Overcoming Autoimmune Book Three E-Book

Tirzah Hawkins

• Herausgeber: Tirzah Hawkins
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Are you ready to learn how to stop one of the biggest causes of inflammation and immune system overload? 

In spite of the vast array of autoimmune symptoms and diseases, the majority of them have the same root cause. My goal is to help you discover and address the cause; because when you address the cause, the symptoms go away.
This series of books is meant to help you step-by-step, at your own pace, understand the beautifully complex systems of your body, how your emotions affect your physical health, and how to begin improving your health no matter where it is currently.
This book focuses on two key nutrients that most people are either not consuming enough of or are using incorrectly: water and enzymes. 
A lack of water is a key factor in fatigue and being unable to use the energy your body is storing for you.
Digestive enzymes are vital for calming the overworked immune system but most people aren't taking the right ones. 
I pray this book meets you where you are at in your health journey and provides you with some steps forward.
Tirzah Hawkins is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner with the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She has personally overcome her own health issues including allergies (seasonal and food), anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, and chronic pain issues.

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Tirzah Hawkins

OA Book 3

First published by Natural Health Warrior Books 2020

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Contents

Preface

I. MINDSET

1. How To Use This Series

2. Belief and Desire

3. Don’t Be Afraid of Failure

4. Be Happy Now

5. Cultivate Your Courage

6. Know Your Worth

7. Be the First To Meet Your Own Emotional Needs

8. Sense of Direction

II. ONE DISEASE

9. One Disease: Two Causes

10. Some of My Natural Health Philosophies

III. WATER REVISITED

11. An Overview of Water

12. Dangers Found in Water

13. Dehydration

IV. DIGESTION AND ENZYMES

14. Complicated Food

15. Digestion

16. Poor Digestion

17. What We Don’t Want to Do

18. A Few More Words About Enzymes

A Few Final Tidbits

A New Food List

About the Author

Also by Tirzah Hawkins

Preface

Disclaimer

As a natural health practitioner, I (Tirzah Hawkins) do not examine, diagnose or treat, or offer to treat or cure or attempt to cure, any mental or physical disease, disorder or illness. As a drug-free practitioner, I do not recommend or prescribe or recommend changing the dosage or discontinuing any prescription medications or pharmaceutical drugs.

The author provides this information for educational purposes only. It is intended for use by people under the direct supervision and guidance of a health professional. The author does not intend to suggest that people should self diagnose or self-medicate without the sound judgment and counsel of a well-informed health care provider. We strongly urge the reader to consult an educated practitioner before making any changes to health maintenance or therapeutic regimens.

I

Mindset

Begin to cultivate healthy mindset habits.

Our mind is a powerful thing.

Is yours working for you or against you?

1

How To Use This Series

We all have a health journey. I want to encourage you that if you do not have the health that you desire, whether or not anyone believes that your desires are possible, that you never quit seeking it.

Seek and you shall find.

This is a marathon, not a sprint. Anything worth having is worth fighting for. Are you still fighting for your health? It is worth having.

This series of books is meant to give you small tidbits of usable information in little chunks. If I taught you everything I know about autoimmune conditions all at once, it would be overwhelming. Often when we are overwhelmed, we procrastinate and do nothing.

This books are designed to help you begin doing something. Read them at your own pace. If you want to retain more of the information in them, reread them as many times as necessary. I recommend reading a book a month and allowing that information to digest. Each time you reread, you will pick up a new awareness or learn something that you did not retain the first time.

Each book builds on the information presented in the previous book. You will understand the concepts presented better if you read the books in order. If this is the first book from the series that you picked up, go ahead and read it now. Then consider getting the first book and continuing back through this one. The concepts here will make more sense with the foundation from the other books.

Awareness and knowledge are not enough to create change. We have to do something with our new information. For this purpose, each book in the series has a companion Natural Health Warriors Workbook. The number of the workbook will correspond to the Overcoming Autoimmune book it is associated with.

These workbooks are the all-important action step for you to create change in your life. Each workbook will walk you through a 30-day plan of action, except for the first one, which spans a longer length of time. You do not have to finish the first workbook before moving onto Book Two unless you desire to gradually ease into the healthy changes recommended.

Work through each workbook as many times as you would like before moving on to the next.

I would like to emphasize that I do not talk about specific diseases throughout most of this books. As you read them, I am sure that you agree with me that autoimmune diseases have the same causes. We need to learn how to calm down the immune system while preventing inflammation.

I believe that all autoimmune diseases have early warning signs that happen before someone experiences a diagnosable autoimmune disease.

If you experience ANY of these early warning symptoms, then you will benefit from these books.

Early warning symptoms of autoimmune conditions.

Please note that this is not an exhaustible list.

If you experience any digestive distress, then Book One will also be particularly helpful for you in combination with this Book Three.

Book One details the inspiring story of a real life client of mine named Rebekah as well as some common physical causes of autoimmune conditions. Book Two contains in detail my own life struggle and triumph over allergies, anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue and chronic pain as well as all the information I would review with someone if I was having a personal consultation with them.

If this book proves helpful, please consider leaving a review on any of the many sites where it is sold. Reviews and word of mouth are the best ways to help spread this information.

