Hey there, this is Christy. Welcome and I've been doing daily uploads in this month of April 2019 and today I was just kind of inspired to go back to the reading that I did for 2019 I did this reading a couple days before of the new year and Just kind of went through 2019 by quarter So I did a re-listen, and I was really struck by just how accurate It it was so far and especially How accurate what came up in that reading is to kind of the messages. I'm getting right now for April so what I thought I'd do today is just take that piece for this coming quarter for April May June of this year and Play that again for you because I think it might be helpful It certainly it feels helpful to me to revisit that it feels like there there is There's always a major shift going on lately, isn't there? But But we are moving this is moving towards this summer solstice season, which I'm feeling it's going to be pretty powerful and Preparing for that. So I'm gonna play that for you right now, and I'll have a little bit of kind of I'm going to have a little bit more to add at the end from the perspective of today right here moving forward and looking forward for the next three months so I hope you enjoy and Catch again after this has played and talk a little bit more about what's coming forward We're going to look at first of all this is for the second quarter of 2019 and Looking at the Aries season, which would be late March around the equinox to late April Okay, and if you are an Aries this may resonate with you for the entire 2019. Otherwise, we're looking at You know, just kind of forecast for that season turtle Just kind of feeling into Turtle and what that might be telling us for this early spring period of 2019 and It's like moving forward with caution That's what I'm getting here. So this whole Reading so far has been really don't go too fast You know move forward, but you know, look how steadfast this turtle is. He's stepping forward. He really looks like he's You know He knows where he's going he's really deliberate and you're not going to Distract him here, but he's also, you know, he can pull into his shell at any moment So what this is enabling him to do is Because he's not allowing himself to feel rushed and he's also You know determined to move ahead, but it's allowing him to go slowly enough to just Not like, you know to breathe. Okay, just to He's not anxious at all, right? so this is really about staying grounded and I think this is important because this could be a year of a lot of shake-ups Like I said, we've had a lot of energy shifting and there's gonna be, you know, that's a period of change Like I just feel like we just came through like this past this winter solstice feels to me like this tipping point where We're really going to see now things starting to shift and eventually though they're shifting for more of a Solar plexus kind of power oriented world to one that's more heart oriented and more connection oriented But in the process That's you know that that can it can be maybe a little rocky, right as this shift happens It may kind of go back and forth from one to another or pockets of You know sometimes When something is being displaced it starts to fight back. So there might be some of this happening So what turtle is really saying is, you know, move forward and Just, you know, keep the protection around you like keep your spiritual protection around you You know, don't feel like if we bullied or rushed though, right? Okay, so the next Card will be for the following month the season of Taurus, which would be late April through late May If you were Taurus, this may resonate with you for all of 2019 than was This is for the season of Taurus 2019 lizard So like I said, these are cards that I am not not familiar with and I'm not sure we feel into it because lizard is not I don't know don't have lizards in upper Michigan Not to my knowledge is pretty far north for them. So it's not an animal. I've been working with a lot lately And I know there are lots of different kinds of lizards and Part of it is seeking the sun and I'm really seeing these yellow dots on this particular lizard as solar is kind of sunlight So really remembering as we move forward into the summer is to continue to hold ourselves to the light to continue to Really focus and vision on the lights. Okay, whatever that means to you, you know, whatever is in alignment with You know divine purpose You know that has that kind of that's what I mean by light that does not mean that dark is always bad, right? You know, so I'm hoping that you understand what I mean by dark light in this context But really staying focused on that like bringing it in sunning ourselves, right? So any kind of a lot of these creatures like lizards snakes, it's co-blooded. So like This is speaking I think to the ego here You know the ego being unable like I'm talking the lower ego just is not connected. It's separated And so it's almost like a cold-blooded thing. It can't The ego cannot light itself up, right for that it needs to hold itself up to You know up to creator up to The divine right and it's when we're really connected with the divine then that gives us the energy to move forward That gives the warmth that really Brings everything to life in a beautiful way so Summertime again, there may be shake-ups really encouragement is to Stay focused on the light bring in the light and you know, even if there are some things that are Not so pretty happening around us. Just just having faith and this is the season of increasing sunlight Okay, so the last card for the second quarter of 2019 this will be for the season of Gemini and which be like me through Solstice alligator. Well, look at all these all these reptiles Collies reptiles. Wow So alligator and I'm getting really even though it's like alligator and not crocodile. I'm really getting crocodile from this I'm getting something about Just like this Egypt connection from this thing and I'm not sure even what that means But I'm just sort of getting this this image of pyramid, right that pyramid will shape and again You know pointing towards heaven pointing towards the Sun So I'm really feeling this may be a real portal. Okay, this coming some are solstice maybe what I'm kind of feeling from this is that Just like this this winter solstice. I feel has been a humongous portal, right opening for new energies and Changing, you know good changes happening. I'm feeling like the summer solstice. It's also going to be a tremendous energy portal and I think that's why this is all kind of showing up the solar solar solar and And moving into that with great reverence. I think we need to really be cognizant that this summer solstice will be a very sacred time and To maybe do even I know we're all tired of purifying We're all tired of purging but maybe even take these next six months from this winter solstice to the summer solstice and really consider it a period of Preparation of purification of you know I think a lot of us have become more aware of what our purposes were starting to realize you know why we're here on this earth and to really take this next six months and Make this almost like a ceremony turn your life into a ceremony To kind of prepare to open the step into this energy more fully. Okay, so taking the time and Really preparing and opening for the sun and preparing just holding ourselves to the sun That was the reading for the second quarter this April May June of 2019 And I just had a few things to add to that and by the way the card deck that I was using for Both three months. It was the medicine cards deck from Jamie Sam's and David Carson That so I just wanted to mention that and Give them their do Okay, so what I'm seeing as sort of an overall Energy update here for this quarter is that we have right now like it's like collectively a portion of humanity and that would include myself and Most likely you if you're resonating with this definitely That's coming into our Christ essence, right? So this is a big part of humanity cause stepping into the Christ self stepping into that kind of more you know just coming becoming whole and stepping into our power as Christ of beings as Human beings who are really aligned and in tune with our higher selves This is you know stepping into our healing Present power to be on this planet. This is you know if you resonate with being a star see that all or a light worker This is really this kind of energy that's coming in right now is enabling us to really step in and Start doing the work that we're here To do on the planet really stepping into our purpose and and opening up to do that in in a more expanded way So it's really exciting stuff It's also it's all about the solar plexus chakra. It's about the personal, you know power the including a personal will the will to to Step into your own power, okay to Say no to whatever Kind of empiric energy is trying to suck away your power so this is a big thing and Like really big and so it deserves to be addressed Like in a way that This this may Require some slowing down, okay, because any time that there is a big shift Sometimes we have to really slow to do it imagine a brain surgeon, right? You don't want a brain surgeon rushing through that surgery They have to be very very deliberate This is a really good time to breathe and there's there's some reasons for this, okay? It's it's about the solar plexus, but it's also about marrying the solar plexus to the heart to the heart energy to the love energy Okay, and these are our two energies that for a long long time Have been kind of opposed to each other Okay, it's been the heart versus the will the heart versus power love versus power and They're coming together now so that love Becomes the power but it requires a seat change An incredible just ship from one way of being to the other That's the third fourth dimension that we're stepping into another fourth dimension and it's It really requires More discernment and things are a little bit more fine tuned when we step into that fourth dimension and So it's it's sort of like I was thinking the other day It's sort of like this is maybe what it feels like if you're a computer to be upgraded Like, you know when the computer is being upgraded it has to shut down for a while It's you know, it's not going to be functioning the way it normally does Okay, even if you can upgrade in the background it may slow down The works a little bit And so you may have the experience to slow down right now Or if you're not you may find that just by slowing down a little bit It it may facilitate what you're doing And what I've been finding is like I have some physical things that had been coming forward that has forced me to slow down But what I've been finding ironically the more I slow down It's like I get so much more attraction that Things are getting things done even though I'm spending a lot of time sleeping a lot of time but self-care It reminds me of my ex used to be a competitive swimmer and he told me that Like the good competitive swimmers they learn to really kind of push The water and use their muscles more efficiently And their stroke actually the stroke pattern actually slows down their their hands are not flailing as fast It's going much slower But they're going much faster through the water and that's the kind of dynamic that you may find if you do Allow yourself to slow down and breathe through life rather than flailing the arms, right? So this slowing down is is super important right now Protection is another thing that's coming forward looking at the turtle especially right now for april Um, but all these animals they're all covered with scales, right? They've got these these this protective skin Um, we have a lot of protection. So always keep in mind that You know the protection is really important to know that we're protected that we have divine protection And one of the most powerful Aspects of divine protection. There's two