What's up you guys, happy new year. I see that you guys are logging on. It's so good to see you guys. So we'll wait just a few minutes as people are still probably logging in from all over the world. And meanwhile, if you would like, feel free to share where you're logging in from, from which part of the world. And I am so excited to see you guys. It's been a little bit. Welcome, welcome. Yes, so this is gonna be an amazing live stream. I'm so excited to start this, start this with you guys. It looks like, okay, people are logging on. Great, great, great. Let's see here. Hello from Australia, somebody said. People are logging in from everywhere, Kansas. So I am currently in, I'm currently in Bali, Indonesia by the way. So by the way, for those of you who's just logging on, you guys might remember, my name is Yuri Choi. I am a performance coach and an author for high achievers and entrepreneurs. I'm also the designated mindset coach for Psych2Go. So it's so good to see all of you guys here. Ooh, from all over the world, I love it. Oh my gosh, someone from Jakarta, hello. I'm in Ubud, Bali. So not too far from you. Oh, thank you. And by the way, you guys, if you're just logging in, we're just sharing where everyone is logging in from. It looks like people are coming from all over the world, which is amazing. And I have actually the slow mode on for the chat and it's still going going crazy. So it's great. Hello, hello, hello. All right. So like I said, I will just wait just a few seconds here and I'll do a short introduction of myself. What's up, Ellen? Wow, you guys are from all over the world. I love it, I love it, I love it. So first of all, I wanna say on behalf of Psych2Go, thank you all for being here. Thank you all for being a part of this amazing community.  You've seen how much we've expanded our reach. You've seen the community help each other.  Some of them even share that it saved their life and it's just such a rewarding experience to co-create this with you guys. So I'm so honored to be here today and for the next hour or so, I have something really amazing and planned for you guys. So I'm so excited to connect with every single one of you guys and as you guys know, if you've been onto any of my live streams before here, it's a really connecting experience. So I invite you to lean into that. It's a powerful experience if you allow it. It can create some really massive shifts in your life and or business and or work and or school, whatever it is that you're moving through if you allow it, if you're open to it. You can really feel the connection from people, literally probably thousands of people from all over the world if you allow it in this moment right now and then maybe even millions people who are gonna watch this before and or after as well as right now. So lean into that connection, lean into that community, lean into that global connection that we get to have because this is such a very, very unique experience. Like when else can we say that we're connecting with people from all over the world, thousands of people all over the world, especially if you're on live? This is such a really powerful experience. So allow that to be present for you if you would like. All right, so let's get started. Again, for those of you who's just joining in, my name is Yuri Choi. I'm a performance coach and fulfillment coach for entrepreneurs and high achievers. I work with people on their mindset, on their language patterns, on their emotional intelligence, on their leadership so that they can really lead themselves and other people into a powerful life and business and create an abundant experience and results for their life and business. This is something that I'm passionate about. I'm also the author of Creating Your Own Happiness. So if you wanna check that out, it's creatingyourownhappiness.com, you can check that out if you like.  I've worked with Psych2Go and its leadership team and it's been such an honor because these people work so hard, you guys.  And they literally work around the clock, not because they have to, but because they genuinely love this channel, love what we stand for, which is that we get to shift the conversations about mental health in the world, also bring people into a place of healing, as well as community. And we get to do this through experiences like this as well as animation, as you guys know, which is very fun and unique. So on behalf of Psych2Go, we are so grateful that you are here to start. So I'm gonna share with you how today's gonna go. So for the next hour or so, first of all, I invite you guys, if you don't have something already, go ahead and bring a pen and a paper or a journal if you would like. If you're more of a handwriting person, I sort of am, I do both, I guess. If you're more of like the type of person who loves to type, maybe open up like a Word document, open up your notes section, somewhere you can actually type in journal. Because this is gonna be one of those experiences where you're not just gonna like listen, you're actually gonna engage, you're gonna be chatting a lot in the chat so you can really connect with other people, you're gonna leave this live stream feeling so different, like energetically different and massively different, massively renewed, excited, enthusiastic, optimistic about the new year. So that is my intention that I'm bringing for this particular experience. And I have curated something that's gonna allow you to feel that real time as we move through this workshop or whatever you wanna call it, live stream experience for the next 60 minutes or so. Cool, so if you guys are here and you're engaged, great. If you haven't done so already, please share with us where you're loving in from. It's so amazing to see everyone from all over the world.  So today we'll get connected as a community, first of all, because I wanna make sure that we're all here engaged because this is what makes the experience super powerful. And then we're gonna divide the next 60 minutes into about two sections, which is one, we're gonna reflect and let go of last year. Take what we get to take, all the experiences, all the lessons, all the shifts that we might have experienced from the last year. Also let go of what we get to let go of so that we can clear the slate for this year. And then for 2023, I'm gonna lead you through some journaling questions where we can start the year powerfully, intentionally, mindfully, and have some tools that you can move the next 360 some days with so that you can create this experience over and over again. Cool? So if you guys are excited about this, feel free to share in the chat. I'm excited for 2023. And once I see a stream of those, we'll get started. Definitely excited, yes, yes, yes. Hi, thank you. And I love that you are worried that the 2023 vision board, I'm excited for 2023, I'm excited for 2023, amazing. Awesome. So I'm seeing a bunch of this, I love this energy. All right, so let's get started. So first of all, let's start with this. You're more than welcome to journal about this. So after the stream, what I will do actually is create a bullet point of all these questions, just in case you didn't get to journal fully or you wanna reflect back and go into your own experience even deeper on your own. But today, you're more than welcome to type directly onto the live stream chat or you can journal on your own, it's completely up to you. So let's think about last year. Take a moment to reflect on the last year, all the experiences, all the places you've gone maybe, all the people you've met, all the achievements, just take a moment to really think about where you were in the last 365 days. What a year it's been. And the first question that I wanna ask you, which most of you are probably not surprised by if you know me, you've been on some of these live streams, if you've watched any of my YouTube videos you know that this is something that I'm really, really excited about, geek out about. Number one is what are you most grateful for from last year? You can list about one to three things in the chat if you would like. I'm gonna mention a few things, I can probably go on and on about what I'm grateful for. And though, from last year, there's some really cool things that happen. First of all, and when I reflect on it, it's actually all about experiences and people as it's probably not that surprising. Number one is I am grateful that my mom actually came and visited me when I was in California last year, which was a very beautiful experience to get to really connect with her. It was very vulnerable in the sense that we got to really talk about things that we hadn't talked about before. We didn't have the courage to talk about. So that was really, really something I'm grateful for because she took the time to come visit me as well as we got to create this beautiful experience where we got to connect better, connect deeper. Speaking of people, I'm actually really grateful for Psych2Go and the CEO of Psych2Go. I actually been working with him for the last couple of years as his coach. And I actually finally got to meet him. He's amazing, you guys. I finally got to meet him in Seoul, Korea, I have all places because he happened to be there. When I was there, we got to meet in person, which was so cool because in this world where we get to do a lot of things virtually, which is incredible, it's also really, really cool to be able to meet in person. And by the way, that might be an omen for what's to come with Psych2Go in the future soon because there might be some experiences where we get to incorporate more of the in-person experience. Not gonna say much more than that, but that might be a thing that's coming up. So anyway, what are you guys most grateful for from last year? Take a moment to not only just think about it, but connect to that deep gratitude of what's there for you. I'm seeing all sorts of things that people are sharing. I'm grateful for music, I'm grateful for family, I'm grateful for friends, I'm grateful for all of this. So that's great.  