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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
Take a big, deep breath.
It's fasting space.
Fasting day for me today.
So happy about it.
Really feeling a good,
good energy from it.
Whether you are doing
a little fasting space this morning
or whenever you're listening,
or whether it's, just a fasting mindset,
a little bit of space,
a little bit of openness in the day,
Sending you my best energy, my best
thinking in this space.
Wherever you are,
I hope that health is finding you.
Health and body, mind and spirit.
Take a minute.
Let go of any of the stress of the week.
Focus in on this day.
One more day to go here
and then, a weekend.
So do a little thinking.
Today I'm going to share
a tiny little passage from you,
from this wonderful book, A Dear
Artist to Center the Thinking.
It's like two sentences.
Giant John says, practice
not judging yourself,
even as you apply devotion to the growth
of your craft.
Excellence in brilliance
can live in the same garden as softness
and gentleness in the same blossom
is forgiving yourself and letting go.
I love that.
Is that a message that you need to hear
today?
Don't judge yourself.
Maybe you get to the end of the week
and you say, well, I wish this week
didn't go the way it did.
We learn and we grow.
That's what we're doing.
I love how you know
this is written to an artist, right?
Somebody
who is trying to create something,
and we are trying to create health
in our life and our experience.
The healthiest expression of this human
being that
we can have given the cards
that we are adults.
And so I love this.
Apply devotion to your craft.
Think of it.
How are you crafting your days?
How are you going to craft this day?
Or how are you going to craft tomorrow?
Make it into a work of art.
How are you going to move through
it? Right.
There's a beautiful expression.
How we move through the world
really matters.
I think how we don't move
through the world matter.
See? Everything matters.
That's what I say.
I say that I think, oh, look at me.
I'm keeping some tension here.
Just how we are matters.
Certainly what we eat matters.
So here's an artistic expression, right?
Really putting energy into something
beautiful that we are eating
the very most healthy expression.
The everything matters, right?
What we eat matters.
And what we don't eat matters.
How we move matters and how we don't move.
Happy Friday.
So nice to have you here.
Hope you are well.
So I really love this
and I love the word growth in it.
This is, Each word
that this person writes.
You know,
obviously they just pack it with meaning.
Growth is what we want
and practice, right?
I love how they sort of practice
not judging yourself.
So difficult to do. Takes practice, right?
Something we work on and then growth
right.
Perfection. Not going to happen.
Almost ever. Or maybe.
Maybe it does in some way.
We say, man, I just had a perfect day.
There would be something to,
to really celebrate and find gratitude.
Say I had a perfect health day.
Just nailed it, right?
Hard to do an aspirational goal,
but really
what we want is like this says growth
1% better every day.
I loved that.
And then the reality is I see it okay.
I spent a lot of my spring
getting 1% better every day
and then boom, life happens,
something unexpected happens,
and it's,
one step forward and two steps back.
And now, now we start getting 1% better
from from a lower place.
Wherever you're at, find a space of peace
and contentment in that place.
That's what I want the mindset to be here.
We've got it right.
I put it on the picture.
You got this. All right, we got it.
Excellence and brilliance
aren't these things that we want?
I would love it.
Sometimes you can feel a little far away
from excellence in brilliance.
I would say I'm feeling pretty
far away from that, but that's okay.
These sort of things can live,
he says, in the same
garden as softness and gentleness.
Sometimes those can feel pretty far away
to, but
I would say I'm closer to that,
closer to that today.
How about you?
I love that it says in the same garden I.
I love using a metaphor of a garden
for our health experience, you know.
Growth.
Certainly we can see it in a garden
sometimes.
You know, growth in our own
life is very difficult to see sometimes.
Sometimes growth doesn't always look like
we think it should.
Growth in a garden easier to see.
Seed is shooting out of the ground
and it's growing all right.
And so many things that all living things
need just easiest to see in a garden
because, you know, the plant doesn't go
anywhere.
Can it's not running around.
We can just watch the whole process.
And plants especially needs water
and sunlight and space.
You know, if you plant all the seeds
on top of each other,
everything going to be crowded out.
A well spaced garden
growing and flourishing space to flourish.
I just love how he dials this sentence
in, from our experience,
into a garden
and then to a single blossom.
It's like we're dialing in smaller
and smaller space.
Forgiving yourself and letting go.
And that beautiful.
