Can our minds really shape our bodily health? Join me and my co-host Justin on a journey through the intricate dance of mental well-being and physical health on Balance Blueprints. We tackle the silent ways chronic mental stress may be contributing to insulin resistance and other health issues, offering a glimmer of hope by examining the mysteriously resilient individuals who, despite poor diets, manage to avoid type 2 diabetes. Our conversation delves into the power of perception and the necessity for balance between acknowledging unhealthy habits and the counterproductive stress of health perfectionism.
As we wander further down the path of mind-body connections, we discover the true cost of chronic stress—not only on our mental state but on our very physiology. It's not just a game of watching your carb intake; fitting in regular activity can significantly dampen stress's harmful effects. We'll show you that you don't need a hefty bank account to stay healthy and stress-free. Simple actions can work wonders, and we discuss how walking and mindfulness can be just as valuable as any high-priced health fad.
Before we part ways, let's not forget the potent ritual of positive reflection, especially at day's end. Justin and I share our personal experiences with writing down even the smallest of daily wins, shedding light on how this simple act can rewire our thoughts towards the positive, helping us to slip into a more restful sleep and greet the morning with renewed balance. So come share your triumphs with us as we continue to navigate the road towards balanced freedom, episode by episode.
Can our minds really shape our bodily health? Join me and my co-host Justin on a journey through the intricate dance of mental well-being and physical health on Balance Blueprints. We tackle the silent ways chronic mental stress may be contributing to insulin resistance and other health issues, offering a glimmer of hope by examining the mysteriously resilient individuals who, despite poor diets, manage to avoid type 2 diabetes. Our conversation delves into the power of perception and the necessity for balance between acknowledging unhealthy habits and the counterproductive stress of health perfectionism.
As we wander further down the path of mind-body connections, we discover the true cost of chronic stress—not only on our mental state but on our very physiology. It's not just a game of watching your carb intake; fitting in regular activity can significantly dampen stress's harmful effects. We'll show you that you don't need a hefty bank account to stay healthy and stress-free. Simple actions can work wonders, and we discuss how walking and mindfulness can be just as valuable as any high-priced health fad.
Before we part ways, let's not forget the potent ritual of positive reflection, especially at day's end. Justin and I share our personal experiences with writing down even the smallest of daily wins, shedding light on how this simple act can rewire our thoughts towards the positive, helping us to slip into a more restful sleep and greet the morning with renewed balance. So come share your triumphs with us as we continue to navigate the road towards balanced freedom, episode by episode.
Welcome to the Balance Blueprints podcast, where we discuss optimal techniques for health and finances and then break it down to create an individualized and balanced plan. I'm your host, John Propper, here with my co-host, Justin Gaines. In this episode, Justin and I talk about part two of the psychology of food. If you haven't listened to part one, we suggest listening, because in this episode we take a deeper dive into how your mind affects certain biological mechanisms that changes your biology. Thanks so much for listening and we hope you enjoy and that's a perfect segue into how these things kind of work in the body. So I'll use that, if that's good, because we always think of diabetes or insulin resistance as a food problem, and we'll go into some of the pathways here of just literally how chronic mental stress can cause it.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like if you don't think you have a problem. You might not have a problem. But you have these people who eat terrible on paper. They're terrible diets, high sugar. They should have type 2 diabetes. How do they not have type 2 diabetes? But if they don't see it as a problem, this is suggesting that if they don't see it as a problem, it might not be a problem for them right, right, right and long term.
Speaker 1:I just I can't fully get behind the idea that the mind can outpower everything else, but I definitely think it's stronger, but that stuff will catch up to that and I still firmly believe that. But it can make you stay healthy.
Speaker 2:I think that. I think that shows you know you can have somebody who's happy and mentally healthy, who's overweight, but there's still a direct core. You know, if you look at the overweight population, we're're talking high obesity levels. Their mortality tables, their life expectancy, is way less than somebody who is considered at the appropriate weight. And so that's going to take into effect your whole range of spectrum of people who do think it's a problem, don't think it's a problem or indifferent. So yes it has a long-term impact, but how much of an impact?
Speaker 1:yeah. Well, that's where we're getting into the conversation of like everything matters and nothing matters. So let's find like a middle ground, because this all of this talk made me think about. This is an unrelated study, but they did a recent study that showed I don't want to get it wrong, let me just talk through it to see when it comes out, if I remember it, that smokers with yeah, smokers with high dh, epa and dha, so eating a lot of omega-3 fatty acids from fish, had a better life expectancy than non-smokers who had low levels of that it's fun, so it's funny.
