 Hello everybody. Happy Friday, Day 25, November 25th. I don't know if you guys can tell, but I am tired this morning. I hope you all had a really good Thanksgiving. I had a really good Thanksgiving myself. I am slightly hungover, not from alcohol. I only had two cocktails before dinner. I was driving so I couldn't drink during dinner. I have a hangover basically from the food and I just be spoke about that yesterday and we'll look at it again today and And also just staying up later than I normally stay up. I went to bed at about 11 o'clock last night, which you know for a lot of people watching that might be considered a normal bedtime, but for most of my time in the 16 years that I've been doing this this work I've been following the DOSHA system where I've been in bed before 10 o'clock at night And a lot of that too is because especially when I'm in India I have to get up at like 2 in the morning. Now here in the United States I get up between 3.30 and 4 in the morning and I've been doing that for years now So it's that's something my body is used to doing. So even just staying up till 11 o'clock last night was as you can probably hear my voice and look at my face it's hard on my system and As far as the food hangover I didn't really eat much before I went to my aunt's house I had something for breakfast something a little breakfast and then when we got to my aunt's house We had hors d'oeuvres and then we sat down for the main meal and even though I didn't eat really it didn't gorge myself I never really gorge myself It's just foods that I'm not used to eating on a regular basis And so the body goes through a little bit of a shock and that's what's called a food hangover And I wrote about that we're gonna look at that again And maybe that's something that a lot of people were not familiar with before starting this journey Maybe you realized that food can have An effect on you just like alcohol does especially if it's something that your body Can't really process and the body gets tired and and needs to kind of work harder to process that the foods that It's not used to and that is absolutely called a food hangover and that's what I'm suffering with right now Unfortunately, it's gonna be a busy day for me though I don't really have a chance to super rest today all the way I'm gonna try to go to bed super early this morning or this evening my phone completely conked out on me Yesterday and I've been putting off getting a new phone getting my upgraded phone for a really long time because You know of big brother watching you and all that kind of stuff But it's literally just conked out on me yesterday and it's been about seven years since I got a new phone So I have to go today to the Apple store to get my upgrade and apparently since lockdown I do it differently now where you used to go in and just get the phone there and change over But apparently I had to like order the phone and then I have to go pick it up and have them put the SIM card in Today and so some of the interviews that I was gonna do So I was gonna do a episode with Mornay from Aquarius Rising Africa today about childhood trauma But I had to reschedule that with him because this is the only time I could get to the Apple store to get my phone Situated and so that'll be coming at some point next week. You'll you'll have that episode with Mornay and me and Wish me luck because it's Black Friday and I kind of go to the damn Apple store in the middle of Atlanta Georgia to get my phone fix But you know, it's just an opportunity to experience peace and calm in a very very very a Frictiony Experience now with that being said I am gonna try to get onto signal on my laptop to put this episode up into our Private signal group as I've been doing for the people doing the challenge If for some reason you're in the signal group and you're watching this episode on my YouTube channel You have not seen it in the signal group if you could do me a really big favor and just copy and paste it over to that group Again, I'm gonna try to do that through the through my laptop because I can't really use my phone If that doesn't work though, I know somebody will will do that for me So I thank you so much this kind of brings me into what we're talking about earlier with food hangover with this concept of like Food addiction and I'm not really someone who can really speak on food addiction. That's not we all have some sort of addiction We all have some sort of like coping mechanism That we go to and we're really stressed out or really emotional Food has not been that for me in this life But I know Emmy has struggled with it Stephanie has struggled with it there are a lot of people that struggle with with using food as an emotional support and what I'm kind of hoping right now is through This whole experience, especially having a holiday in the mix where you are kind of let free from the challenge that day to eat Which you wanted to eat I'm hoping that there's some observations happening from you guys And I do I really actually my heart really goes out to people who have food addiction because it's it's it is like a drug You know, it's it's exactly the same thing as people who are addicted to drugs. It's that they're looking for that euphoric high To cover up whatever pain lives within them But the problem is is that we can live without drugs. We can't live without food and so people who struggle with food addiction almost have a Harder battle on their hands and I've spoken about this before I personally don't believe in like diets Because I don't think diets really get to the root of the problem And I think sometimes diets especially if there's a lot of starvation involved or a lot of restriction involved I think kind of exasperate the problem sometimes because you see it in people that Maybe are a little bit overweight or a little chunky and then they go on a diet They lose a bunch of weight and when they gain the weight back they can back even more weight and so I think sometimes it's just making the the wound that was there to begin with even worse and That's one thing I love about the dosha diet too is because the dosha diet is basically just teaching you how to eat for your energy Disposition but it's not covering things like food