This is the sort of thing that I think
we can take that pattern in our life.
The big picture of things
bringing things down into a single day,
taking things into a single moment
of forgiveness and letting go.
Letting go just as a phrase,
something I really love.
I love that he said forgiveness
and letting go, I think sometimes.
Maybe we can conflate those two.
Forgiveness is not forgetting, right?
Forgiveness
isn't the same as letting something go.
Forgiveness
doesn't mean memory stops, right?
Forgiveness and learning can go in
the same space that I like quite a lot.
But letting go also something else.
A big thing I would like to do
in everything that I'm doing.
Consulting in a clinic,
sharing thoughts in a space like this,
just talking to people, right?
How do we overcome obstacles?
Different ways
we can think about what that means.
I like the metaphor climbing a lot, right?
Climbing the mountain,
climbing over the wall, you know,
stacking up things that we can use
to climb over our obstacle.
Another way to think of it as letting go
of the things that are holding us back.
Really love that.
Also, somewhere in the future.
Love to talk about this book
Inside the box.
I read that a few weeks ago.
How Constraints make us better.
You should make a little session
just on the idea
and the thinking that he put in there
about,
most people trying to solve problems
by adding things to it.
And really most of the time, he says,
or at least some of the time
we have to think about it.
Problems best solved by subtraction
and not addition
and fasting space, to me,
is certainly the pinnacle idea of that.
I like the idea of merge
the ideas, letting go of things
that are not serving us,
letting go of the barriers, the anchors,
the weights that are holding us down.
Okay, these are things we want to let go.
I love pairing that with the thought.
Letting go of physical weight
also in the body,
letting go of emotional weight
in our being.
Mental weight.
Thoughts, the anxiety, the stress.
All these things loop together in our body
and our being
through stress and hormonal factors,
complex interactions with how
we are eating and coping with stress.
Let a lot of things go can help us
let go of other patterns.
Find deeper and deeper
levels of compassion for ourselves.
Absolutely a key, key thing to do.
Letting go of our attachment
to the outcome.
This is something
I've really been thinking a lot about.
Try. Making our best effort
to move in
a direction is the practice, right?
Not necessarily the outcome of it.
Sometimes you're doing the very best
you can.
You're setting the rudder, steering
the ship in every direction that it can.
This was my experience over the summer.
And then you end up ten miles back,
you know, despite it.
Say, is it?
You can pile a lot of guilt
trip on yourself
if you end up in a space like that,
ultimately doesn't serve anything.
This is why I did diving into this book.
I can dig it out of my pile.
On radical acceptance, right?
I really am loving that.
It's feeling like you really have to come
to a space of acceptance
of things in order
to really find compassion for yourself.
Do you think that's true?
Like if you don't accept something
very hard
to settle into it,
you know, to bring the intensity
down into a space
where you can really relate to it.
I think the quote someone, Rogers,
that we said just the other day,
it's like when we accept
things is when we are,
paradoxically,
we can actually change things.
I've really been sitting with that a lot
because some,
you know, our the knee jerk reaction,
at least for me.
Don't accept things.
It's like, I don't accept this,
therefore I'm going to change it.
Maybe there's some semantics
in that place, in that space.
Certainly accepting doesn't
mean agreeing with something or liking it.
Maybe we have things about that internally
with ourselves, things
that we don't like about even ourselves.
I think acceptance,
the way they are using it here is just
seeing reality
and not being in denial about it.
The deeper level I think that
they're trying to get to in that space,
as we've been reading it,
as we're heading towards
self-compassion to realize even, yeah,
so many of these things
that we are angry about
or we don't like or accept,
actually still things are okay.
I think that's a big message of this book.
We're always striving.
Life has to be always different
and better, and in fact, maybe it doesn't.
Maybe we really need to question.
Maybe we really need to question that.
Do things actually have to be better?
Do things really have to change,
even things we don't like?
Some thinking through it?
Can we challenge that and find acceptance?
Even for that, I'm feeling it.
I'm feeling it that that is a foundation
where change can really come from.
Very powerful space, very difficult space.
I think I had a chat with someone,
a friend the other day
and we were talking about motivation.
And whether it's real,
whether at least
whether it can be externally.
Created.
We got an entire multibillion dollar
industry of motivation, right?
It's like motivational speakers getting
paid hundreds of thousands of dollars
to stand up and say their words
that are going to inspire the people.
