July 13, 2023 - EyeClarity Podcast
Hey everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, and I want to talk about my daily wellness practices. First and foremost, I prioritize getting into nature every day, whether it’s a park, hiking trail, or my own yard. I emphasize mindful eating, stress reduction through activities like walking in nature and spending time with friends, and the importance of quality sleep for recharging and deep rest. These are just a few of my wellness practices that I dig into in today’s episode. Enjoy the show!
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Hey, everybody, its Dr. Sam, and I’m going to welcome you to my podcast today. So I’m going to take a question. That’s kind of personal. But people ask this a lot. What are my wellness practices that I do every day? Well, let’s start with nature.
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And I know a lot of people that follow me live in the city I used to live in the city. And so I’m an urban person, even though now my life is more geared towards hiking and whitewater rafting and nature skiing, biking. But even so, I feel that number one on my list is getting into nature every day. You know, there’s studies out there that show that forest bathing is so good for our energy, it’s so good for our mood, it actually affects things like our our neuro chemicals in the brain like serotonin and dopamine. So forest bathing, whether you do it in a park, in your yard, or you can get out to a hiking trail somewhere. This would be number one, what I do every day. Second thing that I find to be very valuable in my own wellness practice is going barefoot outside.
You know there’s nothing like what we call earthing. earthing means that we are connecting to the earth through the bottom of our feet. And our shoes are all rubber. We’re around all kinds of wireless and technology all day. Even me because I’m doing a lot of content and meetings and going from one place to another. But I spend at least 15 minutes every day outside barefoot. Because with earthing, what that does is that discharges all that energy, that electrical energy that we’re absorbing from the satellites from the EMFs from the wireless routers. And by the way, if you can do it, shut your wireless off at night. That’s another thing that’s very important. But earthing is a second wellness practice I like to do and it’s a daily practice where I’m really connecting back in to the earth.
My third wellness practice is meditation. Now there are many different forms of meditation out there. I’ve explored a lot of them. And what I like to do is in the morning, I’ll get some tea. I have a ritual and a hat, get some tea, and I my sometimes I sit with my wife and my dog, sometimes I’m sitting alone. And I’ll either just focus on a mantra or breathing or some beautiful music and just to kind of have some space to be able to know what what’s my day going to be what’s my attitude, what am I looking to do, what are my intentions? And you know that
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There’s always things that we can get into with our mind. That’s kind of what meditation is about to watch the mind. And there are many different kinds. I’ve also explored things like Chi Gong, and Tai Chi and yoga. Continual movement is another one I used to teach that. So there’s a lot of different ways that you can explore meditation. But I think having a 15 to 20 minute time period in the morning, before you start your busy meetings, at least for me, it kind of wipes the slate clean, I get to explore and reflect, okay, what do I want to do today. So meditation is my third, wellness practice number four, number four. And this is an ongoing exploration inquiry into the health of my relationships.
You know, we live here on planet Earth, and we have to relate, we have to relate first of all to ourselves, we have to relate to our friends and family, maybe our business associates or employees, or strangers. And for me, the better I can relate to myself and relate to others, that’s going to help me get more out of my life and why I’m here. And so over the years, I’ve explored, and I still continue to explore different avenues of clearing out emotions, negative emotions, and that doesn’t mean that I just ignore them. But I’m doing different processes to say, well, I’ve got some fear today, I’ve got some anxiety, I’ve got some resentment, I’ve got some anger, you know, all of those things are part of what we as humans deal with.
And so to explore, okay, what’s going on? What can I do, and to be fully accountable for my own emotional health? I’m not blaming, I’m not projecting I’m not, it’s not somebody else’s problem. And you know, when I started to do this, in my company, where I took full accountability, it changed the whole dynamic and how I related to myself, and my family, and my employees, and my friends. So emotional health, emotional exploration, relationships, that’s my next wellness practice. And that’s probably I’m going to do it until I take my last breath. My next wellness practice, is having a creative outlet. I was very lucky, early on to study music. And
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so one of my creative outlets is playing music. And so whether I’m doing African music, and Jim Bay drum, or playing a little piano, these are all things that I feel just kind of take my mind away from all the intensity that I’m under, when I’m producing videos for you guys, and podcasts and talking to product vendors, and you know, my financial people, and so on. So having that creative outlet is another one of my wellness practices, I’m going to put these wellness practices together because these are pretty obvious because I talk about them. But being aware of what I eat, when I’m when I’m shopping, what I’m eating, what I’m cooking, and I’m not here to say that you should be paleo or vegan or keto, or use the Mediterranean diet.
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You know, first of all, this is just for me, what I find is I eat what feels good in my body. And I make it as natural as possible. So I don’t use a lot of sugar, anything I use that Sweden is a low glycemic index. But
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the point of it is, is for you to discover your own dietary bliss. And what’s coupled with that is stress reduction. What are some things that you can do for stress reduction naturally, walking in nature, hiking, biking, doing my sports is one way another way is meditation. Another way is getting together with friends and sharing and you know, having fun having a good time. And all of this sets me up for sleep. So this is my last point in terms of my wellness practice. And I feel that sleep is such an overlooked and it’s such an important part of our wellness quotient. So many of my clients and patients either don’t get enough sleep, or they just can’t sleep and I understand there can be endocrine imbalances, there can be stress imbalances.
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Many reasons why. But studying sleep, that is such a practice of recharging, of going into your dreams and just kind of exploring a deep state of silence and rest. So you can set that up in your bedroom by not having glaring lights on or the Television. And by the way, stop using your technology one hour before bed, that’s my challenge to you. Because the sooner you get off that technology, then the blue light is not affecting your pineal gland, your melatonin, which is going to definitely affect how deeply you sleep. So my last wellness practice I’m going to share is getting good sleep. So I’ll probably do this again. There’s many other wellness practices I use, but this is what I’ve come up with that I want to share today. So if it helps us it if it doesn’t, no harm, and thanks so much for tuning in. Take care
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