THE RAW MIND PODCAST EP 36: OPTIMISING YOUR HEALING MIND 📱

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:02]Hey guys, it's the final day of the ultimate raw vegan bundle. Hey JJ.

[00:00:09]>> Hey. I'm so excited to be here on the last day of the bundle. We got a bundle up. Let's get ready to bundle. I've been doing all the bundle puns I can think of.

[00:00:19]>> I love that. So, if you do not know what the ultimate raw vegan bundle is, I will state again. This is the last day, just hours to get 500 raw vegan recipes, 32 uh raw vegan ebooks and courses. There's one course in there by Dr. Doug Graham, the 801010 masterass, which is worth $750. I've already done the uh Rick and Karen Dena detox course, which is in there. There's other courses. There's books by uh JJ, myself, I have two books. Uh, you've got Lisa, you've got Nate, you've got her Pause, Please Menopause book. What's your book again, JJ?

[00:00:57]>> It's called Raw Vegan Doesn't Have to Be Hard. Let me show you the easy way.

[00:01:02]>> I love that. Very you on you. I did a beauty book, uh, all natural beauty products you can make yourself. I also did simple recipes, just a couple of ingredients. I am going to keep plugging this guys because there's only hours left uh to get this. Now on the screen is both of our uh links. Uh whoever you want to go support, go support. I will drop it in the comments. Uh this to me is like a bible for the next year.

[00:01:28]Things that we as as people online doing podcasts, talking, doing reals, making recipes will be referring to and next year will be a whole new bundle. Uh so once this ends in I think it's about eight hours time now. Is that right JJ?

[00:01:42]Well, I think it's less. Um, if I'm not mistaken, it's 6 pm on East Coast on the 11th. So, I think it's only until Well, maybe it is eight hours. It's Pacific time 11, right?

[00:01:55]>> Yes.

[00:01:55]>> Yes. Okay, good. I was worried. I was like, uhoh, it's only 5 hours. But I think it is eight hours cuz I'm 3 hours off.

[00:02:02]>> Yes. So, there's eight hours left to get the bundle and just even go check it out. I've dropped the links uh below there. I might even jump across over to Facebook and drop the links individually uh just because this is such a great opportunity. Um but yeah, do you want to say >> I wanted to say I wish I had this speaking of our, you know, optimizing our healing mind. It would have been a great resource the first day I went raw vegan uh back in, you know, 2019 to have all of this all, you know, cohesive information because we all share the same common uh goal, you know, that each of these creators I feel like they have the low-fat raw vegan recipes and just the collaboration um of of the one that's going to be all the raw food uh comfort food recipes, too that that we're not even going to be able to get anywhere else after this bundle. So, it's just so many wonderful things. The 801010 master class, like you said, it's for $1,500 of content for $50. If you can swing the 50, it is definitely worth it.

[00:03:11]>> 100% 100% there. So, I was actually Oh, I'll move this across over here. Um, I was actually I'm happy about the the topic we're talking about today, which is optimizing the mind for healing. And you just mentioned something really important and that is comfort meals. Uh because what comes up a lot and what you will never stop facing and this comes from not just food addiction but someone who's been an alcoholic myself other alcoholics people been like myself being addicted to drugs is as so even let's refer to food for a moment is you never lose the addiction.

[00:03:49]You do become stronger because your brain uh builds new neural pathways as you create your new lifestyle and the old pathways dim out. But of course we can be triggered and I have found the more support that I can build um around myself the more optimized I am and this bundle really shows all different facets. There's futarians, there's 801010, there's people who use a lot of comfort recipes. There's people who have got exercise in this bundle. And it really shows you how each person has built their own lifestyle around raw.

[00:04:25]And it's for you to choose how to build your raw lifestyle. You're with you most of the time for the next 40 years, 50 years, whatever it is. So, you want to optimize, you know, so when you are triggered, you're like, uh uh uh, I've got my own bread recipe, or uh uh uh, you know, I'll just make myself one of JJ's quick salads. You really want to find a way to optimize your lifestyle for you.

[00:04:51]>> Absolutely.

[00:04:52]>> Sorry, I was talking way there. I just >> That's okay. I couldn't find it. Thank you. I was looking everywhere. Um, but it must not have been on my uh feed.

[00:05:01]Thank you so much. Um, and it looks like I don't know if it's on my end, but the links I always put them I'll put both of our links in the description, too, because it doesn't look like they're clickable. Unless it's just on our end.

[00:05:14]Is that why?

[00:05:15]>> So, I've uh maybe it's just on our end.

[00:05:19]Uh, I think it is. I went over to Facebook. It looks clickable there. If you want to grab it, copy paste uh the links. That's the I think the best we can do. They are in I've put mine in my Facebook bio. Not my Facebook.

[00:05:31]>> Yeah, mine is too. So, >> it's in my YouTube bio, Instagram bio.

[00:05:35]Uh, but just uh highlight it, grab it, and then drop it in a in a chat.

