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Align Podcast

Abel James: Toxic Masculinity, Burnout, Validation, and Poetry

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Align podcast, Abel James and I have a deep conversation on a wide array of topics that all drive back to letting go your ego and becoming deeper in-tune with yourself–from toxic masculinity and our obsession with validation, to breaking through the materialistic world and Abel’s new book, Designer Babies Don't Get Scabies.    Abel is a New York Times best-selling, creator of #TheWildDiet, host of the Fat Burning Man podcast, and an all-around quality person. This conversation highlights his wealth of knowledge and unique outlook on life that will help you optimize your mind, body, movement.    What we discuss:  Comparing the way different cultures eat Toxic Masculinity Burning out for validation Able’s new poetry book How poetry is within all of us Breaking through materialistic society  Why you need to flip reality on it’s head The power of visualization    Find more from Abel: @fatburningman fatburningman.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Lyme Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place to bring together the world's leading experts on all things health and wellness to help you all optimize your mind, body and movement.

0:10.4

You're going to start today's episode out with a quote from Millard Fuller.

0:15.0

It goes like this. It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to

0:19.7

think your way into a new way of acting. Millard Fuller it's easier to act your way into a new way of acting. Millard Fuller, it's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

0:29.0

Pretty fascinating stuff, how our movement, our postural patterns, the way that we occupy ourselves, impacts the way that we think and the way that we feel.

0:40.0

You could say our movements are like catalysts for feelings and sensations.

0:46.0

I think a typical more common model would be more of like a top down model.

0:51.6

Our thoughts and feelings

0:53.8

spill into our bodies to be moved,

0:57.0

and then there would be another perspective,

0:58.8

more bottom-up, that our bodies

1:01.2

spill upward into our thoughts and feelings. It's up to you I think goes both ways.

1:05.8

Today's conversation was with New York Times best-selling author able James.

1:12.1

Able has been a friend of mine for several years and he's a fantastic human being this conversation gets into all sorts of interesting things from the way the cultures eat and the value of being intentional

1:26.2

with the way that we eat and the way that we do anything. We get into his latest

1:30.9

book, designer babies, still get scabies, which is a poetry book. Designer Babies still get Scabies which is a poetry book. Very

1:35.1

fascinating, very challenging, potentially controversial at times book, short

1:41.0

poems that have big meaning.

1:44.0

So really exciting, we get into a couple,

1:46.1

actually just one of his poems in this conversation,

1:48.8

and really fun stuff.

1:50.8

Like I said, Abel is a friend,

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