of them. I want to mention One is faith, right just knowing just know that light is stronger than dark You know that this, um, you know, whatever vampiric energy is in there if you hold to the light You know, just know that things work out Things work out as long as you're focused in On the light focus on the divine Everything else falls away. Okay, you may be challenged but as long as you stay that focus, you know, knowing that Things are aligning, you know that that love is there That as long as we stay focused it's it's it is going to be all right So that faith really really is a very very strong protection The archia faith is a an archetype. It's like the twin flame of archangel michael. So if you can imagine michael and this beautiful Female kind of version of michael, but she's very loving and a color very much like this this light blue That lady faiths and hold her in your fields and that can be very protective And the other thing that I want to mention in terms of protection is self love love itself is a power And love is the strongest power There is and that when we turn that love on ourselves We're really feeding that solar plexus in a way that feeds that christ essence. Okay, so the more self love and self care sometimes Things that are challenging that really feel like they're beating us down. It's just coming forward in order to in order to get us to Have some compassion for ourselves and to start practicing self love at an even deeper level So that's coming forward, right? This is a really good month for self care and really practicing self love self compassion at a very very very deep level um And the reason this is important is and I i'm continuing to get that feeling that there may be some some serious Say shake ups this year and this may be politically as well as energetic. Um, you know, I don't want to say a w word or anything but um And and i'm not saying please don't fear because this is just something that is likely to happen And i'm not saying it has to but it could happen in the collective As this energy is coming in as this christ energy is coming in it is because there are dark energies on the planet too And they're not going to give up without a fight. This is just lushing up the darkness so that it can be healed Okay, and this is something that in healing we call it a healing crisis Um, sometimes when we start a treatment the symptoms start flaring up first before they get better So if no shake ups is here, this is what's happening on an energetic level So do not fear don't fall into the fear. There's going to be a lot of You know if we do get political shake ups, there's going to be a lot of Attempts in the media, especially to make us fear. Okay to get us into that fear and anxiety mode Don't do it. Okay. Just no embrace it Be grateful for it not not for whatever's happening But just be grateful that this is being up coming up to be healed and our part in it is to stay very grounded So that's what this is all about this quarter is to help us to come into that grounding. Okay Like we have this big sort of energy this big blossoming of awakening and But the staying grounded is super super important Okay, so the more grounded we can be the more centered we are in our faith And in the love that's in our hearts the more powerful that is okay So this is literally a battle here right now on the planet between light and dark without getting overly dramatic about it You know, but this this is what's happening because it's this healing crisis um and just know that I Have gotten this message recently that there are like as this christ as this comes forward as we start really Grounding into that it's calling and reinforcements. You know, so we're in the galaxy If this is something you would like me to write or do a video on Totally tell me in the comments because I will do that. I just I got this very clear message. Um, so Please tell me and I will do a video if you want to hear the details on that But but absolutely The more we ground ourselves and center into that self-love and and the love energy And really focus in on the light And the divineness of who we are the more grounded we are the You know, the the more it's going to the more powerful it's going to be okay And as we do this together it becomes even more powerful Um Because they have no power power over it.  They're not going to take it lying down But they have no power over us. The only way they can get at us is through our own minds by trying to get us To focus away from the light and away from the truth of who we are And onto drama Okay They're trying to get us to focus on drama and go into anxiety land Not going to work as long as we are aware of that and stay focused on Who are who we are divine love and um, you know, what our purpose is To anchor that love and to spread it. Okay Um, and it does take discipline. Okay, but we do have control over our minds and that's What we're being asked to do um, you're going to Be like honestly matters less. What do you do right now? And more like Who you are, you know, just the act of being the act of being grounded Okay, it's going to be more good for the planet to sit home in your kitchen and make a jam In a grounded state of being that it is to do all sorts of great things great things for the planet In a state of anxiety I'm going to say that again. You'll do more good sitting in your kitchen making jam in the grounded state of being Or sleeping in a grounded state of being or whatever it is you're doing in a grounded state of being You're going to do more good for the planet than doing great things In a state of anxiety. Okay, so that's how important This is right now to really come in And whatever if you're sensing any kind of anxiety in yourself Address it and this may come up as physical tension may come up as anxiety symptoms It could come up as a feeling of gotta do it gotta do it gotta do it It could be mental mind whatever it is And the encouragement is to just really right now come into center Practice the breathing You know the meditation allowing yourself to rest giving yourself the exercise you need all the basic self-care Super super important right now And knowing that the more grounded we get time does expand To allow the purpose that we know that we're here for to start to manifest There is more time than we think. Okay, we've got all the time We need there's all the time We need you have all the time you need so do what you need to do to take care of yourself Stay focused on, you know, you might do listen to the guidance. You'll be told what to do and Things are, you know, this is really a beautiful beautiful time to be alive So thanks for watching and I would love to hear your comments on this and just Have a lovely lovely week I'm going to be continuing to upload daily videos. Some of them are going to be very short some longer Throughout the month of april. So if you haven't yet subscribed go ahead and subscribe Be sure to hit that little bell and you'll be notified of new videos as they get uploaded This is throughout the month of april. It'll be daily And if you feel like you would not like some help in getting to that grounded state or with You know, any kind of the spiritual awakening process I do offer sessions and coaching work around that. So the link to that is below Also, uh, check out my spirit animal cards. I've got the link to the book below to that below as well And have a lovely day.


My name is Sergeant Kyle Newell, Bandy Troop, 214 Cav. My name is First Lieutenant Keith Said, I'm a platoon leader in Dragon Company 121 Infantry. I am First Lieutenant Rebbington Ponsay-Pore and I'm in 214 Cav. I'm First Lieutenant Nathan Perry, I'm with the 121 Gimlitz. I want to come out here and get my ESP as well I'm doing, but it sets you apart from your peers, sets you as an example to your soldiers and yes it's a great opportunity to do well here. I wanted to get my EIB because one it is a badge that represents basically the basic level skill, level tasks that every soldier should know, especially every infantryman should know and as an infantry officer I felt responsible to learn those tasks. So that would make a good impression on my soldiers and so that I'd have a better understanding of the daily tasks and standards that they're held to. I think that what separates high performing units and low performing units is doing the basics right. I think that the best units in the army they do the basics of an extremely high level of proficiency and I think that EIB, ESB is part of demonstrating that elite level of proficiency, your basic soldier tasks. I wanted to come out and get my EIB to motivate my soldiers to come out for subsequent EIBs and get theirs to show them that anyone can get their EIBs and these skill level one tasks are something that that we should all be proficient in for our jobs as infantrymen. Physically we've got enough sets and reps in doing rodeos with 214. We have multiple days of doing it and then we were able to come out here and do the full two-week train up and also as as skites in 19 deltas typically we we are familiar with a lot of these tasks. I stuck with two people each day we did a different lane and every single lane we would practice it four or five times over and over again until we got it perfectly. I worked with my partner from best ranger and then another member of our team and the three of us worked together so we had a system where we'd go to the lane we would review the content before we tested and then we would go through three repetitions exactly like the testing conditions would be when we had three perfect reps in a row we knew that we were ready to test. We drilled all 30 lanes as hard as possible during the short train up time that we had giving us good confidence going into testing week. There was a lot of challenging times I didn't it's it's true when they say just take one go at a time at the beginning I honestly I didn't expect to make it to right at the end you know. The biggest challenge of EIB is that every single task at EIB is pretty simple in itself but cumulatively the tasks can get muddled up the sequences can get mixed up so you have to be good at retaining information quickly and learning it quickly retaining it testing on it and then moving on from it. There was equipment that I was unfamiliar with my background in the army I'm an armor officer but I hadn't touched heavy weapons since my basic course and so learning the Javelin, learning the AT-4, learning the Mark 19 those weapons it was the first time for me to really touch them and get hands on. The most challenging times that we had throughout these lanes was dealing with stress dealing with heart rate dealing with nerves in a testing condition or in a testing environment and persevering through that and getting our getting our goes. I think it's going to leave a big impression on my soldiers I think that hopefully they'll strive to achieve the same and I think yeah they should come up and get their badge set themselves apart from their peers and you only have to do it once you know and if you make it you you don't have to do it again. The impression it leads on leaves on soldiers one it's um it inspires soldiers who don't have it to want to go and get it and then the soldiers that do have it it motivates them to achieve even greater things I hope that as soldiers go through this training it builds confidence in themselves that they know that when they get their EIB or their ESB that they know they are an expert and that encourages them to act like it know it believe it and then imbue that same mentality in the soldiers that they'll lead in the future. I want to motivate my soldiers to show them that their leadership supports them and every career advancement move that they want to make show them that an EIB is important for them in regards to their skill proficiency as infantrymen and also for their career progression for the future.


