This is The Revolutionary Human Diet that STICKS! | Eric Edmeades

when the hard stuff happens I want you to get that if life was unbelievably easy you would give up on it I I did it works off yesterday and for those of you who who's there who's there excellent I shared with all those people that the reason that my voice is like this now is that I've decided that to become the best speaker in the whole world I have to sound like Tony Robbins so or something's irritating my throat and in any event I want to share something with you guys and I this has been a challenging talk for me to kind of put together and I've been thinking about it for quite a long time I'll tell you why it's challenging it's because like a third or half of you have done well it fit another third or half of the remaining people have been to a web Fit master class and some of you who have no idea what it is yet and so you can imagine putting a talk together what that means is I have to try and put a talk together that is gonna have something interesting and new in it for the people who have spent three months to a year with me in some form then I've got to do something that'll be interesting for the people who've done like a really mess good master class with me but don't know a lot more then I've got to somehow get the basics in there for the people who have never heard of anything that I do challenge accepted sounds accepted and so I really thought that what might be powerful is to share with you why it is that wild fit is so successful in the diet space why it is that our completion rates are so high and why it is that a year later like people have been using like you know sending me notes and going hashtag wild fit anniversary a year later I'm still on track you understand that's not how the diet industry works that's not how it works likely the average person that goes on a diet gains 3 pounds every time they go on a diet and often their food habits get worse the worst we get every now and again we get clients that go I like I've kind of fallen off the wild fit bandwagon a little and I go well how far did you fall and they go well I never will eat this again and I don't eat that and I don't even want that and how far did you really fall right you know sure there can always be room for improvement so I want to share with you how that came to be and and and the reason I want to share it with you is that I think some of the principles are things that you can apply in your life in your business and your parenting and your relationships in everywhere we're gonna start mostly with food and I'm going to introduce something to you that I've been working on for about two years and that I've never spoken about publicly before does that sound good all right so I want to introduce you to something that I call the evolution gap the evolution gap the evolution gap as I define it is the gap between our genetic evolution and our social evolution so it's the gap between our bodies our minds and and the way our civilization is evolving around us and I want to share my theory with you that almost all human suffering all personal human suffering is because of this gap almost all of it every time we're depressed or sad or upset or angry in an in in a let's call it a non-productive way is because of that gap and I want to share how that gap kind of works I want you to think that like just think about something for a minute how long we've been on this planet in some form my grandfather found the oldest up until recently the oldest hope and Homo sapiens skill in the his skull sorry in the history of the world out 259 thousand years old the pyramids are 3,500 years old just consider that you know and and and the truth is you know humans probably started something in the realm of 5 million ish years ago and our social constructs did not change a great deal during that five million year time it didn't didn't change a great deal so we evolved with those changes really slowly and then suddenly we started taking massive turns we started making massive changes in the way we live and yet our software and our hardware did not make those turns with us it can not turn that fast evolution is like turning a massive ship it takes forever we are about five years at five million years in the making like it's a massive process it humans first encounter dairy products about seven or eight thousand years ago and in that seven or eight thousand years all we've evolved is that a small minority of people on earth are not lactose intolerant that's as far as we've gotten we've not evolved a nutritional dependence upon it we've not even evolved the ability to not get sick from it some people have evolved the ability to not get immediately sick in their stomach because they continue to produce lactase and they can break down lactose but they'll still get prostate cancer we've not evolved to deal with that change we made and so I want to suggest you that some of the challenges that you might have in relationships in parenting in running your business in in social interaction stem from these differences that your instincts don't match your life that the messages that you're getting from your body from your software don't exactly match your life does anybody feel like that occasionally like yeah I'll give you an example as a parent one of my least favorite things in the world is mom guilt I hate mom guilt it's awful what guilt does to mom you know my poor wife we've got the most gorgeous little baby girl and she is vivacious and intelligent and fun and excellent and you know what every now and again we need a break from her any parents on with that right and so what happens is and not only do we need a break from her but she needs a break from us this idea that two people are supposed to raise one child by themselves is insane and it's brand-new