Feeling burnt out or out of balance? This episode of Executive Connect is a masterclass in reconnecting
with your inner self and rediscovering what true health means. Host Melissa Aarskaug sits down with
legendary wellness pioneer Udo Erasmus, who shares the powerful story behind his lifelong journey
from surviving World War II to becoming a global advocate for holistic health and inner peace.
Udo breaks down his revolutionary concept of “Total Health”, rooted in 8 powerful pillars from inner
awareness and life energy to nutrition, emotional harmony, and nature. You’ll learn how modern
executives can build resilience, beat burnout, and achieve vibrant energy—not through hacks, but by
tapping into ancient truths and daily stillness practices.

Chapters:
00:00 – The Origins of Udo’s Journey
06:50 – The 8 Pillars of Total Health
19:20 – Stillness: The Missing Link in Leadership
24:20 – True Nutrition vs. Modern Diets
32:56 – Creating a Sustainable, Healthy Lifestyle
38:26 – The Practice That Changed Udo’s Life

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But I look back now and say, What a gift. Because we got stripped of everything. We lost everything. The community, the farm, the people, the houses, the furniture, the animals, the neighborhood. We lost everything except the clothes we wore, the bodies we were in, and the life in those bodies. And what runs your body is solar energy. You a solar energy gathers a fraction of solar energy is stored in bonds between atoms.

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To make molecules. You eat some of those food in your cells. Those bonds get broken. That solar energy fraction was released and now you call it life. When life separates from the body, the body is finished building dimmed by stress or in the chaotic world. Today I meet Udo Erasmus in today’s podcast. He spent 40 years cracking the code to vibrate and light up your life.

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He’s here with us to share his secrets from nutrition to inner harmony. Udo is going to teach you how to go from within, burn out and even help the planet while you’re at it. Get ready to unlock your happiness. Healthiest self. Welcome, Udo. All right. Nice to be on guard. Decided to have you on today. We’re going to cover a lot of ground.

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Let’s just start behind what drives you. One of the things that I love is right When I met you, you’re just a happy, positive, vibrant person. And you said your mission is to help 8 billion B people tap into the light already within them. What ignites this vision and how is it guided your work in wellness and nutrition over the last several years?

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Right. So it hasn’t been 40 years. It’s actually been over 70. I was bored. I was boring during the Second World War. So I had a was a huge gift to be born in a war like I was in the on the firing line. I was two years old and and it looks like it was terrible at the time, but I look back now and say, what a gift, because we got stripped of everything.

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We lost everything. The community, the farm, the people, the houses, the furniture, the animals, the neighborhood. You know, we lost everything except the clothes we wore, the bodies we were in and the lice in those bodies. So it’s a very simple start. And I didn’t get steamed into cultures and belief systems and all of that because I didn’t believe anything, because they were all just like, Yeah, whatever they say, you know, it’s like you can’t depend on any of that, any of that, because they say, yeah, we’ll take care of you.

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And then they should sure that you. So when I was six years old, that started for me as I listened to people argue and it made me really uneasy because I was really shy. I was very, very, very inward. Right. And they got so intense. And it occurred to me, man, there must be a way that people can live in harmony.

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And this little cocky voice of a six year old who doesn’t know how complicated everything is that I’m going to find out how. And that’s been my driver all my life. So it started with the war that that was the that was the gift, you know? And now we’re drifting towards war, just like after the First World War in Europe.

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They didn’t practice peace between the first and Second World War. They had 21 years, so they got the Second World War. Now we’re drifting again because nobody’s practicing peace but peace. There’s actually peace everywhere, including in us. But we don’t use that as our foundation. And where we don’t have peace as a foundation, then we drift into all of the craziness that just gets crazier and crazier with time.

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And you can see it happening everywhere in the world these days, right? So but that was the start for me. And then it was kind of like I was very I was insecure. I didn’t know what I could count on. So I was very sciencey, you know, I want to find out everything about everything, how everything works. Because when you know the nature of things, then they become predictable and reliable.

