iMindShift with Steve Chandler: Joy through strength

Joy through strength

Hank Uhlaender (pictured above) sent me an email yesterday:

    "The latest Club Fearless audio program reminded me of Jack & Elaine LaLanne, Jack is 96 years old and still lift weights with his wife Elaine every morning... amazing!

     Jack has a great track record, have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_lalane

     p.s. Jack had just turned 95 when he autographed a poster for me, he even spelled my last name correctly!"

     Hank is totally devoted to helping people get fit and strong and healthy. Visit him here: Hank Uhlaender:  http://hanksfitness.com/

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For those who live in ARIZONA

Or those who would like to fly in, I am doing a two-hour talk on "100 Ways to Create Wealth" for a $50 donation to the Food Bank you can see and hear me November 17th. Email my friend Jeff Jones at www.100Ways.EventBrite.com to get more information and claim your seat.

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     My good friend Monica Chaney, the best Mom’s Coach on the planet, is launching the Four Burners Cafe on January 1st, 2011.

    Are you a mom? I know what it's like. No, really. For many years I had sole custody of four children and made a wild, vain attempt to raise them well. I really could have used Monica back then to help me with my mothering and fathering.

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     Now back to Jack LaLanne and fitness.

     Today, health rules, for the most part. One of my heroes was Paul Bragg who pioneered the health food movement in the United States and inspired Jack LaLanne.

     Bragg lived to be 95, dying from a surfboarding accident while frolicking like a 20-year-old in rough ocean waters. He claimed we could all live to 120 if we exercised and ate right, and it looked like he was headed there despite having been a very sick child. (He prayed that if they could cure him he would devote his life to health. They did...and he did.) Today many people who are way past 60 but don't look it---people like Clint Eastwood----attribute their eating and exercise programs to Paul Bragg.

     Although I grew up in Michigan, I moved to Arizona after high school and have pretty much remained there. (I've lived briefly, since then, in California, Germany, North Carolina, and northern Michigan, but Arizona is my home.) Neil Young's lyric applies: "All my changes were there." Young's album, "Prairie Wind," is a good album and many say it's as good as it is because he was facing death when he wrote it. He had a serious brain disorder and didn't know if he would survive so he went to Nashville to record his last album, in case he didn't.

     This calls to mind the Samurai concept of "Dying before you go into battle" so you will battle with full and fearless abandon. Or like in the Kevin Costner baseball movie, "For Love of the Game", wherein his Detroit Tigers pitcher character learns again to pitch well by learning to "clear the mechanism" on the mound before pitching. In other words, to go to the state that the Samurai warriors call "no mind."

     Alan Watts said we should not fear death because we were there before we were born and it caused us no problem back then. I love the Watts book The Wisdom of Insecurity. To Watts, death is a part of life, the tails to the heads of life on an ever-tossing coin.

     All my changes occurred for me after I suffered the living death of active alcoholism. Alcoholism is a form of ongoing and relative (but not absolute) suicide. After that recovery, through the 12-Step method, I encountered other expanding levels of recovery and indeed even personal and accelerated evolution toward the spirit that knows no death. And I've devoted my life to helping others do the same. All my books and all my seminars and consulting are part of showing others what has happened for me.

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"Would you get your dog up every day, give him a cup of coffee,
a donut, and a cigarette? Hell, no. You'd kill the damn dog."

~Jack LaLanne

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"I can't afford to die. It'll wreck my image."

~ Jack LaLanne

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Comments

Excellent video. Funny I just started juniicg too and Kris Carr and her Crazy Sexy Diet book were what inspired me. I'm sipping my second green juice of the day while I type this.I have the Breville Compact Juice Fountain as well and no complaints so far. This is my first Breville product. I find it to be a thoughtfully produced product. They thought of a lot of useful extras to make using the juicer easy, like the pulp scooper which doubles as a scrub brush for the filter. The electrical plug has is designed to easily unplug the apparatus from the outlet. The collecting cup's lid fits perfectly around the juice spout making juniicg drip free while it also helps to separate the foam from the poured out juice. I'm very pleased with this and it has enabled me to follow Kris's 21-day Adventure Cleanse including all day juice fasts (i.e., I've used this machine a LOT in the past 11 days!)

Posted by: Hidayati | October 27, 2012 at 08:54 PM

The Norwalk juicers are lrtieally the best and you get the most juice out of them.You might not want to use plastic in your juices . for example if you juice grapefruit, onion, and ginger root all in one cup . that will break down the plastic rather fast so USE GLASS.

Posted by: Henry | August 15, 2012 at 12:40 AM

I also have an 8003. I have juiced for 30+ years and this is the qeeutist I've ever owned. Still have a Champion, an Acme, a Breville, etc. This is the juicer I use in the morning because it's the least intrusive. BTW I never force produce through as you do; I use light pressure and let the auger do the work. My 8003 doesn't sound anything as noisy as yours do. Glad you like it.

Posted by: Alice | August 14, 2012 at 11:28 PM