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Losing weight should't be expensive or complicated. The ideal process would reduce our stress while driving results. Dr. Z weaves together his perspective on physical and mental health and the powerful way that fasting can connect these two spheres of our lives. Let's move toward total wellness and a holistic vision of health and healing. Learn more at SimpleFasting.com
Welcome to the blue hour of weight loss.
So nice to have you here in this space
with me.
I'm doctor Z,
and we're hanging out on the shore
of Lake Monona.
Here.
Shot this footage.
If you're not familiar with Madison,
I'm in Madison, Wisconsin.
The downtown of Madison
is positioned on an isthmus.
This tiny strip of land
in between two lakes,
Lake Monona, Lake Mendota,
everything crammed in this little strip.
And so here we're looking across
Lake Monona.
In the evening,
after the sun has gone down
below the horizon,
you see the last fleeting
pink in the clouds.
And now the blue hour is upon us.
These darker tones.
As we'll watch the darkness settle in.
And the city light up.
So a blue hour
couple.
Vibes that I want to bring to our mindset.
Our thinking in this day.
Is interesting.
Filming in the evening and then bringing
the evening to the morning.
You know I'm recording this
if you're here with me
live or in the morning,
if you're listening to this
some other time,
take some of these blue vibes
into whatever space you're in.
You know, when we're starting out
a day, to me I'm thinking, okay,
whatever difficulties we face in a day,
whatever obstacles are things,
let's bring some peace and calm
and contentment to it.
And this is the first sort of vibe
that I want to bring.
The first sort of thought.
The wind is dying down,
the lake is calming down.
Everything is settling in for the evening.
Maybe we're settling in for the day,
or maybe we are listening to this
later and settling in.
So wherever
we're at blue hours
giving us the opportunity,
bring some calm, bring some comfort,
bring some relaxation
and rest into a space,
even if we're charging up to do something
else.
Few sessions ago,
I did the golden hour of weight loss
and we were looking at this same space.
I shot both of these in the same time,
and we were thinking
about the energizing effect of the sun
and thinking about energy and how,
you know, a big part of what
we're trying to do in our health space,
right, is
charge up, get the energy flowing.
Everything in nature,
everything in our body,
everything we're trying to do
is in a cycle.
Just like mirroring our life.
And just like we have periods high energy,
we have low energy,
we charge up, we get tired,
we need to work, and we need to rest.
This session to
me, end of the week,
much more on the latter part of the cycle.
You know, a lot of times online
all kinds of content that is made.
It's easier to lean into the up cycle,
right?
It's easier to charge up.
And that fits into the narrative.
Try to bring some hype
and excitement to things,
and I think it's equally important to
look at the other part of the cycle
to say,
life doesn't have to be high energy
all the time,
and it doesn't all have to be,
you know?
Like that.
It can be okay
just to take a breath for a bit, sit
in a space, create
a space of contemplation,
see that things are flowing in cycles
and that can be, across many domains.
Take a look
at this quote that I found from ironstone.
I love Einstein quotes.
He has such great things to say.
In the middle of every difficulty
lies opportunity.
So this is the second kind of
thought that I want to weave in
blue.
Our, you know, can be calm,
just settled the end of the day.
Blue hour can also have tones
of sadness in it, can't it?
A little bit melancholy, perhaps.
I was thinking about why is that?
You know, the sun has left us
and we maybe we miss it already.
Right. And so this is the thing.
In any sort of health path,
it isn't a straight line,
right?
There are ups and downs.
You see. These are cycles.
This is the pattern that we see everywhere
in life.
Very few things in nature,
very few things in life,
actually a straight line a to be.
And so that can lead us into
a space like this,
that there can be a space of difficulty.
Blue hour to me, maybe on certain days.
I think, as I was thinking about,
you say, a melancholy sort of a space.
This is the sort of space.
Do you feel it?
That is not really
popular in society today
and can bring the idea, like,
maybe it's not even okay to feel that way.
Like I think curated feeds, people posting
social media.
It's like
everybody, want to create a
perception.
Everything is great, you know,
put on a happy face
always, and everything is good.
But isn't it okay to sit in a space,
especially if we're by ourself?
You know, I'm sitting here by the lake,
by myself, looking at clouds
in the last light of a sun going by.
If there's ever a reflective space
where it's okay to feel some honest
feelings, right.
It would be in a space like that.
That's the kind of thread that I want
to weave into our experience here.
There's a big tendency,
Online, you know, when you're
trying to create an image,
you're trying to create a perception,
of course you want it to be good.