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So I got into science and then I got into biological science because human beings and living things are unbelievably fascinating. And it’s part of still part of this journey of how can people live together in harmony? And then I got into psychology how thinking works, because that’s part of it. And then I got into medicine because I wanted to know what health is, but we only learned about disease.

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So I only lasted a year in medicine. And we were told that a doctor should know what I should sound as though he knows what’s going on, even when he doesn’t. That finished my medical career because I wasn’t going to lie to people for a living. So I’m a farm boy, right? We call that lying and we call here now.

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We call it PR, Right. All right. So anyway, so then I went back into biochemistry and genetics, because your biochemistry and genetics pretty much are the foundation for everything. The trees and the birds and the people and everything going on here. And then I, I, but I, there was something missing. I didn’t, you know, we studied biology. Biology is the study of life, but we never learned about life and biology.

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We learned about form and function. We didn’t learn about soul in psychology, psychology means study of soul. We learned about thoughts, beliefs and emotions. I wanted to know what soul is. I know I wanted to know what life is. And so I left university. And then I got into kind of the more, you know, if you if you want to study human nature, then you got to study the people who addressed issues of human nature.

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Who was that? Well, in the Western world, it was Socrates and then the other one would have been Jesus. Right. So what did they say? What did they say? Socrates said, Know thyself is like, what the hell does that mean? How do you know yourself? Well, you ain’t going to know yourself unless you spend time with yourself, right?

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You know, whatever you learn is because you focus on it. Well, if you don’t spend time being with yourself and noticing what is in yourself, in whatever way that happens, then you’re not going to learn much. So we mostly spend a world out there, our lives out there or in our heads, but never in the space that our body occupies ready to lead smarter and invest wiser money.

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Executive Connect Podcast. We unpack executives strategies for wealth and influence. Hit the subscribe button. Now don’t just watch acts. Yeah, I saw. I want to. I can dive into a couple of things you said. I think one of the things in talking to you is how do you apply human well-being no matter how old you are and where you are in your journey?

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So I want to dig into some of your ideas that you championed in your work, where you talk about total health as something designed by nature that has eight key parts water. One of those parts. Kind of two questions. What are the eight pieces and what of the eight pieces do you think people easily overlook in their lives?

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But you’re exactly two sentences ahead of me because that’s where I was going. Okay. So if you look at human nature, you know, human nature was not invented by lawyers or governments or the medical profession or any other experts. Human experts came from nature. But you’re a creature of nature. If you take your clothes off, you’re a naked creature in nature.

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And everything about you except for your clothes is natural from nature. And and what your body is made from is either water or from air, oxygen or from soil, through plants, through fruit. And your whole body is made out of food, water and air. And what runs your body is solar energy. You are solar energy gadgets. A fraction of solar energy is stored in bonds between atoms to make molecules, you eat some of those food in your cells.

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Those bonds get broken. That solar energy fraction is released. And now you call that life. And when life separates from the body, the body is finished. So something is running it, life is running it. And you are actually that life. What are we most miss? Life is the energy. So we missed that one because we’re always we’re using it because that’s how our biochemistry works, but that’s also how our limbs work and our muscles work, right?

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So we’re using that. We’re not paying attention to the present to what that energy actually is and what it feels like, because that energy is actually unconditional, empowering love for the body. So we are unconditionally empowering. Lee Loved by life. So if you’re looking for love, sit still, tune in, enjoy it. Okay. But the one thing we miss most is behind that flow of energy is an awareness which is completely stable, which is complete peace.

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And there is peace everywhere in the universe. More than hydrogen, more than any molecules, the same amount of space, because it’s everywhere inside you and outside of you and it’s completely stable. There’s nothing going on. It is a foundation, it is a container, and that’s what we miss the most. So everything that happens on this planet happens in perfect peace.

