Self Discipline, Your Greatest Power

(0:01) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and you are listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the Sunday, August 22, 2021 edition. Yay! Today's title is Self-Discipline. Yes, misunderstood and underrated, self-discipline is the key to good health and anything else you may desire. But first, yay! We have to give the mom update. As you'll recall, mom is 89 years old, and her big goal in life is to make it until she is 90 years old. That's about six months away, and so far, she's doing well. She's determined, doing her exercises in bed, exercising her legs, and she's managed to grab her walker and get to the kitchen. She's promised to give that walker a whirl every day, and she's doing well. Some good spirits and all is well. So that's the mom update.

(1:10) Then we have the update on Vitality Capsules. Yay! Vitality Capsules have been manufactured and are shipping. Yay! Regular and extra strength. Check them out at vitalitycycles.com. They are available. Also, we are getting the replays in order on that site. It is still in progress, so if you have any problems at all with the site, please send an email to jdaniels.daniels@gmail.com, and the IT team will be on it. As you realize, there's a lot of censorship and all kinds of things going on on the internet, and we are certainly experiencing our share. So it's necessary for us to transition to vitalitycycles.com, maybe a little sooner than we would like, but we are committed to addressing all the bugs. So please, whatever bugs you might find, send us a little note at jdaniels.daniels@gmail.com. All right, awesome.

(2:31) And then, of course, I'll tell you my progress. Yay! So I'm not sure if I told you last time, but I am now doing, wait for it, over splits. Yes, over splits. I can now easily do not only a split, but I can elevate my leg four inches beyond a split. Yes, it's like this: standing up, this is a split, and that's an over split. I will get my foot four inches off the ground. Yay! And I'm working on my core to make my handstands easier. I'd like to encourage any and all of you out there who are 64 years old, that would be my age, to go for it. Yes, you've got more life in you than you realize, and you can do it. Yes.

(3:24) And, of course, it is now time to take our turpentine. Cannot forget that. There it is. Under here. All right. So whenever you have things at home, soft medication, you must label them. All right, turpentine. And you can see I'm not the world's best labeler. You don't need to be the best labeler either, but you do need to put a label on it so people will know this is not a beverage. This is turpentine. Okay. And sometimes I'll even write the word "please" in one thing to let people know, hey, don't you drink this. Unless, of course, you know, you're exercising appropriate caution. So those of you who would like to, now I check this. Okay. I say, I want you now, I check this to make sure there was a spoon and I found the spoon. Okay. So you want people to understand that this is something that they need to take cautiously and carefully.

(6:40) All right. So to get all the information, everything you ever need to know about taking turpentine safely, effectively, and with great benefit, go to vitalitycycles.com and get your free report, the Candida Cleaner document. Download it, read it, read it twice. Won't hurt. It'll tell you all about turpentine, how I rediscovered it or uncovered it. It's almost lost to history and adapted it for modern-day use and benefit. All right. So we have our turpentine. We have a spoon. This is a US teaspoon, which is five grams because I know there are spoons all around the world, all different kinds. And then sugar. This is white sugar, white granulated sugar. I recommend cane sugar because it's not yet been genetically modified. So cane sugar, white. Okay. There we go. And we have our spoon. Bam. We're going to scoop up some sugar here. God, Daniels, how much sugar? About a teaspoon and a half. So I generally take a half teaspoon of turpentine. This is my little pipette. I reuse it. It says disposable, but what the heck? It's been lasting, so I keep reusing it. And you squeeze the bulb. Bam. Dip it in the turpentine. Release the bulb, sucking up all the turpentine. Oh my God. It's perfectly perfect. Right there. You can see it. I don't know if you can see the level. It's right there at the neck. All right. And so you squeeze this onto the sugar, and you will see that the sugar turns grayish. Not all of it, but a good piece of it. All right. And we have our water here waiting and ready to go. Yes. So I put a little bit of water in my mouth and then put this in my mouth because that little bit of water lifts the sugar and turpentine off the spoon and down my throat, so I don't get to taste the icky part. You have to chase it. You want to get it all the way down into your tummy. Okay. It is in my tummy.

(6:49) Next, you want to take Shilajit. Why Shilajit? Well, Shilajit is a wonderful, in my opinion, the absolute best trace mineral substance in the world. It's mined in Russia. They dig it out the ground, scoop out the ground, and put it in a container like this, just for you. Now, I like to use a chopstick to dip out the amount that I need. The recommended amount is 200 milligrams a day. And so open this. This is a tropic, so this gooey stuff is gooey. Now, if you live in a northern climate where it's cooler, then it'll be more like plastic. It'll be really tough and hard, but you can scoop it up with a chopstick still. So here you go. Put that in there, and you just pull that out. And as you can see, yeah, I think that's about enough. 200 milligrams. Now, I try to take this every day, but honestly, I get about five days a week. So then I end up missing enough days that it's pretty much the same as what's recommended by the Russians, which is take it every day for a while, and then stop, and then resume. So if you just miss a few days here and there, just keep taking it. That way, you don't lose the discipline of taking it. So if you stop, say for a month, then it's more likely you'll forget to resume it, and then you won't get the benefits. You'll start feeling kind of, man, I'm not so energetic, and you won't know why.

