace in the core of your
being is not in any way affected by all the things you stress about, including your thoughts
of stress.
The peace is not affected by your stress and the love, the life energy is not affected
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by any of those things.
So it's good to remember when you get really crazy in your head that something in you is
not crazy.
So that there's two of you in a sense.
One is the stress part.
That's its job to deal with the environment and where a lot of the stress comes from is that
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we live in a world where everything is changing and we don't want it to change.
And so we'd like to control it and we can't control it and it's out of control and oh my
God, what am I going to do now?
Right?
At the same time that everything that can change will change, let it change.
Because if you're in peace in the core of your being and you feel loved by life, it's
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okay to live in a world of change.
It's not simple.
But we're used to stressing about things.
We're not used to tapping into the place in us that is our stability, that is our refuge,
that is our safety.
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And both are always there.
So it's literally a matter of which one are you going to focus on?
And of course because we focus on stress so much and we're not very good at focusing
on peace, love and inspiration only because we don't practice it.
So what's the recommendation?
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Practice it, get good at it, get better at it.
I've been doing a practice like this over over 50 years.
And I started, I wasn't good at it.
I couldn't even sit still for five minutes because I had so much going in my head but gradually,
gradually, gradually, and I liked the feeling.
I liked the peace and I came out of a war.
So I have a standard that I can measure it by.
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I liked the feeling for the first six months every time I sat still, I started to cry.
All of my, you know, no particular memories or anything, but just all the tension that
I had never released in my life started, started leaving me.
And then when it's after six months, all the crying was done.
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And so now it's still, it's always about going deeper, work in progress.
I'm a work in progress.
I will be a work in progress as long as I live.
And I have never seen how deep it goes because I don't, I think it's instantly deep.
And it just the peace just gets better.
And by the way.
One of the things I love about what our time together is, you know, one of the hottest things
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I hear right now is everybody's getting healthy.
They want to be in better health.
You know, psychologies become really big right now.
Counseling and coaching have like everybody's a life coach now.
And so I want to talk a little bit, I mean, that's a huge topic right now.
This, you know, holistic wellness, health, psychology.
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I want to get your thoughts on how you see nutrition today as we move through 20 to 25.
Well, the body's always been made out of food.
And in nature for every creature that eats, the standard was fresh, whole, raw, organic,
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local, maybe to some extent, season based, right?
And for humans, probably if you trust the research, probably more plant than animal based,
not necessarily only plant based, but more plant than animal based.
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Okay, because plants are the foundation of the entire food chain.
So if you eat a cow, a cow is made out of grass, so we sometimes joke and say, well, you know,
cow is just a more concentrated form of vegetable, right?
So, but it was always fresh, whole, raw, organic.
Well, when you go and look in your cupboards and your fridge and you look at how much of
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what you have in there and then how much of what you eat is fresh, whole, raw, and organic,
there's a pretty big gap between what you're doing and what is nature's mandate.
Close that gap, head in the direction.
You know, if you go from frying to cooking, from cooking to blanching, from blanching to raw,
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as much as you can.
If it's contaminated, you have to cook it to kill the bugs, right?
But head in that direction and then instead of using artificial molecules that never
existed in nature and therefore don't fit in the body and have side effects, we call them
pharmaceutical drugs or industrial chemicals.
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You know, minimize your use of those.
Where did the plants get their protection from?
Where did the animals get their protection from?
Well, the plants made all kinds of really interesting molecules that we can't make, but when
we eat the plants, then we get the protection they made for themselves against viruses,
bacteria, and other things, right?
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Then we get the protection in our body from the work that the plants did for themselves.
Well, so where should we focus?
Well, spices, cloves, are unbelievably antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, anti-cardio,
anti-diabetic, you know, some of the bigger, the strongest, by the turmeric, amla, right?
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There's all kinds of different spices in different places in the world that have anti-inflammatory,
anti-collestral, anti-just about everything that's bad benefits, used them liberally in your
foods.