Speaker 2:You say that the 10x health guy I'm looking up his name right now, gary brekka, he's a guy who runs the 10x health systems he's on. There's a recording of him saying that, um, if you're physically you know, if you're physically active and you smoke and you drink, you'll outlive the person who's not physically active.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that gets into the whole.
Speaker 2:it matters and it doesn't matter If you're the right weight and you just eat right or maybe you don't even eat, right, you eat moderately. Well, you're at a good BMI. You're at a good weight. You could be outlived by somebody who smokes and drinks all the time but goes and has a consistent workout regimen and eats the same way you do.
Speaker 1:The only difference is they smoke and drink, but they also work out way more than you do.
Speaker 2:Those two things will make it, so they'll live longer than you will.
Speaker 1:The point of all of this is to play into that. There's a happy medium and we're getting into a health world space where everything's being demonized. They're making you feel bad for every little thing and it's like you want to do the best habits you can. Quote, unquote. Let's come up with a random number 80 percent of the time, because there's a lot of people that do the best habits they can and then once a year, when they eat out or when they eat seed oils once or so, much stress because they think it's killing them and it's like no, the person that probably eats three times the amount of seed seed oils as you, but it is just happy and comfortable and living well may outlive you because you know you're causing so much stress but it's crazy because
Speaker 1:a lot of us go through it in in the health world, because I saw a different account talking about this and at first it aggravated me because I was like you know, I don't get it. Why are we quote, unquote promoting or saying it's okay to do these things because they are unhealthy? It's like I guess we're not really saying it's okay to do these things. We're saying you're gonna have just as good a chance, if not better, of a long, healthy life if, when they happen the things that when they happen, say we'll just just say smoking, I don't, alcohol, you know whatever, whatever you want in there, when they happen, if you don't stress about them, you're going to be fine. Um, so it's tough because the health world, especially with online, we're seeing such a huge shift of so much demonization, so much you have to be perfect, so much this and all this is going against us.
Speaker 2:Are you personally happy with your actions? Are you okay with what you're doing? Do you think you're working towards the best version of yourself? If you do, you probably are, you know, even if you are eating mcdonald's twice a week and you're only working out once a week. But you, you know that you're doing the right thing and you know you're working towards the right place, and you tell yourself that you have the self-love. It sounds like that is more important than cutting out, you know, adding another workout day or cutting out another cheat day. It's more important that you self-love, your, you know, have the self-love working towards the best version of yourself and are happy and everyone's scale is different.
Speaker 1:You know that's that's the thing is. The whole point of this conversation is there's not one right way, like I would say. The only two wrong ways are wanting to be a hundred percent perfect and beating yourself up when you're not, and not caring at all and doing every unhealthy habit. I would say those are the only two wrong ways that I feel confident saying. But then everything in between is like a where do you want to fall on that scale? Why do you want to fall on that spot and what are your future goals?
Speaker 1:Cause, like you figure those things out, it's like, yeah, I want to be more towards the end of quote, unquote, impossible perfection, but that's because if I'm towards that end, I feel better day to day and then I can reconcile when I do things that aren't and the other person might just be like again, I don't fully agree with this because they got to ask them to help fly. But the YOLO person like you only live once. It's like sure, you know if that's really what you believe and makes you happy and you've come to terms with that, you might live a long happy, healthy life that way, I guess. Maybe, happy, healthy life that way, I guess, and maybe the true yolo is, but not caring at all so who knows?
Speaker 2:but you know, there's the those both ends. Yeah, yeah, um, all right so interesting, though, that the focus there is on, you know, being present and asking yourself do I firmly believe that I'm working towards a better version of myself and? And if the answer is yes, you're probably working towards the best. You're probably in the best health position that you can be in, because you're going to continue to improve, but if you're beating yourself up, it's not going to work out well for you.
Speaker 1:Right. Well, that's my only challenge to people that promote or just say you should never worry about eating fast food or this or that. You know that's. My only question to them is why are you doing that, like? Ask yourself why? Because in my mind, self-love is taking care of yourself and you know that food's not bad. But at the same time, the person that's doing all those things and has no self-love and beats themselves up, it's like you know, we're also not at a good spot. So, yeah, it's, it's. It's hard because delicate balance, such a delicate balance, but to bring us so what we were going to talk about so many fun things, but we transitioned into how things are actually happening in the body through the processes and and Justin brought up and we're going to talk about it but how chronic stress affects so many pathways. I have a nice diagram here, but we'll start with a very common one, but insulin resistance, high blood sugar. So I'll just read through some things here.
