 Right. So we are back for our lovely coffee chat. I've got my ginger kombucha here. It's absolutely delicious and Yeah, it's a beautiful day over here. How is it you Bryce? It's well spring is always an interesting time of year down here in Georgia We get a lot of tornadoes and all that kind of stuff this time of year But you know the junctions of the seasons are interesting. It's always a very you know We think we I talk a lot about friction and when the nature is is taking its junction If there's always friction in the air, but it's beautiful outside today. Happy st. Patrick's Day to all of our Irish Friends out there funnily enough they say they're more Irish people in America than there are in Ireland and according to my DNA That I did before and it was bad. I have absolutely zero Irish in me none whatsoever Which I was actually surprised about but happy st. Patrick's Day to all of our Irish friends out there Yeah, happy Patrick's Day. They'll be celebrating that install. It's a beautiful day in spring The cats are all on the go. The wildlife's all on the go. It's really really lovely day to day So I'm feeling tip-topper and we're going to be discussing some interest and stuff because you and I We've been talking about so many different things for months and months now and about really feeling ready to sort of move off Um, not that it hasn't been a great experience But take the focus of what's wrong and put it on what we can do positively And certainly I've been really looking at where I'm going with my channel and moving forward a lot of my focus I'm still going to be having interesting conversations with all sorts of different people But a lot of my focus is going to be how people can practically at a practical level Set their lives up for success. So that's their physical body Their emotional body their spiritual body because obviously, you know, I know when everyone knows they all link together And one of the interesting things came up about when we were just chatting was about self-integrity, wasn't it? It's a starting point. Yeah, absolutely being integral to yourself You know, and we um, I was actually when we first started recording I was thinking about someone said once and I thought it was brilliant I'm going to paraphrase, you know, we all have these dreams these things that we want to do in our life and um, and so we have these fantasies about What we love and I think we have these dreams for a reason that's we're all different We all have something we want to do, but we don't get from point a to point b Like that we have to take steps to get in between where we are now and where that dream is And so every day if there if you like we were talking about if you want to own an animal sanctuary if you want to You know have a rehabilitation center for humans You're not going to go from being just an you know an average person with a dream to then all of a sudden having that There has to be steps taken in between to get you to that point And so every day making a conscious decision to do something It doesn't have to be the big thing that changes everything But something little to help you get too closer to that point. I heard someone say once um Do something today that yourself tomorrow will thank you for That's such a good saying and it's so important because we all Go through different stages of our lives and we're all going to have ups and downs and periods where for example on a physical level You know, I love the fact that louise haze sort of says if you're going to spring queen your house You know, you've got to get around every room But it doesn't matter what room you started Unless you're having people a food dinner that night and then you might want to start in the dining room And that's a bit like you know, stir fast So we've got house our physical body in a physical body You can break down into lots of different exercise to keep it simple Water food and nutrition and exercise and then you've got your mental body So what are you doing to keep yourself positive there? What are you doing to control your thoughts emotions? And then you've got your spiritual side There's so many different areas to this And all of us will have a different starting point because we'll all have something that's a priority in life So like for me at the moment I'm I'm really good. I love my flasker energetic water bottles And I'm really into I have been for a long while obviously my herbs my supplements my really good food I love cooking water quality, etc But what I've really let slip Is my stretching so I do a lot of walking a movement because that's absolutely crucial to me I just really really need that and I've set my life up to that every day includes a lot of that But what I haven't done much my daughters in audience Is the stretching so now so everyone's got something once I'm assuming stretching isn't an issue for you You're going to have different priorities Well, it's funny though because when you do ashtanga yoga, you'll you'll you realize how sore you get from stretching I've been sore for like 15 years. That's how That's how intense that can be but it's so it is so important It's so funny because when we talk about doing things every day to get you to a certain point I actually just had a conversation with someone for 15 years now I've been getting up at the crack of dawn and and doing this crazy practice And I and I was on the phone with my friend. We were talking about this group. We're going to be working through I'm like Not once in those 15 years. Have I ever gotten up in the morning and thought oh yay I get to go bust my ass. I might