[00:05:41]>> This is so much fun.

[00:05:43]>> Yes.

[00:05:46]>> I just um I've been telling everybody today because it's like I want to talk about other stuff, too, but it's like it always comes back to the bundle because I'm like, it's only a couple hours left.

[00:05:57]>> Well, 100%. But I think what I'm saying here about optimizing your healing mind is the fact that if you just take a look at the bundle, each person has spent a lot of time creating what works for them. And what a lot of people I'm trying to say here is addiction will never leave you. You have to become stronger against it. So a lot of people and I learned this as a huge addict to all sorts of things is and Tony was talking about this yesterday about there's different ways to cope with different things. Now she came across not with severe illness right not heavy addiction. She was addicted to food but she likes to sit in the space and think through it. Whereas I come from a psychology background like you where the more you sit in suffering and I have a lot of suffering is you you wire your brain in that basically energy and you start looking for more of it. That's how the brain works. You can think on a conscious level that you're not doing it. But how the subconscious works is you're comp you're constantly building neural pathways. And if you are sitting in an energy where I can't have this, I can't have bread. I can't have pai. You need to find a way to be like where can I get the pie? I'm willing to do anything to have the patai. I don't want pain. I don't want suffering. I want my best life. And this bundle really has everybody's little way of doing things.

[00:07:20]Like, as I said, some people want quick, fast. JJ's got great salad ideas, great ways to deal with that. Whereas, I like to spend a lot of my energy just having fun, just like throwing things in recipes, making like a couple of ingredient recipes. But I encourage you to have fun and find what works for you.

[00:07:44]I can't hear you, JJ. You're muted.

[00:07:47]>> Oh, sorry. I was um I muted for a second because Don was bringing something into the room and I didn't want it to like inter interrupt what you were saying.

[00:07:56]Um, so the optimizing your healing mind too I think has to do with for me it really motivated me and inspired me to hear other people's transformation stories other people like myself that you know that had similar experiences and like how they overcame it and have like resources like I watch so much content about um nutrition and like how how these people just like you and me were eating standard American or eating vegan and then went raw and and experienced healing. And I know in the bundle we talk a lot about all the resources that are there. We have um you know everybody's got something that they're educating you on in their books and in their courses, but also in the in streamed into that. You're hearing people's story. Like a lot of us didn't do content creation before we became raw. But it almost brings your mind like to a new level, a new level of comfort of a purpose to want to give back. And a lot of the influencers are telling their personal journeys like mine's kind of streamed into the book. It's not a book necessarily about how I went raw, but in the process of saying how not to make it hard. I talk about where I came from.

[00:09:15]And Chef Yin, I know, has a book in there documenting her experiences from from being a chef to going all to raw vegan, you know. And I I just think it's so amazing to hear all of our journeys and where where we um felt inspired like Marbella I just talked to, she talks about chakras and has meditation content. There's not just books about recipes and there's not just books about Hi, Menu. And there's not just books about one thing or another. There's an entire lifestyle like there's detox.

[00:09:52]There's Nate talking about dental surgery uh and how to stay raw. There's, you know, Lisa talking about perry menopause, which is like I'm so excited about that and the raw the book that you're you've created. I can't wait to make my own, you know, beauty products.

[00:10:08]And it's just everybody had something to offer. So, it's not just a bundle of recipes, which there are hundreds in there. It's not just a bundle of how to detox. It's it's the basically the guy that created 801010 also put a master class in there, which is what most of us, you know, end up following. And so it's just I think having all those resources helped me to optimize my healing mind because I think at some point you have to to to believe in this.

[00:10:41]You start to feel your own changes, but you have to also see other people and be around other people that have experienced this and have been successful on it. And I think the bundle is just such a complete resource to share all of these content creators and then you can also follow them for like personal guidance, the ones that resonate with you.

[00:11:04]>> Yeah, 100%. I think you you said something where all the people in the bundle have succeeded uh in what they want to do and that's why I think we start sharing and build to a place where we we get content that we put together in a bundle and it's about the biggest encouragement I want to give to people when they optimize their mind for healing is know that your past is always going to be with you. And a lot of the time a lot of people get scared that as they move across they're going to lo they can't do what they used to do you know and each person may be coming from you know I used to love to I don't know uh party or I used to love to and that's why I always bring back you know have Thai food on a Friday night in a movie or whatever it is and I when it was when I optimized my mind and came across is the biggest thing I I recall is instead of looking at a lifest lifestyle or diet in a way that I I can scrap me. Scrap me. Ignore me. I'm going to jump across and do JJ's diet.