even two generations ago even two generations ago the grandparents would be there the uncles and aunts would be there that's gone I know some of you still have it but it's fast leaving at least and I know grandparents helped my mother not a baby woman I I'm lucky to be alive she was a fantastic mom I'm kidding she's just not really into babies my mother-in-law not a baby person my to my father and my father-in-law same thing they'll be great grandparents in a couple years but they're not helpful now so that leaves us on our own it was not meant to be there and now to make it worse not only do we sometimes expect two people to raise one but we expect two people to raise two or one person sadly too often a woman on her own to raise one to three children and then judge her when we see her on her own that somehow she's doing something wrong go for it I dare you to try it one on your own and you know why it's so difficult because you weren't built for that I have been out as many of you know throughout fit to go and visit with the hodza Bushmen on a number of times I'm going again in a couple of weeks I'm so excited and it's like you we're talking again just for those you don't know what I'm talking about is proper hunter-gatherer nomadic people they do not have money they do not have cell phones and they have no Google they know what they know and I can tell you that when I've been in their camps when I've been in their villages because they don't look I shouldn't even call it a village because they don't have permanent placement they don't live in one place they move with the water they move with the animals and when I've been with them I tell you you come with me one time here's what I dare you to try to do figure out whose child that is figure it out I dare you and then you're gonna go out what if they're breastfeeding I'll figure it out still I dare you because they share they don't have the social hang-ups that we do they this they want to breastfeed they do it it's just right there they don't have to have a special booth in the airport where we hide our women in shame [Applause] and so many of the instincts that we have are mismatched with the way we live because if you imagine 30,000 years ago or if you're a Bushman today right the way we lived most of our genetic history you've got a baby say it's two ish toddlers and it's crawling over here and you're here okay no mom guilt make sense why should you have mom guilty babies right their tiny bit of mom guilt because there are hyenas a little more mom guilt that's what it's for it's not for you to feel this horrible seething knife stabbing pain when you're not with your child even when your child is doing something socially healthy for itself does this make sense and yet mothers punish themself with this I got such a powerful lesson in this because our little girl goes to a little Montessori preschool which she loves like in the morning I have to go Zoey bye bye Zoey bye bye oh boy like she loves going and so so Elyse sits at home and and feels guilty about it and why she goes well I should be with her I go do you want to be with her right now yes then go to the school and be with her because the school we picked allows that do you want to be with her right now and if she says well actually no then I'm like well why don't you enjoy the time you have now to the maximum no no you know why because the more she's enjoying herself the more guilt she feels because there's my anus out there because if you were this far away from your child and you started to get distracted by enjoyment your child got eaten and so your software says don't enjoy yourself when you're away from your child do you get this okay so let it go [Laughter] so so let's do it with food let's do it with food all right I want you to think about food now think of our evolution relative to food here's what we evolved to deal with food was incredibly rare it was incredibly rare in in anthropological terms we have this measurement where you go it's called calories per acre it's called calories per acre so what does that mean it means how many calories are available per acre in your social construct and so if you're like a totally nomadic hunter-gatherer Bushmen your calories per acre are very minimal that means that every single day you're gonna have to walk 10 or 15 miles minimum to get your calories per acre and all the other non calorie nutrients you need does that make sense then as you come forward we say forward in civilization and you get to say the Masai people they are pastoralists so they keep livestock which means they now have hundreds of thousands of calories per acre around them all the time they don't need to do quite as much work except that the calories they have around them need to graze so their calories have to move around so they have to move with them then you go to agriculturalists well agriculturalists grow millions of calories for acre so they get to do nothing they work very hard to plant and very hard to sow but in the middle it's kind of not so much work compared to being a hunter-gatherer and now we're in Southern California where we live in kazillion of calories per acre no we live in Concilium zuv calories per bite I would lighten like uber eats let's see what would I like to get right now maximum calorie load minimum effort how's that working out for the population see because what we evolved for was the rarity of food we evolved not to starve and if I look around America I see some people doing a fantastic job of not starving their body is responding well packing it in just in case that drought arrives right and so so how does that happen all right well we evolved for this incredibly rare food situation and then one day I often imagine it like this a couple of early people and they're in camp one day and they get back to the matter