not once have I ever thought that because that's what that's what a discipline is You do it because it serves you and even though you four o'clock in the morning for me I don't want to necessarily you're tight In the early morning hours your body is so tight like it's not there's more of a vulnerability and for 15 years It hasn't been actually it hasn't been pleasurable. I mean I've enjoyed it at times But but it's because it's what sets me up for my day like any time And I think that's kind of the first step regardless of whether it's getting up in the morning and taking a walk or meditating or Even something simple as making up your bed the first thing you get up It will set your mind into a productive routine And I think one of the things that I've noticed and I think this is really big in the western world I know it's probably just a human trait anyway, but I see it more in the western world. Oh look at it Sorry, I love it. Um is we have this idea that being uncomfortable is wrong And being uncomfortable is where magic happens Yeah And so part of life, isn't it rice? It's part of life And I think you said something so important there about do something today that your tomorrow will thank you for and that is so important because A lot of us a lot of us and I know every single person's um situation is different this little mitzy um, a lot of us uh, are lucky enough to have a lot of choices In the people, you know, just anyone who's got a chance to sit down and watch videos like this Is normally in a pretty good place in their life in terms of compared to a lot of people globally where they're very much in survival mode And consistency is really key and and there's a lot of talk about self love But I find it really fascinating and my dad always used to say this to me You know when he was growing up they didn't give their kid, you know, they didn't have Chris and sweets and they had a few but you know, it was everything was rationed and if you were good You've got an orange or an apple and now we've got it into a culture that we give our children a really sugary sweet or drink as a treat and it's like Again, anyone who's watching this knows that the whole world is upside down. We've been tricked into Really doing all sorts of things that are really bad for us physically and mentally But when you think just about that, why do we give our most precious precious beings in the whole world our children? Something that's really bad for their health and call it a treat Right, right. That actually drives me crazy. I and maybe just being you know, being born in the early 80s Like I thought I was laugh and say I was born into the jazzercise low fat diet age I remember my mother doing Richard Simmons like the, you know, jazzercise stuff and and we've got and as I've gotten older It's like We treat food. We treat these things as treats or punishment treats or punishment and before we were filming Catherine You said something that I actually think the as well like every day in my life is a good day I've set myself up not just look, you know, that song everybody's working through the weekend. Well, that's a pretty sad life If Monday through Friday, you're miserable and you got two days a week that you're actually Looking forward to then that's kind of a shit life in my opinion And and so you have that power though That's the plot twist is that you have the power to control your To set up your life in the way that you want to move forward with your life And um, and so and that's how my life is like I enjoy every single day like every single day I enjoy it and and it's because it's Every day i'm happy, you know, because it's i've set it up that way and it's taken a long time It's taken many years to get to that point. Um You know getting up at two o'clock in the morning in india was not fun But i'm at that point now where i've had all this experience is to bring me here and so When we have to be uncomfortable we have to embrace being uncomfortable in order to change And um a lot of people, you know, they want to have the specific life but they're not willing to take those steps to get there and That's but that's your superpower is when you can actually put yourself through those steps to create that life that you want to live I hope that makes sense Yeah, it makes massive sense and i'm in exactly the sense of my whole life I'm just hold on to things because my internet connection cables so dodgy here. Oh, no mitzi darling We'll be cut off again for us and i've been cut off for many a video I need to get a better plug in connection for my computer. That's not so fragile But so classic example my whole life i've had a lot of criticism for everyone saying Oh because you've got so many animals you can't be spontaneous and just disappear off whenever you want to And i'm like no i can't but the gift of what the animals give me it's such brilliant physical health Rain or shine snow wind All of the family members i mean my children are the fittest children ever because right since they've been born They've been had movement and being out of nature has been a huge part of their life Um, so don't get me wrong again. There are times i'm not It's really cold and windy and wet and i don't want to get up and do them But the benefits there's always a sort of payoff the benefits of what i get from sharing my life with the animals but equally What i think is really important the message i want to get across today when we're talking about self integrity The first step to me is recognizing What you're happy with and what you want to change not judging yourself because you know The whole