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Here's your host, Doctor Eldred Taylors.
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Hello, Good morning is Wednesday morning. I'm doctor Taylor. I
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am the Harmone Doctor and the Spiritual MD, and today
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we're going to talk about something that it was surprising
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to me, but then it wasn't surprising. We're going to
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talk about some of the stressors that you are dealing
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with that you don't even know about now. I think
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in my original explanation. I said that we're going to
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talk about ten things, but I want you to really
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get what I'm saying to you, because you know, I
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keep saying, you know that I always get these stress tests.
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Are these quartos all tests, and almost all of them
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are abnormal. They're almost all of them are showing that
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they are under chronic stress. And so I started asking,
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how could everybody be under stress? And so I kept
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answering that question, and then I'm like, this stress that
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you are under, you don't even realize it, and you
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are contributing to your stress and you don't even realize it.
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Because there's evolutionary stress. There's things that we were we
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were made to do that we are not doing and
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that we have done for thousands and maybe even millions
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of years. And in the last two three hundred years,
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we have totally changed how we live. And evolution it
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doesn't move that fast. And so I told you that
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the key to longevity is being able to adapt to
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your environment. And when you can't adapt to your environment
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or when you have troubling, are you maladapting to your environment.
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That's what we see as symptoms, Symptoms like hormone problem,
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like weight gain that we can't explain. All of these
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things are due to stresses that we're not even aware of.
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So that's what we're going to we're going to talk
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about today, is because once you become aware of where
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your stress is coming from, that is when you can
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change what the outcome is. We always said to my
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four point thing is you have to identify and try
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to get rid of the stress. So we're going to
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identify and try and help you get rid of some
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of the stressors that you don't even know about. There
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are happenings to you, and it's not an emotional stress.
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So let's go to the Slats and the rebel. We
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just before for our pre show, she was she's about
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to do the saliva test and she was like, you know,
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I don't feel bad, but I have, you know, some
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things that are going on in my body that I
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can't really control, and I'm trying to figure out why.
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So let's talk about it, all right. So, evolutionary stress
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the hidden stress you don't feel and you don't recognize.
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I'll say you feel it because you're feeling it in
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the symptoms. You're having, the inability to sleep, you're feeling it.
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You just don't know exactly where it's coming from. And
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so I'm going to show you this new source of
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stress that most people don't realize. And to be honest
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with you, I didn't realize it. But I always talk
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about you need to go upstream, you know, just don't
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talk about that. That's want to talk about cortisol because
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that's driving it, all right? Well, what is driving the
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cortisol that we don't even know about? That's the question,
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all right. See, you think you're not under stress, but
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your body completely disagrees with that assumption because your body
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is meant to do certain things. So you have to
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look at it like this, your internal your digestion, your sleep,
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weight cycle. It does not know exactly what to do.
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It is looking for signals from the outside. It's looking
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for signals. Okay, when do I wake up, When do
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I go to sleep? When is it time to eat?
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When it is is it time to walk around? When
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is it time to work? It has to have signals
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so it can prepare your body for what you're about
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to do. So if you don't provide the signals, your
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body is confused. And when your body is confused, that's stress. Okay,
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So you think you're not under stress, but your body
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completely disagrees because it's used to getting signals that it
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was getting for four million years or thousands of years,
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whatever you want to say. It was used to getting
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certain signals, and when you take away those signals, it
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is confused. And that hormone confusion that I keep talking
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about and I want to end hormone confusion. This is
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another one of those confusions. It confuses the hormones when
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you don't get the proper signals, right, So we need
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to look at what signals we're given our body, all right.
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So see we're not talking about emotional stress. When I
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ask people, are you under stressed? And initially said, I
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don't know. My life is fine. You know, my kids
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are fine, this is fine, But I don't know why
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I can't sleep. I don't know why I have this anxiety.
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I don't know why I'm gaining weight. I don't know
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why my hormone seemed to go out of balance. I
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don't know. See, it's not an emotional stress, is a
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biological stress that you may not even realize because you're
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living in an environment that we were not made for. Right,
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So this is what we're talking about you were built
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for one environment and you're living in another. So for
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thousands of years we lived outside. We live in an
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environment that did not have artificial light, it did not
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have it. It's just we're in a totally different environment. Okay.
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And this environment has happened over the last one hundred
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and two hundred years, and you have to think there's
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always been these changing environments. I mean, so you understand
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this when we go to places like Africa or whatever,
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is that there are people who are who are living
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differently from us and they have different they have different
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or they have less problems, or they have different problems, okay,
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because their environment is one that they were built for.
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But here's what happens. So you know, we learned that, Hey,
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when agriculture came in, it changed the environment and it
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changed the way peopleeople live. We talked about the dinosaurs.