Life is worth living even though it may not always seem that way when we are dealing with the exhaustion of disease. Please keep seeking health and truth.

Be blessed.

2

Belief and Desire

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” -Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot stress the importance of belief enough, especially when it comes to the topic of health and healing. Without a belief that we can, we often don’t even try.

Do you believe in what you’re trying to do so much that you won’t let anything get in the way? Do you know deep down inside of you that your body has this ability to heal itself?

If you can cultivate that belief in yourself, in your body, in the process that you are working through right now, and combine it with utilizing natural health and the natural gifts (herbs) God has given us then nothing can stop you.

We need to believe so strongly, that roadblocks don’t matter. We understand that any journey will have roadblocks.

What differentiates a successful person from someone who is always unsuccessful? It’s the way that they talk to themselves. The successful people in life don’t ask themselves, “Can I do this?” They ask themselves, “How will I do this?”

It doesn’t come down to a possibility. It is a foregone fact. By the time that they have decided that they will do this, it’s just a question of how. Since it never crosses their mind that they can’t, they will eventually figure out a way.

Begin using the word “will” instead of “can” whenever you talk or think. Instead of saying, “Can I do this” say “Will I do this?” Instead of saying, “I can’t do this” say “I won’t do this.” See the difference? Using can or can’t dis-empowers you. Using the word will shows you that it is a choice.

Ask yourself deep down inside, “Do I actually believe this is possible for me?” If the answer is no, then that’s where your work begins.

Why don’t I believe this? Do I not have enough information? Do I not believe in my body’s innate ability to heal? Do I believe it’s possible for others and not for me? How worthy do I feel of this? Worth can be a big stumbling block for many people.

Think of the person that you love the most. How worthy is that person of all of the joy, health, abundance, and love that this world has to offer? Are you any less than them?

No!

Make a pact with yourself right now, that you will begin to learn your worth and value, that you will begin to achieve your goals, that you will let nothing stop you from doing what you believe in.

Begin asking yourself more, “How will I? How will I begin to do this?” Journal on that question daily. Meditate on it daily. What am I willing to go through to make this happen? What am I willing to sacrifice to make this happen? What is more important than my health?

How much of an impact on the world can I have as I am now? How much more of an impact on the world can I have if I am healthy?

Let’s explore impact because it is an integral human need to have impact. A lot of people are depressed because they don’t have a vision; they don’t have a direction; they aren’t making an impact on anyone.

What is the impact that you want to make on the world? It may be to impact your children and help them to grow up to be the most successful that they can. You may want to have an impact on the community you live in. Maybe you want to impact people you will never meet that live on the other side of the globe. Begin paying attention to what impact, what lasting legacy, what sign that you were actually alive here on this Earth you were intended to make. Then begin to move toward it no matter what. When we ignore our purpose, we become depressed and stagnant.

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Some of the most amazing influencers I follow, that I want to learn from, that I’m inspired by, are inspirational because of their stories. Truly inspirational people did not start out their lives having everything handed to them. Their lives are an example of overcoming adversity. They didn’t listen when people told them what they were trying to do was impossible.

Go learn about Oprah’s story, or Tony Robbins, or Russell Brunson. These people are very open about the hardships, the desperation, the determination, the perseverance that they had to go through to get where they are now. These people are inspirational because of what they strove for their entire lives. They didn’t give up because they knew their mission and the impact they wanted to have.

What do you want your story to be? It can be as big or as humble as you would like. Begin writing it today. Begin choosing it today. You can make the decision to write your story. Are you the hero or the victim?

The people who succeed, not only failed often, and many times, but their journey took place over a course of several years. Anything worth having, is worth sticking it out for. How much is good, vibrant health worth to you? If it has value to you, then it is worth the journey. It is worth failing many times. It is worth spending years on.

We need to get the idea of instant gratification out of our minds. People who have things handed to them often lose it. Look at all the lottery winners who quickly spend the money and become broke again. When something comes to us easily, we often won’t take care of it because we didn’t earn it. We value the things that we strive and toil for. Those are the things in our life that we take care of. Health was something I worked very hard for. I’m still learning how to keep my body healthy. But I value it because I worked for it.

Working for health is a process. We need to allow our body the space and the energy in which to heal itself. We need to understand that we did not become diseased overnight, and we will not become healthy overnight. It is a journey.

Those who reach the end of the journey and continue on to their next, will tell you how worth it the journey is.

My goal is to help you shorten your journey. My journey to health took six or seven years as I completed my studies, and experimented on myself with what I was learning. I don’t recommend anything to anyone that I haven’t done myself. I was willing to put in my journey. I was willing to do the work so that you who would like to make that choice can stand on my shoulders and learn from my knowledge and reach that journey in a shorter period of time.

My goal is to help you become healthy as quickly as possible, but you have to invest as much energy or more into it than I do. How much energy are you investing positively into yourself?

Think of all the time I’ve spent writing these books, and compiling workbooks so that those who want to can shorten their journey. Not only did I spend time learning, but then I had to apply what I had learned, I had to experiment, and then I had to put it all together in a form that you can use.