point as we learned by our mistakes as you and i said, you know 20 years ago We weren't in the situation we're in now I have now got two grown up children that that can get around themselves and can drive and are working and Or studying and whatever so i'm not in the same place as i was when i had two toddlers When my life had different pros and cons to it So i think being really gentle to yourself a bit having targets of Or golds or whatever you want to call it is so important. So okay, this is what i'm at now And recognizing it's like if you've got a drink problem There's no point in your family trying to send you along to get help You've got to accept that you've got a drink problem and if you accept that so being really honest with ourselves and accepting What areas of my life do i want to improve on? And then having funds setting in place things because we're not going to be able to do it all at once But wouldn't it be boring if we could? Yeah, it would be it would be and i will i mean So like i i'm the only female in the state of georgia that's authorized to teach what i teach And um to me that's a really big accomplishment that i made for myself And i remember when the possibility of that coming it overwhelmed me when i realized that when the possibility of going back and forth and and um, of course when we think about the big Picture of what we're we're working towards and if we just cling to that it can be so that self being self gentle And i remember thinking okay I just need to take this one day at a time while i'm here in india one practice at a time if it happens it happens And then it happened and i think if i had focused on that that um It i would have self sabotaged in a sense where it wouldn't have happened And i do think that that being gentle with yourself and really breathing through things and allowing things to come that you worked for You know it's not that that things just fall in your lap because they do no you usually have worked your life You worked for something and therefore you need to be gentle with yourself instead of like self-sab which something I think a lot of people do is self. I know i'm guilty of that from time to time to self-sabotage And um and yeah in different phases of your life are going to offer you different Different different things. I mean i never i think we've talked about this katherin. I never want to go back to my 20s Hell Hell no i don't want to go back to my 20s i'm glad those i had fun I lived in los angeles. I went to the vibrum almost every night. I had a lot of fun But i'm those days are over and i don't and that was a different time And and um and so yeah, it is going to so you I also heard someone say this too Don't ever compare your chapter one to somebody else's chapter 10 yes That's really important because you know i i have been quite a competitive person and it's really great when you then Have fun doing something that you've got no expectation You're going to be good at so i think i've mentioned before my neighbor and i who's hysterical We decided we were going to do this thing called couch to 5k Which is building yourself up to running 5k now to most people most people come on 5k But i've just never been a runner. I just don't enjoy running But i thought i thought i thought to do myself a challenge so i'll do that but i never it was such fun doing it Because i i never was trying to be a good runner, you know, i can walk for miles. I ride my horse I love sprinting i can jump over things But long distance running my husband and my children can just run forever And they're amazing but it's not me but i still enjoyed the challenge and actually it was really funny to me Doing something and i know it's a tiny challenge, but it was no But doing a challenge where you've got no pressure on yourself to be good at it I recommend to anyone because i used to be a gymnast So when i start my stretching if i can't get into all the positions that i used to be able to when i was 14 I've got a judgment there about myself even though i know it's ridiculous because that was 40 years ago But with the running i had no i just enjoyed it because i had no pressure on myself At all and no one else did and the children were like oh well done, mum And even though my time was hysterically slow because i'd actually kept going they were like oh well done, you know, that's really good Do you know they're not in a descending way? Just so they were having as much fun with it laughing with me not at me And that's that is such an important lesson the dropping of expectation Because we will always put more expectation on ourselves than anybody else will and it's i you know, i uh I was telling a class on sunday I was talking about soreness in the body and how even if you're sore you still have to practice And I told the story there was this one time I was in philadelphia used to fight to philadelphia to practice with my teacher david greek and in philadelphia Of course all the buildings are really old So his studio was like shawla was way up on like the third floor And these old buildings have very steep narrow stairs And it was the last day that i was there with him for this time period before i flew back to atlanta And I remember standing at the bottom of the stairs and my body was so effing sore I didn't know if I was going to be able to get up the stairs Like it was literally like I don't know and I got up there and I started Ended up being one of the best practices I ever had because I didn't have any expectations I had no expectations of what was going to happen that day on the mat because I was sore And so that is