This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, it’s just Sam and you for the show!
This week, Sam will be shining the light on the underlying stress we all feel these days. He will talk about how to recognize that you’re stressed, even if you don’t think you feel stressed, and what we can all do to cope with it, manage it, and feel some relief.
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Sam is hosting solo this week. Sam announces that previous episodes of The Conscious Consultant Hour are now available on ConsciousGood.tv. Sam reads a section from his book, Everyday Awakening called “How to Get to Where You’re Going.” This section focuses on the benefits of “slowing down in order to speed up.” People can be more productive and creative, and less prone to mistakes, when they take more time for themselves. For example, by driving on a country road instead of rushing down the highway, you have a greater chance of missing an accident. Abby from Facebook Live recounts that just last night, a waitress served her pepperjack cheese even though she made clear to the waitress that she’s allergic to peppers. More information about Everyday Awakening can be found at EverydayAwakeningBook.com and TheConsciousConsultant.com/Everyday-Awakening. When you purchase the book through the website, you receive access to many links including extra reading, meditation, discounts and more. For further reading, Sam recommends the book The Diamond Cutter. Sam announces the topic of today’s show is The Underlying Stress of Life - how it appears in our lives and what we can do to alleviate it.
The Underlying Stress of Life is something Sam has become more keenly aware of recently. Why is there this constant, pervasive stress in the background? And why is everyone feeling this? The main reason these days of course is the pandemic. The things that made us connected, such as travel, were taken away from us. We’re much more aware of the world in general than we were long ago. We learn new things about the pandemic every day and have been constantly fearing for our safety. Collectively we have not had an unconscious, life-or-death fear like this since the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. It impacts us all collectively, which is why it’s a pandemic and not an epidemic. This unconscious fear of “what happens if I get sick?” impacts us in many ways. People are more easily irritated, more likely to get angry, more likely to fight with somebody. Our emotions have harder edges these days. We’re also more tired than we used to be - everything takes more effort, more energy, more stamina. We’re not able to be as present as we used to. What can we do about all of this? How can we be more aware of this underlying stress so that we can show up for ourselves and be more present?
Sam comes back to discuss the ways that work now stresses us out in ways that weren’t present pre-pandemic. Sam’s wife, who is a therapist, never seemed to get too stressed out from work when she was seeing patients in person, however since working remotely she finds herself much more tired and stressed at the end of a day of Zoom calls. It takes a lot more energy to do all of your work from screens than doing things in person. She decided to take the entire summer off - previously she had never taken off more than two weeks - which drove home for Sam how many other people must be feeling this level of underlying stress. Sam says he himself was much more exhausted than normal after a few weeks of commitments during the summer, and that it took two weeks of slowing things down and prioritizing self care to feel better. So, what can we do about it? Sam says that we must recognize and accept that things these days require more energy, and must be able to ration said energy. Step 1: Slow down. How do we do this? Before starting any task (starting a work meeting, phoning a friend, etc), take a breath. Close your eyes, take a deep breath in and a deep breath out. This is a basic yet effective way to bring ourselves into the present. Think to yourself: what is my intention in performing this task? What do I want to achieve? Sam encourages listeners to try the breathing exercise and see how it makes them feel. Repeat this breathing exercise after the task has ended (coming home from work, finishing a jog, etc). After the break Sam will talk about more ways to destress on a momentary, daily, weekly and monthly basis.
Sam returns from the break to discuss how we can manage this underlying stress on a daily basis, not just momentary. Sam’s advice is to take a walk. Walk down your street, go to the park...find a place where you can go out and take a walk. Walking is known to stimulate both sides of the brain. Exercise is also key. Come up with a simple routine (5-10 minutes per day) to relieve your brain of stress. Going into nature is another activity that helps your body to destress, heal your body and release toxins. Sam describes the concept of “earthing,” which includes activities like walking barefoot and lying in the grass. Being in contact with natural materials feels good and is essential for the body. Sam says another great way to relieve stress is to take a long hot shower or bath. Turn up the heat so that the shower feels like a sauna. Get bodywork done, such as a massage. Facebook Live listeners chime in with what helps them destress, such as riding a bike. Finally, Sam says one of the most important things is to just sit down and be with yourself. Give your mind some space. Practice it as it’s a very valuable skill. Stress and worry will build up in your system if you don’t give yourself the time and space to be still and let your mind slow down. Find what works for you. If you are having trouble destressing, there’s always the option of working with a professional. If you are interested in working with Sam, he can be reached sam@theconsciousconsultant.com or sam@talkradio.nyc. Sam closes by asking listeners for future show suggestions.
00:00:22.380 --> 00:00:25.770 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon, my conscious Co.
00:00:25.770 --> 00:00:37.320 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Creators welcome to another edition of the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, I am very, very pleased that you're all here with me today.
00:00:38.970 --> 00:00:52.860 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i've got one of those shows that it's just me, and you, so I hope we'll get a lot of interaction on the Facebook live i'll answer any of your questions we'll talk about you know and go in the direction you want to go in.
00:00:53.610 --> 00:01:03.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But I do have a topic unfortunately my guest, who was scheduled to join us today is down in the south and it's still recovering from Hurricane Ida and.
00:01:05.220 --> 00:01:07.860 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and having some challenges technologically.
00:01:08.310 --> 00:01:19.770 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So we'll get her on at some point in the future, but just to let you know i'm booked out with guests until like me of next year, so i've got some really awesome people I got a bunch of amazing authors.
00:01:20.340 --> 00:01:35.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: From inner traditions are wonderful publisher next year as well as some just awesome people scheduled out so yeah it's it's a really interesting interesting time I can't believe it it's it's.
00:01:37.020 --> 00:01:44.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Already booked out to me and it's not even till the end of the year, I have a feeling, by the end of this year i'll be blocked out till the end of next year, so.
00:01:45.690 --> 00:01:54.630 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: yeah anyway, but still, but they were wonderful people and actually I have a friend of mine connected me to some really interesting people I hope to get in so.