Think of all that time and energy that I have invested to help you achieve the life and health that you desire and you deserve. Now it’s your turn to do the work. It’s your turn to persevere for long enough that you see such amazing results that nothing will stop you from continuing.

Are you willing to put in a few months or even a few years in order to get what you want? How long are you willing to do the work? Because it’s your turn.

I can’t want this for you more than you do, and I want it for you badly. I spent years offering my services and consulting for minimal fees because I wanted to see people succeed. The problem was I wanted it more than they did. Very few people are willing to do the work. Are you one of the few?

These books are for the people who want their health for themselves more than I want it for them. I want you to know that I want it for you immensely. Shall we continue this journey together? Because I will be here for you.

I make myself accessible to you in a private Facebook group called Overcoming Autoimmune The Book. I put together an email sequence that shows you step by step something small that you can do every week to continue. I walk you through the exact process for you to follow. I built a complimentary member area for you at BookBonuses.NHWarriors.com to provide you with additional resources.

I’m making the road as easy as I can for you. But it’s up to you to put one foot in front of the other, and to determine for yourself yes I want this.

If you can do that, if you can follow directions, if you can take baby steps every single day, the results one year from now will astonish you. Three years from now you won’t even recognize yourself. And five years from now you’ll wonder why you waited so long.

Ten years from now it will all feel like a dream. The journey you’re going through today will be so far behind you, that you will be rejoicing that you took it, and looking forward to your next big thing. Always be looking at what you can achieve next.

Key Learnings and Actions

We need to believe that we can and then take as much inspired action as necessary.

Change the word “can” to “will” whenever you talk to yourself.

Cultivate your feeling of self-worth.

Explore the impact that you want and were meant to have on others.

Read an autobiography of someone inspirational who came from nothing.

Decide if health is valuable enough to you to work towards.

Journal on what your life will look like ten years from now if you commit to working on your health from today forward.

3

Don’t Be Afraid of Failure

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” - Henry Ford

First, don’t talk about your journey to people who don’t believe in it. Don’t set yourself up for criticism from others. There are going to be many that tell you that what you’re doing is ridiculous, or extreme, or impossible.

These people often want you to fail because if you succeed, then they have to face the fact that it may be possible for them as well. They are caught believing a lie that they can’t, and it will be painful for them if you do.

Always be looking to your cheerleaders, the people who believe in you and what you’re doing no matter what. These are the people that want the best for you.

There will be many people who are jealous of what you are doing and what you are accomplishing, and they won’t want you to continue. Don’t let their jealousy or insecurity or their lack of ability to accomplish anything in their life get in your way.

Always be focusing on what you can control: which is yourself. YOUR emotions, YOUR drive, YOUR determination, YOUR thoughts, are the only thing in your life that you can control. Focus on that.

Let the people who want to hold you down, tie you down, destroy your dreams fall by the wayside. You don’t need them. You don’t need anyone who doesn’t want the best for you. And you will be much better off and happier as a person for letting those frenemies fall away.

Face your fears.

They are much less scary than we think, but most people don’t know what they are afraid of. These are the fears that get in the way, and they are often undefined.

What are you afraid of? If you’ve been holding back from diving into a health program like this, begin to face your fears.

Right now, spend some time looking at that fear. Sit with it. Sometimes just acknowledging an emotion that we have, and allowing ourselves to sit with it for a little while, is enough for it to evaporate.

If it’s not ready to be released yet, then spend some time journaling. What am I afraid of? What is the absolute worst thing that could happen if I were to commit to what it is that I want to do? Begin making a list. Write down everything horrible and bad thing that could happen if you were to do this.

Once you have made your list, spend some time looking at each item. What is the first thing you have written down? Would you be able to handle it if that actually happened? Would you rise to that occasion or challenge? Or would it ruin you forever?

Many times, we are just afraid of the unknown. When you can put the unknown on paper and begin to rationally look at it, it isn’t as scary as you thought it would be. Look at each one of those things in turn and honestly ask yourself if you would be able to handle that. I bet that you’ll find that you could, that it’s not quite so scary once you get it down on paper. And how much of that fear now is left?

Also, how much of that fear is actually yours? I recently worked with a client who had to move back into a home in which she had suffered childhood abuse. She was an adult now but was still feeling an intense amount of fear.

At first, she assumed that at least some of the fear was hers. After we went through the process of releasing whatever fear didn’t belong to her, she realized that there was no fear left in her. She had picked it up from the people around her. Much of what we carry doesn’t belong to us.

When you identify a feeling or emotion that doesn’t belong to you, ask it to return to where it came from. You cannot fix emotions that don’t belong to you.

Failure is Feedback

Did failure make it onto your list of things that you are afraid of? Many people fear failure, but failure is how we learn. Failure is feedback.

We learn much more from our mistakes than we do our successes. If you haven’t failed, then how hard did you really try to do something? Have you only ever played it safe in your life? How much does that allow you to grow as a person?

One of my favorite marketers to learn from, Russell Brunson, launched over 130 product funnels to market before he founded his successful software company. That’s just the ones that he took to market. I’m sure there were many more that never saw the light of the internet.