Think about how that.
Experience weaves its way into health
content.
Right.
There's
this huge image in the health space
that being healthy is supposed to be easy,
that there aren't supposed
to be difficulties or ups and downs.
And this is why
everybody is selling a thing and it's all,
you know, you try to make
it sound as good as possible.
We're trying to get people to buy.
So we
find the
happiest images of the healthiest,
you know, people bouncing around.
And maybe that's good.
Like we're trying to create a vision, sell
a perspective
so that.
You know, it's good to have an aspiration.
Right.
And something to work for.
But then the reality of it
is that the path.
Can be difficult.
I say it's within recognizing difficulty.
Like Einstein says,
there is opportunity in it.
And and this is where I see here
that I really want to dive in.
I don't like, you know,
in the future space of this channel,
I hope we can create an atmosphere
in a space
where people feel welcome
and want to come.
And it's the type of space where people
can share the real experiences of life,
both the winds, like I want that.
I want to try to help create
a space that creates more wins for people,
where people feeling like, oh,
we are flowing forward in health
in a real, tangible, sustainable way,
but then not a place that is just like
for people where everything is flowing
like really a place where it's okay.
To feel
reality, whatever it is, even if it isn't
desired. Perfect.
Good. Even if it's a little blue.
It's what I want.
I love these tones of the
just the world. You know?
I look at my blue, I love blue,
okay, blues, my favorite color.
I've said that I wear blue a lot.
I made my room here this bright.
It's a bright, happy blue. Right.
And this blue of the blue hour
that we are seeing.
Just look at the richness in the
lake and and in the clouds.
And I just
I think this scene was beautiful,
you know, as I was sitting,
it's like it's not flashy, right?
But I just love this little strip of light
in the middle.
It's like sandwiched between the blue
of the water and the blue of the sky.
And this really kind of dark and moody
sort of,
feeling,
you know,
it doesn't have bright, happy blue vibes.
It has thought
full, deep, reflective blue vibes.
Very cloudy in this space,
you know, isn't this the reality?
Like, doesn't this picture kind of
bring in some spaces like that?
Isn't there?
Aren't there clouds in our life
that are obscuring a clear vision
at some points to and
and don't we always want to feel like
we're in a space
where we have every answer,
everything is clear?
But isn't it sometimes the case like this
that clouds are covering it?
I have a passage
I'm going to read for us about the moon.
We were reading about the sun
the other day, and,
you can't see the moon now, but it's here.
It's even sending some light
into this space,
and then more as we get.
Further along as the darkness is coming.
I like that quote we had.
Was it just yesterday from Shakespeare?
Neither good nor bad,
but our thinking makes it so.
Isn't it interesting
how our thoughts can shape and experience?
You know?
We can bring thoughts into the same scene
that are both calm
and sad and encouraging and restful
and like all these
things can be in the space.
How is your energy today?
Do, do, share, do let me know.
How does the Blue Tone land?
Let's give it,
let's just give it a little
space to breathe.
Here's the reading that
I wanted to share today.
This is from this beautiful book, dear
artist
Jaya John,
talking to us
about the moon
and of putting us into this space.
We can,
See is
the light is dialing out in this space.
Can feel the moon coming out,
sharing its presence
with us.
Moon changes its mood 28
times in a cycle.
Let yourself feel things.
In a culture that oppresses emotion.
You feel shame for feeling.
Remember your divine design.
It is possible,
dear soul, that moon gazes down at you
as you move through your cycles
and gets emotional at your aura.
Is it
possible that moon looks forward
to your seasonal returns
to wholeness?
If you can feel the truth of this, well,
you can do something with it.
You can inspire universes.
Have the courage to feel
when you are feeling.
Be brave enough not to feel
when you are not feeling.
Beyond your expectations
and need to conform
is a meadow of your own authenticity.
Play there.
See what grows.
Truly, each day of
your life is a New Year's Day
for sun and Earth.
Abide by no calendar
but perpetual continuity.
They are delirious in a ceaseless dance.
Spirit and soul know only eternity.
Therefore, may you feel
the divine artwork of hope, renewal
and revival in every breath
and every heartbeat.
May you live and joined
with the ever cascading peace of things.
Isn't that beautiful?
Reading that to me,
it's just so interesting.
Like like how he flows
through these words.
He ends with the this beautiful line,
the ever cascading piece of things.
It just feels like it all settles out.
Such a beautiful passage, I say.
