#95 Awakening Your Life Force | Dr. Lynn Carey

0:00 And it made, all I did was make me sick. So if we can, you know, my whole goal was like, he was born at home, never vaccinated, no circumcision. He's never been to a medical doctor because he's never needed to go. he wasn't raised with a religion. I just said, listen to yourself because God's in all of us telling us, guiding us. We're all here for a unique purpose. That's the flow. That's everything. That's why you feel inspiration. That's God. That's your source flowing through you like, yeah, that's why you're here welcome to the new age human podcast, where we have inspiring conversations with spiritual entrepreneurs in the areas of mindfulness, longevity, and innovative technology. I'm your host, John Astacio, and I'm on a mission to help humanity discover our human potential so we can together create positive change.

0:48 Remember the journey starts within please like, and subscribe wherever you're listening or watching. And with that said, let's get to the show. Today's guest is Dr. Lynn Carey, a chiropractor and nutritionist who spent 18 years in practice, gaining insights into healing chronic stress caused by a bunch of things, including time, money, passion, you name it. Today, we'll share her approach on achieving ultimate well being by creating a desired lifestyle of health, wealth, and self expression. And what I also want to get into is what she would say we can do to embrace the power within. I want to dive into that. But right now, Dr. Lynn Carey, thank you for coming on the show.

1:29 Welcome. Thank you, John. Thank you for having me. I'm I actually, uh, I want to know, cause you, you're, you are a chiropractor by trade in the, and I'm not sure if you're, you're practicing that now, but I am actively going to a chiropractor right now because I drive a lot. So I'm getting cracked like it's just loud. And, um, are you still practicing or is that like past life and you're working on other things now? Yeah, I'm working on other things. I think I expanded out after being in practice for 18 years. It was time for me to try other endeavors. Got it. And I'm actually curious. What, um, what got you into being a chiropractor?

2:09 Why that of all things? Yeah, it kind of, I really look at it that it was a divine call because I didn't know what I was getting into. I had spinal surgery for scoliosis when I was 15 years old and the surgery itself. They said was a success, but it left me sick and in pain for years and then no one could help me They had no answers for me And so by the time I got to college I was just going to college because they told me that's what you do to be successful And I hmm. Mm and someone told me I was just looking into different things Someone said look into chiropractic. I didn't know what it was. I read the pamphlet And it said the power that made the body heals the body and I thought Why hasn't anyone said this to me?

2:55 And like the last five years of my struggle and this path, and it just, you know, it chiropractic for me. It walked two worlds. It was very, it was mainstream enough where it looked like it was a legit degree career, you know, but then it had this other thing that I didn't know about. That's what called me. And I didn't know. And I just went, I just went to chiropractic school. I didn't even get adjusted until I got there, but I got there and it was the beginning of changing my whole world. Interesting. And, so, it's interesting how, like, I agree, right? You store things in your body and, um, It's almost like we get messed up by our life experiences.

3:36 And that's what you were dealing with at a young age, and I'm, I'm sure everybody wants to know like, what were you dealing with at such a young age that made your back just go haywire? What was that journey? I love that you went right into the. I feel like that's the part that I was missing for people. They didn't understand it's what's going on in your life that Mm-Hmm. the symptom, you know, and I had, you know, in chiropractic school when I'm learning like the, the protocols or the things that could have caused scoliosis, I had them all, but there was a big emotional component. Like I questioned everything in life when I was younger, just, I watched my family just work all the time.

4:19 There still wasn't enough. Nobody looked happy. There wasn't any fun going on. And I thought, why are we doing this? Like, what's the purpose of all this? There's got to be more to life. Cause if this is it, I don't want to be here. I remember thinking that very strongly. Um, and then my father died when I was 12. I really believe that, you know, it was cancer, what they label as cancer, but he died of broken dreams. He failed entrepreneur in his entrepreneurial endeavors for many times. But at five, I don't know that. I just remember him, you know, you remember the tension of him losing everything and then his energy was just gone. And then by the time I was 12, he died. And I just, it just things didn't make sense.

5:02 Like what my mom would tell me and what I thought pulled me in two different directions. And that's kind of one of the things with scoliosis, you're pulled in two different directions. Um, there was another thing. I had braces. Okay. Um, from sixth to eighth grade. And then I had my father die in the middle of that. And they say if you have like a traumatic event and you're going through this where they're You know, they put braces on everybody today but you know what they, that like messes your growth up. Like you're, it's restricting all this area in your, in your face, in your mouth, jaw, your It affects everything. And you have like a big thing out around your face or had, well, I had the braces for two years, but then they made me sleep.

5:43 I would sleep in that headgear as well. Oh. Yeah. It was awful. And then I went right into, after my father died, um, I went into scoliosis, but they braced me. They wanted to put that race on me. I mean, I wore it for almost two years and it's as hard as a brick wall. It goes from your armpit armpits to your pelvis. And that's like high school. it was high school, right? I was just starting school. You know, that's already awkward anyway. Right. yeah. So you're going through all this stuff. So I just, that's why, I mean, my family only followed what the medical world did. So I was getting different opinions, but they were all orthopedic guys. Of course, that was a perfect candidate for their surgery. That's all they knew.