He is the Thomas Edison of internet sales, and a brilliant entrepreneur. He now hosts many marketing events and masterminds all over the country. He speaks to rooms of thousands of people on how to be better marketers and entrepreneurs.

“I could never do that,” you say to yourself. And you can’t, if you aren’t willing to fail.

Failure is not something to be afraid of. Giving up is. My husband spent almost 10 years of his life trying to quit smoking. I was okay with each and every failure, even though sometimes they happened on a weekly basis.

What I was afraid of was if he ever decided to give up.

The next time that you don’t stick to your eating plan, or you forget to take your supplements, or you sit with fear a little bit longer than you have to, celebrate. That is one failure that you have gotten out of your way. As long as you never give up, you can fail as many times as it takes.

Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to see how many times it takes to fail in order to succeed?

“But I don’t know what to do!” you say. Begin to ask yourself. Deep down you actually know what is true for you.

Remember the truth is light and lies are heavy. You can apply that principle to every area of your life. You can use it to know when people are lying to you or telling you half truths. You can use it to know when you are lying to yourself.

Start asking yourself: If I eat this, will it be good for me? If I take this supplement, will it help me on my path to my health goals? If I skip my workout today, what will the long-term impact be? Will I be upset with myself? Will it derail me?

I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase trust your gut. Or that we have a gut instinct. We have a natural innate instinct, yet over time we learn to ignore it. We look to our surroundings for how we should feel and react instead of listening to our gut and our instinct.

Begin to start trusting yourself and your intuition more. Begin to start cultivating that connection to your instinct again. You know what is true for you. We need to begin following what is true for us, and never impose our truth on others.

Does reading my books make you feel lighter or heavier? If you feel lighter, as you read my books, then you know that there is truth in them for you.

Listen to your gut as you read. Pay attention to when you feel lighter or heavier. Follow that. Reconnect with that part of yourself, and it will be able to lead you to your goals in the easiest way.

Just Start Moving

Here’s the important part: You actually have to take action. You can’t just sit still and expect everything that you want in life to materialize in front of you.

You must do something to make that happen. If you aren’t 100% sure of the direction, then just begin to start moving.

It’s much easier to get where you’re going if you start to pull your car out of the driveway. If you just sit in your car in your driveway with the key off, you’ll never get anywhere.

The moment that you pull out of your driveway, you can begin to start finding your way to where you want to go. If you’re unsure at the beginning, then keep it slow. You don’t have to go very fast. You can make it easy to turn yourself around and get back on track.

The point is you actually have to start moving.

Nothing good happens when you sit still. You become stagnant and a breeding ground for negative energy, parasites, etc.

We need to be in motion. Our bodies crave motion. Our mind craves progress. Remember that it all doesn’t have to be perfect. If you only do things that you are perfect at, you will never learn anything.

Begin to move, begin to make mistakes, celebrate your failures, rejoice in your successes, but keep your forward momentum.

Key Learnings

Share your goals and dreams with people who genuinely want you to succeed.

Write down your fears and evaluate how many of them you would be able to handle if you had to.

Those who have succeeded failed more times than most people would ever imagine.

Don’t be afraid of failing. Be afraid of giving up.

Truth is light and lies are heavy.

You can’t get anywhere if you are sitting still. Start moving even if you are unsure of the direction.

4

Be Happy Now

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” Denis Waitley

Have you ever watched someone work their entire lives expecting to be happy later? They spend high school just wanting to get out of high school. If only I can turn 16 and be able to drive, I’ll be happy. If only I can graduate from high school and control my own schedule, I’ll be happy. If only I can get married and have a great life with my spouse, I’ll be happy. If only I can get out of debt, I’ll be happy. Once the kids are out of the house, I’ll be happy. Once I’ve retired, I’ll be happy.

What happens when those people retire? They sit at home in their easy chair and watch TV all day long and do nothing because that is what they thought their whole life would bring them happiness?

Typically, those people die shortly after retiring. Why? Because they quit moving. They put off happiness; they thought it was something that came from outside of themselves. They achieved all of their “if onlys”, and realized that retirement did not bring the happiness that they wanted. They never saw how to cultivate happiness in themselves. When they reached the end of what they could blame their lack of happiness on, and happiness didn’t magically show up, they give up.

We should always have a goal, and always be striving to achieve it. My husband and I enjoy running half marathons and marathons. We love training for these events, but if we don’t immediately have a next event to look forward to, then we’re actually depressed the week after our marathon. We fall out of practice. We get out of shape.

On the other hand, we are most happy when we finish a marathon and set a goal and a date for our next one.

When you achieve a big goal, take a day to celebrate it. Or if the occasion calls for it, take a week vacation. But as soon as that celebration is over, you need to set your next goal. If you aren’t moving towards something, you will become stagnant, and nothing good happens in stagnation.

Just as important as forward progress and momentum, is learning that happiness is something that comes from inside you. It’s a choice that you can make on a daily basis.

Instead of waking up, and asking yourself “how do I feel today?”, wake up in the morning and make the decision “just for today, I will be happy.”

I dare you to wake up every morning and tell yourself that: just for today, I will be happy.

Only you can make that decision. I challenge you to choose it on a daily basis for one month. See how your life changes. See how people respond to you differently. See how nature responds to you differently.

