[NEW EPISODE] Learning How To Show Up For Ourselves

WHAT WILL THE AUDIENCE LEARN?

Tune in and share your own conceptions about Self Care. What do you do and how does that differ from what others do to practice Self Care? 

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EPISODE SUMMARY:

This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, it’s just you and Sam as he explores the topic of Self Care! 

There has been a lot of talk lately about Self Care. Everyone has an opinion on it. About what it is, and what it isn’t. Some people are very absolute in their perspective on it. While others are still learning what it even means.

This week, Sam will explore with all of you, what he has found to be true Self Care, how to approach it, and what it means for us in our lives. Is it about indulging ourselves and binge watching our favorite TV show? Is it about getting a massage once a week or quitting our job?

Find out when you join Sam this week for an informative and enlightening show.

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Tune in for this enlightening conversation at TalkRadio.nyc

Show Notes

Segment  1

Sam reads a section from his book Everyday Awakening entitled The Quality Of Our Lives Is Determined By The Quality Of The Questions We Ask. Sam shares what inspired him to write this chapter. He explains why we should pay more attention to how we talk to ourselves in our minds. He goes on to talk about our relationship with our unconscious mind and how we can make it healthier. Sam says we can see more beneficial results only if we work at it and practice. One method can be pulling the questions toward the solution rather than the problem. Sam welcomes his special guest Teresa de Grosbois who is the founder and chair of the evolutionary Business Council.

Segment 2

Today’s episode focuses on self-care. Self-care can be defined as taking care of yourself from a broader perspective. Sam says self-care can come in many forms. Teresa agrees and says gardening is her self-care method. Sam and Teresa explore different ways we can practice self-care. Self-care is not always pleasurable; sometimes, it can be uncomfortable, but overall good for your body. Sam and Teresa discuss their self-care methods and ask what are some of your practices.

Segment 3

Sam and Teresa continue to discuss their self-care practices. Teresa has taken up studying orchids and attaching some to driftwood. These practices can be small acts but can make such a difference to our bodies. Sam has found an appreciation for physical books and podcasts. When we practice self-care we can really start to appreciate the small things around us. Teresa shares her experience living in Costa Rica and how she was able to appreciate the pests and essential workers on a different level. Sam and Teresa discuss how essential workers play a huge role in our self-care. For example, if you take yourself out to eat a nice meal, the workers at the restaurant play an essential role in making your experience worth wild.

Segment 4

Sam and Teresa continue to discuss the ways in which we can become jaded when we fail to stop and appreciate the small things. Teresa explains how our negative habits can have a huge impact on our bodies. It is healthy to shift your vibrations to gratitude so you can appreciate the things around you. Sam shares why he chose to talk about self-care for this episode. Teresa is holding an annual retreat, here is the link to the scholarship. https://ebcouncil.com/scholarship

Transcript

00:00:35.580 --> 00:00:49.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon. Good morning! Good evening. Wherever you are tuning in from around the globe. Welcome to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. We do this show every

00:00:49.420 --> 00:01:18.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Thursday. Live twelve noon to one Pm. Eastern time here on talk radio, dot Nyc. And now, of course, you can hear us Wednesdays at ten Am. Pacific time on Km. Et we're so happy to be a part of their family now. Um! So today, uh have a a special show in store for you, a little surprise which we'll get to in a moment. But first, of course, we have a little section of from our book,

00:01:18.610 --> 00:01:34.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Everyday Awakening, which you can find at Everyday Awakening book, Dot Com. And today's section is entitled: The Quality of our Lives is determined by the quality of the questions we ask,

00:01:35.430 --> 00:01:40.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How often do we listen to the questions we ask ourselves in our heads?

00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:44.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How often are these questions that cannot?

00:01:44.460 --> 00:01:47.819 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Are these questions that cannot be answered.

00:01:47.900 --> 00:02:02.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How does it affect how we feel about ourselves when we start to become more conscious and mindful? We start to observe ourselves more. We notice little things such as how we may ask questions like,

00:02:03.210 --> 00:02:06.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: does this? Oh, why, why does this always happen to me?

00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:16.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This is not a particularly helpful question to ask, for it feeds the unconscious mind, which then goes to work trying to find an answer.

00:02:16.260 --> 00:02:27.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This is a very powerful form of negative programming, because when we ask questions that will inevitably lead to negative answers, it disempowers us.

00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:35.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The solution is to ask more empowering questions. Ones that actually serve us like,

00:02:35.980 --> 00:02:40.809 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How can they serve me, or how can I have fun with this?

00:02:40.940 --> 00:02:47.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Such questions point our minds in a direction that creates a better life for ourselves

00:02:47.450 --> 00:02:51.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in general, why questions do not service,

00:02:51.790 --> 00:03:06.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how and what questions are much more constructive. So, as we notice ourselves asking questions that do not service. We can learn to reframe them into questions that move us forward.

00:03:07.230 --> 00:03:09.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How does this help me?

00:03:09.510 --> 00:03:12.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What can I do to improve the situation?

00:03:13.030 --> 00:03:17.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Where can I find more resources to help me with this challenge?

00:03:18.550 --> 00:03:29.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: These three good questions can move us closer to an answer that will actually help us to find real solutions to the things we face in life

00:03:29.650 --> 00:03:37.839 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: as we become more adept at asking high quality questions. The quality of our life improves.

00:03:38.290 --> 00:03:43.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What high quality questions. Can you start asking yourself today?

00:03:44.790 --> 00:03:51.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So this section of of my book I wrote a little while ago. Um,

00:03:52.030 --> 00:04:00.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it's really something that I had been brought to my attention a while ago, and this idea that

00:04:01.510 --> 00:04:11.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we often don't pay attention to how we talk to ourselves inside our minds. We we we say things to ourselves, and we

00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:24.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we, we say things, we ask questions, and we make inquiries of ourselves that really don't serve us, but we're not often we're It's so unconscious. We're not even aware of it.