Speaker 1:When you're under chronic stress, a lot of these processes in the body go up and I'll explain what they are. But if you think about it, ancient times we would see a tiger. A lot of stresses we had were acute, quick stresses so the body would up, regulate a lot of things so we could run, so we could have energy and and stress I think itself has gotten a quote unquote bad rep because it's not the stress, like that's actually very good that those processes happen because they allowed us to run away and live. I think it's our perception of stress and that acute stress that everyone demonizes Is only bad when it happens chronically, which is what's happening today, like we are not very different than who we were a hundred or a thousand years ago as humans, but our environment is completely different. So you know, we are not programmed for this low level chronic stress that we're seeing from social media jobs, mortgages, all this stuff and it's causing that acute response to become chronic and that's when we're seeing a lot of problems.
Speaker 1:That's kind of the intro there and that leads into it, because one of the things that happens is when we go into a sympathetic state so a more fight, stay or flight our blood sugar goes up and it gets broken down because it wants to shove sugar into the cells so they have energy to run. This causes the need for insulin to rise, because when you have sugar in the blood it can't just go into cells. Insulin needs to transport it into the cells. And then if there's chronic high blood sugar, because you're chronically stressed, your body continually makes things it needs the sugar, because it's again think it needs to run away constantly eventually these cells kind of turn off to the sugar because they're like we're not even utilizing it. You constantly make it and you keep shoveling it into the cells, but it's not a physical stress, it's a mental. But it's not a physical stress, it's a mental stress. So it's not being utilized. It causes a problem. Yeah, so just so I was wrapping it up, but I have it here is um.
Speaker 1:So chronic stress can cause insulin, insulin resistance, because the body continually thinks it's in fight or flight. So it continually thinks it needs to run or fight and cells can only handle so much sugar before they actually shut down. And they shut down causing insulin resistance because the mitochondria in those cells need a break. So it's the same exact process as if your body is eating too much sugar and doesn't know what to do with it.
Speaker 1:Again, I think this is the whole thing of people demonize carbs. It's like I don't think carbs are that bad if we're utilizing them, if we are in an insulin sensitive state, meaning we're fit, we're active, like our body can use those. It's not the carb, it's our body. But the same exact pathway is happening in the mind even though you're not ingesting a ton of carbs, the mind's finding places in the body, or the body's finding sugar stores, and breaking them down and putting them into your blood system so your cells can use them, thinking you're having acute physical stresses, but you're just under chronic mental stress. So I'm out of breath. But that's wild. I'm out of breath but that's wild.
Speaker 2:No, it is interesting because, yeah, when you bring in the fight or flight response and you bring in, you know that caveman mind, you know the limbic brain sitting there and creating that's what's causing some of these diabetic issues and high insulin issues as a result of your body needing to get away and you just not being able to because you're not moving your body to get rid of it, because it's a mental stress. It's not something you actually need to run away from, right, it's not something you actually need to run away from. It's typically something you need to deal with on a mental level or just get done at work or whatever the case may be there's something on your checklist.
Speaker 2:That you haven't done because you've been putting it off and that's causing you to be stressed out about it. There's no ability to actually go run away from it and burn up that sugar.
Speaker 1:That's very interesting how that plays a role into this piece of the puzzle and I can't imagine that it's more prevalent or important than overeating tons of high sugary food that we see in the world. But it explains those weird cases of maybe more fit or thin individuals that have insulin resistance and you're just thinking how or why. But you know their lifestyle is, has extreme amounts of mental stress and that's never looked at. You know it explains those stranger cases right, right.
Speaker 2:Well, I think it also explains why 10 000 steps or just going for a walk is so pivotal. Because if you're under, you know if you're in a office environment or you know an environment where you're not up and moving around. So we're talking, you know white collar jobs, not the blue collar jobs where you're under a lot of that mental, physical stress mental stress, not physical stress but you're sitting at a desk so you don't have the opportunity to get away from it going for that walk allows you to burn through some of that sugar and some of those, you know, use up some of that insulin that you've produced in order for you to then regulate back down because you've consumed it via the, via the exercise that you've done.
