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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 fasting space.
Today we are treading lightly.
When I think of treading lightly,
it takes me out into the wilderness
to a national park, going hiking,
some sort of beautiful place in nature.
So we don't want to disturb this.
We're taking a look at this beautiful jewel of a planet
that we have.
The incredible.
Miracle that we can be here together in this moment.
We usually think of treading lightly in a space
about the environment, about conservation.
For our purposes.
You know, for someone who's practicing fasting,
for someone on a health journey, I want to bring this together.
Health in the body, health in the world.
Treading lightly on ourselves as much as the environment.
This is where I want to go today.
So beautiful to me.
Less stress on the body, less stress on the digestive system,
less stress on our joints, less stress on this whole being
as we put less stress on this place that we reside.
I say a health journey.
It isn't just about us.
We don't have to just make it about us and we can expand.
Our vision can help us take powerful steps forward in health
that are helping us to gain
insight and perspective and motivation and encouragement.
And this is what I want this session to be for you
a great encouragement.
One of the big focuses that I have on the channel,
I talk a lot about a way of being in the world
that we are creating an experience
for ourselves, and really, we want to become a type of artist,
a weight loss artist,
a health artist
creating a beautiful expression of health in the world.
And one of the ways I look at that a lot,
we did this session yesterday.
How do we relate to our environment?
We look at our microenvironment just in the house.
Can we develop dysfunctional relationships
and ways of being with certain rooms,
certain things, the kitchen, the couch, you know, certain things.
So if we want to shape that environment
so that health can flourish, okay.
Now we're like taking another step out more broadly
and saying, okay,
if the environment of our health house is shaping
our environment, like,
look more broadly at this earth that we we are a part of,
and how do we relate to it and how is that
relationship shaping our health?
I believe that if there is such a thing as an optimal way
of being in the world, that it's going to be
optimal across
all domains, it's going to be optimal for our personal health,
for the health of both individual people and for human society.
And then, you know, more broadly for the earth itself
and for all life on earth.
I just have. Such a compassion for it.
And I think that more broadly, we should as people, you know.
Right now, I think we are very far away.
And this is myself included, you know, very far away
from an optimal, sustainable,
thoughtful existence here on the earth.
And I'm going to share some information today
that I have been personally
researching that I think is very fascinating in that regard.
Just food for thought.
That's the thing, a fasting space.
We're taking a break from food in the body, right?
Have some water, have a coffee or tea.
Settle in in a space. Give the body some space.
How about instead of the actual food,
we'll have food for thought today.
I'll try to dish it up for you.
Yes, in a moment like this
I refer on the channel quite a lot to this present moment.
As you know, society I describe as consumption culture.
I describe this as an industrial society.
I think it is the pinnacle, at least so far.
Who knows where we're going.
But this is kind of the pinnacle of consumption, culture
and industrial society that we're living through.
I think it is very important for thoughtful
people, people who want to be healthy
and who want to make the world have see the world
be a better place.
I think it's very important that we take some time.
How about like this morning?
We got a few moments here, starting our day.
Let's center our day. And some thinking very deep.
As deep as tiny brains can take us, right?
How do we have a thoughtful existence here
that is bringing health to ourselves?
But then setting the template.
This is the thing I was thinking about last night
to setting the template for future generations to
how do we have healthy people here, healthy kids,
so that, you know, we've been through a health experience.
We were talking the other day about how,
you know, so many things just kind of happened.
I mean, you know, World War Two happened.
The United States was transformed into an industrial powerhouse.
And and then that machine did not stop.
And all the industry of war was turned
into this incredible production machine.
I'm going to show you some graphs that just show that.
And it's like nobody knew. Like it was just incredible abundance.
And people like,
look at this and wealth and the giant houses and cars and like,
all this stuff happened and it was like people had no context.
It was just like a miracle.
You know, you think of the, the joy that people experience.
The war is over and then and then the, the experience.
And all of a sudden,
I think it has taken a couple generations, like,
you know, you look back and you say, like, whoa,
I get to these graphs and just kind of show you.