6:24 Hmm. So if I knew what I knew today, I would have never had that done. But do you know, there's, they're still doing that surgery today. It's so crazy to me. There's such a disconnect in our healing worlds, you they, so they they, they did surgery on your, on your back. Yeah, on my spine. So they actually, um, took pieces off of my spine, the spinal processes, and they even shaved bone from my pelvis, because they took all those bone chips and they put Harrington rods, metal rods in my spine, then they put the bone chips on top because they wanted to fuse my spine from getting worse. I was lucky in the sense that a year and a half later, my orthopedic guy took the rods out.

7:09 And I believe it's because I had, uh, pain already. You know, the pain. And he was saying, Oh, well, you're kind of a thin bone person. You might feel the rods. It's probably better to take them out. I didn't want to go through more surgery and take them out, but I'm really glad today that he took them out because, wow. you know, I can't imagine having rods in your spine your whole life. And your spine fusing, especially what I've learned as a chiropractor. It just is crazy. And it's, and you, and it's funny, we jumped right into it. Um, It's interesting how a lot of your, like, like you said, right, a lot of people don't think about the impact of your personal experiences, your emotion, your stress, and how that physically impacts you on a deep level in your, like, your, your spine reacts to you emotionally and I can see on the surface.

8:07 Yeah, like. People slouch because they're feeling a certain way your chest out when you're more confident, and then when you work out, you're more tight and things are better aligned and and that changes you mentally too. So it's like your mind and your body is having this back and forth communication. Um, and then you had your surgery and I can only imagine for other people how that's just it doesn't change from there. Like the body can't. adjust itself back after you, you know, help them out. And like, and I'm also like happy for you that you were able to kind of like get rid of that BS that, that, they put you through as far as physically having those rods.

8:57 Um, like, do you, like, do they fill those in? Do you have like holes and stuff? Like, how does that work? You know, I, I don't know. They took him out. Um, I had my back and my spine feels weird if you touch it, but I get adjusted like normal and I function like normal. Um, I don't, it's weird because I'm like, oh yeah, I have the scoliosis because it feels like as far as I've come from then, that was almost 30 years ago. I, I feel like a different person, but I'm so grateful for what that going through that challenge. I'm so free now with health. I don't have any fear of health problems today.

9:38 And that's what I, that's what I would wish on anyone. If you could really own your body and be as comfortable in your body, the way I am, it's such a gift because I see so many people. live in fear of disease, live in fear of trying to, and then they go to the other extreme, which is part of the process. I'm not making it wrong, but then they go into the extreme of trying to eat a certain way, trying to exercise a certain way, trying to be a certain way because they got to create health. And, and that's just as stressful. Sometimes there's that sweet spot when you surpass that, you know, that you know that your body's doing what it has to do and you're free. It's interesting, it's interesting how you say that because you have people that are like the health nuts, but driven by fear.

10:28 And, um, I want to go into that because it's almost like that placebo effect, but in reverse when you're living in fear. And I think that's where you're getting to, maybe you, you want to highlight like maybe personal examples of people, you know, that might have gone through that, where maybe it was like a reverse placebo effects and how that affects the body. Can I tell you, I see it, I see it with everybody. I can tell when someone talks to me where they're at with their health and what they're creating for themselves. I can't change that for them. They have to come to that awareness. I can give them insight, but I can tell you my own personal. I'll tell you where the turning point was in chiropractic school. I started getting adjusted.

11:09 The pain got worse. Because, but they explained it to me, the body has to heal, right? So you're waking, as I, I was getting adjusted, it's waking up all that stuff, scar tissue, trauma, besides all the emotions that were there before that were layered upon from the unnecessary surgery. But you know, um, so you go through this process, like it took you years to get into this place, it might take years to untangle. So that put me at ease. But then I was in school and I'm learning different, a different way. I'm, I'm learning that there's an inner wisdom that runs the body called a life force. That's always working as we're sitting here, all our organs are working and we're not consciously controlling it.

11:54 Can you imagine if we had to control all our organs with our mind as we have a conversation and try to eat and go on about our day, we couldn't do it. We couldn't do it. Why are we labeling symptoms as bad when your body knows what it's doing all day long? All of a sudden you have a symptom, and we want to label it as sick, bad, we got to try to fix it, we want to pop a pill, we want to, instead of saying, hey, why don't we just listen to what the body's trying to tell us? So that was a whole new way of looking at something. And then I had to learn, because we had to become a doctor in chiropractic school, we had to learn what the medical people did to pass all the board exams that had nothing to do with chiropractic, in my opinion.

12:36 But I had to learn like the medical terminology and I realized, I'm like, hey, they don't learn healing. They don't really learn the body. They learn, they want to know what all your symptoms are so they can label it. With some disease name, which is usually, it was simple until they put this big gigantic, like, big terminology name on it, right? That now people don't know what it is, so that instills fear. So all they know how to do is either cut it out or drug it. Because big pharma's backing all that. And I thought, oh, they don't know. So I already had the experience that they didn't know because of going through it.

