These two thing have made a huge difference in my ability to play soccer with younger guys and recover well afterwards at age 57+ — and I’m not the one collapsing at the end of the game!
(BTW I mis-calculated in the video and added a year to my age! I was only 57 and a half when I recorded this)
Enjoy the story & info below, and reach out if you’d like to know more about simple yet powerful solutions like these that can make a big difference in how you feel.
Enjoy!
P.S. One thing I forgot to mention in the video — the story of how the young player and I ended last night demonstrates how we can now essentially “regenerate” our cellular energy and not hit the usual “wall” that even young athletes can hit who don’t have this key to “unlocking” healthy gene expression!
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Rachelle and I are sitting here at a great little coffeehouse in Charleston (the Harbinger Cafe) the day after our anniversary — 31 years! — and having fun sharing ideas from what we’re reading and exploring. From P.G. Wodehouse to Narnia to reading about the Blue Zones with Dr. Mark Hyman (Forever Young) and now Professor Rose Anne Kenny (Age Proof), we’ve enjoyed laughing and sharing together things we love and ideas that spark, inspire, and challenge us.
Among these ideas during our drive down was the arena of “detoxing” — and how challenging it can be to complete the fasting, special diets, or key programs for detoxing that many are pursuing today.
One of the things I love about the partnerships we have access to are the international team of scientists and decades of research into aging, healthy gene expression, and specific extracts and blends from nature that can support our health in ways the “mainstream” media is just starting to catch up with.
You may have seen my prior blog post about our mitochondria, and today I want to highlight a particular blend of three ingredients that does something very unique — and in a much easier and potentially more effective way than many of the challenging “detox regimens” out there.
What is this blend and what does it do?
With a specific combo of grape seed extract, red orange fruit extract, and broccoli seed extract, this blend helps restore our cells’ ability to remove the toxins and byproducts that have accumulated in them during the day.
Here’s an excerpt right from the product information page (PIP) on the website I’ve linked below:
With aging, our bodies can become less effective at purification, and our cells begin to accumulate damage, cellular waste, and toxic byproducts. So, although we normally are primarily concerned with eliminating external environmental contaminants, it’s also important to target the buildup and damage from our internal metabolism (breathing, converting food to energy, and so on) that happens over time and that can accelerate the aging process. Until now, products haven’t focused on this internal source of aging— they have focused on some symptoms of the problem rather than a key source. Unlike a colon cleanse, which is limited to the GI tract and only targets some systems, we are providing a cellular cleanse, which focuses on the internal source by targeting gene expression patterns associated with cellular purification. (emphasis mine)
Now this doesn’t mean that other healthy choices aren’t important, too, but how cool that this kind of cellular purification can be restored — and all overnight while you’re sleeping to boot!
No “heavy lifting” required!
Being able to tap into nature’s bounty at such a high level — the “fruit” of teams of scientists and decades of research — has been a key part of my daily regimen and what has helped me to thrive all the way now into my late 50’s.
Want to benefit from this, too?
You can access this blend, called R2 Night right here:
What if there are “realities” and things you want to experience that you cannot see, you cannot tap into, because of the “station” you’re tuned into?
I was just reflecting on this as I drove one of our sons to drop a car at the local Meineke this morning, then shared it in our morning coffee chat with a fellow dad, and finally created a little video about it.
Now I thought you might enjoy reflecting on this, too!
In short, we’re all “tuned into” certain beliefs and patterns of thinking and self-talk — often unconsciously — that create a kind of filter that only allow us to “see” things that reinforce our beliefs or match our pattern.
Hence, in a sense, what we believe — what we’re constantly thinking, talking about, and saying to ourselves — becomes our “reality”, and nothing else “exists” for us.
I had a mini experience of this recently when Rachelle drove off unknowingly with my sunglasses and I wanted to take a bike ride. As my eyes were still feeling sensitive to the pollen in the air, I was bummed at first, wondering what to do.
Then I just “accepted” the situation and decided I was going to bike anyway and enjoy the ride.