to set up my chop, just positioning, and then that's when I start hitting my chop. I also use this chop as like a snap, okay? I'll snap real hard, get his hands to the mat, so that I can get an angle, get to my leg attacks. So, right here. So what I'll do, same thing, okay? I move this time around the views, I'm actually going to twist his head, and then chop it down. So as I go, I'm pulling here. This is what I want. I want his hands to hit the mat. When I snap, I'm snap real hard, okay? Transition with my hands. After, I chop, and when I'm here, he's like, right there. So I snap, I chop, I kind of roll. I make sure, you guys, when you guys snap, really level change. Here, okay? Not just with your arms, just like this. Just pull back. If he just, hey, these circles here, okay? Right to my crown. Let's try, hey!


I learned the power that the Book of Mormon has in people's lives and so I took every opportunity I could to motivate them to take a Book of Mormon and start to read it. But there was one experience that I've had that with the missionaries we went to talk to a lady who was investigating the church but her boyfriend said that the church was of the devil and Satanist and so she should not participate in learning anymore. So I opened the Book of Mormon and read a scripture to her that I think is is excellent to let anyone know the Book of Mormon is really a testament of Jesus Christ and does not take place of the Bible but supports it. This is in what is called Mosiah chapter 3 verse 5, for behold the time cometh and is not far distant that with power the Lord omnipotent who reigneth and is from all attorneys while attorneys shall come down from heaven among the children of men and shall dwell in a tabernacle of clay and shall go forth amongst men working mighty miracles such as healing the sick raising the dead causing the lame to walk the blind to receive their sight and the death to hear and curing all manner of diseases and he shall cast out devils or the evil spirits which dwell in the hearts of the children of men and he shall suffer temptations and pain of body hunger thirst and fatigue even more the man can suffer for behold blood cometh from every pore so great shall be his anguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people and he shall be called Jesus Christ the Son of God and that testimony in the Book of Mormon is a testimony that the Book of Mormon is a powerful testimony of Jesus Christ as our Savior as the Son of God and as we presented it to that sister we asked the question does that sound like the Book of Mormon is of the devil and of course her answer was no and it is my testimony that the Book of Mormon is a testament of Jesus Christ and his role as Savior and Redeemer and his Atonement paid for our sins and we need to emulate him to make it uh effective in our lives and I say that in the name of Jesus Christ amen


If you look at your learning targets, I'd say you guys are doing a great job. I saw some excellent annotation, especially Marcel, thank you Marcel for sharing that. Everybody's working on citing text evidence to support their analysis, and we're going to move here to three, engaging in a rich, evidence-based conversation with my classmates. So, evidence-based is obvious, right? You're using your text details to support your opinion. I don't think Claudette's quite there yet. Or, yes, she is. Look at this right here. That's evidence-based. But the richness, the rich conversation comes from you're listening to each other and you're building on one another's ideas. I agree with what you said here, but here's what I think. Bouncing the ideas off of each other, not just listening, but really being in a conversation and sharing your ideas, okay? That's what we want to move towards as we talk about, like having a rich conversation. We're going to take about 10 minutes. I want each of you to kind of share your voice where you think Claudette is at. And then you're going to jot down each other's ideas on the backside of your paper so that you have three down. You'll kind of share yours and then take from your other, your classmates. But don't focus just on getting the ideas down. Have a rich conversation. Yes, Eric? How many minutes did you say we were going to get to talk about this conversation? Close to 10. Might be more like eight now, but... All right? Ready? Okay, please begin.


Hi, I'm Mike Confalone, and welcome to my Allagash Railway, proto-freelanced and set in the early spring of 1984 in the state of Maine. You and I will operate the W1 job step by step, and part of our responsibilities will be to switch out the local customers here at Andover, but there's a lot more to it than that. I'm going to do everything the White Mountain Switcher does during a typical operating session, but it'll just be you and I, none of the chaos of the operating sessions will be nice and quiet. So anyway, we'll see you trackside at White Mountain Junction, and I hope you enjoy the ride.


Aloha and welcome to the latest edition of Telehealth in Hawaii Happy New Year. I hope everybody had a restful, healthy, and fun holiday season. We have a great show for you today. The name of this show is Taking Care of Yourself in the New Year. What better way to have a conversation by taking care of yourself than one of our own local Hawaii board-certified physicians, Dr. Andrea Bernhard. Dr. Andrea Bernhard has been practicing in the state of Hawaii as a physician for over 10 years. She sees a lot of patients in person, in the hospital, as well as virtually at Cloudwell Health. And I will talk to her today about how we can take better care of ourselves in 2023. Andrea, how are you today? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. It's good to see you. Good to see you. You as well. So you have a very exciting role. You see patients.  You see patients in person. You also see patients virtually. But to get the conversation started today, tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're from, what brought you to Hawaii, and we'll go from there. All right. Well, I was born and raised in Texas. I did my medical school there. And then kind of on a whim came to Hawaii to do a rotation when I was a fourth year med student. I fell in love with the program I was at, the residency program I was at, and then met my future husband and ended up in Hawaii since then. I did residency in Hawaii, primarily at Wahua, and then joined a group of hospitalists after that. That's where I've been practicing for the past 10 years with the addition of joining Cloudwell. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Now, you have an interesting role. You see patients in the hospital, but you also see patients virtually at Cloudwell. How does that for you every day? I'm sure it keeps you pretty busy, in addition to having a family too. Yeah, it's a pretty busy, busy role that I have, but I enjoy it. Telemedicine is very different. I haven't done anything like that before. And it's quite different from my role in the hospital. But it's nice that I can actually do a bit of preventative health, which by the time I see my patients in the hospital, they're sick enough to need to be in the hospital. So it's kind of nice being able to see the other side of things, especially with the advent of the PCP services and things like that. So it's nice that I get to see both ends of the spectrum. Absolutely. Now, we're all have New Year's resolutions and things we want to focus on. And a lot of us focus on taking better care of ourselves in the New Year. From a physician's standpoint, from a medical standpoint, what are some steps that folks can take to start feeling better in the New Year when it comes to their physical well-being, their mental well-being? What are some steps? Well, I think you kind of have to look at three things, first of which is your physical exercise, second, your diet, and third, mental health. I guess maybe a fourth is your sleep health. I think sleep is really important for your body to be able to heal and rejuvenate itself. I think for me, in my experiences in setting New Year's resolutions, typically don't go over too well. It's hard to stick with. So I think making more realistic goals, starting small, it's kind of what I tell my diabetic patients. No one can expect to go from eating a pretty poor diet to having a complete life change. So maybe it starts with cutting out a serving of carbs with each meal just one time a day and then building from there. But I think that if you can set modest goals for yourself, whether that be starting out with exercise in just 15 minutes, maybe twice a week, once you kind of get into that habit, along with the exercise and the sleep, then I think that there will be room for progression with all of those things. But I think realistic goals is the key. Incremental steps, exactly. You mentioned the topic of sleep. So how does good sleep, what is exactly a good amount of sleep and how many hours of sleep should we typically try and get per night to really be at our best physical and mental health? Well, I actually just came out with a new study that said seven hours is the new eight hours. So that's good for people who maybe have a harder time sleeping. But yeah, I mean, trying to get seven hours of continuous sleep, that's really what's needed. We talk a lot too about sleep hygiene or sleep health, not falling asleep with the TV on, making sure you're in a very dark, quiet environment, trying to reduce any sort of stimulation before bed, don't exercise before bed, don't do things that are actually going to be waking you up. But I think that that's key to get you in that habit. So sometimes for some people, it's setting a bedtime and making sure that you're in that right place to achieve adequate sleep. But I think that if you can get a good seven hours uninterrupted is ideal. But of course, there are things that happen.  I mean, not that I would exchange my kids for anything. But I mean, I find that even waking up, even if it's briefly one time a night, I mean, I find that I'm slower the next day if I'm like at work. I have a harder time focusing, I have a harder time completing my tasks, as opposed to actually getting a full night of uninterrupted sleep. I mean, it's like night and day. But then again, I've probably only had a few of those in the last three years. We all have that. I know the feeling. I assume things like, you know, we're all pretty hooked on our smartphones. I assume something like checking your emails or going on. Oh, absolutely.  