Speaker 2:That's why the walking pads at a desk, I think, have played such a large role, just by you know. This is all just coming to me right now from what you're saying. With these research, it just makes sense that our body's put into basically a call for physical response, but our body doesn't realize that it's a mental response. So we need to introduce the physical response in order to balance out what our body's producing and telling us to do, but we don't actually take action on.
Speaker 1:And that's. That's another reason, too, why I think people don't believe half of this stuff of like. When you say, oh, go for a walk at your lunch break, like how much could that help. But when you're thinking about it you're like it could help in terms of exercise, it could help in terms of a mental break, it can help in terms of getting natural light. These simplest things have such a big impact but they're so hard to believe that they have. But there's so many factors playing in there.
Speaker 2:Like you said, if you're in an office all day under artificial blue light, constant mental stress, not moving, it's like, yeah, a walk does wonders, it's interesting too, because this whole podcast is about how this whole podcast is about how you know, this whole podcast being this episode part one, part two, however, it breaks down, but these episodes being about very little things that make a very large difference. They're almost magnifiers.
Speaker 2:You know, going for the walk because of the mental stress capacity, visual visualizing things, having the right mental mindset magnifies the consequences of these actions. You know, if you're not eating well but you have the mindset that it's okay, it decreases the impact. If you have the mindset that it's not okay and you're not eating well, that's going to have a worse impact. So it almost seems like mindset is an amplifier of whatever you are doing. So if you're doing something that's negative but you have a positive mindset, those start to cancel each other out a little bit. But if they're the same a negative and a negative, or a positive and a positive those are going to multiply.
Speaker 1:Right. I think in terms of diet, it's like a person who's you know, if you're at terms and okay with everything's not organic and these eggs are just cage free, you know. It's like those are the things where, if you're okay with that, it's actually going to be better for you. Like you need to come to terms with. You're doing the best you can at the moment. We don't need to stress out versus the other one and guess what? We'll play into the financial side here. All of these things are free. You know they want to tell you how expensive health is.
Speaker 2:It's like master, these things, yeah you know, yeah, go for a walk and do some meditation, or, you know, visualize things. That doesn't cost you a penny free.
Speaker 1:So, um, the other thing that I brought up earlier too, just a pathway here is, here is so we'll go like I was saying, a lot of the processes in the body get upregulated Lipolysis, glucose getting converted to pyruvate, lipolysis, triglycerides in the fatty acids, just a bunch of things here that I'm just kind of glossing over. But lipolysis, an important one, triglycerides in the body people may know that one because it's on, I think, a cholesterol test usually when you go into the doctor but triglycerides get converted into fatty acids into the body. That happens, that increases when there's chronic stress and that increase can lead to or be a cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. That's something we've seen when people eat too much sugar. But it's crazy because we're seeing this in people that may just have way too much chronic stress. And it was funny because a couple weeks ago I got a message from someone that their doctor said they had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. And we just thought that's weird. They're in good shape, they're not overweight, must have been a mistake.
Speaker 1:And then I take this course and I'm just seeing that and I'm like wild Because I know some other factors around it. It's like that could be a big reason. It's just the mental, the stress in your life has just such a huge impact and, I think, can explain so many things for the people that think, oh, I'm healthy, why me? Or I'm doing everything right, or why me or you know it's? It doesn't make sense, it's like it does. You just gotta look a little, look a little deeper.
Speaker 2:I think even my the heart condition issue that I had, like we never. I never got any real answers on that, but I still think about it and I was definitely at the highest stress load I was ever at in my life at that time point and so I think there was definitely a mental stress load component to it. And this is where I think you know there's multiple factors at play here, right Plus learning now that caffeine consumption pulls magnesium out of your body. Magnesium plays a large role in heart health. So at my caffeine levels, because of my stress load and the hours I was working, I was high caffeine levels, depleting my magnesium, not taking a magnesium supplement. Coupled with the stress and not having like a positive frame set around that, it was like I'm at, I'm at my highest stress point and it is not good and I'm aware of that.
Speaker 2:Those things again amplified and a seemingly healthy, fit, physically active, good diet totally 20s yeah ends up in the hospital with what was perceived as a heart attack, gets a whole bunch of stuff and actually has a heart issue and now it's resolved and then six months later, oh, you don't have a heart issue anymore, it's completely resolved. And it's weird, you know. But what?