00:04:26.110 --> 00:04:29.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it comes from just this this

00:04:29.610 --> 00:04:36.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sort of negative programming. It comes from the amygdala part of our brain, always looking to protect us and keep us safe.

00:04:37.470 --> 00:04:54.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So when something happens it's like, Oh, I got to protect myself. Oh, why did this happen, because, of course, we we need to know why, so that we we don't make this do the same thing again to get in this either painful or or stressful or or anxiety written state.

00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, that's exactly

00:04:59.710 --> 00:05:10.859 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the worst thing we can do, because it only reinforces where we are. It only reinforces the anxiety. It only reinforces the pain.

00:05:12.860 --> 00:05:24.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if we ask a question where we're in the middle of something that's God, awful, painful, challenging, that that that makes us a little weak in the knees.

00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:30.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That is really the time to ask a question

00:05:30.820 --> 00:05:39.759 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that really empowers us and serves us, and helps us to to approach this situation in a way that would

00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:58.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: really help us to deal with it in a better way. So, instead of saying, Why does this always happen to me, Why do I always do this? Those Why questions not really so good, You know, as someone once said to me a long time ago, your mind. Your unconscious mind is like the Google Search engine

00:05:58.440 --> 00:06:09.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: any kind of question you put in it. It's going to find an answer for. So you can put in something very enlightening like, How do How do we achieve world peace,

00:06:09.580 --> 00:06:14.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or we can put in something destructive like, How do I create a dirty bomb,

00:06:14.430 --> 00:06:22.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And no matter what question you put in there, Google is going to give you an answer to it because it it it doesn't

00:06:22.020 --> 00:06:46.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: judge it doesn't. Say, Oh, that's a bad question. No, it just gives you what you're asking for. Our unconscious mind is the exact same way. Anything we ask it. It's going to give us. So if we, if we ask our unconscious mind, why does this always happen to me? It's going to come up with all kinds of reasons why this always happens to us. Because you're stupid. You're fat. You're ugly because you're not love because of this, because of that.

00:06:47.810 --> 00:06:58.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So we don't really want to reinforce those negative kinds of things that disempower us and make it more difficult for us to deal with whatever we're dealing with.

00:06:59.330 --> 00:07:04.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if we flip it on its head if we flip the coin to the other side,

00:07:04.510 --> 00:07:09.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and instead of asking a why question, why is this happen to me?

00:07:10.020 --> 00:07:13.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We ask more question of Hmm.

00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What can I learn from this?

00:07:18.010 --> 00:07:21.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What can I do to get through this in a better way?

00:07:22.020 --> 00:07:38.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How does this really serve me. Hmm. Those kinds of questions now just shift our whole presence. It shifts our nervous system. Suddenly, from being very tight and constricted, we relax a little bit,

00:07:40.210 --> 00:07:47.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then, when it comes to trying to figure a solution out or solve a problem,

00:07:47.750 --> 00:07:52.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because we're not so constricted, we're able to think more creatively,

00:07:53.300 --> 00:08:04.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we just the way we approach. The whole situation shifts and changes, and really our our whole demeanor will shift around it.

00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:26.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now, look I i'm not saying like overnight. We're going to stop asking ourselves these kinds of questions. It's practice It's something that we work at over and over again. It's like going to the gym and building those muscles. We just notice it. Just notice what kinds of questions do we ask ourselves?

00:08:27.500 --> 00:08:33.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then it's like, decide. Is that really a good question to ask myself right now?

00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:46.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe not. Okay. Let me switch it around. And then slowly but surely, the more we become aware of it. The more we catch ourselves, and the more we change up the questions into ones that work for us.

00:08:46.640 --> 00:08:53.869 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And again, good question to ask, or how and what questions? Why, questions in general I would stick away from,

00:08:54.490 --> 00:09:01.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: unless they're like really empowering? Why questions like, Why am I so lucky that all this wonderful great stuff happens to me.

00:09:02.300 --> 00:09:06.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But in general, though those kind of how questions,

00:09:08.460 --> 00:09:11.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how can I be really creative in this moment?

00:09:12.420 --> 00:09:19.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What kinds of resources Do I need to really thrive in this situation,

00:09:21.070 --> 00:09:29.349 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: always pointing the questions towards the solution, not towards the problem, but towards the solution. It makes such a difference,

00:09:30.450 --> 00:09:36.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and over time the more we do it, the more we catch ourselves, the more we reframe it.

00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:47.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Soon it will start to become second nature, and and over a period of time, you know. They say it takes thirty days to form a new habit and ninety days to solidify it.

00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:54.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So not just for this next week. I'm going to give you homework for this next month.

00:09:54.930 --> 00:10:03.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Catch yourself. Notice what kinds of things do you say to yourself? What kinds of questions do you ask yourself?

00:10:04.860 --> 00:10:08.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And if they're not high quality questions,

00:10:08.680 --> 00:10:10.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: reframe the question.

00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:19.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Come up with a better, more empowering, more resourceful question to ask yourself.

00:10:21.850 --> 00:10:35.739 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So let me know how that goes, you know. Reach out to me. You can always find me at Sam at talk radio and Yc. Or Sam at the conscious consultant. Dot com, and let me know

00:10:36.510 --> 00:11:02.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what happened in your own life. What happens when you start asking yourself different questions? Do you notice things shift or change. I'd be very curious to hear from you. So that's the section from my book entitled The Quality of Our Lives is determined by the quality of the questions we ask. And it's true, not just of the questions we ask ourselves, but of the questions we ask other people as well.

00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:26.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so that's from my book. Everyday Awakening, uh which you can always get at Www. Everyday Awakening Bookcom. Um, And you know we're in major book distributors. So if you're like me, and you like to shop at the small independent bookstores, you can go in there if they don't have the book, you can always ask them to order it, and they can definitely get it.

00:11:27.940 --> 00:11:31.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So uh, now it It is my

00:11:32.250 --> 00:11:47.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: wonderful and dear pleasure to welcome to the show a surprise guest. Yes, if if you subscribe to our newsletter, I talk radio, Dot Nyc, and you noticed it said like, this is one of those me only shows well guess what.