I love that, I love this. You're grateful for music, I love this. So feel that energy shift as everyone here talking about what they're grateful for. This is the power of gratitude, you guys. So simple, so available for you at all times. It has the power to shift our energy from whatever fear-based emotion to immediately abundant, powerful emotion and state. So know that that's possible. So now let's go on to number two from last year. I love that, somebody just said I'm grateful for myself. I love that so much. Yes, yes, yes. Number two, you guys. What are you most proud of? What are you most proud of? Oftentimes, there's been, it's this phenomenon where we tend to over-acknowledge other people for their wins and successes. And as human beings, it's actually very common for us to under-acknowledge ourselves. So over-acknowledge other people for their successes and wins, but we're not acknowledging ourselves enough. So take this moment right now. What are you most grateful for? I'm sorry, proud of from last year. One thing I am really proud of is the moments that I really listened to my heart. And I said yes to a lot of experiences without knowing exactly how it's gonna go. And they always turned out amazing. I've traveled to different places. I actually kind of moved to Asia again. So for those of you who know me, I've been living in Korea in 2020, 2021. I'm back to California now, I'm here. So, yeah, I'm really proud of that. Actually, one more thing. I have the honor of officiating my best friend's wedding. So I was really proud of that. And even though I'm a speaker, that was actually something that was a little bit nerve-wracking for me because it meant so much to me. So I'm really proud of those experiences. What are you guys proud of? Oh, okay, I'm proud of understanding what's going on with you. Wow, thank you, Psych2Go. Thank you for saying that. Proud of passing your French class. I'm proud of my skill and passion of art. Proud of you, yes, that's amazing. What are you most proud of? And here's the thing, these aren't, you know, out of the world questions. These are pretty simple questions that y'alls can ask us at any time. You can also utilize these questions on a daily basis to work on your mindset. You know, it's just like working out. It's just like, you know, taking care of our bodies through our diet. It's not about what we know, it's about what we do. Because a lot of times we already know what's gonna make us healthy and happy and fit. We just don't put in the effort, the discipline and the habits. So some of these questions you can utilize on a daily basis if you would like. All right, you guys. So thank you for sharing what you're proud of. And again, take a note of this feeling for a second. What does it feel to be proud? Because when we talk about these feelings and emotions, it's actually an experience that's happening within our bodies, nowhere else. It's not happening outside of us. We often look for external validation. We often look for the feelings as if it's coming from the outside world. But at the end of the day, when we have these feelings of gratitude, when we have these feelings of being proud, it's literally coming from within. It's literally coming from our own cells, our own limbs, our own organs, our own bodies. Which actually means that it never has to be about anything else, anyone else outside of us. We have the power to shift into these feelings at any time we like. Just by asking some really simple questions and powerful questions. This is something that I jam on with my clients often, which is that we get to ask better questions to have a better mindset. I think Tony Robbins talks about this. The quality of our lives is really the quality of the questions that we're asking ourselves internally as well as externally. If we keep asking ourselves like, why do I feel so awful? Why does my life suck?  It just wants to pump out answers. However, if you start asking questions like, what am I most proud of right now? What am I most grateful for? What's really amazing about me? By simply choosing better questions, you can lead yourself into a better mindset, better emotional and energetic state immediately. You can start the day saying like, what's gonna go well today? What amazing things could happen today?  In neuroscience, it's called reticular activating system where our brain is primed to look for things that we're focusing on. So if you can simply direct your attention, direct your questions in a powerful way, it's actually easier than you think to have a really powerful mindset. Awesome, Tia Sun, thank you for asking that question for the rest of us so that everyone knows what the question is. I'll type this here too. So question number one, what are you most grateful for? Question number two, what are you most proud of? Go to number three. So we're talking about, you know, some things that we're grateful for, some things we're proud of. Number three, we're gonna focus on what habits or mindsets or thought processes can you let go of from last year? When you think about what happened last year, what are some habits or thought processes or mindsets can you let go of? That would better your life this year. What habits or mindsets can you let go of to have a better year this year? So for me, some habits that I can certainly let go of is I have this tendency, and I don't know if any of y'all see this, I have this tendency to look at my phone before I go to bed.  So whatever we read, read last, whatever we feel last, oftentimes we'll continue for the next eight hours or however long you sleep, and sometimes our brain continues to process that. So I know that this is really important, and I know that taking an hour off from any kind of light, including phone, including computer, can extremely better my sleep quality. So I am willing to let go of that habit of looking at my phone last thing before I go to bed. One other thing, let's see, what else can I let go of? What I can also let go of is expectations that I sometimes put on things or people. And just accepting things that they are, accepting people as they are, exactly as they are. And this, I think, for me comes up often with my closest family for some reason. I don't know if any of y'all resonate with that. I'm actually really, really good at accepting people as they are in friendships or clients, strangers, and for some reason, it's almost like we're prone to set these expectations on our family members, people closest to us, our parents, mom, dad, whatever. So that's one thing I want to let go more of. What are you wanting to let go of? What habits or mindset or beliefs that would better your life in 2023? Number four, who can you forgive? And it's actually a two-part question. Who can you forgive from last year? And how would that feel to completely forgive that person? Who can you forgive from last year? And what would that feel like to completely let go of that feeling or of that person? So what would be that feeling of letting go or forgiving that person? And by the way, I don't know if y'all know about the Hope and Opener Prayer. I actually have a video on my channel, my YouTube channel. I'll go ahead and put it in my caption where it's almost like a Hawaiian prayer that allows you to really let go and forgive. It's a really, really powerful prayer and I've had like literally hundreds of people crying from it, releasing some energies from the past and really clearing the slate for their own self. So if you guys are interested, I'll go ahead and put that in the captions. And some people are saying, certain people, your friend, your family, and some people are saying yourself, these are all great. And by the way, you guys, as you move through this, there's no right or wrong answers. There's no good or bad answers. These are just answers. We're co-creating this experience as we go. There's nothing to judge about it because oftentimes we go into this reflection state and then we start judging ourselves or judging others or whatever. So let go of that layer. Just see what's there for you today. And there's certain people that I can think of that I have already forgiven. I actually did this particular exercise right before the New Year. And I really just let go and like, for me what that felt like was, which is why I added that additional question, which is when I decided to forgive these people, first of all, I was surprised how easy it was, like easier it was than I thought. When I just said, you know what, I'm gonna decide, I'm gonna commit to forgiving that person. It was like easy. And then what it felt like for me was it felt light. It felt like I could float. I could be playful again. I could be myself again. It felt so light and just so pleasant. And it's so funny because that's typically the feeling that we get. I don't know about y'all, but when we decide to forgive somebody, that's how it feels. And we think that by holding onto this grudge it's gonna impact that person negatively. And most of the time the only person that it's really impacting negatively is ourselves in our own energetic states. So focus on that. So can you forgive and what would that feel like to forgive? And then last question reflecting on last year which is actually perfect, because we're at the 30 minutes mark. What can you forgive about yourself from last year? We're often the most critical of ourselves. And some people already said when I asked who can you forgive from last year, y'all said yourselves. So what are you willing to forgive about yourself from last