So you know, if you have inflammation, omega-3's decrease inflammation and they do it very
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well, and most people don't get enough omega-3's, like 99% of the population does not get enough
omega-3's for optimum health, but they're very sensitive molecules, so they need to be
undamaged.
And so the omega-3's that people are getting are partially damaged, and the damaged molecules
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don't belong in your body, so they don't work well in your body, and those products lose
their benefits when you let them be damaged, or when you damage them in the frying pan.
So you know, so I think when it comes to all of that, heading in the direction of how it
was in nature, because every creature in nature eats fresh, raw organic, local, except for
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us, every creature, except for us in the animals we feed, and then the animals we feed get
the diseases we get from feeding ourselves the same stupid way, right?
So, but then if you want to talk about aging, because there's longevity and vitality and
anti-aging, you talk about anti-aging, well, if you practice peace in your life, it literally
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reverses aging.
Hmm, how cool is that?
There's good research on that, and if you feel loved and you put out love, and you don't
like create wars in your own mind, because that's that stress you create yourself, and that
works on you, like if I hate you, you know, I saw this saying the other day, when you hate
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someone, you're more, you hurt more by the hate than the other person, because the other person
can walk from it and you're sitting in it, right?
So hate makes you age, oh yeah, well that makes sense, stress, you know, I mean even stress,
right?
When things happen and change and don't want them to change, you're creating the stress
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for yourself by wanting things that change to be different than they are, right?
You want things to be different, so you use change as an excuse to stress yourself.
Well stress makes you, stress ages you, and in fact if you get in, if you use enough things
as an excuse to stress yourself, you'll burn yourself up, right?
You know, like Salier talked about first you get the stress, then you get adaptation, and
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that already gets you aging because your heartbeat goes up and your blood pressure goes up,
and your alert, your sense of something's after me goes up, right?
And if you do that long enough, then you exhaust your immune system and you burn out, right?
So there has to be time to refresh yourself, you know, it's what is it called, recreation,
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you know, recreation, you know, when we go out and have fun, you call it recreation, but
the word actually means recreation, it's time we spend recreating our body, time we spend
relaxed, time we spend in fun, time in time we spend in doing, you know, even challenges
that we find interesting, and in good company and in good feeling and in contentment.
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And all of them slow down aging and or even reverse aging.
So it's like we have like this whole universe where all the good stuff and all the bad
stuff is possible.
And the question I, you know, I have to ask myself, then maybe everybody should ask themselves,
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what am I picking out of this total, could be totally negative and totally positive, where
am I on that continuum?
What am I picking?
What am I picking moment to moment?
Let's pull that back a little bit.
I think we've become, you know, a culture that is impatient with health and wellness.
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We want to be like you're young tomorrow.
We were, how do I say this?
We just don't have the patience to sustain long term health.
Like we, everybody gets on the train in January, we're going to get a gym membership,
we're going to clean up our diet.
And by February, everybody's back to the fast food.
They put the weight back on and then some.
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And so I want to talk a little bit about maybe some tips that you can share with our listeners
on how they can be seen a left full-blown lifestyle change.
It's not just a, you know, a diet or a one-time thing.
I think I want to get your insights on how our listeners can boost their health and
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feel more in tune with themselves to live their best lives.
Yeah, I would, I will always end up going back to, you know, so I could just say, know
myself, you know, what was Jesus' deal?
Well, he said, Kingdom of Heaven is within you and by Kingdom of Heaven, what's that?
All the good stuff.
Well, however you frame it, all the good stuff, right?
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It's within you.
Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
And then the second thing was seek first the Kingdom and then everything else will
fall into place.
Now we've all heard that.
There's not somewhat no one in the Western culture who hasn't at least heard that.
How many of you have accepted that the Kingdom is within you and how many of you have made
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effort and we don't even get told how we should make that effort.
How should you seek the Kingdom?
Very simple is it's within you, you need to bring your focus inside.