I don't know the argument.
I forgot even where I was reading it.
Maybe it's wrong okay,
but very hard, if not impossible
to actually motivate someone externally.
Motivation.
Something that has to come from within,
I think
at least a real deep motivation
that isn't some fleeting thing.
Like you go to a pep rally and people
are dancing around and playing music
and you say, well, I feel very motivated
or kept up or something.
I suppose there's some amount of that
that is real,
but there is definitely a much deeper
layer, isn't there?
A deeper layer like where we were getting
got it way back there?
Atomic habits, right?
Was teaching us when to dig down
if we really want change.
We need to get down into the identity
layer.
Who am I?
And what am I being?
How am I being?
Can't pep rally your way to that?
I don't think you gotta.
You gotta sink into a space like that.
I don't know, that's interesting.
You know, the
the headline idea out of Atomic Habits.
1% better.
Every day you search atomic habits.
You know, when James clear, you know,
you see that everywhere.
You don't.
At least me.
When I look, you don't see as many people
diving in on the the identity layer
that it can take deep work
to really change.
I don't know,
I was reflecting the other day,
On marketing,
been reading a fair amount of marketing
because I wish that
I was a great marketer.
Of course I would love.
I would love it
if thousands of people came.
We could have a huge conversation.
So many people having fun.
And I've had a few different ideas
that have come to it.
This say the first part of successful
marketing, you have to have something
that is marketable.
It's like, maybe that is not.
Maybe that is the problem.
Fasting space. Is it not marketable?
It feels like it should be to me.
They were saying,
okay, you need to take an idea.
That is what people really need, need to.
You need to give people
what they really want.
Is that what they sell?
Sell people what they want and
then give people what they really need.
And I was reflecting
and wondering if that isn't
what James Clear did with Atomic Habits.
He sold people what they wanted
1% better every day
an atomic habit, a micro step.
Right.
And this got the book out there, right.
And it's a good it's good.
But he even says it in the book
when you read it like,
this is like part of
this is the surface layer.
But then in the book,
he gave people
maybe what they really need,
which is to dive in on the identity.
And maybe that isn't even an atomic habit.
So like, I don't know.
I don't know that
that diving into the core of your being,
and changing who you are,
or if that's not the right way
to recognize who you really are
instead of what you are trying to be,
if that's really the deepest thing.
I don't know that that's an atomic habit.
I'd love to sit down with James clear
and see how he would.
How would he reflect on
my little reflections?
Would he say, oh, you got me?
Or would he be like, that's ridiculous.
Try again.
I am not able to be motivated
by external things anymore.
I am working on changing my identity
as someone who looks
after health seems to work for me.
Hey, I, I'm loving to hear that
I am really sending
my best energy to you on that process.
I think, I think that's the real game.
I've been thinking about this idea. Yes.
External things,
external things motivating us.
The idea
that this is popping into my mind,
I think about the times
that I have been around kids lately.
Just my own kids.
Kids events.
Taking kids to different things,
sporting events.
Everywhere I've gone
for the last couple of weeks as I listen
to kids talking, maybe I'm driving
and kids are talking in the backseat.
Do you know what they're talking about?
They're talking about
AI everywhere that I go.
And I'm just thinking maybe everybody is,
I don't know, but I just,
It has been just interesting
how this whole phenomenon has pervaded,
you know, everywhere, as far as I can see,
at least everywhere I am.
But it's especially,
it's just been especially poignant.
Think of kids talking about it
and what the future looks like.
Love that, I love that.
What does the future look like
in his worst?
Stepping forward in spaces like this
I love this.
Trying to turn down the inner critic.
Such an incredible thing to do.
I just love this.
This is like everything I want to help
people do.
Look at the opportunities
we have nourishing the body.
Just so beautiful.
Thank you for sharing these thoughts.
So we think how do we create, you know,
cultures, places, experiences
so that people can do this?
Didn't I give a talk, last month
or whenever it was.
Oh, on, on GLP one, right.
I was talking about job ones and
and how I've prescribed thousands of them
for over a decade and, and as the,
as, as the societal
explosion of interest has happened.
You know, my own personal experience
has just has really worn off
into a space that, has,
you know, came came to me to decide
to stop prescribing them entirely.
And one of the main reasons I did
talk about it a little bit in that talk
is, is just the fact that, Children
are doing so much worse in this society
than they ever have, like in health, like
never have children been so unhealthy.