And now we can be more thoughtful,
I think is is the way that we're living
and the experience that we're having in health and everything.
Is this the way we want it to be in the future,
or can we think deeply and and go in a different direction?
I say that fasting, amazingly
can show us a pattern and a way of being
that is so much more grounded
and integrated into this beautiful place
and healthy, sustainable,
so that we can have human flourishing across
so many different domains.
This is what we want.
Fasting.
Okay, just to start out with some brief thoughts.
Fasting helps us consume less.
When we look at industrial culture,
we look at consumption society.
We say just the amount of consumption can be overwhelming.
And on a very, you know, first level thing,
it's like we're just taking some time
to conscientious consume less.
And on the first level we say this is good for the body
and maybe this is enough for us to focus on.
We say, look, a world is turning.
We don't have to put the weight of the world on our shoulders.
And I really don't want anyone to feel that way.
And we can take care of ourselves
first is the perfect thing to do.
Opening up some fasting space.
Burn through some energy in the body.
An incredible thing to do to bring health to the body.
But then we start to widen our perspective and we say,
oh, look at all the other things that it is doing.
Less consumption for our self, good for the body.
All of a sudden, we're taking a break
from putting a demand on the earth.
And the consumption might mean, over time, less trips
to a store, less gasoline, you know, less dishes
means less detergent, less plastic bottles,
so much less plastic in general.
This is what is crazy.
Less packaging, fewer wrappers, and then less food waste.
You know, if we start to get more efficient.
I was thinking about our discussion.
Was it just yesterday about the metabolism
and how the metabolism is dynamic?
And we think there are these scenarios
in which we can help the metabolism increase
something I would love for people to be able to do say,
oh, like the things are having more energy, we're burning more.
Okay, but then let's look at the other side of it.
There are scenarios
where the metabolism can calm down to some degree.
One of those places where people get stuck is in classic dieting.
Cycles of calorie restriction
without fasting can lead us in a space
where the metabolism can be slowed,
can really get us in a negative spiral.
Fasting can help us unlock that
for a period, and we are talking about in a longer fasting,
which is not simple.
Fasting, like the metabolism, kind of can slow again.
From a certain perspective though, you see, using less,
taking less energy is not all bad
when you start to think about it.
If we have a really big and thoughtful perspective about it.
Get into a fasting space.
Such a thoughtful space, a less demand for ultra
processed foods, things that come from factories, things
that are powered by coal
and natural gas and nuclear power plants and solar panels, even,
you know, that were
themselves made out of a gigantic industrial process
that took enormous amounts of coal
to produce, to refine the steel and the aluminum
and the silver and the rare earth elements
like neodymium that have been mined out
with gigantic mining equipment,
you know, so that we can have a solar panel
to power our factory to make Doritos, you know what I mean?
Like, you start looking at the Earth and what is happening,
and you say, I want to be out of that for a little bit.
Like, remember food like the apple just grew on a tree
and we picked it and ate it,
you know, and and it was just a cycle
that was very simple and grounded.
And diabetes
was something that no one had ever heard of, basically.
Every calorie that we consume
out of this current industrial system, you just have to see
farming using about 30% of all energy on this planet,
you know, to run all the tractors in its current form.
And when we take a break from that,
you know, all the transportation to get it,
all of the refrigeration along the way for everything,
we start to say, look, I'm powerful being
I've got energy and resources here
and say, I'm part of this planet to, you know, and it's like,
why not give this beautiful system a break a little bit?
I've got this for a little bit, like just a little bit.
You know, it's like we are dependent on food.
Absolutely.
I want people having a beautiful, healthy relationship with food.
And that especially means eating the most nourishing,
healthy foods that come from the earth in a natural way.
And what's so much of that is actually is actually,
you know, eating locally, eating the highest quality
things that actually are not produced in any way,
and that we're transported the least amount of space.
This is the thing, the optimal diet optimal
for people getting us the freshest, most healthy nutrition
to also put in the less demands on on the entire system.
Say skip the food industrial complex for a little bit.
Make things a little bit simpler.
