July 23, 2025 • 17 mins
There’s a reservoir of power you can tap into to increase your potential to do good in the world, find more meaning in your experiences, and savor a fuller range of humanness. Without it, you’ll miss the opportunity to connect more deeply with what life is all about and might end up creating an unwelcome future. In health and aging (and everything else) you make what you believe to be true true.
If you're ready to start doing things differently so you can age at an elite level, send me a message at healthcouragecollective@gmail.com saying "waitlist." And I'll put you on the waitlist for my beta program! Help me create a way for women to get consistent doing the highest leverage behaviors to ensure that they prevent or drastically delay the chronic diseases of aging that are considered "normal" parts of getting older. But don' have to be. Including for you.
Come visit my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com
Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started? Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve!
Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com
email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com
If you're ready to start doing things differently so you can age at an elite level, send me a message at healthcouragecollective@gmail.com saying "waitlist." And I'll put you on the waitlist for my beta program! Help me create a way for women to get consistent doing the highest leverage behaviors to ensure that they prevent or drastically delay the chronic diseases of aging that are considered "normal" parts of getting older. But don' have to be. Including for you.
Come visit my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com
Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started? Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve!
Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com
email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
There's a reservoir of power you can tap into to
increase your potential to do good in the world, find
more meaning in your experiences, and savor a fuller range
of humanness. Without it, you'll miss the opportunity to connect
more deeply with what life is all about, and might
end up creating an unwelcome future. In health and aging
(00:27):
and everything else, you make what you believe to be
true true. You're listening to The Health Courage Collective Podcast,
Episode two hundred and twelve, Biohack Paranoia to Age Better.
Welcome to the Health Courage Collective Podcast, the show for
women who are too busy to slog through hours of
(00:48):
generalized and applicable and often contradictory health information, but too
smart to ignore that a few minutes of focused attention
now can prevent years of suffering in the future. I'm
your host, Christina Hack, a pharmacist who doesn't want you
to live on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically trained to
maximize your potential, and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative,
(01:10):
cutting edge, holistic and integrated medicine. I'm on a mission
to increase your physical and mental resilience so you can
fearlessly look forward to your next forty plus limitless years.
Your time is down, Let's go. Hey, welcome to another episode.
So glad you are here today, and I hope your
life is going really well. How are you feeling about lithium?
(01:32):
Have you considered adding a milligram to your typical day?
It might provide you with a significant amount of protection
for a very low effort and low cost. I'm all
about your doing the highest leverage actions to create the
future you want. Today, we're going to talk about leveraging
the power of paranoia to alter how well you age.
(01:55):
What do you think of when you imagine a paranoid
person ones subsisting on beef, jerkey and canned beans, communicating
exclusively via Ham radio from an underground bunker in the
bad Lands. Do you think being paranoid alters your reality?
Not just what you perceive is real, but what actually
(02:17):
happens to you. There are a few different Dictionary definitions
of paranoia, including being unreasonable or obsessively anxious, suspicious or mistrustful,
and feeling extremely nervous and worried because you believe that
other people do not like you or are trying to
harm you. Do you think you would have a different
future and a different experience of life if you always
(02:41):
believed that the world was against you and trying to
harm you. How so, if there were two versions of
you who both had the same intellectual knowledge and both
worked from the same to do list, even doing the
same actions, lifting weights via functional movements, verifying that you
eat enough protein, tracking your sleep, moving frequently throughout the day,
(03:05):
et cetera, et cetera. Do you think they would both
have the exact same outcome if one of them did
all the things while being constantly unreasonably and obsessively anxious,
suspicious and mistrustful, nervous and worried because they believed that
everyone and everything was trying to harm her. But why,
(03:28):
if you're checking all the boxes and doing all the things,
why does what only exists as an electrical potential inside
your brain matter? Do you build clinically measurable less muscle
or have physiologically lower functioning mitochondria inside your cells when
you're obsessively suspicious and mistrustful of life or the world
(03:51):
or the process. Totally? I like Gay Hendrix and the
Big Leap and believe what he says about each of
us having an inner thermaia setting that determines how much love, success,
and creativity we can have. That we're each running some
kind of unconscious thermostat program that keeps us at a
certain set point where we're comfortable, whether it's optimal for
(04:14):
us or not, usually not. I think paranoia is similar.