And and so as societal explosion
and interest in
these medicines has happened, children's
health has only gotten worse and worse.
And this is mortifying to me that we are
investing so much money into, into things
that are not helping the next generation
of people to be healthy.
I think that this is a complete failure
of of health leadership.
You know, it is a failure of society
and it's a failure of investment.
I think that,
we should be investing everything we can
to create a society in spaces
that helps the next generation
to be flourishing in an experience,
you know, the best life possible.
Isn't this what we should be
of course, doing?
And so these these two thoughts
are coming together for me in this moment.
Because everywhere I see kids
now, they're talking about AI.
And I will tell you,
they're not really that positive.
Sometimes I hear saying, oh, you know,
I don't all like
here's some silly image that was created,
okay, there's tons of that, you know,
but there's a lot of people talking about,
like how crazy it is
that, you know, all the CEOs of
these companies are talking about like,
oh, this might kill everybody.
Like, this is a pretty crazy idea
to think about.
And I was thinking about, what is it
like to be in the, you know, the 50s
where you're, you're you're
you're doing like, nuclear weapons.
You know, drills in your school
and hiding under your desk
or something, say,
oh, here is an existential you no threat.
And,
I don't know, that might not be a good
psychological mindset
for people to be experiencing.
Hey, thank you so much.
That's the goal.
That's the goal.
Might not be
what a what most people want, but
I'm very glad that you are here with me.
I hope there's value in it.
The thing that I want to get to,
I have a thought in my mind.
I'm trying to weave a couple thoughts
together, two chatty to really get there.
I might lose it.
I only have so many, so many slots.
Young kids,
mental
health, just like everybody will improve.
Eating less a things.
Yeah, I have so many places.
I just think, you know, events I've been
at, sporting events, other things.
I mean, just think of a concession stand.
I was watching lines of kids
at a concession stand at a sporting event,
and they're loading up on soda
and gummy worms and all this
sort of stuff, and I'm just like,
oh my gosh, like, it is.
It is really tough.
And then I think I'm
just watching their little brains,
you know, and I'm watching the sugar
flowing through the digestive system.
And it's hitting all the centers
and people running around.
And I'm like, you know, this is starting
very deep in the experience
of being a human being, patterns
of what makes us happy and feel good.
I'm like, we are creating some very,
very difficult patterns for people.
It's going to be very,
very hard to unwind that, you know?
And so here we're on the other end of it.
Right. It's like not no kids
watching, right.
You know,
but we're sitting here in a space we're
saying, how do we be healthy in a society?
How do we, chart our own course,
dig back down into that space
of finding peace and contentment
without flashy foods
that making us feel good, like you're
saying, that are actually nourishing.
You know, very hard to do, right?
I think this is why very hard to sell,
you know,
very easy to sell something
with pictures of happy people and.
Okay, the thought I was trying
to get to kids talking about
AI and the AI systems and everything,
flashy external motivation, I think.
Okay, a lot of external motivation
happening
in our society today.
It's like you say, well,
where is the excitement?
You know, so if you want to be motivated.
People come in.
People say, I want to be motivated to lose
weight and help me be motivated, okay?
It's like.
Bring something external, okay?
A lot of people excited.
We can say that.
We can see people excited. About tech.
Okay, tech, look, I'm not opposed to tech.
Think how much technology I'm using
so that we can have a little chat
over a digital coffee together, you know?
So I'm not a lot as they would say
I'm open to technology, but, Look at it
this way.
Okay, I was I read
I try to read every perspective.
I'm a very open to every perspective.
I was reading someone there and saying,
okay, a technology
you can't be a you're opposed to.
An AI is like, well,
are you opposed to a calculator?
And this, this dialog,
someone saying like a you're saying, oh,
people shouldn't use AI because, it's,
it's letting it think for them.
And as a human being,
we shouldn't be outsourcing
the main thing
that makes us actually a human being.
And they're like, well,
do you use a calculator? And they're like,
well, yeah, I use a calculator
as it isn't that thinking for you?
So I was thinking of this argument
quite a lot
and I've actually come
come back around on it.
Okay.
There are downsides to using a calculator
okay.
There are like
if you want to be a math protege,
if you're trying to be an engineer,
probably relying on this crutch,
the easy button, probably
as you're young and you're trying to do it
isn't actually gonna help you very much.