How it flows together
feels like what we're seeing here, right
as the light is fading down,
the moon is coming out right?
Bringing peace.
Isn't this
the type of energy that we want?
At least some of the times. Maybe.
Sometimes we need a pep rally.
Hey. But like,
I love this comment call grounded energy.
Isn't this the type of thing
that we really want?
Not a sugar rush, you know what I mean?
Not overloaded
on caffeine,
just the right amount, you know?
Calm, grounded energy.
No stress, no rumination
and indifference to the past
as well as the future.
I am here, yes,
my experience
getting the camera out of the house,
out in the world,
shooting a space like this,
long series of time.
It's like a type of meditation for me.
You know, I,
I have the same experience
going and shooting something like this,
which I've done a few times that I do.
If I'm just trying to practice meditation,
I get to a space.
I'm looking at the clock.
I've checked the, you know, weather.
I've looked at what time
the sunrise or the sunset will be.
And I'm like, you know, is it
going to be two hours that I am here?
And isn't that a long time?
Like I said the other day,
I brought a book because I always think,
oh, I want something to
do, you know, I'll get bored.
But like
this, like your comment is saying,
to be grounded into a space.
For me, it always takes 1020 minutes
where I'm just kind of like
it takes a while to settle into a space.
But then it's like.
Really arrive,
you know, you're really in a space
really grounded and present.
And this is the type of space
that I found here.
Just looking at the sky, watching the sun,
thinking of,
the sun and the moon and the stars
and the sky and the light
and just everything.
And the miracle of being alive
and here and this moment.
Just how incredible it is.
What a miracle it is. And then.
And then just fully arrive there,
I say even maybe it takes an hour before
for me,
for every type of thought like
that actually just stops
little fireworks on the side.
Do you see them going off?
There is a Badgers football game.
That's Camp Randall across the lake.
The fireworks going off.
Sit there into that second hour.
All of a sudden
the light will be completely gone.
And I'm sitting there.
And I was like, whoa!
Like, where did you know?
Where did a couple hours go?
All of a sudden?
That's like a flow state.
You know what?
It really grounded space.
Space is like flow state.
It was a big it was a big surprise to me.
You know, I'm
sitting there in this beautiful space,
watching the clouds and feeling the gentle
breeze and listening
to just the gentle little waves.
And of all of a sudden
there's like explosions.
I'm like, whoa, what is happening?
I it it brought a smile
to me, though.
My wife was actually at the Badger game,
working with my son's school,
and so I, I felt a little connection of us
to cross the lake.
I was like,
we shared the fireworks together across
this whole space is pretty fun, I thought,
but then I didn't want to leave.
This is the sort of thing.
Like I have a space.
I was like,
oh, this is so cool to be here, you know?
Now I don't want to leave.
It's hard to get into a flow,
but then it's also hard to leave.
That's what I find.
This is a super the type of energy
that I want for our day.
How do we just get into a mindset
in a space like you're saying,
where it's like stresses out
here, stress isn't here.
We haven't brought it into our body.
You know, it's like we are seeing things.
We are in the world, right?
But we aren't letting the
stress soak into us.
In the,
in a way where it is
knocking us off our course.
Right. Think think of the flow state.
What is happening.
Parasympathetic flow means calm energy
is flowing out
from the mind into the body.
It's telling the body everything is okay.
This isn't fight or flight mode.
We aren't under attack.
You know
we don't have to run or be upset, right?
Even if something upsetting
is happening, like, you know,
if something truly upsetting is happening,
we need to deal with it.
Okay? Put out the fire. Okay?
But most of the time,
hopefully we are not experiencing that.
Most of the time,
the stress that is happening,
we can let
let it flow off.
Then the hormonal state in the body
is staying in this calm state.
The adrenaline stays tucked away in that
little adrenal gland where it belongs.
Right?
Cortisol is able to
do its natural
healing function in the body.
Keeping us out of that
chronic stress pattern.
Right.
This is
a part of a weight loss
process of a metabolic healing process.
Because problems
that happen in the metabolism
come because
of hormonal alterations.
And that's a complex interaction
between what we eat
and what we think and what we do.
It's just everything is in the same space.
So we try to bring all these things
together.
Total being of wellness and health.
I give you I just want to dig deep.
Let's dig a little bit deeper on this.
I think
that's what I'm feeling.
Share your thoughts and reflections
as we go along.
I just thought this first line
moon changes its mood 28
times in a cycle.
Just think of okay, a moon cycle 28 days.
Any human cycles you can think of 28 days.