If we truly believe deep down that the world is
out to prevent our success or make us fail in
some way, we're unconsciously all teed up for failure. We
don't realize it, but we see everything that happens in
(04:35):
the normal course of our days as evidence that people
and circumstances are actively trying to prevent our success, that
we're victims destined for a disappointing future. We like to
be right, and we make what we subconsciously believe to
be true true. Being paranoid alters and influences every aspect
(04:56):
of our current and future realities. If we know that
paranoia works against us, how are we going to do?
What I told you this podcast was about using paranoia
to our advantage. Paranoia, even in small amounts, is a
powerful subconscious force working in the background all the time,
(05:17):
So why not flip it around and have a powerful
subconscious force working in the background all the time to
our advantage. Have you heard of W. Clement Stone before?
I've recognized his name and remembered that some of his
teachings are cited by Ronda byrn in The Secret, But
I didn't realize that he lived from nineteen oh two
to two thousand and two, which I think is pretty great,
(05:40):
and that he was a philanthropist in addition to being
a business and thought leader. He gave away more than
two hundred and seventy five million dollars to charities in
his life, and he had a funny mustache. He was
twenty seven to thirty nine years old during the years
of the Great Depression, which I would imagine had a
great impact on his thought processes and business systems. In
(06:03):
a book he wrote in nineteen sixty two, he said,
every great man, every successful man, no matter what the
field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in
these words, Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent
or greater benefit. What do you think does every obstacle
or problem possess the potential to be an equivalent or
(06:25):
greater benefit to you? He continues by saying, what an
incredibly positive belief. Imagine how much easier it would be
to succeed in life if you are constantly expecting the
world to support you and bring you opportunity. Successful people
do just that. End quote. Jack Canfield, who started the
(06:46):
Chicken Soup for the Soul Books and was also on
the Secret, said this in his book The Success Principles.
My earliest mentor W. Clement Stone was once described as
an inverse paranoid. Instead of believing the world was plotting
to do him harm, he chose to believe that the
world was plotting to do him good. Instead of seeing
(07:08):
every difficult or challenging event as a negative, he saw
it for what it could be, something that was meant
to enrich him, empower him, or advance his causes. End quote.
How do you think your future and current life would
be different if you really truly believed that the universe
(07:28):
was constantly conspiring in your favor, that everything that happened
to you was to your advantage, That challenges and setbacks
were actually there to enrich or empower or advance your cause.
Just like being paranoid alters every aspect of our current
and future realities. Being an inverse paranoid does exactly the
(07:50):
same thing. How would your life be different if you truly, really,
deep down believed that everything that happened to you was
to your benefit, Everything big and small was orchestrated to
drive your life forward, to build your success. Flipping our
dictionary definition, if you were an inverse paranoid, you'd be
(08:11):
unreasonably or obsessively calm, sure, and trusting. You would feel
extremely relaxed and unconcerned because you believe that other people
like you and are trying to help you. How would
life feel right now if that were your operating system?
How do you think your future might be different? You
(08:33):
make what you believe to be true true. What challenges
are you experiencing that might be evidence that the universe
is conspiring in your favor? Could unexplained headaches, food intolerances,
getting passed over for a promotion, betrayaled by a friend, fatigue,
night sweats, loneliness, wrinkles, thinning hair, or poor aerobic fitness
(08:58):
be conspiring in your favor? How How could things you
would never wish to have happen or that are annoying
or unpleasant be conspiring in your favor? What equivalent or
greater benefit might they be carrying the seed of inside
of them. In episode one hundred and forty seven, Embrace
(09:19):
Your Inner Loser, we talked about this advice from Arthur Brooks,
and I think it's so fabulous that I'm reiterating it here.
