Hidden Things Draining Your Energy and How to Fix Them

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2:03Darin Olien:Just type in Darren, D-A-R-I-N, and magically, you get 15 % off. I'm super stoked for Therisage. I love their company. I love what they're doing, and you will too. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. This is Darren O 'Lean. This is the Super Live Podcast. There's no accidents that you're here. And I'm grateful for that. If you find something interesting in this episode, please like and pass it on. And if you haven't subscribed, subscribe to the newsletter at superlife.com. Subscribe to the YouTube channel. You know, subscribe. You know how to do that. Today, we're going to dive into some things that maybe you haven't heard of, but we all want energy.

2:45I'm diving into the hidden energy leaks that may be stealing your life force. and it may not be what you are thinking about. So you think you're tired because you didn't sleep well, but it's not just that. You're being drained in many ways, and no one has really ever taught you to notice these. Everyday subtle leaks are bleeding your energy away, and most of them are so common that you don't even realize that they're happening. Today, we're gonna name them. We're going to out them. And we're going to understand them. And then we're going to seal that information and take back our life force. So the truth about energy is there's a lot going on.

3:33We don't even fully understand how the hell this body works. Where the hell is this energy coming from? Where is this life force, this soul, this spirit, the traditional Chinese medicine, the chakras, the electromagnetic field of the heart, which is actually a generator rather than just a proverbial pump. So we know so little, but yet there are some things, there are some invisible things that I want to make visible to you that will help cultivate your life force. Because if you haven't noticed, your time, your energy, think about what I said, your time and energy is being shoved into a phone and into a computer and in an artificial way we are so far away from our modern day world every interaction environment choice is either making deposits in your energy field ramping you up filling you up or it's making withdrawals the problem most people are hemorrhaging the energy you know you've also been around people that those energetic vampires are like, oh my God, stop talking.

4:45This isn't even a two-way conversation. You're just talking and talking and talking. I walk away going, I'm drained. I got to get away from this. That's another form. So we're going to open this up way beyond the normal aperture of where you're, where you think your energy is being drained. Let's start by the ones that are overlooked all the time. And then at the end, I'm going to share with you what I do to try to cultivate. This is not about perfection. This is not about, oh my God, it's more to think about. No, it's about developing habits that are integrated for your life force, for your happiness, for your joy, for your resiliency.

5:22If you're drained, you're drained. You have no more left for the world. So you're constantly running around overwhelmed, undernourished from a soul perspective, we need to change that. That's why I'm creating Super Life. That's why I'm building a Super Life Patreon with the cost of a latte so that, and that's coming by the way, don't fret. We're going to dive into a lot of things and we're going to get together and talk about practice and get together and cultivate what we can all do to live a greater and greater life, what our true life is meant for, for us to have an experience of fulfillment, joy, contentment.

6:08So one of the things I'm going to dive into some stillness stuff, some very practical stuff in terms of the modern day world. And the first I'm going to talk to you about directly. I'm wearing my raw optics yellow glasses, blocking what? You've all heard of it. blocking blue light too much blue light is not good our circadian rhythm is our master clock you know this by now it governs hormones hormone timing sleep cycles and even the immune function and certainly at night no problem in the morning like i don't wear my my blue blocking straight away in the morning but as the day continues and i know that i'm sitting in front of the computer or too long, then I switch and I put on my blue blocking glasses.

6:58So, but especially at night, this artificial TVs, computers, cell phones, that's stimulating to the body. It delays the very, very important pineal glands melatonin, which is released when the light changes throughout the day towards that night. And then you start to feel tired and ultimately go to sleep. And that can completely be thrown off by not getting light in the morning, which I'll get into it a little bit, not getting good natural light during the day, and then not shutting off this blue light receptivity during the night. So there was an incredible landmark study that said in 2015, evening exposure to LED or even reading an e-book causes phase delays and circadian delays, clock acutely suppresses melatonin and reduces next morning alertness so again this is not me making this up i'm very i have my opinions but these solo podcasts i lay in some opinion based on the science but again all of this in the show notes on every episode so you can feel free some great research so bright natural light in the morning so you can you know take your shoes off put your feet on the ground, especially in the summer, get early morning light, get grounded.

8:26These are some great ways to integrate many steps to help you get in balance, find your rhythm, the deep, deep circadian rhythm that every cell in your body is connected to. And then if you can either wear blue blocking glasses at night and or shut off the activity of the cell phone, the computer and the TV at least one hour before night. Your hormones will definitely thank you. Next one we're going to dive into obviously is ultra processed food. And so you hear that all the time, but not all ultra processed food is bad necessarily. So we don't want to take it all and throw it away, but we're talking about the super ultra processed, the things that aren't even food anymore.

