The Bed Head Chronicles

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.

As we know, we're all going through this really crazy time right now, and for a lot of you, and a lot of us, I'm sure you experienced quite a bit of anxiety and worry throughout the day, and maybe fear. I think the important thing to recognize is that that's very human. 

But the other thing to recognize is that we can catch ourselves when we're in these states, and find something else to think about or do that's going to actually make us feel better so that we can go from a suffering state to more of a beautiful state. 

I know when this happens to me, the most important thing is that you recognize and acknowledge. Okay, right now I am in a state of anxiety and worrying about this. I'm feeling fearful about that and don't judge it. Let's get rid of any 'I should be thinking this or I shouldn't be thinking that'. Instead, just be an observer of your emotions. As we observe our states and emotions, we actually lessen the power of those emotions over us just by acknowledging them and loving ourselves through it. And basically what I do at that moment is I recognize and acknowledge that I'm in a state of worry or I'm in a state of fear and I make a decision. I make a decision to focus on the present and focus on looking out the window at something beautiful and thinking a good thought and reframing perhaps whatever thought I was having in my head that was causing me to worry or stress. 

What are you doing to make yourself feel better when you're stuck in a moment or a period of feeling worried or fearful or anxious? What are you doing to pull yourself out of it? 

Because I strongly recommend and encourage you not to sit there. I encourage you to recognize when you're there. Acknowledge it then love yourself through it. Be an observer of your emotions and then make a conscious decision to feel better.

So, what I do is I'll go outside and I'll go for a walk or I'll go look at the horses or I'll write a note to someone that I love and tell them I love them or I'll say a prayer or there's this amazing practice called the Serene Mind Practice. You can look that up online. If you read this book, The Four Sacred Secrets, it's just the most incredible book. It gives you so many amazing tools on how to live in a beautiful state and how to get out of this suffering states and live our lives in a place of peace and presence and joy and love and compassion. So what happens with me if I get overly fearful or anxious in a moment and it's starting to really affect me physically is I will acknowledge it. I'll love myself through it. And then I will take three deep breaths and I will imagine this burning flame right in the center of my forehead between my eyes and think centering thoughts and beautiful thoughts and it calms me down and brings me into a place of presence and the feeling usually passes. 

Now, we're all going to be going through this month during the day. We're going to have moments of anxiety and worry and fear. It's totally human right now. But we don't have to sit there. It's a choice. How you feel like a choice. 

I know for me I don't like feeling bad. I want to feel good. I want to feel happy in as many moments as possible. I want my wellness and my health to be and it's optimum at every moment. And in order to do that, we need to really watch the thoughts that we're having in the states that were sitting in. So choose to do something that's going to make you feel better to turn on some amazing music. Do meditation. There are so many incredible meditations out there. Go out for a walk. Write to someone that you love. Change your mindset and focus on what you have, not on what you don't have. You have your health. You have your loved ones. You have your home. You have things to do every day. You have motivation. You have inspiration. Whatever it is, focus on what you have and be grateful. Feel grateful for all the beauty in your life. Look out the window and see all the beautiful grace. And feel thankful.

Feel thankful for this beautiful world and the birds that are chirping and the rabbits that are running through the grass or whatever you see. Find that place of gratitude. Find that place of love for yourself and love for others, and find a place of peace. Know that you sitting in your worry, anger, or anxiety is not going to help you. It's not gonna help anyone around you. It's human, so acknowledge it. Be an observer of your feelings. And when you do that -- when you love yourself through it, those emotions will have a lot less power over you. But make the decision to feel good. Make the decision to be happy. Make the decision to not sit in a suffering state and do whatever you can to bring yourself into a beautiful state, which not only serves you but also all those around you.

I love you all so much. Have an amazing day. I'm praying for all those on the front lines and all of you. Know how much I love you and how grateful I am. 

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.

Today, I had the most amazing news. This is another example of finding the gift in the struggle. Obviously, this whole Coronavirus has been a really scary thing for all of us. Especially me, having just had my transplant five weeks ago, and being easily compromised -- it's been really scary.

I had been living in an apartment in Denver, Colorado -- a beautiful apartment. My mom and my wife have been taking the most amazing care of me. The other day I got a call saying that I would be much safer being at my ranch.