Episode one hundred and forty seven has more context and
details about it. So Arthur Brooks says that while gratitude
journals are good and you should keep them, the most
powerful thing you can do for your happiness and your
life is to journal about your negative experiences. Keep what
(09:42):
he calls a failure and disappointment journal. Journaling about our
negative experiences dramatically improves our genuine happiness and the quality
of our lives. Whenever something is bugging you in a
big way or making you really sad, don't try to
sweep it on the rug or force yourself to think
happy thoughts. Write about it in your Failure and Disappointment Journal.
(10:07):
Marissa didn't return my text. Nobody RSVP'd to come to
my party. I didn't get the job. I thought the
interview went really well for I froze and didn't get
my point across. At today's meeting, I missed my daughter's audition,
whatever it is. Every time something comes up, you write
it down. Then you leave two blank spaces after it.
(10:28):
This is the important part. You need to remember to
come back to it. Write the dates, and come back
to it often, or put a reminder on your calendar.
In thirty days, you come back to the first empty
spot and write down what you learned from that negative experience.
What did you learn over the course of thirty days
(10:48):
from that experience. The second blank space is to come
back in six months and write down something good that
happened as a direct result of this seemingly negative event.
It might be something like I didn't get the job
I really wanted, and I thought I really came across
as my best self in the interview. Thirty days later,
(11:10):
what you learned is that you thought you'd be crushed
for the rest of your life, but it was really
only four or five days, and then you started to
feel okay again, and that you really can find a
way to trust that things happen for a reason, and
that it was worth applying even if the rejection's stung.
Then six months later you can come back and write
down the good thing that happened was that you found
(11:31):
a different job that allows more flexibility in your schedule
than you would have had at the other place, and
you never would have had this position on your radar
if you had accepted an offer at the other company first.
The point is that if we don't get methodical about
our failures and disappointments and revisit them on a set schedule,
we'll miss the opportunity to learn and grow from them.
(11:54):
Our failures and disappointments are our best opportunities to infuse
our lives with meaning, satisfaction, and even enjoyment, in other words,
true happiness. Arthur says that if you do this consistently,
you'll start looking forward to disappointing experiences so you can
write them down and use them as an opportunity to
(12:15):
make your life better. It's alchemizing bad to good better
than good. In fact, it's making it so there really
isn't good and bad, just feelings, experiences, and information. We're
meant to have emotional experiences, but we're not meant to
spin out and go off the rails from them. We
(12:35):
should treat emotional information as data to learn from. Oprah
says a beautifully in her book with Arthur Brooks that
emotions are just a tap on the shoulder that tells
us we need to pay attention to something. It's up
to us and our prefrontal cortex to decide what we
want to do with that information. Positive emotions are good
at reminding us that we want to do whatever caused them. Again,
(12:59):
negative motions don't feel good, but they have the potential
to make us way happier than positive emotions do. Weird
right If you keep track and write down what you
learned and how your life is better at thirty days
and six months afterward, you're not at the mercy of
your haphazard motions or chasing a fleeting feeling. You're making
(13:21):
deliberate decisions based on data. Happiness isn't a feeling. It's
what you do. It's what you choose to do with feelings.
Despite what we're conditioned to believe, life doesn't have to
be all smiles, fireworks and flashmob dance parties. We don't
always have to turn a frown upside down immediately or
(13:42):
ignore our sadness. The secret is to ritualize a method
to capture the things we wish we didn't do and
the things we wish didn't happen to us, and to
do it regularly. By revisiting our negative experiences and making
ourselves see the things we learned and the ways we grow,
we realize that everything is working in our favor after all.
(14:07):
Lucky for us, there's no shortage of circumstances and choices
that lead to adversity, failure, and disappointment in our lives.
