29. Positive Light Through Darkness: Interview with Forrest Rivers
Happiness Solved
Sandee Sgarlata
5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
🔄 Press the reset button: 5 tips to reset and de-stress. 00:49
🤝 How Sandee and Forest met. 04:48
✍️ Forrest’s writing for The Mindful Word journal. 05:42
😷 The pandemic was surrounded by fear and anxiety. 08:58
🙃 Writing a book in the middle of the pandemic: How we respond to the suffering is what matters. 10:38
📖 Book: COVID-19 & Humanity’s Spiritual Awakening is about all the different ways of spiritually reassessing and awaking. 13:36
🌱 COVID brought out fear of death but also a reconnecting with nature. 15:58
🧘 Importance of daily meditation practice and prayer. 17:28
🤒 Sandee’s book is about humanity at a crossroads, and she wrote it before the pandemic. 19:23
🤯 Get Forrest’s book Hippie Revival for free! 23:50
☮️ Hippie Revival is about the hippie spirit that is reawakening because society is ruled by ego. 24:24
🪴 Marijuana legalization is likely a symptom of the revival of the hippie culture. 26:38
🆓 Get a copy of COVID-19 & Humanity’s Spiritual Awakening for free! 29:39
🤩 “Sometimes that positive light has to come through the darkness.” 31:41
✨ Forrest’s hope for humanity is that we'll all appreciate each other more and have more gratitude. 32:20
Connect with Forrest: www.forrestrivers.com
😃Connect with Sandee www.sandeesgarlata.com
📖Sandee’s book: www.sandeesgarlata.com/the-book
👥 www.facebook.com/coachsandeesgarlata
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| 0:00.0 | This is Happiness Solved with America's Happiness Coach, Sandy Scarlotta. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode. |
| 0:28.7 | I am so happy you're here. |
| 0:30.8 | So I recently had an amazing opportunity to talk about this topic on live TV and I think |
| 0:40.3 | that it's just it's a timely thing to start my podcast with and it's basically reset |
| 0:46.3 | and destressed. |
| 0:47.9 | So you know, stress is still a huge factor in today's world and it is such a major problem |
| 0:54.8 | that is affecting people both mentally and physically. |
| 0:58.1 | According to the American Psychological Association, stress affects all systems of the body. |
| 1:04.5 | That's right. |
| 1:05.5 | Every major system of our body, it can be affected by stress. |
| 1:09.0 | Now Web-N-D reported that 43% of all adults suffer adverse health effects from stress, |
| 1:15.1 | like high blood pressure, skin conditions, depression and anxiety and 75 to 90% of all doctors |
| 1:21.8 | office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints. |
| 1:26.4 | That number is staggering. |
| 1:28.8 | So I always like to say at any time during the day, you can press the reset button, right? |
| 1:35.4 | And reset your day, just like you reboot your computer when it's not functioning properly. |
| 1:39.8 | So here are my five tips to reset your day and help you reduce stress. |
| 1:46.1 | Step one is exercise, right? |
| 1:49.2 | This is going to raise your endorphins, it's going to get your heart rate up and that |
| 1:53.4 | is going to help you reduce your stress. |
| 1:55.5 | So take a walk in nature, dance to your favorite music, ride a bike, anything that you enjoy |
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