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But and I go, I’ll go. I’ll take you to Ukraine for a second. You know, in Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, pieces everywhere. And the pieces, including the pieces in the warriors around the warriors in front below between above the Warriors. But the the Warriors are not focused on the piece that is everywhere. They’re focused on an idea in their head, You’re my enemy.

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I’m going to kill you and the other guys. You’re my enemy. I’m going to kill you. Right? So in perfect peace, they have a war. Wait, why? And then the question you have to ask. Well, if that’s true, the peace is everywhere as the foundation of all existence. Then what are we choosing to put into that peace? Because we have the choice to put in it whatever we want.

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You could put peace into peace. You could put love into peace. And you could put harm, harm into those into peace. And when we drift because we lose our vehicles, we don’t build our life on a foundation of peace, then somebody bumps into you and you bump into them back a little harder. That’s called escalation. And then it goes back and forth and then over ten, 20, 30, 40.

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Now, it’s been about 70 years since the last war, 1945. Right. So we’re all drifting in the direction of escalation and getting crazier, crazier and getting stupider and stupider and getting more and more polarized and eventually we’re heading toward serious physical destructiveness that comes from the mental negativity that comes from bumping into people and not letting it go.

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Take control of your financial future. Visit Texas Freedom Fund DOT Executive Connect Podcast dot com. So remind me what the eight here just quickly what are the eight key parts? Yeah, it’s eight parts or ten parts just depends on how you look at it. But number one is what I just talked about. Number one is internal awareness. When you bring your focus to the core of your being in the core of your being is your access and a is your point and access to a piece that is goes from your core all the way out to infinity, not limit it to your body.

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And every human being at every point in space is a center of that piece that is infinite. Yeah, that’s number one. If you miss that, you’re living without foundation. And when you live without foundation, then everything goes. Then you drift, then you, then you, then then you go downhill. Okay. So effort needs to be made to be present to peace.

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And we’re not doing that. Second is the life in in that space. And that’s I call that life, energy and its nature is a flow of unconditional, empowering love for, you know, runs everything. It’s the master in the body. The master in and of the body. So that’s number two. Number three is the shine of that love into the world.

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And you can call that positive mind, or I call it inspired for a purpose. And fundamentally, when you feel cared for by life, it’s not about you anymore. So, okay, I’m taken care of. If I don’t know if I don’t feel cared for, I know where to go because I am cared for within my being. And so I just have to connect to it, focus on it, bring the focus inside when I feel that all of a sudden it’s like, what’s left to do on this planet?

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Well, it’s not about me and getting myself taken care of anymore because I am taking care of, okay, what can I help? What can I help? What needs to be done? How can I make the biggest splash for good that’s possible to to to make in the time that I have on this planet. Okay. And that’s just because I feel cared for.

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If I don’t feel cared for, I’m always going to be looking to do something that will take care of me. How will that take care of me? And I won’t do things that I can’t see how they would take care of me even if they need to be done right. So really important that we deal with that inner presence that is already there that we are not taking time to focus into.

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And that’s number three. Number four is physical body. Everybody talks about that food and fitness, you know, digestion, rest, all of the physical stuff. Then the number five is protective mind. And that’s you know, how you how do you how do you make how do you make it safe? How do you make it safe for you to live your life?

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And it’s also about reproduction and parenting and education, because that’s the survival. Those are the survival issues, right? And then obviously getting food and shelter and clothing and all of that, that’s number five. Number six is a social group. You know, you live with 8 billion other people. And there are there are it’s about connecting, connecting and and communicating and contributing and working together on big projects.

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And then it’s about membership and the threat of exclusion if you don’t follow the rules of your group. So you have to navigate that way. We need we need to be embracing the uniqueness of the members because the uniqueness is what brings their contribution. And when you dampen down the uniqueness, then you dampen down the contribution. And so what happens if you if you, you know, if you’re not nice to people and you don’t encourage them, well then they shut down and they just do the minimum and they don’t do what they should be doing to make it better for everybody, right?