When life takes a left turn and it's tempting to
feel like it's against you, you don't have to be
excited about losing your pet, not being able to sleep,
or your adult child who makes questionable decisions. You just
have to be open to the idea that this annoying
(14:30):
thing has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit
inside of it. It's an opportunity to practice your philosophy
and grow stronger. At the very least, it's content for
your failure and disappointment journal, which will eventually infuse your
life with meaning and depth. I think being an inverse
paranoid can help us create more impactful futures and more
(14:52):
joyful lives. Of course, being an inverse paranoid doesn't mean
being naive or clueless. There are times when a good
ten ffoil hat can pay off when doctors only care
about the symptoms and don't believe there's a deeper root
cause to discover. When you're dismissed but you know something's
not right, when it feels like you're being forced onto
a path that financially benefits big pharma or big food
(15:15):
or big agriculture or big beauty. You can be an
inverse paranoid and still be astute, perceptive, and strategic. Some
conspiracy theories are worth considering. I was recently listening to
a speaker talking about how it's pretty natural for us
to think that the younger and less experienced you are,
(15:35):
the greater your potential is makes sense to me. Toddlers
are like the ultimate in potential. They can do anything someday,
whereas it seems only natural to think of a fifty
year old woman as having less potential. But why, I
don't know. It just seems right, But really the opposite
(15:55):
is true. Every experience we have, especially the negative ones,
gives us more experience that adds to our potential to achieve.
Our potential grows with age because we've acquired so much
more experience. Everything we experience adds to our potential. It
can make us stronger, kinder, and better if we let it,
(16:18):
if we operationalize a way to harness its power. Thank
you so much for being here today. I hope you
take the opportunity to become an inverse paranoid and use
all of life's twists and turns to become a better
version of yourself to see that every adversity contains the
seed of an equivalent or greater benefit, even if you
(16:40):
don't know what that benefit is yet. Just knowing that
the universe is constantly serving you up benefit seeds turns
up your internal thermostatic possibilities, and the way you view
your experiences. You make what you believe to be true true.
Next week we're going to talk about I believe every
(17:01):
woman should be on. Until then, look for the seed
of equal or greater benefit in every adversity and don't
be normal. Thank you so much for tuning into the
Health Courage Collective podcast. I am truly honored that you
have paid me the enormous compliment of your time and attention.
I would be so grateful if you would share this
podcast with someone you know and subscribe so you never
(17:22):
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medical advice. This podcast, including Christina Hackett and producers, disclaim
responsibility for any possible adverse events by use of information
contained hearing. If you think you have a medical problem,
consult a licensed position
There's a reservoir of power you can tap into to
increase your potential to do good in the world, find
more meaning in your experiences, and savor a fuller range
of humanness. Without it, you'll miss the opportunity to connect
more deeply with what life is all about, and might
end up creating an unwelcome future. In health and aging
(00:27):
and everything else, you make what you believe to be
true true. You're listening to The Health Courage Collective Podcast,
Episode two hundred and twelve, Biohack Paranoia to Age Better.
Welcome to the Health Courage Collective Podcast, the show for
women who are too busy to slog through hours of
(00:48):
generalized and applicable and often contradictory health information, but too
smart to ignore that a few minutes of focused attention
now can prevent years of suffering in the future. I'm
your host, Christina Hack, a pharmacist who doesn't want you
to live on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically trained to
maximize your potential, and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative,
(01:10):
cutting edge, holistic and integrated medicine. I'm on a mission
to increase your physical and mental resilience so you can
fearlessly look forward to your next forty plus limitless years.
Your time is down, Let's go. Hey, welcome to another episode.
So glad you are here today, and I hope your
life is going really well. How are you feeling about lithium?
(01:32):
Have you considered adding a milligram to your typical day?
It might provide you with a significant amount of protection
for a very low effort and low cost. I'm all
about your doing the highest leverage actions to create the
future you want. Today, we're going to talk about leveraging
the power of paranoia to alter how well you age.