(10:28) So you take the Shilajit, put it in the water. As you can see, it does not easily dissolve. So we're going to set this, put it aside while I do the radio show, and then I will take this at the end of the show or later on today. Now, who cares about trace minerals? And why don't we have any? And why would you need a supplement? Well, it turns out the food chain is broken. So since the food chain is broken, we lose these trace minerals, and we don't get them back in our food supply. So what happens is we, let's just say we eat Shilajit or whatever, a complete array of all the trace minerals we need. We poop it out, and what happens? The poop goes in the ocean or the river, does not use to fertilize our crops, and so we don't get those trace minerals back when we eat plants. So the plants are either fertilized with NPK, which is nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, missing pretty much every single trace nutrient, and so we're getting food that's lacking in trace minerals. And so why do we need trace minerals? So your body makes these proteins, and a protein is a string of amino acids, and these amino acids, in order to work, have to fold themselves up into certain configurations in order to work. And they need the trace minerals in order to form themselves into those configurations. So then you've got all these enzymes and proteins your body's created, they're drifting around, kind of not really doing what they're supposed to do because they don't have the trace minerals. So when you take Shilajit, it gives you the trace minerals, and most people actually feel the increase in mental alertness and physical energy within minutes of taking it. So it's quite dramatic.

(12:28) Okay, and that brings us to today's title, which is self-discipline. So I have to confess, today I just couldn't find a topic. I could not find a topic. So I took a look at the questions people sent in to see if I could find a thread, a thread going through these questions, a recurring theme of what would solve the problem. And what I found this week was self-discipline was the remedy for the situation. My camera appears to be a little bit blurred. I'm going to see if I can get it to focus. All right, maybe it will focus now. And self-discipline is very much misunderstood and underrated. Self-discipline really is the key to good health and really anything else you might desire. So what I want to do is give you an understanding of self-discipline, a definition of self-discipline, and how to apply it. This will make it super, super easy for you to apply.

(13:06) Okay, so self-discipline, you can think of it as self-control, but it's the ability to pursue what you think is right despite temptations to abandon it. Now, what makes this super simple is what you think is right. So it's not you following what I think is right. It's you following what you think is right. This is very important. Despite temptations to do otherwise. And if people knew how important obedience to what they know to be right is to their life, they would be a slave to themselves and really look for nothing else. They would never even look outside themselves. They would seek to make themselves a total and complete slave to their chosen belief of what is right. And that alone would solve pretty much all their problems.

(13:45) So I would say this should be your motto. Let it be said. I'm going to put this in the first person. The only reason I did not do better was because I did not know better. In other words, do all the things you know to be correct and good. Just focus on that. Do all the things you know to be correct and good. Let's just say if you look at all the things you know to be correct and good, and you're kind of not doing any of them, be patient with yourself. Just pick one and work on that. And then once you've mastered that, pick the next and so on. But you want to get control over yourself and your actions. I'm going to go over the basic principles, how I do it, then I'm going to apply it to the questions that I received this week.

(14:33) Self-discipline, and this is what other people are saying, is the number one trait needed to accomplish goals and lead a healthy and happy life. You just can't beat it. It creates long-term success in every aspect of your life. Everything. So how do you create self-discipline? First thing you have to do is decide what you think is right. And what I think is right may not be what you think is right. It doesn't have to be because you're in control. You decide what's right.

(17:53) Next, we have some questions. What are your thoughts on getting blood work done as well as a non-invasive colonoscopy in the past? I already know your thoughts on mammograms. Okay. So again, this person has a lack of self-discipline. She's established her value, which is to be independent of the medical industrial complex, yet she's submitting to the whole structure.

(18:03) So what are my thoughts? My thoughts on colonoscopy and pap smears? Everyone has their value in terms of what they do for pleasuring, touching, fondling, invading certain orifices. I have total, complete respect for that. However, there's no health benefit to be gained from any of this because the person feels perfectly fine. Before I order this breathing machine, any other recommendations? Yeah, if you feel perfectly fine, there's no need for any of it. Just walk away. Walk away. And this is the number one step with self-discipline. It's driven by temptations. Once you decide if something is bad or not a good idea for you, just walk away. It's like, I decided not to smoke cigarettes. I don't buy cigarettes. I don't inquire as to where they are in the store. I don't set aside money in my budget for them. I just have nothing to do with them. I just, someone offers me a cigarette, I say, no thanks. Super simple.