00:11:47.960 --> 00:12:17.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Uh I actually have a surprise for you, my dear, dear friend, founder and and uh, chair of the evolutionary business Council Teresa Grabois has decided to join me for the show today. Welcome to the conscious consult now, or Teresa. It's great to be here, Sam. I always get so much out of listening to you. I'm like. Now I know why I'm. Who surprised Guys? I needed that little session that was so brilliant. Thank you. Uh, thank you so much, Teresa.

00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:47.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's such a pleasure, and you know I always appreciate the way you show up, because you're one of those people who is so supportive of those around you, and you are are such a thought leader in your own right. Yet you spend your life supporting other thought leaders, and that's what the evolutionary Business Council is all about, and and that's one of the things. Why, I consider you not just a dear friend,

00:12:47.370 --> 00:12:56.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but a Mentor as well, because you really model how to show up. And and I have to say, like one of the things I really love,

00:12:56.930 --> 00:13:23.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a especially in the way you run. The organization is like when there's a fa pop when when there's a mistake or an error, you own it, and you you you, you, you know. Do what you can to rectify it, and you don't shy away from it. You don't try and justify what happened. You just say, Look, we blew it. I'm sorry i'm we'll try to do it better. And and to me like that's a

00:13:23.900 --> 00:13:32.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a very good habit of very good muscle, like I was talking about before to build. So i'm curious like, Where did you develop that?

00:13:33.370 --> 00:13:45.459 Teresa de Grosbois: You know? That's a great question. I think that comes all the way back to childhood, you know, as the youngest of a really big Northern Canadian family. Um, if you didn't know your mistakes,

00:13:45.470 --> 00:13:59.589 Teresa de Grosbois: they quickly became your liabilities, you know, because when you live in an environment, you know, my family was very much. Have not? My father was a doctor, but our family was so big, and he he worked for the government some very small salary. And um,

00:13:59.750 --> 00:14:06.240 Teresa de Grosbois: you know, I think, in that environment where there's limited resources to go around and um,

00:14:06.250 --> 00:14:22.809 Teresa de Grosbois: you know limited opportunities. Um, if you try and hide what's wrong, or you try and hide the mistakes, it always comes out, you know, and it. It. It never goes well, so I I guess I learned that muscle very early on that. If you don't own,

00:14:22.820 --> 00:14:41.869 Teresa de Grosbois: you know, with the oops, let's do that better next time. Um! It actually quickly becomes your biggest liability that a mistake was made. And and I think that lesson that I learned as a child has carried me through business all the way through. I think it's why, you know, when I was first coming up in business before I own my own business

00:14:41.880 --> 00:14:55.279 Teresa de Grosbois: uh in big corporations. I would get rapidly promoted because I never tried to with my mistakes. I would just be like, Well, that didn't work. Better go ask for some help, you know, because the stress of finding your mistakes, I think, becomes one of the

00:14:55.480 --> 00:15:24.529 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah, Yeah, Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. Uh, we need to take a a quick break very quick, Break um! And when we come back I want to dive into our topic of the week, which is self care, and I think this is excellent, that you're here with me, because you also are very uh knowledgeable about this, and I want to also um talk about it in in a maybe slightly different aspect. And I think most people

00:15:24.540 --> 00:15:31.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: uh think of So which is why we're we're gonna do it? Something that came up recently for for myself. Uh, at

00:15:31.230 --> 00:15:49.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: which is why I so chose it for this week's topic. So everybody, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consult now, or awakening humanity. We do this every Thursday on talk radio and Nyc every Wednesday on Kmt. And we will be right back in just a moment.

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00:18:06.780 --> 00:18:24.799 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And welcome back to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. This week. We have a special surprise guest with us today. Teresa de Grobe, all the way from Costa Rica joining us is such a a nice surprise to have you on the show this week. Theresa, so

00:18:25.560 --> 00:18:39.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: want to talk about self care. And the reason why I want to talk about self care was because something came up recently that that I think highlighted something about self care that I think most people often don't

00:18:39.720 --> 00:19:07.089 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: think about. And it was my wife asked me a question, because a a good friend of her is invited her to come down to Atlanta to spend some time with them, and she decided to not go down right away, because she's, you know, like exploring some different things with her therapy practice, and we have some meeting set up, and so she wants to wait till after those meetings and not go down right away. So she pushed it off,

00:19:07.590 --> 00:19:13.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and she asked me. She said, You know, if this was you, would you have gone down?

00:19:14.670 --> 00:19:29.169 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and I said, Well, I probably would have, but because for me for you self-care was taking time to to to do what you need to do to be by yourself to to have that space.

00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:40.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But to me self-care would be spending time with friends, and it would fill me up and now, even though it would be last minute travel and a little bit of hassle going to the airport

00:19:40.470 --> 00:19:53.199 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: being with a close friend like I. I love that because my version of self care happens to be different than her version of self care. And so that really got me thinking because

00:19:53.270 --> 00:19:57.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: lots of times you hear people talk about self-care,

00:19:58.090 --> 00:20:00.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it almost sounds like

00:20:00.650 --> 00:20:16.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: one size fits all that that there's one way to practice self care and that's it. But actually there's not actually there is many different ways to practice self care as there are people right. Theresa,

00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:30.190 Teresa de Grosbois: what do you have a different view on this? No, I couldn't agree more. And I, you know, I think Um, you commented to me as a mentor earlier, because I've always considered you one of my mentors in this regard as a shaman and a plant medicine expert.

00:20:30.330 --> 00:20:38.259 Teresa de Grosbois: Um, you know. I I think whatever supports you, living in a holistic stress, free way,

00:20:38.270 --> 00:20:53.290 Teresa de Grosbois: you know for me a big part of that was moving Costa Rica and starting our community with our food, forest and everything. Because for me, gardening is one of the things that most alleviates my stress. If I can get up in the morning and do an hour gardening before I hit the day.

