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Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in

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your present place of right now. To get there requires

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some practice. I do it every single day. This thing

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called practice. One sheet of paper, just ten minutes, write

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about whatever is moving through your presence of right now

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without any type of judgment. Stream thinking will sharpen your

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skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.

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It's learning how to trust your right now. This is

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stream thinking today. We're reading from November ninth, twenty twenty four.

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As a child, I never truly understood why mom and

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dad constantly complained about being in pain. For my dad,

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it was his legs. My mom her hips and legs.

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Never once did I think that it was headed my

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way learning how to manage your pain. It can lead

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some into thinking how stopping your activities is the best

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walk and way, when in fact, most insurance companies have

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created wellness programs and apps to keep all ages physically active.

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Being inactive causes cartilages to shrink and stiffen. Ligaments and

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tendons shorten and lose flexibility. As we reach deeper into

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our older years, don't forget to reach outward. Be of

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great health kind of a tough little cookie to bite into,

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isn't it. Oh my legs are hurting, Oh my back,

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my shoulders, Oh god, I'm going to complain today. I'm

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not going to go into work today because oh my god,

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oh my foot. Oh I got this thing I can't

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even pronounce, but it's got like eighteen letters in it. Yeah,

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we're all doing it. You got to hold yourself accountable.

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You really do have to be focused in on who

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you are as a human being and realize that your

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body is a machine. If you agree to stop, if

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you agree to set things aside, not only are you

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going to gain weight and fight like hell to get

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that weight off, but what you're going to do is

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you're going to put yourself in a situation where you're

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gonna start questioning why you didn't hold yourself accountable years ago.

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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with

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over the past forty years is that in nineteen eighty five,

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I checked in at one hundred and sixty seven pounds

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at my heart attack time. In two thousand and nine,

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I was two forty two before I turned to the

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age of fifty. I wanted to lose fifty pounds and

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I did it, but the problem is I regained some

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of that weight, not a lot of it, but some

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of it. And then I got this kick in the

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butt that said, you were once one sixty seven, why

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can't you get back there figure it out? Presently, I'm

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at one seventy eight, just eleven pounds away from where

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I was in nineteen eighty five, and it's currently twenty

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twenty five. It can be done, but you've got to

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hold yourself accountable. Every day I do my stretches. You

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don't have to go out and do a jog. You

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don't have to go out and pump weights every single day.

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Do your stretching. Your stretching is so valuable. If your

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foot is not talking to your calf, and then your

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hamstrings and then your lower back, they've got to communicate together.

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Now I'm not a physical therapist, but I've been in

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so much pain, and I've read about it so much

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much that all I can say is hold yourself accountable.

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If you don't want to check in, then don't bitch

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and complain about the pain. You're going to have it

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the older you get, manage it. See this is what

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one professional told me one time. Pain management is based

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on one thing. You are comparing yourself to who you

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were ten or fifteen years ago. When you have pains

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in your legs, you're going man back when I was twenty. Man,

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I could do all of this. I don't know what's

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wrong with me today. Because you're now fifty or sixty,

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maybe you're forty and you're in pain, You're not going

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to be that same person. But if you manage your

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pain and stay in the present place of right now,

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the pain isn't that bad. Sure it's there, but maybe

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it's a border. It's keeping you from future injury. Listen

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to it, take good notes, but hold yourself accountable. I'm Errol,

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and that's stream thinking.