That's why I say simple, fast
and try to make everything in our life.
I want fasting to simplify things.
Our eating should be as simple as possible,
I say, when we do this, okay, we open up that space.
We taking burdens off many places.
You see burdens off the energy consumption
burden off of the body.
And this is what's incredible.
Like you don't just fast
and then experience some kind of deprivation.
You fast and the body says opportunity.
This is what the body sees.
Fasting space is a resting space in the body.
The body says, oh, like we need some of this, right?
The body has plans for fasting space.
It runs a process called autophagy,
which is literally self eating in the meaning of it
instead of eating something externally.
So we're just going to use this energy
that we have within us for a while.
And when the body triggers that I was
I was reading a medical study on it the other day.
You know, medical words are so funny.
There's using this word pleiotropic, many effects.
Okay.
These the fasting signal in the body has many effects
that it brings to the body in that space.
Activating DNA repair enzymes.
So you see this is something the body really wants to be doing.
It's going into maintenance mode.
It's taking care of itself. It's cleansing the cell.
Say, are there mutations that are happening
in the DNA that we can fix and see?
Okay, here's a chance to take a break from all the work.
Focus on some things that a helping the body.
And one of those things is autophagy,
which if we're trying to build a bridge and see between,
you know, the environment and our health, say, well,
if we start thinking about,
you know, environmental things, you get into recycling,
you say, well, who doesn't in favor of recycling?
Say the body has recycling programs.
Autophagy is like the most incredible
recycling program on the planet,
is like completely efficient biological recycling.
You've got broken proteins in your cells.
The body literally piles them up, like in a garbage pile inside
of certain structures,
and then it will break those down and reuse them.
It'll build them back into something new.
And this is how fast it can become a rejuvenating practice.
And this is what I was saying at the beginning,
that fasting can show us patterns
in life, the way life works and operates,
that I believe we should be mirroring.
You know, as we're running this planet, I don't know people
running it anywhere other than in a bad direction right now.
Look how nature operates in cycles.
Completely efficient.
When we have waste, we're there's never waste in the body.
Basically, it's like within the cell,
everything reused, you know.
Some waste.
Okay. In the cycle we see is just part of a whole cycle.
Everything 100% biodegradable forms back into trees
that make the apples that form the thing a complete circuit.
When we when we look at things in a holistic thing
we see in nature, there's no waste.
And then in the fasting space, a part of that in the body
that helps to take things that are broken
and make them into something new.
See, these are beautiful patterns. Don't you wish?
I mean, as I'm looking at the earth,
I say, I wish that we were running cycles of human society
that were mirroring things like that on such a more profound
level fasting,
showing us the way for something beautiful like that.
Help us to tread lightly everywhere
we go, not just in the national park, in the city.
You know that that we say, okay, cities going to exist everywhere
can't be a national park now.
Okay.
Oh, but let's bring in some of these concepts to it.
A big thing that I've tried to share on the channel
is about inflammation, and that a fasting space
is actually anti-inflammatory in the body,
and that can have manifest in many ways,
because any tissue or organ or thing in the body
can develop inflammation, in that inflammation
actually becomes the root of most chronic diseases.
And so if we want to have healing in the body,
in many ways, healing involves
getting inflammation out of the body.
The thing I was thinking about yesterday as I was looking at this
like inflammation,
I say, you can think of it kind of like internal pollution.
We are trying to look at this mirror between body and planet.
We say, well, in planet we got a lot of pollution going on.
We got a lot of garbage.
Like, have you driven by a big city lately and on on your way in?
Do you see, like the garbage mountains that are like a building?
I drove down to Saint Louis a couple weeks ago and,
you know, coming into Saint Louis from the north,
I was like, man, like this garbage mountain is.
It's bigger than the arch, almost.
It feels like, oh, man.
And we got everywhere you go. We got that now piling it all up.
We got these in Madison.
And everywhere you go when you start looking for it, you know.
Inflammation in the body, we want to get that out.
Think of pollution in the environment.
We want to reduce that.
We want to be treading lightly.