You need to move in order to receive guidance.

Movement with an attitude of happiness and gratefulness will open doors for you that you never knew were there. Begin to use your inner guidance system. What good is a guidance system if you aren’t moving?

Imagine turning on the GPS in your car while you are sitting still. The digital map displays that it will take you approximately 1 hour to reach your destination, but you never put your foot on the gas pedal. You sit in your driveway, and every 30 seconds, the GPS tells you turn right. Turn right. Make a right turn. And you just sit there.

How helpful is your guidance system? Your guidance system can tell you where to go, but it is up to you to move.

My goal is to give you the shortcuts. I would love for you to figure out your health and happiness in much less time than it took me.

In my quest to learn how to restore my own health, I learned how much emotions impact us. I learned that I couldn’t just address the physical body; I had to address the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects as well. If our body was a table, those would be the legs.

How well does a four-legged table work, when one or more of its legs are unbalanced? We have to address our whole self.

The more I learn about health, the more I learn how important our emotions and our mindset are to health. Our emotional health comes down to choice and personal accountability.

Yes, there are tools that can help us to remove some of the emotions that we have allowed to become so deep-seated that they feel like they are no longer a choice to us. Health is a choice. Happiness is a choice.

I spent years learning, and thousands of dollars on classes, and years of experimenting, to understand why my framework of A-Activate, B-Build, and C-Cleanse works.

In the beginning, we must first do A before we can do B or C. After a while, we can learn to do A, B, and C on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis; and that is what you will learn as you continue to read these books.

A key part of A-Activate is cultivating happiness now.

The Happiness 80/20 Rule

What are you feeding your mind with? Who do you talk to on a daily basis? Do you spend hours watching the news? What kind of TV shows do you watch? How many of these things make you feel lighter?

Do you ever get off a phone call with a friend or relative and feel really heavy afterwards? What kind of impact does that have on your body? Do the shows that you watch on TV make you feel lighter or heavier?

All of the little things that we do during the day equal one big impact on ourselves and our health.

Do you ever open up your favorite social media platform looking for entertainment, only to feel heavier when you put your phone down? What kind of people fill your news feeds?

The best thing you can do with any of these entertainment platforms, is to fill them with things that make you feel lighter. Don’t let the world weigh you down. Don’t let others weigh you down.

You have control over what you spend your time doing or thinking upon. Many people talk about an 80/20 rule. Here is an 80/20 rule for happiness. Spend 80% of your time doing healthy things that make you feel lighter in order to balance out the 20% that may be harmful. We can’t avoid everything that makes us feel heavier, but we can minimize the impact and prioritize the positive.

Look at your own life. Do the things that you spend 80% of your time doing make you feel lighter? Who is in control of that? You are.

If there is something that you spend a large chunk of your time doing that makes you feel heavy, spend time every day brainstorming how you can change it until you do. The company that you keep, the news that you watch, all have an effect on your health.

Making healthy choices is about a lot more than deciding what to eat. What aspect of your life do you need to make more healthy choices in?

Key Learnings and Actions

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy now.

Always have a goal that you are working towards.

Begin moving forward even if you are unsure of the direction.

Practice getting better at hearing your inner guidance system.

Spend most of your time with things and people that make you feel light.

Journal about areas of your life that you need to make more healthy choices in.

5

Cultivate Your Courage

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” Mark Twain

Don’t get caught up in the small stuff. Don’t waste your emotions on other people’s opinions. Hold facts lightly. We know for a fact today that the Earth is round, but this was not a fact several hundred years ago.

Facts change as we get new information. Two people can look at the same thing and see something completely different. Don’t waste your time and emotional energy explaining your point of view to someone else. We all see the world from a different point of view.

Your point of view creates your beliefs.

Do you ever wonder why people can’t be happy for you when you achieve something great? Why do they need to belittle it? For example, your co-worker gets a promotion or raise and you do not. You become jealous and think that you won’t ever get a promotion or a raise. If you continue believing this way, you will begin to act upon this belief. You will become less productive and less agreeable at work.

But what if that was what actually kept you from getting the same promotion or raise yourself? You weren’t willing to look with a wide lens at the fact that your co-worker was already more productive and agreeable than you.

Have you ever heard that the vast majority of communication is nonverbal? People respond to our emotions. They can sense when we live our lives in jealousy and insecurity. We innately trust these people less. People want to collaborate with them less.

Throughout our lives we will need other people’s help, and we can make their help more forthcoming if we can maintain good attitudes and healthy emotions.

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How honest are you with yourself? How often do you lie to yourself? Do the thoughts you have about yourself make you feel lighter or heavier? We have a built-in feedback and guidance system. Let’s begin using it.

Just like our fears, problems become smaller when we face them. We think that our health is this huge hurdle, because we haven’t made any progress towards jumping it.

The people in life that have the health you want, the house you want, the career you want, the impact you want, have those things because they made the decision to do something that you have not decided to do.

They cultivated their inner courage. Did you hear that word? Cultivate. Yes, you can cultivate courage. It’s another choice you can make. It’s a small daily decision to cultivate courage.