[00:12:10]Instead, I went, "Okay, that's never worked. I've tried other diets. What about me is going on and how do I shift each block across best I can? If I slide back a bit, where can I sit?" And for the first time in my life, that worked because every time I think I looked at something, I did look at even bundles like this and I was like, okay, I've got to pick one person or two people and do it that way, right? Or look at it and get really confused because there's different ways that each person is doing it. There's a fundamental to the raw food, but each person has their own way of doing it. So, I didn't want to beat myself up anymore and think that everything that I'd achieved to this point in my life and all the things I liked and all my tendencies and all my little habits or whatever had to be eradicated instantly and I was becoming JJ or I was becoming 801010. I was like, how do I shift who I am into a raw lifestyle? Like make it healthy. Now, I feel like I've achieved that and I feel like the books that I put in the bundle each year, including this one, is like I would have done something like this.

[00:13:18]Well, I don't think I could achieve that if I was healthy in in eating toxic ways. It's very me to do trending uh recipes and create them with like a few ingredients. It's very me when I do podcasts, uh if I'm socializing with friends, I'm like really like I'm always like, "Let's do this, let's do this," like really overexited, right? And I think a lot of the time when I've tried to heal before, I thought I was wrong. I thought I was broken. Uh but I decided to accept all of who I am. The fact that I'm like hyper bubbly, like that's my foundation. Even sick, you'll find I I still laughed. Um it's just me. And what does that look like? Being raw. And for a lot of people, you don't I'm not even saying you have to start raw. You don't even have to be raw to get the bundle.

[00:14:08]You can be moving towards it, getting it. My biggest mistake in my life is probably being on a westernized diet, buying a bundle, and thinking I'm dropping who I am and becoming somewhere someone else. So, what I guess I'm saying is when you want to optimize your healing mind, you don't have to let who you are go. You can look at the things you like. Like, I'm a high energy, right? And if when I was well, I was probably always like wanting to dance at parties or something. Well, I just dance with my juice. Like I literally shifted who I was, who I loved or who I thought I loved across to do it all healthy. And the bundle really to me is a representation of that because each person can be a facet of people's personalities, right? You can do a bit of Nate, bit of uh the master class. I watched the detox uh uh uh detox course the other night. You know, just you don't have to lose you. you can become a better version of who you already are.

[00:15:07]>> Absolutely. And in order to like I always talk about in especially my first book where you have the learning portion of it. That's like a big thing just in itself. Like I always say at the end of my videos, if you're watching this, I know you're serious about this lifestyle and this is already something you're doing to better your life whether you know it or not. like whether you go raw tomorrow or whether you add some raw food, all of that is winning. Just watching the information, like if it's something you're mildly interested in, having all of that information could lead you to another level. Like when I went searching uh for like how to grow sprouts, I never imagined I'd be a raw vegan. Like it wasn't even in the like in the bank there in the mind. It was like something that was so far-fetched that it felt like it would have been a joke honestly if someone told me you're going to watch this 30 minute video and you're going to change your life, right?

[00:16:08]Like it's um you know all of the healing we've all experienced came in layers and you know we're still in some ways figuring it out and making sure we're listening to our body as we age and get to different levels of uh you know hormones and different things like Lisa talks about. I've switched my diet around a few times and switched it back to more fruit, less fruit, you know, and it it just it's amazing to be able to experience all of this and do it for me.

[00:16:40]And I think that's such a big thing.

[00:16:42]Like don't think you have to be all or nothing. Just buying the bundle, you know, or watching our videos if you're watching this after the 11th is something important that you're doing.

[00:16:52]you're feeding your mind more reinforcement that you can do this because you're hearing like Sky in you know interviewing people um different people who have done this in different ways came from different places in in life came from different addictions and we've all entered into it in a different way but also have all found healing and are continuing to heal you know like I'm just I was telling Marbella I really want to focus this year on getting more into nature and meditation and making sure I'm visiting the beach that I love more than just being inside. And it was so much focus for me in the first years on nutrition and then writing the books and now I just want to try to experience the lifestyle the all facets of it.

[00:17:45]Um and I when you say the first few years uh you you are focused on nutrition. I think each of us has this coping mechanism that we use to move across because it is a big deal. Uh and you know I think what this bundle reminds me of is if you each person like when we create recipes or we create ebooks or we create content it also means that we're not hyperfocused on fixing something. So what can also happen when people are trying to optimize uh their health and you want to optimize your mind is if you're trying to fix something you're focused on something negative and by default I cannot bring this home enough like I saw this uh was it a neuroscientist uh speaking or neurosychologist a neuroscientist a doctor of neuroscience saying that no neuroscientist watches the news because you start you condition your brain so deeply after sitting there for an half an hour, an hour at the same time every night with the highlights of the worst things that have been intensified in the world. What do you think your brain seeks the next day?

[00:18:58]>> It doesn't seek strawberries, unicorns, and happiness. It seeks that it will refer back to that news. So when you talk to people, you now bond over that trauma that you've watched. And so if your brain constantly sits in the seek to fix, seek to fix, you'll talk to people about a sore knee and a problem.

[00:19:18]You'll think more about the problem.