That means you need to disconnect from all your senses taken out into the world.
You need to take its time for a space, by the way, all the masters did that.
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They all had a stillness practice, right?
And then when you go into that, that's where you get your best pay off of all the things
to do.
It's not stem cells and it's not all the fancy molecules that most of that is driven
by commerce and going home in a way that drive for that is heartache.
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First of the heart, that uncomfortable feeling in the chest that people get when grandma
dies or a dog runs away or somebody betrays them or they get dumped in a relationship,
you feel it in your chest, uneasy, uncomfortable, painful, right?
Has lots of names lonely, longing, blue, empty, restless, yearning, striving, you know, so
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lots of words for this feeling.
It's triggered by lots of things in the outside world that where we try to find permanence
in what changes, which doesn't can't happen.
And it's the call to bring you that, the cause of it from our disconnection that happened
after birth, because we were connected in the room, we were connected because there was
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no place to go or nothing to do.
So we were in that place of peace and of love, right?
So we got disconnected, heartache is the call to bring your focus back inside to that place
where your connection to your indestructible nature is already waiting to be rediscovered.
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Always been there, will always be there.
And so when I say eight billion people, you know, every human being has the master living
within them.
It wasn't like they were a couple of people who were really cool and everybody else is stupid.
Everybody is born a Christ child.
Everybody born a Buddha child.
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Everyone has that perception, has that peace, has that love within them all the time, whether
they're aware of it or not.
And what if we decided, what is eight billion people all decided to bring, to spend time,
to re-quaint themselves with that unbelievably beautiful essence of their being?
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How would that change their behavior?
How would that change?
How we live with each other, how we treat each other, how we share, you know, how we make
it work for everybody.
Would that happen?
Of course, because when I feel cared for, all that's left to do is help, right?
But we don't say, I don't say like, like a lot of people say, well, if you help enough people
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get what they want, then you'll get what you want.
No, no, no, that's backwards.
This is the gift you were given.
Nobody can enjoy what this is, except me, right?
For me and you, for you.
If you don't enjoy the gift of life in human form that you've been given, it's a wasted
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gift because nobody else can enjoy it for you.
So the masters, the smart guy said, seek first that gift.
I'm paraphrasing that, right?
Ask first that gift, be fully present in all of your being because that's where the most
incredible experience is always available to you.
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And by the way, that experience is more incredible than any other experience you're ever going
to have.
Yep, I agree.
You know, I kind of been closing here.
I want to get one thing that you hope listeners take away, whether it's nutrition, health
awareness or anything that we talked about today, just some quickly and closing.
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Is there any final thoughts you want to share?
Yeah, I was taught to do a method to bring my focus in because I didn't know.
It was like I in Western world, the hell are you talking about, right?
And I was like 1972.
So the guy who showed me how to do my stillness practice wrote a book recently, it's called
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Here, Hear Yourself.
Hear Yourself, How to Find Peace in a Noisy World.
Get the book, read the book and in that book you can access him.
He's on the internet.
He's been doing this work for, well, let's see, I met him in 1972 at that point.
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He was 14.
He began when he was eight.
He grew up in the family of a teacher of this kind of, you know, expert, basically a master
or teacher of this kind of practice.
And so he was 14.
I was 30.
I learned the practice from him.
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It's a very useful practice.
And read the book and see if it resonates with you.
And it's a story basically of his life and where he's been and what he's done and what
he thinks about.
It's a, it's, that'd be a good way to do it.
If you're not, if you can't sit still yet, read the book.
It's called Hear Yourself, How to Find Peace in a Noisy World.
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I love it.
Udo, thank you so much for being here today and sharing your light and your knowledge
with our listener.
You can connect with Udo, sign up for his free newsletter and grab his book until next
time.
Stay healthy, stay inspired.
Keep shining from within and please follow us on the Executive Connect podcast.
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Thank you so much for being here, Udo.
All right.
Thank you.
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