of fact they arrive at a camp that they haven't been at for about a year and and they look they get situated and then one of the guys looks over here he's like hey look at this you know that you know that root vegetable that we really like all the time there's this one gorgeous root vegetable I eat when I'm with them and it's like halfway between a sweet potato and an onion and you can eat it raw but if you put it in the fire it's amazing and so the guy goes yeah you know those things this week potato onion things they're growing here they never used to grow here why do you think they're growing here I don't I don't know do you know I think that's where we left all the bits and pieces last time I think that's where we dropped the the do you think we grew them that's the moment that it changed that's the moment we changed our relationship with food we started to be able to control it we started to deal with agriculture certainly only grow our plants now here's one of the problems that happens with that I would like you guys to vote with me there are two plants we can grow one is a gorgeous luscious sweet tasting watermelon explosion of gorgeousness and the other one is kale which one should be grown now what I want to suggest is at the moment at the very moment that they figured out that they could grow their own food they will have selectively begun breeding for food that they enjoyed the most not necessarily the foods that they needed the most does this make sense that's where it starts going wrong that's where it begins and then technology comes in technology comes in and they start being able to do stuff the food that they were never able to do before see you can't eat wheat I dare you I dare you to just take some wheat and eat it try chewing that stuff go for it you don't have the teeth for it you don't have the digestive system for it that grain has has a hard shell on the outside it has glutens in it it has enzyme blockers it has hormone triggers all designed to fool the digestive system of a bird luckily your teeth can't break in there so you don't have a problem right up until you figure out how to grind them into powder you start grinding them in pattern now you're introducing a new nutritional constituent into your diet and your digestive system doesn't quite know how to do with it and weirdly fifteen ten fifteen thousand years ago we start seeing bone diseases properly for the first time in the fossil record and dental caries and we continue to take this left turn away from our evolution and our bodies can't keep up with that our body tries a few people start becoming gluten tolerant they're not the lucky ones a few people start getting lactose tolerant they are definitely not the lucky ones because they don't get the warning being lactose tolerant is like turning off the car alarm that's what it is if you drink milk and you eat cheese and it doesn't make you sick I'm sorry I wish it did because then you wouldn't do it anymore does this make sense so then this left turn continues because we fast-forward and we mass produce food and then pretty soon we need to start getting involved in regulation government intervention that's a good idea don't you think and so the government goes out and they hire this incredible food scientist to develop the food pyramid go to develop a food pyramid notices the apparently the first food pyramid is officially Swedish but I know the story of the American food pyramid they hired this woman and they brought her in and she designed this incredible food pyramid it was good but they wanted to get some expert feedback on it you know it's a good idea don't you think so who should we get should we get the United States Dairy Association should we get Kellogg because we did and the beef growers and the sugar industry because we got them and they took the pyramid and they turned it upside down and the woman who created the pyramid said this if you publish this pyramid you will create a unbelievable epidemic of type 2 diabetes and obesity like you've never seen before and they still did it and she was right because our bodies are not built for this massive left turn and not on our instincts either see here's another one fruit was always seasonal for our ancestors it was always seasonal and you know what's crazy now is that the whole Kito movement has come along and vilified sugar Sugar's evil man look English is a complicated language it's complicated because you can use one word to say many different things with different meanings so for example is meat good or bad I don't know it depends doesn't it there's definitely some bad meat out there and there's definitely good I mean it's oh you can't do it like that you know and so we've done the same thing with sugar we say sugars bad well no our ancestors grew up eating sugar when it was available I got to tell you something when I'm out hunting with the Bushmen nothing will distract them more than a beehive it is amazing we're like totally on the hunt hunting along oh honey okay everybody stop hunting then crack the tree open and they hack in at it and the bees are swarming everywhere those bees don't sting interestingly enough they're tiny little bees and you scoop the honey out of the tree sorry vegans because there's bees in the honey but it is the yummiest honey you've ever had and when fruit is available they eat it but then what happens is the fruits not available and they're probably sad about that they might even get a little low blood sugar they might even get hangry but then they'll get over it as they pass back into keto and the craving goes down and then they won't even think about it again until the next ripen season the trouble for you and I is that the food industry came along and noticed the evolution gap they noticed that as long as we are eating sugar we crave sugar they