13:16 I kept asking, why do I keep getting sick? And they would say, let me write a stronger prescription, whether it was a painkiller, whether it was an antibiotic for strep throat or whatever, I got everything, I got chicken pox, headaches, you know, colds that wouldn't go away. And I thought, this is crazy. And so it just connected. What happened was I lost the fear. I lost the fear that I couldn't get better. You know, I knew that I could get better and I started owning becoming my own best doctor. You see, because that illusion of somebody else knowing better than you, they didn't. And so it was my journey. And it was a couple of years, probably until I got out of the pain crisis.

13:58 Then I started implementing. Well, why did I get the headache today? What was I stressed about? Why did my lower back kind of go out? Oh, um, it might've been my relationship or, or money stress. You see, I started connecting the emotions behind what was my current symptom. And I realized that's all people have to do is understand their energy flow. You understand your energy flow. You master the body. That's it. Is it similar for every person or does every person kind of like have a different energy flow? I would say the energy flow is unique to each person, but we all have an energy flow. We all have a life force. So it's either are you allowing it at a hundred percent or are you dimming it?

14:41 And you can tell by how stressed you are during the day or how joyful are you. That's the key. And that's why it's key to be joyful in your life, to have purpose, to follow your dreams. You know, we were, we're taught, I think, I think it's shifting now, but I know I grew up thinking you got to just work hard, struggle, suffer. It doesn't matter. Happiness wasn't even questioned. But I'm realizing happiness is the key to help. It's important. Our dreams are important. That's why we're here to live our dreams. So if you're not living what you came here for, eventually you're going to have dis ease in your body because you're blocking the flow.

15:25 You're out of ease. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. And let's say you go get adjusted. And I picked up that what I picked up on what you said, where you go get adjusted and then certain things get released, right? Because your body is trying to, let's say, maintain the flow. And then now it's like, You opened up the floodgates and some people might get emotional, but what's going on there where when, cause I'm going through it right now, as far as going to the chiropractor and you get adjusted and then now you're uncomfortable and they give you ice.

16:06 And it's almost like you're slowly going back to where you were before you came. And it's like, they're battling what your body's trying to do. Um, is that what's going on? Is it like, like, and then in that case. What can someone be mindful of when they're getting adjusted? I'm, like, literally talking about myself and other people Yeah. So I think you have to look at getting adjusted as a tool. It's a tool to give you permission to go back, to get in tune with your body. Cause I think we're so disconnected. A lot of us from what's going on with our body. The body work is a way to get readjusted to the energy so you can understand your flow.

16:48 So when you get adjusted, it breaks up the restriction. Now are you going to allow it to be clear or is it going to go back to being restricted? Like, how are you allowing the body to do what it has to do? So you don't judge it as good or bad. I mean, don't even try to get rid of the pain. Like just say, okay. Maybe I need to rest. Maybe I need to slow down. Maybe it's not about getting rid of it, but being with it. And that's, a lot of us are carrying around stuff, whether it's trauma, whether it's emotional garbage from our childhood, old belief systems, they're going to come to the surface. It's the darkness. A lot of people, that's why we keep ourselves so busy because nobody wants to feel, but it's important to allow that darkness, what we label as darkness or negative or that old stuff to come up, because if you can just be with it without being afraid of it, it'll, it'll go away.

17:37 It'll release so the adjustment is really in just till you get in tune with your body It's great to get adjusted or a massage or any body work But you're the one doing the work. You have to really start being in tune with What are you feeling and allowing it and and then move that be able to incorporate that into your day to day Like when are you closing down? When are you staying open? What's What's your flow moment to moment breath by breath, right? You become aware You Until you're able to live in this higher vibrational state where if you drop out of it, it's weird. You're like, oh, but you notice it before you get to the place where it's Your body's hurting your butt.

18:20 You know what i'm saying, Mm hmm. It's almost like it's forcing you to be present. right? Yeah, start, you know, creating bubbles in your spine so you don't, so you don't get a crack, you know? Do you recommend, like, doing journals? Like, you're like, oh, you know what? My back is bothering me. Okay, well, what was happening right now? What happened right now? Like, is it one of those things where, like, let me just stop what I'm doing? I journaling is like one of the key things that I tell people especially if you want to get in tune with any area of life, whether it's your body hmm, mm your money your relationships your your mindset because You really have to focus on your body is just an indicator of what's out of balance in your life You know so If you journal like what do I want my life to look like?

19:12 And be honest like write out your biggest dreams if you don't know yet Then I sometimes will say they don't know I think it's because they don't either want to face it yet Or they don't think it could happen. It's too good to be true But i'm saying to write it down. Anyway, even if you think it can't happen or you're afraid Because You don't understand how it could unfold for you If you don't if you ignore that inkling inside it comes out as disease in your body That's what cancer is people are angry people walking around angry in their life besides the toxins and all that You know that we're living in with the air and the food But that's my I really believe that's minor compared to our mindset and how we feel and how happy we are in our life because that Once you get to that state it it surpasses everything It's interesting how you brought that up where it's a lot.