year? Being too critical of yourself. Yes, you can forgive yourself for your laziness. Okay, yes, let that go. You can forgive yourself. Yeah, take a moment. I see that some of you guys are really reflecting. I love this. Forgive yourself for your actions. Yeah, your shyness. Yes, forgive yourself for being too clingy. Yes, for being hard on yourself, for saying that you're ugly. Yes, let go for being jealous of others. And you know what? This is what's really beautiful about the stream and what's being created right now. As you guys are saying this, I can resonate with literally every single one of these that I probably felt at 1.2. And it's so funny because we think we're so unique in some of these things that we judge ourselves for, that we're critical about ourselves about. But when you look at this list, I really wouldn't be surprised. It's like 90% of these things you can really, really resonate for. It's not all of them. Which actually brings us back to my initial intention that we set, which is that this is a community, meaning we are actually all very, very similar, more than we think. We're actually all just humans. We're all earthlings on this planet, and we actually experience probably a same set of emotions in a given time. And whatever you felt, how do we stop judging ourselves self-based on past guilt? Well, first thing is to stop judging yourself on judging yourself, meaning can you just acknowledge yourself when you, if you have any of these like guilt or shame that come up, which by the way, is a very universal emotion? Can you just be, can you just acknowledge yourself for being a healthy human who has wide range, right array of emotions? Start there. How can you stop hating yourself? Well, start there. Acknowledge yourself for having these emotions at all. That's actually a not a bad thing. I'm getting paid nothing to do this. I'm literally here because I love you guys, and I'm not joking. I love this community so much. It's such an honor to be here. And my clients know this, some of you else probably know this. One thing I truly believe in is the law of giving, which is that when we give freely, things come back to us freely, and this is a part of what I get to do. This is a part of what I feel like I get to contribute to the world. And I'm so, so, so, so grateful to be here. And I'm so grateful that you guys are here. So somebody just asked this, so that's why I answered. This is what you guys didn't know about. I'm here because I genuinely love this community. What Psych2Go stands for. I love all the people that work so hard for Psych2Go. And we're here because we wanna make a difference. All right. All right, so those are the five questions, you guys. To let go of last year. And we're gonna do something a little fun here, which is now we get to really let go of last year. If you wrote this on a piece of paper as a symbol of what we're doing, you can rip this up if you want. You can burn it later if you want. Like really let go.  Be careful if you're playing with fire. Okay, don't say that I told you to do that. Be careful out there.  But create something that will allow you to let it go. Let go of last year. Create space for the new year. And take a moment, you guys, to literally shake off last year. Whatever that means, whatever it looks like, just shake it off energetically. And I know this sounds silly, but I do this in the shower sometimes. Like literally pretend that you're shaking things off that are energetic, that's no longer serving you. Just let them go. Leave it behind in the last year. And let it go.  And literally, literally move your body. This is actually a powerful energy-shifting experience. Shake it off, ooh. All right. Okay, like shake it off. All right, all right, all right. Okay, so now we are literally stepping into the new year. Are you guys ready? And for those of you who, yeah, Dana said, shake, shake it off, yes, yes, love it. For those of you who's just joining, asking me who I am, my name is Yuri Choi. I am here. We're doing a 60-minute experience where we get to really let go of last year and step into the new year powerfully. So thank you for being here. Shake it like I'm holding a picture of myself. And we're gonna step into creating the next year now. So we just went through five powerful questions to acknowledge and let go of last year. And like I said, that felt so satisfying. Somebody said about shaking it off, perfect.  And I love that you guys are sharing in the live chat for now. So that's perfect as well. So who's ready for 2023? Let's go into 2023, have some powerful questions to set you guys on a good track for next year. So if you're ready, let's say I am ready for 2023 in the chat. And when I see the stream of it, we will go ahead and get started. And by the way, you guys feel free to share this live stream with your friends, family and the channel with your friends and family. Anyone you think would benefit from this. We're so excited. We're like going to make some big, big ripple thoughts this year, positive impact, healing for the world. Ooh, I'm ready for 2023. I love it. I love it a lot. Love it so much. Okay. Look at you guys getting so ready for this. Love it. Maybe we'll do something fun. We'll do a little countdown as if it's like the new year all over again. I know you guys probably did your own virtual experience with your friends or family or with yourself. Let's do like a little virtual pretend countdown to really step into the new year because energetically, if you're here today, we are actually starting the new year now, like really powerfully intentionally. And I'm so proud of all of you for doing this, for being in this experience, for being engaged, for participating, for being here for yourself and other people, for the world. Because when you are happy, when you are showing up as your best self, when you are being intentional, it's actually service to the world. Because think about it, like when there's happier people in this world, it actually makes the world just better. Pretty simple. So, all right, ready you guys? We're gonna start. And I want you to count with me in the chat. Ready? Let's go. 10. I wanna see. All right, we're doing the countdown. Ready? 10. Nine. Eight. Seven. Because the chat is still catching up. One. Happy new year. Woo! All right, you guys, do something. Again, shake it off, jump around, do what you gotta do, dance, to really bring in the new year. Because this is your new year. This is gonna be the best year. And you're doing it so intentionally right now with people from all over the world to know that it's powerful. Let's go. Number one. These are some really cool questions I have for you. What is, first of all, what is your word of intention for the new year? What is your word of intention for the new year? For me, I actually had a few words come to mind this year and couldn't choose. I'm just gonna share the top two with you guys. One is abundance. I am so passionate about creating abundance. Actually, I don't want to secrete because abundance is actually already everywhere. It's up to us to live in an abundant mindset to see the abundance that's already available to us. And I'm so passionate about bringing people to that mindset where they get to feel abundant. So that's one of my words. My second word is unapologetic. Unapologetic about who I get to be, how I get to feel, what I get to do. Knowing that I'm coming from a good place, knowing that my heart is aligned, knowing that I have a mission that I'm clear about, knowing what I'm about, knowing who I am, I get to be unapologetic. So what is your word for the year? Or maybe a few, if you have a few. Happiness and new, happiness and seeing this focus purpose, clarity, love it, love it, love it. Yes. So write it down somewhere you guys so you can remember for the rest of the year and come back to that word whenever you feel not like fully yourself or not fully aligned, just like come back to that word. Number two. So imagine, and maybe we can do this, maybe we can schedule this already, but imagine that it's next year or this year at the end of the year. Imagine that today is December 31st, 2023. Looking back at the last year, what do you want to be most proud of? So this is a little bit different approach than like what do you wanna create this year? It's like looking forward, but like imagine that you are already here. It's December 31st, 2023. You're looking back at the last year and you are sharing like in the chat or to a friend. Like I am so proud of this. What do you want that to be? And you know, it was interesting because for me, I was like having a hard time a little bit when I was like, what do I wanna create this year? What do I wanna, you know, like trying to access like what's there for me? But when I asked myself this question, what do I want to be proud of? December 31st, 2023, it was really clear. I'm like, I'm gonna write another book or two. I wanna create bigger impact. I'm gonna grow my YouTube channel. It started to get clear. So what do you want to be proud of at the end of 2023? I love this, I'm reading the chat right now. So there's some really powerful answers there. You wanna write more books, amazing. You wanna be proud that you help more people. You wanna come for that needed. Come for people that needed it. Make some gains, cool. I wanna get my masters, I wanna friend. I would love to build my self-esteem. Isn't that fun? Isn't it interesting how it's so much easier to access that one to go backwards? Cool, cool, cool, cool. All right. And kind of like what we did on the first part of letting go of last year, what are some new habits that you want to have instilled when looking back onto 2023? And what kind of outcomes could that possibly bring? Amazing. So what are the habits that would support what you wanna accomplish? And what other outcomes could that bring? Awesome, meditation, yoga, be debt-free, endurance, okay. Fulfill your plans, okay? Cool, let's go to the next one then. What is one statement that would energize you for the rest of the year? Think about one statement that you can come back to that would energize you at any time. In one statement that I come back to often, and you can more than welcome to take this on if you would like, I am the powerful creator of my reality. I am the powerful creator of my reality. And whenever I start to feel or not good or whatever, I come back to that. I am the powerful creator of my reality. I get to decide how I get to feel. I get to decide what I get to do. I get to decide how this experience gets to go. I'm the powerful creator of my reality and I have the power to create anything that I would desire in the universe just like anyone else in this world. We think about all these, yeah, so some people say, you are enough.  