On this episode of the anxious truth. We're going to talk about why recovery is just so damn hard to do We know that it's hard to do but today we're going to find out why so let's get going Welcome back everybody. This is the anxious truth podcast episode number 190 190 recorded in January of 2022 if you are new here I am drew lints a lot of creator and host of this fine podcast the anxious truth is the podcast that talks about all things anxiety and anxiety recovery So if you are struggling with things like panic attacks panic disorder or gorphobia, this is the place for you I'm happy that you are here if you are a returning listener or a longtime listener. Thank you for coming back I appreciate your time and attention as always today. We're going to talk about why the recovery process is so damn hard We know that it's really hard to engineer productive recovery from things like panic disorder or gorphobia or OCD It's difficult. This is hard scary kind of work We know this we acknowledge it in every podcast episode every day all the time Why is it so hard today? We're going to talk about why it's so hard now before we do that I'm just going to remind you of a new project that I have going on called the anxious morning Which is a daily anxiety support email newsletter that shows up in your inbox when you wake up every morning Unless we're in Australia or New Zealand in which case it's the afternoon Sorry about that, but the anxious morning will show up in your inbox every morning It is a quick three to five hundred word email with an anxiety recovery lesson or some something to think about something to chew on Something to maybe turn you in a different direction a little closer to recovery and a little further from fear And there's also a little podcast episode that goes with it a little three to five minute podcast episodes So if you want to check that out, just go to the anxious morning com You can sign up for the email. It's free. You can listen to the podcast and all of your favorite podcast platforms Check it out. We're about two weeks into it. Everybody's digging it so far So if you have not subscribed already to the anxious morning email list Go do that now with the anxious morning dot com or the anxious morning dot email Okay, so let's get into this week's episode Why on earth is recovery so freaking hard to do we know that it is that's not a question We know that this is hard and I acknowledge it all the time, right? This is hard stuff We're doing intentionally doing difficult scary things in order to get better on the long term Why is it so hard now a lot of times the fact that it is such a difficult process to go through and can be such a struggle Will lead some people to believe that well I know what I'm supposed to do because in the end recovery always comes down to well I know what I'm supposed to do if you're listening to the podcast or read my books or you follow anybody who sounds like me They're weeks or any other social media people that talk like I do about this Invariably you wind up in a place where you say well, I know what I'm supposed to do But I just can't seem to bring myself to do it. I just can't do it consistently And I get that I say all the time that this is a very simple plan, but it's really hard to execute I'm not going to deny that this is a simple plan, but the execution is difficult because it requires us to do scary and hard things And sometimes it leads people to start to conclude like well I know what I'm supposed to do, but I just can't do it Does that mean I'm worse than everybody else or does that mean that I'm broken or there's something extra wrong with me? Or I'm just too weak to do this and no it doesn't mean that at all. I promise it doesn't mean that so let's take a look at why Anxiety recovery is so hard. Let's really kind of break it down So I'm going to give you there's a lot of different reasons that come together to make this a difficult thing to do But I'm going to look at what today. We're going to call sort of the big two These are the primary two reasons why this is such a difficult process and the fact that it's difficult doesn't make it impossible Let me say that right up front. I'll wrap up with that also But it doesn't make it impossible, but it helps to know why the challenges are what they are and why this is so difficult Understanding some of these concepts really can help you sort of avoid that trap of thinking that you're broken or your extra l Or you're too weak to do this So the first of the big two reasons why anxiety recovery is such a difficult task is that humans just hate to be afraid and Uncomfortable not wired that way.  You know, this is not anything. You don't already know Right, so we hate humans hate to be afraid and uncomfortable But the bad news is that effective require recovery requires that we intentionally get afraid and uncomfortable over and over and over So yeah, that's going to make it really hard to do now Look, there are people out there that are sort of adrenaline junkies. They're the outliers. They love to be afraid They love to be truly uncomfortable, but that is not the majority of people We know that they exist sort of on the fringes and that's fine. God bless them like more power to them But for most of us, we don't want to feel that way now. I'm not saying that humans are fragile We're not breakable. We're not we're not, you know dainty. We're not at all We don't want to be afraid or uncomfortable But in the end we are really capable of handling those things and recovery is about learning that and uncovering that part of us, right? So we don't want to be afraid or uncomfortable We will do everything we can to avoid going into those situations Not because we can't handle them. We are incredibly strong and we are incredibly resilient and we are incredibly resourceful And we can handle all of those things. We just choose to not do them Like we really reserve that stuff like those those displays of courage and bravery for when we absolutely have no choice We have to do it if our lives dependent on it Then we will go ahead and exhibit that bravery and exhibit that that strength and resiliency and resourcefulness But until our lives depend on it we would tend to try to avoid situations that will make us uncomfortable or afraid and When we do go into those situations when we're forced into them We prefer generally speaking to run as opposed to fight. So if you look at this as fight or flight Flight kind of wins most of the time So we don't want to be in those situations because we don't like to be afraid and uncomfortable and when we do get into them We would tend to fly flee or run before we fight Probably because flight is a better option survival wise most of the time I'm guessing from an evolutionary standpoint, you know Flight kind of takes priority because we have a better chance of surviving and you know coming back another day If we run as opposed to turning and fighting So, you know intentionally going into these uncomfortable and scary situations and difficult situations again and again Repeatedly as a means to get better just runs counter to our normal grain like as we're going against the grain here Generally speaking for most of us. So that's the first and foremost reason It doesn't mean that you're a weaker. You can't do it just means that nobody wants to do this All right, so nobody wants to do it this way So always keep that in mind. You're asking yourself to do something that is generally not part of human nature We don't really want to do it Here is the second reason and this is one that I think we're gonna get into a little bit of mechanics here of habit building and Why this matters? This may help you understand a little more. It's like. Oh, yeah, this is why I'm having such a hard time doing it Like some broken. This is why so recovery experiences the experiences that we need to have To move to our recovery, right? We need to go into these scary situations We need to go into these uncomfortable situations. We need to surrender to the fear willfully tolerate except flow Whatever your favorite words are do you like to use? I like surrender, but We have to go into those situations and give ourselves up to these feelings I'm gonna willfully accept and tolerate that I'm going to be afraid. I'm going to be uncomfortable We move through those situations so that we can learn that we can handle them We can tolerate them right we need to uncover that brave resourceful courageous Like resilient part of us that we don't think exists and we so we have those experiences, but they're not pleasant Experiences right so recovery experiences when you look at that going and do your exposures and meeting your challenges They are not very conducive to habit forming now in the last podcast episode episode number 189 So if you go to the anxious truth comm slash one eight nine you can listen to that I talked about how really recovery It's not swift. It's not sudden. It's not dramatic. It doesn't happen in big chunks Recovery is really about habit forming recovery is about dropping your old avoidance and escape habits and Building new recovery focused habits. So in order to really get better We build these series of small recovery focused habits And we we stack them on top of each other and we practice them again and again and again and over time they make a difference Right, so that's what recovery looks like recovery is really a series of Killing old habits that are based on avoidance and escape and building new habits and practicing them and stacking them on top of each other So recovery is really about habit forming and recovery experiences are not in any way conducive to forming habits They are conducive to forming habits. Just the wrong habits in the wrong way. So let's take a look at this when we compare experiences that build strong habits and Experiences that help us toward recovery. They're kind of polar opposites right recovery experiences mean being afraid and uncomfortable on purpose and Really those are things that would inhibit or block the the habit formation process Like we don't want to repeat negative experiences. We hate forming to do that doing those things We don't want to do in the begin with and we sure as hell don't want to repeat them So it's really hard to turn things that make us uncomfortable Into habits that we repeat and practice and stack on top of each other to get to recovery, right? When we do our exposures and we meet our recovery challenges The result is discomfort and fear It's not an instant relief We don't learn to make it go away and we say it all the time You don't do your exposures to not be anxious you do your exposures to intentionally be anxious So it's not really good. You know, we're gonna we're gonna go into these situations that we're intentionally feel bad When we do these things and that really isn't a thing that we are bred and you normally want to repeat So these are not good experiences that make us want to form these good habits. It's the opposite See where I'm heading with this So let's talk about the book atomic habits now a zillion people have read atomic habits If you haven't read it, that's okay. You can go check it out if you want And I decided I'm gonna read this book because it's so incredibly popular and I see what the fuss is And it's a great book I get it there's a lot of good stuff in there But some people I've heard people bring it to me and say oh so much of this kind of reminds me of atomic habits And the reason why I want to talk about atomic habits in this part of the podcast What we're talking about how hard recovery is is because it is a good book But you can't really use it as a recovery book or a recovery guide unless you really understand how the things that James Clear is writing about Are opposite of what makes good recovery, right? So in atomic habits, he kind of breaks it down pretty well. No, there's some kind of old school behaviorism in there So, okay, maybe it's a little dated, but I get it what he's what he's talking about. It's pretty good stuff So he talks about Habits as just