20:01 More having to do like there's more impact on your how you're feeling and you're, you're, you're in your body versus the physical things that are being that your body's being exposed to. And it reminds me of those people were, you know, they live to like 90 plus there are smoker, you know, they had a, you know, Basic diet, but they're just happy as F. Like they're like just chill life is life They're just you know hang out and then you have the person that is like the biohacker the this the that and they're and it's just like one Project after the other that they're looking to tackle and yes, they're doing good But like it's it's like you're you're you're running away from something And all you're doing is getting really good at running.

20:54 And I'm not turning, I'm not putting down any biohackers because there's a lot of really good things that you're learning about yourself that, that. You can do on a physical level and on an energetic level, but it's it's like you like you said it at the end of the day How are you feeling about that experience? How are you feeling about that journey? And you know moving the needle forward and I mentioned journaling and Which is you're like, that's huge Are there other things that you suggest or that you have people do to help with their let's say self healing journey Yeah, the other part of the journaling that's huge, too, that's very self healing, is to start writing lists of gratitude, Mm hmm.

21:36 or things that you appreciate, or even lists of things that inspire you. Simple as you saw a sunset, or you saw a cute dog, or a bird, or, you know, those, I mean, what we could consider insignificant are significant. Because you start to train yourself to look for the beauty around you all day long because I think we're Programmed to look for problems to overcome Where if we can embrace the beauty that's all around us We start to attract more and more of that and the universe just keeps feeding you what you focus on So even if you have a challenge, it's not a it doesn't become a struggle or a pain or it becomes An awakening an empowerment.

22:17 It's it's the game of life. It's fun. It becomes fun Even if you're hitting like a roadblock, you know to step back and wait for an answer to come The right podcast shows up the right book shows up the right person with a message, you know You start it becomes like a puzzle you're putting together and it becomes exciting It becomes inspiration and passion and you feel more peaceful In your day because you're not trying to overcome things all day long. So I think the gratitude list You Appreciation list and anything you're feeling any any spark of inspiration that or ideas or what you're trying to figure out But it's great to put pen to paper. I think it's amazing And it's, um, when it comes to pen to paper, right?

23:00 It's physical and there's like a vibration that happens when you have the pen on the paper. And it's, um, and I think about them, like, how am I feeling versus writing with a pen versus a pencil? And there's some pens that are more Yeah. Yeah. Frustrating to use. And I have like those pens. I'm like trash and the cheapest pen glides. So nice. What are your thoughts on physical journaling versus virtual journeying? I do, I honestly do a lot of virtual journey just because of convenience, but I'm curious about your thoughts.

23:40 And I love i'm old school. I grew up without the internet. So I love pen to paper I'm, definitely not a techie as you know for us just getting on this Um, the pen, I actually learned to that trauma survivors, people who have endured great trauma who've had like a lot of, um, emotional or mental abuse. They can clear a lot of it from writing things out pen to paper. I didn't realize that. I feel very healed when I write. I've always journaled. Um, so that there is actually fact base that it is a very healing. It helps rewire your brain when you're actually writing with a pen or a pencil on paper.

24:23 nature of it as well. Right. Yep. All Huh. Um, I like how you also highlighted appreciation and I'm not sure if you've seen it, but me coming from more of a tech background, I like to see visuals and like, all right, so like when you plug someone into a computer, like, what do you see that I can kind of like bridge the gap between science and spirit. And I'm not sure if you saw this, but you have like the energetic signals of the body with. their associations with the words and the whether it's anger happiness love all all the good ones all the bad ones and Appreciation made someone light up the most which was really cool.

25:10 Would you be surprised by that? Not at all. Not at all. You just have to get so in tune with even how something sounds. Like, I don't know how people watch the news. As soon as I have it on by default, or I was getting my car worked on, and they had the mainstream news on, and I could just feel the vibration of it, and I was like, oh, like it's so, it's like harsh. You know, I'm very selective of what I watch, what I'm around, um, how something feels. What I say, you know, like I don't ever say anymore. It's normal for me. It's weird when I hear somebody talking and they say I'm sick or, you know, it's just harsh to me.

25:52 I'm like, you're not really sick. How can you use that word? You know, like I would never call people in my office. I call them people in my office. I never called them patients. I hated that term. They're not sick. I always spoke to some wellness. I couldn't go there because it just wasn't how I healed. It wasn't what my body experienced and my mind didn't work that way. So I think words are key. I mean, the more you start to tap into being aware moment to moment, you might not notice certain things because we have certain things that we consider normal. That could be pretty negative, right? But the more you peel back layers, you get to that place. You're like, Oh, I just said that.

26:33 Let me, how can I reword that? How can I have a new perspective on that? Because we're creating our reality with our words, our perspectives, Mm hmm. thoughts. So you start to really fine tune in all areas. You can't compartmentalize anything because you realize it's one big picture. It's a flow. Your body's flowing and can you flow it everywhere in and out, in and out, even with everything in your life. I like how you, you mentioned, um, that it's just so toxic, right? Just mainstream news and, uh, a lot of the tactic of getting your attention is what I would call fear porn, right?