Do you think it's a coincidence?
You know.
Doesn't it just show you aren't there
cycles like, aren't
we a part of this place?
Isn't the human
being a part of this incredible cycle?
Earth and
sky and everything?
Doesn't it just make
you want to sink deeper into a space
to say no,
I really am a part of this here.
And what does it look like, really?
To be a part of it in a deeper way?
You know, part of the world.
Doesn't that mean eating and moving
and sleeping and all these things?
Just think of the cycles.
I just think about it in this space,
you know, I'm thinking cameras
and photography and light, you know, and,
you know, think
of just even our experience of the light.
We don't like the night.
We just turn on the lights.
We keep it going.
But is aren't
we just disconnected from the natural
rhythms of things?
I love that here.
We're in a space like poetry
and and things like this.
A poetic writing is taking us into a space
that is both artistic and health focused.
It's like, how do we express ourselves?
How do we be in
this world?
You know, I love what they say here.
Let yourself feel things.
This is the type of things I'm really
trying to, help us do in this space.
Blue. Our, you know, we ran through it.
It wasn't a whole hour.
I caught that transition,
you know, blue hour.
How long was it?
It's actually,
like 25 minutes or something in this day.
But bringing in that color, you know,
when we think about painting
on the canvas of our life,
what are the colors
that we are painting with?
You know, if is it always is our painting,
is it always sunshine and things?
Or we can bring in some blues, you know,
let yourself feel things, he says.
In a culture that oppresses emotion,
you feel shame for feeling.
You know.
Wow. Is this some of the experience
that people are having with, you know,
when I think of curated social media
feeds, is that an oppression of emotion,
only certain emotions allowed to be
experienced and expressed?
That's interesting.
I haven't ever thought of it or framed it
with that word of like, oppression.
You know, oppression is such a violent
word and it brings in,
you know, some pretty serious.
Experiences that people can have.
But then you think of the experiences
that people have.
I think especially of like young people.
And have you seen some of these studies
about Facebook usage, especially
among young women and, and,
and how much depression and,
you know, even
suicidal thinking associated with it.
There's not a healthy emotional space,
maybe a word like
oppression really
fits.
And so if we think like, oh, if these are
these are vibes
that are flowing through our culture,
you know, does it make people feel shame
for feeling other something
other than culturally conditioned
feelings?
How much of that Aedes in
feeds into cycles, you know,
that lead into our emotional space?
Now we're in the space that we talk a lot
about emotional relationship with food.
You know, cycles like like that.
Remember your divine design, he goes on.
I don't know about you,
but getting out in the world
and looking at the sun
and the moon and the sky.
Whatever divine
means to you to gaze out at the stars and
think about the vastness of the universe
is a place to do some thinking like that.
Is it
possible, dear soul,
that moon gazes down at you as you travel
through your cycles and gets emotional
at your aura?
I love the way he speaks.
I never speak like this.
I would never say,
you know, dear soul, like,
do you speak to yourself or to anyone
so kindly or compassionately?
Every time I really realize this,
you know, I was doing some
personal reflection
as I was reading through this last night.
You know
his lines in here, in a culture
that oppresses emotion,
you feel shame for feeling.
Then I go through this line.
I read a line like,
dear soul, I almost feel.
I don't know if it's embarrassed or shame,
reading something so gentle and kind,
you know what I mean?
I think, you know, we have also an image
of in our society,
I don't know, maybe especially for men
supposed to be tough and strong,
and we don't use words
like precious soul.
Isn't that an oppression of emotion?
Also, shouldn't
we have a culture that it is acceptable,
you know?
To have compassionate language?
I like this personification
sort of language.
You know, just talking about the moon
as an emotional being.
We talked about
that on Monday with the sun.
You don't have to be an animist
or believe a
that this is a literal thing
unless it serves you, unless it's fun.
You know,
it's just it is interesting,
I say, just to think about the moon
gazing down on us.
Is it possible that the moon looks
forward to your seasonal returns
to wholeness?
Where we're where were we're for
you reading
it was in radical acceptance,
that phrase unfolding into wholeness.
Is that what a health journey is?
Is that what we are trying to experience?
Not some striving after perfection,
not some hustle
culturing into
never ending work,
but an unfolding into wholeness?
Isn't that a vibe for it?
A blue hour?
If you can feel the truth of this,
well, you can do something with it.
You can inspire universes.
What a gigantic line!
What does it mean to you?
I man, I don't know.
What does it mean to me?
Find a little bit
if universe is too grand.
