Self-Heal with Intermittent Fasting & Inner Bonding – Margaret Paul, Ph.D., with Dave Asprey – #805

• I am 81 years old. And so I started intermittent fasting when I was about 30. – 1:20
• We’ve developed, like you mentioned, the Inner Bonding process, which is a fabulous self-healing process. – 3:38
• There’s only two intentions and one is the intention to have control over getting love and avoiding pain. And the other is the intention to learn about loving yourself and being able to share your love with others. – 5:45
• I worked as a traditional psycho therapist for 17 years, and I just wasn’t happy with the results of my therapy, therapy I was doing with others. – 7:59
• There’s two major things that you need to do in order to keep your frequency high. And one is you need to eat really well.  – 11:24
• You’ve avoided food toxins, in the vast majority of life, you’ve done intermittent fasting, you’ve managed your energy and you don’t waste energy, on self-hate and all the negative stuff that most people waste a ton of energy on. – 15:00
• One of the things that’s so important for people and this is part of the Inner Bonding process, is being able to ask, what is loving to me right now? – 16:21
• People, they read books, and they learn all kinds of things, and they take classes and workshops, and then they don’t take action. They won’t eat well and they won’t get enough sleep and they don’t get exercise. Well, you don’t take action, you’re going to stay stuck, you’re going to stay miserable. – 16:31
• I’d like to share with you the four major ways that people abandon themselves on the emotional level.  – 17:22
• But what happened when we were young is because we couldn’t manage those deep existential feelings of life, we learn to cover them over with our self abandonment.  – 25:13
• I realized I got from my higher guidance, that unless I was willing to feel pain, I was going to stay closed, I was going to stay protected, I was going to stay controlling – 26:46
  
• I don’t even operate as a psychologist, because I don’t believe in traditional therapy anymore. So I don’t even call myself that.  – 31:00
  
• But you know what self hate does. It’s self loathing. And then like you said, with the kid who blamed his father, when you hate yourself, you tend to project that out. – 32:02
  
• We all have many ages inside of us and a big part of the Inner Bonding process is learning to access these wounded parts of ourselves that have these false beliefs that are lodged in the lower part of the brain called the amygdala.  – 34:41
  
• The idea that you can build those new neural pathways and you can use the amygdala less, it definitely works. And that’s part of the neurofeedback stuff from 40 Years of Zen. – 36:19
  
• It’s like if you want to be a concert pianist, you know you have to practice. And you know you have to practice your whole life, to continue it. Well, Inner Bonding is something you want to integrate into your life, I do it naturally, all the time. – 40:54
• That’s one of the things about functional medicine, is it treats us as a whole being rather than you go to a doctor, “Well, I’m going to send you to this specialist or this specialist,” as if all these organs are separate, and they’re not. – 44:24
  
• Is there an exercise that you can teach people now to help them turn on that ability to sense whether something is good for them or bad for them? – 45:56

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