27:14 And, uh, it's, it's, they're speaking to the very animalistic part of you that feels the need to survive. How do you manage or juggle The need to be current in the world and still maintain sanity and not fall into fear porn. I guess I find little things that I check out on social media to get my updates on current events. And I can, I, I Let's say, I can't say it doesn't always affect me, but I've learned to be intentional about just being aware of what, you know, I find some few sources that I feel are credible.

28:01 And I'm just aware of the information. Just take it in. It may or may not be true. Let me just take it in and kind of store it away for if I need it later to paint a bigger picture. So what anybody says, you don't know it's really factual, Mm hmm. it in and how it resonates. And you may need more information before you find it. I'm going to create a bigger picture, but it's critical thinking, you know, and I think that's how I just gauge it for myself, but I'm not on there long, you know, I just check messages real quick, or I scroll a little bit, but I've never been one of those people who loses time on social media where they're just scrolling and scrolling. I've never, because nothing interests me that long on there.

28:42 I'm like, what are you looking at? Like I can't, I don't know. I've always been more about, I'd rather listen to a podcast about spirituality or law of attraction or a channel, you know, he's something that makes me feel good, you know, or I'd rather be sitting in nature. I love reading, taking walks. So I don't, and then I just do what I have to do. Also with the busyness, I don't stay busy all day long. I used to, but now I realized that creates dis ease in my life, in my body. It's now as soon as I feel off I stop whether I need a moment to regroup take a few breaths Maybe have a cup of coffee. That's my zen moment to just sit with my coffee and really be present Um, so now I look for now.

29:27 I realize i'm more productive By how how much flow and joy were in my day? How many things that I go with today or how many things that I get triggered by today? That's my gauge now Mm. Mm. I do see like how important it is for you to be that level of self aware when juggling life's challenges, life's ups and downs. And for you, it seems as you got, and correct me if I'm wrong, as you got more aware of how your body is affected by your thoughts and feelings and that whole dynamic, it's easier to.

30:18 Give it more energy and to protect that flow of the body, that communication. And it's almost like you're telling yourself, well, you know, we know what going down that path looks like and it will literally break your back. Lovely Literally. Um, we haven't really touched into the nutrition side of your background. Do you like how, what percentage of your work when you're working with people involves nutrition? I'm curious. So there is an aspect of it. Uh, I'll show you, I'll tell you the background of, of my nutrition too. So in chiropractic school, we were able to get our bachelors in nutrition alongside of our chiropractic degree because a lot of the classes overlapped.

31:04 So I did my degree at the same time, ha but as chiropractic students, we were learning clean hygiene, right? Whereas reading the toxins, understanding organic, all this was kind of a new at the time. This was in the nineties, Then the nutritionists, or they weren't nutritionists, they were dieticians. A lot of them, they were still working with the food pyramid. I'm not kidding. So it was like, they hated us in their class because they'd be saying something and we'd all be putting our hands up like, um, we disagree. They were still working from that model. And I saw the disconnect there. And so I really believe it's just us getting back to what is nature, right?

31:45 And that's, it's just about your body's natural flow. Well, what's the most natural food you can eat? You know, it's the least processed, the least, you know, I can't believe even if you're going to drink the soda, drink the soda. There's people who drink diet soda. Like I'm thinking to myself, what in the world? Go big or go home. Let's go. Ha ha ha ha ha Like you're still counting calories. You're still like that cracked me up. I mean, everybody, you know, I don't mean to make fun, but it's so disconnected. Right. But I remember being there. People would buy low fat or they're, they're worried about how many things they're eating a day. And I'm like, Oh my word. Just that the key is to get into what do you naturally crave. Now you can have a natural cravings because you'd be so toxic.

32:28 So maybe there is crave fries. Ha Yeah, I mean, you could put it, there is a, there could be a place to detox, right? But it shouldn't be so miserable. You should be like, you just get, just cleaning out. So when you clean out, then you can reintroduce things and see how it makes your body feel. Some days you might want a soda, but guess what? If you're really in tune with yourself, you're not going to be drinking soda all day long. Cause I just have a few sips and I'm like, okay, I'm done. You know, like sometimes you want it. And but the thing is when you're so strict with yourself that you just don't I'm in the moment What is my body? What is the moment? Sometimes it's a really it's like a burger. I want a burger other times I want a really big salad.

33:10 I know how off like it's just like moment to moment not even day to day, you know And I think that's the key I want people to understand how they're judging the food how mindful they are when they eat The amount of toxins and the amount versus the amount of nutrition they're putting in, just becoming aware, maybe making healthier choices. Because once you do that, like I said, once you get rid of the toxins overall, you can really feel your natural cravings. And then I think you're going to point where you really can be joyful and present and mindful when you eat and not so hung up there with worrying about it all the time. Yeah, and um, what you said reminds me of something, and it's a story of my nutritional journey.

33:56 And it started with the swear jar, right? You swear, you put a coin in the jar. Back when we had change, right? Um, So for, for me and my roommates at the time, we did a health food jar. So it was an honor system and we had a list of food that you can't eat. And if you did, including alcohol, you put like a dollar or, you know, they had different costs. I think it was just like a dollar across the board for everything. So fries were not on there. And I was like, Hey, Hey, it's, I'm going to keep that. So, uh, you know, like soda, um, I think, yeah, soda, uh, alcohol, wine, all the burgers, all the, the, the, the basic American fast food diet was on that list.