00:20:53.300 --> 00:21:09.780 Teresa de Grosbois: Um, it's just a massive stress relief, and of course, living in Canada with eight months of winter, no workability there. So you know a big part of me choosing where I want to live was actually a decision around Self-

00:21:09.790 --> 00:21:25.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you know, sometimes people tend to think like self care. It's just about well taking a day off or getting a massage it, but sometimes it can be the exact opposite. You know. To me self care is really about

00:21:27.390 --> 00:21:34.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: taking care of oneself, and in sort of a a broader perspective, so it could be

00:21:34.860 --> 00:22:04.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: going to your doctor for an annual checkup it could be, instead of getting a massage going to the gym to work out. I'm like so thrilled that my building finally reopened the gym. They closed it because of Covid, and then the city came out with these new um uh uh regulations around Gyms and the ventilation system. They had to get a find, a a contractor to put in a whole new ventilation system, and they just reopened it, and i'm i'm still sore from the from from going to the gym a couple of times

00:22:04.860 --> 00:22:17.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this week. Um, but sometimes go into the gym, because we want to take care of this physical vehicle that we're use to get through life

00:22:17.890 --> 00:22:35.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it's not necessarily always as pleasant like self-care doesn't always have to be pleasant. Self. Care sometimes can be something a little stressful because it's for overall good. Not necessarily what we feel like in the moment.

00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:53.839 Teresa de Grosbois: Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I I you know. I remember having friends who were like Oh, I hate yoga, you know, and i'm like well, why, and they're like Well, if you ever tried to do a downward dog, it's so uncomfortable to get into, and then the the Yoga instructors there, saying, Let's rest and downward dog, and i'm like in agony. And i'm like,

00:22:54.260 --> 00:23:14.079 Teresa de Grosbois: Okay, I get it. I get it because the first time I ever did it downward. Dog was kind of like it's discombobulating. And then, when you stick it through and realize how good your body feels after you commit to whatever it is that practice you has that gets your body working again that gets your physical flow.

00:23:14.090 --> 00:23:37.240 Teresa de Grosbois: Any kind of practice, whether it's weight lifting, whether it's key on whether it's Yoga. It is going to be uncomfortable at first. And yet, when you make the commitment and and get yourself into a routine to really honor what it is. Your body needs to live in perfect health, and I say perfect with quotes, because I don't, I don't believe there ever is a possibility attaining perfect,

00:23:37.250 --> 00:23:51.380 Teresa de Grosbois: but live in a way that really supports you both physically and mentally. Um, when you stick it through. You know how that practice makes you feel is so much more important than the individual steps within the practice.

00:23:51.390 --> 00:24:00.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right? Right? Exactly. Exactly. And it doesn't always have to be a big thing, does it sometimes. Little things,

00:24:00.210 --> 00:24:19.279 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: our our opportunities for practicing self care, like, you know, if you're sitting at your computer all day long, getting up and taking a break at least once an hour, or or just moving around or doing some chair, yog, or anything, it can be an opportunity for self care.

00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:33.530 Teresa de Grosbois: Yeah, very much. So you know, I'm: I'm blessed to have monkeys come visit outside my window Here i'm like, Okay, there's the universe reminding me it's time to take a break and go stand and watch the monkeys for a few minutes, you know.

00:24:33.540 --> 00:24:46.780 Teresa de Grosbois: But I think everyone has their version of that right something you can use as a reminder to walk away from the computer, walk away from the desk. Just go look at a tree for twenty minutes, but but something that gets you in a different mind space.

00:24:46.800 --> 00:24:53.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Exactly. Exactly. And it's just learning to be a little bit mindful. It's. It's

00:24:53.510 --> 00:25:00.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yes, it's good to focus on the task at hand. It's good to be very present to when we're working on something,

00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:10.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and at the same time, when we're too focused. When we we're too in in in wrapped in something,

00:25:10.110 --> 00:25:34.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we don't allow some space to breathe sort of in between. We can overly stress our nervous system, which in the long run doesn't really serve us In the short run we might get a lot of accomplished in a short period of time. But then the next day we can be exhausted. Right? How many people are experiencing Zoom: fatigue these days?

00:25:34.660 --> 00:25:43.449 Teresa de Grosbois: Yeah. Yeah. And you know, I I must confess I was dealing with a little bit of that earlier in the year. It's like, Okay, there's my body giving me a wake up. Call

00:25:43.500 --> 00:25:53.100 Teresa de Grosbois: um. You know where all of a sudden my vision is getting effect, and i'm like, Oh, I better start keeping track. How many hours a day am I spending at the computer and not even noticing it.

00:25:53.110 --> 00:26:09.429 Teresa de Grosbois: Um, because I work during the day, and then I go watch Netflix at night. But let me uh let me change some of those practices, you know. Let me add a little gardening. Let me add a few more breaks during the day. Let me not spend my evenings watching Netflix, but instead, paint a painting.

00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:28.969 Teresa de Grosbois: You know it's it doesn't take much to make the shifts that help you be more of a whole being that's functioning and thinking and feeling so much better.

00:26:28.980 --> 00:26:36.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Not every night, but most nights during the week after dinner we we go for a walk in Central Park,

00:26:36.450 --> 00:26:52.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you know most people are like. Oh, isn't it scary to go in Central Park at night, and it's like No, it's perfectly safe. There's tons of bikers and joggers. And actually, nowadays there's people writing all kinds of things, not just bike, but these one wheel things, these scooters, I mean. There's all kinds of stuff.