repetitive problem-solving routines Right, we learn to solve our problems by by finding what works and then we repeat those things And he calls he breaks it down into four things cues cravings responses and rewards So in those models in that model we form productive habits that create positive Processes and then for positive outcomes when we can easily see that we know what our craving is we have a craving We can easily see clear cues around us to tell us how to act in such a way that will satisfy the craving Then we respond we act that way and then we get it we get a reward So let's look at a have a simple habit building example that I kind of put together just for this podcast really quickly So for example, I have a headache and I want it to go away. That would be my craving I want to get rid of my headache I know there's a bottle of aspirin in my medicine cabinet because I bought it and I know that aspirin will help my headache That's a cue so I have a headache. I want to get rid of that's my craving the cue is I know that I see aspirin in my medicine Cabin, I know it's there. I know aspirin is good for headache The response is I take the aspirin and the result is the headache goes away, which is my reward I've satisfied the craving right so they're very simplistic model here, but it kind of matters It does matter so I had a craving to get rid of my headache I know the cue was right there. I have aspirin in the medicine cabinet. I know it's good for headache I take it. That's my response and my headache goes away. That's my reward. So that's really simple It's easy to understand the sequence is easy to interact with and it produces an immediate reward for me So I can really quickly form a habit an aspirin taking habit when it comes to solving the headache problem Right, so if I have a headache down the road, my habit is I'll take an aspirin because it worked so well And it was an easy habit to form now. Let's kind of compare that to the recovery process So in the recovery process, let's say that you're craving is to make your anxiety go away I panic because I am afraid to be afraid. I panic over panicking, right? I want the panic and anxiety to go away. That's my craving Here's that here's where it starts to fall down and where our situation really becomes almost opposite Where's the cue here? What in the environment tells us how to make that happen? Nothing we when we are in that situation and we get really sensitized We're on a hair trigger for anxiety and panic everything we think everything we feel everything around us all the stimulus can become triggers So I know that I have a craving to make my anxiety go away But all I see around me are triggers that that make it worse again and again and again I don't see any clear cue here that says oh if I do this, I know this will work So I just start trying to avoid the triggers. That's one thing that I try to do because all I see is triggers I don't really see cues to solving the problem I see triggers to be avoided and then I just start throwing every piece of crap that I can think of at it So I throw my essential oils and my my weighted blankets and my meds And I throw everything at it that I think will help out But I'm randomly throwing stuff out hoping that something works So one of the clear one of the things that makes habit building easy is Clear cues we can see what to do to solve our problem to satisfy our craving right in this situation There are no clear cues to see all we see is triggers to avoid And then we just try random things we scroll endlessly through Instagram looking for anxiety gurus who will tell us how to make it go away Yeah, it doesn't really work. So my response essentially is like well I'm just gonna sort of try to avoid everything here. I'm gonna run from it. I'm gonna try to avoid the triggers I'm gonna try and stop it from happening when it does happen I'm gonna throw all kinds of random stuff at it and you know my reward maybe if I get any reward With so ever it would be temporary relief I'm okay as long as I sniff my lavender oil and I calm down for for an hour pretend I don't know what's gonna happen in the next hour. So the only habit that possibly get formed There's a clear craving. I want to make this go away, but there are no clear cues The response is essentially not bringing that that that craving satisfaction about so we're randomly responding We're avoiding the triggers to make it worse and we're randomly throwing out the problem And so we don't really get a reward or when we get a reward. Yeah, it's it's temporary It's fleeting like if those things were working for you you would not be listening to this podcast right now So what winds up happening here is? We don't have any clear way to build habits And if we do build a habit in that situation the habit that we build is based on that fleeting temporary Sort of low-level reward of temporary Easing of our of our distress. So we build avoidance habits So the recovery is sort of anxiety situation is built so that it encourages the avoidance and the escape habits that glue us to the disorders See the problem here. This is a big issue and this is why it is so difficult Not only do we just not like to do scary things which is clear But we also can't seem to get on track to form the habits that will lead us to recovery because the context that we're in Actually discourages the formation of those habits It discourages it actually encourages the formation of avoidance and escape habits that keep us stuck So you're not broken. You're just following some basic behavioral rules that human beings do now Let's kind of move on this a little bit When we are in that situation one of the things that we have to do here Let's let's go through this. Let's go through James clears craving Q response reward thing right so to build habits recovery habits The craving is is pretty clear right? So that's not an issue like we know that we're having anxiety attacks We're having panic attacks. I'm having a truce it an obsessive thoughts.  We don't avoid triggers We intentionally practice being anxious you would think this guy's crazy and a lot of people do that the first time you ever hear that It's incredibly counterintuitive. You don't think that at all. You're looking for comfort You're trying to make it go away But the people who are telling you the way out of this almost invariably when you hear people like me good therapists behavioral therapists Who treat anxiety disorders all the different books the best books that are written out there? We'll all tell you you got to go toward it and move through it That is not a clear cue.  We have to find them and that comes in the form of psycho education from people like me That's that will tell you like I know you want to make it go away But you can't you have to stop making it try to go away. You got to go toward it and move through it So we're having a hard time there You have to actually use some extra reasoning Facilities and facilities in your brain to uncover cues to recovery that you wouldn't normally see because they're not apparent and they're not intuitive So that's a problem in the response phase the action that you will take So let's say that you've been listening to this podcast or you read my book the anxious truth or whatever You know, you're you're learning you've learned and you get it now. Okay guys. I get it. I know what I have to do I know what I have to do for recovery So now you get it and you've gotten to the point where you can see the cues are the cue is I gotta move when I have fear That's a cue, but I have to move toward it not try and banish it. Okay, so you got that part down the response What is my response? What's my action that I take to try and move towards the satisfaction of my craving to salute the solving of my problem? Well in the response phase recovery focused actions the thing we talk about all the time what I write about and speak about Those are hard It's hard to go toward the fear and tolerate it surrender to it all that stuff move through it Avoidance focused actions are a whole lot easier to do right so going toward fear not so great You know running away from fear well That's a whole lot easier to do and it might actually bring you some temporary fleeting relief So which response is the one that you're gonna pick? Right the easy stuff builds habits the hard stuff does not Except the easy stuff builds maladaptive habits that keep us glued to the disorder So we got a problem in that phase too, and then when it comes down to the reward phase We are in a situation where after we take our recovery focused actions you go and do your exposure You do your ERP work you do all that stuff you allow what you're feeling you stop trying to solve it You just try to move through it the best you can you will feel uncomfortable There the result there is that you will feel bad you won't feel good So there's actually no reward to be had there in the immediate thing So right immediately you're not gonna feel much of reward So you have to again use that like that human faculty that that we have because we have very big brains We have to look into the future to find the reward So we're literally trying to find you know a reward down the road This is no reward right now when you do your exposure I mean if you can keep your eyes focused on the prize down the road I mean we're gonna talk about that in other podcast episodes the process as opposed to the outcome We're gonna talk about all that stuff But right now if you can say well, I'm doing this for a reason. I understand why I'm doing it This is a process I have to follow and the outcome is down the road not today if you can keep your eye on that Okay, I did it nothing bad happened to me. I can learn from this That's your reward, but that's not nearly as powerful a reward as I took a Xanax and my anxiety went away Much more powerful reward there. So you're more likely to develop that habit than the recovery focus habit, right? So when you think about this It sort of sucks because when you want to form good habits You wear in a context in a state of disorder things Heidi where the situation the context is not conducive to form a good recovery Habits we really got to work on that. We have to look down the road. We have to uncover things that aren't intuitive We have to do the opposite. We got to think outside the box We have to accept long-term goals long-term rewards not immediate rewards So again, I'm gonna do a quick quote from the show notes on the podcast here If you want to go to the show notes, it's the anxious truth comm slash 190 basically I say Why that is forming good rehab recovery habits and therefore the whole process of recovery so difficult Because everything about the process requires that we look past the obvious and automatically condition things We must infer and compute cues to action that are not obvious to us and go against their natural grain We must look to future sometimes long delayed rewards We don't get to hit a lever and get a food palette like rats in a lab We have to find difficult activities that we can't see then do them to get delayed rewards that we can't feel This is what it takes to good to develop good recovery habits and none of that is easy So you understand why recovery is so hard We don't want to do this and that we have to start to form recovery habits And nothing about this is conducive to the way humans form habits naturally and effectively We got a really look ahead.  