Recovery shouldn't take forever. There's no reason for you to be an addict, or a recovering addict, for a majority of your life. Today we're gonna talk about that a little more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• If you are not able to live a life free of that thing, and happy, and more capable than you were before, then it doesn't deserve the title of a rehab center. (4:00)
• I've often compared it to being chased by a rabid dog; you always have to stay one step ahead and you can't stop. (6:55)
• If it takes 30 years to overcome something that can happen in days, weeks, or months, then whoever's running that program, doesn't have a clue about it. (11:20)
• How closely have you paid attention to the small things, and how well have you trained yourself to recover. (14:20)

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Knowing that there are more than the 5 senses you were taught throughout your childhood, let's talk about another one. Today we're going to talk about the sense of self. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Humans use a sense of self as a way to navigate the world of society and as a way of motivating ourselves. (9:00)
• We talk about ourselves as if that's who we are all the time, but really, that's something that is altered. (13:25)
• That self is whatever I've identified as me. It has to do with experiences I've collected, or had powerful emotional responses to, or the things that have felt "important". (18:45)
• This search for who you are, is what a lot of people are on. (27:05)

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We live in such an immense world. The belief that humans are a superior race and are built to rule all is not true just because we've invaded everything. Today we'll talk more about what's going on in not our world, and what we're missing. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• We are so dependent on our eyes, We are so dependent on our eyes because they are the most delicate of our senses. (4:00)
• Across the board, humans aren't really doing much difference, except in terms of quality. (13:20)
• There is something that we're calling life that is massively varied, all of which is experiencing itself in a variety of ways that we humans can't even understand and yet we have the hubris to believe that we are the reason for all of it and that we are more important and better than the rest of it when there's so many places where we fall short and so many things we do not see. (15:30)
• There's so much that we don't understand about reality, so much that we are missing because our senses are set up to help our species survive the way that this species does. (18:05)

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Today, we're going to think about what's really going on when you tell somebody that your day was good, or when you feel sad. Although it might seem like just a simple feeling, there's more to it than that. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• They were creating stories about how they were marred when in reality they weren't, and that goes back to, what are we creating with our own thoughts. (11:50)
• These experiences are built out of a brain that's just pulling information from the body that it happens to be sitting in. (14:25)
• It's a lot easier to live in a world where you already know what's going on. (35:25)
• Emotions are not a reflection reality at all, it is your brain's best guess about how it should respond to the situation. (37:45)

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Lee had the question; what is a human? A big bundle of nerves and tissue or some higher and wiser being on this planet? Today we'll talk more about it. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• From the very beginning, human cells are bejng supported by bacteria. (14:15)
• People are too busy saying we are meant to dominate nature, when really, we are at the mercy of nature the entire time.k (14:45)
• A human is never existent without the environment it's in. (18:20)
• If we hold our body in such a way that doesn't make viruses and bacteria the enemy, what could be possible? (30:00)
• Human is a category, but what does it mean to be you? (37:00)

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Today we're talking a little about an experience we had with the human nervous system. Maybe we'll get on somebody's nerves a little, maybe not. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• This whole collection of nerves is providing your human experience. (4:15)
• Even as he's dead, he treats him with the utmost respect. (13:00)
• The identification of one's self with the body, on one level, creates a possibility for experience, but on another level, it creates a trap inside that experience. (29:30)
• The whole nervous system was almost mapped out like a tree. (31:30)

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With all the clamoring voices declaring the latest health fads and superfoods, so many of which seem to be in contradiction to each other, how is one to know what to do? Do we follow the simple advice of Michael Pollan (Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.)? Or do we micro measure every morsel for optimum productivity and neurological function? Lots to discuss, and, as always, with an eye to making things simpler. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Nowadays you can walk into almost anywhere and see the teenagers have all the signs of being youthful, but there's something off with their physique. (5:50)
• There are a lot of experts today that claim to know what health is. But when I step back and look at it, it just seems to be that what we're claiming health is, is really distorted. (9:25)
• People define freedom as the ability to do whatever you want to do, but I've suggested the following definition; that freedom is the ability to not do what you don't want to do. (21:29)
• It doesn't have so much to do with your genetics, but the way you learned to eat. So if you change the way you eat, you can actually change what the outcomes are. (32:55)

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With the crazy season upon us, don't let that be something to take the happiness away. So many people feel they have more responsibility and expectations on them because of the chaos of holidays. Today we'll talk about that more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Everybody has expectations for a holiday when they don't have expectations for an average Tuesday. (2:50)
• With traditions, is this the kind of experience that you want to have, or are you just putting yourself on autopilot and trying to knuckle through the holiday? (8:25)
• It's almost like saying, "take a holiday from the holiday". (27:30)
• The holidays are a chance for everyone to catch their breath, not just one person. (31:25)

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I periodically get people asking me if we do couples' counseling. While we have worked with a number of couples, it's usually one at a time. So I decided to bring on a guest whose approach to bringing what she calls "everyday eroticism" into a marriage that still has to wash the dishes and get the kids off to school, might just be what turns the tides for you. Alexandra Stockwell, MD, is an author, physician, and personal coach turned relationship guide and is here to share her wisdom. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Understanding gives you enough framework to feel safe to have different experiences. (6:55)
• People don't honor the "I just knew" piece enough. It's a feeling in your system, it's not an intellectual problem with a person, it's the only thing your body could make sense of. (8:45)
• You have no chance of creating what you want if you don't know what you want. (23:00)
• I think the way to be human is to eliminate the taboo as much as we can and be integrated with all the elements that we get to express in a marriage. (47:10)

You can find out more about Alexandra's work, her book, and her podcast at https://www.alexandrastockwell.com

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Fasting isn't the hungry problem that I always thought it was growing up. Although the hunger may set in at some point, it isn't a "no pain, no gain" situation.

Today, we'll talk about that more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Even though I felt great, there was nothing to show a breakthrough. (11:30)
• What if fasting is a gift to my body to finally allow it to go through its full cycle? (14:40)
• Everybody's talking about a painful death, but your body is designed to make that not happen, if at all possible. (17:50)
• If you give somebody a promise of something that they haven't experienced, they'll make believe what those words mean without realizing that those words connect to something already in their experience. (40:20)

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