Welcome back to my course on energy. And what we're going to talk about in this one is looking after yourself a little bit better. Now you're probably thinking yeah, that's great Adam, but you don't know what it's like. What's that all about? Well, what I found in my life especially working with people who were seriously ill in hospital is that most people they commit to doing something like giving up drinking or smoking and then they stop for whatever reason they have a bad day they have a stressful moment. They've a few too many to drink and then start smoking.

Whatever it is, that causes you to feel guilty could be you like chocolate quite a lot. You're you're there in the evening and an outcomes the bar of chocolate or the cakes and you start eating them, you're putting on a bit of weight and you're starting to lose your confidence and your focus, very, very common things. So here's the simple thing that I work with people, to get them to change their mindset around their habits. I want you to do this exercise, I want you to list everything that you can say that isn't 100% healthy for you now, things you'd like to do less of maybe could be eating chocolate, eating, cake, drinking, smoking, whatever you're into anything that causes you to feel I shouldn't really do this. Then I want you in another column to put things I want to do more of meditation, walking more going to the gym, whatever it is, you know, looking after yourself a little bit better, taking time out every day, taking five minutes just to close your eyes and breathe deeper feeling Energy.

Whatever it is, you list those two things. When you've done that, what you're going to do is you're going to put little arrows from one to the other. So smoking might be on there, you're going to put the arrow across to whatever is the top of the next list. It could be meditation. So every time you have a cigarette, you have to do, let's say, at least 10 minutes of meditation. So what happens now is all of these things that you consider bad become triggers, the things that are better for you.

So what you're doing is neutralizing the energy and the thought process around it, and thus getting rid of the guilt. Because guilt is the biggest killer. It's the biggest thing that sets people back the two things I found in everything that's energy, guilt, and judgment. Guilt leads to judgment. You get guilty. Here's how it works.

Remember, energy follows thought. So I'll be there. I'll be thinking, right? I've made a commitment to, let's say, Give up drinking. That's never gonna happen. Just so that you know, not with me.

Anyway, that's one of my positive triggers. But let's just say because I hear it all the time people say, right, I'm going to give up drinking. So what happens is they make this commitment. They're staying there, usually on somewhere like New Year's Eve, where they're going to drink in one hand cigarette and the other, and they're telling me that they're going to give up drinking and smoking the next day. The easiest promise to make to yourself in the world, as you're sitting now standing there with a drink, and a cigarette, happens all the time. New Year's resolutions for most people I know don't even last beyond the first week.

Some people last longer. It doesn't really matter. The problem is that when a stressful moment happens that in evitable II makes people drink Again or smoke again, they have all of the problems that they had before, amplified by guilt and judgment. Guilt and judgment are the two enemies of energy and well being. So never ever, ever commit to giving something up completely, that you quite like doing. That way, you can delete the guilt associated with falling off the rails.

Because I find it baffling that people can give up smoking. Even in my family. I have members that have given up smoking for years. Something stressful happens like one cigarette, and rather than just have one cigarette and say to themselves, well, it's only one cigarette in 10 years. That's all right. Guilt, judgment, oh god and smoking anywhere and before we know it, they're back on 20 3040 a day, whatever it is.

This is how guilt and judgment works. So you're going to use smoking men dictation drinking, go to the gym, whatever it is, now it's your list of things that you want to do could be juicing, it could be healthier eating, could be chocolate, right I'll have a salad for my next meal. You find your own balance, but you don't get to give anything up. And you're going to use your negative habits or the things that you perceive to be negative to trigger positive ones. And when you do that, your whole energy and your life will increase and improve and you'll feel better about yourself. Because now you don't have any bad habits all you have his triggers towards good habits.

That's how you change your thoughts, your energy, and that's how you improve your life through getting rid of guilt and judgment. So there you go. I know I've repeated a few of the processes here a few with the concepts because I really want to nail this home for you. If you get this one thing, just this One thing on all our videos, if you take this on board and integrate it in your life, your energy and your life will improve, your mood will get better. You'll start to feel inspired. You'll you'll do whatever you want to do when you want to do it and you know that it leads to something better.

So there you go, go off and do this. Make sure you've got your list two things, get your triggers in place, and you set your mind, your energy and your life to feel better, more often.