[00:19:20]Things will you you'll train your feed to show you problems and before you know it, you'll be like, why does everything bad happen to me? In reality is if you start looking after yourself at whatever level you start, you will get results over time. Okay? I I really feel it's that love. I feel uh this bundle is love.

[00:19:42]>> It's a bundle of joy as Lisa said. Uh >> oh. Did you freeze or did I?

[00:19:48]>> You froze for me.

[00:19:50]>> Oh, you froze for me.

[00:19:52]>> Well, I'm glad we're unfrozen now.

[00:19:55]>> We both wanted to touch on something really quick. Um because and you've probably studied this too, but actually um dealing with like OCD symptoms and things like that where you can almost get to a point where and I mean anything like you said any type of trauma. Um you go into it by trying to learn as much information about it. It's like watching the news. Your brain is really trying to help fix things for you. So, if you're constantly watching the news and it's negative and you're trying to think of ways that you can fix it, your brain starts to say, okay, this is what we need to do. We're looking for a problem to solve because we want to protect you.

[00:20:42]So, when you start, you know, thinking about, I want to be ready for whatever can happen. And like if I start going into the raw food lifestyle, another reason I like obviously the bundle and the content we all create is because you might start by mistake looking for things that could go wrong. Like what went what could go wrong with the raw vegan diet? Has anybody not done well in the raw vegan diet? Like you start to think if I know the absolute worse, I can then deal with it. But the the important thing is in the beginning you have to believe that this can work for you. So, I think the way that I went about it was going into the produce section. It started to look like a playground to me with all these fresh foods. I was thinking, well, putting all these fresh foods in, not I'm running away from, you know, I can't have this or I can't have meat, I can't have dairy anymore. I started trying to think of what what I was adding all the nutritional value of the stuff, how it was making me feel. And then I started to think, who else is is doing this, right? And then I started finding all these healing stories and that was all reinforcing what I was doing. So had I like scared myself out of this, I would have never ended the 18 years of back pain. I would have never ended seasonal allergies. I would have never lost the over 50 pounds that I was dealing with. So it it really makes a difference what you put in your algorithm. And I think having like positive people, a community like you and I both offer and and having a coach that kind of can help you explore how to make this work for you, not how to make it work just for them is so important.

[00:22:24]And this bundle is some of the absolute most awesome people. I already knew most of them, but like I've met new people that I can't believe how aligned we are with how we, you know, also present the information.

[00:22:38]A thank you.

[00:22:40]>> Thank you, Alex.

[00:22:41]>> I think you hit on a really good point is that if you watch something or seek something, your body's job, your brain's job at its highest forefront is to fix that. And so, and it doesn't have to be fast. And what I was saying earlier like just say you have OCD tendencies and we all coming with trauma and how our brain has coped with that trauma can be OCD tendencies, ADHD tendencies, it could be mood tendencies but we already have way what I choose to do is right now I was so sick like I was so sick. I can't beat that. Beating trying to beat that even when I was in moderate like more health did not work. How do I use my addiction to get where I am? And you just said before, you know, you went deep into the nutrition side. So, a lot of people can go deep into the well, carnivore kills and and raw vegan kills and vegan kills and paleo kills and then they wonder why they're so confused where it's what you are attracted to. Start with something moderate and when your symptoms come up, choose a new habit in where you want to get to. So just say you obsessively um like for for me is I had every time I felt pain or suffering I would pick up something like a cigarette, alcohol, probably even my phone. Um I would now and I've been in psych units where I can't even get outside. So it's possible wherever you are in the world is I started to realize the only thing I think my trauma got me to this place that was always there is nature. So hopefully everyone at least has a window, right? And so whether I couldn't even move to the window that you look out the window, your new addiction, I would literally force myself to be addicted to something that I could trust was always there.

[00:24:30]>> And that was where I was coming from, that deep addictive place until a point where next minute I'm outside. And maybe that even led me to the raw foods, right? To levels of raw food. But I chose to be real, have an acceptance of where I am, what these traits are. And I think I was talking to Lisa about how maybe it's Karen Ramsay that the way my brain is, what people define as ADHD is actually my superpower now that I'm well because I need a brain which doesn't want to do just one thing. I need it to be a health coach. I need it to be a podcaster. I need it to uh what else do I do? Create content like create thumbnails. I need to write all what I'm doing. I need to write to people and you and I need to do it instantly. So, I need to finish being a health coach and jump over to being a podcaster. I need to stop doing the podcast to create a YouTube. I need to stop doing that to create a thumbnail. And I find I can really hone in and what if that obsessive compulsive disorder, that hyperfocus one day makes you be able to I mean like Lisa, she says she has high functioning anxiety. It's like, you know, she's moved it across and written a 500page pause please menopause book.

[00:25:44]>> Yeah.