Right? I think that's true.
You know, as you're trying to develop
that now for a lot of people, you said,
doesn't matter.
I don't need to be able to crunch,
you know, all the numbers.
You know, it's like we say,
you know, our kids doing better in math
now with the tools.
Or did
they used to be doing better without.
It seems pretty clear, you know, to me.
So that's kind of an interesting model
that we can use.
All right.
I saw a model or an essay
someone was saying a.
In the past.
We are all farmers, right?
That's pretty much fair.
Everybody in society, farmers
for ever since
the agricultural revolution,
and we stop being hunter gatherers.
Most people farmed.
And it wasn't
until the Industrial Revolution.
All right, that we started having
a greater division of labor, mainly.
And because everybody farmers,
everybody working, everybody strong.
Right.
And then now that that's not the case,
now we're like 2% farmers and tractors
doing a huge amount of the work right now
to be stronger.
You got to choose to do it right.
This was saying can we outsource thinking?
Writing is thinking
this is the thing. Really.
Writing is thinking.
If you have a calculator for your writing,
like just like calculator,
going to atrophy
or mental arithmetic really does
large language model
going to add your fear ability to think
if you don't, if you don't exercise it.
And this is where I was going
with kids too.
And we think, all right, kids
using these things,
I think it's dangerous to outsource
thinking for a kid like you gotta
you're just learning how to think, right?
And here's where I really want
to bring it into our metabolic space.
Keep a very excited about AI
and what it can do.
Think about the consumption of it.
This is the thing that bothers me.
A calculator with a little solar panel
sits on your desk.
It uses nothing.
An AI data center,
you know, is is consuming
huge amounts
of resources of the entire Earth.
This is what's really wild to me.
This is what isn't really acceptable
or intelligent to me.
This is the,
the thing that I find the most difficult
is we calling this intelligence.
Well, it's just basically burning
vast amounts of resources
of the earth, of coal and natural gas, and
and we went through a decade, didn't
we go through a decade of a green movement
and all kinds of environmental movements
and regulations,
and people got very excited
about setting up windmills and
putting solar panels on their health house
and driving an electric car.
And that might not really be very green.
Just ask all the slave children
in the cobalt mines, you know?
But, all of a sudden we're like, well,
this is cool.
We can have a machine think for us,
you know, forget all that other stuff.
Let's build a million of them, okay?
Build a million of them and run all these
things full blast, and then we can.
We don't have to think anymore.
To me, this is the big idea.
Fasting.
Much more exciting to me
and the human mind.
Much more exciting to me.
I just did a little Google search,
which now is also, you know,
taken over with intelligence
that it tells you.
But, Think we got gigawatt data centers
now, right?
All the data centers, gigawatts say mental
functions of our brain uses around 15W.
Think of about a 15.
What bulb?
You know, it's not very bright, right?
It's a dim little light, 15W of energy
running these mental processes.
The equivalent processing power of a data
center is in the gigawatt range.
See our mental processes.
We're doing multiple gigawatts
of computing power in one human mind
for the energy of like a Christmas light.
Basically.
Isn't that wild? To me? I think it's wild.
It's incredible efficiency.
This is the thing that is,
really hitting me in this moment.
It's like, let's get excited
about the human body again.
Let's get excited about the human mind,
the incredible efficiency of it,
the incredible power of it,
the creativity of it.
And here is some real intelligence,
right?
A human being is intelligent.
I'm very excited about that.
I don't think it's intelligent
to, Consume vast
resources to replace
human thought with machine thinking.
I'm not feeling good about it.
I'm not feeling good for kids about it.
I think it feels much better to say,
why don't we shut some of this off
for a little while?
Why don't we focus on things
that really matter, like the health?
Health is what really matters.
We need things that are efficient.
Efficiency is intelligent, right?
It's like,
these are things I really believe.
We should take the investment.
We're investing trillions of dollars,
generational wealth invested
into machines that can think for us
while children are becoming obese.
And now we need to spend
huge amounts of money.
And now we're going to give GLP ones
to kids.
Instead of creating environments
where people can just be healthy
and flourishing.
This is not a sustainable model
for a human future, as far as I can see.
Like I think we're way off the map.
I think we're totally off course.
At least
it feels that way to me right now.
And I don't think the course
is very far away, like I don't.
I'm not feeling very doom
and gloomy about it.
I'm just looking.