00:01:55.020 --> 00:02:07.050 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Stay tuned we've got amazing shows, and I just want to announce if anyone is familiar with conscious good TV they now have a bunch of my episodes up on their website.
00:02:08.790 --> 00:02:25.980 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I believe their websites conscious good that TV and you can catch a bunch of my old shows that and not old but relatively recent but within the last couple of years, so we got some good stuff up there alright so i'm this week i'm reading a little section from my book.
00:02:27.390 --> 00:02:32.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and actually rather appropriate for my topic today which we'll get into so first let's.
00:02:33.570 --> 00:02:41.760 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Talk about this little section from my book, as we all my loyal listeners my regular listeners know is.
00:02:42.300 --> 00:02:51.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Everyday awakening and you can find more about the book at everyday awakening book calm to direct link to the listing online and.
00:02:51.990 --> 00:02:57.810 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You can also find out more about it on my website, which is the conscious consultant calm okay so.
00:02:58.740 --> 00:03:06.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Today, the section is called slowing down, maybe the fastest way to get to where we're going a little bit of a long time it's an important one.
00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:14.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You see it everywhere oh also keep in mind this section of the book was written by pre pandemic Okay, you see it everywhere.
00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:24.420 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: People are rushing from one place to the next rushing to get their projects done rushing to go home go away go get their coffee.
00:03:25.230 --> 00:03:29.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We rush, because we think that's the fastest way to get something done.
00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:44.460 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Yet when we rush all the time we miss things we miss the little details that make all the difference we missed the birds chirping as We walked to the train we missed the error in the program as we rush to finish the APP.
00:03:44.940 --> 00:03:59.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We missed the look on our partners face as we rush out the door to get to work, sometimes perhaps even most times by slowing down we actually are going the fastest way.
00:03:59.730 --> 00:04:13.770 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: By slowing down, we can take in more by slowing down, we can be more present by slowing down, we can feel more of what's going on inside of us an outside of us.
00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:30.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: When we take the time to really look at what is going on, either at work at home or anywhere in between, we can often find a better, simpler, more direct way to achieve what we're looking for.
00:04:31.710 --> 00:04:36.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The idea may be counterintuitive yet it still works.
00:04:37.110 --> 00:04:39.360 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Even taking the time to ask.
00:04:40.440 --> 00:04:48.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: What am I trying to achieve can slow us down and help to remind us what it is we are really after.
00:04:49.500 --> 00:04:53.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Did we slow down enough to read the entire article.
00:04:54.300 --> 00:05:02.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Did we slow down enough to see the smile on our lovers lips, did we slow down enough to see the potential hazard on the road.
00:05:04.050 --> 00:05:06.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Speed does not equal, the shortest distance.
00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.990 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Taking our time is sometimes the fastest way to get to where we are going.
00:05:14.130 --> 00:05:18.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Perhaps it is just about recognizing that we are already there.
00:05:19.950 --> 00:05:24.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Where in your life, can you slow down to speed up.
00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:26.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So.
00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:34.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: This section of the book was inspired by a number of different things it actually wasn't just one thing.
00:05:36.150 --> 00:05:41.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I know, like there was one specific incident, many years ago, many years ago.
00:05:42.930 --> 00:05:49.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: When I was driving someplace and I remember.
00:05:49.500 --> 00:05:59.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Somebody cut me off, and this was like not even driving on the highway this is driving on city streets and someone cut me off, and I was getting all pissed off and then I stopped for a moment I was like.
00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:13.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: What are you getting all pissed off for you're not in a rush to get anywhere you've got plenty of time, why not take your time, what are you getting, why are you stressing yourself out so much very important concept and we'll talk more about that later.
00:06:14.970 --> 00:06:21.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I took the time and I just breathe and I relaxed and I turned on the radio, listen to the music and you know what.
00:06:22.950 --> 00:06:32.640 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Stop driving so quickly, I stopped getting stressed out when someone cut me off in traffic I allowed myself to kind of slow down.
00:06:35.550 --> 00:06:42.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so that kind of got me just thinking about this idea of like, why are we always rushing.
00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:56.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then I remember years after that there was another time again, I don't know why it's always about driving, where I was driving and um.
00:06:57.300 --> 00:07:00.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I think I was driving back from someplace upstate.
00:07:01.950 --> 00:07:10.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it was just a beautiful day and I was driving in initially on country roads, before I got to the highway and I just decided to.
00:07:10.530 --> 00:07:21.450 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: to slow down and just kind of take things in and really enjoy it and then I got on the highway and i'm driving back to the city and after about.
00:07:22.290 --> 00:07:33.420 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I don't know 1520 maybe 30 minutes this huge accident on the road, there was like three or four cars involved in the accident on the side of the road.
00:07:34.830 --> 00:07:43.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And i'm kind of creeping pass them because, of course, you know traffic old like slows down because it's all squeezes into a lane to get to the side and move past it.
00:07:44.640 --> 00:07:52.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I realized like oh my God, you know if I had not been taking my time on those country roads, before I got on the highway.
00:07:53.340 --> 00:08:02.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I would have been here a little bit sooner, I could have been involved in that accident, I mean I might not have I still might have missed it but still there was that possibility.
00:08:03.510 --> 00:08:22.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then I thought about it, I was like you know how many times have I bike gotten upset because I was rushing some place and then, for whatever reason, something got my way I had to go back because I forgot something or just some you know something happened that slowed me down.
00:08:24.810 --> 00:08:35.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And what might I have missed what accident might have missed what what difficulty might have missed because I got there a little bit later.
00:08:38.130 --> 00:08:40.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, then I started to realize, you know.
00:08:42.570 --> 00:08:52.050 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We don't always have to rush now number, I mean accidents happen all the time, you can slow down and not be rushing and still get involved in accidents now what i'm saying.
00:08:54.810 --> 00:09:01.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Yet when we're being more mindful when we're slowing down the chances of getting in an accident actually or less.