It sucks So in the end, it's hard to build recovery focused habits because we're asking you to Trade short-term discomfort no reward for a long-term gain Reward that you can't see right now and you can't feel right now and you just have to trust is going to come one day That does not make it easy to continually do exposures and do your ERP and go toward the fear and accept and stop fighting It doesn't make it easy at all Right doesn't that make it easy at all So I want to wrap up by just kind of Reminding you that it's really common when you struggle if you don't keep all of this in mind I know I threw a lot at you in this episode, but if you don't keep all this in mind It can be really easy to say I am just broken. I'm never gonna be able to get this Why can't I get this people ask all time? Why I don't understand why I can't get it Well, you do get it, but if you're not broken or two-week You're just like delightfully normal in your humanness like recovery so much of recovery is going against The grain of what we would normally do in our day-to-day non-anxious lives It is counterintuitive. It's opposite action. We hear about opposite action all the time in recovery That's actually a thing taking opposite action going against the grain looking for the long term instead of the short term None of that is easy none of it is easy because it just goes against what we're sort of conditioned to do on autopilot So recovery doesn't work on autopilot avoidance works on autopilot recovery is really active and it requires us to continually Continually come back to these concepts and remind ourselves why we're doing this. That's right. I know why I'm doing this I know why I'm doing this. I know why this is so hard I know why it's a struggle, but I understand why I'm choosing to struggle All right, so keep this stuff in mind This is the big two reasons why I think recovery that explains where recovery is so hard There's nothing to do with you being worse than everybody else or too weak or more broken It doesn't it just has to do with the fact that this has nothing to do with the way We've been involved to sort of solve problems. We are solving problems a completely unorthodox way in recovery But it's incredibly rewarding and just because it's difficult doesn't mean it's impossible There are people in this community surrounding this podcast the anxiety community online that are in the process and making it work Every day people have been through and come out the other side. So it difficult does not mean impossible. You could do it Just remember everything that you're hearing today File it away come back to this episode when you have to as a reminder that you're not broken It doesn't mean that you're broken let yourself off the hook and try again I ended this the show notes with practice makes progress in this game But only if you understand why you're doing this and why you're struggling. These are the two reasons why? All right, so this is episode 9 190 the truth wrap it up now I appreciate you guys coming to check it out play you out with the song afterglow here it is But my buddy Ben Drake you can find Ben Drake and his music at Ben Drake music comm That's the song you hear at the beginning and end of every podcast episode. 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never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children so part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households then we start making better investments. First they said concerned parents trying to stop the Marxist indoctrination of their kids were domestic terrorists claiming that parents don't even have a right to know what their kids are being taught. Now the communists are getting even bolder straight up saying that kids do not belong to their parents. They belong to the community i.e. the communist government this straight from MSNBC.


really good slider breaking ball you know the different shapes on that pitches was really good you know for getting into some jams and getting into some trouble he was still very pitch efficient you know and i thought he was you know doing a good job of getting ahead of guys uh... and then when when he was in some trouble he was really able to execute with any of his three pitches and uh... but yeah it was a great outing by him and what happened with map like misunderstood comment just should not have been thrown out of the game how good was Michael Copac what was he doing that was so great yeah he was he was yeah he was i thought he was really good you know when we faced him there last week you know he didn't have the same stuff that he had came to with tonight uh... you know really good fastball breaking ball and and command you know sometimes you can get him a going a little out of strike zone i thought he was dictating counts tonight and and and made it tough on us erin just generally how disappointing is it to get swept when you get those types of starting yeah i mean sure i mean and it's you know jaymo and and savvy to go out and pitch the way they did uh... you know you'd like to certainly pull down one but you know they they out pitched us today you know they they they were able to hold us down today uh... so yeah it's tough when you get those outing from jaymo and and savvy but that's part of it you know it's not it's not always going to be easy and and you know the other side had something to do with that with their uh... with their execution from from their starters what did you see from the wise ago i mean you know sheets get some with that and squibber down the line which is a killer and then he's still got a chance to get out of it makes it makes a big pitch to uh... to garcia to put himself in a position to get out of that inning and then he looked like he hung a slider uh... to vaughn on on the base it so uh... close little unlucky and then a mistake when he's got a chance to get out of it do you think he's been looked better tonight than he has previously or he's now i think his last couple he's he's been good again you know he had a couple hiccups early and i think he made some corrections with you know where it was on the mound some arm slot things and and and we saw it really come back like what his pitches should look like attack of the strike zone and he had that one outing where he struggled a few times ago felt like he locked it right back in and and tonight in a lot of ways he was fine it's just got unlucky almost pitch himself out and then makes a mistake there with two strikes uh... or with two out uh... anderson doesn't play game one donaldson doesn't play game two works out or did you guys discussed that uh... no now that's just you mean between the sides oh no now that was just happenstance


Hello and welcome to day 59 of the Coronavirus Mindfulness Challenge. Today is all about gratitude for breath, body, mind and soul. Hello and welcome to day 59 of the Mindfulness Challenge. Today we're going to be taking a look at how the breath, body and mind, how our body, mind and soul, we show gratitude for it, we show love for it. And this is a, we're going to go into a thankful gateway of love and happiness and gratitude for everything that sits around us. So allow us to have this beautiful meditation, this wonderful Sunday, it's a little bit later here, I'll be honest with you, I've been laying my leg up because I'm in a bit of pain, but hey ho, let's go on with it, mindfulness allows me to breathe through that. But I want you to come to a deep sense of peace and contentment and the reason why I've done a little bit later today as well is because this is a great meditation before you go to bed. OK, so we can just bring you down, but importantly for us, it's about having this gratitude, about having this, you know, being grateful for the breath, the body, mind and soul. Somebody said to me once, quite, I think it's quite a poignant saying, is that we're only generally grateful for something before we've had it and just after we've lost it. And we get this period in between where our gratitude and we take things for granted in that middle period.  And to be grateful for it, but be grateful for our heart and for our soul and for our body and for our mind. So straight away we're going to go into a meditation and I'm going to bring it all down because we're going to relax. OK, it's a beautiful Sunday. I'm going to bring a picture.  And as you exhale through your nose, just release the shoulders and take a few moments with a tension to breath, settling into a neutral upright posture and allowing your belly to soften. Shift your so shoulders back ever so slightly, lower your chin so the back of the neck is neutral and long. And with awareness of breath and posture, begin to intentionally generate a deep sense, a deep sensation of gratitude for the breath itself. As you watch, notice the breath moving in and moving out through the nose. Remember how precious this one breath is and this next one too. And invite the spaciousness of awe and wonder as you sit with the next three to five cycles of breath. Just breathing in, wonderment, breathing out, wonderment, breathing in awe and breathing out, breathing in gratitude and breathing out gratitude.  You may feel the heartbeat of the heart. Perhaps you can quietly, you can hear it. Still be aware of the breath but noticing and listening to the heart, inviting an awareness of the miracle of the heartbeat. And as we sit with this, we notice it for three to five cycles of breath. And still aware of the breath and the heartbeat, draw your awareness to the form of your human body. Here functioning, breath, breathing, heart, beating. And notice whatever arises and when we notice the unique fortune of our body and our human birth, here in this human body we know we have everything that you need to spiritually awaken. You have everything you need to find happiness, contentment and joy from within. There is an infinite capacity within you, infinite capacity for awareness, for love, for empathy, for compassion and importantly today for gratitude. Breath, breathing, heart, beating and a mind that can notice and understand, feel and discern. A mind whose capacity for awareness, understanding and growth is infinite. A mind whose capacity for notice in its true nature is right here, right now in your hands. Smile on the in-breath and smile on the out-breath. Just smile on the heartbeat, inviting love in every way for your body and kindness towards this mind. And just rest here now remembering you have everything you need, resting in gratitude for it all. And as the mind with its infinite capacity tries to draw you away, you keep coming back to the wonder of this one breath in, this one breath out. The magic of the heartbeat, the beauty in just being here.  Take a deep breath in, you feel so relaxed and so calm as we bring in the healing spiritual rays just to help bring down the day's levels just so you can be relaxed and calm Be with yourself with body, with mind and with soul. Smile on the in-breath in, smile on the in-breath out. Compassion in, compassion out. Breathing in love, breathing out love. Feeling the heartbeat every time makes you more relaxed, more comfortable and more at one with yourself. Invite your body now just to relax a bit more. Breathing in and breathing out. And you can feel this wonderful calmness just washing over your body, smiling on the in-breath, smiling on the out-breath. Feeling the joy, the love and the passion are all round you, created in this wonderful spiritual space. Bringing our awareness to how nice our body feels, how calm we are, how relaxed we are. In a few moments when we open our eyes we will feel at one with ourselves and at one with everything around us in a very relaxed and controlled manner.  It's a lovely meditation, it's quite short but it's powerful because it talks about things like breath and heartbeat and smiles and happiness and gratitude. And again, we have lots of things in this world that we can be grateful for. If you're alive there's more right than wrong and somebody once said to me, the only people who haven't got any problems are the ones that are dead. For us the challenges and the experiences in our lives help shape our future, help shape our journey that we can offer true empathy and experience.  And actually the realisation of the situation is we're alright, you know. And I think we're going to be alright, you know. So when you woke up this morning you said good morning Julian, I love you. Let's do this now, let's put our hands on our hearts and say God bless you, good night Julian, I love you. Good night, good night, God bless, I love you. Have a lovely Sunday and I'll see you tomorrow for day 60. Thanks very much, bye bye.