When we start treading lightly in the body, we can help to reduce
the systemic inflammation, reduce disease, reduce these things.
Do you see that
this is the mirror for the same thing that we wish was happening,
and we want through our collective
thinking and action to be happening?
When we are consuming less in the body,
we're consuming less in the world
means when we are together working
the garbage piles aren't building up.
When we start mirroring the fasting cycle and autophagy
on broader levels, and we start living in ways and using products
and things that are natural, that are part of natural cycles,
the pollution doesn't build up.
Isn't this bringing inflammation to the world? Right.
We see the world. It's clearly inflamed, right?
It's a lot of inflammation
because we're not living in optimal ways.
So we want to mirror these things, body in society,
to bring health to everywhere
because of course, they cycle back around.
And this is the thing I want people to see.
You know, it's very easy to say,
it's like, well, I only care about myself.
I don't really care about this, you know? Okay.
But it we're part of it and really we're the same thing, I think
because the thing that really bothers me
is I drive by a giant garbage mountain
and looking at it, the stuff is not contained in these things.
It's not that this is here, okay?
Think of everything that is in it,
the paint and the plastic and the PFAS and all the Teflon.
Okay, that stuff is not staying in there.
I don't care what anybody says about it.
These things are getting broken down and rained on and dissolved.
And it's it's it's everywhere.
I mean, it is everywhere.
When you look at the, the PFAS and the microplastic, they find it
in Antarctic ice, okay.
It's like this whole system is this is like one cell.
Like if we think our body, this is like
we're floating out in space, this whole planet is like one cell,
and it's all everything that is happening
here is happening together in it.
And we try to compartmentalize it.
We think we can make all this stuff and put it on a pile
somewhere and it just disappears, but it doesn't.
Okay, this is like what happens in the body,
especially emotionally.
Another thing that I love to talk about in the channel,
just to get into the emotional space of health
and our body that we have trauma and we have difficulty.
That's inflammation
that is coming either internally or externally.
And we like to bury that.
That's like our just our garbage piles, right?
We bury that stuff and we think it's gone, but then it's not gone
and it stays and then it can leak out into the rest of our being.
Isn't this do you see the parallels between nature
and the world and our body?
And if we really want to deal with things,
we can't just pile things up into piles
and pretend that these problems don't exist, is what
we we can see that that's not working in the world.
We can see that it's not working in the body.
We need to deal with the root level of problems.
We need to give space both emotionally and physically.
The body has immense healing potential,
both in our mind, our spirit and our body.
But it takes space to do it takes physical space
to open up the pathways to burn energy and run these autophagy
processes takes emotional space to process
trauma and difficulty.
Take space in the world for us to stop
consuming things and get out of cycles.
So much of what we're trying to do in a space like this
do some deep thinking so that we can break out of cycles.
But don't just sit in a space of habits
that perpetuate themselves.
But think deeply and make changes is what I want
to help people do in a fasting space.
Make profound changes that change your life.
You know, I want people to be able to change their life.
If you say metabolically, I haven't been well,
you know, I don't like the way the body is functioning.
I want healing to come into this situation.
Fasting space offers some potential for that to happen
as you thoughtfully and gently sink into it.
Okay.
So here on to help us put some things into perspective.
Okay.
These are some things, little pieces of information
that I have come across over the last week.
I've been kind of thinking about this.
Topic over the week and putting it together.
Here's a chart that I came across from an article
I was reading in nature magazine.
Some things here that are not treading lightly
to help us really think about it.
Okay, this is total mass of human
made objects, which include buildings,
cars, roads and this scale.
Look what we're seeing down here from 1900 until 20.
This is 2030 down on the corner.
And this circle in the middle 2020.
So the mass of all human
made objects has now eclipsed
the total dry weight of all living things on Earth.
This is so there's so much blows my mind.
And if we look down on the scale down here, you know,
look at 1940,
you know, like we were saying, World
War Two happened on this planet.
Look, look, before World War Two is like nothing on this chart.
And then the war happened.
The industrial machine was built, the modern era was launched.