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So that’s numbers six. Number seven is natural environment. That’s where all our resources come from, freely given unless somebody, you know, says I own this and then tries to sell you what he got for free. Right. So all our resources. So we’re talking about water, air, earth, soil, plants, animals, other human beings, microbes, Right. All of that. And you’re basically you’re basically a creature in nature.

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And how do you live aligned with nature, which is mostly resources, 99% resources, 1% danger, because, you know, tidal waves and earthquakes and and volcanoes and, you know, rock slides and things like that. So there so there is gratitude for resources and respect for the power, for its power. All right. So that’s number seven. Number eight is infinite awareness.

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That’s about coming to terms with and accepting the fact that your body is a terminal condition, doing its short dance in an infinite universe and being okay with that, you know, it’s okay that one day my body will quit. Why is that? Because something in me is indestructible and will never die. The awareness now, both the internal and the infinite awareness.

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They’re forever. They’re formless and indestructible. I call it beyond health, because it’s. It’s out of the realm of even all of that dying and being born and getting sick and getting healthy. This is way beyond that. The energy that keeps you alive, that is life never dies. I call that perfect health. And if you allow that to flow without interference through your system and you bring it the building blocks it needs, which come from food, water and air, and you don’t interfere with your thinking, you don’t interfere with its function by your thinking, then it is perfect health and it will keep it will keep building, maintaining, repairing the body, and it will give you

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the longest life. If you’ll if you live it on a foundation of peace and of love. And I’m not talking about hippie stuff, although you could do it that way, too. But I’m talking about this is like as real peace is real. And, you know, it’s a presence and love is a presence and it’s a feeling. And if you sit with your focus inside the space your body occupies, you will experience both of those.

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So that’s the, you know, the thing to always do. How many executive spend time in their lives every day where they take some time? 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, an hour probably is a would be really good measure, an hour where they just leave all of their stuff outside to turn off all the distractions, sit with themselves and discover what that is that they’re sitting in because that’s where the peace comes from.

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The wisdom comes from the inside comes from the the confidence comes from the wholeness comes from. There are no there there’s no neurosis in that space, in that stillness. But so, yeah, I want to talk a little bit about that. Let’s talk a little bit about you. There are some key things that you said there. So one of which is sitting quiet without yourself.

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I mean, in today’s world, we have pink beans here. The everything is hitting us, whether it’s our phone call or our TV or any of the electronics we have around us. But I feel like like you were saying kind of at the beginning, a lot of people are stressed and burnt out. They’re not connecting with themselves. They’re really responding and reacting to what’s happening in their life.

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I want to talk a little bit about how people can start reconnecting with their inner sense of harmony. And that is exactly what you said by turning your phone off, connecting with yourself and having that relationship where, I’m not feeling too good today, or I have this hunch I need to call my mom or whatever those guiding and do I want to call it intuition that’s telling you to do.

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You can’t have those happen in your life if you’re not plugged in to your own source and really figuring that out. So I want to talk a little bit about how can people find that inner harmony to guide them through their lives in a practical way that’s healthy. Yeah. Okay. So if so, if you’re stressed and you’re overwhelmed and you’re anxious and you’re depressed and all of those things that we call mental mentally unstable mental illness, mentally not well, all of that, whenever even right in the middle of that, the peace in the core of your being is not in any way affected by all the things you stress about, including your thoughts of stress.

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The peace is not affected by your stress and the love of the life. Energy is not affected by any of those things. So it’s good to remember when you get really crazy in your head that something in you is not crazy. So that there’s two of you in a sense. One is the stress part. That’s its job to to deal with the environment.

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And we’re a lot of the stress comes from is that we live in a world where everything’s changing and we don’t want it to change. And so we’d like to control it and we can’t control it and it’s out of control and my God, what am I going to do now? Right at the same time that everything that can change will change.