00:09:03.090 --> 00:09:10.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then the The third thing that I think kind of crystallized this little section of my book about slowing down.
00:09:11.910 --> 00:09:23.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: was a reading a section of the book the diamond cutter and many of you know i've mentioned this book before on my broadcast the diamond cutter is a wonderful book written by this.
00:09:24.420 --> 00:09:34.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Former Buddhist monk or Buddhist lama cache Michael Roach and it's taking this this Buddhist precept of the diamond cutter and applying it to business.
00:09:35.340 --> 00:09:53.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And one of the things he talked about was how, when he went out, you know his his teacher Islam I kicked him out of monster I said go go take these principles apply it to the real world, and he got a job at a at a gym business diamond business and he negotiated with his boss.
00:09:55.380 --> 00:09:57.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To get every Wednesday off.
00:09:58.620 --> 00:10:15.990 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that Wednesday, he would leave the city, he would not take a cell phone with him, he would not do anything related to work he would just take the day off to be present to be with himself to go walk in nature to relax to give themselves some time.
00:10:17.820 --> 00:10:21.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And what happened was when he came back.
00:10:22.260 --> 00:10:26.820 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: He was so much more productive, he had new ideas he saw a better ways of doing things.
00:10:29.760 --> 00:10:44.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so it can kind of be counterintuitive that oh if i'm not working, five days a week i'm not getting as much done if I take a whole day off in the middle of the week that's like a you know fifth of my time 20% of my time i'm getting 20% less done that week.
00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:54.360 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And what he pointed out in his book the diamond cutter was no actually you get more done it's counterintuitive because you think.
00:10:54.750 --> 00:11:00.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: If i'm not spending as much time if i'm not rushing through some you know i'm not like God nose to the grindstone i'm not getting as much done.
00:11:01.770 --> 00:11:23.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And no what we find out is when we give more space we give more time when we relax into things we actually can be more productive more creative and find ways to to get through things much quicker than when we're just constantly constantly working working working now look.
00:11:24.810 --> 00:11:32.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I get it, I know, like most of you go out there and you try and talk to your boss, and say hey I want every Wednesday off they're going to say no way.
00:11:33.780 --> 00:11:48.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i'm yet in today's environment where many of us are working from home where or and if we're going into the office we're going in much less than before we're not necessarily going in full time.
00:11:52.740 --> 00:11:57.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: we're actually able to kind of do things at our own pace, a little bit for.
00:11:58.920 --> 00:12:02.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And indeed, what I find talking to people is that.
00:12:03.150 --> 00:12:07.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They can be more productive working from home, I mean number one they're not commuting.
00:12:08.130 --> 00:12:20.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But number two it's your in your own space you're more relaxed there's a little bit less tension there, and so that helps with actually being more productive and more creative.
00:12:20.940 --> 00:12:31.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Again depends on the kind of work that you do I mean some work like if you run a restaurant, have you run some kind of service business where you're face to face with customers it's not the same way.
00:12:33.330 --> 00:12:39.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Yet let's just say you're a hostess or or your server at a restaurant.
00:12:40.830 --> 00:12:50.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Right you're trying to to accommodate the clients as quickly as possible, but if you're rushing through to get everything done and you're rushing to get the order and.
00:12:50.610 --> 00:12:54.600 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You might have missed something that the person ordering might have said.
00:12:55.380 --> 00:13:04.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Like Oh, please make sure there's no onions in this I don't like onions, or no olives or or can you make sure to this and you put in the order and then it comes out and it's not what the person asked for.
00:13:05.550 --> 00:13:13.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then they give it back to you, and now you got to bring it back, and now you have an unhappy customer, whereas if you just take the time be a little more present.
00:13:15.210 --> 00:13:21.030 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You can actually get things done more quickly, because you'll make less mistakes.
00:13:22.920 --> 00:13:23.430 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and
00:13:24.570 --> 00:13:36.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Again, this can apply to anything, not just being a waiter or waitress not just you know, being an order taker there are so many ways in our life.
00:13:38.370 --> 00:13:43.410 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That we if we slow down.
00:13:45.090 --> 00:13:51.180 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: take our time and just be a little more present to what we're doing in the moment.
00:13:52.920 --> 00:13:56.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That that's actually the fastest way.
00:13:57.450 --> 00:14:05.370 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To to get things done Oh, and I see a new loyal listener mandy great to see you mandy on the Facebook live says that happened last night.
00:14:05.640 --> 00:14:18.810 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: stopped at a restaurant told the waitress I was allergic to peppers and she put pepper jack cheese on my sandwich missing the fact that she's had some peppers right exactly mandy exactly it's it's again.
00:14:20.460 --> 00:14:26.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To be present to to just really do it it's sometimes the fastest way.
00:14:27.330 --> 00:14:35.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Okay, so that's my section from my book, everyday awakening, if you like, that section, you might like more of the book and you can find it at.
00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:55.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: www dot every day awakening book.com and, by the way, I mentioned that sometimes I sometimes forget if you get the book and then you go to my website, the conscious consultant calm and you click on the menu item that says sam's book.
00:14:56.220 --> 00:15:03.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: When you purchase the book and you put in your receipt number and your email address in that section of the book you get access to a whole bunch of freebies.
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00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:32.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: click on sam's book scroll down a little bit put in your name your email address your receipt number and then it'll take you through to a page where you have links to a whole bunch of.
00:15:34.260 --> 00:15:37.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: options for things that you can get so just a little encouragement.
00:15:38.040 --> 00:15:49.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Okay, so today's topic is the underlying stress of life, remember, I talked about stress a little bit before i'm going to be talking about stress a whole lot over the rest of the show.
00:15:50.520 --> 00:16:03.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: kind of what's going on with stress, these days, how we're all affected by it and what can we do to be more mindful of the stress and to.
00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:13.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: alleviate some of that stress in our lives so everybody, please stay tuned you're listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity.