And we are on a parabolic curve
that has, you know,
and we did the hidden history of obesity talk.
That curve was going on before the war.
But this is the thing about a geometric process
is blowing out here.
And life from just two generations ago is completely different.
As far as the planet is concerned.
This situation is so novel and crazy.
And look, look where we are now on the right hand of this curve
that that between, you know,
we hit this point where the weight of all human created
objects is greater than the entire living thing,
every fish, every whale, every elephant, every dog.
Okay. I mean, just everything.
And then between these middle lines, the solid green
line is the wet weight,
like the actual living weight of this stuff.
Like if you don't dry it out.
And so that's two things.
And they say we're going to hit that somewhere in the 2030s.
It's not going to take long.
All the plastic, all the steel, all the concrete.
Look half this thing is the concrete,
all the roads in the buildings and the things like,
like we are having a completely different existence.
This is the thing people say, like, it's
kind of like a cynical thing.
People say, people say, oh, it's different this time, but.
But like, it never is.
But like, it just is.
Like, this is a completely radical situation.
How does this chart hit you?
What do you think of it?
I just stare at it and I'm like,
this is really something to think about.
And this is a type of thing, you know, for me,
that makes me just really think deeply.
What does it mean to be a human being alive in the planet now,
when this is happening
and, and, you know, you can see probably what
I should get a chart here
just to put next to it about the extinction rate of species.
You know, this is having profound impact on the environment
and other living creatures.
And it's just the type of thing you say, I don't care about seals
in, you know, Antarctica or wherever.
You know, it's like,
but we care about ourselves and really we're the same.
And like we're saying, it's cycling back around
and this just does not
is not bode well for the future of health.
You know, it is not, in my view, a sustainable process.
So definitely make somebody think.
Here's a stat that I think was in this paper,
the average person living in a high income country
consumes nine times more natural resources
than someone living in a low income country.
And this this hit me also quite a bit.
After going to Peru
and spending some time in a very low income place.
Here's a picture I took in Peru.
So I stayed in a little place.
Okay, it's a roof over your head.
All right, so you like you look out over the little city
where we are here and is,
like most people living in places,
just a sheet of ten over your place on a dirt floor.
And people got some bikes and maybe a motorcycle to get around.
And, you know, this picture is small.
I should zoom one in.
If you look over on the left side of the picture
here, there's two kids playing down in the street and.
I had some downtime for an afternoon.
I sat on the the roof of this little building that I was in,
looking out over the street and just thinking about this city,
thinking about facts like this, you know, coming from a high,
high income country, you know, with all the houses
and lawns and cars and and everything,
and coming to a place like this
where people have very, very little.
I just sat there and watched these two girls.
How old are they? Maybe.
You know, I don't know if they're three and three and six maybe.
And their little dog
and some other kids would come by sometimes.
And these, these kids are just playing in the street for.
I watched them for a couple of hours
and they were laughing and they were racing.
They had a while.
They were doing races with each other in the dog,
and they got a plastic bottle, was sitting in the street,
and then they kicked it around
and they were playing soccer with a dog for a while
and just laughing
just the whole time and just laughing and laughing.
And I was thinking about, you know.
Just the joy of childhood and that, you know, these,
these kids have basically nothing, as far as I can tell.
Like, they they have a, a plastic bottle,
you know, an empty plastic bottle.
They kick around, they don't have shoes, ostensibly.
You know, it's like, you know, but they were happy.
And, you know, I think all the stuff, all the consumption,
like all of the treading heavily on the world,
like where is it taking us?
I was like off to the side of this, picture over that way.
You know, some of the I think they're, you know,
grandma is sitting in like a broken lawn chair over on the side
talking to the neighbor.
And, you know, he's, you know, from a certain point of view,
somebody say like, oh, these people should
they should be working.
You know, capitalism wants to come in
and just say right away, like, where is the
these people should be out outworking.
They shouldn't be sitting in the street.