It takes courage to eat right when no one else around you is. It takes courage to exercise when no one around you does.

What will you do today to begin cultivating your courage?

It takes courage to try a supplement instead of a prescription, because all of the television and social media around you are telling you that supplements don’t work.

The process of writing down the worst case scenario can be helpful for any of these situations. What is the worst thing that will happen if you give this program a try? What is the worst thing that will happen if you try a new workout? Can you handle being sore for a couple of days?

Do you know how bodybuilders achieve bigger and stronger muscles? The act of lifting weights tears the muscle fibers apart, so they can regrow bigger and stronger. In a sense, the muscles are broken down in order to be reformed and rebuilt better and stronger. Are you willing to be broken down, in order to rebuild yourself better and stronger?

When was the last time you took a chance, a bet, on yourself? Getting up in the morning each day is a gamble. Getting in your car and driving alongside other people each day is a gamble.

You take risks all the time, but these are risks that you are used to taking. They have become routine. You have accepted these risks as part of life.

Why not try taking a risk that can help you to achieve something more and greater that you want and desire in your life? When was the last time that you took a risk completely for yourself?

We need to be willing to deal with a little pain, a little soreness, a little failure, in order to begin moving forward.

Often, it’s only painful in the beginning as we are learning to do something new. After a few weeks on an exercise program, your body adapts and is not sore as often, until you ask it to do something new.

Each phase of trying to do something more and greater, may come with its own pain, soreness, and mistakes; but it also comes with greater rewards.

When was the last time you tested how brave you were? When was the last time you pushed yourself to see how far you could go? Many people don’t unless they are faced with an actual crisis. We can be our own hero every single day.

Begin practicing your courage and cultivating your determination with little things everyday. It already requires courage to live everyday, so why not cultivate a little bit more so you can begin living the life you want everyday.

Key Learnings

Your point of view about a situation creates your beliefs.

Our beliefs affect our behavior.

You have to take action in order to get what you desire in life.

Muscles are broken down in order to for them to become stronger.

You can cultivate courage.

6

Know Your Worth

“Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love.” - Prem Prakash

How often do you look at someone and feel like you are less than them? Or that you are less beautiful than they are? Or that they are so much kinder or happier than you are?

One of my Facebook friends posted a picture of herself that was absolutely stunning. I commented on it and told her how beautiful she looked. Her response was, “We can only see in the world what is in us.”

I want you to look at something that you think is beautiful. It may be a person, a flower, a sunset. Take a good look at something beautiful right now and really appreciate its beauty. Then say to yourself, “Wow, if I can see beauty in that, then the same beauty must reside within me.” Does that make you feel lighter or heavier?

Many of us may feel heavier from that question because of the lies we have been told. We are vain if we think of ourselves as beautiful. We are vain if we think of ourselves as worthy.

Please ask yourself if that is a lie that you believe and have been holding on to. If yes, will you let that lie go now? Will you begin to see yourself for the amazing person that you have been stifling inside of yourself?

Getting out of judgment

Quite often the things that we judge in other people are things that bother us about ourselves. We are not supposed to judge other people, and we should not judge ourselves. When we begin to recognize other people as important, we will begin to see our own importance.

Make a list of how you would like other people to think of you. That is how you need to begin thinking about other people, whether or not they agree with you.

People who see the other side of the coin from you, are just as important as you and deserve the same considerations. We are all people. We are all trying to do the best that we can in life. We can get there by working together, instead of trampling each other through the mud. The more often that you trample other people through the mud, the more often they will trample you.

Believe in yourself.

“Alas! The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.” - Thomas Carlyle

How much do you believe in yourself? Without belief in ourselves, what can we truly accomplish? What will we even attempt?

The way we see ourselves is what determines our place in the world. Without belief in ourselves, we will never attempt to be greater; and the world will suffer the loss of our contribution.

A poor opinion of ourselves is a vice that we use to keep ourselves down. It’s not a virtue. Think of other vices that people use to limit their impact on the world: drinking, overeating, laziness. I’m sure you can come up with many more.

We use these vices because we don’t believe that we can make an impact. We don’t believe that we are important. “What can I really do?” we ask ourselves.

All it takes is one person. One person willing to set an example and become an inspiration for others. I can only affect so many lives. But if I can help you see yourself differently, you can impact others.

What vices are you using to limit your contribution to the world? We all have a purpose. Are you living yours? Because if you don’t, someone else will, but you will not receive the reward of it. You won’t experience the joy of it. You’ll stay stuck and stagnant.

Are you happy as a stagnant pond that breeds mosquitoes and scum? Or would you rather be a clear, flowing stream that contributes to life and carries nutrients to everything it touches.

Key Learnings and Action

Begin to see your worth and beauty.

Stop judging people for seeing things differently than you.

Cultivate a feeling of self-worth.

Live your purpose.

Journal question: What bad habits and beliefs about myself am I using as a vice?

7

Be the First To Meet Your Own Emotional Needs

“People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.” Sanaya Roman

Do you ever wish that your kids appreciated you more? Or that your husband loved you more? Or that your friend’s valued you more?

You need to be the first to meet your own emotional needs. How much do you appreciate yourself? How much do you love yourself? How much do you value yourself?