00:26:52.900 --> 00:27:22.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Um! But it was just to get out of the apartment, because at the time there was nowhere to go. And even now, even though things are opening up. And and and now that there's more stuff happening still, just to like, get out of the apartment and and and go to, you know a little bit of nature, you know, and just the Central Park is, has really saved us over the last couple of years, and one of the things that I spoke about in a previous episode of when it being on the west coast

00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:41.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: for the summer. Um is is that on the west coast where we stayed We we were like surrounded by nature, like all you had to do was just go to the backyard or just take a look outside the wind, and just nature was everywhere, and then coming back to New York. It's

00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:59.140 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: nature isn't everywhere here, I mean there's a little bit here and there, but it's not the same like in Canada. I went to Vancouver. Vancouver was so beautiful. The the the tree covered mountains, and the and the water surrounding the city. I I just felt like,

00:27:59.150 --> 00:28:17.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and the birds like just millions of birds, you know. Yes, yes, so it it's just being a little mindful of, even in the most urban of areas. You can always find a little spot to go to, to, to be around nature, to get a a break from

00:28:17.090 --> 00:28:25.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: from being in the same place. And nowadays I think it's still. Lots of people are still working from home, even though things have opened back up and and just

00:28:25.450 --> 00:28:47.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: changing your environment, you know, not making necessarily a drastic change like moving from Canada to Costa Rica. But I do recommend it, and I and I look forward for coming down for a visit. Um. But but yeah, even just making those little changes can can make a huge difference. Um, okay, uh,

00:28:47.130 --> 00:29:06.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we just another little quick break, and and when we come back I would like to to talk a little bit more about that uh, uh, uh, Netflix uh kind of the the indulging in the online stuff after being on the computer all day. And and maybe what are some other things that we can do instead? Okay, Teresa.

00:29:06.340 --> 00:29:07.170 Teresa de Grosbois: Perfect,

00:29:07.190 --> 00:29:16.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: awesome. So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant now awakening humanity, and we will be right back in just a moment.

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00:31:20.210 --> 00:31:35.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant, our awakening humanity. We're talking all about um learning how to show up for ourselves, and showing up for ourselves. I'm talking about self-care um with my special guest to resolve that

00:31:36.030 --> 00:31:44.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So Theresa you mentioned before about the this whole idea of zoom fatigue, and and how the even the physical symptoms

00:31:44.490 --> 00:32:01.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and finding something else, instead of watching Netflix or Amazon Prime video, or whatever you happen to, to to binge watch on um. So i'm just curious. I mean, you mentioned like gardening. But but what else do you do? Uh,

00:32:01.790 --> 00:32:06.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: instead of of of watching the computer after having been on it all day long.

00:32:06.850 --> 00:32:12.860 Teresa de Grosbois: Yeah, I really believe everyone has creative outlets that they need to really feed, you know.

00:32:12.870 --> 00:32:27.480 Teresa de Grosbois: And um for me, i'm uh, I don't know if you've ever seen the Ted Talk about multi potentialites. You know people who just love learning. I'm not. I'm someone who loves learning, you know. So in my spare time I So I paint. I read

00:32:27.490 --> 00:32:42.569 Teresa de Grosbois: um, You know I garden. I I actually uh, most most recently been studying or kids. So I I came up with this idea. Maybe I could collect driftwood and tie orchids on to driftwood and see what happens, you know. So I now have, like a couple of dozen or kids

00:32:42.580 --> 00:32:54.650 Teresa de Grosbois: down below, all growing on pieces, and they're starting to attach the roots to the driftwood which i'm really excited about. I'm like the mother of the little baby or kids, you know. Oh, look at you, baby, attaching your

00:32:54.660 --> 00:33:02.650 Teresa de Grosbois: but um, you know I They they're all small things, you know, and yet they make such a difference to our own self care, because

00:33:02.660 --> 00:33:16.229 Teresa de Grosbois: a lot of us work in jobs that are very left brain, you know, like the whole notion of working is is is a very masculine energy. I don't mean just men do it. I just mean in terms of more feminine energy versus masculine energy.

00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:29.229 Teresa de Grosbois: Um, you know that gotta get up in the morning. I gotta get somewhere on time. I gotta get this many things done. Blah blah blah. It tends to be a more masculine energy to that right. And all of us, whether we're men or women, have a more,

00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:45.729 Teresa de Grosbois: Get things done, masculine side, and we have a more creative relationship Orient side that tends. We tend to associate with a more feminine energy. And whether we're a man or a woman. We gotta feed both sides of our character, right? So I think everybody needs to what it find those things,

00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:51.090 Teresa de Grosbois: whether it's wood, carving, or cooking, or something, but something that has. You walk away

00:33:51.120 --> 00:34:08.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: from the computer screen and be creative. Exercise that part of your brain and your being that is just all about reveling and creating something,

00:34:08.020 --> 00:34:37.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because, like most people, I I read books, I I mean I get tons of books because of the show, but I also read books on my phone because of kindle. But now it's like I don't want to read books on Kendall anymore. I just give me a physical hard. You know a paper book that I can read, and and just to take my eyes away from the computer screen, because I also sometimes I will find the pack pot calling the kettle block black. Um! But I, too, find that I um.

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:56.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We'll listen. We will uh watch. You know videos on the computer as well, after being on the computer all day long. And it and it's interesting because I have been hearing more and more lately. I know a number of people who've gotten that zoom fatigue where literally their eyes are physically hurting um,

00:34:56.090 --> 00:35:26.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and they see loyal Listener Paddy, on the live stream, says I've taken up pocket sketching just to see the beauty I have all around me in Tucson rather than have a phone in my hand taking photos. Yeah, beautiful Paddy. Um, yeah, just just. And and actually, it's one of the things I really like about Podcast is you can just listen to the podcast, but you don't have to be looking at the computer screen, and then you can be looking around you looking at your environment, just noticing

00:35:26.020 --> 00:35:44.379 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: things. And sometimes I feel like we we tend just not to notice sometimes what's going on around us when we get so focused on the computer or our phone. And and I see it so much today. It's it's we're We're such a distracted society.

