＂Everything Makes Sense In Nature＂ - The Natural Anxiety CURE Doctors Won't Tell You About
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Summary
What do you tell a 17 year old kid who is comparing himself to his friends and his classmates to deal with anxiety? How do you help a 28 year old that is thinking about getting married and he s in a relationship but he doesn t know if he s ready to get married, but he s having so much anxiety thinking about the future, and he has so much fear of the future?
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today whether it's uh uh doom score on scrolling right or the dopamine detox and porn tiktok
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gaming social media overstimulation we are like all over the place right you're like oh my god
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i'm seeing a bit how many likes how many follows how many this how much subscribe everything is
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about there right so it creates a lot of uh anxiety because data's in our face right there
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information's in our face right there so anxiety okay anxiety today we have more pressures to show
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up to the public judgment is higher right what if this what if i feel what if i fall what if it's
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bare what if i get embarrassed and humiliated in front of everybody what do you tell a jordan
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peterson in 2016 before he's going to get on this on how to deal with anxiety what do you tell a
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17 year old kid who is comparing himself to his friends and his classmates is dealing with anxiety
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what do you tell a 28 year old that is thinking about getting married and he's in a relationship
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but he doesn't know if he's ready to get married and he has so much anxiety thinking about the
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future what do you tell these folks two things fix your diet and go in nature because i think that
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when we go into raw nature everything makes more sense i think a lot of the symptoms broadly for
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humans that we're suffering from now are because of the way we've come become divorced from nature
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it's just when i'm out surfing in costa rica and you're in a huge ocean oh everything makes sense
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you cannot stand in front of a mountain at a lake by yourself with people you care about and think
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oh you know i it's just everything starts to make sense you get perspective tell me why
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i think that as humans we've we are connected to nature in ways that very few people are talking
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about we're trying to become more and more civilized right and i think that we need we
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need nature not we don't need to live in the woods you know you don't need to be um a hermit
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but we actually need to go into raw nature to keep perspective on our lives you ever look at
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the stars and think whoa we are so small when was the last time you saw the stars like really
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saw the stars honestly when i uh when i would walk my two dogs they both died about six months ago
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seven months ago but whenever i would walk my dogs at 10 o'clock 11 o'clock at night because
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that's when i would walk them i would always look at the stars so it's not something i've been i've
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done the last few months it's pretty hard to look at the stars and and lack you just think i'm so
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small. Whatever I'm worried about right now, I am a human being who apparently has consciousness
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on a blue rock in the middle of a universe that is massive. You know, look, there are things that
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happen in our lives that are stressful, but we are little organisms on a rock in the middle of
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a massive universe. And I think we forget that. So just take a breath, get perspective, go into
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nature and realize it's going to be okay. It's going to work out. You got to fix your diet. You
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got to fix the biochemistry, but I think we need nature to keep us in the right frame. I do this
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myself. I get worried, you know, about this stress or that stress or this business or that, and you
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think, oh, look at the stars. On a really cloudless night, somewhere without a lot of light pollution,
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there are so many, you've never seen stars. You're like, oh my God, this is beautiful. And I think for
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the human organism, when we do that, when we're in front of a mountain and we can see the grandeur
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and the scale of what is around us in the world, it does something to our parasympathetic nervous
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system, this calming nervous system, even when we look at a horizon, we look at a view, why are
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waterfront houses the most expensive? Because they come with calm. They come with parasympathetic
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nervous system activation as you're looking at a vista. So much of what we're doing today
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is right around us. We're looking at a phone. It's right in front of us. The podcast studio,
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everything is 15 feet away. What if you could see a mile? Your brain completely changes. You just
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get calm. You know, we're looking at a screen. How often as to, for us as humans, do we take
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into a vista? That's grand, you know? And for most of us, it's going in nature, driving to an
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overlook. Or if you're lucky enough to live in a house with a water view or a mountain view,
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you've got it. That's why those houses are more expensive because we're calm there. Because that's
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what our, we need that as humans. You need to see where you are. Being in environments like this,
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I mean, it's amazing to be here with you on this podcast, but being environments like this,
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But give me, so those two hacks, both of them are long-term thinking.
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Give me the part about how to control your imagination.
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When your imagination goes off, okay, you're about to go into a big business meeting.
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You're about to give a speech in front of, you know, thousands of people.
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You're about to do a podcast that's a live stream.
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Live stream is you're being judged every second, right?
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Most people cannot do a live stream because it's too much.
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You're about to give a speech in front of your 30 students in high school,
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What do you tell yourself to control your imagination at that time?
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In terms of self-talk, I think you just have to, when you are,
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when what you are doing in those situations is aligned with something you're passionate about,
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You know, before this podcast, I'm thinking, oh, I hope I hope I'm coherent. I hope I'm clear on this podcast. I hope I can deliver value. And what I go back to from myself is, well, you know, I've done the preparation. I've worked for this. I've I've done my research. You know, I've done my research.
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And if you've done the training and you've done the preparation
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and you have a real passionate emotional connection to what you're doing,
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that's going to come through and you're going to be fine.
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You know, I think that some of the most meaningful feedback
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can tell that I care about the quality of their life,
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in giving people value that will improve the quality of their life comes through that's i
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think i'm always a little bit surprised that people follow you know but that that would probably be my
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guess for why people find value or like what i do if they like what i do you're very sincere i'm
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telling you i don't know if i told you the first time maybe i did when we were together my wife
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would send me videos of you and you know which videos the ones when you go on the market yeah
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and you're like at walmart or target or whole foods and you're like let me tell you about this
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But it's something a lot of people deal with today, anxiety.
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And I think half the time it's here, it's preparation,
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it's spending too much time in the future, you know,
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it's spending too much time, what if this goes wrong?
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I don't know that I call it God, but I believe in something bigger than us.
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So do you think that gives you an element of believing the future looks bright
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and it kind of brings a calming feeling to you?
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And, you know, people will sometimes say to me something that kind of hits at a core level.
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Like they might say, Paul, well, you've been given a gift.
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If I have the ability to speak in a certain way,
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They probably come from something bigger than me.
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recovering from chronic illness or autoimmune disease,
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I'm excited to connect with you guys all there.
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