(01:55):
What do you think of when you imagine a paranoid
person ones subsisting on beef, jerkey and canned beans, communicating
exclusively via Ham radio from an underground bunker in the
bad Lands. Do you think being paranoid alters your reality?
Not just what you perceive is real, but what actually
(02:17):
happens to you. There are a few different Dictionary definitions
of paranoia, including being unreasonable or obsessively anxious, suspicious or mistrustful,
and feeling extremely nervous and worried because you believe that
other people do not like you or are trying to
harm you. Do you think you would have a different
future and a different experience of life if you always
(02:41):
believed that the world was against you and trying to
harm you. How so, if there were two versions of
you who both had the same intellectual knowledge and both
worked from the same to do list, even doing the
same actions, lifting weights via functional movements, verifying that you
eat enough protein, tracking your sleep, moving frequently throughout the day,
(03:05):
et cetera, et cetera. Do you think they would both
have the exact same outcome if one of them did
all the things while being constantly unreasonably and obsessively anxious,
suspicious and mistrustful, nervous and worried because they believed that
everyone and everything was trying to harm her. But why,
(03:28):
if you're checking all the boxes and doing all the things,
why does what only exists as an electrical potential inside
your brain matter? Do you build clinically measurable less muscle
or have physiologically lower functioning mitochondria inside your cells when
you're obsessively suspicious and mistrustful of life or the world
(03:51):
or the process. Totally? I like Gay Hendrix and the
Big Leap and believe what he says about each of
us having an inner thermaia setting that determines how much love, success,
and creativity we can have. That we're each running some
kind of unconscious thermostat program that keeps us at a
certain set point where we're comfortable, whether it's optimal for
(04:14):
us or not, usually not. I think paranoia is similar.
If we truly believe deep down that the world is
out to prevent our success or make us fail in
some way, we're unconsciously all teed up for failure. We
don't realize it, but we see everything that happens in
(04:35):
the normal course of our days as evidence that people
and circumstances are actively trying to prevent our success, that
we're victims destined for a disappointing future. We like to
be right, and we make what we subconsciously believe to
be true true. Being paranoid alters and influences every aspect
(04:56):
of our current and future realities. If we know that
paranoia works against us, how are we going to do?
What I told you this podcast was about using paranoia
to our advantage. Paranoia, even in small amounts, is a
powerful subconscious force working in the background all the time,
(05:17):
So why not flip it around and have a powerful
subconscious force working in the background all the time to
our advantage. Have you heard of W. Clement Stone before?
I've recognized his name and remembered that some of his
teachings are cited by Ronda byrn in The Secret, But
I didn't realize that he lived from nineteen oh two
to two thousand and two, which I think is pretty great,
(05:40):
and that he was a philanthropist in addition to being
a business and thought leader. He gave away more than
two hundred and seventy five million dollars to charities in
his life, and he had a funny mustache. He was
twenty seven to thirty nine years old during the years
of the Great Depression, which I would imagine had a
great impact on his thought processes and business systems. In
(06:03):
a book he wrote in nineteen sixty two, he said,
every great man, every successful man, no matter what the
field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in
these words, Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent
or greater benefit. What do you think does every obstacle
or problem possess the potential to be an equivalent or
(06:25):
greater benefit to you? He continues by saying, what an
incredibly positive belief. Imagine how much easier it would be
to succeed in life if you are constantly expecting the
world to support you and bring you opportunity. Successful people
do just that. End quote. Jack Canfield, who started the
(06:46):
Chicken Soup for the Soul Books and was also on
the Secret, said this in his book The Success Principles.
My earliest mentor W. Clement Stone was once described as
an inverse paranoid. Instead of believing the world was plotting
to do him harm, he chose to believe that the
world was plotting to do him good. Instead of seeing
(07:08):
every difficult or challenging event as a negative, he saw
it for what it could be, something that was meant
to enrich him, empower him, or advance his causes. End quote.