00:35:44.390 --> 00:35:49.780 Teresa de Grosbois: Yeah, I think sometimes just doing the exercise of noticing cool things or cool people around. You,

00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:55.939 Teresa de Grosbois: you know, like like just go sit, sit in a coffee shop patio for an hour

00:35:55.950 --> 00:36:13.199 Teresa de Grosbois: and notice all the amazing people that are within eyesight. Notice all the amazing animals, you know, like um. It's funny. When I first moved out West I grew up in um Eastern Canada, and then I moved out west, and lived in Calgary for almost thirty years, and um! I'd never seen a magpie before,

00:36:13.220 --> 00:36:37.429 Teresa de Grosbois: and i'm like Oh, my God! These are the coolest birds I've ever seen. They've got so much personality, and all the locals would be like. Oh, for Meg, pies like, What are you talking about, you know, and It's funny. I'm experiencing the same thing, having moved to Costa Rica. Now, right like, there's things in this environment where the locals are like. What you think the grasshoppers are cool here. I'm like. Have you seen the grasshoppers in Costa rica like

00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:53.729 Teresa de Grosbois: they look like butterflies. They have some of them have such a great that they're. They're like bright orange, or they have these giant red grasshoppers. Here they're hard to find, but you see them every now and then they open their wings, and they're like stunning red, beautiful like almost like a giant butterfly. And i'm like

00:36:53.990 --> 00:37:10.890 Teresa de Grosbois: there's people here who are like Ooh! Bug! And i'm like cool. That is the coolest thing I've ever seen, you know. So I think it's all in like What's your perspective of how you look at the world like you can choose how you look at things like Wow! That is so neat,

00:37:10.900 --> 00:37:20.779 Teresa de Grosbois: you know. I never looked at garbage in the same until we didn't have garbage collection when we first, when we first built the retreat center here in Costa Rica for the first several months.

00:37:20.810 --> 00:37:50.559 Teresa de Grosbois: Um our road wasn't paved yet, so the garbage truck wouldn't come down here, and the finally we got the road paved in the first day of the garbage truck coming out. We bake them a cake, and so excited. And and now they waved to us every time, and i'm like I don't think i'll ever take garbage men for granted again. Yes, yes, absolutely. My life is so much better for having them in it, you know. Yeah, Totally totally right. It's it's it's even in nature. You find that, like

00:37:50.620 --> 00:37:55.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like the there are certain animals that are um,

00:37:56.220 --> 00:38:06.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not scavengers. What's the word? Um that that kind of that, you know, like uh buzzards like um uh uh

00:38:07.540 --> 00:38:17.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: vultures vultures that will like eat the dead animals like they'll clean that the jaguars. They clean out the rotting stuff,

00:38:17.090 --> 00:38:47.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and they're like the the garbage people of the jungle, and it's so important like that. There's in every aspect of the um life you'll find like you need to eliminate the garbage. You need to take care of that, and and I totally agree with you, because I've lived through many garbagements. The garbage strikes in New York City, especially in the summertime, when that stuff piles up and it smells, and it's things you really begin to appreciate what people do for,

00:38:47.090 --> 00:39:03.460 Teresa de Grosbois: and how important is that to our self-care right? And yet we often don't see them. You know. The interesting thing is, since I I now make it a point, because I do, yoga in the morning on the balcony, you know, outside Um, because I live in the retreat center here in um

00:39:03.510 --> 00:39:12.539 Teresa de Grosbois: and um. So when they when the garbage men come by. Now I make it a point. If i'm doing yoga, I stand up, and I wave to them, and I I say thank you every morning,

00:39:12.550 --> 00:39:28.099 Teresa de Grosbois: and now it's like if i'm not outside yet they stop the truck to wait for me to wave, and i'm like Wow! I think i'm probably the only person on their route that waves to them and appreciates them every morning, and i'm like, Wow! What would the world be like

00:39:28.110 --> 00:39:41.150 Teresa de Grosbois: if everybody started waving to the garbagement and thanking them like just as an intention of. We appreciate self care in every form it comes in, and we see all those angels in our life

00:39:41.160 --> 00:40:07.040 Teresa de Grosbois: that provide us with self care. And then what would happen to our mental attitudes if we started noticing the janitor that cleans the floor in our entry way, and actually made it a point to maybe learn his name and say hello to him or um, or you know. Notice the receptionist at the doctor's office, and the important role that she plays, you know, and I think so often. We don't realize how important that is not only to our self care that these people are looking after us,

00:40:07.050 --> 00:40:13.020 Teresa de Grosbois: but important to our self-care, that when we notice them it changes the way we view the world

00:40:13.030 --> 00:40:43.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and changes how we feel and changes our own quotient for happiness. Right? Right? I mean again going back to noticing all the things in our life. There are a lot of people who serve us in different ways that we don't even notice that are important to us, having a good life, the the the mailman or male woman um, the janitor, the porters, the the the street sweepers, I mean they they're just. There's so many people out there the people who work in the grocery,

00:40:43.030 --> 00:41:12.679 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the people who work in restaurants that we visit. Um they do, and and and truck drivers, you know people who bring goods to us. I think, if anything else, that the the challenges with the supply chain have really highlighted to a lot of people like not to take for granted so much that we're always going to have thirty-five different kinds of cereal on the shelf in the supermarket that you know what if if the supply chain breaks down,

00:41:12.690 --> 00:41:18.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: there might not even be one kind of cereal there. And it really I I really

00:41:18.780 --> 00:41:33.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: learn to appreciate just walking around and noticing different things in the neighborhood. When I was out West, because we were dog sitting many time in many places, both in in enzyme and in in Berkeley as well as up in Vancouver,

00:41:33.740 --> 00:41:41.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I really got to appreciate just even if i'd walk a similar route like when we take the dogs out for a walk,

00:41:41.680 --> 00:42:10.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just noticing different things. Oh, there's a pear tree over there. Oh, there's an orange tree, or there's some beautiful wild flowers, or or there's a house where someone tacked up on the on the fence of the house like poetry, and they're just so many different things like that that to me. I just so appreciated, because now that i'm back home, I don't see those kinds of things when I walk around my neighborhood here, and and but I see different things,

00:42:10.860 --> 00:42:25.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and like. Now I come back, and I notice oh, there's a new store. There's a new restaurant like Things have changed even in three months there's been change happening here. And so just I think, being present and noticing our environment a little more

00:42:26.190 --> 00:42:44.339 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like that, noticing the changes, give some variety to our minds and our nervous system. That that. Just that is an active, self-care.