But like these people,
the same like neighbors between two of these places, you know,
they sat there and talked for like an hour
and a half as like when you when have you sat down
and talked with your neighbor for an hour and a half,
you know, and
and then you start to change the frame of reference like.
You know, by some beautiful tropical trees.
And he's like, who is really having a better life?
That's what I was starting to think about.
So this type of statistic, about all the consumption
and all the resources and,
and we say, well, if it is damaging the planet,
it's clearly damaging our health, it's
damaging our emotional well-being.
But, you know, is it an addiction?
This is what I was thinking about.
Very hard to say no to something when you're used to it.
Like an air conditioner.
Okay. No air conditioners here and is hot. All right.
And so you just think about that
like nobody consuming energy for an air conditioner
in a place that is much more hot and humid
than the many places in the US.
I don't know. I saw a chart once.
It was an epidemiological survey of global happiness,
and it was inversely correlated with economic status.
Actually, many of the happiest places in the world
actually people very poor.
Amazing. Okay, that was a stat from Peru.
Let's look back at the Earth.
I wanted to look back at the Earth for this stat.
How are you doing with this? How are you doing?
Like I said, food for thought.
These are foods for thought on consumption and treading lightly.
Modern agriculture.
Modern agricultural practices.
Currently using 38% of Earth's total land surface.
As we look, look at the Earth rotate by.
An 80% of deforestation responsible from agriculture.
So when we are participating, okay, in our agricultural systems,
this is what they are doing.
And this was something.
To to be in the Amazon.
Okay.
I was in the Amazon sitting in the rainforest,
one of the most incredible places that I've been.
And then to travel and see parts of it
and to think that people are cutting this down
to to plant plantations full of bananas
that are being industrial, shipped up to Wisconsin
so I can eat a banana in the morning, I'm like, you know,
these are the types of things that I look at and say it is hard.
It is feeling hard to be part of this cycle of consumption,
you know, of chopping down a rainforest
so that so I can ship a banana across the planet and eat it,
you know,
it's like makes you think, is this good?
Is it really is it really healthy?
Okay. One more, one more.
Statistic for us okay.
Check this one out.
This is getting into food waste okay.
Every day on this planet.
And I put a reference to this in the video description.
If you want to look at this resource on food waste
that made this image, listen to this every single day.
There are over 1 billion meals on this planet
worth of food that are wasted at both,
both the household and retail level combined.
If food waste were a country,
it would be the country of food waste
would be the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.
Because this stuff rats, right? I mean, it's just as crazy.
We throw it away and it rots and landfills
and it releases carbon as both CO2
and methane is one of the top producers of methane in the world,
which is just food waste.
Here's the image.
This is a mount waste they call it,
which is significantly higher than Mount Everest.
Oh, man.
Pile it all up.
Here's the Burj Khalifa building down in the corner.
You just think about this pile.
So think how much energy went in.
All the tractors, all the transportation,
all the factories, all the energy that went into make it.
And then the waste in and of itself is so damaging and sad,
and especially in a world
where some people don't have enough to eat.
This is what I'm saying.
When we look at fasting and we look at our toffee and the way
the cell runs things, natural systems would never do this.
Macho systems don't do that.
Natural systems recycle all the waste
and put it into a good purpose.
And you say ultimately food waste
is going to end up back as dirt.
Okay.
But, That whole that whole process pretty unnatural to get there.
Okay.
So what a situation.
What a situation.
This is some food for thought. When we think of treading lightly.
This is the type of thing I think of.
So I say what we have now in the face of that.
I hope that isn't too heavy for anybody.
I mean, it's heavy stuff.
I think it is, but it's honest and it's real.
And, you know, when we're sinking into our own health, you know,
I'm looking for ways personally, how do I help us open
our minds, expand our thinking into ways
that can give us a perspective?
It gets us out of our own head for a while.
Do you ever feel like that stuck in your own head?
Okay, I was like, how do I change these habits?
How do I do these things?
Okay, thinking like this, at least for me, is a way
to kind of break out of my own little self for a little bit,
think bigger, you know, think in a way
that can help us expand into something, something more broad.
Human body. This is what I say.