You won’t notice other people appreciating or loving you as much if you can’t appreciate or love yourself. If you don’t feel appreciation for yourself, you will reject other people’s appreciation. If you don’t feel love for yourself, you will reject love from others because you won’t feel worthy of it.

You need to be the first person to meet your own emotional needs. We need to quit looking for outside validation. Yes, humans need to feel loved by others, but they can’t unless they love themselves first.

Your love for others is also limited by how much you love yourself. Have you ever heard the phrase from scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself”? If we don’t love ourselves, then how well are we loving our neighbor?

What is your inward picture of yourself? This is what you need to begin changing in order to begin meeting your emotional needs.

If you see yourself as unlovable, you must begin seeing yourself as lovable. If you see yourself as incapable, you must begin to show yourself how capable you are, accept it, and believe it. Your self image determines how you and others treat you.

What makes someone great? What makes someone inspirational? It is the people who decided they wanted to do something and then put in a lot of time and effort practicing. Michael Jordan was told in high school that he should quit playing basketball. Walt Disney was fired because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”

Can you imagine if those people had just given up? What would have happened if they had only dwelt on their past failures?

Charles Kettering said that any young man who wants to be a scientist must be willing to fail 99 times before he succeeds once, and suffer no ego damage because of it. How do you suffer no ego damage from failing 99 times? You let go of the failures. You accept failure for what it is: feedback. Nothing more. You learn from it and move on. You celebrate your successes. You dwell on the positive and the learning. You make the choice.

Accept where you are now.

How do we begin to move forward? We accept where we are now. We have to face our current situation. We have to know where we are starting from.

How helpful is a GPS if it doesn’t know where you are? Can it help you get anywhere? If you are trying to get to New York and you tell your GPS you are starting in California, when you are really starting in Florida, how helpful would that be?

In order to make progress, measurable progress, on anything, you have to know where you are starting. Part of that is acceptance.

If you beat yourself up about where you are now, how motivated will you be to move forward? Moving away from pain, only motivates so much.

If there is a snake in our path, and we don’t want to be bitten, we’ll move a few feet out of its way. But that didn’t motivate us to go very far. Instead, we can move away from the snake, and look up for something wonderful to move towards. Then all of the snakes in our path towards that wonderful thing that we focus on, we skirt around; they don’t distract us from our focus.

Just like a child who can’t quit thinking about an ice cream truck until it is long gone, we need to fixate on what it is that we desire. In order to move forward, we need to accept where we are now.

How much do you accept yourself? We don’t get to be anyone else. We can only be ourselves. The most unhappy people are those who are trying to be someone else. They refuse to accept themselves, they refuse to love themselves, and they never stop trying to be someone else.

The reason it’s painful for so many people to accept themselves is because they are identifying as their failures and weaknesses. We need to accept that we are separate from our failures. They are not part of us, they are just something that happened.

Part of the process of accepting yourself is accepting that you are weaker than you want to be. Once you realize where you are now, you can begin asking the question, how can I become stronger?

No one ever achieves their true potential, because there is no limit to that. As long as you keep striving, learning, and moving forward, you will continue reaching new levels of what you can accomplish and what you can contribute.

There is no perfect. We all have been given gifts. We all have something we can work with. As long as you are alive and breathing, you can keep improving.

Isn’t this what you’ve been saying in all your books?

Why do I keep repeating myself?

Some of you may be wondering when I’ll actually tell you something new. This is the important thing. This is what you need to work on the most with your emotional health.

Let me reference my favorite marketer to learn from: Russell Brunson. He is the founder of ClickFunnels.com.

When I first started following Russell, he was offering a free marketing book called Dotcom Secrets. I read the book, but I didn’t actually know how to utilize any of the information in it.

A few months later, Russell was offering his next book for only $7: Expert Secrets. I was excited to read another book from him and immediately bought it. Shortly thereafter I was disappointed.

Much of the core information from the first book had been rewritten into the second book. I felt kind of gypted that he had repurposed so much information.

Still, when his next book came out, I bought that one as well. Guess what? There was more repurposed information. I wondered if this guy had any actual original work.

However, as I continued watching and learning from him, I noticed that he kept going back to his same basic framework. It wasn’t until I had heard him explain that framework many many times, and read it for myself many times, and watched dozens of his videos on it multiple times, did I begin to realize that he was giving me the information that I needed to know in order to move forward and be successful.

I’m trying to do the same for you as well. We learn from repetition and then from application.

Russell has a concept called the Dream 100 that I thought sounded ridiculous in the beginning. How was I ever going to implement that for myself? But as I continue to learn the same thing over and over from him, I realize the brilliance of what he was trying to teach me.

Often, the answer we are looking for is so simple that we reject it. The simple parts of my books that you reject and refuse to try are often the things that you need the most.

Begin to look at the parts of this series that you reject the most and ask yourself, “Might that be what I’m looking for?” We can’t see what we need until we allow ourselves to see it. Will you begin to choose to see the parts of this book that you need the most?

Key Learnings and Actions:

Don’t let your failures define you.

Cultivate a deep love and appreciation for yourself and your body.