As soon as I relaxed, an idea came to me — why not use one of the clear “glasses” that we have for protecting our eyes when using power tools?
Now just a moment before, those glasses didn’t “exist” for me — they didn’t exist in my reality, and I couldn’t “access” them.
But as soon as I relaxed my own reaction to the situation, all of a sudden I was able to “tune into” another channel, and get another idea — and in a sense, “manifest” something out of thin air!
Now you may be saying those glasses were already there — but for me they weren’t, until that moment that I became aware of them.
How about for you?
What might be “already there” around you that you can’t yet “see”, because of certain beliefs, reactions, or self-talk — and what if you were to relax a moment — release your current thinking, beliefs, or patterns — and make room for something new, for a new idea, a new possibility, even a new way of being?
Ever feel like you’re continually getting pulled in multiple directions? Like there’s always something vying for your attention?
In a sense, we’re all being programmed, or influenced, all the time.
The question is – are we choosing our programming?
Are we choosing what we’re giving our attention to, what we’re listening to, and what we’re thinking and talking about, or is someone or something else determining that for us?
What if we all took moments in our day to “step away”, to turn off outside media, voices, the news – and even step away from emails, messages, and others’ requests – and “tuned in” to silence…
…to space
…to stillness
And perhaps to our “inner voice”, nudges, inspiration, and inner knowing?
Ever get a great idea while walking?
Or in the shower?
We live in a busy world, and there are so many things calling for our attention.
Perhaps two conscious steps we can take are to choose what we’re listening to – something that stretches us, challenges us, or lifts our mood and makes us feel good.
And then second – to take moments in our day to “unplug” even for 60 seconds – to be still, go for a walk, listen, journal, and allow space for something besides what’s coming to us externally.
One place I’ve practiced this is at the kitchen sink, or pausing between activities to just be still a moment – perhaps place my palm over my heart, take a few deep breaths, or say a little prayer or affirmation for the day. This immediately shifts my nervous system and reconnects me to more than just my external circumstances.
How about you? Ready to choose your “programming”, and then even to step away at times from all programming and listen within? Or have you been practicing this already? If so, would love to hear what’s working for you, and what you’ve noticed along the way!
I tend to read multiple books at the same time (especially my non-fiction ones), and one of the books Rachelle and I have really been enjoying lately is Kyle Cease’s The Illusion of Money.
He has a chapter in there called “Raising Your Value” that sparked some thoughts today regarding something that many of us face in life — whether in our career, our relationships, or our work as an entrepreneur — and which can profoundly affect how we feel and how we show up — and ultimately the results we create, too.
First a question —
Where does your value come from?
Many of us may have an initial spiritual answer — our faith, our Creator, our family, love — and we also believe each of us has an intrinsic value.
But how many of us often “forget” this value when we’re engaging with the world, and especially when we’re in business or marketing a product or service, or paying our bills?
So here’s a question for us all as we go through our day, interacting with the world, posting on social media, and engaging in conversations:
Where does our value come from? Are we needing external validation — whether it’s a title, promotion, our bank account, our results, or others’ perception and response to us — or are we letting our creativity, gifts, joy, and intention flow through us into our work, our posts, our conversations, our day regardless of how people seem to respond?
What if we chose to let what inspires and energizes us flow through us and approached our day and our interactions with a bit of curiosity and even a sense of adventure?
What if we allowed ourselves to create, share, and — as one of my key mentors whom many of you know, Artemis Limpert, says — “beacon out” without being attached to the outcome?
What if we “showed up” in life or our work or business with the thought “I am an amazing person, and I see your brilliance, too. Let’s see if we can partner and create something magnificent together?”
Those of you who journal, you might enjoy taking a moment to write a couple thoughts that are stirring in you right now. And feel free to share them in the comments below — I’d love to hear what’s stirring in you!
Then expand your awareness as you bring these thoughts to how you show up in your day.
Food for thought as we go forward creating a life we love.