addiction And that's the beautiful thing about shadow working itself is like the yoga practice the exercise the journaling all that kind of stuff It's literally just highlighting where you have problems where there are wounds Where your shadow actually lies and it's up to you as the conduit of that shadow to figure out what you need to do To heal it and that gives you power, right? I mean we have a lot of exercises in this channel journaling listen to come Quanyin, I've given you prompting you questions to kind of dig a little deeper But with that being said I can't fix it for you No, one can you have to fix it yourself and I do know I've spoken a lot about my time in trauma therapy It was super helpful because I had a guide there to guide me through my own healing now You know, it's kind of like that saying you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink You know a therapist a yoga teacher an Ayurvedic doctor a Life coach a Reiki practitioner these people were all here to give you tools and show you the path and help you hold Your hand as you walk down this the path of self-healing, but it's up to you to actually Do the hard work and for those people who are struggling with food addiction. I do hope that this is um something that's really shown you where the issues are so that you can continue your journey because I Don't want anybody to live this life in in grips of that kind of an addiction and I'm hoping that You guys see how powerful you are and that there's nothing that you're given that you can't conquer, right? We were not given things that we can't conquer. We're given things that are hard We're given things that cause friction that are tough and suck but but we can we can conquer them and You know if there is any like food addiction specialist out there I know that they are therapists that work specifically with people who have food addiction I I hope that you will reach out I think me did the 12-step program to work through her active addiction and I'm just hoping that after the experience of this month and the yester of the holiday Maybe there's some revelations that occurred for for you guys You know to kind of show you where maybe there is a weakness and the reason why people go and crash diets and Gameway way back is because the wound was never healed There was just a band-aid put on the symptom, but the wound itself was never fully healed You know and so I'm hoping that that empowers you guys to go out there and find your healing You know find your sparkle And and using food only that you'll come to a place where food only becomes something necessary to live and nothing More it's like people say do you live to eat or do you eat to live? I know for me. I eat to live I've never really and to be honest with you guys like if I'm gonna go on a date with a man for the first time Going out to eat to me. It's like the worst I don't want to I would rather go like do something active or like go You know go to move or go to movie or go hiking or go, you know I don't know going to a restaurant to me is like the worst type of type of date I know it's the easiest type of date, but it's like the worst for me because I'm not you know You know, it's just kind of boring for me and so So I understand by saying this that I'm not in the position to really have that experience, but Maybe if you guys want to talk further about this I can do a round table with other people who have struggled with food addiction like Emmy and Stephanie and some other people and talk About their journey through their recovery You know and what the food actually does what that high is when you eat the endorphins that are released when you eat The same endorphins that are released with drugs to or alcohol So so yeah, if you guys want that out We can dive deeper into that since this is something that hopefully came up with the experience of Thanksgiving, all right, so let's go ahead and look at again What I'm talking about with Friday, November 25th And so as I said you might feel a little hungover today from the food and maybe from the alcohol alcohol is not something I've addressed in this challenge as this is something that is on a person Person basis and can be used in moderation is up to each individual to figure out what works for him or her with alcohol However, food can definitely cause a hangover Especially if you're eating foods that you're not used to eating on a daily basis This is not something to be upset about if this is something you only experience the day after a holiday getting more in Touch with your body will also make you more aware of how your body reacts to food Today you're gonna work with this to help you explore more now. I think I said this yesterday I always every day after a holiday I always schedule the next day off of exercise for myself because this is this is what happens to me I need to probably hear it my voice even though. I probably calorie calorie calorie Calorie there we go. I'm so tired guys calorie wise. I probably didn't eat More calories yesterday than I normally do because I'm not someone that will binge But it's just different foods. It's heavier foods that I'm used to eating It's staying up past my typical bedtime. It's you know being in that party mode I had two cocktails yesterday with that's not, you know, that's not a lot. That's not much. So So but but my disposition is Vata pitta So I know for my disposition as a Vata pitta that this is what happens And so my body needs kind of a day of recalibration So it can still continue to break down the food I ate yesterday before I get back on my yoga mat now for someone Who's more copper pitta-based coppers are typically sturdier. They're bigger boned, you know So they're more like mountain-esque, you know, and so typically coppers might be able to handle getting back into the exercise today So it all just depends on your disposition Yeah, it's how you can handle the day after a holiday. Hope that makes sense Okay, so you could have done 45-minute kickboxing today Ashtanga or bar again. I said if you are Have an impacted colon from eating too much yesterday, which you'll feel very bloated if you do don't do the yoga today Because having an impacted colon, especially if you haven't gone to the bathroom