No, absolutely not. Yeah. And I mean, I'm a victim of that too, you know, trying to kind of catch up on things that you didn't have a chance to catch up on. But I think turning off devices, my husband's really great at that. He's not a device person. So he kind of turns off immediately at a certain time every day. And I think that that's absolutely key as well. Don't do Instagram or any sort of social media before you go to bed because you'll probably end up like up an extra hour or just not be able to turn off. So, yeah. Definitely. Now, you also see a lot of patients in telehealth. And how is telehealth improving the quality of care for the residents of the state of Hawaii? What are your thoughts on telehealth? Because you have a chance to do both. You've seen both. Yeah. I mean, the telehealth space, how is that improving quality of life? I mean, I think really significantly, you know, I find that a lot of my patients, you know, have their sometimes access issues.   So, you know, I think that it's a really convenient service that, you know, can offer good healthcare, you know, whether it be for an urgent care visit or whether I'm seeing, you know, a PCP patient, you know, a patient in my normal panel that we're just following up on labs or, you know, medication refills. But it's great because, you know, I see people at eight, 10 o'clock at night who wouldn't probably be able to be seen otherwise. So, I do think that the access issue is huge. So, I really think that that's one good thing that came out of COVID, to be honest, you know, is I think that healthcare is more accessible with, you know, telemedicine. Yeah. Now, you raise a good point, what sometimes can take months to be seen by a primary care physician can be reduced to just a matter of days, if not the same day. Oh, yeah.  So, and it saves a trip to, like if I'm seeing someone at night, saves a trip to urgent care or the ER, you know, especially if it's something that can be easily triaged over the phone. And luckily we have 24-hour pharmacies too. But a lot of people that I see can start treatment if, you know, they require some sort of prescription treatment, you know, the same day, as opposed to having to wait the next day to, you know, call a physician's office to see if they're even able to be seen in person, which, you know, could take days. So I do think that it's a very convenient service that, you know, has helped a lot of, you know, different communities. Right. Now, you also touched a little bit of it on mental health as well. And you probably see a lot of patients who, in addition to trying to address any type of physical concerns or physical areas to improve, there's also the mental health as well. You know, what types of conversations do you have with your patients in this regard? And what can they do for help? I think, you know, by far the most, you know, pressing probably topic in regards to mental health that I've seen lately is stress, you know. I mean, I think stress plays a huge role in people's lives, you know, whether it's stress related to work, school, family life. And it does make a huge impact on someone's physical health. I really think that the mind and the body are very connected. So if you have good mental health, I think that that plays a role in maintaining good physical health as well and vice versa. So I, you know, I think for me, even if it's not an issue that we're talking about directly, you know, touching on, hey, is there something else going on in your life, you know.  And I think just having a conversation about it, you know, trying to identify what the stressor is is the first step.  So I really do think that, you know, having that piece of talking to a therapist, even if it's just stress, you know, because stress is so important, I think that that's a great help. And then I think the second thing is, you know, depression.  And, you know, I think that, again, there, you know, being able to talk to someone about your feelings and what you're going through, I think is a good first step. And for some people, it does require some, you know, medication to help to get you through that spot. But, you know, I see that quite a bit in both of my roles in the hospital and in telemedicine. And I would think that this is also an area of mental health where telehealth can be very beneficial. Absolutely. To improve access from the comfort of your home, you can talk in private, you know. Yeah. Because a lot of people, I think that there's still a bit of a stigma about talking to a therapist where there shouldn't be at all.  I kind of feel like that's what behavioral health should be. I think that everyone, no matter, no matter if you have a clinical diagnosis of depression, anxiety, you know, if you're stressed, whatever it might be, I think that everyone deserves like at least a yearly check-in to be like, hey, how are things going? What's going on in your life? You know, do what areas do we need to work on to help you improve your responses or your communication with others? You know, it could be something that simple that could really improve your life overall. But I think that, you know, with advent of, you know, behavioral health and telemedicine has been really beneficial because I think for some people it's like, okay, I don't have to go to an office.  And a lot of people are more comfortable in their home environment. So I do hope that that helps people to improve access and maybe break down some barriers. Yeah.  And if they feel more physically active, they're able to reduce things like blood pressure, cholesterol.  Have you seen situations like that with the patients you take care of? Absolutely. I think that once you can change your, sometimes the way that you think about things, it kind of opens up other possibilities to other realms of your life, you know.  She started going to the gym more. She started, you know, hanging out with her friends more.   So I think that overall, just by doing that, she's a happier, healthier individual.  She's able to communicate her feelings a lot better and tell us what she needs, you know, instead of just kind of keeping things bottled up and then that kind of created other issues within, you know, our family circle and, you know, beyond. So that's a very good story. That's a very, yeah.   Yeah. That's a really, that's a very close and personal story. I appreciate you sharing that with us. When you meet with your patients, you're touched on a good point about setting reasonable goals, practical goals. Is a practical goal something like, you know, if you, if I were to see you for an annual physical, is a practical goal, something like let's work Vic on losing 10 pounds over the course of one year. Like what's a, what's a measurable goal? Like when you say something that's realistic. I mean, I, I think it all depends on like where you're starting from, but I would say, you know, if you're, you know, based on what your BMI is, you know, body mass index, which I guess you kind of have to take that with a grain of salt because not every, I think they're transitioning to another form of measurement for that. But, you know, a body builder is going to have an elevated body mass index, but they're of course not overweight, right? But I think that for the average individual, you know, the goal should be getting healthy. I don't think it should be getting thin or weighing a certain number. You know, it should all be about health. Like what is the healthy weight for you based on your height, you know, and your age. So I think that that would be a great place to start, you know, say you're 10 pounds overweight. Okay, setting a goal of 10 pounds would be great, you know, maybe, you know, setting it at a pound a month, you know, but the goal would be sustained lifestyle changes, right? It shouldn't be about losing that 10 pounds. It should be about instilling lifestyle changes that you're going to maintain for the rest of your life or until you're physically able to do so, right? Because that's just going to lead to a healthier you. And I think once you establish that healthy lifestyle, then, you know, whatever, you know, weight that you need to lose or whether it's building body mass or whatever that is, that's going to happen naturally as you kind of change your lifestyle. So, right, that's a very good point. You know, you're probably often asked by your patients, you know, is telehealth the same as an in-person visit, you know, when it comes to getting a checkup? And what are your thoughts on that? You know, I think it's quite similar. I mean, I feel like the people that I talk to I mean, I feel like I have a connection with them just like I would if I met them in person. I think the only difference is that I can't physically lay hands on you, you know, but I think that my ability to connect with someone over the phone is just the same as what it would be in person. Like as long as I can see you, it's a little bit harder if I'm, if we're only talking on the phone and I can't see you and you can't see my mannerisms and I can't see yours. But, you know, I kind of feel like I connect with people this on the same level, really.  You're like, man, I would really kind of like to manipulate that in person. But still a lot of things can be done without having that piece of it, you know, but I think the physical touch is the only thing that's really different. And there's ways to work around it, I think. Yeah. So what's interesting about your background is your board certification is in family practice. So you see the whole gamut, don't you see kiddos?  I do.  