Stop Managing Your Life: The 5 Silent Diseases Keeping You Stuck

0:02Darin Olien:Welcome to Super Life with me, Darin Olien. A podcast where we explore, discover, and share solutions that promote a healthier life and a better world. Together, we'll ignite possibilities, inspire change, and build sovereignty, creating a roadmap towards a super life for you and for all. Get ready to start living your super life.

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4:13Hey everybody, welcome to the show. I want to start with something true, and I want you to sit down, if you can, and just take this in for a second. Right now, today, about one in five adults in this country feel lonely. Not sad, not busy, but lonely every single day. Not once in a while, every day. And loneliness isn't just an emotional weather pattern. it raises your risk of heart disease by nearly a third. It raises your risk of stroke by even more than that. For older adults, it roughly doubles the odds of developing dementia. So let's just let that sink in. The U.S. Surgeon General put it plainly.

5:00Being disconnected from other people is now doing to your body something close to that what smoking a pack of cigarettes does every day. So let that land. We're going to move in this episode in an interesting way. So hook in and hold on. We are the most connected generation in history of the species. Everyone is in your pocket all the time. And we are lonelier and lonelier and lonelier. This is not a coincidence. This is a signal. This is information. And this episode is about that signal, what it's actually pointing at, and what you and I are going to do about it in the next 20 minutes. Okay, so here's what nobody wants to say out loud.

5:53Most of us are not even living. We're maintaining. We're managing inboxes, managing symptoms, scratching by, working so hard, managing a low hum, constant anxiety. And so I don't think that's your personal failure. I think it's the predictable result of a handful of systems working exactly as they're designed, just not designed for you and me. Start with what's in your body. More than half of the calories the average person in this country eats, which is about 55%, come from ultra-processed food. For kids, it's even worse. It's about 62%. That's not a moral failing. That's a food system failing.

6:46And it's landed us here right now in this world, in this society. Over three out of the four adults now live with at least one chronic condition. High cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, depression, diabetes. 194 million people. Not an outlier, is it? It's the norm. And it's projected to nearly double again by 2050, if nothing changes. Now let's go one layer deeper to the soil itself. Multiple studies compare crops today to crops 50 to 70 years ago found that the same fruits and vegetables now carry 10 to 15 % things like iron, zinc, calcium, and other key vitamins that used to be there but now isn't.

7:41The food isn't just processed more. The real food is quietly less nutrient dense. We're depleting the ground the same way we're depleting ourselves. You know this, but I'm illuminating it in a different way. And then there's the mind. Teenagers spend more than three hours a day on social media and roughly twice as likely to struggle with anxiety, depression. So the kids here in the highest usage rate of the screen times is it's nearly three times the rate of those who aren't. and this is generational our kids it's shaping their nervous systems the kids the then adults who will grow up to try to live in this life so depleted soils depleted food depleted attention depleted connection four different headlines one story we built a world that is remarkably good at keeping us occupied and remarkably bad at keeping us alive.

8:50I knew for me when I got into this world, you know, from my career ending football injury, but then when I started studying nutrition, physiology, kinesiology, all that stuff, I started to see these patterns. Why I even got into superfood hunting is because supplements were horrible. They were marketing something to try to fill in the gaps of our world, and yet they were not holding up in terms of testing and what was actually there. So I got into that world going, I always want people to thrive. I want us to live. I want us to thrive in a powerful way. I want us to live a super life. I've come to think of it as the five silent diseases, not diseases in the clinical sense of the word, obviously, diseases of disconnection.

9:44Each one has a physical root and a psychological twin. And once you see the pairing, you can't unsee. So number one, numbness. The body's version of this is inflammation from food that isn't really food. It's this highly processed stuff. The mind's version is emotional flatness going through your days without really feeling them, just kind of numb going through it. The fix isn't more willpower. It's more truth. What you actually put in your body changes what you're capable of feeling. Number two, disconnection. Physically, it's nervous system stuck in low-grade stress. never really feeling fully rested.