(19:17) And so this person has failed at just even step one of the temptation thing. So remove temptation. Once you've decided that something is not for you, just remove it. Give it zero of your attention. Give it zero dollars. At least do that. You don't need to preach to anyone else. It has nothing to do with it. We're talking about self-discipline. You making a disciple of yourself. You being obedient, totally obedient to what you think is right.

(20:18) Next, eat regularly and healthfully. Studies have shown that low blood sugar weakens a person's resolve. When you're hungry, your ability to concentrate suffers as your brain is not functioning to its highest potential. So you've got to feed yourself regularly and healthfully. That is a vague term. I'm going to say appropriately. So there's a time in my life where eating every other day was the appropriate thing for me to do. That's what I did. It worked out great. Now I eat once a day. So you guys, you've got to study yourself and understand whether you work better with every other day feeding, once a day feeding, twice a day feeding, three times, whatever it is. And whatever works for you, that's what you stick to. That's your rule for you, and that's what you do. But if you starve yourself, when I say starve yourself, allow your lack of food to influence your judgment, that's not good.

(21:19) Now I'll give you an example. When I am going to be away from home for more than five or six hours, I will pack food to eat. So when I eat, I eat once a day, somewhere between 10 o'clock and three. I kind of like to eat at 11 or noon, but depending on what's going on, I might not get around to it until three. But I pack something for myself to eat, and that way when I'm out, I don't stop and buy food or eat stuff that I don't think is healthy for me.

(22:03) Don't wait for it to feel right. Improving your self-discipline means changing up your normal routine. This is important. So if we go to number one, which is removing temptations, a lot of times temptations might show up in your life or in your routine, and you have to actually change your routine and move things around to make it easier for you to stick to what you think is right. And a lot of times, if you are working hard to stick to something that you think is right, it might not actually be right. Or there might be something else you have to fix before you handle it.

(22:27) For example, let's take a look at alcohol. Maybe you'll decide, "Eh, time to quit alcohol." A lot of times you might try and quit and like, "I just can't seem to do it." It may be you need to start eating liver first, and then it'll be easy to taper off the alcohol. Turns out the liver, if you eat it in your diet, has nutrients that are missing, and these missing nutrients make the alcohol necessary. So you've got to actually rearrange your day in terms of the time you do things, even what you do, so that you are not exposed to temptation. So remove temptation, eat regularly and healthfully, and don't wait for it to feel right. Make it right. So if it doesn't feel right, then try to understand why it doesn't feel right. Why does it feel so difficult? And address those factors that are making it difficult.

(23:33) Next, schedule breaks, treats, and rewards for yourself. You know, other people can do this. For me, this doesn't really work. So what I do with my self-discipline is I pick things that are their own reward. For example, the stretching and exercise that I'm doing. I feel so much better when I do it that it is its own reward. And I would encourage anyone who's trying to increase their self-discipline, pick things that when you do them, you feel so much better or the positive results in your life are so phenomenal that doing that thing is itself a reward. That's important. And I would even go so far as to say, if you don't see a reward from doing whatever it is, maybe that's not a reasonable value.

(24:28) For example, I used to always want to get up early enough to see the sunrise. That was a big deal. Get up early enough to see the sunrise. But I just couldn't. I just couldn't do it. I could not do it. I mean, as my life progressed, as I got older and older, I realized the reason I couldn't get up early enough to see the sunrise was because of my nutrition.

(24:46) And once I increased my nutrition by eating organ meats, I was able to be rested enough to get up and see the sunrise, which is, by the way, a beautiful thing. The other thing I started doing, easy way to see the sunrise, sleep outside. So I started sleeping outside. Yes, a radical thought. And when I did that, I saw the sunrise every day for, I think, I slept outside for about six weeks. It was great.

(25:22) So if you have to schedule treats and breaks and rewards for yourself, then you might not be setting a proper self-discipline goal for yourself. The other thing I found works better than the breaks, treats, and rewards is for me to focus on how much better my life will be with this discipline. The other thing you need to understand is different disciplines are appropriate for different times in your life.

(25:52) So I look at my life today, and I look at my life even 10 years ago, and I do just about nothing today that I was doing 10 years ago. My whole day is different. 10 years ago, let's see, that would be 2011. Yeah, I would get up and make a green smoothie. Now I get up and I go walking with a pack of wild dogs. Totally different start to the day, right? Totally different disciplines, different habits.

(26:33) And so what you need to understand is self-discipline is just you being a slave and obedient to yourself. That's all it is. There's no set of disciplines that you need to have. These are good disciplines. Get these disciplines. Get up at this time. Eat that. No, no. Take a look at your life. Take a look at what you want your life to be, and what your values are, and that's where you form your disciplines.