But, you know, I still see kids, you know, for, for certain things on telemedicine and that's, it's great. But yeah, I, I find, I have found that, you know, in the last 10 plus years of practicing, I've kind of migrated more towards adults and, you know, the geriatric population, but that's just primarily because that's what I mostly see. But yeah. For the kids that you do see the parents, the mothers are probably so happy that they can easily get access to a physician to get their child so they can take a long time for, for, to get a general pediatric. Well, or in the middle of the night, I had a patient's mom once called because her son was having an asthma exacerbation.  But, you know, she had issues because she didn't have, she had several other children. You know, it was like 11 o'clock at night. She had no one to watch the children so that she could take her son in to get evaluated in person. He had run out of his inhaler.  And, you know, you can tell a lot just by looking at a kid and having them talk to you. Because of course, if it was not a safe situation, I would have made him go directly to the emergency room. But, you know, I, she was so thankful in that situation because all of her kids were at home asleep and she had children. She had, I think her youngest was maybe like six months. You know, so it's like, and I understand that as a mom, you know, you're like, I want what's best for my child. But also like, I am in a really tough spot right now where, you know, the other caregiver is not home. I have multiple other children. Like, what do I do?  But, you know, I get that quite a bit. And the other thing is, you know, school notes. We see a lot of school notes from parents, you know, which definitely like saves a trip to the doctor's office and, you know, potentially, I mean, I guess depending on the doctor's office, but potential exposures there, if there are other sick children there, you know, because schools have become a lot more strict at, you know, allowing children back to school under certain conditions.  But that's definitely nice because it saves a trip. And I'd rather call from home, being a mom myself versus having to get both of my children out in the car, which oftentimes takes forever because they're fighting, getting in the car seat and, you know, all that kind of stuff. I know that feeling really well. Oh yeah, yeah. You have it, you touched on this and it's an interesting point. Many people, it's hard for them to take time away from their job to receive access to care. And then they have the situations at home where at times they're the only care provider in the home. Right. Able at the moment to provide for their children. So if you put both of those together, that quick access to telehealth for these types of situations that you describe is extremely valuable and can really help a lot to improve quality of care. Because like you said, any time cannot be wasted when it comes to some of those situations with your patients. Absolutely. I mean, because it's kind of like, I feel like for parents, especially of young children, it's like you have, well, even older children, but it's like you have two full-time jobs.  It's really hard. So I do think that it does, I think, lessen the burden, you know, like, okay, we're getting on this visit. We can be seeing the same day. We can do it right before you go to bed. Let's have that rash checked out. Let's have someone check out your symptoms. Do we need antibiotics for this?  Yeah, absolutely. And if it's, you know, if it's something that is really not appropriate for telehealth, then, you know, we'll say so, you know, well, this, this is better seen in person, or let's go to an urgent care or an ER, whatever it might be, but at least you have someone who's physically laying eyes on, you know, the condition that you're worried about, and at least helping to navigate you and, and what's the, the most appropriate thing for your child, because of course, safety is what we value first and foremost. We want to deliver good care, but in a safe manner.  Absolutely. Absolutely.  And I want to take a moment to thank you for being on the show. You know, I know how many things you're juggling at the same time.  And we appreciate you very much for being on. It's, and I just, everything you're doing for the community in Hawaii is just astounding. And we really appreciate you very much. Oh, well, thanks for having me. You're welcome. You're welcome. Mahalo. Happy New Year. And I will talk to you soon. All right. See you later.


What is? I think they're scared. Dude, come on. All right. I will jump in the water after. Hopefully these things aren't endangered or something. Welcome all back to the channel everybody. We are here in the month of May and it has been two weeks since I have dropped my truck off at the dealership for the third time. I've been very, very patient. I'm supposed to get my truck back today and y'all it's been killing me though. You know as an outdoorsman you don't even really think about how much you use your truck until you don't have it because that's where tone of my gear is and you know just keep it ready to go. Ready to dangle. So I've been without, I've been borrowing LFD's truck. He needed it back. He actually had another work truck that he let me borrow to go get some rocks because I decided to go ahead and finish up the driveway, put in some bigger rocks while I'm waiting to get my truck back. But anyway, I put in some bigger rock here at the end of the driveway, just had a fresh rain so it should compact in there pretty good. And now I'm just waiting on my truck so I can take that nice big beautiful boat right there, hook it up and head to some waters. Does this look foggy to y'all? I left my lens in my boat and I think, I think, I think we got a little water in there. Okay, switched up our lens so you guys can see a little bit better. Let's take a look inside of the rackly roost while we're waiting for my truck to be fixed or an alternative. We're going to hit the lake today by the way. We're going bass-ish. I have to go. So while I've been waiting for my truck to get fixed, and by the way, the reason it's taking so long is because of a part. It is an intake manifold issue. It has taken, I mean I think GM's plant was shut down. They're just now reopening. It's taken a while to get the part and it's a full day. Like they basically have to break down an entire motor. So if I have one more issue with this truck in the next month or so, I'm done with it. I just been working around here y'all. That's what I've been doing. I mean look, I refilled, I leveled the chicken coop out with some sand. I built the duck its own house. I built this roosting ladder, which they really like. They come out here and they do their thing. And what is fantastic is the birds are now sleeping inside of the coop all together. All the chickens are. The duck is, well he's trying to learn how to use his house. Before they were just all sleeping on the ground down here, which isn't really good for them. So after I came home from a fishing trip one night, they were all out here and I was like, I'm just going to try something. I stuck them up on the roost and every day since then they've been going in by themselves before the big hens. It's like they just know how to do it now. Look at them. Look at them grow. You know what I'm saying? Here in August they should be laying eggs and we're going to have just a butt load of eggs every day, except out of this guy.  You're the guard duck. He's pretty excited now. I'm going to let him out just for a little bit. You know, I got to keep a tight watch on them because there's still if some creatures are in here they'll get them. But I like to let them out in the mornings, you know, if I'm here a couple times a day. Oh yeah, stretch them wings out boy. Stretch them wings out. Little do they know there are creatures of death just beyond that grass line. It's literally one of those days where it's like five mile an hour winds. It's killing me. So I've already rigged up a flipping bait. I got a bandito bug. I've got a Mondo worm ready to go at them. Recon. It's got the meat and potatoes over here. I'm loaded up. I'm ready to go right now.  That's driving me insane. You may not know this but ducks are ravenous bug eaters and they love slugs too, snails, all that kind of stuff. They're great in the garden. We don't have a garden. I'm done waiting. I'm done waiting. This is a, we are almost an hour later and I just, I called up LFD. I said, hey, I gotta have, I gotta have a rig. So anyway, he's letting me borrow his rig. I've got both his trucks over here. I feel bad like a man should have his own truck. You know what I mean? Let's get out of the water. The water will cure off. Everything's better when you're on the water. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel good. Buddy Rob, he's without boat right now. He needs, he needs a vessel. So he's not far away. I was going to go pick him up on the other side of the lake. Rob said he wanted to catch some white bass. So, you know, you know who to call.  Just hit me up. But anyway, we are going to bass fish. I want a bass fish today. We're probably going to run into some white bass and whatnot as well. But let's get up on pad and let's go get it y'all. Yeah. Shoo. Got them shorts on today. Apologize for the, the, uh, the white out on the thighs. Definitely need to put some screen on that today. Make sure those babies don't burn. Drop that trolling motor in. Let's get to flippin'. So this is a midday kind of deal. We're fishing midday afternoon.  And once the, you know, morning shad spawn, the shad bite turns off, then they move into that cover. Just get a backlash on your first, first cast. I'll blame it on my truck being out, being out of commission here. So I'm going to try flippin' this around on some buck brush. Quarter ounce weight, four-ot hammer hook. Docks are usually really good this time of year. Standing timber. You can flip cover. I just like fishing the month of May. Crank bite, crankbait bites usually good too. Oh my. I see some big old carp swimming around. So my buddy Outlaw is coming down pretty soon. I think he's bringing his bow fishing boat. So if y'all are into that, I think we're going to do some of that out here, some other lakes. And we're going to, he said he just wants to bring his cooler down and go on a big meat haul, and I'm all about it. I'm going to try a little tire action. Switch gears from flippin' for a second. Run this little square bill through here, see if we can get tagged. Oh gosh, I just had one right there. Small bass at it.  