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Let it change. Because if you’re in peace in your in the core of your being and you feel love by lights, it’s okay to live in a world of change. It’s not simple, but we used to. We’re used to stressing about things we’re not used to tapping into the place in us. That is our is our our stability.

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That is our refuge. That is our safe safety. Right. But both are always there. So it’s literally a matter of which one are you going to focus on. And of course, because we focus on stress so much and we’re not very good at focusing on peace, love and and inspiration only because we don’t practice it. So what’s the recommendation?

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Practice it, get good at it, get better at it. I’ve been doing a practice like this for over 50 years. When I started, I wasn’t good at it. I couldn’t even sit still for 5 minutes because I had so much going in my head. But gradually, gradually, gradually. And I liked the feeling, I liked the peace, and I came out of a war.

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So I have a I have a a standard that that I can measure it by. Right. I like the feeling for the first six months, every time I sat still, I started to cry all of my, you know, no particular memories or anything, but just all the tension that I had never released in my life started started leaving me.

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And then when, after six months, all the crying was done, you know? And so now it’s still it’s always about going deeper, work in progress. I’m a work in progress. I will be a work in progress as long as I live. And I have never seen how deep it goes because I don’t it I think it’s infinitely deep and it just the peace this gets better and yeah an idea.

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And one of the things I love about what our time together is, you know, one of the hottest things I hear right now is everybody’s getting healthy. They want to be in better health. You know, psychologies become really big right now. Counseling and coaching have like everybody’s a life coach now. And so I wanted to talk a little bit.

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I mean, that’s a huge topic right now. This this holistic wellness health psychology. I want to get your thoughts on how you see nutrition today as we move through 2025. Well, the body’s always been made out of food and in nature for for every creature that eats the standard was fresh, whole, raw, organic, local, maybe to some extent season based.

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Right. And for humans, probably if you trust the research probably more plant and animal based, not necessarily only plant based, but more plant and animal based. Okay. Because plants are the foundation of the entire food chain. So if you eat a cow, a cow is made out of grass. So we sometimes joke and say, well, you know, cow is just a more concentrated form of vegetable, right?

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So. So but it was always fresh, whole, raw, organic. Well, when you go and look in your cupboards and your fridge and you look at how much of what you have in there and then how much of what you eat is fresh, whole, raw and organic, there’s a pretty big gap between what you’re doing and what is nature’s mandate to close that gap head in the direction.

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You know, if you go from frying to cooking, from cooking to blanching, from blanching to raw as much as you can, if if it’s contaminated, you have to cook it to kill the bugs. Right. But but head in that direction. And then instead of using artificial molecules that never existed in nature and therefore don’t fit in the body and have side effects, we call them pharmaceutical drugs or industrial chemicals, you know, minimize you use of those.

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Where did the plants get their protection from? Where did the animals get that protection from? Well, the plants made all kinds of really interesting molecules that we can’t make. But when we eat the plants, then we get the protection they made for themselves against viruses, bacteria and other things. Right? Then we get that protection in our body from the work that the plants did for themselves.

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Wow. So where is where should we focus? Well, spices, cloves are unbelievably antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, anti cardio anti-diabetic. You know, some of the bigger the strongest buys turmeric Amla. Right. There’s all kinds of different spices in different places in the world that have anti-inflammatory, anti cholesterol, anti, anti, just about everything that’s bad benefits. Use them liberally in your foods.

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So you know, if you have inflammation, omega threes decrease inflammation and they do it very well and most people don’t get enough omega threes like 99% of the population does not get enough omega threes for optimum health, but they’re very sensitive molecules so they need to be undamaged. And so the omega threes that people are getting are partially damaged and the damaged molecules don’t belong in your body, so they don’t work well in your body.

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And those products lose their benefits when you let them be damaged or when you damage them in the frame. So, you know, so so I think when it comes to all of that heading in the direction of how it was in nature, because every creature in nature eat fresh or raw, organic, local, except for us, every creature except for us and the animals we see, and then the animals we feed, that the diseases we get from feeding ourselves the same stupid way.