34:44 And so it would be funny because you would just see someone straight face, just putting a couple of bucks, like. Several dollars in and like, don't ask. And then some people were like, you know what? I'm going out. I'm going to preemptively put 10 bucks in. I know it was going to be a wild night. I don't care. I need to have fun. So it was really cool to see people just be okay with it. Um, And for me, I'm like, you know what? I want to, I want to save some money. And I changed my diet. Ironically, I kept fries in there. That's like my, my kryptonite. And, um, but I stopped going to McDonald's at the time I stopped going to a Chinese spot because where I worked, there was a Chinese spot.

35:27 Like literally I shared a wall with it. And then across the street was McDonald's. So it was just like, either, or it was just the convenience. I'm not bringing food to work. I'm just going to go out and pick something different. And then it was. Let's say 90 days of just avoiding stuff and me, me trying to avoid putting, you know, a dollar in for a burger. We go to a barbecue, I'm like five bucks right here. And I noticed that I had less cravings and when I would go. Grocery shopping at the time, I remember as a child growing up, I would always ask my mom for like the snicker bars.

36:11 And so when I was on my own and single, I would always get a snicker bar whenever I would go grocery shopping. That was just my thing. Like, you know, like no one's going to tell me I can't do this. But when I went back to like 90 days was up and I didn't win the swear jar or whatever you want to call it a jar, I went back to going to McDonald's to, you know, the Chinese food, maybe soda here and there, but everything was so different. Things tasted different. I couldn't even walk back into McDonald's because I can smell the chemicals. I thought that they just cleaned the place. But it was still dirty.

36:51 So I was smelling what was behind the counter being made and I couldn't order anymore. And I actually, one time I did and my stomach just totally rejected it and I was frustrated. And then I went grocery shopping. I'm like, at least I can have my snicker bar. And I grabbed the king size snicker bar and I'm like, yes, we're back. I couldn't handle more than two bites. I felt like I was downing. a whole tablespoon of sugar just back to back. And I was just confused and frustrated. And that was like my, like, all right, I can't be stubborn anymore. Like I have to actually legit focus on my, my health. And I thought you would appreciate that because there was a mixture of people saying, F it, I'm going to go and have fun.

37:34 And then me just realizing that the body knew more than me. And I had to now listen to the body. Mm hmm. I mean, but that's the key to freedom. Because now you're in the moment. You could have a couple bites of the sticker bar and then throw it out, right? But now you're not, now you're not like, Oh, I really want that sticker bar, but I can't have it. Do you know how much mental energy that is? Like, do you watch people when they eat? Or what they order if you go out? Or if you listen, if you're with other people and how they order? And it's like, Oh, my gosh, it's mentally exhausting. I'm like, they took the joy out of the whole experience just with everything, their whole thought process. I always encourage them. I'm like, be, be present on what you're thinking about your food and what you do and all the labels.

38:18 And now we have so many labels today. Oh, with the, with the, with the diet and how we eat and my son and I, we just laugh because I've never restricted my son. I always let him eat whatever, even as a kid, because I didn't want him to be one of those kids where my mom doesn't let me have anything. And then I'm going to the neighbor's house or the friend's house and they have all this junk food. And then the kid has to binge out because he never gets it at home. I always let my, I always let him self regulate and he still does. He always has. He's never had a problem. That's awesome. And I forgot to mention. Yes, you're homeschooling your son, right? And How are you? I'm sure there's people listening right now.

38:58 They're thinking of doing it. We're gonna do it How does that dynamic of homeschooling with? I know that there's like a certain criteria you need to abide by with, with, with teaching and like the basics, but then at the same time, how are you incorporating what you're learning now and what we're talking about? we kind of went from homeschool to unschool, you know that terminology because I got to the point where when he was younger, he's gonna be 18 in like two weeks. So we kind of been through every phase. We started in the beginning. I would just do a couple times a week. We would do some reading, writing.

39:40 Math basic stuff a couple times a week with the book We would just follow a book like what this grade first grade needs to learn what second grade needs to learn and and he always did Activities so he was always involved in different, you know sports jujitsu music He did that naturally social didn't have to worry about that. The last few years changed things when we had the lockdowns and Hmm. We lost a lot of things that we were doing. Um, but then I also gave him the choice if he wanted to go to school. I hated it. I realized when I got out, I wasted my time because nobody taught me about anything practical in life. You know, there wasn't anything that you needed really in school.

40:21 So I gave him the choice if you want to go just for social reasons. And so he decided to go in third grade. And he had an amazing experience and the teachers and I didn't have them up to par with reading at that point because he didn't really, I didn't want to force it on him. I wanted him to like it. I didn't like reading when I got out of school. I don't think I ever read a book in school. I think I did cliff notes the whole way through and I was a student on a role and I did it all. I played the whole game. Hey, it works. What works works. It worked. Um, he had a great experience and I first teacher's conference I was nervous. I'm like, okay, here's the test. Like what's how, how is my world and their world going to match? I really was waiting for them to be like, Hey, your kid's not reading yet.