9:17You're talking about a brand muffin that has 75 ingredients. You're talking, you know, a Dorito chip, an Oreo cookie, a Twinkie. Like these things are gnarly. And of course, it's always best to eat whole food. Of course, that's your number one. But again, I mean, I ate a ton of tofu, a ton of tempeh, and I've fallen back in love with Beyond Meat now that they've improved a lot of things in their ingredient list and I've visited the factory and all of those things but this isn't a ad about them I'm just saying like not all processed food and by the way the the research shows that it's beating out heart risk by comparison to eating meat but I digress but ultra processed diets that are 60 to 70 percent of your calories are coming from the super ultra processed food.

10:14This increases calories that are not usable. So this increases weight gain, and that can happen within weeks. So, you know, again, fill your plate as much as you can every day of single ingredient foods, plants, you know, clean proteins, nuts, legumes, seeds, tofu, tempeh, healthy fats, avocado, hemp seeds, chia seeds, you name it. And that, and also grow some sprouts, get some sprouts at the sprouting company, grow, become an indoor farmer. That's right. So there's a lot of great things you could do. The next thing to increase your energy and to integrate so you don't bleed energy. And that is, oh man, hydration.

11:03Do you know the number one cause of fatigue is dehydration. So mild dehydration alone can tank you mentally and physically and can affect many things. So there's a study in 2011, mild dehydration. Most people, by the way, are running around with mild dehydration. This induces adverse changes in vigilance. So you have less and less resiliency for life and an increased tension and anxiety as well as fatigue. And there's water quality. So it's not just water, it's the water quality. Because if you're not filtering your water correctly with reverse osmosis or distillation, and then adding some balanced electrolytes in Redmond salt, if you want to take it up the next level, monovitality with she legit and ocean ormus minerals, that's my go to, then you're taking in you're taking away way more stressed.

12:02Because remember how I set it up is you're either doing things that are putting investing into your life or it's taking away. So if you're drinking a lot of water, but it's out of a plastic water bottle or it's not filtered and you're getting pharmaceutical drugs and PFAS and plastics and who knows what else in your water supply, then that's not good. But you can clear all this up with your own RO system and distill. If you haven't gotten that by now, get that. That's your next purchase. Save up and get that without a doubt. Get that system set up, an RO system. Get a glass water bottle and you're done.

12:45Start your day with fresh, mineralized water. again now that even spring water and the caps are releasing more micro contaminants in there and shipping water around the world just doesn't make sense to me and if you can create your own clean water then that's where i would say do it start your day with this mineralized water again maybe if you haven't heard but just drinking ro water on its own is probably not a good idea every so often, no problem. But it could create an osmolotic change and it could pull essential sodium, potassium, electrolytes out of cell and out of necessary tissue. So you do want to think about mineralizing your water in a good way.

13:36But don't fall for overhyped electrolyte-infused nonsense. Some are good. most are not okay so just be smart about that you just definitely want to get rid of that PFOS that's a forever chemical in your water the next one is try to minimize this micro stress and thought loops these are background apps in your brain in your mind they are unresolved tensions endless mental rehearsals if you have a little notepad around and if you are ruminating about something, then write it down and deal with it later. But make sure you deal with it and feel the feelings and then let it move through your body and move on.

14:26And if you need to talk through it with someone, find that person you need to talk to. Be honest. Be radically honest. If you need a professional counselor, then deal with that then. But you do want to deal with the allostatic load of the rumination of your brain. The wear and tear on your body from the repeated chronic stress that you're ruminating is very, very real. When you notice a loop, pause. Again, write it down. Choose the one next right action. Then move your body for three minutes to reset. Sit down, stretch, do some breathing stuff and then switch that change the neuro circuitry of the rumination you can do that but you gotta you gotta stop the dopamine hit and do a different right action next

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19:02Toxic relationships, easier said than done, and social frictions. We underestimate how much hostile or draining interaction affects us physically. And also that's, you know, that's talking behind people's backs. That's gossiping. All of that stuff. That's no good for you. It's no good for the person. Revengefulness. I'm right, they're wrong. All of that stuff is toxic for you and it's toxic for the people around you. There's one study that showed hostile marital behavior was associated with slower wound healing and higher pro-inflammatory cytokine production. A great study out of general psychology in 2005.

