Okay, we're on. Hello, everyone.

My name is Jay Brown. This is my podcast, and I want to welcome you to it. Thanks for listening.

I'm still in Japan, and it's the middle of the night again. I totally adjusted to the time, but what happened is yesterday was the fifth of seven days teaching here in Japan.

And they're intensive days.

They're six to seven hours of actual teaching time.

And it's pretty grueling.

Those of you who are listening and have done those kind of programs, you know what I'm

talking about.

And I got home last night.

I was going to do a little bit of work, and I just passed out early, and then now it's

the middle of the night again.

So I thought I might try to capitalize on the moment because I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to record for the

podcast while I'm doing these training intents because it's just a terrible idea.

It's so much work. I'm just exhausted. But I'm going to do my best. My talk today with

Donna Farhi really, I don't know, it's speaking to my current situation. You see, Don and I talk about how many of us

in our earlier years did practices that essentially pulled our bodies apart. And now we're

doing our best to knit them back together and find more stability. At least I am. Maybe I should only speak for myself.

And that is sort of coming home to roost for me this week because I'm so tired that all these pain issues come out again, you know?

Like when I'm fatigued and I'm not having enough downtime,

that's when my body revolts.

It says, man, would you stop already?

And I really, I screwed myself a little bit because I arrived here in Japan already on empty.

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