There's a rule that says I have to be very close to the hospital for 100 days after my transplant. But, now that all this Coronavirus stuff is happening, when I brought up that I thought it would be a lot safer at home on the ranch where we never see another person, the doctors all agreed.

Yesterday, I got to come home. So, I'm going to be doing my 100 days and beyond, here at home, with my animals. My wife has just been crazily been cleaning the house and cleaning the carpets and taking such great care of me as my mom has been. And the two of them -- I know for sure that even being away from the hospital, I know this is going to accelerate my healing and allow me to truly get stronger and healthier and closer to that ultimate and permanent cure to all of this.

So, maybe, you are also finding the gift within the struggle. What is that gift? Is the gift that you are spending more time with your loved ones or more time with your dog? Is the gift that you have time at home so you can take care of projects that you've been procrastinating on or waiting to do for a long, long time? 

Find the gift in all of this. Because when you focus on the gift, the joy or something to be grateful for, it really does relieve a lot of the fears and anxiety that is coming from this time.

So, for all of you, just know that I feel so deeply blessed. I feel so incredibly happy to be home with my wife, my dogs, my horses, my mom right down the street, and with the opportunity to heal to my fullest capabilities. This has been the hardest thing I've ever been through in my entire life. It truly has been. But I've learned so much. I've learned so much about myself. I've learned so much about others. As I build up more energy, I can't wait to start doing more Bed Head Chronicles to share my experiences.

But to all of you, I'm thinking of you. Stay safe. Do all the right things. Take care of yourself. Take care of your loved ones. Know that I love you all so much. I appreciate you all so much. I hope you have an amazing day.

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Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Well, the Bald Head Chronicles. 

Now I'm here at UC Health with my amazing mom who has not left my side for weeks, and I'm getting a blood transfusion. So this is kind of our life right now. 

We moved into an apartment, which is beautiful. We love it. It's in Denver. We get to go for really nice walks every single day in this beautiful park that's right outside the apartment. And I've been coming into outpatient every single day to get blood work done -- transfusion if needed, platelet transfusion if needed. And all of this, right now, is just waiting for my beautiful new cord cells to create an amazing new immune system inside of me and make its beautiful home inside my body and strengthen and get healthier and healthier every single day. That's the goal. That's a plan.

And, in times like these where there are a lot of fears about obviously the virus and all of these things, it can get really, really scary. But what I know is that when I get scared, it doesn't help me. So it's important to just stay calm, keep tranquility inside your mind and think positive. Just know that you're doing everything in your power to be as healthy as you can be and that you're doing everything right. And as long as you control what you're doing and protect yourself you gotta just know and have faith that you're going to be okay. 

But I want to thank this woman right here. She's been my absolute rock. My amazing mom has not left my side and. a journey like this, that I'm on, you can't do alone. And my wife, Bek, of course, is absolutely amazing. She's had to stay home with her mom who had a bit of a, cold and so we had to stay separate, but I'm going to get to see her today.

But hold your family members tight. Let them know how much you love them. Let them know how much you cherish them. Let them know how much you celebrate them. Because, yeah, their best things in the world. So thank you and I love you with all my heart.

And to all of you, I am every single day doing my best to get stronger and healthier and better every single day. And I thank you for your prayers and your thoughts. They mean the world to me and I love you all so, so much. So thank you for thinking of me. Thank you for sending your love. Thank you for sending your prayers. Stay healthy, stay strong, stay positive. Stay full of faith and just do everything right to take care of yourselves and to take care of everyone around you.

I love you all. Thank you.

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Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I'm just going to give you a little look into what has been my home, since the 14th of February, and will be my home for, I don't know, probably about a week more is what I'm manifesting. But I've got my vision boards. All the people I love and care about. The things I love to do. Sayings that inspire me. More of the same.

I've got my beautiful wife and our home to remind me of what I get to come home to, soon, I hope. This reminds me of what's possible. That was a day where I achieved what seemed like an impossible dream and nothing is impossible. I'm possible. And one more. Another vision board.

So guys, if you're going through a tough time, find ways to motivate yourself. Find ways to inspire yourself. Find ways to change your mindset, change your attitude because a positive attitude and, thinking proactively about an amazing future and joy and peace and calm and just love and fulfillment will get you through anything.