41:03 This is a problem, blah, blah, blah. And they wanted, they go, what are you doing with your son? Because he loves to learn. We wish every student was like him. He thinks big. He asks questions. He's excited. And I'm like, Oh, I said, I have always let him be self guided. Like, what is he interested in? I've, I never interfered with him. Listening to his inner voice because that's what's wrong with all of us. We've all been interfered with if we were all allowed to just come in and listen to our inner voice We'd be living heaven on earth, but society's not set up like that, right? And I said, well, you know the thing is that I didn't push the reading because I didn't want him to hate it because we just weren't there yet and He decided last minute that he wanted to go to school. I wasn't preparing to send him to school We were still on our own timeline and they're like, oh don't worry about that.

41:49 We can get him caught up. That's no problem That's our job. So I was like, oh You Damn, so I'm like that kind of I'm like, okay, I'm good It's just like confirmed that I knew that I knew Like that turning point just like when I lost the fear about me feeling in chiropractic school was a turning point for me and so after that he only Went a year and a half and then we went back to home school and I just always taught him the principles that i've learned Law of Attraction, How You Feel, Follow Your Instinct, Financial Freedom, you know, Multiple Streams of Income, Stop, What Do You Need The Degree For, you know, and he sees all these people, they're graduating now, and having, you know, and I laugh. I'm like, boy, society's really set up on the false narratives.

42:30 I mean, that's great. It's exciting for a minute when you graduate, you know, and you have the, we really fucked all over that. And like, what does it mean that you're, you can go be enslaved to a job for the rest of your life? Like none of them know about money. Yeah. They don't know about money. They don't know about the economy. They don't, I don't, I know that. Cause I self taught myself. Once I got into practice, I realized nobody taught me. Cause I was on a wing and a prayer. I just went with passion and purpose. And I thought that was enough. And then I had no idea. So I'm like, okay, let me start reading. And, um, It just was a whole nother world. It's a whole different mindset. And I learned so much because I taught myself. So I teach him that so he doesn't have to go through that. But I just watch.

43:10 It's just interesting to watch the past, right? So now he's um, right now he's doing a Learning to trade options, day trading. It's an online course. And He's turning 18. Congrats! Let's Yeah. And he knows, like he knows. I'm like, you know, you, then you want to invest that into other streams of business to create passive income. Like that's his goal and he has a job. He has, he's always been abundant. He brings in whatever he needs. I watch him all the time. I wish I lived like that. I lived in so much scarcity and worry and overcoming and the struggle. And it made, all I did was make me sick. That's it. So if we can, you know, my whole goal was like, he was born at home, never vaccinated, no circumcision.

43:54 He's never been to a medical doctor because he's never needed to go. He doesn't have, he wasn't raised with a religion. He wasn't. I just said, listen to yourself because God's in all of us telling us, guiding us. We're all here for a unique purpose. That's the flow. That's everything. That's why you feel inspiration. That's God. That's your source flowing through you like, yeah, that's why you're here. And when you ignore that, that's why you feel like crap. That's why so many people are on antidepressants and anxiety medicine, medicine and all that. I'm like, no, stop labeling yourself depressed. You're probably the most awake person in the room. You're depressed because. The structure of society sucks.

44:35 Break out of it. Find the new path. We've got to come out of the matrix and start living in our higher, the higher vibrational realms. That's our natural state. That's what I've discovered on my healing journey as a chiropractor. That last part. Where you're like, you're probably the most awake person in the room because you're suffering the most. What a flip of perspective. And you know you're not on your path when you're just not feeling it. And it's like, uh, those hero movies. the stories where they go through the mud because they had to go through the mud to know how to get rid of it.

45:22 Um, so I, I can only imagine with, with your son, how he's benefiting from your experience and he has, It sounds like he has a really good relationship with himself as funny as that sounds, right? Um, because I still have arguments with myself just not out loud and But you know like He's he's like Because he has that good relationship with himself I I remember myself in in high school not really sure what I want to do for college Like just the game plan didn't really work out It wasn't attractive to me, but because I saw everybody else going, having a plan and they give off this facade that they know what they're doing, they know what they want.

46:11 And even if they really do know what they want, it could be based off a very limited self awareness until you hit that wall. I just decided to follow suit. And I just was like, any, mini, mighty mode. That's what I'm going to study. And then no wonder I didn't finish right. Because I was just. I just. kind of stopped showing up because it just was draining and it didn't make sense. So it's really cool to see how you've helped someone connect with their inner voice and how at such a young age they have that craving to grow. So I love, I love hearing that and I'm glad I asked. That's pretty cool. I'm excited for you. You know, can I just say, looking back, I knew, I knew that I knew, like I would question, like, why am I studying this algebra?