yet can actually bruise your organs Okay, so just be careful about that now I did put in here if you're absolutely chewing over exercise switch it out Just like what I've done. That's fine as well. You had some reiki healing as well as possible sound bowl healing now Let's go ahead and look at Saturday You might be doing Saturday today. That's fine. Tomorrow is a really big day Tomorrow is a really big day and what we're you're doing tomorrow for Saturday Your rest day is actually the crux of the yoga philosophy and I'll explain why in a minute So rest day from exercise self-study the yamas and the yamas of the yoga sutras. What are the yamas? What are the niyamas? What what do each of these mean and how can you apply them to your life? All right, so your exercise tomorrow or today if if you're switching it out is to go outside today if the weather permits See if you can sit in nature for at least 15 minutes and I when I when you go outside I don't want you to bring your cell phone. I don't want you to put your headphones in I don't want you to have any type of gadget That's going to distract you from this exercise leave your dog at home in the house for the speed 15 minutes Your kid with their other parent Or a babysitter for these 15 minutes just so you have nothing Distracting you from your own awareness, okay? So see if you can sit in nature for at least 15 minutes while outside see if you can observe all the Stimulations around you if you are in a city, can you truly listen to all the sounds of the cars? The conversations of those passing by the sound of the wind moving between the buildings See if you can really just hear everything around you If you're in a small town or out in the middle of nowhere, what sounds can you hear? Do you hear the trees moving in the wind if it's cold? Is it cold where you are? Can you breathe into the cold? How does the cold feel on your skin? Same if it's hot. Can you observe the sensation of your nervous system adapting to the environment? Don't judge it as too cold or too hot just observe How does this feel not to judge the sensation? Do you relax into more into what is when there is no held judgment as to how you personally feel about it? So judgment is an opinion. So can you go outside? Feel the sensation of the cold if you're in a cold climate hitting your skin While you're listening to the cars if you're in a city in the conversations or if it's really hot You've been the southern hemisphere. It's really hot right now. Can you feel the sensation? It's if it's hot. Can you feel the sweat start to form on your body? Can you just observe the sensation of your nerves and your senses without reacting to it? Like if it's cold, can you sit out and feel the cold not be like oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit It's so so freaking cold. Can you just observe it and feel it as interesting? Oh interesting. That's how the cold feels on my face Interesting that's how the heat feels on my skin interesting I can pinpoint where I feel sweat forming on my body without judging it just feeling it While simultaneously hearing the sounds just observing it. Yeah After the experience is over journal about it. What did you learn from leaning into what is instead of holding an opinion? What it should be depending on your likes and dislikes and this kind of goes back into something I was talking about a few days ago where Marnie Alton said, you know a lot of times We have perceived obstacles because of a past experience. We're now placing judgment on a possible future experience, right? We do this for survival, but what if we granted every experience as completely new with no held opinion? What how much further will we go in life if we let go of the bondage from our past and Experience everything is new and is interesting Yeah, this is huge in the spiritual world. Okay, and I said here This is a huge practice in spiritual awakening your opinions are not you Let me read that again your opinions are not You your opinions come from your mind and your experience in this life Which isn't permanent? So anything that is not permanent is Not the eternal you So your opinions are not you let's think about this logically So in this life as Bryce, I can't stand oranges. I hate I like orange juice It's I can't drink it because it's Vata, but oranges themselves. I hate peeling them. I hate filling the The mucky stuff on it. I hate the way it tastes. I hate the way it squirts in your mouth But in a past life, I could have loved oranges So between Bryce in this life and whoever was in a past life. I have two completely different perceived experiences on an orange The orange is the same But the mind is a different experience Which means since they're both different They're not real What's real is the eternal side of me that is it that's watching everything happen. Does that make sense? So your opinions are not you They are just reactions to experiences that you've had Can you fully engage your senses to experience what is being presented to you without holding judgment or opinions? Next step is to apply this theory to your daily workouts Can you feel the burning sensation of the muscles working the breath and heart quickening the sweat pouring without judging it? When the emotions such as anger joy frustration, etc. Come up in your workout Can you fully engage in the emotion experience it experiencing it learning from it without judging it? All right food journal again Journal questions ask yourself reflect on your experience to outside today expand more on the practice of being the watcher and Not the judge of the experience as you're having is this a new theory to you How can and will this theory change your life in your perspective on life? How can this theory help you evolve through all your traumas and stresses? Reflect on the yamas and the yamas which of these principles is going to be the hardest to work on can you apply them in your life? List five things you like about yourself. How are these things you wanted to work on going? Can you observe the things you wanted to work on as the watchers seeing yourself learn from the experience without judging? yourself How can this theory help you navigate difficult situations in your life and the same