00:42:44.350 --> 00:43:02.070 Teresa de Grosbois: You know it changes the stress. We feel some circumstances, you know I um. I had a really profound experience that shifted the way I view things. When When I first moved to Costa Rica I was spending the winters, you know what would be Canadian winter down here, and then going back to Canada in the summer

00:43:02.080 --> 00:43:05.849 Teresa de Grosbois: and um the first summer I went back.

00:43:06.020 --> 00:43:36.010 Teresa de Grosbois: I went to the grocery store, and my first experience was, I saw these pineapples that I knew were probably three weeks old and um, and they were like seventy dollars for a little tiny pineapple, because, you know, getting up to Canada is not cheap, you know. I remember just being angry. You know i'm looking at this pineapple, and i'm feeling my anger. It's like I've spent the whole winter having pineapple. It was picked fresh off the tree and barely cost a dollar, and now i'm like oh, i'm back, and I have to pay eight

00:43:36.020 --> 00:43:43.850 Teresa de Grosbois: dollars for a three week old pineapple, and I I remember I took the takes plan of home, and I'm sitting with on my counter, and I thought

00:43:43.870 --> 00:43:51.569 Teresa de Grosbois: i'm going to spend the whole summer, being angry at my food. If I don't shift this. I remember consciously having that thought.

00:43:51.790 --> 00:43:57.280 Teresa de Grosbois: So. I sit down with the pineapple literally sit down in my yoga meditation,

00:43:57.500 --> 00:44:05.249 Teresa de Grosbois: and I meditated with the pineapple for like twenty minutes, and I just got present to all the people it took

00:44:05.590 --> 00:44:14.589 Teresa de Grosbois: to grow that pineapple harvest, the plan applicable ship, the pineapple to the port, deal with it at the distribution center, move it on a ship,

00:44:14.890 --> 00:44:23.070 Teresa de Grosbois: unpack it, you know. Bring it by truck to Calgary in a refrigerated truck, unpack it at the grocery store, put it on the shelf,

00:44:23.080 --> 00:44:36.930 Teresa de Grosbois: serve me, check out so I could bring it home and have a pineapple here in a country where pineapple has no business being, you know, and when I looked at it that way instead, then suddenly, I could be incredibly grateful

00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:43.770 Teresa de Grosbois: that here in my other home, too. I now had pineapple that could remind me of my Southern home, you know,

00:44:44.140 --> 00:44:56.670 Teresa de Grosbois: and that was such a profound, shifting experience to realize the thousands of people that were involved in my self care, so that I could have a pineapple. Here

00:44:56.850 --> 00:45:26.840 Teresa de Grosbois: we're we're playing up. We don't belong, you know, and and that that shifted my relationship with with my food for the you know, actually forever more. But it definitely for that summer, and it it helped me get out of that like anger of like. I don't get beautiful fresh farmers market food every morning. Now, um! And and I want to be angry about that, you know. Yeah, I I One of the things my wife and I really loved about being on the West coast is The food was so freshly there, especially in California, because they grow most

00:45:26.850 --> 00:45:56.839 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of it there. So just going to the supermarket was like going to a farmer's market every day, and and so really got to appreciate that, and have a little story about supermarkets. I want to tell when we come back from this break, but but it's so interesting. I just want to quickly say one of my indigenous practices. Um I do is involves a um, a tobacco snuff called Hoppay that comes from the Amazonian jungle, and and it's there's nothing illegal about it. It's it's Tibet. It's a ground up ma paco,

00:45:56.850 --> 00:46:15.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: which is tobacco that they grow in the Amazon with different herbs and things mixed in, and there are different blends that I have, and I get um, You know I've gotten it from different places. But I have like this one website that I I get my hape from, and so every time I do it I usually do it about once a week as a meditative practice,

00:46:15.990 --> 00:46:22.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and when I do it I always try and remember to be grateful for the indigenous

00:46:22.610 --> 00:46:41.559 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: tribes that created the happy to be grateful for the people who transported it, because this website is based out of Texas. So the people in Texas get it from the Amazon to Texas, then from Texas, getting it to me here in New York, and just being grateful for, like the whole

00:46:41.570 --> 00:47:07.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sort of chain of of events and people, so that I could have this experience, this meditative experience of working with the habe. And And so I I completely understand where you're coming from with the pineapple in Canada. Anyway, I got to take one quick little break uh our last break of the show. Um, Paddy, I see on on the live stream, she's saying service jobs. We give them goodies

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00:49:43.410 --> 00:50:00.529 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consult now awakening humanity. So, Teresa, you know, when you're talking about the pineapple, reminded me of my experience when I was in Montserrat, in in December and Montserrat is this small Caribbean island just off of the coast of Antigua,

00:50:01.080 --> 00:50:28.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I was, and it's a small island is only about three thousand five hundred, four thousand people on the island. They've been through so much tragedy and difficulty with the the volcano, exploding like over ten year period of time, and wiping out its capital, and at one time there was probably thirteen fourteen thousand people living there. Now it's a fraction of that, and I remember talking to the woman who owned the B. And B that we stayed with for the first week that we were there,

00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:58.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and she said, and we were talking about, you know, going to the supermarket, and she picked up some stuff for us because we're in quarantine. We couldn't leave, and she said how like every time she goes back to the United States. How like going to the supermarket was like going to Disneyland because she could not believe how much stuff we have in our supermarkets here in the United States, and that when you go there, and this small island that supermarkets are tiny, they like in New York we would call it like a bodega. It's like a little Deli, and they they they! They have such limited choices

00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:11.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that much fresh food, and it's like I've learned to really appreciate. We have so much abundance here that that really doesn't exist in a a a good portion of the world,

00:51:11.410 --> 00:51:34.039 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that I I do kind of feel like. Sometimes we get jaded, and we take it for granted, and we don't really truly appreciate. You know how much we have here, and and so just your your story of the pineapple just sort of reminded me of that, and reminded me to be even more grateful, and that they say that you know gratitude is is one of the