46:58 Why am I taking calculants? What? And my mom would say, oh, you'll see, you'll need it when you get out. I never really saw anybody using it. Guess what? I didn't need it. I wasted my time. And I knew that I knew. I knew there was something off. Even like, how about just saving money? I would save money and to spend, to buy something. Even if it was important. But then that money was gone. And I used to think, That was all my hours of working to get that. I knew there had to be something, but nobody talks about residual income, passive income, asset, wealth versus debt, you know, and I had to teach myself that and like I knew something was off. Like, so I knew I had to unlearn all the programming to get back to my natural state.

47:42 So that's why I just didn't want to do that to someone else. well said. Yeah. So, As we come to a close and, um, kind of wrap everything up. I want to ask you a question that I'm trialing right now. And I'm very curious based off of your experience with working with people and life, let's say you're looking at the world right now, going macro, where do you see the world in 10 years? I think we're entering a new world. I really do. I'm not going to say, I was freaked out a little bit a couple of years ago when everything locked down because I thought, okay, now we're losing our freedom and people are just complying to what's going Mm hmm.

48:25 They understood the way I did. They would never fell for that crap from day one. And I lost a lot of people. Like I lost. A lot that I was doing and building for myself at the time because of it, but I came up came out that much wiser. I understood understand our natural rights. I understand. Even I understood a lot about economics, but now I understand it even more. So with government and what it should look like. And the corruption in there and being able to stand up for our own natural sovereignty. But then in 2023, I felt a shift. I felt myself going back to my spirituality again, because I wasn't, I was in a fight. I was standing up for freedom, health, freedom, everything else.

49:05 And I was, I haven't lived in that space in a long time because when I first got into practice, I felt like I was kind of like anti medical fight in the fight one, you know, anti vaccine, like trying to wake people up. And then I realized, okay, I don't want to live in a fight. I just want to be an example and pave a new path and live in my joy. So I had my awakening and I was living in a bliss state and all this, but then, you know, 2020 brought me back to that fight, but then it eased out 2023. I felt like, okay, I feel my spirituality kicking back in my higher vibration, me working on myself. There's things showing up in my life that were not stable, you know, my business, my, my finances, because of if I was able to be derailed, like it's that theme again, why did that happen?

49:53 And I realized I'm like we are in a new consciousness, you know how I think we already shifted into a new consciousness But it hasn't truly formed yet What this new world's going to look like and I believe that's really affecting even my son right now He's already been in the new world, right? But other people haven't caught up to him yet I feel like he hasn't found his tribe yet his purpose because I believe the new world's forming because I believe all these old structures are falling away and I do believe You I was born like I came in to experience this shift. That's what I feel. So I feel very positive Very excited. I think That higher vibrational state that I tapped into 20 years ago that I've learned to live my life by is, is the new, it's going to be the new normal.

50:39 Right. And all these old things that we've been living in fear and poverty, disease, all this suffering, it's dropping away where it's just like tell technology came in and just. All of a sudden we reached a critical mass and it shifted and now we do everything with our phone. That's what's happening right now. Mm mass is happening right now with the new awakening of this living from a higher place of love, gratitude, appreciation, joy, inspiration, that's going to be the new normal. This old suffering, we're going to be like, Ooh, we used to do that. And everything that supports that all the fear porn and all that it's just dropping away But that's why the world looks so chaotic right now, but we're going to be shifting into this higher consciousness I think it's already here, but the structures have not formed yet.

51:21 So I believe in like 10 years I think we're going to be pretty blissed out. That's what I see I like it. And I agree. I agree. And I like how you made it clear. You're like, instead of fighting, right? Like you said, when you think about you bring about in so many words, why not work on the solutions? Right? I feel like you and I were working on the solutions after the collapse happens, so to speak, right? You have to like, stuff falls apart. What are you going to grab to, right? Mm hmm. There's much more people that need to see things fall apart, that false reality, and then you're like, okay, you'll see us in the, on the other side of that wall that you, you know, couldn't, that was blocking us, and it falls apart, and we're like, hey, what's going on?

52:12 And like, all right, cool. Let me, let me catch up what's going on. So like, they're like, it's, it's kind of funny how like you brought that up and I appreciate it. Cause I had that similar mentality where I'm like, all right, cool. I'm going to fight. I'm going to beat the crap out of some people mentally, physically. Let's go. Let's go. When that's just self perpetuating, self perpetuating. But you know what I think really the key with this everything coming together is us having conversations like this Yes. Questioning really really Key to us Creating this new vibe that we're coming into. yeah. Now living in fear, talking about solutions. What can we do now? Where are we going?

52:54 Awesome. Well, yeah, so, um, let's say someone wants to connect with you and they, they like your vibe. Maybe the wall is crumbling right now and, and they see you and hear your voice and they're like, okay, what's, what's going on there? How, what's the best way for someone to reach you? And um, if there's anything exciting down the road, feel free to share. Yeah. So I have a website, it's creating my desired life. com and you can go right on there and just email me a question. If you want, I'll get back to you. You can get on my mailing list to see the things that I offer. And I also have my book on there. You can purchase my book right on there. So that's what I Good stuff. All right. Well, if you feel pulled, connect with Dr.

53:38 Lynn Carey. Thank you for coming on the show. Really appreciate you. Thank you, John. This was amazing.