Whole key with fishing a crankbait or anything around this is pause when you get into a good spot.  That's normally when you get a bite, because that crankbait will back up. It'll actually go backwards and float up a little bit. And that little reaction, it's like it's the fish is stunned, the baitfish is stunned, and the fish will just react to that. Oh gosh, oh god, I had a good one right there. I thought I was hung on a chain for a second, it tugged back. Perfect little choke point. Okay, that's two that I've hooked for a microsecond. Oh, there's one. Got him. There's a better one right on the point. And those fish are always dark to hang around the tires, get like a suntan hanging up in the shallow. Okay, I'm just a little jumped, like 100 yards from where I just caught that fish.  It's on the bottom. Oh, I got one. There we go. As soon as I hit the bob, my gosh, at the tiny one. Wow, that is not the kind of fish you expect to catch the one a 10 inch Mando worm right there. But a bite nonetheless, and it feels good.  That was a carp there. Dude, I've never seen a campy like that. That's sweet. I'll have to get one for my wife. She'd probably go with me more. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. We all have fun today. Hi. Got a couple going out for the first time together in their gacks. That's just go ahead and smash that like button for that right there against Stephanie. You need to get on more with that. Got it. That doesn't feel like a bass. It feel like the white bass. It was gyrating very much hard. Well, that looks like a hook in the finger situation. I'm just going to take the old pliers here and give him the old cyanara. See if I can reel. Got a bite in, you know, 18 feet of water and I've got a bite, a couple bites and four.  Oh my God. Dude, what are you doing? Oh my gosh. Well, we just got the boys in the boat and there's a swallow attack. I think they're scared. Dude, come on. I will jump in the water after a breath. Hopefully these things aren't a danger or something. I don't think so. There's plenty of them. Dude, they're diving at it. Oh my God. Oh my, going crotch level. Dangerous crotch level right now. Wow. That's pretty good to land on top of a cold box. He turned around and he goes, oh God. Oh God, what is going on? There's a billion of them. Yeah, they're okay now.  Did you grab me one out? I did. I got you a pretty little pink and blue one. Good. Perfect. Alrighty folks, it is time to get some meat from a buddy Rob here. He wants, he wants to meet sitting over some schools of fish here. We're just going to kind of do some spooning. You know you only have one flip flop on there. I do. I lost it during the action. Oh yeah, look at that little, little mid-level group come. Oh, just got being bonged out, being bongered. Feel small. This is not good. This is not good. Technique here is you basically just find where all the boats are fishing and then, oh wow. Oh, here we go now. I've got one. Yeah, this one's better. That's the one you want right there. That is the solid piece. That is, that's enough for everyone to eat. There's a juicy filet nugget right here. Oh dude, you got something big there. Oh, it's a, it's a crappie magnum.   Oh, brother, big end. Do not let him go. Cradle him with care. There you go, buddy. The nice thing about that is, you know, there's more where that came from. Rogue. They're usually not rogue. This is what the pontoon is going to be excellent for. Okay. Imagine the scenario where we're all out here. Okay. There's like six of us on the boat with magnum amounts of fish. There you go. Put your beer down. Get it in gear. That's another one. You think so? Is it fighting like the, uh, it's not dry? Wet noodle-ish. Yeah. I don't know. It's gyrating now. It's a little, it's a little white bass. Oh my. I love it. I love it. It's gyrating. I worry about those gyrations. You know, when you feel the gyration, let's hit myself with a fix. You feel the gyration. You know it's a white bass. It's a crappie. If you've got that crappie, son, you've got that crappie, son. You want to keep them or not? Not legal? Uh, excuse me. We never throw back a crappie. That's a, I bet you that's an 11-incher. Yeah. This is where you need your glove, man. Oh gosh. This one's gyrating mega hard. Look at that. Oh, it's, this might be something different here, boys. Yeah. It's, this has got weight. This has got the weight on it. Oh, never mind. Never mind. Never mind. Tournament rules say we got to throw him back. Okay. Me and Rob are just, just whacking away. I'm, I'm excited. Rob's caught a few crappie. Nice crappies. And, uh, that's basically, I'm just trying to leave my spoon down here a little deeper and little longer pauses to try to, try to get one. There's another that's got head and shoulders. Yeah. That's a white bass for sure. No, it's a drum. I'm sorry. Take that back. That is three species now. Man, these, these are the lazy, yeah. I've caught bass. So yeah, my fourth species. You got a drum too. Double up on drums. Let's put that on Instagram, dude. Oh gosh. Got hit on the drop. Dropped it down. Come on. Be that, be that crappie. Be that tasty crappie. Oh, Magnum.  When you have the succulent meat of a crappie, that just won't do. No, I'm talking like in the normal days. We would sit out here, if we sat here for an hour, we'd be 120 to pull over. Yeah. Go to the dam. There we go. What'd you got? No hooked up, dude. Biggin, something. Oh, dude, he got off. Dude, he was pulling drag. I had dude, I had everything. Do this. I had everything loose. I don't know what happened. It started pulling good. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we are on the shoreline now. I just lost one on a crankbait.  So I'm going to get his crop. I'm going to save a couple of them. Crop this. Okay, for myself, but I think he's going to do one. So I haven't showed you guys this, but we are doing an exclusive bucket just for Walmart that's really tailor made for weekend fishing, catching cooks and everything like that. And it's the hook and cook bucket. I mean, the best name ever. And this is our Guggen squad. It's essentially a dangling bucket. It's got everything you need. There's 32 pieces in here. It's got everything from hooks, weights. You got your meat necklace, aka your stringer. You got your cleaning glove. You got your filet knife. You got even a towel to clean up your mess. The bucket itself is useful. It's got a tackle storage system on top. There's just a lot going on in here and they are available only at Walmart right now, $29.99. So they're a limited run. Walmart's doing a limited run. They're checking out the Guggen brand and seeing if something that'll work. I think it's going to work y'all. So if you've got a Walmart near you, you want to check out the bucket. You're getting ready to do some meat dangling. Perfect time to get one. There's also your filet knife, your pliers, everything you need literally. You even have a cutting board in there. So Rob's actually going to use that for his deal right here. I'm looking forward to filling this bucket up with some crappie or some white bass. It's just something fun. Makes a great gift too. A lot of useful tools in there for really good value. Yeah, I'm not going to leave a link because it's only at Walmart. But go check them out. Help us sell them out. That'll really help us out and hopefully they'll make a reorder and we'll get a bunch more stock. Thank you guys for all your support because our brand and the stores can't tell you how much that means to us and it's been going well. So I think this bucket's going to do really well too. Perfect tool for the dangler and you. Anyway, go get your one.  See you, camp. See you Rob. Rob caught a couple of crappie and then he cooked them on shore and he was like, wow, these are delicious. And I was like, I know, buddy. This is the deal. The meat is just fantastic. He said he wanted to go out on a meat hall and something very exciting over at the Guggen Squad. We have a pontoon boat coming soon. We've got a little mercury deal and we've got some mercury motors. We've got some pontoon boats and it's going to be a great fishing, summer fish. I'm so excited. So what I want to do is get all the guys on some crop here, some white bass, absolutely just fill up the coolers, have a good time and do that pontoon game. I've never had a pontoon. I've never fished out of a pontoon. I'm super excited about it, especially when the fish are like this.  Like, drop the line, boys. Ream on it. Have a good time. So anyway, go catch a few more green fish and then we're done with the thing. We got him. We got him hooked up on a decent fish. Come on here, baby. Get on in here. Just swimming away with that mon don't work you. Yes, sir. There we go, folks. That fish had it for a minute. I came over a little ledge and it was just swimming out to deeper water and I was like, my bait is not making contact with the bottom. What is going on? I kept lifting up and a lot of times when that, if you're not sure, if you're like, man, it feels like it's in just deep water floating, you have a fish on. So I decided to rear on back and get him. Yeah, y'all, we did it. We made it back and we got some fish. Oh, gosh. Sit down and see. Let me show you this crappie. And there's another just beautiful biscuit right there. Two crappie and a white bass. That'll make a nice little dinner or lunch. So I've got a recipe for crappie that I want to do. OSG cooked this up the other night. I think it's better to do with a big one, like when you get a slab, we're getting it dialed and I'm going to do a catch and cook video the next time we go out crappie fishing. But that is going to end today's dangle, y'all. I just got a message on the phone. It says my truck is ready. So we're going to go pick that up. I hope it's running. We're going to rip it and hope it just stays in one piece. But I'm excited to get the truck back, excited to go do some more fishing. Y'all know what to do. Subscribe right here. Go ahead and hit the like button for just catching meat and the largemouth bass. And I will see you soon. That's right, my little babies.