 For more tips and advice about living an authentic life go to https://www.sirilindley.com/authentic/

Hey everybody, it's Bek Keat. 

We're here, day two, and day one of Siri's chemo blast for her STEM cell transplant, and this is -- look at that portrait. That's her horsey. And then that's her family. That is to inspire her through her greatest triumph, yet to come. And we have up her vision board up here. Amazing people that's been a huge part of the Siri's life on here. Doggies there.

A happy life over there. Don't forget that. 

A happy life. And we have...

My love corner. 

Her love corner. There is her own stage and Tony's stages. And Gracie and Vinny, our little angel, and some of the gifts that these amazing people have sent. And here is, the one and only incredible bright princess warrior. My beautiful, beautiful wife.

Hi everyone. It's been a good day. An emotional day. For some reason, I can't stop crying. And it's not that I'm scared. I know I'm going to conquer this. It that there are so many people and animals that I love and care about and that I want to be with every single day. And so being in this room for the next however many days -- 28 days -- and then being further away from our home, it's just really hard and it is scary, you know? I've got two bags of different chemos going into me right now. It's new. I've never done this before, so yeah, it's a little scary. It's a lot of unknowns, but I stick by how I said that I am going to control my mindset and believe that there's another way of getting through this and believe that there is a way that I can get through this conditioning chemo in a way, knowing that this is what is going to make the perfect space for these new STEM cells to live in my body. This is what is necessary in order to have a successful transplant.

When I look at it that way, I am--my goal is just to live in a beautiful state in as many moments as possible. That's my goal. That's my intention. I will do everything in my power to get through this with this little discomfort as possible and stay tuned. I pray that I'll be able to continue on this path because I do think that mindset and love, and it's like I've always said to all of you, love heals, love heals, and part of that is loving yourself.

And one thing that I've come up with on this journey is like what would you do for yourself if you were faced with life or death? How deep would you dig for yourself? How much would you go to bat for yourself? And I'm realizing just how much I love myself because I will do everything in my power to conquer this cancer. And I know that I will. 

So thank you, everyone. I hope to post as much as I can. We'll see how things go. But you are with me in my thoughts.  My friends, my athletes, my family, my animals. Everything that makes me happy. I'm going to do a lot of reading, a lot of meditating, a lot of priming, a lot of praying, and a lot of journaling. And, that's gonna be my time here and a lot of love. My amazing family, my wife and my mom. My mom slept here last night. My wife is sleeping here with me tonight and it makes all the difference in the world. I love you all so much. Thank you. I love you. These are happy tears that I have. All of you. I'm so grateful. I love you.

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Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.
 

So I get admitted into hospital on Friday, and I know I'm going to be there for probably about a month. So what I've done is I've created some vision boards and also some memory boards so that I am constantly reminded of this incredible life that I live and what I hope for in the future because I am going to conquer this cancer.

I have made the decision inside myself that I want to live to be a hundred years old and live a healthy, vibrant, loving, passionate life where I can give so much to this world and truly make a difference. So I want to let you in on the little boards that I've made and thank you to my beautiful wife for taking you on this little tour.

So 'Captain Siri' is because I'm in charge of my destiny and I choose to live. I choose to conquer this cancer and I will live happily ever after with the people that I love and care about, and that makes me feel so alive and so full of joy and peace. And that includes all of you. 

And this next one is kind of an extension. I thought I could get my whole vision board on one board, but that certainly didn't happen. I stopped here at four... But these are all the things I love and care about, and that's family, my animals, my work, what I do, my athletes, things that I love. I love feeling good. I love living from my heart. I love feeling grateful.

And over here, to the things I dream of getting back to. My athletes, my best friends, living my best life. making a difference in this world, being back on my horse, being back running trails with my wife and going to Mexico with my mom and spending time with the people that I love and care about the most in my life. Just being able to make a beautiful difference in this world and to share this life with all of you. And to share my story with all of you, and hopefully, be able to have an impact that makes a beautiful difference in your lives.

And to finish it off, we all have this. And that's proof. This is me achieving what I believed was an impossible dream. But this is me in 2001 actually becoming the world champion and number one triathlete in the world. This was a dream come true. This is proof to me that I have everything I need inside of me to make what seems impossible now possible. And that is concrete in this cancer and living a long, healthy, amazing life to a hundred years old. Happy, healthy, and thriving in my life.