Write these down somewhere, you guys. Obviously share in the chat because we love seeing you and supporting you this way. But also write it down somewhere about it. You can really just come back to it any time. You deserve everything, yes.  I have my own story. Do you see how powerful this is? And I hope you guys take a moment to read this whether you're watching this now or replay too because these are really powerful statements and I wanna incorporate some of these into my life too. I believe in you. I have the power to change. I can focus and succeed, yes. I'm the author of my book, yes. Make good impact on other people, yes. So any of these, this is so amazing.  Like look how motivational all of you guys already are when you tap into that frequency. When you tap into that part of you that can actually allow yourself to be wise, to be motivational, to be like you have this voice within you too. So whenever you go into the cycle of negative thinking or negative self-talk, tap into the frequency right now that you're tapping into because that's always available for you. All you have to do is ask some powerful questions to lead yourself there. I'm dope, AF, I love it. You can. I love people. You're all beautiful.   And I want you to think about just this feeling and this experience that you just created for yourself. And how powerful it is to A, to be intentional. B, to be in a community where a lot of people are thinking like you. And three, to ask powerful questions in journal and write out what it is that you want and what you get to reflect on and how you get to lead yourself just by asking some powerful questions. So if you guys found this to be helpful, please share, psych to go with somebody out there when you can share this video. You can like this video, you can share what you learned from this video in your own way. I just want the ripple effect of whatever it is that you were able to shift an experience here because that is really why I'm here. We get to create this ripple effect into the world because what we just created here is really powerful. We all felt energized. We all felt empowered. We all felt more focused. We all felt more intentional. And this energy that we've created here, we get to bring it out to the world. We get to be like the light bulbs that go out to the world and show the world the light that we just created for ourselves. Take a moment right now if you guys are still here. Say something that you get to acknowledge about this chat because all you guys doing this together is what made this experience really powerful. You guys are all blank.    Share what you're grateful for about this community, whether they're in the chat or watching this with you at the same time. Just acknowledge something that you get to acknowledge from this community. Aww, you guys helped me feel less alone. Yeah, I love you all. I love how it's so resonating and relatable. You guys helped me. This family community is great. One of the best. Yes, I'm grateful for my family. Feel less alone. I love that you guys never judge. You guys are strong, beautiful, and nice. It's so beautiful. Someone just said, this channel helped me literally stay alive and we're so grateful that you did. Wow. This is amazing. Thank you all for sharing. To end this really quick, one more thing. How are you all feeling? Take a moment to check in with yourself. How are you feeling in this moment? What shifted for you? Like, I feel so energized. I feel so grateful. I feel light. I feel optimistic. I feel excited. I feel hope too. I feel love. I feel compassion. I feel connected. I feel a sense of community. Aww. Somebody said, I'm so proud of every single one of y'all sharing something really personal. I'm dancing. I love it. Okay. Thank you for sharing that you guys. I feel grateful too. I feel great. I feel happy. I feel excited for this year. I feel blessed. I feel prepared. Awesome. So to end this chat powerfully, take a moment right now. Let's just take like two minutes to meditate and get grounded to this feeling. Make it into your own. Take a moment right now as if you're like swooping in this energy back into your heart. Like trying to package it so that you know what this feels like and you can come back to it anytime and you get to pour yourself this energy back to you. And you can access this at any time. It's like, take it all in. Whether it's from other people, from yourself, take it all in. Take a moment right now to go ahead and take a deep inhale through your nose. And exhale. Let's do that two more times. Take a deep inhale through your nose. And this time hold at the top for four, three, two, one and exhale. And hold at the bottom. Four, three, two, one. Let's do one more thing. One more breathing. Take a deep inhale in and hold at the top. Four, three, two, one. And exhale. And four, three, two, one. Take a moment to bless yourself, your heart because you guys all showed up with such beautiful hearts, beautiful intentions. Take a moment to acknowledge yourself, your being, your body, all of it and feel how good it feels to acknowledge yourself. Take a moment to feel grounded in this moment. Yeah, and literally maybe hug yourself, yeah. And just take it in how good it feels to be here. Even if it was just like 1% better, that's actually huge because that means that you have the ability to make yourself 1% better or maybe you feel 1,000% better. That's even better. That means that you have the ability to make yourself 1,000% better. But regardless of the percentage or how much better you feel, the point is that you have the ability within you. Nobody did this for you. You did this for yourself. In knowing that, that means that you can access this muscle to feel better, to feel how you want to feel at any time. All right, you guys, thank you so much for tuning in. That was so fun doing a mini virtual countdown with you guys, stepping into the new year, shaking it all off, creating this new intention for the new year. I felt so connected. I felt so happy and grateful to have been here with all y'alls. Love you guys so much. If you're just logging in here, I do believe the replay will be available, at least for a little bit. So do watch it, comment below as if you're in the chat and we can continue the conversation below. The chat will be available so y'all can kind of feel like you're watching it with everybody from all around the world. And also again, my name is Yuri Choi. I am a performance coach for successful high achievers and entrepreneurs. I have a book called Creating Your Own Happiness. So as you can see, this is something that I love. I'm passionate about. I breathe, think about all the time. I'm really, really honored that I got to be here with you guys today. And on behalf of Psych2Go, thank you so much for being here. 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Naval Station Roto's explosive ordnance disposal unit is conducting a series of air operation exercises throughout the base. The events are being held as part of their sustainment training and include spy rigging, fast roping and repelling maneuvers over land and sea. In order for us to deploy and get our final evaluation, the thumb's up basically for our platoon to go out the door. We have to hit certain wickets and in order to do that we have to stay proficient in all areas that we're responsible to achieve. This type of training rarely occurs so it is vital to take advantage of the opportunity to ensure future mission readiness. This is our responsibility as an EOD tech in the Navy. We have to be able to repel, fast roping, spy, diving, shooting. We're always training. For some, taking part in the training is simply a perk of the job. I love doing this kind of stuff. The fast roping, the repelling, the spy, we're just hanging there by the rope. Love it. Headed Officer Michael Lantron, Rota, Spain.