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Listen to me. If you have lived through some horrible suffering or injustice and you survived, just realize you are now in possession of one of the greatest of all treasures. Contrast bias. You now have the ability to be truly happy because you know how bad it can be. Someone who lives this shelter life will never know any of that. They do not know what it is to be happy because they don't know what it is to suffer. And when you do that, then all of a sudden the lemons turn into lemonade, all the suffering, all the trauma, all the unfairness you're upbringing. Now becomes a pro, not a con. And you've got two choices in this life. I think it was Einstein or great physicists who said, you know, mankind has two great choices to decide whether the universe is a friendly place or a hostile place. This is kind of my non-physicist version of that. Like you can now look at the past.  Most of the smartest, say 50 to 60% of the smartest scientists alive don't even believe that time exists as we know it. They call it the block theory of time. Maybe everything's happening at once but us humans have these little brains and so we perceived our past. This bad thing happened to us and now we're moving forward or trying to or now we're suffering. No, forget all that. Perceive your past trauma and suffering as something you have now turned into a great good. You now know what it is to be happy.  Somebody you take who got cancer was told they would be dead in six months. Miraculously persevered, fought through and survived. Oh, that person is truly alive. That person truly alive. And as they walked through, they see all the people just taking for granted their health, their happiness and thinking, I don't even know what they're missing. My mom used to tell me, she said, Ty, the youth is wasted on the young. And I didn't, you know, when I was little, I didn't know what she meant. Now I realized my mom was saying young people don't know what they have because they've never been old. The greatest gift that could happen to any of us would be like Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt movie. You start out old and then you become young and then you're like, whoa, every day is getting better because you remember what it was like to be 80 and have arthritis and now suddenly you're 30 and you can run and you can jog. But yet the whole world wastes their talents. You see, I saw some documentary, some video, and I know a guy, he's like six foot five, you know, he's got green genetics. This is like whatever he do wishes they were tall. He's not a bad looking guy. But he's the lazy. He eats bad. He wastes the gift that he has in life, right? Because he always had a good. That's why the high school popular kid usually fails in life. They never had any suffering. They were always popular. So they just tried to cruise through life and got the first job and married the first person. It was too easy. So if the recreate the narrative that you live by and most people's narrative is especially now is everybody whining about their past and their trauma and their suffering and continually going to therapy and look, there's nothing wrong with therapy. But you can overdo anything. And I was like, there's nothing wrong with yoga. But if you're doing yoga nonstop eight hours a day is probably out of balance. And so now people are moving through their trauma and continually healing. I'm like, when are you ever going to heal? I mean, behind me. I'm still feeling from what happened to me at nine. We're all suffering out here. But as the saying goes, there's two types of people. One perceives the universe as friendly and one perceives it as hostile. And what's bad about social media is in general the hostile universe is what goes viral in videos. If you look, go look with the critical eye through social media and you'll notice besides like goofy funny videos, what goes viral on Twitter X and it was a conspiracy theories about how the world is kind of an evil place. And it's them against you and like that's a fundamental question. The physicist asked, have you decided to see the lemons as lemons or the lemons eliminate? Let's say there is a conspiracy on the right, on the left, on the Illuminati on whatever it is on the them, the them, the them. You have a choice. Do you perceive that as you're in an eternal battle and an eternal you want to be an eternal battle? All people want to be an eternal battle. You've ever been to war? been to war? You were seeing people getting shot? You want to be an internal war? My first childhood memory growing up in Long Beach is my mom was five, four or five on my first memory. Some again shot in the heart right in front of me and my mom was a wedding mate and I believed her on my uncle. I've seen like I was always happy to not be around that anymore when I got older. So I mean, that's the problem with watching the news is that's the perspective that the universe everything's unfriendly. That's what the news is they're freeing you to unfriendly all you know what's happening here, these two countries. Well, this genocide this and there's nothing wrong.  No, I'm saying we have no choice. There is pain and suffering in the world. But if you see it as I said in the beginning of this as I'm now in possession of contrast bias, I now know how bad it is so I can be truly alive today when that stopped.  I wish I had not had that happen. I wish I had been like them. But if they're sheltered, they don't even know they're happy. Rich kids ain't happy. They don't know they're rich. You have to have been poor to know you were rich. The only benefit of being rich is to have been poor at one time because by being poor, you're now in possession of the greatest of all treasures that is the contrast bias. You know how to appreciate having money. Because you're no longer broke and the rich kid born in Beverly Hills doesn't know that. That's why half of them sadly end up in rehab because all life's too tough. I'm gonna take drugs to escape the pain and all the people who I didn't grow up in Beverly Hills. I was born in the ghetto. My dad was in Terminal Island. My dad's from Harlem. My dad had tougher me too. But my dad was pretty happy guy. So everything was uphill after he came through Harlem. He was like, I remember when he got out of prison in Terminal Island, he lived in Long Beach. He's like, Ty, I love this place. I walk on the beach. And it wasn't even a nice beach. But then my dad come from Manhattan, Harlem, no grass, no central park, but dirty, no real beach. Even a dirty beach of LA made my dad happy. That's the simple things. So reframe your narrative. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the only way. By the way, if you have a better way, let me know. This combination of what I've learned and like it might sound insignificant, and maybe you already know it, great, you're already in possession, but not everybody is. So everything has to be reframed.  I can tell you, in this universe out there, it's easy to perceive it as a dark and cold place. And so it's better to live delusionally that it's a friendly place, in my opinion, than to go down that dark road. Don't let the mind go through there. Spin things, baby. Spin it, spin it into something else. Whatever happened to do, spin it. Like Tolstoy said, if you're still alive, you have hope. So I don't care what's happening to you right now, spin it into something better. Spin it into some narrative of the friendliness of this universe towards you. You'll thank me one day. 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Hey everyone Shaper 1000 here today. We're taking a little hike we're at Pots Preserve again. We're on a trail we was on one other time but we we were just geocaching that day but there's a couple trees down here so but there's another reason why we're coming out here we're gonna have lunch and stuff but I'll get to that here a little bit later so hang tight guys a little tree down here there's one here monkey said I should come out here and do a solo camp out under this tree but the trail is right here so I don't really want to do that that's just walking past me and you know but you can camp in here I would just go off trail a little bit this is the blue trail it's two point excuse me two point two miles I don't think we're gonna go that far but like I said there's a reason why we wanted to come out here and do this and this trail is it's a well-blaced trail you can see that blue mark there on that tree there's 20 some miles worth of hiking trails here that what what was this in 20 some miles of hiking trails in here you can you can mountain bike in here too a lot of guys do that they'll bring their e-bikes and they'll cruise around here and a lot of hikers be at 20 some miles that's pretty good this is a animal trail here game trail that goes through there alright guys get back on here in a minute you've been in crossroads in your life yeah me too got some remnants of something here sure what pretty cool sure what that is something up here it's squared off it's cut off there but that is squared off another big pile of remnants there these are boards and not trees so if used to be a gate here you can see the that's what the gate will hang on this is the backside or the other side of the square so it must have been some kind of shed or outbuilding there's another corner post corner post well this post is in line with this one so maybe it was a cabin there's another one there so yeah pretty neat pretty much right in our backyard all this stuff sorry about the wind pretty cool there's a tree that'll be coming down so surprised it's still standing but it is another one that has fallen cool so this is pretty cool bridge must be like a fire road but you you're not allowed to drive back in here so pretty cool should we whoa she just now noticed it's a bridge yes hey we did it guys we came out unscathed similar to that one we crossed oh I don't know what it's been it's been over a year now when we went to the cabin we walked across of course it was better than this one very nice alright guys so monkey's right here behind me we brought a little lunch we just brought some soups and what we're gonna do monk right here on the bridge yeah but