bedtime routine? All right you guys, let me know down in the comment section below Your thoughts on this all all that kind of stuff now because of the holiday I have not had a chance to really engage in my email yet I know I have some people from France who've emailed me to get the copy of the episode with tomorrow from a few days ago I hopefully will be responding to you at some point today and what I'm hoping we can do you and Me and the people of France I can send you the episodes and then have you put it up Somewhere on a platform that is acceptable in your country to help spread the word I'll talk to you about that in the email though. We're gonna figure out a way to work around the controllers Okay, because it's not fair. It's not fair for you guys And it's also not fair that I can't put those interviews up on YouTube too because of the controllers right trust me I wish I wish that we could be done with all of this censorship for once and for all But you know this this experience which is called an experience is gonna take as long as we needed to take in Order for everyone to learn what they need to learn and so we can actually strike that friction and create that light So until that that time comes we're gonna get creative and we're gonna work together to figure this out Also before I forget I had somebody ask about the feet. We will cover that later on in this This week, so if you were the person that asked about foot cramps, that's totally normal We're gonna talk more about reflexology and what's actually happening in your foot a little bit later on And random question. I've had a few people ask me about my hair saying that what am I doing to my hair because it looks different starting to look thicker and Okay, so yes, I am growing my hair out longer. I've not had it cut in a really long time a Purposefully I have very thick hair. There's nothing different that I've done to it it's my hair is just very very thick and Because I'm growing it out longer Usually when I go get my hair cut I have it cut layers put in so it kind of sends my hair out But because I haven't had my hair cut in a long time. That's what you're seeing is just the volume of my hair going to its full extent That's the one copper thing about my body is my hair. I'm very copper hair because very thick hair and Yeah, and I'm also trying to go so my natural hair color is like a dirty blonde It's like a warmer blonde color and I get highlights in my hair I have for since I was like in high school because let's be honest as any blonde will tell you By the time you are a teenager if you were a natural blonde your hair gets really dull looking And so most blondes do have to have like maintenance done where they have highlights put in their hair Unless you're like toe-headed which toe head toe head of people on white hair I'd have a couple of cousins who are toe-headed my niece is toe-headed And so I've been highlighting my hair since I was in high school And I am trying to just go warm it up a little bit go back closer to my natural color And so I'm kind of letting it grow out a little bit and then I'll get a couple of highlights put in just to keep it kind of Still fresh and looking healthy, but but more towards the dirty dirtier blonde color. That is my natural color Still very blonde. That's the thing, you know a hair color like skin color all comes from pigmentation And so blondes people who even toe-headed people all the way to like dirty or strawberry blonde headed people which are me We have very light pigmentation in our hair. And so it's easy for my hair to be colored Because when you especially blonde so when you get the blonde highlights They strip the pigmentation from your hair and so since I don't have a lot of pigmentation in my hair Anyway, it's easy for them to highlight it, you know So that's why like people who are really have really dark dark dark hair when they try to go blonde It looks like orangey. It's because they have so much pigmentation in their hair. And so and so yeah, I Going highlight after highlight after highlight it just gets blonder and blonder and blonder and blonder blonder So I'm trying to go back to more of my natural dirty blonde color That makes I was kind of flattered that you guys were all asking me what I was doing with my hair I'm like literally nothing. I'm just letting it grow out. So I do use Smoothing conditioners and I use spraying conditioners sometimes I also like once or twice a week will use like a purple conditioner Which most blondes have to wash their hair and condition their hair like once or twice a week with a purpley just to keep the tone It's just a tone it so it because it does just get dull And so yeah, I wash my hair every single day. That's because I sweat Like a 300 man pound man with gland problems in my exercises. So I have to wash my hair every single day Yeah, and I do straighten it. I my natural hair color or natural hair texture is like wavy One side is wavier than the other side. And so typically I just run a quick straightener through it Just to make it calm. So that's that's basically what I do. There's nothing super special I mean I it takes me like 45 minutes to an hour to get ready Shower hair dried makeup on for the day. So it's not like I'm laboring over it or anything Most of the time when I'm not filming my hair is black and ponytail anyway. So so yeah, nothing special just growing it out That's it. That's all I'm doing is just growing it out So so if it gets thicker and thicker and thicker now, you'll get to see why I got layers in it So anyway, I appreciate you guys asking that though. No, nothing nothing different But yeah, anyway, if you want to know if you're more interested in like the smoothing conditioners I use I actually get a conditioner from Italy that I've used since I was in my 20s I found this conditioner alone. I was living in Los Angeles So if you want to know the name of that conditioner, just let me know and I'll send you the name You can find it on Amazon. So anyway Anyway guys, so I hope you have a wonderful Friday if you are still off from work for the holidays Enjoy the time with your family to all of our friends overseas. I hope you had a wonderful friends giving and I'll talk to you guys soon. Bye