Hello and welcome to a summary of all you need to know about the explorer's daughter Bakari Herbert. Now I'm going to read and explain this extract in depth and the version of the extract that I will read through is what appears in the Pearson-Edexcel International GCSE anthology. Now bear in mind in terms of background and context Herbert as a small child lived with the family among the Inuit people and this was a really harsh environment that she grew up in in the Arctic and in 2002 she revisited this area staying near Thule and this essay is based upon this visit. So I'll explain the meaning related to this text, the language devices that you need to be aware of when analyzing it and other contextual factors that you find helpful as you study this text. So let's get started. Now what I'll do is I will read through the passage and then explain language techniques that you need to be aware of but also the meaning behind them. So let's begin with this paragraph. Two hours after the last of the hunters had returned and eaten, narwhal was spotted again this time very close. Within an hour even those of us on shore could with the naked eye see the plumes of spray from the narwhal catching the light in a spectral play of colour. Two large pods of narwhal circled in the fjord often looking as if they were going to merge but always slowly methodically passing each other by. Scrambling back up to the lookout I looked across the glittering kingdom in front of me and took a sharp intake of breath. The hunters were dotted around the fjord. The evening light was turning but a gold glinting off man and well and catching the soft billows of smoke from a lone hunters pipe. From where we sat on the lookout it looked as though the hunters were close enough to touch the narwhal with their bare hands and yet they never moved. Distances are always deceptive in the Arctic and I felt wondering if the narwhal existed at all or were instead mischievous tricks of the shifting Of course what this opening does is it introduces this arctic area but also it really introduces these creatures but also the lifestyle of these Inuit people who many of us perhaps are not very familiar with. Now this opening essentially two hours after this is an a verbal phrase of time and the passage starts in media array. What this basically means is it starts right in the middle of the action and we're thrown right into the lifestyle that she was experiencing as she lived amongst the Inuit so we're really just thrown right into the middle of this action. Furthermore this complex sentence this initial opening complex sentence creates some tension and anticipation. We start wondering oh what's happening this these narwhal have been spotted we want to know what's going to happen next. There's more language referring to temporal time so it started off with two hours and then now it's narrowed down to an hour. So now this focus on time shows it's a countdown that some building tension as we're reading through this passage and then she uses the hyperbole plumes of spray to really emphasise the beauty of the narwhal and how majestic in many ways that appear. Carrie Herbert then mentions a spectral play of colour and this vivid and dramatic imagery adds all the more to the beauty and the majesty of the narwhal. We are really really drawn to these creatures who and they seem really mysterious there's a lot of mystique around them. Now the repetition of these pronouns essentially now makes us see things from her perspective and of course remember that she's back revisiting the area so we're seeing things really through her lens. The lens of somebody who is fairly westernised has come from a fairly busy culture and is now going to a far more remote culture. The metaphor Glittering Kingdom really emphasises the beauty of both the narwhal but also this arctic area and so this is such beautiful language and it makes us always readers really enticed. It's also quite idyllic. Then there's a mention of the sharp intake of breath and what this adverb does is it suddenly makes us really aware there's something that's suddenly happening. The simple sentence the hunters are dotted around the fjord essentially now makes us realise what's caused her as well as probably other people near her to suddenly focus in the hunters the narrowing in what's happening. Furthermore the colourful imagery that's used in contrast so the mention of butter gold and the light what this does is it creates a semantic field of colour and bear in mind semantic field is two or more words that are related to a similar category and of course the colour of butter gold but also the light this all ties into colour and again there's this contrast between something that's there's an underlying tension but also this underlying tension is almost in paradise. She then uses a sibilant soft billows of smoke from a lone hunter's pipe and this makes us focus in on the hunters. Then she talks about man and well and the juxtaposition of these two creatures of course we as men but also the gnar walls shows the reason why she's so shocked the why she took a shock intake of breath there's going to be a face off of some kind. She then also mentions how distances in terms of vision in the arctic area can be quite deceptive and this is emphasised through the litteration of distances and deceptive. So let's carry on to the next part of the passage. Gnar wall rarely stray away from high arctic waters escaping only to the slightly more temperate waters towards the arctic circle in the dead of winter but never entering the warmer southern seas. In some of the hunters of thought are fortunate to witness the annual return of the gnar wall in the ingle filled fort on the side of which we now sat. The gnar wall is an essential contributor to the survival of the hunters in the high arctic the matak or blubber of the world is rich necessary minerals and vitamins and in a place where the climate prohibits the growth of vegetables or fruit this rich source of vitamin c was the one reason that the eskimos have never suffered from scurvy. For centuries the blubber of the world was also the only source of light and heat and the dark rich meat is still a valuable part of the diet for both man and dogs a single gnar wall can feed a team of dogs for an entire month. Its single ivory task which can go to six feet in length was used for harpoon tips and handles further. Now before we move on let's have a look at some of the language techniques so here she mentions the arctic twice and the repetition reinforces this location furthermore her mention of the temperate waters this personifies the water it seems almost that everything around her is really vivid and very filled with life furthermore the adjective the gnar wall being an essential so this word essential this adjective emphasizes importance of the gnar wall well in the ecosystem of the arctic furthermore the semantic field of nutrition to vitamins minerals vegetables fruit what this does is firstly it makes it relatable for us so we can now really start understanding things in terms of language so she speaks the language that we can understand as outsiders but more importantly what this does is also emphasize furthermore how the gnar wall even if they're really important in the ecosystem they're also important in terms of being consumed by these people that live in the arctic furthermore when she mentions the only source of light and heat this bright imagery shows how important the worlds are in the ecosystem of the arctic and of course also the importance in the diets of these hunters and furthermore this importance is emphasized by the mention of the dark rich meat this vivid image talking about the flesh of these gnar wall emphasizes how they're really really important in terms of consumption for these man and their dogs and their survival also the adjective the pre-modifier single to describe the ivory task of this gnar wall emphasizes just how large the task is but also of course by extension it emphasizes just how vast this well really is furthermore the use of alliteration harpoon tips and handles and especially harpoon and handles emphasizes these weapons that are used as a result of or rather created as a result of this ivory task so there's some irony that the gnar walls ivory task is used by man to create weapons which can be used to kill them so let's carry on hunting implements although the ivory was found to be brittle and not hugely satisfactory as a weapon for carving protective tulip packs and even as a central beam for the small ancient dwellings strangely the task seems to have little use for the gnar wall itself they do not use the task to break through the ice as a breathing hole nor will they use it to catch your attack prey but rather the primary use seems to be to disturb the top seabed in order to catch the arctic halibut for which they have particular predilection often the ends of the tasks are worn down or even broken from such usage the women clustered in the gnar on the lookout binoculars pointing in every direction each woman focusing on a husband or family member occasionally spinning around at a small gasp or jump as one of the women saw a hunter near a gnar wall each wife knew her husband instinctively and watched their progress intently it was crucial to her that her husband catch a gnar wall it was part of the stable diet and some of them so now going back to this opening sentence bear in mind that of course it starts off when she mentions its single ivory task which can grow up to six feet length was used for harpoon tips and handles for other hunting implements so this is just a continuation from that sentence and then she uses the parenthesis to further explain the use of the ivory to create essentially weapons so what this parenthesis does and parenthesis is just another fancy way of saying brackets what this does is it further adds to our knowledge and our intrigue of this gnar wall and of course it also adds to our knowledge of how their tasks are used for weapons of course we find that the ivory was too brittle and not helpful in the hunter's work furthermore the repetition of the task again there's this paragraph really really focuses in on this particular part of the gnar wall's body and it's interesting of course this focus shows that actually this gnar wall is a little bit harmless so even if it has this really massive intimidating task actually it's a very little use of the gnar wall itself so it's a harmless creature even if it's so vast furthermore the use of this complex sentence essentially she uses a syndetine so remember asyndentic listing or syndetine is when there's a list of different parts of a sentence and they're listed without a conjunction without