This is probably why I became a doctor.
The most human body.
So incredible.
It's an absolute miracle, the way it works.
The efficiency of it.
I think in this sort of space.
I'm just completely amazed.
The efficiency of the human body.
Nothing wasted.
The autophagy effect, the most underappreciated,
probably force on this planet.
The ability of the human system to
to survive and thrive and get every single conceivable
scrap of utility
out of literally every atomic particle that comes into it,
like the body will not waste a single molecule
that it can help to avoid.
Isn't that incredible?
It's just incredible.
And we think, okay, we are human beings, okay?
Of Earth, right?
If some intergalactic traveler were to come and say who?
Who are these conscious
beings to say we are human beings of earth, you know what I mean?
And and you look at the systems like, what are we?
We are a radically efficient,
you know, system that can tread lightly on this planet
and for hundreds of thousands of years, millennia upon millennia,
what it meant to be a human being
was completely symbiotic with this place.
And now it is not.
And I think that should really shape how we think and act
as we move forward.
Let's let autophagy be our guide.
Let's start to build systems and start with ourselves.
Don't get overwhelmed about bigger things.
You don't literally have to put the weight of the entire world
on your shoulders, okay?
Please don't do it.
But just say, hey, my way of being what we want is lightness.
We can take something like this and make it heavy,
but what we want is lightness.
We want to take the gravity of some of these situations
and realize the answer to them
actually is lightness and openness.
By opening up our own life,
by taking the pressure off,
by treading more lightly in our own life,
which is the one simple thing,
and take it all out of the future and don't worry about the past.
The only thing that exists right
now, this one human day that we have before us.
This moment, is all we can do, and that's enough for us to do.
Tread more lightly on the earth
in this day to the best that we can,
and then we will learn from it and grow.
And we will try again tomorrow,
and we will do the very best we can.
I want to show this quote with you.
To start to wrap up our time. This is from John Muir.
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Everything is connected.
We are connected in here, in this space,
and that can give us actually great comfort.
We are part of this and we are here,
and we can use all of our conscious ability
to bring health, you know, first to ourselves
and then radiate that out to our families,
our communities, and ultimately, much more broadly.
Our health is not isolated. Okay.
When we change our internal environment, this has real effects.
Real benefits that spread out not just to ourselves.
And I hope that's very encouraging when we bring healing here,
okay, into the body
that healing is actually it's happening everywhere.
Like I said yesterday about that movie,
everything everywhere, all at once is all happening.
Many levels happening simultaneously.
So one more quote from John Muir.
He said that every walk we have in nature,
we receive more than we seek.
And I just take that into this space.
I say every walk that we have with a fasting space
and a fasting space
meaning voluntary, intentional, positive, open
space moving toward health and joy and love and light.
Okay, every time we do that, we are giving more than we receive.
That's what I want to leave people with.
We can open up that space.
We say, oh, is that selfish? Is thinking of the thing.
I just care about myself. It's good to care about yourself.
There is should be no judgment for taking care of ourselves.
This is how we bring a deep love and compassion for ourselves.
I want people to have that and see when we do that,
when we are taking care of ourselves,
I say we're actually giving more than we're receiving.
And I really think if you see in this space
that that is the case,
and I think that sort of thing can give us great
encouragement, great encouragement to move forward in health.
Open up some fasting space.
We give the body a break, gives the Earth a break.
This is how we tread lightly.
We can all tread lightly together.
Helps us to heal deeply.
I was kind of meditating on that.
Tread lightly, heal deeply.
Have a beautiful day.
I will look forward to connecting with you.
You're soon.
Please do some deep thinking and reflecting on this.
I would love to hear your thoughts and reflections.
Please throw them in the comments to this video.
I would love to have an ongoing conversation about it.
I really would.
So don't be shy.
Throw your thoughts, including if you don't like it.
If you say, I don't like these thoughts, make a counterargument
and if you like them, I would love to hear it.
And if you have other ideas. We'd love to hear it.
Thank you for sharing this space with me.
Have a beautiful day and I'll see you again soon.