have noticed it as long as we are eating sugar we crave food generally sugar is now in 65% of the food that you buy on the shelves United States and most countries around the world the average American eats 154 pounds of sugar a year pounds it's a phenomenal amount and so the food industry has like expanded and the government has expanded the evolution gap the challenges is that your instincts that SMS messages or the text messages you get from inside are oh my god I might be serving I better eat that like how many of you have this thing well I wouldn't normally eat that but it's free [Applause] that's not you that's like look I know I think I've shared this with some of you before but help me out here we got to do some quick math how many parents do each of you have okay I know we live in this new world of great interesting family dynamics I'm talking genetic parents how many do you have okay so the count back the generations with me so at one generation back to then next then 1,000 ten generations ago a thousand great-grandparents are you with me carry on next one just go to two thousand two thousand eight thousand sixteen thousand thirty two thousand 64,000 hundred twenty-eight thousand two hundred fifty six thousand five hundred twelve thousand 1 million twenty generations ago 1 million people needed to meet without tinder and they then had to have sex in order for you to exist that means at least half a million I'm hoping it was a lot more at least half a million orgasms I'm open more but so that one simmers a little does it the point is that some of these instincts that we have any kind of imagine like those people lived through the most unlikely environments the unlikely circumstances they lived through incredibly difficult challenges we live in the safest times in the history of times I shared this with the group yesterday like in this room about 20 percent of you I've pulled and pulled and pulled about 20 percent of you have faced actual death I don't mean theoretical I don't mean the doctor said you might this and you that I'm talking about you've been in a situation where in that moment you actually thought you were gonna die about 20 percent of you have had that I've had it a few times I was in a casino in the Bahamas when four guys walked in with automatic assault rifles and started shooting that's scary I've been standing in Africa with my camera and had two white rhinos make a serious attempt at my life twice so I've contemplated it only about 20% of you have had that the other 80% haven't that's great for you isn't it aren't you happy you haven't had that go back three generations and how many of you would it be all of you go back ten generations and it would be all of you annually go back another ten generations would be all of you daily daily it would have been dealing with stuff daily there was a high n over here yeah couple a couple years ago I did one of our Kilimanjaro adventures and and and at the end I was going to go off and visit with the Bushmen and so I kind of extended an invitation to one of my wild fit coaches have on and she came along and there were two of our mind valley photographers Kirstie's here somewhere and karen was there with us and she they actually came with me to go visit the Bushmen and it was interesting because I thought what I'd have to do sorry a little sexist wrong I suppose is that the women would probably want to stay back at the lodge and I would sleep overnight around the fire with the Bushmen you know that was my mistake that's what I thought and Yvonne was like hell no she's German she's tough she's a wild fit coach man I'm coming out in the bush now I'm thinking well these two you look the two Sounion girls they they there's no way they're going out there there's nails that could be broken if you see if they really take care right no way they're like we're in we're in I should have known they walked up Kilimanjaro like it was nothing so I should have known and we're out there we get there we lay out the the sleeping bags and then we discover a problem I only have two sides because now we have to argue about who gets to me because suddenly the reality of it is in there are animals out there it's not here you you can feel unsafe in some you can go to East LA and feel a little unsafe if you like but there's a different there's a different unsafe out there there's no cell phone coverage and so all of a sudden we hear this whoa Karen goes why is that I go it's a hyena he goes what tougher that's like five miles she goes oh thank god I go yeah that'll take it at least 20 minutes but in that moment what they got to experience is what your ancestors lived with for 99.99% of your genetic history and so that's why sometimes your instincts mismatch with your reality that's why some of you have received a visa bill and thought you were gonna die so let's talk about how to close the gap that's how that's what the gap is and that's how the gap gets created and how it impacts us and that gives you an example with food how it's happened a little bit of discussion about how it can happen with parenting by the way do you think it's happening with relationships a little bit do you think do you think there's some things we're doing in relationships that are challenging our instincts do you think it's interesting so let's talk about how we close the gap one is with awareness sometimes awareness is enough it really is like all of a sudden when I was talking to my wife about what was going on Zoey I pointed something out to her that one of our very good friends was also sending her little girl off to a Montessori School a couple years before before the one opened near our house and and what the difference was is that she was driving 45 minutes out to the school dropping the child off for a two-hour lesson and driving 45 minutes home