How do you think your future and current life would
be different if you really truly believed that the universe
(07:28):
was constantly conspiring in your favor, that everything that happened
to you was to your advantage, That challenges and setbacks
were actually there to enrich or empower or advance your cause.
Just like being paranoid alters every aspect of our current
and future realities. Being an inverse paranoid does exactly the
(07:50):
same thing. How would your life be different if you truly, really,
deep down believed that everything that happened to you was
to your benefit, Everything big and small was orchestrated to
drive your life forward, to build your success. Flipping our
dictionary definition, if you were an inverse paranoid, you'd be
(08:11):
unreasonably or obsessively calm, sure, and trusting. You would feel
extremely relaxed and unconcerned because you believe that other people
like you and are trying to help you. How would
life feel right now if that were your operating system?
How do you think your future might be different? You
(08:33):
make what you believe to be true true. What challenges
are you experiencing that might be evidence that the universe
is conspiring in your favor? Could unexplained headaches, food intolerances,
getting passed over for a promotion, betrayaled by a friend, fatigue,
night sweats, loneliness, wrinkles, thinning hair, or poor aerobic fitness
(08:58):
be conspiring in your favor? How How could things you
would never wish to have happen or that are annoying
or unpleasant be conspiring in your favor? What equivalent or
greater benefit might they be carrying the seed of inside
of them. In episode one hundred and forty seven, Embrace
(09:19):
Your Inner Loser, we talked about this advice from Arthur Brooks,
and I think it's so fabulous that I'm reiterating it here.
Episode one hundred and forty seven has more context and
details about it. So Arthur Brooks says that while gratitude
journals are good and you should keep them, the most
powerful thing you can do for your happiness and your
life is to journal about your negative experiences. Keep what
(09:42):
he calls a failure and disappointment journal. Journaling about our
negative experiences dramatically improves our genuine happiness and the quality
of our lives. Whenever something is bugging you in a
big way or making you really sad, don't try to
sweep it on the rug or force yourself to think
happy thoughts. Write about it in your Failure and Disappointment Journal.
(10:07):
Marissa didn't return my text. Nobody RSVP'd to come to
my party. I didn't get the job. I thought the
interview went really well for I froze and didn't get
my point across. At today's meeting, I missed my daughter's audition,
whatever it is. Every time something comes up, you write
it down. Then you leave two blank spaces after it.
(10:28):
This is the important part. You need to remember to
come back to it. Write the dates, and come back
to it often, or put a reminder on your calendar.
In thirty days, you come back to the first empty
spot and write down what you learned from that negative experience.
What did you learn over the course of thirty days
(10:48):
from that experience. The second blank space is to come
back in six months and write down something good that
happened as a direct result of this seemingly negative event.
It might be something like I didn't get the job
I really wanted, and I thought I really came across
as my best self in the interview. Thirty days later,
(11:10):
what you learned is that you thought you'd be crushed
for the rest of your life, but it was really
only four or five days, and then you started to
feel okay again, and that you really can find a
way to trust that things happen for a reason, and
that it was worth applying even if the rejection's stung.
Then six months later you can come back and write
down the good thing that happened was that you found
(11:31):
a different job that allows more flexibility in your schedule
than you would have had at the other place, and
you never would have had this position on your radar
if you had accepted an offer at the other company first.
The point is that if we don't get methodical about
our failures and disappointments and revisit them on a set schedule,
we'll miss the opportunity to learn and grow from them.