19:47So audit your circle. Are you clean with everyone? Is there something sitting there that you need to communicate? And after an inaction, do you feel more alive or less? because these things can be confronting. But usually radical honesty, although sometimes uncomfortable, sharing your truth can free both of you, okay? And then boundaries, very important. Next one is indoor air quality. I've talked about this a lot, but hidden molds, poor circulation can cause a lot of fatigue, brain fog, respiratory issues. That's also from a chemical side of things. what's in your volatile organic compound factory of your home, fragrances, laundry detergents, candles, smells, smells that emit into the, that you plug into the room, throw all of those away.

20:43I'm sorry you spent money on them. Throw them all away. Those are dangerous for your health. And if you can, do a mold test for your home and do everything you can to minimize that exposure. Open windows, certainly during the summer, I get as hot and but get outside, do some breathing, go in some shade. One of my favorites is going under this 300 year old oak tree in a chair doing calls as much as I can get outside. Okay, the next thing that is a micro load on your system. I've talked about this in my fatal convenience book. If you haven't picked up that book, it's out now on paperback. And it is a modern day world stress reducer, even though it's intense reading.

21:35Because all these things around us, I didn't make it up, are harming us. They're hidden from us. So my Fatal Convenience book is I uprooted that so that you could see it, just like I'm talking today. But we go deep, we go into solutions, so pick up that paperback book, Fatal Convenience, and it is a Bible moving forward. What I talk about in depth is electromagnetic fields, device overload, EMF exposure, 5G exposure. And whether you can feel it or not, it is absolutely affecting you. This disrupts sleep, attention, stress responses. We know at a cellular level, it turns on free radical oxygen species.

22:23It can open up the blood-brain barrier. when you have a phone that's close to your body or a laptop that's on your body, proximity and duration cause your body stress. And there are hundreds and hundreds of research articles to back up what I'm saying. So even though the telecommunication companies since the 90s have been suppressing a lot of this information, you need to wake up to the reality that these are non-biologically assimilative frequencies in your environment. And I'm going to get into some of the things I do later in this episode at the end. So keep your devices out of your bedrooms on airplane mode at night.

23:05Protect your evening by turning off Wi-Fi. Shut it all down. Mindfulness and stillness breaks. This thing is huge. This may be there's one if not two of the biggest things that you can do for stress. Your nervous system wreaks havoc on your body when it's under stress, and you're not even aware that it's under stress. Your nervous system is under stress even around in these electromagnetic fields. So just two to five minutes. An easy hack for this is every time you eat, do a nice simple prayer. Do some breathings in the nose. Hold for a count of two. Out the nose for extended four or five. and then hold at the end.

23:51Just do a few rounds, three to five minutes, and you will down-regulate yourself. A study in nature found that literally going out in nature for 21 to 30 minutes was one of the greatest stress relieves that you can do. Study in 2019. And take two stillness stops a day. So if you're gonna eat a couple times, do it then. If you're gonna do a morning routine, meditation, do it then. Right before you go to sleep, shut off all devices, close your eyes, say goodnight to your loved ones, your pets, whatever, and then just go inside, be grateful, take some breaths, and then boom, you're off to sleep. Other powerful one, and this might be one of the greatest ways to reclaim energy that's being lost, and that is past trauma and recapitulation.

24:43What does that mean? Well, energy is leaking and the science is backing me up in that. So most experiences leave more than memories. They're trapped in our body, in our endocannabinoid. They're trapped in our body, our central nervous system, our cells, our endocannabinoid system, it can all be sitting there. And if it doesn't have resolution, it carries with us. I have many stories that I have gone through, which I'll share a little bit at the end. But these experiences, these memories are stored in your tissue, in your bodies, and it's shaping every move, every choice, every conscious or unconscious thought.

25:33And a book that I read, geez, 30-some years ago is Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine. One of the first somatic therapists shows that trauma isn't just in the mind, it's locked in the body, but can be released through awareness, gentle movement, and breath. And it can go a lot further as well. And there's a lot of, plant medicine can do a lot of stuff. there's a lot of somatic therapists popping up i can't vouch for everybody but it's powerful trauma creates a permanent imprint of fear in the brain and body but the body can be retrained to discharge it this was a study right out of pubmed so the trap is that you're not aware of your past trauma you're just running around pointing the finger at everybody's your fault you shouldn't has said that.