what was the whole purpose of this trip oh well you're gonna you shaved your beard and you're gonna leave your beard for the birds for the net a nest yes yeah beards for birds yeah now in Ohio they used to do that a lot of guys would I knew I had an acquaintance acquaintance he would grow his beard from March to March every March and he grew a good beard you know like I can and every March he would shave it but he wouldn't go clear down the skin but he'd come down real close and he would take it out in woods and and do that and and you leave it in trees and stuff so hopefully the birds it's nesting season so birds can it'll help them make a nest and so what reminded me that was hike with Mike there you go hike with Mike did that he grew a beard and he just shaved it off and he took it out in woods birds for beards for birds and that's what reminded me that his channel link will be in my description really nice guy he spends a lot of time in the woods that's that's his happy place as well as ours too yeah yeah we don't get out as much as we should but days like this there's no reason for us to get out because we have many that are not that far from our home we're a five-minute drive from the house you know here we are yeah to here yeah yeah but there's others we can go to to that are you know not that far either yeah but here there's like I'd mentioned earlier there's 20 some miles of hiking trails in this area yeah right here five minute drive from the house so there's no reason why we shouldn't get out more and just bring a little lunch and that's what we're gonna do now we're gonna cook our lunch and I see a tree right here I think I'm gonna leave I don't have much cuz I just I just you know turned my beard a few weeks ago so I don't have much but maybe a little a little finch or a run can use it so I see a tree right behind you there that we're going to put that in and then we're going to cook lunch I don't have much for the birdies this year but next year I will have a lot more than this beard guys leave it here for the birds it's good fire starter too if you run out of anything else mess kit monkey soup because she likes the shrimp my soup carven era whoa that I guess is what Brian and Warle sent me isn't it yeah this is the last one how'd that get in there hopefully I didn't forget my stove should be enough so I was just telling you guys before I put the camera turn the camera on that hers I don't even think I recorded it but I poured hers into her cup up to the line it's gonna take four minutes for hers excuse me mine's gonna take a little more water so I'm gonna bring it up to a boil and then hopefully I don't forget to turn you back on for that one they're round it won't be big enough bigger than the pop I got a remedy for that I don't know how hot this is or spicy I used all my water up on our food and some of hers how it's around cooked for five minutes monkey still hasn't eaten hers so hope her noodles don't go real limp because she don't like limp noodles insert joke now probably didn't need that much water but I will strain somehow tell you to strain something else of this thing says 20 ounces of water but you really don't need that much I probably got 20 ounces in there bring it back up to the boil then I'll strain it and add my stuff in you're good to go cool now I've got a strain mine how's yours that's it yeah but you'd like shrimp yeah I don't even taste the shrimp all right I'm gonna give this a try it's not really a review but Marlin Brian saved me yeah a little fork any cute mmm that's very good yeah I will share with you since you don't like hers mine has an aftertaste and I don't know why but I've had it in there for a while but she don't like hers you know it doesn't go bad so no that's only one of those kind you didn't like you bought that one right yeah did you get the water out of the tap at the house or did you get it from the fridge got out of the fridge because it really has an aftertaste doesn't matter anyway because I boiled it so I was just asking besides our water at the house is drinkable yes yeah well it's filtered anyway it's filtered it comes into the house and it runs through a filter before it goes anywhere else right and then it's filtered when it comes out of the fridge so I don't know maybe it's soup itself but it does have an aftertaste I'll show you what she got she doesn't care for it she loves shrimp but this is the only one I think that you haven't liked yeah of this yeah I think so she bought this where'd you get this one of the dollar stores it could have been yeah dollar tree or dollar yeah so but I'm gonna have a couple bites of this I'm gonna share mine with hers she don't like hers so okay guys so I gave her the rest of mine there was spinach in the other one in hers that's why she didn't like it I tasted it I knew right off the bat what it was I found a big piece of spinach in there so we left it here dumped it out and then leave any trash it's on my bag for the animals they'll eat it mine's a little bit spicy it's tolerable very good again I give that two thumbs up yeah oh yeah it has a lot of flavor yeah a lot of flavor but since it is a little bit spicy found me a beer it just happened to be sitting right there I can't believe it I just found it in my backpack so it's cold so I'm gonna have a beer sit here with nature and a monkey and have a beer and I got everything else picked up just accept a few little pots and pans here the video is not over yet more to come so stick around guys okay guys so we just came out here from the blue trail and I don't know if this will know you're telling you guys but we zoom in here that's the river over there yeah that's where we were just at the beginning of the week pretty cool take this trail guys isn't that cool and the palm tree grew out of where this was growing pretty neat see how much I can handle so she wants to try the pack which so you got a gap there that should be up there but you got this gap here and that'll pull down on you but I mean you got I don't know if that pack is gonna be good for you when I get my new one or not but they put stuff on the top then that would be better probably yeah might fill it out some yeah all right she wants to try it for a little bit so let's see how she does yeah because when I wore my jeans in my boots that one time and I fell it really I felt like I was a hundred pounds on my legs and made my legs weak so that's why I didn't wear my jeans but the shoes feel pretty good I want to see how all this is okay yeah I see that should be more up there but this is where we camped right there and the tent was just on the other side of the picnic table there and right there's where we had the boat parked all right so we'll head back to the truck we got about a mile see this orange trail here this is the orange trail all right off we go okay so who is this talking about this kind of upsets me because I wanted to reserve more than two days and I couldn't that was the only two days I could get this week and you guys seen I was the only one here Wednesday night I left Thursday there was one guy come up on a boat he was moving over to my spot when I left but look at this here it is Saturday not one person camping these guys are kayakers so I think what's happening sorry hang on the wind so I think what's happening is I think these damn kayakers which they are very rude people and they won't get out of your way they think well this this kayak I don't have to follow the rules what you do because you're still it's still a boat it's a small boat but it's a boat they go where they want but I think what they're doing is reserving this because the gates locked and you have to have a code in order to get that code you have to reserve this place well here they reserve it just so they can come back here and put their their kayaks in there and go kayak and then they'll leave at the end of the day and then you got an empty campground like yes that no one can use because it's already reserved for these two guys you follow what I mean and that's not fair and it's not right and that really upsets me you know because this was for the whole week of this week was the only two days I could get was the two days we were here and that was it and as you can see here it is Saturday afternoon did I say Friday anyway it's Saturday afternoon right now and look not one person camping but how did they get back in here I'll tell you how they got back in here they had to reserve to get the gate code because the gates locked you cannot get back in here unless you have a reservation to get the gate code and I don't think it's right I think they should have to put in up the boat ramp you know I mean because here people want to want to camp and here they're just reserving all they're doing is reserving a camp site or whatever they're reserving it so they can just go spend the day on water come back and leave so they don't have to walk or do anything like that and then you know here people want to go camping pitch a tent stuff they can't because they reserved this place just so they could do that that's not fair it's not right something needs to be done about it that's that's not right at all because like if I want to go camp tonight and try to reserve it I won't be able to reserve it it'll be grayed out and the reason why it's in the gray is meaning that there's no reservations left and as you can see there's all kinds of places I can camp not one person camping back there but we've got two kayakers it's not fair okay guys so back at the gate sorry about the little ramp but that really upsets me that all that's back there not being used when it could be but so we're back monkeys going to the car I don't want parks clear over there but she does but she's got the pack on she made it the rest of the way back here so alright guys thanks for watching appreciate it don't forget check out a monkey 1000 channel hike with Mike link to his channel be in the description below and yeah so had a great time what a beautiful day it's a wonderful weekend so we'll see you guys in the next one Shaybear the myth man legend gone for now thanks for joining us on our little hike today we appreciate it thanks for joining us on our picnic we'll see you in the next one bye bye guys take care