So thank you, everyone, for being a part of my journey. Love heals everyone. Your love, your support, your prayers are helping me heal. Thank you. I love you all so much.

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Morning everyone and welcome to the Bed. Head Chronicles. 

I'm here with my superhero wife, Rebecca, and we are driving to UC Health for my second cycle bone marrow biopsy and lumbar puncture, which we're praying are going to look really good so that I am clear to be admitted into the hospital on Friday for my bone marrow transplant on the 21st.

In the same moment, in another car, my mom, who was also my hero, and my amazing sister, Lisa, who is my donor. My sister has to go in today for seven to nine hours of having her STEM cells pulled from her blood, her blood returned into her body, and this continual process of pulling STEM cells out of her body to be put in mine. And what's going to happen on the 21st is that I will have two donors, my sister, and an umbilical cord --some beautiful lady who had a baby girl has donated her umbilical cord to me. I'm so deeply grateful. And so it's a big day today. It's a big day. It's a big week. it's a big, big road ahead. Beckie, what do you have to say?

I just want to say thank you to everybody that supported my beautiful wife. That's very close to my face, Bubba. I want to say thank you to my wife for just how strong and brave and unbelievable she's being. She just, I can't even express how proud I am of her. I wouldn't have been this bright. I thought I was pretty brave, but she is just shown such courage and such productivity, and she'd be at work every day and living, and I'm so proud of her and her sister Lisa, who not only hates hospitals, she hates needles. And she's giving her time and she's given her life to helping my wife's life. So it's pretty amazing. 

Thanks, Beckie. To my superhero wife. My incredible sister, my incredible mom, my horses, my dogs, and my cat. To my dear friends, you know who you are and all of you -- love heals, everybody. Love truly heals. You have all filled my heart. I feel your prayers. I feel your thoughts. I feel your love and it keeps me strong and keeps me brave and keeps me courageous. And most importantly. It makes me so incredibly determined and absolutely certain that I will conquer this cancer because I have so much more work to do in this world. I have so much more love to give and I have so much more joy to experience. So to all of you, thank you. I love you. I'm praying that today goes amazingly well and we can move forward and I can be back in the world with all of you sharing love and light. And living this incredible gift of life that we've all been blessed with.

We love you.

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Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.

Today, I want to offer up a thought for you because this is something I try and do in my life. I want you to love yourself so much that you only allow yourself to think thoughts that feel good. Basically choosing your own energy level every second of every day, no matter what's going on around you. Really pay attention to what you're feeling and your emotions and decide what you really want to feel in that moment.
 

I'll start by using an example of my athletes when they're training really hard or they're in the middle of a race. And what I always say to them is, you want it to hurt. Because when it hurts, it means that you're going fast. It means that you're having an amazing session. It means that you're having an amazing race. Going fast hurts. So you want to make it hurt. Okay. So I changed the emotion behind that pain or what they would initially find as a struggle when they're working that hard to keep up or to get to the front of a race. And saying appreciate that and acknowledge that as something that's great. Something that is strengthening you, something that means that you are doing great.

But in another sense, you know, I'm thinking about next week, I get admitted into the hospital and I'll be there for the first week doing a very intense, induction chemotherapy and radiation, which is going to be tough on my body, of course. And then I go into my transplant, but the way I'm seeing this is that the first week of induction chemo and radiation is going to make this perfect home for this new bone marrow transplant. It is creating a space so that I can have true, complete and permanent healing.

So this, what I'm going to be going through... who says that I have to suffer? Who says that I have to be in agony or exhausted or feel sick or feel terrible? Who says that that is what has to happen? I'm choosing, and we'll see how this pans out, but I am choosing to make this an experience where I will know that this medicine going into me is what's creating the perfect home for this transplant, which is going to save my life.

And I know that if I go in with my -- my goal every day is to want to live in a beautiful state in as many moments as possible. I learned that through Tony Robbins. It has absolutely changed my life because I choose the energy frequency I want to live. I choose the energy level I want to have no matter what I'm going through.