00:16:14.040 --> 00:16:26.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I do this every live every Thursday 12 noon to 1pm Eastern right here on talk radio dot nyc and all over Facebook, through my Facebook live video, and we will be right back after these messages.
00:18:42.510 --> 00:18:59.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, so this week, I want to talk about sort of the underlying stress of life today, and this is something i've been coming more keenly aware of recently.
00:19:00.510 --> 00:19:12.990 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: is something that I think a lot of people don't are quite aware of, I mean some of us are some of us, I mean we're feeling it, but we don't we're not necessarily so, conscious to it.
00:19:14.610 --> 00:19:28.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so let's just first talk about why, why are we feeling kind of stress today, I mean you would think I don't have to rush to work i'm working from home or i'm maybe i'm not working at all that could cause its own stress.
00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:39.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But why is there this constant and this is something that's pervasive it's in the background it's not always right there in our face.
00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:41.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And and it's something that.
00:19:43.050 --> 00:19:51.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Is is present, and everyone, everyone is feeling, and I mean i'm talking to people all over the world, and everyone is feeling.
00:19:53.340 --> 00:19:56.640 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and obviously this is because of the pandemic.
00:19:58.380 --> 00:19:59.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and
00:20:01.500 --> 00:20:03.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: pretty much I mean there might be a couple.
00:20:05.070 --> 00:20:14.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: hundred plus year old people around, but this is pretty much the first worldwide pandemic that anybody alive today has lived through.
00:20:16.710 --> 00:20:27.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And because the world is so interconnected because we're so used to traveling around the globe, I mean my God, if you think about it.
00:20:28.830 --> 00:20:35.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I mean myself personally i've I have family in Israel i've been to Israel, many, many, many times.
00:20:35.520 --> 00:20:43.170 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: My wife comes from China i've been to China several times i've been to South America, several times i've been to Europe i've been.
00:20:43.770 --> 00:20:55.260 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: haven't been to India, yet I have been to Australia That was my last big trip before the pandemic um you know i've had the opportunity to you know go many, many places around the world.
00:20:56.370 --> 00:21:00.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And i'm not a wealthy guy i'm not I mean i'm Okay, but i'm not super wealthy.
00:21:01.980 --> 00:21:03.450 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: 100 years ago.
00:21:04.500 --> 00:21:12.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Maybe 150 200 years ago, being able to travel like that was unheard of unheard of.
00:21:13.320 --> 00:21:29.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know the so much in life today that we take for granted that not all that long ago, these things were only available to the top 1% of the population or the point 5% whatever.
00:21:32.460 --> 00:21:45.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so we're much more aware of the world in general, then we were not all that long ago, I would say even more aware of it than when I was a kid.
00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:50.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, with this worldwide pandemic.
00:21:52.680 --> 00:22:08.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: This the situation that we don't even fully understand, I mean every day new information is coming out new things variance and and what should we do what shouldn't we doing it's really confusing.
00:22:10.470 --> 00:22:17.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We were making the best educated guesses we can about what is the best course of action.
00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:24.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But even that there's not agreement on and there's all different kinds of opinions and ideas and.
00:22:25.950 --> 00:22:31.170 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: There is this underlying stress of not feeling safe.
00:22:32.940 --> 00:22:42.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And personally I don't think we have had this kind of unconscious underlying day to day stress.
00:22:44.520 --> 00:22:56.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But that is a i'm going to call it a life threatening stress, because so many people, and I personally have known people who've gotten the virus and have passed.
00:23:00.180 --> 00:23:02.640 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I don't think we've had something that.
00:23:04.890 --> 00:23:12.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: there's been this sort of collective unconscious fear that's a life or death fear.
00:23:13.830 --> 00:23:22.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now what am I saying, not everyone who got it I know many people who've gotten it and recovered and who are fine, I know, some people have gotten in and along haulers.
00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:29.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know i've known some people who've gotten in, and you know they didn't even have symptoms there's a whole variety of things.
00:23:33.390 --> 00:23:41.790 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And yet, at the same time on an unconscious level, this is a threat to our existence, this is something that.
00:23:42.960 --> 00:24:01.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: is a threat to us individually and collectively, this is why it's a pandemic and not an epidemic, it is not localized it is all over the globe it's traveled and there's new delta variant it's more virulent and then pastor.
00:24:02.340 --> 00:24:05.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: variant it spreads more easily.
00:24:07.800 --> 00:24:13.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So we have not faced sort of this global kind of.
00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:24.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: threat to our existence, I mean maybe during the Cold War, this idea of nuclear war wiping us all out like there was that underlying stress there.
00:24:25.710 --> 00:24:29.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But probably not since the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.
00:24:30.540 --> 00:24:36.900 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that and just context, like that killed 50 million people over the course of two years.
00:24:38.040 --> 00:24:44.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So these these pandemics these epidemics, they are virulent they can kill a lot of people.
00:24:46.380 --> 00:24:52.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and especially with this new strains and variance they're so challenging.
00:24:53.490 --> 00:24:56.640 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They can spread they could kill people.
00:24:57.750 --> 00:25:04.290 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I don't care what your belief is I don't care if you think it's a hoax I don't care on an unconscious level.
00:25:05.850 --> 00:25:10.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: There is an unconscious fear around this and we all feel it.
00:25:12.330 --> 00:25:14.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that unconscious here.
00:25:16.350 --> 00:25:17.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: gives us this.
00:25:19.410 --> 00:25:31.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Even even regardless of what we're doing even if we're social distancing even if we've gotten vaccinated even if we're following the things they say we should do there was still this underlying fear of oh my God, what happens if I get sick.
00:25:33.390 --> 00:25:43.380 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know I know I have that fear to you know I don't want to get sick i'm not going to let it stop me from living my life but but I don't want to feel that way.
00:25:46.470 --> 00:25:53.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so what happens as a result of the so there's this underlying unconscious fear that affects all of us.