(27:07) So to just borrow a bunch of different disciplines from some internet guru, or from a relative, or your friend, is not appropriate. Because what makes you you, by the way, is that you have different disciplines. Your disciplines literally make you who you are.

(27:19) Next, forgive yourself and move forward. This is very important. We all make mistakes. We all do things when we say, "That was not a good idea. I don't think I should do that again." So when you do that, sit down and talk with yourself. Say, "Hey, you know what? You messed up. What you did was not okay." So you'll have ups and downs, great successes, and flat-out failures.

(27:51) And the key is, they say to keep moving forward, but I say, when you have a setback, you have to stop. Reload your setback. Examine what may have caused a setback, and how you can proceed going forward to minimize setbacks. So skip all the guilt, anger, frustration, and even blaming. Don't blame yourself. Don't blame other people. Say, "Okay, fine."

(28:17) Then also, don't hesitate to examine the discipline itself. Like, is getting up at 5 a.m. really what I need to be doing? Maybe it isn't. Maybe you need to get up at 10 a.m. So forgive yourself, for God's sakes. Forgive yourself. Examine what went wrong, fix it, and try again. Or better yet, examine the discipline. Maybe it wasn't a good idea for you. Maybe there's another goal you can set for yourself.

(28:47) So those are the peak things for discipline. I'm going to see if I can answer another question here. We have a couple more minutes.

(29:22) Okay, so I have a report called the Candida Cleaner Report. It's at vitalitycycles.com. For goodness sakes, download it if you have any questions at all about turpentine. So this person says, "Also, if I brew pine needle tea with some small branches as well, can I take this in place of turpentine for some of the time?" The answer is no.

(29:38) Because, as you'll see in the report, turpentine is an oil distilled from the sap of the pine tree. So there's no sap in the pine needles and the branches either. So the sap is actually in the trunk of the tree. So you're not getting the sap. Next, it's not being distilled. You're getting the chemicals in the sap that are dissolved in the water fraction. So it's actually a totally different material from turpentine.

(30:16) So again, you've got to set your discipline to be an appropriate discipline that might help.

(30:29) Okay, here's another one. I know a young man from Poland who's living in Australia and does not want to take an injection that we're all being encouraged to take or lose our livelihood. He's around 35. He's had his spleen removed and so is being told by his Polish doctor to get this shot as soon as possible. He's reluctant as he would prefer to live a more natural life, but his doctor has scared him into action. He asked if I had any suggestions.

(30:56) Okay, so again, this person has totally given up self-control. Like, forget it. He's not going to control himself. It's the doctor. It's his friend who's writing this question in. He has totally let go of any personal responsibility in his life. And this is unfortunate. So this person is pretty much doomed.

(31:26) But if he doesn't want to take a shot and he believes it's dangerous, then that's all he needs to know. And if his doctor doesn't agree with him, he needs to switch doctors. Believe me, this shot is just trivial. This is just the beginning.

(31:41) Now the AMA in the United States is saying they want boosters for everybody. Everybody needs a booster. A booster every six months. So why would you get the shot? To protect you against an illness. Why would you get a booster? Well, because the shot didn't work. Why would you get another booster? Well, because the second booster. Because the first booster didn't work. So we already have a confession that this particular injection is not effective in protecting a person from getting infected with anything or from spreading anything.

(32:14) So again, if you lack self-discipline, this becomes a difficult situation for you. So even if this person, well, it's hard to understand from this what if this person got the shot or not. But if you got the shot, I say congratulations, fine, good on you. The next thing to figure out is do you want to get the next shot and the next one and the next one. So now they're saying, "Hey, shots every six months." That's the latest out of the, at least out of the AMA.

(32:47) So moral of the story, self-discipline. You set the rules and you follow them. That's super, super important.

(32:52) The other problem, though, is if you set rules for yourself and you have beliefs of what's right and you don't follow them, that actually destroys your spirit. It destroys your health. It destroys your integrity as a human being. So you've got to decide for yourself what is right and follow it. And if you can't follow it, guess what? Change your mind about what's right. But you've got to harmonize your beliefs and your actions and focus your control totally on you becoming a slave to your beliefs.

(33:33) And if you don't like being a slave to your beliefs, then change your beliefs. And what's the choice if you choose not to have self-discipline? If you choose not to become a slave to your beliefs, you will become a slave to someone else's beliefs. And that, there's a nightmare right there. I would not recommend that at all. So choose your beliefs, stick with them, and if you don't like the results, change your beliefs. Your beliefs, you're in charge. You can do this.

(34:11) Okay, I hope that that's been helpful. And as always, think happens. And we'll see you in a week or so.