All right, cyber traders, welcome on back to close out this week, this Friday afternoon, January 21st. Shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern time, great to see John, great to see Chuck, Ari, Bill, a few of us rejoining us right now live inside our live trading room cyber group. That is great to see everyone there. Great to see all of us back on social media, Facebook Live, or YouTube. Let's hop right into it, folks. We have a lot to talk about here today, not just the crypto at the end. Of course, I'll be talking about the drop-off on Bitcoin over the last 48 hours. I'll give you more thoughts on it, perhaps over the weekend. I'll tell you more about that in a bit. Great to see Sam and Leda live inside cyber group as well. Perfect. All right, so for right now, folks, just to begin the VVOS on the screen for right now, it was moving up a little bit earlier, who was popping up nicely more from the morning and it actually broke above the high that we had back from Wednesday. So things were looking good on this trade and they were beginning to look good once again heading into the afternoon. But I feel like this is going to be the case, not even for a stock that was on the gainers list like VVOS, but just in general with the way the market's dropping off. Even if there's a stock near the highs, I feel like it's not going to show as much momentum to the upside going into the afternoon. So, hey, this VVOS is still very tradable, but I'm not particular about it right now. Looking a little bearish, lower highs for right now. All right, John says, super awesome call out, not regarding VVOS, but for all of us live inside cyber group at least, we were following Peloton going into pretty much the whole day. I mean, we were following Peloton from yesterday afternoon. We were killing it on the short then. I am in this trade right now, John. So to go over this stock pretty quickly, we were watching this, of course, right from the market open, made this big pop, then big drop off, presumably with the market at that time. And then with the market pretty much at the same exact time going into 1030, did we see it begin to make a nice bounce? Ended up bouncing up pretty nicely from above 24, and then from there took off pretty nicely. I didn't catch the long on the way up, but I was asking myself, much like a lot of us were asking themselves here inside cyber group, for as much as this stock is pumping back up and recovering from the big drop off that we had yesterday, when will this begin to go the other way? And hey, if you're a student that I do coaching with, even from today, a few of us that I was in on these one-on-one sessions with, you know the question is not actually when, the question is really where? Where will this bounce from? And that where, well, it wasn't perfect. At first it was. At first it was, John, in the insider live trading room, the 2834 level, that was a big print level that we had back yesterday. I think that was the first halt, or the first opening halt print that we had. And actually I'll tell you what, we'll do a little extra here today for this afternoon meeting. I'll quickly go back on my level four screen here, book map, 2834 had a 268,000 share print when it reopened up off its first halt yesterday when that news came out. So, you know, that was one of the few levels I was writing inside the chat board even yesterday. I ended up moving up there right away and I ended up shorting it at first on a smaller position, long story short, no pun intended there, John, but it's to say I ended up wasting the profit and pushed back up. I did not get chopped around as much around here. I was trying to play it and I was taking these break evens plus two, minus four and I was trying to find the sweet spot. I found the sweet spot. So, right now I'm short currently from 2849 I think I am in it, 48, 42.  I forgot the exact price, 46 I'm in from. I closed out half my position to begin with so now I'm back on 500 shares but for right now I'm going to let this baby ride. So, Peloton at least has a short following the market heading into the afternoon. This looks absolutely flawless. This looks incredible. There is one other stock that I'm currently in on right now for all of us live inside Cyber, maybe play a quick guessing game. What stock alongside Peloton, Peloton am I currently in if you're to take a guess? The second one I'm in is dropping off still like the Peloton, but not as steady. How about this? I'll cut everyone off early. Norman was the first to punch and he had it right. AMC. I am currently short also on AMC. This one was pretty on the fly though and we were following AMC as much as we were Peloton today. Dropped off with the market throughout the morning. This had a really nice bounce similar to Peloton right around 10.30 and then going into the early afternoon this was beginning to make a nice sharp squeeze up, but I was more interested in Peloton heading into this afternoon meeting and then I turned back to AMC. I'm going to actually copy and paste a chart that I have on my main trading platform that I show in coaching sessions. It's to say that I had a line and I set these lines up as early as 8.30 Eastern time this morning, but talk about flawless resistance. Once again, AMC off 18.58. I just held it like a rock. I turned right back to AMC as it was practically right there and I went for the short right in between 18.50 and 18.58. So once I pulled back, I just had a quick stop to hope to see if this can make the similar drop off as Peloton is and so far so good. It actually just held underneath 18 a moment ago here beginning to pull back. I think this is on a full leaf right now, 1000. AMC will put this on our watch list for the afternoon. Both are shortable still for my platform. If they're not shortable on your platform, check to see if you can get the shares. Hard to borrow does not always mean impossible to borrow, so you could use a program within your platform or maybe just do it the old fashioned way. Call your broker check to see if you can get the shares if it is listed hard to borrow, but nonetheless the AMC and the Peloton easily will put both of them on the afternoon list here to begin. All right, so folks, let's go right from top to bottom otherwise with the market dropping off, we're not going to find as much on the gainer's side here, right? Ah, I gotta do that. All right, so BSFC, my trader's dyslexia kicking in. No surprise, this is continuing to dump off right now. We were watching this right out the gate from the market open. It was making lower highs, lower highs, lower highs. Bam, lower low. Ended up breaking right under six and then it ended up shaking down pretty nastily from there. I'll tell you what, this was a day filled with, I guess, fortunate timing later inside Cybergroup. You know, I don't believe in luck. Good luck, bad luck, right? Either way, this was fortunate timing. I was in a coaching session with one of our students Rod at 1030 and we were looking at SoFi actually at the time and flipping through my book map page and I actually landed on BSFC right as, right as it was at four bucks. It was dropping off still at this point, but it was right at four, which is a major whole number level. So it's to say, hey, I mean, I had a lot at four and it's to say, if we could break through this level going back up, you know, that's the exact opportunity that we talk about and that we look for. So this just was incredible timing. It doesn't work out as clean as it did here all the time, but once it broke under and over from four, just squeezed up really nicely. I mean, we got out around 450-ish, you know, left a little change on the table there, but didn't go up much further from that point. You know, I guess you could say right now trying to make the same move here right now at four, but the first time is the best time. The second time, not so much. So, no, I only expect this to continue to pull back later on today, probably just weaken out over time this BSFC trade. There we go, Lata. She's cracking up inside the trading room. She says, quote from Josh, luck is for losers. I heard that a long while back. I forgot how to be honest, probably through a sports show or something, but that always stuck with me later. It's not about luck. It could be about timing, you know, good fortune, good timing, all of that, but the reason I entered is because it was right at my level. I knew that four was a big level, so it's not as much luck as it is just good timing plus skill. That's it, skill. All right, so we keep it going. Otherwise, folks, PT, this was looking good just a moment ago. It started to stall out a bit prior to us beginning this meeting here, but it's hard for us to not put this on our list for right now, PT. It's a cheap stock, more of a level one trade, if anything. It's almost too much like a level one stock. It's like watching the grass grow, but for right now with where this is in relation to its highs, this should easily be on our watch list here. All right, so I'm in no more trades aside from Peloton and AMC, by the way. Dave ended up making, actually, this is a wacky daily chart. Look at this daily chart here. This is the thing that just caught my eye. What the heck happened here over the last month or so really from the beginning of this year, dropped off from 10 to sub-5, then pushed all the way back up today close to 10. That's pretty interesting. Right now, though, just thin order book, it's moving a little flat right now over the last hour and a half. All right, so VVOS, I kind of started off with this one, right? And actually, over the last couple of minutes, it's trying to eat back up there. I wouldn't mind putting this on our main list here for the close, but I want to see if there's anything looking a lot better, though, in between right now. AMC is still dangling under 18. The LLNW trade here, it's kind of near the highs, but just super flat, super slow for right now. So I'm going to pass on this one for the meantime here. If it breaks higher as we go, then we'll reconsider. All right, BON, bond, pump and dump type of stock here, popped up early in the morning, got halted a couple of times. That second halt, I think, was a down halt from there game over. With the market dropping off, one of the few symbols, not even stocks, but symbols in particular are going up. Inversely to the markets here is UVXY, VIX, ETF. Ended up making a nice pop and then dropped, then pushing back up here as the markets were falling off, now perhaps pulling back over the last three to five minutes. But if you do well on ETFs, then you know who you are. If you're someone that's trying to play around, try and catch a quick trade, you can't use level three on an ETF, folks. It is extremely, extremely difficult to, at least. So please, unless if you're very experienced already, I would not suggest for anyone to really be trading ETFs using level three. All right, so keep it going here otherwise. Again, I'm not expecting for there to be a whole laundry list of stocks on the gainers side for right now. KPTI is a familiar name, at least up over 8%. I'll tell you what, this one, it's slowly moving on up and the issue with this one that I'm not too particular about now, it's only trading about three or so thousand shares a minute and that's not a whole lot right now.  