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Right? So but then if you want to talk about aging because there’s longevity and vitality and anti-aging, you talk about anti-aging. Well, if you practice peace in your life, it literally reverses aging. How cool is that? This good research on that. And if you feel loved and you put out love and you don’t like, create wars in your own mind because that’s that stress you create yourself and that works on you.

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Like if I hate you, you know, I saw the saying the other day, when you hate someone, you’re more you’re hurt more by the hate than the other person because the other person can walk from it and you’re sitting in it, right? So hate makes you age. yeah. Well, that makes sense. Stress, you know. I mean, even stress, right?

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You could be when when things happen and change, you don’t want them to change. You are creating the stress for yourself by wanting things that change to be different than they are. Right? You want things to be different. So you use change as an excuse to stress yourself more. Stress makes you stress changes you. And in fact, if you get in, if you use enough things as an excuse to stress yourself, you’ll burn yourself up like, you know, like Salyer talked about.

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First you get the stress, then you get adaptation. And that that already gets you aging because your heartbeat goes up and your blood pressure goes up and your your alert, your your, your sense of something’s after me goes up. Right? And if you do that long enough, it’s then you exhaust your immune system and you burn out. Right?

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So there should there has to be time to re fresh yourself, you know, it’s what is it. Call it recreation, you know, recreation. You know, when we go out and have fun, you call it recreation, but the word actually means re creation. It’s time we spend re creating our body, time we spend, relax, time we spend in fun time.

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It’s time we spend in in doing, you know, even challenges that we find interesting and in good company and in good feeling and in contentment and all of them slow down aging and and or even reverse aging. So so it’s like we have like this whole universe where all the good stuff and all the bad stuff is possible.

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And the question I, you know, I have to ask myself and maybe everybody should ask themselves what I am, what am I picking out of this total could be totally negative and totally positive. Where am I on that continuum? What am I picking? What am I picking moment to moment? Let’s pull that back a little bit. I think we’ve become, you know, a culture that is impatient with health and wellness.

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We want to be like, You’re young tomorrow. We are. We we were. How do I say this? We just don’t have the patience to sustain long term health. Like we everybody gets on the train in January, we’re going to get a gym membership, we’re going to clean up our diet. And by February, everybody’s back to the fast food.

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They put the weight back on and then some. And so I want to talk a little bit about maybe some tips that you can share with our listeners on how they can maintain a full blown lifestyle change. It’s not just a, you know, a diet or a one time thing. I think. I want to get your insights on how our listeners can boost their health and feel more in tune with themselves to live their best lives.

00;33;44;20 – 00;34;07;18

Yeah, I would. I will always end up going back to, you know, Socrates said, know thyself, you know, what was Jesus still? Well, he said, Kingdom of heaven is within you. And by Kingdom of Heaven. What’s that? All the good stuff. Well, however you frame it all the good stuff, right, is within you. The kingdom of heaven is within you.

00;34;07;21 – 00;34;37;04

And then the second thing was seek first the kingdom and then everything else will fall into place. Now, we’ve all heard that there’s not some like no, no one in the Western culture who hasn’t at least heard that. How many of you have accepted that the kingdom is within you? And how many of you has made effort? And we don’t even get told how we should make that effort?

00;34;37;06 – 00;34;57;03

How should you first seek the kingdom? It’s very simple. It’s it’s within you. You need to bring your focus inside. That means you need to disconnect from all your your sense has taken you out into the world. You need to take a time for a space. By the way, all the masters did that. They all had a stillness practice, right?

00;34;57;06 – 00;35;34;20

And then when you go into that, that’s where you get your best off of all the things to do. It’s not stem cells and it’s not all the fancy molecules that, you know, most of that is driven by commerce and going home. In a way, the drive for that is heartache, thirst of the heart. You know, that and uncomfortable feeling in the chest that people get, you know, when grandma dies or a dog runs away or somebody betrays them or they get dumped in a relationship, you know, you feel it in in your chest.