10:38And psychologically, it's the loneliness we opened with, surrounded by people, starved for real contact. The fix is not more contacts in your phone. It's fewer. It's deeper. It's eye to eye. Third, distraction. Our body's version is a screen lit brain that never gets bored, never gets quiet, never gets to actually digest a thought. The fix is boredom on purpose, like be bored. Let your brain figure it out. Real boredom is where your best ideas and your honest feelings can percolate, can come to the surface. Number four, comparison. The one's almost entirely psychological, and it might be the cruelest of the five, because we're measuring our entire textured, complicated life against someone else's highlight reel.

11:48The fix is remembering that a feed is not life. It's a performance, a performed one. And number five, forgetting. This is the deepest one. Forgetting that you are underneath everything. The job, the roles, the noise, a body that needs sun and movement and real food, a nervous system that needs connection, and a heart that has something specific it came here to do. Your mission, your vision. Most people don't need more information or new information. They need to remember something they've already blown off or brushed off. None of these five are necessarily your fault. All five are your responsibility to address.

12:39Those are two very different things because one creates a victim and the other creates power, power to choose. So I want to do something a little different for the next 90 seconds.

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14:41The next 90 seconds, wherever you are, driving, walking on a couch, just let your shoulders drop. Literally. Take a deep breath in and let them drop. Take a deep breath through your nose and let it go. Slower than you think. And then pause on the top for five seconds. Inhale in the nose. Hold for five.

15:13exhale. You can do that at any time. Now just ask yourself one question and you don't have to answer it out loud or even answer it all right now. What is the one true thing you've been avoiding? What is the thing that makes your heart sore when you think about it? You don't have to solve it today, but the things that you're avoiding could be the gateway. You just have to stop pretending you don't know. One of the great questions from a great guy, his name is Gary Douglas. He said, what do you know that you're pretending not to know? That if you were to know it, would change your reality. We offload our knowing.

15:59We're distracted in this world of algorithms, social media, the news, other people's thoughts, feelings, emotions all the time? What if you became silent for a bit throughout the day, tuned into your breath, started listening to your heart because that can change everything. So this is what I'm asking. I don't want you to wait another day where you don't live your life. I want you to take that on right now. What do you want? Who are you? What are you pretending not to know? What do you really, really, truly desire? What have you been unwilling to acknowledge about yourself and your life that if you were to acknowledge it would change your life?

16:48Also, there's a few more things you could do, literally do you could better your health right now i dare you eat one real thing today if you're already in the health kick great but eat a whole food it doesn't need to be perfect but one meal one thing real food no packaging that's how you change your life number two have one real conversation this week, not a text. Call someone. Sit down with them. Tell them what you're feeling, who you are, what your dreams are. Give them the chance to do the same. This single action will create connection, depth, love. Number three, take a two-hour window and put the phone somewhere you can't see it, let yourself sit there.

17:47You can meditate if you want, but don't fill the space with anything. Be bored. Watch your mind. And that space will open up other things, will open up who you are. Number four, write down the one true thing from that stillness exercise, not to fix it, not to conclude it, not to make up a story. But sometimes we lie to ourselves about what we are, who we are, what we want, but being honest with what comes up. Do one thing today or this week that moves you towards the life you actually want, not the one you've been managing. What is your dreams? One of mine is something I'm doing right now. It's doing a docuseries on happiness.

18:38And if I didn't do this exercise, if I didn't do these things to become silent in the not doing anything so that messages could come to me, I wouldn't be able to take action that I never even occurred was there. Start small. What do you want? What do you desire? What does your heart yearn for? Stop avoiding it. Walk into it. Just say yes. Those things are simple things. But if you don't do them, nothing changes. But if you're willing to, you'll have greater connection to yourself, to your body, raise attention of the moment, be present, and you be honest with yourself. And you then get to take action on that.

19:29Nobody needs elaborate system, but you can do something powerfully just by actually being. So here's what I actually believe. Nobody is disconnected because they're not broken. People are disconnected because the world got very good at keeping them busy. But if you slowed the busy, stopped the busy, you could gain and garner so much more. today by you, starting with one real thing, one real meal, one real conversation, and one of you being honest about what you want and then write it down, you start to create a different life. I promise. You didn't come here to just manage your life and exist.

20:20You came here to live on purpose and to live a dynamic, beautiful life. I believe that, and that's what I choose. Are you in? Because I am. If you were moved by this episode and you want to pass this on, if you got anything from it, please give a comment, share your insight on social, tag us, share this episode. Together, we come together to make the world literally a better place.