278: Changing Habits
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Your habits around food, exercise and lifestyle largely dictate your health. What do you eat for breakfast? What is a "fun night out" for you and your friends? How often do you get outdoors, run, cycle or play? In our youth, our healthy habits tend to come naturally, but as we age, unhealthy habits creep in—and they are so hard to break. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, we'll unpack habit change and how to cultivate it in your life.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why persistence is the key to change
- How to leverage crisis and pain for changes
- Why we should look for questions more than answers
- How modern agriculture and food processing makes it difficult to stay healthy
- How you can begin make changes that will compound over time
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Cyndi O'Meara is a nutritionist, best-selling author, health and wellness expert, and the founder of Changing Habits.
She is the author of dozens of publications including her book: Changing Habits Changing Lives that became an instant best seller. You may have seen Cyndi the recent documentary, What's With Wheat or seen her interviewed or profiled in dozens of publications and websites.
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| 0:00.0 | My practice is improved. I have so much more knowledge. I'm exhausted, but I feel great. |
| 0:08.0 | Before I started the course I was feeling a bit anxious, so excited about everything that was coming my way but now I feel |
| 0:15.1 | well I'm sore from all of the yoga that we've done this week but I feel really good |
| 0:19.8 | about my future I'm excited I feel that Lucas is bringing together a system or a practice that is |
| 0:28.1 | accessible to a lot of people. That is still strong and is challenging, but not ridiculously so. |
| 0:35.0 | To learn more about the Yoga Teachers College, please visit Yoga Teachers College. |
| 0:41.0 | We're now accepting applications for our next intake. |
| 0:44.0 | When you look at human behavior wherever you are in the world, whether you're in North America or Europe or Asia, wherever it is, |
| 0:55.2 | ritual ceremony, habits, they tend to dictate what we do. |
| 0:58.9 | What do I mean by this? |
| 0:59.6 | Well, where I am here in Barcelona at 8 a.m. |
| 1:02.3 | All the terraces are full with people drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. |
| 1:07.0 | When I'm in California I see people running in the park. |
| 1:11.0 | Just different parts of the world, there's these different habits, and it seems like the human condition is driven by habit and ritual and routine, and when we're young, our rituals and our habits tend to be very healthy. |
| 1:24.0 | Kids play and they run and they move and they eat and they sleep. |
| 1:29.0 | When we get older, we tend to lean into more negative habits, things that are more reactive to our stress in our life. |
| 1:35.8 | So we tend to overeat. |
| 1:37.7 | We tend to eat unhealthy foods. |
| 1:39.2 | We tend to drink too much. |
| 1:40.2 | We watch, we binge watch series. |
| 1:42.3 | We don't sleep enough. We stress out too much and so on this week's yoga talk show |
| 1:46.8 | We're talking specifically about habit about how to change habit how to re-evaluate your habits in life, specifically how to lean into pain, |
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