but not right away she was waiting at the school because it wasn't worth driving 45 minutes out dropping the child off for two hours driving all the way back it just didn't make sense so instead she would sit in her car and read a book while her child was in school guess what she did not have mom guilt she didn't have any mom guilt because she knew that what she was doing was good for the child does this make sense the challenge is that when you start to enjoy your time away from your child that's what kicks the mom guilt in and once at least saw that connection she was able to let it go it doesn't mean that your body won't keep trying to serve it up it doesn't mean your body we keep won't go hey mom yo and then you gotta go No and sadly we have to go to logic every now and again to close the gap we have to remind ourselves that were not in this kind of danger you know deep is life happening for you or to you see like do you really believe that do you really believe that all the time no and I want to give you an example of why I think it's important to really understand it all the time I went to this obstacle course in Calgary Alberta Canada and and it was an obstacle course there's about 35 feet in the air and it was all these like like balance beams and little discs on ropes that you had to walk across here 35 feet in the air so if you fall you're gonna fall 35 feet except for the fact that you're a safety line on right so how do people walk across these things how do you think well this is how you might walk across the balance beam if it's like six inches off the ground fair but what if it's 35 feet off the ground how am i walking across it now and this is how a lot of us are living because we don't have faith we don't believe that it's happening for to us we believe that it's happening to us not for us so we're walking like this suddenly I'm walking across this balance beam going I must look like I have a disability I've made in my head here but it's a balance beam what's going on with me why am i why am i unable to see this correctly I have a safety line on and so I got to the beginning the balance beam and I said how would I walk across this if I really know the safety line was there that I was able to ignore my instincts that are telling me I'm thirty feet five feet off the ground I thought well I'd walk across it normally so I did I walked across it I got to the next one and it was these little discs that are all on and they move and I just walked across those I did all the course like that the entire course the guy who runs the course the teenage kid with his you know like pimply face and geeky glasses and he comes something he goes how long have you been coming here and I said this is my first time and he goes but you've been to the other ones I said no I've never been on one of these at all he goes but how did you do that how do you just walk across it like that I go dude there's a safety line so what if you did that with your life what if you got that there's a safety line always there's a safety line and and and the problem is so many of us are walking around with these ancient fears these this evolution gap this my ancient instincts ancient fears and I'm terrified when you have the most incredible safety lines around you social safety lines we have family safety lines we have financial safety lines we have bankruptcy laws we have governmental systems we have safety lines upon safe zone we live in the safest times ever I'm not saying there is that there's no danger at all but the danger that you actually live with is infinitesimally small compared to the danger that your DNA thinks you're living with and so Deenie DNA keeps in dangerous dangerous and so that's why when the food manufacturer puts food when they put sugar in your food it triggers a message in you that says oh fruits available but it might be gone soon eat some more eat some more it's an old message so the one thing we can do is become aware of it so here's the here's a here's a game I'd like a old play I'd like you for those who have not done wild fit yet for those who have done wild fit you've done this before do it again go grocery shopping and look at the labels and observe where sugar is where is sugar in rice krispies where what place on the ingredients it's not first come on it's breakfast cereal where is it second ingredient where is it in cornflakes where is it in frosted flakes it is first its first it shouldn't even be called frost it should be called sugar with corn it's insane and so what we need to recognize is that they're playing upon our old instincts this evolution gap and and and they're profiting from it so when you read the ingredients you pick up a jar of tomato sauce and you go oh my god sugar is the second ingredient but what what I want you to do what take the jar and just smash it on the floor and the whole foods if you do that enough they'll stop stalking that stuff okay now what I'm really saying is don't buy it don't look at it with disappointment if you look at it with disappointment if you look at it with disappointment you're gonna eat it oh man I wish there wasn't sugar disappointment emptiness long Oh little food devil well it's not your fault right yeah this is what I want you to instead I want you to look at it and go what WTF get angry about it because it's there to manipulate your cravings it's there to stimulate your appetite it's there to get you to eat more food so get angry when you see it do you know we can go and Lobby the government all we like we can try that we can go and pressure our congressmen or our senators or what have you and some of them are incredibly proactive but if we really want the food industry to stop putting sugar in everything that we eat we have to stop buying it or smashing it on the floor would be good too so here's something