and but because now this listing what this does is it now continues to build attention and anticipation people are clustering there's something that's happening we are starting to wonder what's going on furthermore she then uses the adverb intently to emphasise further how everybody in this area is really focusing on the hunters who have gathered but of course by extension the gnar wall furthermore the term crucial the idea of the criticalness of this hunt shows just how high stakes this hunt is the people that live in the arctic so she states it was crucial to her that her husband catch a gnar wall it was part of their staple diet and some of the matak and meat could be sold to other hunters who hadn't been so lucky bringing in some much needed extra incomes of course this is high stakes because actually the gnar wall being killed in court this is what helps feed the hunters and that this is what helps them keep going in terms of even making payments and earning money every hunter was in the water it was like watching a vast waterborne game with the hunter spread like a net around the sound the gnar wall are intelligent creatures are sensors are keen and they talk to one another under the water the herring is particularly developed and they can hear the sound of a paddling kayak from a great distance that was why the hunters had to sit so very still on the water one hunter was almost on top of a pair of gnar wall and they were huge he gently picked up his harpoon and aimed in that split second my heart leapt for both hunter and gnar wall I urged the man on in my head he was so close and so brave to attempt what he was about to do he was miles from land on a flimsy kayak and could easily be capsized and drowned the hunter had no rifle only one harpoon with two heads and one bladder it was a full hardy exercise and one that could only respire respect and yet at the same time my heart also urged the gnar wall to dive to leave to survive now here firstly the pre-modifier much needed extra income again this makes us really empathize with the hunters why they need to hunt these gnar wall and kill them furthermore this simple sentence really focuses in our attention on the hunters they're now really closing in on their prey and the simile like watching a vast waterborne game it's interesting because the simile shows that it's almost a game it's something fun but actually there's nothing fun to it this is basically to do with life or death the hunters if they're not careful they could die and they could even possibly drown but also the gnar wall if they're not careful they will get caught and killed so there's a lot of tension here now furthermore on the one hand whilst she's really created a lot of empathy for the hunters we really feel sorry for them and we want them to do really well we also want the gnar wall to escape and the adjective intelligent to describe how the intelligent creatures creates empathy in our eyes for these gnar wall furthermore the alliteration they talk and as well the verbs really give these gnar wall the specific and the special personalities furthermore the juxtaposition which was is being reinforced so before it was man and well now it's hunter and gnar wall it makes us feel really convicted we want to be on the side of the people that live in the arctic they need to survive however we also feel that the gnar wall deserve to live so we feel really conflicted and this confliction is of course also reflected in the in Carrie Herbert herself she was watching this and she feels really conflicted now when she describes how the hunter gently picked up as harpoon this soft move and the the adverb gently is quite ironic because he's about to do something that's really shocking furthermore she then mentions how her heart left for both hunter and gnar wall which brings home this feeling of confliction she feels really really scared for the gnar wall but also equally scared for the hunter she's really trying to be on both sides and of course this is why she feels so conflicted moreover the intensifier so which is repeated shows how Carrie Herbert is really really wrapped up in this issue that she's seen before her and she much like the ladies and the women who want the husbands to catch gnar wall she also feels really really caught up in this essentially this vast waterborne game moreover the semantic field of weapons rifle and harpoon essentially starts to really drive home the point that this is a very violent and also dangerous activity furthermore the rule of three here to dive survive to to dive to leave to survive as well as the use of tricolon shows just how she really really is willing the gnar wall to escape somehow she then mentions this dilemma stayed with me the whole time that i was in greenland so now she gets right to the heart of her own feeling of confliction Carrie Herbert goes on i understand the harshness of life in the arctic and the needs of the hunters and the families to hunt and live on animals and sea mammals that we demand to be protected because of their beauty and i know that one cannot afford to be sentimental in the arctic how can you possibly eat seal i've been asked over and over again true the images that bombarded us several years ago of men battering seals for the fur hasn't helped the issue of popular hunting but the Inuit do not kill seals using this method nor do they kill for sport they use every part of the animals they kill and most of the food and thaw it's still bought by the hunter gatherers and fishermen imported goods can only ever account for part of the food supply there's still only one annual supply ship that makes it through the ice to canack and the small twice weekly plane from west greenland can only carry a certain amount of goods hunting it's still an absolute necessities so of course now here what she starts doing is really trying to explain to us the perspective of the hunters in greenland and of course the inuits and this first person plural pronoun shows how we as a people especially in the west really sometimes become really soft righteous we get on our high horse about protecting these creatures but we forget that they're hunters and communities that rely on them for their own survival furthermore the verb demand shows how we sometimes do this but almost out of ignorance because we don't understand that this is all part of an a vast ecosystem which includes also the hunters that need to survive much like the narwhal as well need to survive furthermore the rhetorical question how can you possibly eat sills just shows how people can be quite self righteous and very judgmental on matters that they don't quite know also we really start understanding the challenge that hunters as well as fishermen in this part of greenland face and this language so hunter gatherers and fishermen these nouns essentially show how remote and simplistic their community is and not doing this just for the sake of it or just for sport this is important it's important to kill these narwhal because of their survival now karri herbert ends with a declarative sentence hunting is still an absolute necessity in thought and what this declarative sentence shows is that she now really realizes the blunt reality of life in the Arctic we can't afford to be too sentimental about things such as killing these creatures because actually this hunting community relying them for their survival but of course we also need to be careful about killing them for sport so it's a really delicate balance which she is trying to emphasize through this declarative sentence however it's something that cannot completely be eliminated because eliminating hunting these narwhal is essentially sentencing this community of people to death so that's all if you found this video useful please make sure you visit our website which is www.firstreadtutor.com there you will find lots of revision materials and useful materials when it comes to answering any questions related to this and indeed other extracts from this anthology thank you so much for listening


Aloha, I'm Marsha Joyner, and this is Cannabis Chronicles, a 10,000 year artist. So tell me, Muse, of that great plant of many resources which wondered far and wide the ancient plant of food, fuel, and fiber cultivated for millennia. As we venture through the past 10,000 years, we will explore and discover the plant from which cannabis derives. There are many uses of the plant, hemp, cannabis, ashes, cannabis and religion, cannabis and medicine, cannabis and Uncle Sam. Oh dear Uncle Sam, and so our odyssey begins. Today our odyssey is not long ago and far away. It is current and in progress. Cannabis, which is a part of the hemp plant, has a long history as an aid or complement to inspiration in art, philosophy, music, and other kinds of human endeavor. The use of cannabis as medicine can be traced back 5,000 years. Interest in medical cannabis is currently on the rise in many parts of the world. Cannabis was and is a sacred plant for many people and has historically been used in religious ceremonies in many cultures from South East Asia to North America. Our guest today, Terry Heady, a Vietnam era Navy veteran with multiple sclerosis patient, a cannabis patient, as well as a cannabis advocate. For military veterans and young mothers to a Christian minister and former probation officer, the 100 Americans profiled in the book Cannabis Saved My Life, have starkly different background. Our guest today is one of those whose life was saved by cannabis. It's hard to imagine the unbelievable suffering that she endured as well as the courageous resilience due to the social stigma, the perils of illegality, and the disapproval of Western medicine when she turned to a controversial but age-old planet. So today, I guess, is Terry Heady, a