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The environment changed and they weren't able to adapt. So
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that's what happened. So what we have to do is
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that if we want to continue to survive, we have
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to learn what our environment is asking for, what kind
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of signals is it looking for, and making sure we
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give the body those signals. All right, So when your
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environment is off, your body really tries to adapt. But
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that adaptation is what you call symptoms. Okay, because you're
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trying to you're trying to get your body to do
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something that is not designed to do, and that creates
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stress in the body. And so now that's the upstream
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that's causing the cortisol to disrupt everything because it takes
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energy to adapt. So it sucks your energy just trying
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to adapt to what you're going through a day by day.
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So now when you add on work and family, and
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I talked about the biology of higher performance, and when
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I was doing and that podcast, people is talking about,
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well what if you're not a high performer and you
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still feel like that, Well, that's what I'm talking about.
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to adapt to, and then when you put on all
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these other things, that just takes your system down so
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much more quickly. So at least if there's some behaviors
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that you could eliminate, or some behaviors that you that
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you could add to, at least get rid of that
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baseline unaware stress that we're dealing with. Then at least,
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now that you're working or you're dealing with kids or whatever,
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dealing with your finances, and this is tax day, so
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this is just another stress. But hey, look, if we
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could eliminate some of those daily, twenty four hour stressors
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that we're putting our body through, then maybe we could
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handle these other stresses just a little bit better. And
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maybe I could stop seeing so many of these abnormal cortisoccurs,
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and maybe two things maybe you could recover better. Because
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the second thing we talk about stress is that you
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have to change how you respond to the stress. So
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first we have to be aware of the stress. Then
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we're going to change how you respond to the stress.
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And then when you do that, that will help repair
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the damage caused by the stress. And then it will
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also allow you to be able to handle future stress
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because you've eliminated some of that baseline stress that you're
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dealing with every day. So does that makes sense? The
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one we get into it because there's really only three things,
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Rebel's three things that we could change, and it really
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encompasses all of the ten and I may get into
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some of those other ones, but I want to really
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drive home three things that you could do that could
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eliminate a lot of this baseline stress. So are you ready, rebel?
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I am so ready to find this out.
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All right. So here's one thing. Try not to make
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big decisions when you first wake up. Okay. Your brain
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is not fully online when you wake up, but you're
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living like it is. So let me tell you two
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problems with that. Is that one when you first when
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your brain first wakes up, it is trying to figure
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out are you safe or not? That's the one thing
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because it's think if you were living outside and again,
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being in Africa has taught me a lot. If you
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are being if you are outside and you s left
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all night, the first thing you want to know that
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did I wake up? And is it safe? Okay? And
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so what will happen is your brain starts to think
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about all of the things that happened the day before.
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You'll start looking at what you need to do and
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what do I need to do to make sure I'm safe?
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All that stuff. That's the first thing. That stuff, what
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we call your reptilian brain, is kind of your subconscious brain.
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It's always trying to make sure you're safe. So you
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wake up and it takes about twenty or thirty minutes
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before your body feels like it's on, it's safe, and
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then you can still go and start making decisions. All right.
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So that's why they say wake up and think about
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something you're grateful for, because your brain is going to
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tell you all of the things that are wrong. It's
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going to look and scan everything and try and make
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sure you're safe. And if you don't understand that, you'll
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start to go down this road and you hope, did
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I forget this or other? And then you'll go and
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try and do. Something I even caught myself today is
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that when I first woke up, I was doing these
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slats and I was like, h should I change this?
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Should I change that? And then I stopped. I was like,
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wait a minute, let me go get my water, let
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me go do this. And then I came back and
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I said, ah, these slides are fine. Okay, So you
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don't want to make you don't want to react first
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thing in the morning. You need to give yourself time
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to wake up and let your let your thinking part
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of the brain actually look at the situation and it
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can actually evaluate it and not just react. But what
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do we do. We wake up with an alarm, so
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that's already startling. So you're already in a fight or flight.
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So that's like waking up and having a lion roar
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in front of you. So you're like, automatically, I'm not safe,
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all right, So what do you do? You go and
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try and see what happened, what happened during the night.
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So you go and look at your notifications. Look, and
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so you're doing it, but you're doing it all wrong.
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You're not giving yourself time to settle yourself down. So
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you go and see an alarming email, and now your
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whole day is shot. Now you're in the stress mode.
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Now we set your whole day. You're in the fight
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or flight just because you didn't allow your brain to
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wake up. Okay, So that's why you don't need to
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wake up and run out of the house and do
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this and do that. You've got to give yourself timed
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to get fully online. So just if you can, just man,
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I know you've heard this, but I wanted to try
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and bring the physiology into it and the way that
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it can set your system up and you're not even
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realizing it. And so again, I know you may have
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heard some of this, and that's why I said, I
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want you to see that this is the problem. You
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always your body is always trying to make sure it
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is safe, and so if anything disrupts that, it's going
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to send you into fight or flight. All right, So
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if you wake up, how do you wake up, rebel?
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I wake up by get up, bay, go brush my
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teeth and get myself ready in the morning.