00:25:55.320 --> 00:26:09.630 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And how does it come out well case you haven't noticed sometimes people are a little more irritated than usual they're a little more tired a little more burnt out a little more on edge.
00:26:11.430 --> 00:26:22.380 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: People are a little bit quicker to get into a fight or yell at somebody i've seen it over the last year and a half, sometimes when i've been walking around the city.
00:26:23.250 --> 00:26:35.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: like somebody does something, and the other person is like hey if you and Oh, and they start yelling at each other and practically getting in a fight, I mean of course that what's always been around that always happened.
00:26:38.670 --> 00:26:53.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it and it's not that necessarily i'm seeing it with with more frequency, but what i'm feeling when I see it, is there's a harder edge there's a more.
00:26:55.560 --> 00:26:59.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How would I describe it there's a more sharp energy to it.
00:27:00.390 --> 00:27:04.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, it feels more like an explosion waiting to happen.
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:17.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So that's one way that the stress is coming out but another way, which I think a lot of people are not that conscious of is.
00:27:18.390 --> 00:27:34.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: we're a little more tired than we were before we're a little more worn out things that used to just you know we could do and wasn't a problem suddenly it's a little bit more effort, a little bit more of a task, a little bit more.
00:27:35.550 --> 00:27:38.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We don't have quite as much stamina as we used to.
00:27:39.420 --> 00:27:51.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that's one of the things that this underlying stress does is it depletes us of our energy it depletes us of our stamina so we not.
00:27:51.960 --> 00:28:02.580 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, able to show up, as well as we used to be we're not able to be as present with people as we used to be, and there are other reasons for this as well.
00:28:03.510 --> 00:28:12.510 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: There are also other challenges around it, you know malware that we're so much more virtual and we're doing everything on the computer you know I mean I.
00:28:12.930 --> 00:28:22.770 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Like my job has been working on computers, a lot um but I was used to having a lot of meetings in person or over the phone and now almost everything is a zoom meeting.
00:28:24.810 --> 00:28:28.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, when we're concentrating on the small little screen all the time.
00:28:29.850 --> 00:28:33.030 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: actually takes a lot more energy a lot more effort.
00:28:34.650 --> 00:28:37.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so where's this down just a little bit more.
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So this underlying stress it's there.
00:28:44.820 --> 00:28:47.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: A lot of people have it and.
00:28:48.960 --> 00:29:01.560 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: When we come back from this break, I want to talk about sort of how it shows up a little bit more, you know what kind of also brought it to the forefront of my consciousness, that I felt it was worth talking about this.
00:29:02.340 --> 00:29:18.420 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And again i'm talking about what's been going on for for the first part of the show Now I want to talk about sort of how it a little bit more just sort of how it shows up and then, what can we do about it, and why it's important to kind of keep this.
00:29:19.770 --> 00:29:27.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: In our in our consciousness, so that we can still show up better and we can still take care of ourselves better okay.
00:29:28.110 --> 00:29:36.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And yes, it no guest today, so it is just me and you so like mandy you made the comment in the Facebook live please feel free go to.
00:29:37.650 --> 00:29:52.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Facebook COM slash inspired thoughts with Sam or or or facebook.com slash talk radio nyc put your questions, your comments your stories into the Facebook live, and I will read them answer them and get back to them okay.
00:29:53.250 --> 00:29:59.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So you're listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity and we will be right back after these messages.
00:32:38.550 --> 00:32:48.450 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity today no guests just me and you so feel free to put your comments in the Facebook live video.
00:32:48.840 --> 00:32:59.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i'm talking about the underlying stress that we feel in life today, that was not necessarily there two years ago and then this is the stress of the pandemic.
00:33:00.210 --> 00:33:08.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And i've been talking about sort of why it's there, why we feel it and and sort of the let's talk a little bit more about the symptoms.
00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:13.560 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And sort of how it showed up and why I got to my consciousness, so much so.
00:33:15.810 --> 00:33:21.090 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I was very fortunate both my wife and I, my wife who's a therapist have mentioned her before in the show.
00:33:21.930 --> 00:33:38.760 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We both took our businesses and we were able to go virtual relatively easily and I had to figure out some technical stuff with the radio station and kind of get it online working Okay, but you know worked out and my wife is a therapist and she started doing tell a therapy sessions.
00:33:39.840 --> 00:33:56.760 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And my wife, she works really hard she sees a lot of clients every day and it's never been a challenge for her in the past, it would she was never it never wore her out and never stressed her out, and you know, sometimes like anyone else you work a lot.
00:33:58.080 --> 00:34:05.280 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You feel a little stress, but, but not to the level of like you know she'd like couldn't take it anymore.
00:34:07.230 --> 00:34:07.980 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and
00:34:09.180 --> 00:34:16.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then um you know we've been working straight through you know we really didn't take much of a break took a couple of weeks off the end of last year.
00:34:16.860 --> 00:34:32.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We haven't gone anywhere, we haven't really traveled too much and came around May of this year, she really started to get very stressed out about seeing clients and she loved seeing clients you get so much out of the sessions yourself.
00:34:34.410 --> 00:34:39.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And we were talking about it and I talked to her about you know, will you know, sometimes when i'm.
00:34:40.110 --> 00:34:56.370 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Working on the computer and i'm in a lot of zoom meetings and all day long that I get really tired, by the end of the day, because focusing on this little screen right here um instead of seeing someone in person, it takes a lot more concentration, a lot more presence.
00:34:58.260 --> 00:35:08.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I takes more energy more effort and then she realized that, like the same thing was happening with her with her clients which to the white get it that.
00:35:09.150 --> 00:35:14.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, without being able to see the full person and to see their body language and to be in in.
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:21.690 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know her office with them and be able to like you know glance out the window and look at other things in the room.
00:35:22.350 --> 00:35:35.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That it actually takes a lot more energy so anybody out there, whose job is gone virtual or is working much more on zoom and on computer screens and doing stuff that.
