How are you going to treat your body like a temple? | DFS 276

Welcome to destined for success. I'm your

host Jennifer Takagi. And I want to talk a little bit about what

Dr. Michelle shared with us last week. And she was talking about

how the body remembers. And I was really disappointed to find

out sciatica is tied to fear and anxiety. I don't have fear and

anxiety. But guess what, we all have some fear and anxiety. As

it turns out, just to close that loop, actually, I don't have

sciatica, I just have really bad alignment from my hips to my

ankles, and I'm awaiting a knee replacement, and then all will

be well with my world. So let's get back to the physical body.

And what happens with the physical body. We remember

everything when I say we, I mean every aspect of you your aura,

your spiritual part of your being your physical body, your

emotional body all remembers, it remembers the stressors, it

remembers the traumas. I loved it at an event one time somebody

said, I don't have any trauma with a capital T. But all the

traumas with a lowercase t, the little, the little things that

happen every day. If we don't process it, it gets trapped in

your body. And you know this because I'm talking about my

emotion code and Body Code work. But Dr. Michelle really honed in

on it. And she honed in on how teas can help. I actually talked

to a friend of mine who's a doctor of naturopathic medicine.

And she said here buy these teas to help with inflammation in the

body. It's amazing what we do to our bodies, and what happens. So

when we consider all the little physical and emotional stressors

of the day, what are we doing to protect ourselves? Are we adding

more stress to the body physically and emotionally and

spiritually? Or are we helping clear it out? I have often heard

that the body is a temple. And we should treat it with that

much respect. So let's be clear. I don't necessarily do this. But

I'm making progress people. It's a little step every day that

makes it better. So what are you doing to treat your body? Well?

That's the nutrition side of things. Are you eating foods

that actually promote better health and reduce inflammation?

Apparently, a lot of things are caused by inflammation. I'm not

a medical person or a nutritionist, and I don't

pretend to be one on this podcast. But what are we doing?

I was just at physical therapy. And she said your two biggest

stressors for this knee situation are sugar and gluten.

I didn't want to tell her I'm a baker and I use and eat sugar

and gluten every day. I just said okay, thanks for that. I

have a choice. I have a choice how I'm going to treat my body?

Am I going to reduce the gluten and the sugar to help with the

inflammation that causes more pain? I don't know. I don't

know. We'll see that maybe I could reduce it a little bit.

What happens at this time of year? FYI, it's the first part

of January of 2024. When I'm recording this, what happens is

we set all or nothing goals. I have to give up all gluten I

have to give all sugar. I have to do it forever. But do you

have to? Is that sustainable? For me? It is not can I reduce

it? Yes. Can I say no? Sometimes? Yes. My brother in

law and I made a deal years ago on a cruise because again, I'm a

baker, I love dessert. And we made a deal. We were going to

take two bites, and no more than two bites. And if it didn't trip

our trigger and thrill us to death and say oh my I want more.

We stopped eating it. It was a huge, huge thing for us because

usually we would just eat it because it was on the table and

it was on the cruise and we got it but here's the deal was

already made. They already served it. They can't serve it

to somebody else. So they just walked away. So what's something

you can easily say no to regularly but not 100% of the

time. It may not be sustainable for you some people it is and

you're going this is crap. I just quit whatever. And that's

great for you. But some people like me, not so much. So how are

we going to start treating our body better? Quickly and easily?

Well, if you haven't heard, I have a book and it's called 12

minutes to win reach your goals and 12 minute increments. It's

available on Amazon. I haven't put Ready to a lot yet, but I

will be very soon. Following Dr. Jack Canfield methodology of the

success principles and take 100% responsibility for your life. If

you can't take 100% Take 5%. Well, I created a formula for

that in a four hour period 5% of four hours is 12 minutes. So now

what can you do for 12 minutes, at least once a day to take you

closer to your goal? So let's get back to that nutrition

piece. If you wanted to make a change in your eating lifestyle,

because it shouldn't be a diet, it should be a lifestyle. If you

wanted to make the shift in that. It can seem overwhelming,

right? Like, oh my gosh, what am I going to do? So to do that,

you could Google various eating plans, find the one that would

fit your lifestyle and with your family, it's very difficult to

cook multiple meals. Anytime I've tried to do something a

little bit odd on my eating plan. My husband has always been

supportive, and God right along with it. But sometimes that's

not the case. Or you have little kids and they're like not gonna

do it. Or it may not be healthy for them. Right? I don't really

know about nutrition. Again, let's be clear about that. But

can you spend 12 minutes set a timer? My friend recently called

the egg timer, I thought that was really cute. Set your egg

timer on your phone for 12 minutes and Google different

types of eating plans? Do you want to follow the FDA

recommended daily requirements? Do you want to follow a Keto or

a What's that other one? I like a South Beach kind of diet.

There's keto. And then there's I don't even know all the names of

a mall? Or do you just want to reduce your fat intake? Or do

you want to go on a high protein low carb? I don't know. I don't

know what would work best for you. But you could spend 12

minutes searching the internet. And you could find an eating

plan that would fit your lifestyle. Okay, so that's 12

minutes, you're done. Poof, you decided you picked one. You

looked at what was available and you picked one. These are not

labor decisions, people. They're not permanent for live. It's to

get you started. Okay, so you picked this particular eating

plan? Great. Now you can spend 12 minutes putting together a

grocery list, what do you need to purchase from the grocery

store in order to eat this particular way? If you have your

list, I'm going to make a huge assumption here. And you know,

What assumptions do they make an ass out of you and me. But I'm

going to make a huge assumption that most grocery stores are set

up very similarly. And I learned this many years ago. And it's

very interesting that I typically find it as true on the

outer walls of the grocery store. On the three outer walls,

you have your fruits and vegetables, your dairy and your

meats. And your frozen foods are thrown in there too. If you only

shop on the outer perimeter of the grocery store, and you don't

buy all the goodies on the end caps, you're getting the most

healthy foods, you're getting the fruits and vegetables,

you're getting the dairy and the those kinds of things that you

need. And then also the meat and poultry products. So you could

with a targeted list, go through the grocery store, and get all

the items you need in 12 minutes. Now, it might take you

more than 12 minutes to check out. But you got your basket

filled in 12 minutes, hopefully you can check out and 12 more

minutes. So that's 24 minutes, right and then add 12 more for

your grocery shop shopping list together. That's 36 minutes.

Let's say it takes you 12 minutes to drive there. What is

that? 3646 48. Okay, so we're at 48 minutes

that you've taken to pick a plan, make a list, do the

shopping, checkout, get your car drive home, you can do that.

What if you want to work out more? I have a friend and I

shared this methodology with her and she goes wow, you know what

I have to say I've gotten to the gym every day because I promised

myself I will just do 12 minutes. In actuality she did

way more than 12 minutes every day. But when she knew that at

the end of 12 minutes, no guilt, no shame she could get off that

treadmill or elliptical or whatever machine she was on and

go home because she did a 12 minutes. If you did 12 minutes a

day for 365 days, I'm not a math wizard but somebody did the math

on that and told me that 73 hours what if you dedicated 73

hours to reaching a goal? Whether is a physical goal,

nutritional goal, business goal personal development goal. You

can make a lot of headway in 2024 by focusing 12 minutes a

day on something that you want to do to make a change in your

life. I'm Jennifer Takagi and I look forward to connecting with

you soon