Speaker 2:yeah, and that throws you through a loop in itself but now that we we're talking about this, what changed in that six period? Six month period I was working with doctors. I was in the mindset of like, what am I do, what can I do to get out of this, what can I do to heal myself? And so you're positively framing everything, getting out of that stress, managing the stress, being in a positive mindset, and then boom, six months later you get an ekg and an echo and they come back completely clean, even though the echo was clean originally but the ekg wasn't. And now I have both clean six months later, no problems, and it's like it never happened yeah and it's like yeah, same thing with me senior year of college.
Speaker 1:You know it's like and if anything, it's what I think it is is, and we can even bring it down a level. If you don't, some people don't believe that it's like at the bare minimum, chronic stress lowers your immune system for other things to come up. You know what I mean. We see this a lot too, like if people have hidden viruses in their body, meaning they're just kind of stagnant, they're not expressing themselves, but you come under a lot of chronic stress boom, they have an opportunity to attack. You know, stress just accelerates other things that you may have been, your body may have been able to handle. It's it's crazy because it's almost. It's nice because it's almost. It's hard because it's not a blood marker, it's not a word on paper, but it's almost an answer. You know, I mean to these things that you were just wondering what the heck happened. How did that happen? It went away and I got no answer. Will it come back? You know, I mean and this is almost.
Speaker 2:I think that's the hard part is that the only way that you can see the quantifiable evidence of this is through research you can't see it on yourself, because you can't do a split study on yourself what if I?
Speaker 2:told myself that this was bad. What if I told myself it was good? What's the outcome? You can't, you can't isolate all the variables and so, like you're saying it's not, you can see it. In group studies, you can see the biomarkers, you can see quantifiable evidence that it does work. But you can't on yourself because you can't isolate all the variables and then test a, b, test it. And what if I tell myself it's good? What if I tell myself it's bad?
Speaker 1:Which is a great reason to not and he actually hints a lot or doesn't hint, hammers this point home in this course a lot to not be evidence-bound, as in, don't take randomized, controlled studies as the end-all, be-all. Use them as information and mix that in with everything else that you know.
Speaker 2:You know it's just a great point of like there's there's limitations to so many of those things and I would say to somebody who's not a believer or somebody who maybe is a believer but it's like is this actually gonna work? For me is try it for six months. You know, try it for six months and see does. Does anything change? Do I feel better? Do some of my symptoms go away? Do these things change?
Speaker 2:If they do, then it probably works for you, and don't question it beyond that. I also guarantee it will In the world we live in, especially with social media and everybody being able to spew just random information we look for somebody in the white coat or somebody with letters after their name.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's the whole reason why I got letters after my name was so that people would be able to go and say, oh yeah, they are an expert in their field. Ok, I can trust what they're saying, and it's like you don't need that, though, like in most scenarios, you don't need that, though, like in most scenarios, you don't need that. You don't need a doctor to sit here and tell you to get your mindset in a positive frame of mind. That'll work out for you.
Speaker 2:But I think unfortunately, that's kind of the world we live in, where people want confirmation, they want that reassurance, and that's why they go to the doctor when they have a cold, or they bring their baby to the ER because you know it's got a cold, and they go into the back and they're like there's not really anything I can do for you. There's a baby has a cold, but they want to hear that from a doctor that your baby has a cold. Your baby doesn't have some crazy disease.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know it goes along with to what you're saying earlier of we accept the negative bias way more than the positive. In terms of Like when people hear. It's weird to me when people hear something like advice, let's say advice from a non-doctor, which is like hey, meditate, go for a walk and eat whole foods, they like they scrutinize it and they question like where's the, where's the resource, where's the information, where's the study? But like someone's like hey, take this statin for heart disease. Like oh, okay, you know. I mean I feel like the, the easy, quick, cheap things just get so much more scrutiny than the others, and maybe because they're fda approved and they're gone through trials and but you know those yeah, well, I think part of that is just that's convenience, right, that's?
Speaker 2:yeah, that's convenience. It's it's easier to take a pill and hope that that's going to work.
Speaker 2:It probably will because of the placebo, because you believe that it will, it probably will work, then it's just one of the side effects, one of the negative implications that are there, just de-amplified because you have a positive frame of mind there. But it works both ways, just like that. You know, you could be taking something as a ton of side effects and maybe you don't have the side effects because you think it's going to work. But if you thought it didn't work and you were worried about side effects, you might have all the side effects yeah it's like it's crazy how it works.