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:45.690 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's much more challenging than doing stuff in person than what we were used to in the past, so tasks that we were used to doing.
00:35:46.470 --> 00:35:51.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: When we were in an office when we were in an in person environment.
00:35:51.900 --> 00:36:00.510 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now we were really focusing concentrating much more it really does take a lot more out of it, both me and my wife, I had this experience with she like.
00:36:00.810 --> 00:36:14.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That so burnt out because she didn't really manage your energy well and she like took the summer off she's never taken that much time off the most she's ever taken off from a private practices like two weeks or two and a half weeks when we've gone on vacation and that's it.
00:36:15.870 --> 00:36:25.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so to me the fact that she needed to take off that much time it really like brought this to the forefront of my awareness.
00:36:26.070 --> 00:36:28.050 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That how many other people.
00:36:29.070 --> 00:36:34.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: are more stressed or don't have the stamina don't feel as well.
00:36:35.730 --> 00:36:44.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because of this environment that we're in because of this this collective unconscious fear that we're all living in.
00:36:47.790 --> 00:36:53.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and you can help it the news is all around us and look I don't care whether you believe in it, or don't believe in it.
00:36:54.060 --> 00:37:02.760 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Even if you don't believe in it, then you're living in the fear of this conspiracy theory and then all this negative evil stuff going on, so you're going to be even more stress.
00:37:03.750 --> 00:37:20.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So it really doesn't matter just this environment, the way it is today it's just it's a heightened more charged environment and just look at what's happened over the last year and a half, how could it not be.
00:37:23.370 --> 00:37:34.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So what can we do about it all right i've been talking a lot about why it is, why do we feel this way how it shows up what can we do about it.
00:37:36.180 --> 00:37:41.190 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So for myself personally and and also let me, let me let you know, like.
00:37:41.640 --> 00:37:50.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: This summer I had to do a lot of stuff I had to drive up to Massachusetts and back i'm not I don't drive on a regular basis, I know I talked about driving a lot it's just I learned a lot one driving.
00:37:50.790 --> 00:38:04.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But I don't drive on a regular basis, it was like you know four and a half hours one way five and a half hours coming back nine came back in the next morning get up early to go on a plane down to asheville North Carolina for a cousin's wedding came back, I was so exhausted.
00:38:05.610 --> 00:38:12.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, after the couple of weeks i've been doing so much, I was I had never felt so tired in my life.
00:38:14.010 --> 00:38:24.030 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it took me a good two weeks of just really taking it easy doing the minimal practicing self care for me to come back and to feel like myself again.
00:38:27.090 --> 00:38:36.180 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and I was aware of what I was doing I knew what was happening, but it was just certain commitments, it was important for me to live up to him.
00:38:37.590 --> 00:38:49.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So what can we do about it, so the first thing is to just recognize the fact that certain things are going to drain our energy more than they used to.
00:38:52.590 --> 00:38:53.310 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so.
00:38:55.590 --> 00:39:06.600 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: By having that awareness by keeping that in our consciousness, then we focus on learning to manage our energy more.
00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:16.260 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: One of my mentor he says, you know that I study this romantic work where he says, all the time it's all about energy management and he's so right.
00:39:18.870 --> 00:39:24.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: energy management phone now it's like an essential part of our life.
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:26.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:33.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To think about like how are we managing our energy So what do we need to do to help manage our energy So the first thing is.
00:39:33.720 --> 00:39:43.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: kind of what I talked about at the very beginning, the section from the book about slowing down slowing down now is like so much more important than it's ever been before.
00:39:46.320 --> 00:40:01.260 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And and slowing down to take the time to feel like what's going on inside of us how are we showing up, are we really being present with the other person it's so important these days.
00:40:02.520 --> 00:40:04.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So number one slow down.
00:40:05.520 --> 00:40:12.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That hectic you know push push push pace that we all were so used to before.
00:40:13.980 --> 00:40:25.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: If we keep it up we're going to burn out so much quicker we're going to collapse from exhaustion it is, it is not serving us at all slow down.
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:32.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So how do we slow down like, how do we be more mindful to slow down.
00:40:34.050 --> 00:40:44.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I like to focus on how am I entering into situations how am I entering into a meeting a phone call doing this show.
00:40:47.460 --> 00:40:50.580 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so just taking a breath.
00:40:51.900 --> 00:41:09.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Just taking a moment before you start anything cooking a meal going out to the store having a conversation with a friend talking to a prospect or a client engaging in something for work, take a breath.
00:41:11.820 --> 00:41:15.210 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Just take a moment close your eyes, if you can.
00:41:16.410 --> 00:41:19.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: take a deep breath in and breathe out.
00:41:21.810 --> 00:41:36.690 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And just being a little more mindful of our breath helps to bring us back into presence, I talked about this a lot because it's so important and it's so basic and so simple.
00:41:37.260 --> 00:41:49.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That we forget about it, we know it, but we forget to practice it and again i'm talking about myself I forget to practice I talked about this, all the time, because I want to remember to do this.
00:41:50.970 --> 00:41:52.050 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So we take a breath.
00:41:53.550 --> 00:41:55.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then we take a breath.
00:41:57.720 --> 00:42:02.880 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then give some space and some awareness to oh i'm about to do something.
00:42:05.430 --> 00:42:12.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: what's my intention, where do I want to feel, what do I want to achieve what do I want to see happen.
00:42:14.130 --> 00:42:20.880 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and taking that moment to just put some intention into the space around you.
00:42:22.710 --> 00:42:33.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I don't know if you can feel it, but just try it right now you're you're either listening live or listening to the recording take a moment to just take a breath.
00:42:35.640 --> 00:42:41.670 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and ask yourself what do you want to receive from this and see how that feels.
00:42:45.510 --> 00:43:02.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So taking a breath putting some intention setting some envisioning like what it is you want to feel see happen so that makes it entering into it very good very supportive very helpful men.