I'm like.
I'm just saying like,
because this is a thing of fasting.
Space to me is why it's so profound.
Like we're just making one simple decision
and everything shuts off.
Like, actually, I'm okay with nothing
for a thoughtful period of time.
I don't I
we need less consumption, more thinking.
This is what I think.
The opposite of what
our society is going for.
We're going for radically
increased consumption and think less.
Who thinks that's a good idea?
Like, I just don't think it's smart.
I'm not opposed to the idea
of a superintelligent computer
if it could be done.
I mean, I'm not seeing that
that's really what is happening.
But if it could be done.
Not opposed to it as a concept.
If it was especially radically efficient
and helped us to tread more lightly
upon the earth.
You know,
this is part of what a fasting is doing.
This is what is feeling
so good to me in this moment.
You know, to be in a fasting space, to say
all of these things
that are not really resonating,
they don't feel in alignment
with what it really would be like
to be a thoughtful person,
as it at least for this period of time.
I'm not consuming anything.
I'm running my 15.
What's my tiny little dim bulb is a.
Sputtering along,
and then that's that's enough.
To me.
It feels meaningful, and I think it's
meaningful on many levels.
It's healthy for the body.
I really believe that this is something
that is missing in our society.
I think we need space without consumption
physically in the body, and that's
that's that root level where we're trying
to dig way down into the core of things.
Clearly, the body needs space like that.
It runs many metabolic processes that are
good and life giving and rejuvenating.
We need some space like that.
It's probably different for everybody.
Some testing, some experimenting required,
I think, to figure out
and to listen to the body
say what is resonating.
And I think resonating is the right word.
You know,
you think of think of a guitar, right?
Think of some musical instrument.
The resonance is when the structure
of the body of that instrument
naturally moves
with the frequency of the sound
that is being played and amplifies it.
Think we want things
that we do to resonate.
This body is like an instrument.
I love
how we're getting in this creative space,
like we're thinking about health
as an artistic expression.
The body is the instrument
of the artistic expression.
How do we play this instrument
that we have in a way
that is like making a beautiful song,
you know, fasting like the space
between the notes, you know, it's
like if if music was just a drone, then
and we would not want to necessarily
listen to it very long.
But the space is
what creates the interest in the beauty.
On so many levels.
We need space in our society.
We need space in the body.
We need space in our life.
We need to say no to so many things
that are not serving us.
And I think as we say
no to a lot of things,
it opens up that space for the resonance.
You know it. Take an electric guitar.
No, space doesn't resonate.
You hit the strings, very little sound.
But an acoustic guitar, right?
Has a whole chamber
that resonates at amplifies it naturally.
And I want our experience
the way we're living to be like that,
to naturally amplify
the experiences that we're having.
This, to me, is an expression that is like
radiating health out into the world.
Doesn't it feel good to take a pause?
You know, I was just thinking about that.
That's what I was thinking here.
Like there was actually just a moment,
you know, a space,
a pause.
So few times
in life, in this moment, you feel it.
It's like everything is always faster.
Everything is, it's like all the spaces
cut out.
It's edited out.
Talking about this
with my kids to the other day,
it's like all the space edited out.
Always have to be
something filled into it.
Don't stop talking.
I mean, I feel that thing a pressure
like I'm,
you know, sitting here,
I want to be entertaining to people.
If I could, I was like, but you think
about a standard YouTube video, right?
Is like, you would never have a pause.
You'd never have a space to me,
all of a sudden that felt really good.
They before I'm heading on with my day.
Take a pause.
So much value. In a pause.
In a space.
In a breath. Right.
All of these simple things.
So easy to overlook. Say, what is that?
It's nothing.
This is the thing.
Fasting space. Nothing.
Very abstract. Right?
We want to make the abstract, tangible
right
to take things that are easy to overlook
but highly valuable.
Bring them into our life in just insofar
as they help us.
Right thoughts
that are helping us to navigate
the challenges in a more thoughtful way.
Physical experiences in the body, right,
that are so helpful.
That is fasting space to me,
both the the physical practice of doing it
and then our experience
fasting space of program center,
the mind center, the thinking
so that we can move forward
in a powerful way in our day.
I hope these thoughts have been helpful.
Share reflections on them.
I hope you have a beautiful day,
beautiful weekend
and I will look forward
to seeing you back here soon.
Have a great day everybody!