dear friend, and as you may suspect, we have been Democrats for all of our lives, and so Terry is one of those courageous people that took a stand in this beautiful, beautiful book, Cannabis Saved My Life. So we're going to talk to her about how cannabis saved her life. Yeah, I'd be happy to tell you that story. I was a computer programmer, computer engineer. I worked for the government. I went in one morning, set my coffee down and my bagel down, my regular routine, getting ready to start my day, went to sit down, missed my chair, and somehow landed on top of it. I had an instant of paralysis and they came, took me by ambulance. I went and for months, we thought maybe I had some kind of orthopedic program, a problem. They gave me a lot of drugs. They put me in hot water therapy, one of the worst things you can do for MS. And nothing was working. I just could not get back on my feet. Now, I want to tell you what MS is. If you look around the room and you see these electrical cords, your nerves are covered by something called the myelin sheath. Now, my body thinks that sheath is a foreign object and it attacks it and just tears up that covering on the nerve. Now, just imagine that's what MS is. That's what MS is. Imagine if you walked around the room and ripped off all the electrical cord covers in this room, you'd have massive short circuits, right? And then after a while, when that, that starts to, it forms a lesion. That's what multiple sclerosis, Latin for multiple lesions. And that lesion is from where it is eaten away at the sheath. And then eventually with the MRIs now, which are much less dramatic than 20 years or so when I had to have a spinal tap, now the MRIs, they show up as dark holes. They call them dark holes on your MRI. Do I have a universe in my brain? I have dark holes. And it's a very debilitating disease. I have what's called a relapsing remitting. When I went into my neurologist, a military guy, and I shut my record in front of him and put my hands on top of it. And I said, okay, I've been doing some research. They're getting ready to medically retire me out. I'm a widow with two kids. I can't go. I've got it. He said, I want to try cannabis. And he put his hands on top of mine and he goes, you got nothing to lose. So I literally started smoking, which a lot of people cannot do by being a child of the 60s.  And I, I smoked like a burning haystack, but within six weeks, I went from not walking at all to walking with a cane in six weeks. I have a theory that what it did was in your body, there is the endocannabinoid system. It has natural THC receptors that are there. So I have a theory that I went to pick up my cup with MS. Sometimes I think I'm holding it. I'll drop it. What I think it did was it saw that THC receptor when it went to send that signal, hold on to the box, don't drop it. It saw that THC receptor, boom, fired off and I ended up with a good signal. And I think that's what's happened. Now, once you have a relapse, though, I never went back to that level of fitness that I had prior to my first episode. So I am I try to make sure I don't go into one of those episodes. So how long has it been over 20 years? Wow. And I'm very, I mean, for a MS patient, I'm doing really well.  So of course, it has a little damage. But again, it is mitigated by the use of cannabis. So you take it on a daily basis? Absolutely. Is there a regimen? I take it on a daily basis. I will I will consume over about a quarter an ounce a day. Is that a lot? Is that a lot? Right now, when a patient comes to me, I talk to them about micro dosing. Because when I first started this, I had no idea. And there's not scientific evidence available.  And you should say, Oh, person with MS. Oh, we'll give them pill A and pill B until they all take those. Well, we don't have that, that accumulation of data on an MS patient. So I get it when they start out. Now I tell this micro dose as little as you know, take one hit, put it now, walk away, you know, we try to get on the micro dose. But we need doctors and nurses and you know, after all of these years, and we don't have those studies. No, we, we, because it is classified as that schedule one, people are afraid to touch it. A doctor doesn't want to touch it and loses license. A university doesn't want to touch it and lose their funding there for grants and other things. So that the improper scheduling is killing people. Well, and, and of course, everybody knows the schools, the medical schools are underwritten by the big farmers, pharmaceutical companies. So of course, they're not going to teach. They're not even going to mention it. They don't have a clue. And as we age, and you know this, as well as I, as we age, we can't do the pharmaceuticals like we used to when we were younger. My father-in-law had a very bad infection. They put him on an IV antibiotic. And next thing you know, he's having a martini with Obama.   So I know that we have a problem here. So this gives us another herbal remedy for our senior citizens that are going to be looking for something that is not so harsh on their systems. So when, and then it can you talk about the opioid addictions. Yes. That they want to, you know, it's always been preached for a long time. Oh, I don't want to pot cannabis, as we're calling it now, whatever you want to call it. It's it's one of those gateway drugs. Going to get you started on harder drugs. And if that was true, oh my goodness, I wouldn't be alive today. But what it does, and I've talked to other doctors about this, is it gives them a mechanism to get them off of the opioids, get them off, you know, into something that, you know, manages their life better. And I don't know if you've ever seen people that are on heroin, they use methadone to get them off.  And its withdrawal is even harsher than heroin.  But we've the anecdotal evidence and the doctors that I've been talking to, they this helps their patients get off their opioids. Well, I was talking to a young lady at an event, she was asking if this was okayed by the FDA. And I said, Well, no, this is a weed, it's not a drug. And she's looking at me. And I said, Well, you know, aspirin is not okayed by the FDA. Right. She's really? I said, Yeah, and it was made from the bark of a tree. So then she's busy to start well.  Now I ask you, ask you. So, you know, of course, I'm not selling anything. I don't have the wherewithal to do that. But it was just that conversation. And I realized how little or I know little, which is why we're doing the program. But how little other people and that's why this program is really helpful. Now, one of the things that we're talking about since we're on this kind of subject is right now, there is a, it's called the Medical Cannabis Legislative Oversight Working Group. It's Act 230230. It is was established by the legislature to develop and recommend legislation that would improve the medical cannabis dispensary system that we're trying to stand up right now. And if you go to that website, I gave you, they have a draft of their initial report, what's going to happen? And it's one of the reasons I wanted to mention it, because we're talking about regulation. And I was hoping that when it left the hands of Narcotics Enforcement Division, where it had had a home for so many years, that by going to the Department of Health, that they would have a more, an attitude of more patient-oriented attitude. And it turned out that they are mainly concerned about the regulation, the regulatory aspects. And one of the things they've done is that cannabis is not accessible, you know, to local residents.  Yes. You know, now before I might, you know, you might have to see your, one of your friends might say, well, behind the McDonald's, there's a guy with a black truck, and da, da, da, well, we don't want to use the black market for medical purposes. Well, just to let you know that we did visit the laboratory. Nice. Steep Hill Laboratory. Oh, nice. And what I learned there terrified me, because we talked about this one man that died with cannabis, but it had more. Right. And so then I thought, oh, heavy metals, they were talking about heavy metals, pesticides and whatnot. Herbicide filth. Yes.  And so I thought, oh, oh, I had never thought of all of these things. Yes. So then I thought, well, okay, I like the idea of a laboratory and a dispensary so that we don't get a wonderful job now because they can test patient products.  It is so that however, since 2002, the state says, okay, I can have a card and I can grow 10 plants. I don't know anything about growing 10 plants. Right. And if mole and pesticides and these things are an issue, how am I going to deal with that? What do I know about what's in this soil? Not everyone can grow their own medicine.  Yeah. No.  And since it's not accessible right now to local residents in Hawaii, it's not even really accessible even with our dispensaries open because right now they're averaging $500 an ounce. What's an ounce? An ounce, I should have brought one with me, but it is a measurement of, this is for edibles because I've been trying to, we can't even have edibles because they talk about packaging. And if you look at this packaging, this comes from California, I believe, and it says medical cannabis cooking on it, it gives the dosage on it, you know, things like that. And they have regulated this to the point where they're not even offering edibles at dispensaries and you wouldn't go in and want to smoke, buy flour and roll it and smoke it. You want an edible, you want an oil. I have pediatric patients with epilepsy that have great response. They want an oil or they want, you know, they don't want to, you don't have a good roller joint and smoke it. Okay. Well, listen, we need to take a break. We'll come back in a minute and we will talk more with Terry Headey about all of these wonderful things, medical cannabis, a double chocolate chip cookie. Okay. So thank, we will be right back. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Sounds like scuba divers are the four man's astronaut. At Dive Heart, we believe that to be true. We say forget the moment. Dive Heart can help children, adults and veterans of all abilities escape gravity. Right here on searchdiveheart.org and imagine the possibilities in your life. And we're back and today we are visiting with Terry Headey, who is a cannabis advocate, a patient and a survivor of all things of MS. A retiree, medical, a man of Navy, Vietnam era veteran. That's right. And all kinds of wonderful things. And so tell us more. We were talking about the dispensaries and the dispensaries system. What tell us about? Yeah, what the idea is to be able to take your card and go in there once you get it and and buy the products you need. But right now, they've created a high grade and it's well tested, but a high grade, but it's a boutique item for sale.  Right. You know. And now we have a local source of cannabis and it's priced out of reach. What are the prices? I went to the opening, the press conference for the opening. Yeah, let's say that line went around the block. Absolutely. But when they got inside to buy, like a person like me that consumes so much, five hundred dollars an ounce is just out of sight. I can go to the black market and buy twice as much. Top shelf, best stuff around for that kind of thing. Five hundred dollars and ounce. And ask yourself why? Yes. Because that's why, why this is supposed to, if this continues, dispensaries have not met the requirements of this Act 230 that I referenced. They definitely haven't met the requirements of that. But it's because of the vertical system they have in place. Now what I mean by that is that they put everything they have to do with the patient underneath that license, that one license for the dispensary, they grow it. They, if they create an extract, this is what an extract might come in, something like this, if they, if they, whatever they have for sale, they have to create it right under that one thing. Instead of a system that we envision to begin with where there would be local growers and there would be more competition, I mean, excuse me, if the dispensaries are raising costs to deter diversion, which is totally an off the wall idea, I don't know where they would get that, then increase license holders and put more dispensaries out there instead. Let's get some competition going and let's get rid of this vertical model that they have. Because if you live in Kahuku and you've got to drive all the way to King Street, not only is it five hundred dollars an ounce, but now you've got the cost of driving into town to spend a whole day away from work, to get here, get back. If you're a patient they can work.  All right, they say that our caregivers, which they're talking about doing away with in 2018, oh, horrible idea. You do away with that, who's going to go grow for me, who's going to go to when I can't grow, get to the dispensary for me. What about our pediatric patients? You know, this is justice. To do away with caregivers, I'm a caregiver for my husband who's 86. Right. Now he doesn't have a card, but I'm still, if he did go get a card you would be listed as caregiver, so you could could help him out. We don't have delivery services. Most of the people in Conus, they have delivery services that will go out to a patient's house. They have patient services. One of the things we would like to get started with a patient who we hear, because for our patients that need to grow, we need to send out a consultant to get there, teach them how, get them going, because where do you get your plants? Yeah, where do you get your seeds? That's my question. You can't even get started. Yeah, that's how you get started. Right. And so that, that needs to be really addressed. If we are going to take care of our patients, we need to fix the system so that I can buy enough products that I don't have to worry about, okay, I'm gonna, you know, I'll try not to take too much today and I'll save some for tomorrow and that could send me into a relapse where I have not staved off, you know, what I wanted to. So we have got to ultimately affordability is affecting patients and we have to change the model so that patients can afford it.  They may feel sick as a dog, but they're not going to OD.  Booze. People leave booze out all the time where kids have accessibility to it. We are responsible patients, you know, give us credit, you know, and diversion, that is not our, that's not our thing. What do you mean diversion? They are so afraid that I am going to buy products at their dispensary and walk out on the street. Now, I just paid $500 for this, so I'm gonna walk out on the street and I'm gonna ask you for six, I guess, because how can I sell this on the street at $500 an ounce? You know, no, nobody that is a patient is interested in anything. No. Except getting their medication. Yeah. It's, it's so. The health department has been lacking in so many areas, so I'm not surprised that they're lacking in this one. They don't believe in this. No, of course not. It's straight up. Yes. He said, uh, he's Ridley or, yeah, he says straight up that he doesn't believe in this as a medication and he's in charge of the program. I know, but he's miss the ball on nursing homes and other things. He didn't pass, so I'm not surprised. I'm just not surprised. It's really frustrating when you have patients like me that go to the ledge and I've been doing this for a decade and the patients don't like to go to the ledge. First of all, you're not really well enough. It's grueling. It is. It is. Even when you're healthy it's grueling. You gotta sit there for a long period of time. You can't always, you know, it's just not something that patients want to do.  It's like, oh god, I can't believe I've done anything that long. But is there an organization, a cadre of cannabis users that can legislate, can lobby as a block? Well, that's, is it? No, there really don't. We, we depend on people like the Drug Policy Forum, Americans for Safe Access. So there is a huge need for a patient who we, to get started. And we, it's really difficult to go up there and lobby for this when we've had a good support from Senator Willis Sparrow. Oh, he's, he's been on the show several times, yes. And Representative Della Albalotti has, she has, I want to give her a mixed review. You know, well, that's what I've heard.  So we don't really have someone that's so solid for us, you know, to represent our cause up there, because they, it's easier to bargain us away. You know, it really is. We don't have, we don't have a voting block that they're concerned with. I think we need to identify patients as of, you know. Well, like I said, both of us coming from this, this kind of, this thought process, somehow we need to create an organization so that we do have a block. We need, okay folks, you heard it. We need, where did you put her email up? Yes, because we need people to, we need to form an organization of patients and caregivers if we are going to make this work. So contact me, get my, get my email up, contact me, we're going to get together and we are going to take care of this. We got this. We need to do this. We've got to do this. Yes. And you know, one of the things that is also people talk about is reciprocity. Do you know what that is? That is for people that might come here on a visit and they have a card from California or Washington or Oregon and they're in a system. We need to fix our system here so, and make it so robust and so, it's so healthy and it is easy to do with the software they have, that we can offer reciprocity to visitors that come over as well. Think about how many people come here. This is maybe the last trip they're going to make in their whole life.  Why should they be denied their medication? Well, we have to fix this first for our local people. And, and one, one thing in fixing this, we have to have edibles because most of us live in close proximity to our neighbors in townhouse and condominiums and all rental units and you can't smoke. So, if you're a patient, you need to get it in some other form. And it really bothers me about the reluctance because, you know, Department of Health, they are anti-smoking. Yes. Totally, you'd think they would be out front on yes. Edibles, edibles, concentrates. Yes. I mean, but they're, they're not, they're not. Okay. So, all right, for all of you, all two of you that watch, okay, you know what we need to do. We need to create a group of people, of patients and caregivers, and we need to storm the Bastille. This is an election year. All 51 of the House members are for reelection and half of the Senate. We need, and they all say they're Democrats, which is supposed to be progressive. You'd think this would be the easiest thing ever. Anyway, we need to create, we need to come together, we need to make this happen. So, what I want them to do is email me because we will get you in a database, in a list, and when legislation comes across this session, we'll make sure that you know the talking points, that you know how to submit your testimony, that we, you'll know what you want to say. We can help you with that. So, just email me. Right now we have a Hawaii patient writes who is in the works. And so, can you help me? Help. Help all the patients. Yes, yes. And again, thank you so much for being with us, each week. And thank you, Terry. You will come back again. Oh, as soon as the ledge opens up, we'll get some legislation we'll talk about. How about that? Yes, please. Here we go. Thank you so much for being with us, and we'll see you again. Aloha.