So in terms of just opportunity cost, let's see if there's anything trading a little bit more volume. We've got pets here and then BDSI, then we'll jump over to the losers list. Yeah, all right. All right, so Netflix is still down over 20%, you know, very expensive stock. So if you're buying puts on it, that's one thing. But otherwise, I'm just going to focus on something more than our price range. C-O-R-Z. It is easy to borrow my platform, at least, trading 1.7 million shares. It's near the lows of the day. It's at all time lows. All of that, I'm pretty interested in. It's only trading about 2,000 shares a minute right now. It's like not a whole lot right now, folks. So, you know, it looked good. It smelled good. It's just trading a little light on the volume. Root here is trading a lot more volume per minute about 17,000, 18,000 shares per minute. But on the contrary, look at the order book. It's almost too liquid, too filled in. There's too much volume for it to break through in order for it to continue moving. But now we get to some familiar names here. Sunpower, SPWR. It's not to say this is always on our side list, but it's always tradable. The stock almost always is like tradable, good spread, good liquidity, shortable. It's dropping off from 1615-ish, pulling back pretty nicely right now. I don't mind adding this one for right now, the SPWR trade is a short micro strategy down big. And if you're unfamiliar with this, this is, how do I even say? The CEO of this company is a huge Bitcoiner, has been adding Bitcoin to his portfolio for like the last two years. One of the biggest, you know, and earliest to this bull market run within Bitcoin, but when MSDR is down 13.5%, you know it's not a good Bitcoin day. So with that, you have hot dropping off to another Bitcoin stock, not as big as like a Riot or Mara. Let's get to those right now. We'll look at some of the other stocks otherwise that we may have missed, then we'll do crypto at the very end. Riot down 11 plus, you know, kind of near the lows right now. So I wouldn't mind adding that to our list even as a possible short. VVOS, just to go back to this one, this one we kind of had on the side list for right now. And you know, hey, it hasn't dumped off since we started this meeting. So you know what, that's a little bit, that's a little good sign there. Hopefully this keeps pushing. We'll put this on our main list. All right, so folks, let me know if there's anything up, down, left, right, more than 5% that you would want me to look at or check out here pretty quickly. Take a quick water break, then we'll jump to Bitcoin for a brief moment. All right, quick question. I know that there's actually less of us here on a Friday normally inside Cyber Group. But, you know, quick question, is there anyone here? And I know there are people, but who here is interested in crypto in general, Bitcoin or any of the other coins out there?  All right. So I will talk about Bitcoin here coming up because obviously it's been getting crushed, but I want to do a more like formal video on it. I'm going to post it on our YouTube channel. So I'm going to look to try and do this by Sunday the latest. I hope to get it up by tomorrow, Saturday over the weekend. If not Saturday, then just, you know, keep following our YouTube channel. It'll be up by Sunday. I'm going to post it on our YouTube channel. So for all of us live inside Cyber Group, that is simply youtube.com slash cyber trading you. I post that right there in the chat board for all of us on YouTube. Well, you know where to go. So for right now, though, at least, let me just pop up Bitcoin because I wanted to share this. I've been following the 500 EMA here on the daily chart. And I was saying, well, it's not going to shock me to see this begin to pull back down to the 500, dip a bit under it. I think this is a little bit more than a little bit under it. And that's my concern. I was thinking that we would see this begin to kind of chop around here for a little bit. Slow break, small little breaks under the 500. And then for it to eventually, you know, move back up. That was at least, you know, a thought that I had in minds. And that's why when this was beginning to pull back over the last week, you know, I wasn't kicking my feet up, sipping a margarita, but I wasn't sweating bullets. I'm still not sweating bullets, but I thought this would have made a shorter drop off than what we're getting here. So, you know, that's where we have to think in terms of a more macro look as far as what happens if this really was the top. What happens if this does begin to retrace like the last two peaks back over the last eight years, back from 2013-2014, and then going into 2017-2018, well, from peak to bottom, how far did it retrace? Now, that's something I'm going to talk more about on this video I'll be putting up on our YouTube channel over the weekend. So for as bullish as I am, to which I still am, we have to observe and analyze all scenarios, folks. So now at this point, I'm going to look to do that and over this weekend, I'll post a video coming up as far as where I could anticipate Bitcoin to possibly drop down to if things continue to get worse. If things hold here, where could we potentially expect Bitcoin to bounce or rather, when? So I'll show a couple of different indicators. I'll also show a new website that I ended up finding that incorporates the volume aspect of it, almost like a bookmap type of thing here for crypto. So I look forward to that. I'll show that over this weekend. All right, folks. So again, for that, just go right on our YouTube channel. And again, if it's not up by tomorrow afternoon, it will be up by Sunday afternoon, if anything. All right. All right. So folks, that's all you got for me, at least for today. If there's any last stocks that are making a bit of a move up or down, type it in the chat board now or forever hold your peace. I'm kidding when I say that, of course. But no, seriously, if there's any other stocks, definitely let me know. The VVOS is showing its strength here, so I'm happy we put this on our main list. IMTE end of day thing again. Uh-oh. Back to back, Chuck. You had that call out yesterday and it was doing all right at first, but then the volume again, it was kind of thin. So it's like a grinder of a trade into the close, but you know what? The way it looks, right? It's hard for us to not put this on our watch list. The liquidity is pretty thin. So that's something I'd be pretty careful of. It's not even up a whole lot percentage, pardon me, percentage-wise, but it is to say, just looking at this daily chart, you know, breaking day over day highs for right now, not at all time highs, at least back from 2017 or so here, multi-year highs, looks like back from 2020 topped off at 1331. You know what, Chuck? It's interesting. I'm actually going to yank my own leash right now. I'm going to say, you know what?  The liquidity is just a little thin. I like the fact that this is trending up. It's breaking above the highs over the past week or two, a really nice run, but I'll keep this on the side list.  We have LLNW from Scott. It's trying. It's like eakin' back on up, and this one's, you know, a much safer stock in relation to try and follow. You know, it's up 13%. Trying to make that push. I'm going to keep this on the side for right now, Scott, not because it's too volatile. I think it's too slow. So if it does pop above 425, that could be a pretty interesting setup. And that's something perhaps you can keep in mind, maybe around like 315 Eastern time once things begin to pick back up again. The YMI trade, WIMI from Kirk. It's up 3.5%. Great order book. I love the order book there. It's not up a whole lot, but it's breaking above or trying to break above the high that we had back from yesterday. And I think the stock also, if I'm not mistaken, to which I could be, I thought the stock had some activity in the pre-market. Yeah, it did. Yeah, this had a ton of activity in the pre-market just yesterday. It didn't make for any, like, respectively good traded whatsoever, but maybe that was the calm before this storm here. I mean, we could only hope. So actually, given that, I'm more keen towards the YMI stock for right now. GMDA from Norman. Well, this push right now, at least as I've been flapping my gum so far. Yeah, the way this looks, definitely going to put this on our watch list for right now, up over 11.5% or just about, and making a stronger push than that YMI trade even. Nice. All right, couple stocks to add to our list right now as well there. From RJF asking about the SoFi trade. It's just choppy. It's a chop fest. It's very tradable. So if you're already in it looking for some sort of move, I wish the best on it. I traded this earlier as a short from 1438, very important level that we were kind of harping on this week. I wish I could say I shorted it all the way down to 1371. I did not. I got out above 14, but I did long at RJF from 1371. That was a pretty important level back from, I think, Wednesday's trading. But for right now, though, it's trading over 115 million shares. It traded double that yesterday, but the more volume the stock trades in this tight range. I'm just not expecting as clean or clear of a move in any direction up or down. But if the markets continue to drop off, then I would assume that there is a good chance that this will go with it. All right. So folks, I think that just about wraps it up for me here. All in all, we got about three, six, seven stocks to work with in total. Not too big, not too little. So if there is anything else otherwise that does make a bit of a move over the next 70 or so minutes, we'll look to call it out here live inside the trading room. For all of us on social media, Facebook, live, YouTube, I appreciate you sticking with me each and every day, each and every afternoon. If you have any questions that you would like to send over my way, feel more than free to do so. I always like to post my email address here on the stream, josh at ctutrading.com. If you wanted to join us live inside our live trading room, feel more than free to go right down to the link on the banner below there in green to get yourself started just on a week-long trial. And also, last reminder on the Bitcoin crypto video I'll be looking to put out over the weekend. Just go right to our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash cyber trading U. I don't have a time set, so just keep looking across Saturday or Sunday afternoon. And by Sunday, it will be up, I imagine. All right, folks, I'm going to jump on to a coaching call coming up at three. I'll be back on right at 3.30 to wrap things for us here going into the end of this week. Talk to you soon.