such a good lesson because when you drop those expectations when you take the ego out of it Magic happens joy happens and another another thing people say is comparison is the thief of joy Yeah, it really is it so is And everyone can do something so you know, I'd like to set up on a challenge and we're we're gonna be talking about this Lots lots more because the great thing is Isn't it brilliant that there's not a single person that's watching this I I can't imagine it this would ever happen that hasn't got something they'd like to change or improve or You know try something new and we're all going to have different things but all of us will have similar but You know benefits of example when we were speaking to shanty about the meditation Literally you can start with three minutes You can literally start with three minutes and even if you've got a newborn baby Or you've got whatever your situation is everyone can find three minutes even if it's when you're sitting on the toilet Well, that's what I said like if you're if you're looking for something to like Jump start a new change and you don't you're not someone who makes your bed up Just start making your bed up for a week and see see what it does to you You know get an hour early and just go walk around the block You don't have to do something super crazy that you know Just just to try drinking if you're not a water drinker try drinking a liter of water a day. See what happens yeah There's so many little things you can do and They add up, you know, it's it's like uh Back before cell phones. We had our telephone books, you know And the papers and telephone books were like bible paper. They were really thin You know and if one paper alone looks like nothing But if every day or every week you added another little little thing you did by the end of the year Look how big of a change that is that you should see you like that whole telephone book adds up You know and so and this is this is the true. This is the world. I believe this is the world We're walking into we can't sit around and wait for something to somebody do something for us You know, you can't you feel frustrated and all that wasted energy. Of course, you're gonna feel all the emotions We're not saying shut down your emotions But it's don't stay that concentrate and okay. I'm gonna think about me and my family and my life and now What do I want to do? Should we set everyone just like your love challenge, which is going around to everyone? I really love that. Should we set everyone who's listening anyone who is drawn to To have to set yourself One change that you're gonna implement and you're gonna stick to for the next 30 days Oh, I love that in the comments below and we do not mind at all and I hope you don't mind at all How big or small that change is it literally can be the first thing I'm gonna do when I get up in the morning Is have a glass of water instead of coffee or it could be Something really amazing like you're going to train for marathon or something. It doesn't matter what it is I'll give you one something. I started this week that I just started that's oil pulling I've um, I did a show with shanti about the are you vatic and I've always done tongue scraping But I've never done oil pulling even though my best friend's an oil puller and after I did that show with shanti I was like I'm gonna try this and so I've been oil pulling every morning It's just an extra 10 minutes out of my morning But it's actually made me feel a lot better because it pulls the oil from the digestive system I don't know if you guys are familiar with oil pulling, but It's something I've wanted to do for ages. So is that on one of your videos It's just basically you get a coconut oil or avocado oil And you swish it first thing when you wake up before you drink before you've had anything to eat or drink You swish the oil around your mouth. Don't swallow it for I think you can start at 10 minutes You can build up to 20 minutes and then you spit the oil out then you brush your teeth What it does but the oil does when you sleep at night all of the bacteria and your body comes up through your mouth And so But the oil does especially fatty oil like coconut oil is it will pull toxins out of your mouth and then you spit it out and so it starts And I've noticed a huge difference in the way that my whole over my not just your oral health because I was always very very Very clean, but just the way that my whole it whitens your teeth. It's supposed to help with headaches If you drink a lot at night, it's supposed to allegedly help with not this is alleged help with uh hangovers Because it This is gonna be mine as well a tablespoon is basically what you um What you hold on one second guys, I'll get I ordered it specifically from an Ayurvedic shop. Let me get a hold on one second And while she's doing that This is a really good idea because this is something I've been thinking about doing for ages because I absolutely love I I'm gonna tell you in a minute the other things they use coconut oil for But I'm going to try this because this is something I've wanted for ages and I say and I'm not being vain here saying it But all everyone who says I'm 54 And everyone says I've got quite good skin for 54 year old Um considering I'm out in the winter in the rain all day, but all I cleanse my face with is coconut oil Yeah, so I just use normal coconut oil So rub it in even when I make up remover and wipe it off with a hot flan and then everything and I'll tell you what one There's no nasty chemicals in it. It's way cheaper than buying some expensive face cream and it makes your