[00:25:45]>> Like, you know, I feel like what we think is our deficit. I saw I don't know who it was. It was somebody I don't think they're alive now. I came up a real from one of their documentaries stating and I already believed this that people who have huge addictions are just mystic mystics and healers who have tried to seek higher consciousness and gone off the wrong path because they've felt moments of uh euphoria which comes with enlightenment which they in this lifetime they need to get to but they've taken the wrong path. So, when it came to optimizing my brain and my I'm not telling people this is how you have to do it, but I was pretty sick and pretty addicted. And for those that are struggling in that loop, uh, whatever your negative issue is in your life, how about you swap it out for just one new positive addiction that you want to get to. You get to decide what that is.

[00:26:40]Whether it's more nature, you walk around the block once you you know something that will benefit your health.

[00:26:48]>> Absolutely. And I think we always come back to this in our um podcast when we talk about our mind, but the biggest thing you can do is small little sustainable changes. Uh because >> if we try to do everything all at once, our mind just shuts down. And I think you also have to build confidence. So, taking one thing that you want to focus on, even if it's I'm going to watch or listen to one of the things, let's say, um, each week, like you want to do one video from from our channel, or if you want to do if you buy the bundle, you can do one piece of content every week or every month and just start there and you'll start to build on it.

[00:27:35]Um, it's >> so like and as you celebrate that, you'll end up taking it to another level. Like I didn't figure everything out on day one. All I figured out how to do was go to the store and buy a bunch of produce, a bunch of fruits and vegetables. That led me to make a salad.

[00:27:52]That led me to eat it and then start to feel the energy from it. So, it's it's all just start with one little thing.

[00:27:59]Even if it's as small as I'm going to go to the store and buy everything I like as far as a fruit, vegetable, sprout, nut, seed, and just get it all in your house. That's enough for that day to say, "Hey, I did something for me today." And here's Neo trying to make an appearance behind me.

[00:28:16]>> Oh. So, I wanted to say uh I can see here Regains Jelly Beans has said, "It's too much grandma." And what I wanted to say to you is I can't take anything you say seriously until you make a video on it and send me a link to it because I what I'm finding is I'll go across to people at this as pages because there's lots of people here who want to listen to this and a lot of comments come up and they can't even make a video yet they're on our video insulting our work.

[00:28:46]So, I can't take you seriously insulting us until you get on front of the camera and make a video or and send it to me.

[00:28:54]I'm at Raw Sky now. I'll delete.

[00:29:00]Okay. So, yeah, we come back to little changes every time because I think that's important, right?

[00:29:07]>> Absolutely. Even when I went completely into the lifestyle, still the changes were small. I didn't do everything all at once, you know, so you learn as you go, but you have to start somewhere. And the the smallest thing you can think of to do and then celebrate it is going to be the easiest for you to get your head around. You might not feel like you're making any type of changes, but it's going to be adding. It's going to unfold a layer that you didn't know you could do. If you have fruit every day this week, that is a win because have you been having it every day? No. because it is just something that it it's I feel like it's so important that we're not hard on ourselves because the world can you know people around you can be hard on you. You can be harder on yourself than other people and it's like we're the person that we live with and that you know we're with every minute of every day. So we have to at least be kind to ourselves too. And I feel like the raw food started to help helps people, not just me, but I've heard this so many times. It starts to calm your mind a little bit and make things a bit clearer for you that maybe like you weren't even realizing before or like nature, experiencing nature like you never have before. You're seeing the world in a different way.

[00:30:27]>> Yeah. I also think that because I've been doing raw five years, I think you're six years. Is that right?

[00:30:34]>> Um, seven. I just did seven, but not completely raw. Like that's been like four years of my seven off, you know, throughout the time I've been vegan. All of that time though.

[00:30:46]>> I think uh especially I think it's also a coping mechanism to me and what I want for the world is for more raw foods. But I do feel like I think about this uh too big because even like I I feel like I was reading some comments about people commenting under videos and I think the reality of most people watching our content really struggle to even get one day raw. So I think I think people want to go raw and they're falling off and they're at some capacity. The reason I know this is because uh a lot of people uh it's it's a huge undertaking to even do a month raw or 7 days raw. But I actually think uh doing one day a week for most people could be the place to start because you know I think you're what you're looking at when you see JJ and myself and this is where the bundle is going to be amazing, right? because it's I think it's so I'd like to say I don't want to say it's so hard to be raw. It's so hard if you jump to raw and you don't honor where you're at. But I think a lot of people have not even reached a day raw because they get so overwhelmed by the big picture. And I think when you accept that if you do a day raw, you're ahead of what you're still ahead of most of this planet. Like nobody eats that way. And when you start thinking in that mindset that you've achieved something great, it can motivate you to do more. And I really use that achieving something great mindset because I came from like literally like drinking, the vaping, pharmaceuticals, so many addictions. And I'm sitting there eating raw food and I'm like, I don't think the average person can do this. But then I >> and I would use my old mindset to stay on raw. I'm like, well, if I can put chemicals in my body that average people don't do, I'm sure I can do it in a good way now and with raw foods. And I think the other thing is is if you fall off the you the biggest challenge is to not keep sliding, right? It's to stop, put on the brakes, maybe open the bundle and read something that somebody's written.