You know, to me that is such a huge word.
Feels pretty pretty huge to me.
Maybe just the little universe
that is our own thoughts.
Can we find a little inspiration
from ourself?
From it? It is that good enough?
Feel like he is saying truth
I love, I love that word in this space.
We're just getting these beautiful words
into our space,
wholeness and truth.
This to me
is the space that I'm looking for
in, you know, life,
truth, wholeness, goodness, things
that we can really, pursue.
Also things that are real, tangible,
grounded.
Like we are saying,
this is what I feel in a fasting space.
I feel like we're digging down
into a space like that, real and true,
getting into the essence of the body
and the human spirit
have the courage to feel
when you are feeling.
Don't you just love how he walks
through these things?
We've gone through this space.
Of shame and
oppressing emotion and now we are here.
Opening it up.
Takes courage.
Feel.
When you are feeling right,
think of the mirror in the fasting space.
I think just yesterday
we were talking about hunger in this space
that this is a feeling also in the body.
It's a very complex, you know, state.
When we think about it, it's
a physical sensation.
It's an emotional experience
also wrapped together.
It's a barrier into a fasting space
that we you pass through it.
You say we feel hungry,
at least at the start.
You know, I'm just reflecting
as I'm speaking this in the morning.
You know, I fast in the morning.
You know, I have a coffee.
I just fascinating you know, I don't
experience hunger now I'm feeling content.
You know, hunger is also in cycles.
It follows patterns
about when we are usually eating.
This is the benefit of having a routine.
Not that we are tied down to it
in any rigid or dogmatic fashion,
but that when we have a cycle, a routine,
something we go through,
the body starts to know what to expect.
Hunger less
about saying the body needs energy
and more about the body saying,
hey, we need to know when to get
all these digestive hormones
and enzymes together
just so that we can keep our digestion
coordinated.
Have you experienced that
like you used to eat at a certain time and
then you would get hungry at that time,
but then you changed it, and maybe for
a week or two you're kind of missing it.
You felt hungry, but then it kind of
went away, and then it settled out.
Just like the waves on
the lake have settled out and everything
has come to a place of peace.
This is what we are
trying to find in the body.
We accept that there is difficulty
that we can flow through.
Right?
But like Einstein says,
like in the midst of difficulty, lies
and opportunity, here is the fasting space
a barrier to entry?
Something maybe.
Do we say, is it not so pleasant?
But then we can come to reframe it
and we can see it from
a different point of view,
see that it is much more neutral
than we have been led to believe,
and then lead into this
space that we are reading.
Have the courage
to feel when you are feeling,
to acknowledge it.
One of those things we could feel
is a hunger, maybe in the place
that has been a barrier to us.
Be brave enough
not to feel what you are not feeling.
Love that paradox
beyond your expectations
and need to conform
is a meadow of your own authenticity.
Play there, he says.
I love these words, right?
Do you feel isn't there so much pressure
to conform in our society across
so many things? And don't
we continue flowing through this?
Isn't he describing
what the emotional experience
is of so much of the interaction
that we have with our society, right,
that there's so much
pressure to look and act a certain way
and that can feed into even
how many times do we eat in a day
and how many people are guilt tripped
both ways, like if you're not eating,
especially I'm thinking of I was like,
oh, you want to practice some fasting?
That's not what we do here.
It's like people, as soon as we change
something now someone has got their own
emotional space to deal with.
Now, maybe they are feeling judged right.
And then so they instead of trying to
figure that out,
then they just make that stop.
I don't want to feel like people got
issues, like with food and relationships.
And so
and we
isn't the tendency not to look internally,
not to ask why do I feel that way?
So we can have compassion.
You see, if we
come into a space, if you encounter
a space like that, have compassion
with someone.
I have I have seen people arguing,
having conflict about what
one partner wants to do, some fasting
other person doesn't want to do.
It is all this space.
We got to take big, deep breaths in space
like this.
I never,
never want a conflict for people.
I always encourage people coming
for a weight loss consult in my practice.
Simple fasting.
Bring your partner.
Let's all get on the same page.
You know as much as we can,
but I love this play.
There he ends this.
Take away the expectations.
Take away the need for conformity.
Find a meadow of your own authenticity
and play there.
This is a space to me.
Things
can be so serious, you know, in life.
Can we lighten up a bit?
Can it be playful?
You know,
can we just be trying some stuff out?
You know,
everything doesn't have to be, you know,
this is this is to me
why this stuff is is so in line.