skin feel amazing part of the cast Do like licking you afterwards so Well, I ordered this it's called guru nanda and you can find um that likes let me actually turn my law for a second You can see um, this is from an Ayurvedic shop here in the United States Now you can find Ayurvedic shops anywhere if you just uh google oil pulling Um any country your end just google oil pulling and I got this specifically now you can get you don't have to get something fancy You can just use coconut oil or avocado oil Whatever because it does it is a very weird sensation because you don't want to swallow it because if you swallow it You're swallowing all of your toxins. You want to keep it in your mouth? But this so I fill it out that it comes with a little cap Uh to 10 milliliters which is just right here So it's a very little bit it will get bigger in your mouth as it starts to pull all those back all that bacteria Um, but yeah, it's it's a see natural teeth white it whitens your teeth um It just it's so it's and it's it's literally guys like this is something that I just started started doing this this week um I'm gonna start I've got the solid coconut oil But that's great because the solid coconut oil isn't fractured and it was soon mailed to my mouth anyway And you can put coconut I put coconut oil in my hair from time to time It makes it stop and um, and it's literally like I would if I were you guys I didn't do this I probably should have done this take a picture of your teeth and then 30 days later take a picture of your teeth so yes difference and I'm gonna do that So that's mine As well because I I had a couple things one, but that's really really good Um, I am actually going to be starting next week I'm I'm taking quite a few days off actually and got some tricks with my daughter and some stuff with you mitzvah She's sitting here right here everyone. She's so cute She's doing really well And um, and then when I get back the following week I'm going to be starting my sort of series of you know talking about a lot of these things and morning routines is So important isn't it wise morning routine? Yeah the mornings. I don't do my full morning routine I feel like I'm lost all day. I feel yeah me and you know, it's it's um the morning I was telling Catherine And I got I cleaned my bathroom at five o'clock this morning before I started That was what was so funny so to die It was hysterical That morning comes the best time It's the quiet time and and that might be something for someone too if you're if you're not used to getting up early In um in the are you vatic system from 2 a.m. To 6 a.m. Is the vata time of day It's actually easier to wake up between two and six than after six is us cop a time of day And it's so quiet they call the time of god It's brahma mortis the time of god. It's so quiet in the world That it's amazing the peace you have when you're doing something at that time because everything else is just so I know runners of course here in georgia people in the summertime Especially people have to get up super early to run because it's too hot otherwise And they talk about that here that at 4 4 35 o'clock in the morning running down the streets of Atlanta And it's just quiet It's just so it No one's up and it's just you and god and your breath and your heart beating And it's just such a very special magical time. And so that might be a challenge for people watching to get up an hour earlier Or go to bed an hour earlier, which is another brilliant habit to get in so I mean, there's so many different things have a celery juice um gratitude journal meditation go back some from meditation videos Manifesting start to do some manifesting on doing my things. There's so many things it can be at the end thing it can be Groom your dog or your cat Consistently every day for a month or something like that. Okay. It doesn't matter what it is But can you anyone who's happy to share please share below because you'll inspire other people as well And you can let us know how you're getting on and then we will because we can just remind everyone how it's going With with us and asking everyone else from the next few weeks I'm really excited about that that's great Exactly. Oh, that's so funny. Yeah. Oh my goodness bullion. So anything else that you want to leave us with Uh, I well, you know and we've talked about exercising and your animals with the veterinarian in uh, India that helps us with our dog rescue He has a sign in his clinic that says if you're overweight it means your dog isn't getting enough exercise So that I love that sign. So if that is one of your changes might just be extra spend time with your dog or You know out walking in and uh, you know, make that a real big thing your dog will appreciate it You'll you'll you'll love that time and that fresh air with your animals that could be something too. So Yeah, whatever you want to do It's it's so so true and um, you know So pick something today Don't wait till tomorrow because that we us humans are very good at that One thing today write it down somewhere really important to write it down somewhere Whether it's a post-it note a note on your phone You know, whatever it is because when you write it down, you're making a commitment to yourself And you'll remember what it is And have fun doing it because each time you're doing it Remind yourself that your tomorrow's body or mind or person will thank you for it. Absolutely Absolutely. Thank you so much for watching everyone and I will be seeing twice again soon because we're just about to chat to the amazing Turn the page which you need. Yep. Absolutely Bye guys