26:26My dad didn't do anything to me. I got over it. You can say all that all you want. I'm not saying spend the rest of your life just going back to everything. However, let me share a story with you from about 25 years ago where I studied with a Toltec shaman named Dose. He was 80 some years old. He came from the lineage of Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Juan Matus, that whole lineage of Toltec shamans. And he was teaching me the art of recapitulation. And so that can be going back into a time and place and space, an event in your life, or maybe it didn't work out so well. Maybe there was trauma. But if you allow yourself to go there, you can change the event or at least associate yourself differently and to understand why it happened and or change the event where you gain your power back, where you let it go.

27:27And it could have been trauma and you absolutely needed to do that. You needed to do that. One of mine was I was born premature and I was taken from my mom, shoved into an incubator, tested, poked, prodded, almost died, and then sat without my mom, without breast milk for three weeks until I became five pounds, to which I could then go home. I had a recapitulation event of my birth where I released, and this wasn't, there was no drugs, there was no plant medicine. This was allowing myself to go there and I felt the warm, hot, powerful release in the base of my spine and exploded out of me. And I was crying like a little baby.

28:16These things are powerful. You can recapitulate even today's events. Maybe you wish you would have said something differently to someone. Oh man, I should, I was a little unkind there. Let's go back. And also if they're around, you know, apologize to them, but I'm saying you can gain your power back. This is not making excuses for stupid things, but we all have trauma, and trauma is a part of this world. But there's opportunities where we can re-experience past moments, not re-traumatize, but to reclaim the energy and integrate those fragmented parts. We all have them. All of us have them. You can re-script what was going on, and that is stuck and not giving your life force from that period.

29:04Because if it's not changed or understood or recapitulated or healed, that life force is stuck there and it's affecting you now in this moment. So that's just adding to what I've used for a long time to create vitality, coherence, and presence in my life. Reframing is certainly super powerful. being able to retell your story with empathy towards yourself instead of making yourself wrong. If you can grasp this art, this will change your life because we all go into shame, blame, anger, fear. But if you can reframe it, give yourself love during something and be hyper vigilant during that and integrate and take back that energy without going to shame, blame towards yourself or anyone else.

29:58Okay, super life energy seal protocol. Here's where you gain energy. This is a super life energy seal protocol. Ready? Morning light, evening dim. Got it? Get the morning light. And as the light in your house and your electronics and your phones in the evening dims. So morning light, evening dim. Whole food diet. Whole fresh foods. God, in the summer, I eat so much fresh food. Sometimes I just eat a whole watermelon for breakfast. It is the best. Hydrate with clean, clean, clean, mineral-rich water. Two stillness breaks daily. Clear your relationships. Be a warrior. Clear up the relationships in your life.

30:49Be honest. Love each other. And if they can't hold that vibration, then move on. Get other friends. Set boundaries. Ventilate and purify your home. Releasing your home of fragrances and volatile organic compounds. Do your best. Next one, device-free sleep. Turn off Wi-Fi. Turn off the phone. Airplane mode. You're good. Shut it all down. And if you really want, get a... There's a few devices. You can Faraday cage your Wi-Fi router, but I would just say shut it off. Incredible device called WaveGuard out of Germany that I've used to disassociate some of the pointed EMF fields and that has been scientifically shown to help that.

31:37And also weekly recapitulation and somatic practices. Your somatic practice could be as easy as just taking breaths in and out slowly and scan your body from your toes to your ankles to your shins to your knees to your thighs to your buttocks to your hips to your stomach to your chest to your shoulders to your neck down your arms to your fingertips to your head to your face to your jaw and your head out your head. scan your body every day feel what's going on in your body the body will tell you it knows for me I've created my life where I walk my dogs every day so morning light at about 6 a.m my low emf environment is epic my new home by the way is planned to not have any wi-fi or 5g everything's hardwired in.

32:36And the great work for August Bryce and her company, Tech Wellness, liberated me to be able to see that I could plug everything back in. So check them out. Turn off. Everything's turned off at night. So me and the dogs sleep in a device-free zone. And nature is part of my ritual. I have created my life where I can walk outside and I'm in nature. And even when I was in LA and Hollywood before I came out to Malibu. Every day I would search for the park and to the forest and to the tree. And so find that in your life and make that a daily ritual. Movement routines. I move all the time with my dogs.

33:18I walk. I mountain bike. I work out outside. This is part of my life. Integrate being outside as your workout. I strongly encourage that. Clean food staples, whole fruit, nuts, seeds, legumes i i eat whole fruits every day every morning i've been having a lot of soups lately and i'm just finishing up my last lettuces and squash in the garden so every night i'm having a nutrient-rich garden variety for my own garden and of course i have an ro system and it is from aqua true and you get a discount if you go to superlife.com i use monovitality every day and my dogs get water filters too. I take stillness breaks all the time.