This writing with our blue, our, you know,
can we take a deep breath, can we relax,
take some of these things from the
the day is done
sort of vibes like nothing left to do.
Just okay to sit in a space here,
see what grows.
They go on.
Yes. A
reductive space
not found on a path of attainment,
but found in a cultivation
of what is already here.
The words are truly countercultural
for the times we are in, aren't they?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
This is just one sentence.
They have play there, see what grows.
I love these words.
They're light, they're curious.
They're joyful.
They don't have expectations.
They aren't demanding instant results.
Sin experiment, you know,
is what a fasting space is to me.
A little playground,
a little metabolic space.
Just open up some space for the body,
see what happens
is actually joy found in that space.
That's what I really want.
This is this is the big reason I started
making fasting content this way,
which is like people think like,
oh, fasting has to be difficult.
It is a struggle. It is a discipline.
It is rigid.
We've got bringing pressure there.
And I'm like writing like this,
you know, is inspirational to me
in this space because it's showing us
a completely different
point of view, you know, which is that
this is like a meadow.
We can see ourselves like a little kid,
think of a little kid just running around
playing in the natural world, like, see,
we're bringing in all these things.
Cycles are happening.
We're seeing it in the day,
the cycle of the day.
We think connecting
into bigger cycles of life.
We see in the metabolism.
There are cycles, right?
Eating and fasting.
This is the way the body needs nutrients,
the body.
You know, we are an extractive system.
We have to take in externally.
We do.
But then we need to balance that out.
And this is the big experiment.
This is the playground.
What what is the balance for each person
that helps
to bring things into a space of peace?
We have in our society
certain
rigid constructs that a person has to eat
at least three times every day
and all throughout the day.
And that's what every person needs.
You know, I would
here is a countercultural point of view
that that that's wrong.
You know, that that just isn't true,
that it's actually readily available.
If we take the space to look,
that it's not
true, that in fact,
if we create some more space,
that many of the problems
that we have metabolically with blood
sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol,
weight, all of these sort of things.
That we can just
subtract, right?
I loved that session
we did the other day inside the box,
fasting inside the box
from that David Epstein book.
People always try to solve problems
by adding things.
This creates more complexity
when many times there is a simple solution
that we can actually
just take something away and we're done.
To me, this is exactly what's happening
in the fasting space.
We're trying to add
more supplements,
more medications, more exercise,
more everything, and fasting,
giving us an opportunity
just to say
we can just take something away
and like you say,
and we see what's already here.
The energy
the body needs is already here within us.
And it's the simple step of stepping back
and seeing what grows.
Since truly,
each day of your life is a New Year's Day,
isn't that a nice way to think of it?
For Sun and Earth,
abide by no calendar,
but perpetual continuity.
Isn't that living in the present?
The Earth is living in the present, right?
They are delirious in the ceaseless dance.
This is.
This would be the ideal state
of our days, right?
If we were really in a flow.
States like, isn't it?
Sometimes you find it,
you know, in the midst of something.
We say that that felt like a delirious
dance, like we weren't watching the clock.
We weren't stressing about anything.
Spirit and soul know only eternity,
he says.
Therefore, may you feel the divine
artwork of hope, renewal and revival
in every breath and every heartbeat.
I love that session we did.
It was like that heart hand meditation
that I did just pressing into the chest.
And you get your hand in there
into your own physical body.
You just feel
the lungs expanding, feel
the breath flowing,
feeling the actual heartbeat
through your own body,
and just the energy and power of it.
Finding strength and gratitude from it.
Finding hope, renewal, revival in it.
Like he says, aren't these just
deep experiences that even with one big
breath, feeling,
one heartbeat, that it can just ground you
in your own self?
Feeling strength?
What I want for people
I love are talking yesterday,
finding strength in the body.
To me, fasting is one avenue
for one type of strength that we can find
to say in the midst of everything
that is happening here in this culture
that in fact I am strong, I know it,
I can feel it because I have energy here.
I am not so dependent
on every external thing as I have been led
to believe.
And the sending sentence may you live
and joined with the ever cascading
peace of things.
What a beautiful way to conclude
as our light has gone for a second time,
for a second time.
And everything is calm.
Everything.
At peace.
I hope that is how you feel in this day.
Take that mindset
wherever you are in this day.
Remain a present, grounded.
Feel a state of peace
going through things.
Use that as a strength flowing
through every,
Every situation that you face.
Have a beautiful day.
I look forward
to connecting with you again soon.
Be well everybody.