else is to actually pay attention to your emotional ride when things are happening your emotions they're just a bunch of life coaches tell me some of the good emotions good emotions happiness joy love anger what else what are good emotions shame guilt pride they're good emotions as long as you're using them and they're not using you I look at emotions like this big team of horses you can ride them or they can take you for a ride joy joy is a really easy horse you jump on joy and joy it's like hey we're going for ride it's awesome it's excellent but if you get on anger and you don't have anger reined in anger rides you under low branches isn't it true shame shame zat tough one isn't it but here's the thing people don't know shame and hurt so it's a such an awful emotion no it's not it's an emotion designed to make you a fantastic human being the difficulty is the rules with which you bring it on it's the rules with that you that you use it with so so here's an example are there different rules about safe sex relative to shame in different countries around the world yeah is the approach to sex different in America than in Germany it is it's different in a variety of ways not not normal ways you go into a gym in Germany I went through our staying at the Hyatt Hotel in Cologne and I walk in to go to the gym and I did these like saloon doors I opened the saloon doors I walk in and there's these like women standing there naked I'm like walked into the wrong one walked out walk over go where's the men's changing room we don't have one it's unisex okey dokey I can live with that but the bra but the problem the problem is when shame gets in the way when shame gets in the way and shame holds you back from saying what you really wanted to say from asking for what you really wanted to ask for for being who you really wanted to be and and so then people go I wish I could get rid of my shame no you just want to train it you just want to get it under control you just want to rein it in because if you'll it has anybody ever met somebody with no shame that's just unpleasant it's just unpleasant so what we have to do is notice that our emotions evolved over the last several millions of years and our environment has changed dramatically in the last fifteen thousand years and so that means that our emotions are not always the most accurate representation of the coaching we need in that moment is that true and so we can bring some consciousness to that so here's another example with food those here in wilds that you'll be familiar with this but it's called the food timeline the food timeline okay now how many of you this is an odd question but how many of you have ever eaten some food for a reason other than your physical sustenance Oh Oh everyone okay all right so in other words that's a fancy way of saying how many of you have stuffed your face full of empty calories that had nothing to do with your sustenance but had everything to do with you thinking it was going to change the way you felt who's done that okay so and by just just for fun what are some of the foods that do that for you or used to for those of you in wild fed who used to do this for you ice cream peanut butter chocolate pizza we know what they are we know who the usual suspects are so all right so here's what's going on is it possible that a person is feeling not great is it possible let's say they're feeling a little lonely a little low and then and then their food devil goes and they're angels going dude like I've already like I'm gonna have to get new belts if we keep doing this yeah but it's just this one time okay you say that every time I'm not gonna fall for every time yes you are and give into it right now that you know I know many of you don't anymore but many people do now here's what I want to ask you let's see on a scale of zero to ten you're feeling a zero emotionally you're in the bucket you're in the bottom you're feeling bad all right so here you are not feeling good and then how good is the ice cream gonna make you feel really truly how how could you believe it's gonna make you feel ten at least if not more if it's haagen-dazs eleven it's gonna do it it's gonna do the trick and so excellent now here's the real interesting thing though you're at zero your food devil and your food angel or arguing about that ever notice the food devil has a number of personalities like I discovered the other day a new one but some of the ones that I've been on aware of for a while like how many of you can't stand whiny teenagers anyone whiny teenagers like don't raise your hand if they're with you please but like whiny teenagers right nobody likes that really because the next time you're trying to talk yourself into eating something that you don't want to be eating I want you to listen a little closer because I think you are the whiny teenager I want you to hear but doesn't your food devil kind of go oh come on the other kids are doing it doesn't that happen whiny teenager that's one personality then then there's another personality and that's the drug dealer that's the drug dealer that's like come on just one Cinnabon just one you don't even have to finish it and these ones are free right and then I discovered another one the other day this woman comes along she owes I don't have any food dialogue I don't even talk to myself about food I got nothing I got no food dialogue happening here at all and I go well how does it go she goes I walk in the kitchen it says go get some cake I go okay who says that she goes I don't know well so you got some food dialogue somebody saying something and I said describe to me what is it like she goes well it's just this voice and it says go get me some cake and I go oh she's got Hawaii her food Devils wearing that wife beater t-shirt with food stains on it woman get me some ice cream yes