(11:54):
Our failures and disappointments are our best opportunities to infuse
our lives with meaning, satisfaction, and even enjoyment, in other words,
true happiness. Arthur says that if you do this consistently,
you'll start looking forward to disappointing experiences so you can
write them down and use them as an opportunity to
(12:15):
make your life better. It's alchemizing bad to good better
than good. In fact, it's making it so there really
isn't good and bad, just feelings, experiences, and information. We're
meant to have emotional experiences, but we're not meant to
spin out and go off the rails from them. We
(12:35):
should treat emotional information as data to learn from. Oprah
says a beautifully in her book with Arthur Brooks that
emotions are just a tap on the shoulder that tells
us we need to pay attention to something. It's up
to us and our prefrontal cortex to decide what we
want to do with that information. Positive emotions are good
at reminding us that we want to do whatever caused them. Again,
(12:59):
negative motions don't feel good, but they have the potential
to make us way happier than positive emotions do. Weird
right If you keep track and write down what you
learned and how your life is better at thirty days
and six months afterward, you're not at the mercy of
your haphazard motions or chasing a fleeting feeling. You're making
(13:21):
deliberate decisions based on data. Happiness isn't a feeling. It's
what you do. It's what you choose to do with feelings.
Despite what we're conditioned to believe, life doesn't have to
be all smiles, fireworks and flashmob dance parties. We don't
always have to turn a frown upside down immediately or
(13:42):
ignore our sadness. The secret is to ritualize a method
to capture the things we wish we didn't do and
the things we wish didn't happen to us, and to
do it regularly. By revisiting our negative experiences and making
ourselves see the things we learned and the ways we grow,
we realize that everything is working in our favor after all.
(14:07):
Lucky for us, there's no shortage of circumstances and choices
that lead to adversity, failure, and disappointment in our lives.
When life takes a left turn and it's tempting to
feel like it's against you, you don't have to be
excited about losing your pet, not being able to sleep,
or your adult child who makes questionable decisions. You just
have to be open to the idea that this annoying
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thing has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit
inside of it. It's an opportunity to practice your philosophy
and grow stronger. At the very least, it's content for
your failure and disappointment journal, which will eventually infuse your
life with meaning and depth. I think being an inverse
paranoid can help us create more impactful futures and more
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joyful lives. Of course, being an inverse paranoid doesn't mean
being naive or clueless. There are times when a good
ten ffoil hat can pay off when doctors only care
about the symptoms and don't believe there's a deeper root
cause to discover. When you're dismissed but you know something's
not right, when it feels like you're being forced onto
a path that financially benefits big pharma or big food
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or big agriculture or big beauty. You can be an
inverse paranoid and still be astute, perceptive, and strategic. Some
conspiracy theories are worth considering. I was recently listening to
a speaker talking about how it's pretty natural for us
to think that the younger and less experienced you are,
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the greater your potential is makes sense to me. Toddlers
are like the ultimate in potential. They can do anything someday,
whereas it seems only natural to think of a fifty
year old woman as having less potential. But why, I
don't know. It just seems right, But really the opposite
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is true. Every experience we have, especially the negative ones,
gives us more experience that adds to our potential to achieve.
Our potential grows with age because we've acquired so much
more experience. Everything we experience adds to our potential. It
can make us stronger, kinder, and better if we let it,
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if we operationalize a way to harness its power. Thank
you so much for being here today. I hope you
take the opportunity to become an inverse paranoid and use
all of life's twists and turns to become a better
version of yourself to see that every adversity contains the
seed of an equivalent or greater benefit, even if you
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don't know what that benefit is yet. Just knowing that
the universe is constantly serving you up benefit seeds turns
up your internal thermostatic possibilities, and the way you view
your experiences. You make what you believe to be true true.
Next week we're going to talk about I believe every
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woman should be on. Until then, look for the seed
of equal or greater benefit in every adversity and don't
be normal. Thank you so much for tuning into the
Health Courage Collective podcast. I am truly honored that you
have paid me the enormous compliment of your time and attention.
I would be so grateful if you would share this
podcast with someone you know and subscribe so you never
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miss an episode. This podcast is for entertainment and information
purposes only. Statements and views on this podcast are not
medical advice. This podcast, including Christina Hackett and producers, disclaim
responsibility for any possible adverse events by use of information
contained hearing. If you think you have a medical problem,
consult a licensed position
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