00:51:34.050 --> 00:51:46.309 Teresa de Grosbois: highest vibrational feelings that we can have as human beings

00:51:46.330 --> 00:51:54.259 Teresa de Grosbois: just focusing on. Okay, what is here that I have to be grateful for, you know, and it's so easy to forget that,

00:51:54.310 --> 00:52:05.690 Teresa de Grosbois: hey? Maybe that box of rice crispies is something to be grateful for. You know I I I had a friend here at Cooster because she loves to raise Crispy and normally get it to the grocery store here,

00:52:05.900 --> 00:52:13.159 Teresa de Grosbois: but for for whatever reason, with supply chain issues. They stopped bringing them in for a while, and she had to ask

00:52:13.170 --> 00:52:29.169 Teresa de Grosbois: hundreds of people if anyone was coming down. If they could put a box of rice crispies in their suitcase, and I have Jeeze. How often have I taken race crispies for granted, you know, and like there's just so much in our life that we take for granted. And yet, when we can get into that

00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:54.189 Teresa de Grosbois: vibration of gratitude like it's so easy for us to go into blame, especially when things aren't going well in our life right like Covid hit. How many of our businesses we're impacted? We want to blame the Government. We want to blame the pandemic. We want someone to blame for the epidemic, you know it must be Wu on labs, and i'm not saying whether I believe it is or isn't. I'm just saying that whole energy of we need someone to blame becomes so consuming.

00:52:54.200 --> 00:53:15.739 Teresa de Grosbois: Um, you know we might even blame our business partner or sp, for what's going on, or or just blame them, that our life is hard, and they're not not being good enough to us right. And and instead, if we just shift that small little bit to say, Okay, what is it in these people that I am grateful for? It's amazing. The impact that has on our own health on our own.

00:53:15.750 --> 00:53:22.269 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yes, yes, absolutely absolutely. And And

00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:32.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: one of the reasons why it shows self care is the topic. For this week. I didn't really get into it in the beginning, but I just thought maybe we'll close with this um

00:53:32.260 --> 00:54:01.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when I came back from from being away for three months and having a sort of a very expansive experience on the West Coast, and it was expensive in many ways, not just because of where we stayed and the environment, but also because this the little shift, the three hour shift in the time. Difference made it like a little more difficult It wasn't going to as many morning networking events online and evening time we we we, we we would mostly explore where we were on weekends and the evening times we just

00:54:02.010 --> 00:54:28.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: walk the dogs or whatever. So So we had even more space to just kind of be with ourselves and stuff in the evening time. When I came back I was like back in the energy of New York. It was, you know, I did the deep dive with you and Charmaine ham, and that was wonderful. I would I had a creep. I was doing my Webinar and launching my chorus, and I was just going crazy for the first couple of weeks that I was here, and I was finding myself exhausted the end of the day,

00:54:28.970 --> 00:54:31.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then, like nobody, signed up for my course,

00:54:31.970 --> 00:54:49.419 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I was like, Oh, what what did I do wrong? And the self-doubt comes in, and everything, and and then I I I got some good advice from people. I had Some people review the Webinar and everything, and then I kind of had a choice to make it's like, Well do I launch the course, and it's a six week. Course

00:54:49.510 --> 00:54:57.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Um! Do. I want to launch it by the end of October, so that I can finish it before the end of the year, or do I wait for the beginning of next year?

00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:04.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And And there were like a lot of reasons why I could have relaunched it by the end of October.

00:55:05.080 --> 00:55:09.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But then I realized you know what I believe life is

00:55:09.840 --> 00:55:12.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: telling me to take some space,

00:55:12.470 --> 00:55:23.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that i'm tired. I'm stressed. I'm not giving myself the opportunity to really adjust to being back in New York. It we're coming into fall,

00:55:23.060 --> 00:55:40.209 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and as opposed to like most people. It's like. Oh, I got a rush, and like, make all this money before the end of the year. I decided. You know what it's not worth it. I'm going to take it easy. Maybe i'll do some webinars. I'll do some things to lead up to, but i'm not going to launch the course again until next year,

00:55:40.700 --> 00:55:51.529 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and just that act of saying, You know, it might not make sense in in terms of revenue and dollars and cents,

00:55:51.650 --> 00:55:58.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but it makes sense in terms of my own self care and my own well-being to kind of push that off and wait

00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:13.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so that's really? Where? Why, I decided to focus on this topic of self care for this week. So I I really appreciate you. I thank you for coming in and and joining me for for this discussion. Um,

00:56:13.740 --> 00:56:29.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Teresa! Why, don't you? We just got about a minute or so left. Why, don't you tell the audience about the evolutionary business Council. If they're at work in in transformational work or or personal and spiritual development, tell them a little bit about it, and and how they can learn more.

00:56:29.620 --> 00:56:44.190 Teresa de Grosbois: Well, if you're a leader all about creating change. Um, then we are the community for you. We are both a mastermind, a training organization, and is a safe space for leaders to do their own inner transformational work. So

00:56:44.200 --> 00:57:03.069 Teresa de Grosbois: we are actually right now. Um. Gifting out of very few scholarships to our annual retreat um, and few partial scholarships. So um! If you're interested in one of those i'll get Sam to include a link and um come, find us if you feel like we might be a fit for you.

00:57:03.080 --> 00:57:07.839 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, wonderful, wonderful. And the website for the organization is

00:57:07.850 --> 00:57:37.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that's the letter E: the letter B, The word Council, Dot Com. Please check it out. I've been a member for many, many years. If anyone has any questions about it, please feel free to email me again. You can always find me at Sam at talk radio. Dot. Nyc: Thank you all for tuning in. I have a wonderful guest actually. Next week Jennifer Kaufman is coming on my show. A fellow Ebc. Member a new Ebc member, so I hope you'll

00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:46.169 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in for that. Thank you all. Thank you for Teresa for coming. Thank you, my loyal listeners. We will talk to you next week,