[00:32:54]Go to your favorite creator, open up their videos, choose good addiction to cope with what you've just done. And a lot of people will say, "No, you need to sit with it." There's you got the rest of your life to sit in it. Right now, how does a traumatized brain cope when they're trying to do something good?

[00:33:10]They're trying to get through a day.

[00:33:12]They've fallen off. If you can then come back on for the rest of the day, I promise your brain has learned something it probably has never leared before. I feel like I most of my life would fall off and you go oh next week next tomorrow next week and then you've trained your brain most of your life for the next day next week scenario where I feel like even a learn like any learning any step moving forward bettering yourself will change your brain's chemistry your neural pathways and change your future so >> absolutely I think the word is I'm going to I'm trying to those things all make us feel better in the moment. Even if we know we're kind of lying to ourselves, it it makes us have some form of like comfort in our brain that we don't feel bad anymore that we didn't do it today.

[00:34:03]And that's why it's not something that keeps starting over. It's a journey.

[00:34:08]Like if you today feel like I've ruined everything, if you had all raw all day and a cooked meal, you're it's it's something your brain might be going, well, I already messed up, so let me just eat what I want tomorrow and then next month I'll start again. But when we change I'm going to or I'm trying to I am and just make a choice in the moment like I'm eating a raw meal right now or I'm going to I'm going to eat this right now. you know, making those choices in the moment means you are doing it. So whether you, you know, want to say, "I'm fully raw. I appreciate raw foods and I want to put as many raw foods in my body as I can." I think that works better for the brain than these stop and starts.

[00:34:52]I'm going raw tomorrow. Because that's how all of a sudden you start to feel like, "Oh, today I ate raw and I feel a lot better than I did yesterday not doing it, so I want to do more of it."

[00:35:03]and you're like getting your brain to a point where it's optimizing what you want to go towards instead of trying to maybe like whatever we think of that we can't have sometimes we want it more.

[00:35:15]It's just again how our brain is kind of wired. So I think you know doing like giving getting yourself off the hook like hey I'm just going to add as many raw foods as I can this week and that's a great way to start because you're making a good choice.

[00:35:32]Yes, I think also what's important I don't think it's necessarily lying to yourself because you have made the better change. So you can say to yourself in that moment for the first time in my life I haven't kept sabotaging for that day. You don't even have to get to I'm I'm like winning. You can say for today I didn't do it. And you can sit in a space where it's going to feel awkward because you've gone back and you're going to probably keep thinking that you haven't done right.

[00:35:57]But what if for the next month, every time you sabotage, you choose to eat a healthy meal afterwards? You have at the end of that month made new neural pathways most people never had. Those pathways will help you on your next choice because more than likely because you'll sit in this uncomfortable pain because you let yourself down a bit, you can start to think back and go, you know what, I've achieved this part. I'm not going to self-sabotage today. like it really does uh it really does change the way you are but a lot of the time we have to face these things as well JJ so if we've had these traits our whole life they don't go away we don't a lot of this is where a lot of people f find fall off on the recipe sorry the recipe the restaurant fallacy right just say every time you've gone to a restaurant and taken your own healthy meal you've fallen off the wagon like you've you've ordered cooked vegan or a cooked meal and and you go you you show up and you've got a trained pathway now. So you very easily go today's the day I'm going to make the smoothies and the weekend I'm going out and I've got a birthday party but this time I'm going to do it.

[00:37:05]You're actually not aware but you're sitting in a neural pathway that you've already built. What you have to face is the fact that it never worked. But it's not saying I can't do this. It's saying why didn't it work? It's because you probably wanted something familiar. You want to feel familiar in the setting.

[00:37:22]How I dealt with this was be like, I can't beat it. So, what I'm going to do is get as many things, bring some of my own, call the restaurant ahead, get them to bring me three salads, ask if they'll make me a juice, order a soda water, order a tea, have some. And it's not str. You might think it's strange, but the people in front of me are having multiple courses, bread with oil, rich dishes. I just keep my hands busy, and then I feel good, too. I always remember afterwards when I walk out of the restaurant. But you have to make a new I'm not saying this is what you need to do. There's options in the bundle of of different ways that people do different things. But I think it's really important that you honor the fact that it's never worked. Like stop sitting in denial. It's never worked and now facing what could be possible. What where could you sit? Or it might even be ordering bringing as much of your own as you can and you're going to spoil yourself with steamed vegetables and you bought your own sauce. You're going to put your own cashew cheesy sauce over the vegetables.

[00:38:21]Uh, and you know, I found things like chil chili chili and gin towards the end of the bundle. Chili.

[00:38:28]>> I know, right? It's our brain is bundled.