Accept where you are now so you can move forward.

Begin practicing all the little suggestions that seem too simple.

Exercise: make a list of all of your successes. Make a list of all of the moments in your life of when you were brave.

8

Sense of Direction

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem.” - Zig Ziglar

Each time you reach a goal, always create another. I hope you have been using the companion workbooks and taking the time to set small goals. By now you should have reached a few of them.

Goals are like climbing a ladder: we always need to be looking up to the next one. We can become afraid and worried when we start to look down at where we came from. We start to wonder and worry about what other people will think of us. We start to wonder if we are living up to our potential.

Just like climbing a ladder, always be looking up towards your next goal, the next thing you want to accomplish, the next phase of your life.

Ask yourself, “What is the next thing I want to achieve? What do I want to get out of this chapter of my life?”

When we are constantly neglecting ourselves, we are setting an example for the people in our lives to learn how to treat us. If we are only taking care of others, instead of living our one life that we get, then that is how others will treat us: as a stepping stone.

If we teach our children that we are only there to take care of them, then they will learn that their only purpose in life is to serve others. They won’t work towards reaching their life goals and their life purpose.

We all should be working towards our purpose. There is something here on this earth that you have been gifted to do. Have you been using your gifts? Do you know what they are?

We are always setting an example for the others around us. What kind of example are you setting? Are you teaching others to always strive to be better? To never give up? Are you modeling proper self-care for your children and family?

Have you ever noticed when you reached a goal, that you were excited but it was short-lived. The joy in life is in striving for the next thing, to become greater than we are now.

It’s like riding a bicycle. We are balanced and in harmony when we are moving forward. When we stand still, and quit striving for the next great thing in our life, we fall over.

When we don’t have a goal to work towards, we often end up feeling lost and not having a sense of purpose or aim.

Have you ever spent time with a depressed person? Or been depressed yourself? What kind of goals did you have when you were depressed? Depressed people often live in the past. They remember previous happy times that they had and wonder if they will ever feel that way again.

Working towards a small achievable goal can be a great tool to bring ourselves out of depression. We can only find happiness in the present moment. Your power is RIGHT NOW. What YOU do in the PRESENT MOMENT is the ONLY thing you have control over.

Have you ever noticed that some people work their whole lives, and when they finally retire and stop working, they suddenly die? They stopped having a goal or purpose that they were working towards. It’s as if their life work is over and their time on Earth is done.

Always have a goal to be looking forward to and always be striving for your next thing. This doesn’t mean that you are “working” your whole life. When you are doing something that you love that fulfills you, it often doesn’t feel like work.

Find some cause to join or create one yourself. Always be doing something that you want to do.

Key Learnings

Treat goals like rungs on a ladder: always be looking up at the next one and never look down.

Show others how to treat you by how you treat yourself.

Depression is living in the past. Happiness is found in the present.

II

One Disease

9

One Disease: Two Causes

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”-Albert Einstein.

Our world seems to have a need to complicate things. I want to emphasize how simple disease really is. There is just one disease, and it’s name is stress. Stress has two causes: a deficiency or a toxicity. In other words, stress happens when the body has too little of something it needs, or too much of something that is bad for it.

When our body is living in a stressed (dis-eased) state, its functions are happening either way too fast or way too slowly. The body responses are too extreme or too weak. Any change in our body’s normal function can result in a disease. This is why I stress the importance of looking at how we can improve our health to prevent disease. We can learn how our body functions and support those processes.

“May you never know the disease you prevent.” I first heard that line from a webinar by Dr. Jay P. Vanden Heuvel, and it has stuck with me. We actually have a choice to prevent disease. This should empower you.

Let’s start by recognizing that symptoms (feedback) are a sign that our body is experiencing imbalance: something is wrong or off. Suppressing symptoms does not help restore our natural balance. The end result of ignoring the cause of our symptoms is disease (dis-ease). Disease is the inability of our body to maintain its natural balance and good health because of some stress it is experiencing.

Almost all of us know someone who has many symptoms for which doctors can provide no answers. Often in these cases, the person’s body is exhausted and is out of resources as its essential nutrients aren’t being provided.

Imagine that your vehicle breaks down. What are some of the first things you check? Was my car supplied with the nutrients (oil, water, gasoline) that it needs in order to function? If no one filled the gas tank, how do we expect our vehicle to run? Quite often though, we expect our body to operate without fuel. Our body is way more complex than a man-made vehicle and requires a much more complex combination of nutrients.

The body is resourceful though, because it will begin stealing stored nutrients if they aren’t being provided. These nutrients are stored in body tissues and bones. Cells will be shut down as the nutrients needed for them to operate will be relocated to the most vital operations. When enough cells are out of commission or functioning poorly, we begin to notice (have symptoms).

The way that disease happens in the body is similar to finances and debt. The best time way to avoid poverty or being in debt over your ears is before it happens. We know that we shouldn’t use our credit card to pay off another loan. When the body steals stored nutrients from other tissues to make new cells, this is what is happening.

All of this is under our control. We can decide what kind of environment we are creating inside our body. We can decide to fulfill our body’s needs. Contribute to your body, and it will contribute to you.