right so so we've got these different food devil personalities and the more we can become aware of them because some of you over the next couple of days your food devil is going to talk to you to go man that's what Eric's talking about and it's going to begin to give you consciousness about it is it true all right now where was I going before I told you about the food angel and devil food timeline and so here's my question you finally give in to the devil you decide you're gonna do it this one time when do you start feeling better when do you start feeling better do you feel better when you have the first bite do you feel better when you smell it or do you feel better the moment you gave yourself permission do you get how dangerous this is it was never the food that made you feel good it was the permission and the rebellion and as soon as you gave yourself permission and rebellion you release serotonin and dopamine and you started feeling good and then you ate the food and you linked the food to the feeling good just like Pavlov's dogs and this happened to you when you were six and it's still happening today the food never made you feel good now unfortunately it'll amplify it because these high calorie high sugar freedom eat it in and it will double your serotonin production it'll double your dopamine release and so now you'll feel even better but how will you an end you guys some of you played this game with me before we're about to order pizza and ice cream for those of you who have done wild fit it was the old days here's before we're about to order a bunch of pizza and ice cream and we're gonna celebrate we just won the big game we're about to order it everybody when I count to three make the sound that represents the the food celebration that we're about to give ourselves a big treat one two three yes we're very happy about it everybody in a count of three make the sound that represents the way you feel an hour and a half after eating the pizza and ice cream one two three and that's the other part of the food timeline and that's why we need to figure out how to close the evolution gap because so much of our life is set up that way our instincts are kicking in to deal with the present and they're hurting us in the long term does this make sense to you so I want to leave you with this thought I want to leave you with the thought that the past is the past that it really happened and it happened without meaning you gave it some meaning your parents gave you food they told you you are a good little girl because you finished your whole plate how dangerous is that they told you that because you fell down and skin your knee I'm going to give you this cookie and love and sweetness all got attached to it how dangerous is that that happened to you many of you and other things in this conversation and what I'm going to ask you to recognize is that the past is now gone and the meaning that you created back then is not the truth and that tomorrow is a fresh day of creating new meanings and new consciousness where you can really take a look and recognize you are living in the safest times in the world and you have a safety line on and so from now onwards instead of teetering your way through worrying means that business deal gonna happen is that guy gonna call me back why didn't she text me what's going on why is everything so scary instead I'm gonna ask you this for those of you who have played video games what is your favorite part of the game the hardest levels the boss the hardest level isn't it true and so for at least the next three weeks I have an exercise for you it's this simple when the hard stuff happens I want you to get that if life was unbelievably easy you would give up on it you would give up on it you would never read Jim Rohn he always said if you picked up a book and in Chapter one nothing serious happened you would you get to chapter 2 and if chapter 2 nothing serious happened when you get to chapter 3 absolutely not and so don't asked for life to be easier asked for you to be stronger and so the next time something comes along and the wrong phone call happens you realize it wasn't the wrong phone call the next time of food craving kings up and you go oh I've always done this in the past you go no that was the past I'm now creating my future does this make sense and so that's the the the goal for the next week something tough comes along and pushes your emotions makes you angry makes you upset makes you uncertain what I want you to do is just this it's a very simple exercise so I've just received bad news which is really a way of saying that the video game game just said level up do you argue with me so so everybody with me you want you to wait I'm gonna say level up you're gonna go level up you're gonna mmmm what you're gonna do what I do and that's what you do for the next week when you level up are you ready okay it's like this you go this is the I'll show you the old way first you go you go like this level up bad news comes in right that's what we do no no not anymore we're gonna go level up okay with me down one two three level up awesome I got this thank you guys so much it's been a real treat always a sheriff you're thank you thank you thank you emphysema [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Mindvalley Talks

Views: 121,387

Rating: 4.8556905 out of 5

Keywords: guided meditation for positive energy, health and fitness, health tips, weight loss transformation, exercise to lose weight fast at home, meditation for positive energy, exercise for beginners, nutrition facts, nutrition, how to lose weight fast, weight loss, how to lose weight without exercise, How to Lose Weight According to Your Body Type

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Length: 45min 10sec (2710 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 09 2020