[00:38:30]>> It is. My brain is bundled through. I've been doing like what, eight hours a day of of filming. Um, so yeah. So like stimulating things worked for me. Having multiple things works for me. Uh, getting fresh air, excusing myself and getting fresh air. And you know, if people around you can't accept you for needing to feel better about yourself, sometimes we need to let them go for a period of time. And I always say, not forever, but it's good to learn that you come first and to teach your brain that you will always choose you.

[00:39:03]>> I love that. And that's basically what we're doing is is retraining our brain um to like love and appreciate our our body and how we feel and and appreciate the food. I mean the biggest part of this is what we are choosing to eat because we've done it every day of our life for three times a day. So for me it was just so much better to make it simple instead of thinking I've got to learn 7 million recipes. I just want to know every time you know you go to make a choice make a choice of one of those you know five things like fruit, vegetable, nut, seed, sprout. Even if you're mixing a salad together, just you have all kinds of ingredients you can use and it really does start to make it like now when I go into the store, I don't have to think. It's not going to be as hard as it is in the beginning when you're still used to what you were eating. It's going to be just like second nature like anything that you do.

[00:40:05]Just like when you start a new, you know, job. Obviously, it's a little different, but as you learn and and and start doing it or any new activity, like when we were, you know, kids, we started something, it was hard at first and then it gets easier. It's the same with this, like it becomes like who you are. So, when you go to the store, you just know the the favorites, the things you eat, and it's like struggling through that a little bit in the beginning is so worth it on the other side because it's, you know, it doesn't like my book says, it doesn't have to be hard. Just make it easy on yourself. Don't overcommit in the beginning.

[00:40:42]>> I think that's good too. Don't overcommit. We we we overcommit because we think we're going to get there faster. Trust me, every time I've overcomit, I've not only not never got there, I've gone further backwards. When I finally became the tortoise, not the hair. You know, the tortoise, slow and steady wins the race. I finally reached my goals. And that's very hard for someone who has that ADHD brain that likes to like jump like I want the but a lot we're all like that. Like we're definitely all like that. But when you realize the key to getting to your goal is to sit in it. But how you feel comfortable sitting in it is where this basically this bundle comes in because you want support. really as much as we say we're you might even have a partner who is raw but you're struggling with raw or high raw but you're struggling with raw and that's because you may be with somebody or you may be with a bestie who's doing raw or high raw but you're only in your head 24 hours a day.

[00:41:41]You know, it's just it's when you realize it's just you against the world, you have to work out what you're willing to do for you. Because as as much as we think we latch on and we got through because somebody was with us or this final piece is even if you get somebody around you, it's your brain all the time and just say they fall off, right? Is what happens then. So, it's really important that we honor who we are. And I feel like this is in that love aspect and that soul level is it's more than the physical. The soul is like if you think about how how extensive time is, we're not even here for a bleep, you know, >> for if if time is in infinite or space or the universe or infinity infinity and beyond. So the reality is what would that mean? It would mean the soul is really here to to learn something and and how do I support that um and feel my best? And I swear every time I've overcome some sort of challenge or in a healthy way or worked on myself, the benefits are like nothing else. They're not like a quick pill. They're not like a quick surgery. They're not like a quick hit of a lolly as a kid. And we keep going back for that stuff, you know, but at the end of the day, the real rewards that I've got, the real health that I've gained has been and it like JJ says, it it can be you can follow different people doing it doesn't have to be huge. uh it's those small incremental changes will add up but you have to start and you have like I always think I have I think somebody's moving further forward if by the end of a year they have made two small changes and kept them than somebody's gone off and done a cleanse for a week >> three months even three months because you really haven't learned anything about who you want to become for the rest of your life you've find something that you may need to flush through or flush something out. But I if you can still do that habit in 40 50 years time, that is what that's what it's about, right? And that can't happen in a like a massive jump. It has to because there's so much it's not I don't like to say unlearning, but it's it's learning to look after you is it's a whole new ball game. So think about it like that. If you can if there's two healthy habits just it might even be walking one kilometer a day it and the re you might go well that's not that far I can do more than that see if you can for a whole year walk one kilometer every day you know it's if you'd be surprised when it's if it's better to start low and and be able to achieve it because it's the repetition that we find as humans hard with the world pulling us all different ways >> and I think when you do that you give yourself room to also uh blow it out of the water. Basically, like when you say, "I'm going to walk around my block once a day or I'm going to get on my exercise bike or or whatever you have, elliptical, let's just say like I have here." Sometimes I will say every day I want to get on it for at least 10 minutes. Well, what happens is I'll start watching something, you know, and all of a sudden I'm on there or I'm listening to a podcast and I'm on there 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes. It's like you can just start with something small and some days you're going to go you're going to do more. Like you may end up saying, I want to have one raw meal every single day for the next, you know, year or whatever it is. And then every day you start having it. But then that means you start watching something on online to see what that raw meal is going to be. You find a recipe you like.