00:43:03.240 --> 00:43:15.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Finish guess what do the same thing, take a breath okay I just finished doing my show I just came home from doing something take a moment.
00:43:17.100 --> 00:43:19.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Just take a minute.
00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:32.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And just feel what it feels like to be where you are in this moment it's kind of like taking these little bookends creating these little energetic bookends to anything.
00:43:33.570 --> 00:43:47.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Like I said it can be having dinner, it can be going to the gym or going out jogging or taking a walk or even engaging in something fun that you enjoy.
00:43:48.870 --> 00:43:51.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Just taking a moment.
00:43:52.290 --> 00:43:53.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's so important.
00:43:54.750 --> 00:44:07.980 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Okay Oh, I see another new loyal listeners Susan checking in and patty oh she's in portland Oregon today patty you're always all over the place, I never know where you are so thank you mandy patty Susan for chiming in on the Facebook live.
00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:15.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Let me know stories, you have about stress what do you want to know about how to handle stress So when I come back.
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:24.000 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Already up to our last section of the show i'm going to be talking about some more ways some more things to help us to de stress.
00:44:24.900 --> 00:44:39.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And to de stress, not just in the moment but on a daily weekly and monthly basis, what can we do to to de stress a little bit and to again keep this awareness of like oh.
00:44:39.720 --> 00:44:47.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: we're in a small stressful environment, so let me pay attention and practice, the self care, even more so.
00:44:48.030 --> 00:45:02.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: you're listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, we do this every Thursday 12 noon to 1pm Eastern time right here on talk radio dot nyc and all over Facebook, through our Facebook live, and we will be right back after these messages.
00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:14.310 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity so we've been talking about.
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:29.310 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The underlying stress of life today what it is like now, today in this environment and i've been talking about you know now some things, how to deal with the stress i'm just talking about taking time slowing down so important, so.
00:47:30.780 --> 00:47:35.460 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How are we entering into something how we exiting something.
00:47:36.660 --> 00:47:40.560 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: um and that's just on an individual like moment to moment.
00:47:41.700 --> 00:47:47.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Individual sort of the basis of things that we do multiple times throughout the day.
00:47:49.980 --> 00:47:51.210 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then another way.
00:47:52.260 --> 00:47:53.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: is to.
00:47:54.900 --> 00:48:02.190 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Think about it sort of on a moment to moment basis on a daily basis, what are you doing on a daily basis to de stress a little bit.
00:48:03.240 --> 00:48:10.260 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: For myself, and I don't do this every day, but I try and do it, you know at least a couple of times a week is going for a walk in the park.
00:48:10.890 --> 00:48:15.690 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, getting out of your environment if you, especially if you're working from home and you're usually home a lot.
00:48:16.410 --> 00:48:25.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Get out walk around take a walk around the block walk down the street, maybe walk down some different streets in your neighborhood.
00:48:25.980 --> 00:48:32.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it doesn't matter whether you live in the city or you live out in the country or in the suburbs, take a walk.
00:48:32.640 --> 00:48:46.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Go to a park walk move your body, and the reason why I say walk walking is so important because it stimulates the right and left side of your body by walking and they find in.
00:48:49.170 --> 00:48:56.820 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That by stimulating the right and left sides your body, it actually helps the brain to process emotions and energy from the day.
00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:02.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To go out and take a walk if you're a runner go run that's beautiful.
00:49:03.210 --> 00:49:15.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Exercise absolutely moving the body exercise in the body so important, this is something I definitely need to work more on, and I will be endeavoring to do so by the end of this year.
00:49:16.020 --> 00:49:22.710 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But come up with some exercise it doesn't have to be complicated it doesn't have to be big you don't be working out an hour every day.
00:49:23.070 --> 00:49:40.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Even if you can just start with 510 minutes a day just a little bit of something a great way to start because our body our nervous system, holds the stress in the cells and the parts of our body, so the being were of more of the body.
00:49:41.910 --> 00:49:44.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I talked about like taking a walk in nature.
00:49:45.570 --> 00:50:00.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Being in nature is so so important now look I live in Manhattan I live in the middle of one of the most dense cities in the world, thankfully i'm so grateful so thankful that i'm close to central park and I could go into Central park very easily.
00:50:00.930 --> 00:50:11.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Going into nature, whatever kind of nature is close to you is so important, they found that it, you know they do this this thing called forest bathing.
00:50:11.520 --> 00:50:24.450 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Going into nature helps your body to heal helps to release toxins and helps so many different ways, it helps us to de stress so going into nature now.
00:50:26.070 --> 00:50:37.320 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: If you live in a warm climate or if you really want to be like an overachiever when it comes to this there is this practice called earthing.
00:50:38.250 --> 00:50:53.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Where you take off your socks and shoes and you walk on the ground barefoot not on concrete and asphalt, but on dirt on sand on rocks walking barefoot on nature really helps.
00:50:54.570 --> 00:51:08.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And if you know you have a backyard and you have a nice manicured lawn or something to actually sit and lie down in the crash and feel the ground underneath you.
00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:16.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That helps so so much, I mean I remember when I was a kid I used to go play frisbee in the park and then.
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:27.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know when it stopped playing, and I was tired and sit down on the grass, not on a blanket or anything but just on the grass and i'd lie down the back of my head on the grass and my hands and my arms and my legs.
00:51:28.110 --> 00:51:43.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: felt so good, it was such a warm feeling but yeah it is so important, on to really be in contact with natural stuff you know, look at your House around you.
00:51:44.070 --> 00:51:55.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How much do you have natural wood floors do the natural materials, or is there a lot of metal and glass around you or fiberglass or natural materials being in.
00:51:55.620 --> 00:52:09.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Touching natural materials is so healthy for the body so lying down on the ground now again, you know if you live in the north, in the snow outside I know it can be challenging.
00:52:10.380 --> 00:52:25.290 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But find a way just find a way that works for you, where you are now if you live in a warm climate or you live near the beach a wonderful Okay, I know you get sand all over you but you know you can wash off the same.