Well, it's a great pleasure to greet this team here, this all-star team, the Team America. And it marks quite a few firsts, and we hope one yet to be. And that is the first appearance in the World Cup series of an American team. And what we're hoping for is that maybe this would lead to the World Cup for the first time in its history being held in the United States. I was a little worried about the Rose Garden being kind of confining here for all of them, and worried that they might be attracted by the expanse of the South Lawn and we'd lose them. That's why we turned the water on out there. But they'll be playing, and we'll have an opportunity to see them because they'll be playing in the North American League. And in your first game two weeks ago, you defeated Seattle in that league. But soccer, as you know, is a worldwide sport, and has been increasing in popularity here in America just by leaps and bounds in the last few years. So we're very proud and happy to have this team and to be represented for the first time in the World Cup. And I can't resist doing a little reminiscing and telling you gentlemen a little story that has to do with American football and soccer. But years ago, in the days of a coach named Canute Rockney at Notre Dame, and it was the great and famous football school of the time, and he would have squads of more than 100 men turn out and then he had to cut the squad. And one day he figured out that maybe an easy way to get right down to cutting the squad was on the first day he divided them up into two groups, one here and one here, and he went out with a soccer ball and put it down, and he said now, and he made a little speech and he said, football's a game of courage. And he said, you know, I want that group to try and kick the ball across that goal line, and this one you try to stop them and kick it across that goal line. And he said, of course, you know, you may have to do a little shin kicking at same time, but as I say, football's a game of courage, and all right. And he looked down and the soccer ball was gone. And he said, all right, come on, who took the soccer ball? And the littlest guy and the hundred fellas out there said, never mind a ball rock, when do we start kicking? Well, I think you'll have to mind the ball at the same time. And what we will say, though, is start kicking. And God bless you and we're all very proud of you. Thank you. You have some presentations, Mr. President. The soccer ball, Team America's soccer ball signed by all the members of Team America, as well as the coach and the staff. So we'd like you to have that. And when we win the World Cup, we'd like you to hold on to that. I will hold on to it. And if I hold on to it, you can't ask me to kick it. This is a jacket, Mr. President, that says commander in chief, Team America. Well, hey, thank you very much. And the pants to go with it. You actually sat without it. Well, thank you all very much. Don't take it back and hold it for you, Mr. President. OK, well, I guess that's it. Yes, thank you very much. I'd like you to meet some of the people over there. Oh, come along. All right. To visit with you, if you would. All right. Right. Right. Thanks a lot. Give me the tickets, Jeff. OK, guys, we're running. I guess that's it. Well, yeah, I don't know about it. Is that a little Ted Kopp? That's the way it was. That's the way it is. I want to see him. I want to see something.  Jeff, throw in a picture. Picture. Come on, we got a team picture, Jeff. Hey, come on, come on. Small guys in front. One line down, one line. Mucho fast, guys. Come on, come on. Right here in the middle, Mr. President.  Right here, Mr. Joe Mano. Take the tickets. Press pass. OK, that's a good one. OK, don't get excited. OK. We can do some roadtrikes after one o'clock. Yeah. OK. OK. Take it. Take it. Thank you. Dude, you got something. Excuse me? No. OK. Thank you very much. We'll let yourself do any game you want to play. Alice, I think. OK. Thank you, man. Take care. Take care. Take care. No chance. Yeah, come on.


All right, moving on to our next category, which is impactful debuts. To join Mr. Giri on stage, may I invite one of our jury members, Mr. Deva Gushal, head marketing and key accounts holders, UBSG, along with him, Mr. Vinicent, CEO North Big Bazaar. Request you to find gentlemen to please come up on stage and join Mr. Giri for acknowledging and felicitating the top five impactful debuts of the country. Let's find out who the shortlisted nominees are. In this category, we shortlisted brands which made an impact at the time of launch and post launch, the kind of engagement activities that they did for engaging with the customers and eventually market performance. We have a great set of shortlists and you will see the winners shortly.


We thank you so much that you have come up here. Can you please tell us your name and where you are from? My name is Marina. I'm Richland, Washington. And Marina, can you tell us your amazing testimony? I had an earache for about three months or so. I couldn't hear well. I started losing hearing. I thought maybe I'm just getting old. But it would bother me. I couldn't hear at work. I do lots on the phone, and I couldn't hear right. And it would always clog. So I went to a doctor. And doctors said, well, nothing really wrong. That's probably your nose. Your sinuses? Sinuses. Yeah, so he gives me drops. I tried those drops for three weeks, and it didn't work. So then I went back again. I said, well, I have to send you to a specialist because something really wrong. So I thought, well, maybe I'm going to go in a new year. When it's going to be new insurance, I'm just going to go and see a doctor. But on Saturday, when Vladimir was preached and was offering a prayer of healing, I said, well, if you have a sick part of your body, just put your hand. I said, well, wait a minute. I have to wait until next year. So I just took a fade, and I put my hand on my ear. And as we were praying, I started really coughing. I didn't know what happened. I just started coughing. And as I was coughing, something just popped and leaked water out. Something leaked out of your ear? Yes, some liquid leaked out. And I kind of forgot about it. And in the end, I said, well, if you see a difference, wait a minute, I can hear. So I was so excited that God healed me. Wow, come on. And can you tell us, since then, it was just this Saturday, and now it is Wednesday. Can you tell us what happened in between that time? Well, then when I came home, it's kind of coming back again. And then I remember, like, Alexandra and Anya, they say, well, you should fight for your healing. And I said, well, no, Satan, not this time. Healing is mine, and it's belong to me.  And a couple hours later, just keep coming. I said, nope, this is mine. Healing is mine. And since then, since Monday, today is what? Wednesday. And I'm just fine. I can hear well, and probably hear too much.  That's amazing. Now, Marina, can you tell those that are watching, those that are here, and those that are on livestream, maybe they're dealing with the same thing, maybe a sickness that they're battling with, and maybe it's been for two months or for a year or even longer, what would you advise them? I would advise never underestimate your prayer, no matter there is no sickness big or small, even though, like, an earache, maybe somebody think, well, just the ear, but when it's yours, there is big. So just pray and believe and God will answer. Just never give up, even though many sickness keep coming back, just proclaim your healing. Amen. Thank you so much, Marina. Give her another hand of applause, you guys. Wow.


The abstract discusses the complexity of defining abstract metabolic syndrome, METS, as a cluster of interconnected factors that increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus type 2, with several different definitions causing confusion. It suggests the need for uniform criteria to define METS for comparisons between studies and better identification of patients at risk. The application of the METS model has not been fully validated in children and adolescents, and its increasing prevalence in this population warrants a focus on established risk factors for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. This article was offered by Cortses Gregory, Pavanidu Panagiotta, Cassie Eva, and others.


FGF-19 plays an important role in cartilage development and physiology, and it has been identified as a potential therapeutic target for skeletal metabolic diseases. It has also been shown to stimulate mitochondrial biogenesis and fusion in chondrocytes, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. This study investigates how FGF-19 affects mitochondrial biogenesis and fusion in chondrocytes, and reveals that this process is mediated by the binding of FGF-19 to its receptor, followed by activation of the AMPK-PGC-1-ALPHAT-SIRT-1 pathway. Furthermore, inhibiting the P38MAPK signaling pathway reduces the effects of FGF-19 on mitochondrial biogenesis and fusion, suggesting that this pathway may be involved in regulating the effects of FGF-19 on chondrocyte metabolism.


