Success Through Personal Challenge, Health, Commitment and Growth

Earth Body Mind Spirit with Mike D Stokes

Hello everybody, Mike Stokes live. Today I'd like to talk about balance and health and success. And I've been struggling a bit lately, on the topics that I record about. And the reason that I've been struggling, is because I've been dealing with a health issue. I have an undiagnosed heart condition, which is painful and difficult to sleep. And I've always prided myself as being very health conscious and intelligent and able to discern good information from bad, and to effectively make good decisions and control my emotional reactionary decisions. And whenever I'm not feeling well. Physically, I question my ability to know anything that's useful for other people. Period. And I'm, I'm in the sauna right now because that's where I do my best clearest thinking outside of my ego. And right now it's 157 degrees I was sitting up on the bench but now I'm actually sitting on the floor, because it's hotter than I think I've ever done. And I took an extra niacin to flush out my system. I took 1000 milligrams which is really high. And some nitric oxide booster, which will flush and open your system and I'm drinking MSM which will also flush and open your system so. So my system is pretty raw and open at the moment. And what I've noticed is, is that over the years as I've done this practice. Is that clear thinking doesn't really occur until. Well I'm about 48 minutes in right now, till about 45 minutes. Actually I don't think I'm 48 minutes I think more like 30 minutes in, but it was so hot that it's, I feel like I've cleared something out. So bear with me I hope that that setup wasn't too long I didn't lose too many of you. But what I think is important for those of us on the path of, you know, the highest human potential personal success combined with making the world a better place, which is really what all of my stuff is about. I think that we all must struggle from time to time with times when we feel like we're not capable of doing great things or of helping other people, because we ourselves feel weak or injured or out of sorts. So, are you guys gonna hang out on the deck. It's kind of hard I can't focus if you are. So I don't know if I should leave that in but that was my wife and daughter. And they were on the deck I could hear their voices in the background. And so, myself and many people are easily distracted by outside circumstances. And so what I've learned is that for me to do my best work I really need quiet. There's a wonderful book called Deep work, which talks about how much more effective you can be when you shut off the world and focus on your work at hand. And there's another one I forgot to turn off the notification button. So, now I'm turning off the notification button. So, I guess I'm just gonna leave all that in because I think it's a real time example of how we deal with distractions. You know I love my family I want them to be near me but it's just not productive at some times. So there's a time and place for everything. So the, the core of what had me start this conversation is this idea that came to me around commitment, and which I was thinking of the things that I'm truly committed to such as my relationship, and my self sufficient homestead property. And those are really the two things that I'm committed to everything else is a bit fluctuating, and there's a power and commitment, and that power is that, you know, when we don't have commitment, our mind will take us away from things. And this is, there's a lot of scientific evidence behind that all you got to do is a search for options. The Psychology of options and how you have more options, and when you have more options you're less satisfied in life. So in a way, it's it's critical that you find things to commit to. But then comes sor