00:52:26.370 --> 00:52:35.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Speaking of washing off the same nother wonderful way to de stress is taking a nice long hot shower or bath.
00:52:36.870 --> 00:52:40.680 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know if you can, if you can you know put a little bubble bath and.
00:52:42.540 --> 00:52:53.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Put a little of sense I mean if your man, I know it's like not such a big thing, but if you're a man that really, really hot shower you know, make it like almost like a sauna.
00:52:54.210 --> 00:53:04.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And when you come out feel so good so doing these things getting body work done, because the stress now again, this is not something I do every day, not even every week, but maybe.
00:53:05.070 --> 00:53:12.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They can once a month once every other month sometimes a little longer, but at least you know I tried to at least once a month once every other month.
00:53:12.810 --> 00:53:24.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Getting body work done to help your muscles to release the tension and release the stress that your body is holding on to and It never ceases to amaze me.
00:53:25.350 --> 00:53:29.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How tight my body is whenever I go to get body work time.
00:53:31.590 --> 00:53:39.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I see Susan on the Facebook live says yes grounding big into it patty says Oh, the freedom of riding my bike yeah if you if you ride bikes.
00:53:41.130 --> 00:53:44.640 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Maybe it's a bicycle maybe it's a motorcycle or maybe have a.
00:53:45.120 --> 00:54:01.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: A convertible car I heard a conversation, not that long ago but someone who has a convertible car and they just love the wind and they would write it even in the wintertime and you know where a heavy coat whatever it is for you find that thing that helps you to relax.
00:54:03.180 --> 00:54:10.380 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then, finally, one of the most important things, especially today because we're using our minds so much.
00:54:11.010 --> 00:54:24.900 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: is how do you relax the mind you give it some space sit down and just don't do anything just sit maybe count your breaths if you want to call it meditation call it meditation I don't care.
00:54:25.770 --> 00:54:36.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: just sit and be with yourself sit and give your mind some space now look if there are all kinds of racing thoughts and all kinds of things it's okay.
00:54:37.980 --> 00:54:46.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know if you have a hard time sitting still then walk around the room walk around the block to sit and be with yourself.
00:54:48.810 --> 00:54:56.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Being with ourself is one of the most important skills that we can develop a good good friend of mine at the beginning of the pandemic.
00:54:57.240 --> 00:55:00.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: she's a meditator she does transcendental meditation tm.
00:55:02.640 --> 00:55:12.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And she said to me, you know, Sam when people like you and me when we can't go outside we go inside we go internal a lot of people don't have that skill.
00:55:14.100 --> 00:55:25.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I just asked you do, you have that skill how comfortable, are you just being with yourself with no distractions not watching TV not talking to anyone not doing anything just sit and being with yourself.
00:55:27.990 --> 00:55:38.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's a very, very valuable skill really helps with presence practice it and if uncomfortable feelings come up great because you know what.
00:55:38.460 --> 00:55:42.630 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Whether you're giving space to those uncomfortable feelings or not they're still there.
00:55:43.200 --> 00:55:54.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And not paying attention them not giving them some space, allowing you to release them if you're not doing that you're holding on to it you're just building up the stress it's making it that much more.
00:55:56.100 --> 00:56:08.760 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now look here, these are just some simple very general things i'm giving you to help you de stress if people want more specific things like maybe in your life, you have more challenges more things.
00:56:09.870 --> 00:56:19.860 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That you want help on you know I do work with clients, I do coach people all the time, I do work with people on various different ways to support them through it.
00:56:20.220 --> 00:56:28.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: get a coach if it's not me get somebody else it doesn't matter if you want to work with me great I would love to hear from you just email me at Sam at.
00:56:29.220 --> 00:56:39.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The conscious consultant calm, or if that's too long for you or you misspell it or Sam at talk radio dot nyc that's really short and sweet.
00:56:40.860 --> 00:56:47.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Work with a coach sometimes just having that outside perspective helps us in all different areas of life.
00:56:48.030 --> 00:56:59.430 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Look, unfortunately i'm out of time it's so great, I see patty you and your husband get pedicures together that must be nice i've never gotten a pedicure manicure once never got a pedicure.
00:57:00.120 --> 00:57:07.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: um but find the ways that work for you there's no one size fits all i'm giving you some very general advice of how to de stress.
00:57:08.520 --> 00:57:18.210 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But find what works, for you know, two people are alike, no two situations are ever alike, if you can find what works for you use it.
00:57:18.660 --> 00:57:30.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: use it over and over again, and when it doesn't work anymore find something else, maybe it's about taking up a new hobby that you enjoy painting drawing I learning a new language cooking whatever it is.
00:57:32.040 --> 00:57:42.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: find what works for you and be just a little bit more mindful of the fact that we are experiencing more stress than we've ever had before.
00:57:43.650 --> 00:57:47.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and keep that in mind, so that it reminds us to.
00:57:48.150 --> 00:57:55.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Take a little more self care take better care of ourselves, we need to take better care of ourselves, more than ever before.
00:57:56.820 --> 00:58:05.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And just be present to what's there and what's going on, so thank you all for staying with me during this one hour show, I know, sometimes a little tough when it's.
00:58:07.710 --> 00:58:13.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Just me and our guests, but i've been told, in the past, people really like it, so, if you like, these kinds of shows, let me know.
00:58:14.070 --> 00:58:22.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: If there's a topic you'd like me explore in the future, let me know email me tell me about it, you know messaged me on Facebook and say hey Sam i'd love to.
00:58:22.740 --> 00:58:31.200 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: hear you talk about this or that and Okay, so thank you for tuning in stay tuned later today we have a five o'clock frank about health.
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00:58:52.950 --> 00:59:06.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Thank you all for tuning in I love you I appreciate you I so love it if you missed any part of today's show catch us on any of the podcasting platforms by guests are usually up by the next day take care now and we will talk.
00:59:08.040 --> 00:59:08.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Next week.
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