[00:45:23]And then you find another uh you know raw vegan that might be trying to tell you, oh you should try this type of recipe. So you try another one. And then it's like, well, I want to do that for lunch and dinner. Now you've had two raw meals. Or you end up having a salad.

[00:45:38]Like I always say in the book like start with having a salad before your regular meal so that you know you can start to get used to having that every day and then you might end up being so full from one of the salads that you have that you don't eat and all of a sudden you're like wow I just started by having a salad before dinner but now I've made one of JJ or Skye's salads that you could never still eat dinner afterwards right it's going to be so filling so I think you can just Start very small. And if you do that every single day, not only will it be something you can say, "Hey, I did this. I accomplished it." It helps you fit it into your real life better, like you said, than a cleanse once a month or once a year and then back to the regular way of eating.

[00:46:23]You're actually building a lifestyle around it and and building it how it works in your life. And you're also giving yourself something to celebrate because you did it. And then if it's small enough, sometimes, like I said, you'll end up doing more than what you even committed to just by mistake. You know, you'll you'll start really enjoying it and maybe getting into it.

[00:46:44]Like for me, I find it's hard sometimes for me to get started back working out when I stop for a while and then once I do, like after 30 minutes, I'm like, how did I ever stop? It's been the same the times I've went off raw. It feels okay at first, but then I start to feel tired and lethargic and not getting as much done and and not as like, you know, my mind's not as calm. And then when I go back raw, yeah, it's a little bit difficult first, but then all of a sudden I feel so much better. And I think that's why I have such a long time of putting together high raw at least or you know fully raw because it's I'm walking towards what serves me finally.

[00:47:26]Not trying to like you know run away from what doesn't but I'm actually wanting to feed my body the best things that there is to eat.

[00:47:35]All of that, all of that is true because why you have to start small because you the idea is you have to find joy in it.

[00:47:45]What everything we're talking about the reason you have to start small is if you say you're going to do 10 kilometers walking every day, right? And that's going to take at least I reckon 6 to 8 months for you to find joy in it. Maybe three months, okay? But if you do one kilometer very quickly, you can find joy in that. If you find joy in that, you'll go back to that. That's why I don't get you can't force yourself up high onto something which doesn't give you joy.

[00:48:13]And this is why the bundle can be so important because you need to find joy, but it will not, I promise you, it will not, it'll feel uncomfortable at the start cuz you're doing something different. This is why we binge on bad foods, binge on television, because we instantly get joy. But now you're te, you're not the to you're not the hair anymore. You're the tortoise, right? So, you're going to go slow and get slow increments of joy. But if you keep showing up, you will find joy. Okay? If you do it your way, and this comes from like just say you're someone who's like, I don't really like walking, okay? But you feel you need to get steps in because we all should be walking as humans. Don't say you don't like when have you liked walking? So, I have a tendency to like walking in the water like across the sand. Are you near a beach? Are you near a river? Maybe you want to take your shoes off in the backyard and get your feet on the ground to imitate that. Where do you find joy in what you're trying to achieve? Start there because the idea what you're looking at in Lisa and JJ and myself and Marabella is we have found the joy aspects in our own raw vegan life and we want that for you. Even if you say Sky, I just did one raw day a week all year and by you know a month in I was starting to enjoy it. Couple of times didn't feel like it but because I knew it had been fun and it didn't feel that that much I kept going and then I just and you know sometimes you might do two or three nights a week but at least you can default back to your fun one night a week. Like that's how I stay raw is fun, joy, love, light, and it's always served me. And if I have to change it a bit, I'm like, how is it? Where do I find my joy?

[00:49:56]>> And that is really the only way we stay.

[00:49:58]And that's why JJ does it her way because she loves it. She loves the food. Like I actually love the food very simple as well. It's like talking to God. It's like putting bits of God straight inside yourself and you're like, he made it pretty perfect or the universe and she made it pretty >> like we're trying to do all the things manipulating it and it was like it was already perfect, right? And we just had to eat it raw.

[00:50:22]>> So, we want you to find your joy, but I am we are going to have to uh wind this up because yeah, I have got somebody I'm interviewing Ally next.

[00:50:30]>> Oh, I just spoke to her uh Saturday. So, it was a great conversation. Enjoy it.

[00:50:36]And thank you so much for meeting with me every week. I'm excited uh to be back again next week and uh talk about more mind information.

[00:50:47]>> Mind I don't know why I did that.

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[00:51:59]Yeah, it's it is it's like a res, as I said, a resource that we're going to be referring to all year and it's only available now for $50. You can still get them all, but they're all going to be well anywhere from, I think, $30 to $750 to buy them individually. Uh, but the whole package is worth $1,500 and then you got resources from all of us. Uh, so love you guys. I will be back in like two minutes with Ally. Uh, and I see you next week, JJ, if not sooner. I think >> everybody, we'll see you.

[00:52:31]>> Sounds good. See you in the next video.

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