Speaker 2:Even in a situation like that it can combat the negative. But I think the other part is is that, because it's convenient to just pop a pill, that's so much easier than training your brain to frame things in a positive mindset for something that you have a negative mindset about?
Speaker 1:because it's very easy if you have a positive mindset about medications and you're big on medications.
Speaker 2:Just take a medication, no matter what the problem. You have a positive mindset about that. It's not. It's not hard to continue down that pathway, but changing pathways is much harder.
Speaker 1:Right, right, we'll wrap up here. Let me just give a couple more, since that's what we're going to do in this episode exact processes in the body of how chronic stress can affect them. We'll just fly through these because we've gone over a lot of good stuff, but we talked about insulin resistance, how that can happen. That can also lead to a decrease in sex hormone binding globulin and again we'll dive into this stuff later. So if people or you have questions we can go into it. But I just want to get to the end points of these. That decrease allows more free estrogen in the body, which increases thyroid hormone-binding globulin that binds to your thyroid and that causes a decrease in thyroid action, making it harder to burn body fat. Meaning the chronic stress causing insulin resistance messes with your thyroid. We see it also messing with thyroid through another pathway thyroid. We see it also messing with the thyroid through another pathway, through 5-deondidase. It's a tough one, but that's an enzyme. All that big, complicated word is an enzyme that converts inactive thyroid to active thyroid. So you know, we're seeing a lot of these again, big words, we can jump into them more later.
Speaker 1:But all of this chronic stress, all of these things in the body is showing up in pathways in the body that we just aren't relating to chronic stress. We're relating it to food, environment. We need to start looking at all of these stressors, all of your mental health, all of your past traumas, as possible causes for why we may be unhealthy today. And it's just crazy because we're now getting so much information. And the last one to just kind of tie all this in is chronic stress will mess with your methylation. What that means is, if you can't methylate neurotransmitters like serotonin and melatonin, you know they're going to be messed up. So it's like stress is literally causing neurotransmitter problems in which everyone can relate to because they're hot topic words dopamine, serotonin. You know it's. It's it's crazy because it works in the reverse too, like neurotransmitter problems can cause stress, you know. So it's it's just crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's wild how it works from both sides, like it's not, like this is impacting everybody. The question is how are you having it impact you? Are you framing it in a positive? Are you framing it in a negative? Because if you're not doing anything with it, either you're naturally a more positive person or you're naturally a more negative person, and that's what's driving this right now.
Speaker 1:And it's an uphill battle. If you're a negative person, you got to find a lot of ways. Maybe we'll go into those, but you got to switch it. It's tough.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's tough, for sure, For sure. I've definitely gone through bouts where I've been on that side of it and I would say a morning gratitude list is the way to start digging yourself out of that hole.
Speaker 1:There's a love hate relationship with it, because some days you have a bad day and you're just like what is this even doing, you know? But other days, when something goes right, especially something goes right that you wrote of, like that would make today great, you think to yourself like you know what. I think I noticed it more because I've been writing it down whereas something like that that has been, that's the kicker is.
Speaker 2:It's like that reticular activating system saying, like you know, I I thought I'm going to be grateful for this and this happens to me a lot more than I realized because I was ungrateful for it until I actually put it down. I was like I actually do care about this and I should pay attention a little more to it so then you're kind of like oh crap, it got me, I gotta keep doing it right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the tough, the bad days are tough you know, the bad days are tough because you write down the tough part is that end of the day one where you have yeah, it's like what did you learn?
Speaker 1:and I'm just like you know. I learned that today's stump, yeah well, and I usually.
Speaker 2:Usually what I do is I learn that I do not have, you know, the patience for this, or I don't have you know that's a good one. That's a lot of times that I end up putting down is like what I learned. I learned that this irritates the hell out of me yeah, that's what I learned.
Speaker 1:But you know, what that end of the day really helped me was, too, because it's what did you learn and highlights from the day, and a lot of times you don't realize the effect, even if it's so tiny going to bed on a negative. When I do that that I have a million negative things going in my head. The day went terrible and it forces you to write two positives down through the day. You're falling asleep on the positive Huge difference. Thanks for listening to our podcast.
Speaker 2:We hope this helps you on your balance freedom journey.
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Speaker 2:Until next time stay balanced.