00;35;34;20 – 00;36;08;17

Uneasy. Uncomfortable. Painful, Right. Has lots of names, lonely, longing, blue, empty, restless, yearning, striving. You know. So lots of words for this feeling. It’s triggered by lots of things in the outside world that where we try to find permanence in what changes, which doesn’t can’t happen. And it’s the call to bring your that the cause of it from our disconnection that happened after birth because we were connected in the womb.

00;36;08;20 – 00;36;35;26

We were connected because there was no place to go or nothing to do. So we were in that place of peace of of and of love. Right? So we got disconnected. Heartache is the call to bring your focus back inside to that place where your connection to your indestructible nature is already waiting to be rediscovered. Always been there will always be there.

00;36;36;02 – 00;37;02;24

And so when I say 8 billion people, you know, every human being has this the master living within. That wasn’t like there were a couple of people who were really cool and everybody else is stupid. Everybody is born a Christ. Every born is but is born a Buddha child. Everyone has that perception, has that peace, has that love within them all the time, whether they’re aware of it or not.

00;37;03;01 – 00;37;29;04

And what if we decided, what if 8 billion people all decided to bring to spend time to reacquaint themselves with that unbelievably beautiful essence of their being? How would that change their behavior? How would that change how we live with each other, how we treat each other, how we share, you know, how we make it work for everybody?

00;37;29;04 – 00;37;48;25

Would that happen? Of course, Because when I feel cared for, all that’s left to do is help. Right? But we don’t say I don’t say like a lot of people say, well, if you help enough people get what they want, then you’ll get what you want. No, no, no, no. That’s backwards. This is the gift you were given.

00;37;49;00 – 00;38;23;26

Nobody can enjoy what this is except me. Right? For me and you. For you. If you don’t enjoy the gift of life in human form that you’ve been given, it’s a wasted gift because nobody else can enjoy it for you. So the Masters, the smart guy, said, Seek first. That gift. I’m paraphrasing. All right, seek first that gifts be fully present in in all of your being because that’s where the most incredible experience is always available to you.

00;38;24;03 – 00;38;47;23

And by the way, that experience is more incredible than any other experience you’re ever going to have. Yeah, I agree. You know, I kind of in closing here, I want to get one thing that you hope listeners take away, whether it’s nutrition and health and wellness or anything that we talked about today. Just and quickly in closing, is there any final thoughts you want to share?

00;38;47;25 – 00;39;11;25

Yeah, I, I was taught to do a method to bring my focus in because I didn’t know it was like I in a Western world. The hell are you talking about right? And I was like 1972. So the guy who showed me how to do my stillness practice wrote a book recently. It’s called Hear, Hear Yourself, Hear Yourself.

00;39;12;02 – 00;39;44;24

How to find Peace in a Noisy World. Hey, get the book. Read the book and. In that book you can you can. You can access. He’s on the on the Internet. He’s been doing this work for. Well, let’s see. I met him in 1972. At that point, he was 14. He began when he was eight. He grew up in the family of a teacher of this of this kind of a, you know, expert, basically a master, a teacher of this kind of practice.

00;39;44;26 – 00;40;14;03

And so he was 14. I was 30. I learned the practice from him. It’s a very useful practice and read the book and see if it if it resonates with you. And it’s the story basically his life and where he’s been and what he’s done and what he thinks about. And it’s a it’s it that that be a good way to do it you if you’re not if you can’t sit still yet read the book like scores hear yourself how to find peace in a noisy world and I love it.

00;40;14;03 – 00;40;40;11

Udo thank you so much for being here today and sharing your light and your knowledge with our listeners. You can connect with Udoh. Sign up for his free newsletter and grab his book. Until next time, Stay healthy, stay inspired, keep shining from within and please follow us on the exac YouTube Connect podcast. Thank you so much for being here.

00;40;40;13 – 00;40;42;13

Thank you. I hope that’s helpful.

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