My name is Andrei Rene, and I'm from Canada. I'm the founder of a movement called Catholic Christian Outreach, which is basically a university student movement that is dedicated to evangelization, to going out and finding those Catholics who have wandered away and to bring them back by introducing them to the person of Jesus Christ, inviting them to open their heart to Him, and that conversion that they experience opens their eyes to the wonders and the beauty of the Catholic Church. Now, this idea of encounter, it's intriguing for most Catholics that we can have a relationship with Christ. For most Catholics, this has eluded them. They're aware of doctrine and devotion. What's missing in the middle is this relationship. Now, there's been a lot of talk about this encounter, this having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, conversion, and intimacy with God. What do we really mean by that? If we encounter God, how do we know that we've encountered God? Or if we haven't encountered God, we're asking the question, how do I encounter Him? If it's an experience, how do I experience that? It's a question we need to be able to answer because many of our brothers and sisters have wandered away because they haven't had this encounter. They're not experiencing this personal relationship. So if they're on the outside looking in and they're asking the question, okay, how do I experience this? We need to have an answer. There's much that could be said, and we need to talk about this, how we can encounter the systematic experience of encounter. How does it happen? We need to have this discussion. I would like to suggest that the very center of it, the critical point of it all, is actually choice, making a choice, us choosing, using our free will to say, yes, I want this relationship because that's the nature of relationship, isn't it?  In a concrete way, you have to say, I love you back.  Love needs a response and I think at the heart of evangelization and inviting those Catholics who have wandered away, who want to encounter, experience this personal relationship, that we need to invite them into this decision, the activation of free will in their lives and saying, yes, I hear that you love me God, I want to love you back, I open up my heart, my life to you.


We're surrounded by the Internet of Things, thousands of sensors relating data from cars, factories and stores. These sensors and the data they produce ensure safe driving, food safety and efficient production. However, there is much more we can do with the large amounts of information that is generated. At IBM Research, we're developing AI technologies to connect and understand data in ways never seen before. It's a general purpose, artificially intelligent, multi-dimensional knowledge graph for IoT. It combines reasoning with machine learning to analyse and understand very large data sets in real time. This enables new insight from complex systems at scale.


They come from every walk of life, from every state in the Union. Some are just beginning their work of healing.  There is a common bond which draws these men and women together. Whether in Europe or Southeast Asia, Hawaii or Africa, there is the great work of helping the helpless and the biding pride in being members of the Corps. From the great centers of military medicine here at home to the Army medical installations overseas from any area in the world, wherever the need may arise, comes their story. The story of the United States Army nurse. The men and women who become Army nurses may be student nurses or graduate professional nurses who have had hospital experience. To each, the Army nurse Corps represents the epitome of the nursing profession. Here a career in the Corps can span a lifetime of rewarding service and adventure in foreign lands. Where does it all begin? Major Shearer? Yes. I'm Mary Fran Stark. Well, how do you do, Sergeant Boone Call, that you'd be coming in? Won't you have a seat? Thank you. It begins when the applicant consults an Army nurse Corps counselor who provides each nursing candidate with specific information on programs which are tailored to the qualifications of the individual. It's a good possibility. We would have to call Washington and let them know when you would be coming on active duty and if they have an opening at that time, you're guaranteed... Is there any particular clinical specialty that you're interested in? Yes, there is. I've been working in pediatrics and I just love working with children. Well, you've certainly come to the right place for that. You know, we do take care of dependents as well as active duty military. And our military community is booming with children. So before we go any further, do you think I could get some information from you? Fine. Sergeant Boone did give me your name and address but I'd like to find out a little bit more about your educational and experience background.  Yes, Incarnate Word College. Oh, Incarnate Word. I know Sister very well. That's fully accredited by the National League for Nursing. It sure is.  Yes. Single? Yes, I am. Temporarily. No, for a long time. Oh, really? You are currently licensed as an RN, right? Right. Here in Texas? No, in New Mexico, my home state. Oh. Well, that's fine. Aside from qualified registered nurses who wish to join the military medical team, applicants also come from civilian hospital schools of nursing or from universities where they are enrolled in a program leading to a baccalaureate degree in nursing. Depending upon the type of program in which the student is enrolled, the Army provides financial assistance during one or two years of their education. It is with pride that student nurses in every state of the Union wear this small pin, a symbol of their participation in one of the Army's programs. It is a passport too and an assurance of an exciting tour of duty in the ANC. In exchange for the Army's financial assistance and after graduation and completion of their state board examinations, those students who have participated in such programs serve two or three years on active duty as commission officers in the United States Army Nurse Corps. In addition to adapting to a new body image, the adolescent has a second developmental task that's very important. It's that of emancipation from his parents. And when he declares his independence of his parents, he makes the emancipation proclamation of 1861 look like small stuff indeed. A class in child psychology. These are students at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing, which is a baccalaureate program with the University of Maryland. All of these students' educational expenses, plus a monthly salary, are financed by the Army. It looks very attractive and yet he's afraid of it. And there are many advantages then of being a child because he might fail. The parent, on the other hand, he sees that his adolescent is looking very adult and would like him to behave like the adult that he appears to be. Their instructors are Army nurses, all highly qualified, full-time faculty members of the University of Maryland. So every activity then of daily life. Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas is the home of the Army Medical Field Service School. For each new Army nurse, this is the starting point of service to the nation and to mankind. Newly commissioned nurses undergo five weeks of basic training to orient them to military customs and traditions and to prepare them for their role as part of the worldwide U.S. Army Medical Department team. Welcome to the United States Army Medical Field Service School. For the next few weeks while you are here at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, you will be learning about the Army and its organization. And about the Army Medical Department and your role as members of the Army Medical Team. As newly commissioned officers in the Army Nurse Corps, you should realize that you are now members of the oldest corps of uniformed women in the military service. While you are here, you will be learning about the uniform, how to wear the uniform, and how to act the military courtesies and customs. We'll see how they have lettered from left to right using all letters with the exception of India and Oscar, I and O. It is important for Army nurses to understand the mission and organization of the Army Medical Department as well as having a knowledge of map reading, supply channels, and the methods and concepts of modern warfare. Until we exhaust it and then come into our uniform series with Bravo, Charlie, Delta on a ramp. The entire world is subdivided this way. There is much to learn about field equipment and how nurses adapt their knowledge of nursing to the care of patients in the Army's mobile field hospitals. I'm so excited that you've been involved with here at Camp Bullis. Now, I hope you can bring out some very constructive questions and have an interesting question and answer period. May I have some questions, please? Are all the operating rooms the separate suites the way they are out here? They're usually separated with the sheeting material that you saw. But depending upon the supply or depending upon the physical setup of this given unit they may or may not be, so it must be very, very flexible in our setup. May we now have another question? Yes. Are all the patients in the operating room moved in and out as fast as they were this morning? Depending upon the extent of injury and the length of time needed for the operative procedure. Now then, simulating the exercise this morning... For all members of the medical team a thorough knowledge of the chain of evacuation to remove the wounded from combat areas is most important. Aside from the formal orientation course here at the Army's Medical Field Service School new Army officers form new friendships and begin to develop a feeling of belonging. All share the experience of being part of one of the most comprehensive nursing services in the world. Oh, by the way, we wanted to ask you a question. At the same time these new Army officers learn that a modern-day Army post is a complete community within itself. The post exchange, a general merchandise facility makes shopping interesting and convenient. Wherever they may be stationed Army personnel can see first-run feature films at post-motion picture theaters and at the same time enjoy the companionship of others. National facilities provide the nurses with active pastimes during their off-duty hours. Many enjoy the excitement of bowling. Outdoor recreation is concerned. Post facilities often include large swimming pools where a refreshing plunge can be enjoyed by all. Of course, on-large Army posts afford fine facilities comparable to civilian courses. Up-to-date libraries provide all kinds of reading matter and research material. Every man and woman in service have the opportunity to worship regardless of religious persuasion. Social life in the Army is both exciting and colorful. The officers of the Army Nurse Corps are very much a part of that life. At the officers' clubs and at parties and private homes the Army Nurse forms new friendships often lasting through a lifetime. Wow, that's not too far from your home. Down in Florida, Panama City. That's right, just 190 miles away. That'll be real fun. City old folks, huh? You better believe my feeling now. In this ever-changing atmosphere of good times and joyous human relationships the Army Nurse finds relaxation and respite from her daily service to mankind. We certainly hope so. In fact, we plan to live in the nurse's quarters which is adjacent to the hospital. It's just beautiful just out of this room. Well, how long do you think you're going to be a vet? Well, six months. What you thinking about then? Europe, maybe? Europe, right? Wow. Five weeks of orientation program goes swiftly by for the new Army Nurse Corps officers. Then it's goodbye to Fort Sam Houston and on to the first duty assignment as a member of the Army Medical Department team. As they leave, they will be headed for all parts of the globe on their first assignment. Though the majority are first assigned to a hospital within the U.S., others come directly into the Army with the guarantee of a specific assignment. Sometimes this guarantee includes a stateside hospital, but such assignments are also available in Europe, Alaska, Hawaii, Korea, and other parts of the world. Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, California is an example of the type of hospitals within the Army's modern hospital system, a system which stretches around the world, perhaps the first assignment will be to join the staff at Fitzsimmons General Hospital, high above sea level in picturesque Denver, Colorado. If overseas, it may be a tour of duty at the Shape Hospital in Casto, Belgium, or perhaps it will be the hospital at one of the world's most famous medical centers, the Army's Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C. In addition to thousands of servicemen and their families, this great hospital serves many distinguished leaders of our nation, so it begins the great work. From major medical centers to smaller post-hospitals, the Army nurses perform their daily duties in many ways and many places. Now just relax, let the machine help you breathe. That's a good girl. That's a very good sweetie. Yeah, that's a good sweetie. You're still coming. Mrs. Rogers? Good morning. We're going to be turning you over on your back here. And what you'll be doing every two hours, continuously around the clock, now we're going to have you very secure in the frame, and it'll take two people to turn you. There's no chance of you falling out. Are you ready to go in orbit with us? Flashed off. Now that wasn't too bad, was it? No, ma'am. At least we didn't lose you. Now you'll be turned every two hours. The purpose of this is really for your circulation and you're not going to be up walking around until we get you out of here, which we hope is soon. Now you can move your hands, you can turn your head from side to side, you can talk, you can eat, anything you want to do, even your stomach or on your back. Just let us know and we'll help you. Thank you, that's very impressive. I understand we're going to do a collageogram on this patient. Yes, that's what the 212 says. We have a 1080x table out there. Do you know if X-ray has been notified? Sergeant Lee said he will come over take the X-rays himself personally today. If you're ready, Colonel Osnick, we can have Sergeant Douglas bring the patient in for us. Yes, the patient may be brought in any time. The most important thing to remember about this whole procedure, Sergeant, is that when you're wrapping, you remember to use the figure 8 rather than a circular motion. And you leave the knee open so that he has movement there. How does it feel, Jim? It feels good. Good. Do you have any questions, Sergeant? Do you normally use the 6-inch bandage? It depends on what we're wrapping. We're wrapping an arm or a leg, but for a leg, yes, a 6-inch. Well, Jim, now I think it's time that you throw away that wheelchair and start using the crutches. Boy, I can't wait. Now, Mrs. San Diego, it's important that you relax, just like I gave you instructions a little bit ago. Do you mind? I'll think so, I'll try. I'll help you. Is there a contraction starting? Yes, there is one. Okay, now, just breathe easy. Open your mouth. Breathe slowly. Slowly. That's the girl. It's going away now, isn't it? Yes. Is it completely gone? No, not complete. And now, isn't it? Yes, okay. I'll check the baby to see how the baby is. The baby's fine. Did you want a boy or a girl? A boy. Well, Dr. Vanchieri asked me to come over and see how the muscle exercises were going. Well, they seem to be doing wonders. Well, which ones did he give you to do? The main exercise was to move a bright-colored rattle in front of his eyes and see if he would follow it. Okay, let's see how he does. Look up there. You're not going to look at me, are you? Hey, look, Kevin. Well, he seems to be doing a lot better. I'm looking for my daughter, Mrs. Apple Simmons. She's in that room over there. How much do you weigh, sir? 165 pounds. The army is proud to have these men and women serve within their ranks. And the tireless efforts of these nurses do not go unrewarded. In return, the army provides every opportunity possible to grow and develop professionally. The education process which merely began for the newly commissioned officer at Fort Sam Houston is a continuous one. On a recipe that we'll give you later in the lecture. Now, we have a problem with the iodine tablet, and that is after exposure to heat to moisture and to light, it will decompose and change in its form partially to iodide, as you see with this second tablet. Now, this second one, the wider color, is only about 50% of the strength of the metallic gray tablet. Now, with this, we will have to double our recipe then for the individual disinfection of the water canteen. Now, the next tablet, the rust color tablet. As army nurses gain experience, they often select a specialty area in which they wish to work professionally. The army not only provides an opportunity for nurses to work in their chosen specialty, but conducts courses in such specialties as operating room, anesthesia, maternal and child health, medical surgical nursing, and psychiatric nursing. There are also apprenticeship programs for those who are interested in army health nursing. In addition to this, each year nurses are selected to attend civilian colleges and universities on a full time basis to complete bachelors, masters and doctoral programs. These programs lead to advanced degrees in many clinical specialties. One example is the Army-Baler University program in health care administration given at the Medical Field Service School Brook Army Medical Center Fort Sam Houston, Texas. After successfully completing academic requirements and a year of residency training, nurses selected to attend this course receive a master's degree in hospital administration from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Almost one third of all army nurses are on duty in overseas medical installations. This hospital in Munich, Germany is one of the finest American military hospitals in Europe. A simulated mass casualty exercise in Nuremberg, Germany is typical of the field exercises which keep men and women of the Army medical team alert and ready. Handling a sudden influx of serious burn cases in an emergency situation demands the utmost in care and efficiency, not only from the doctors and the nurses but from all members of the medical team. In every sense, the Army's medical team serves on a worldwide scale. Army nurse corps officers are to be found in this military dispensary in Heidelberg, Germany. There are similar installations in other countries throughout the world where American military personnel are stationed. Across the world in sunny Hawaii, other army nurses serve at Tripler General Hospital, one of the finest military medical centers outside the continental United States. Army nurses fulfill a variety of assignments in Korea, Okinawa, Thailand and Japan. Though some of the hospitals in these areas may be smaller, they still have the latest medical equipment and provide the same high standards of nursing care found in Army hospital stateside. The role played by the women of the U.S. Army nurse corps in helping to organize and train the nurses of Korea is unforgettable. It is due in large part to these American military nurses that the Army of the Republic of Korea has created its own highly effective Army nurse corps. Patient care and nursing procedures followed by the Korean Army nurse corps today are not unlike the methods of the U.S. Army nurse corps. Combat the wounded. From jungle battlefields and villages they come. Mercy helicopters flying them to the portals of life and the Army nurses are there meeting the test in this hour of trial, adding a new chapter to the proud history of the corps. When life and death are only a heartbeat apart the men and women of the Army surgical teams are at their magnificent best. Thanks to the mobility of today's military medical facilities the U.S. Army surgical field and evacuation hospitals are only minutes away from forward battle for the Army nurses. Those who wear the mask and gown are warriors too fighting for the survival of every wounded soldier entrusted to their care. In the recovery stage the helpless are comforted by the knowledge that they are in the hands of one of the finest medical teams on earth. At a small farming village in the coastal lowlands of South Vietnam Army nurses work with the medical civil assistance team to fight disease among the people The war waves of Vietnam seem as a magnet to the American Army nurses. As an expression of their deep compassion military nurses spend many hours and days of their own free time helping the overcrowded war orphanages in South Vietnam. The joy of these small children at seeing an Army nurse is only one of the rewards. Whether in a combat zone or back home in America romance cannot be denied. The Army's nurses meet and marry the man they have waited for while serving on the military medical team. The U.S. Army nurse corps makes every effort to station married nurses where they can be together with their husbands. Even if the husband is a member of some other branch of the U.S. armed forces these concurrent duty assignments can often be arranged. The Corps of United States Army nurses was founded in 1901. Throughout the years of its existence the Army nurse corps has matured militarily and professionally. As the oldest women's corps in the U.S. military service the uniforms worn by Army nurses are appropriate for the area to which they are assigned. Today's Army nurses are pace centers in the nursing world because of their untiring efforts to find better ways to serve the injured and infirm. New skills developed by the Army open broad horizons within the profession for these inquiring and dedicated men and women. In all of the many fields of nursing care the members of the U.S. Army nurse corps excel. Their opportunities to serve in clinical specialties are unlimited. Like all professions nursing follows the triad of service, education and research. At the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research the Department of Nursing carries out studies to base clinical nursing practice upon known scientific principle. Today's research is tomorrow's practice. The mission of the Army's worldwide medical team is to conserve the nation's fighting strength. Through their proud profession the Army nurses have always fulfilled that mission and more. In the performance of their duties these men and women are the givers of hope the symbol of life. Simply, they are the United States Army nurse corps.