But if I choose to live in a beautiful state in as many moments as possible, then how will that change my experience of this thing that's meant to be so horrible? What if changing our mindset or changing our belief about something can actually make the experience something totally different? 

I played around with this. I had gone through two cycles of this amazing clinical trial. In the first cycle, the first week I was on a chemo drug and the second drug, Venetoclax, and I felt pretty sick that whole first week. And then you have three more weeks of, not the chemo drug, but the pills and that all worked out fine. My attitude was really good. 

In the second cycle, I had to go through the chemo drug again with this Venetoclax, and I thought, who says that I have to feel sick? Who says that I have to be nauseous? Who says that I have to feel, you know, exhausted all the time? Who says that? Whose truth is that?
 

What if in my mind, I say that I am going to feel as well as possible. If I start feeling nauseated, I'm going to go out for a walk or I'm going to go do something that takes my mind off of it. I'm going to fill my heart with something that I love. I'm going to fill myself in everything that brings me joy and happiness and vitality and energy. So that's exactly what I did on that first week.
  

Right, when I started to feel really bad, I would go do something that would fill me in another way, whether that was mentally, emotionally, or physically, and I had a great week. And this whole second cycle has been really pretty amazing. I felt pretty amazing for what I'm going through.

So my thought here is that what if, no matter what you're going through, what if every struggle or every challenge that you are faced with or that you were immersed in, that if you decided that you were going to live in a beautiful state, no matter what, and as many moments as possible that you were going to redefine what everybody thinks you should be feeling going through a certain experience? What if you could do that and change your entire experience of that situation or that challenge?

So again, I go back to what I said in the beginning. Love yourself so much that you only allow yourself to think thoughts that make you feel good. That you reframe things to make you feel good. I don't know about you, but I love feeling good. I don't like feeling bad. So I am gonna find every way possible when I'm not feeling good to turn that around into something that will allow me to feel some joy, some peace, some happiness, some comfort.

Now, sometimes that means going from feeling really horrible to not so bad, but other times you can go from feeling bad to actually feeling great. So open your mind to this possibility. Open your mind to the fact that we are so powerful. We are powerful beyond measure in our minds and our hearts and our souls. Create the reality that you want to live. Create your experience of life. Be in control of the energy levels that you choose. Be in control of the thoughts that you think. Being in control of creating the life that you dream of. 

Thank you, everyone, and have an amazing day.

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Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.

Today, I want to talk about death and dying. Yes, I know, it's a horrible thought. But think about it...whenever we are faced with the prospect of our own lives ending, or someone we love either dying or being faced with the possibility of death, what it does is that it inspires us.

It inspires us to work to live our lives to its fullest potential. It inspires us to want to surround ourselves with love. It inspires us to live every moment, not only doing the things we love but enjoying and appreciating everyone around us.

When we reflect upon death, I believe it helps us to set our priorities straight. We realize what really matters and what we should be giving our time, energy and attention to. We start thinking about presence. We start thinking about releasing fear, worries and the need to control things. We start focusing on wanting to live every moment our fullest potential -- with joy, love, and total presence. We start appreciating every single moment, person and interaction.

Ask yourself: how would you live your life, today, if you only had one week left to live? How would you live your life? What would you change? What would you get rid of?

I bet you wouldn't spend time worrying and obsessing over things that really don't matter. I bet you would want to love more and give more and be more present with those that you care about. I bet you would want to give more of yourself so people would remember you -- what you gave, what you taught them and how you inspired them. All these things -- that is the gift. That is the gift in reflecting on death and dying.

I'm not sitting here talking about this because I plan on this. Sure, one day, when I'm over 100, then this will be something I will deal with. But I am fully determined -- I have made my decision that I am conquering this cancer. I will be back because I have so much more that I want to do in this lifetime. But what I can tell you is that being faced with this disease, all I want is to be fully present in every single moment with my wife, mom, pets, animals, athletes, and friends. I want to be fully present. I want to give with all my heart. I want to be able to receive. I want to be surrounded by love, gratitude, and appreciation. I want to let go of all my fears, worries and trying to control things. I just want to live fully and beautifully.

So, contemplate on that today. Try to live your life in that way always. Imagine the joy and fulfillment that you'll experience.

Thank you and have an amazing day!

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