Becoming a Pro-Sumer for a More Inspired & Joyful Life

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TRANSCRIPT

A big issue in our world today is we are in a consumer-centric society.

Don’t get me wrong, I love consumption.

Consumption is a part of life.

If we didn’t consume we would wither and die.

We need to eat food and drink water for survival.

So do other animals.

Plants even need to consume to survive - they consume sunlight and water and nutrients from the soil.

And beyond basic needs, we as humans consume to keep our social networks healthy.

Commerce and trade are key in forming human bonds with each other and between larger communities.

But there’s no question that we’ve gotten a liiiiiiiittle out of balance with our consumption.

We see it in more than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese.

We see it in the rise of fast fashion.

We see it in Some reports indicating we consume twice as many material goods today as we did 50 years ago & then the average American throwing away 65 pounds of clothing per year

( Source: https://www.becomingminimalist.com/clutter-stats/ )

Consuming is necessary. It’s a healthy thing to do on a physical, social, and even spiritual level.

We’re just out of balance.

So let’s talk about a solution.

Becoming a Pro-Sumer.

The Pro-sumer is someone who produces more than they consume.

I was consuming a lot of information at the time, without really doing anything with it. Lots of reading - books, blogs, whatever.

Without Producing anything.

I was miserable & felt so lost & now I can look back and really see it’s connection to taking in without creating. Without producing.

In this beautiful in flow and out flow of life.

We’ve all had that friend that is so enlivened by life. They create, they act, they do.

Overconsumption is the disease of our modern world.

It’s Stuck energy

Like a blockage in the river

Have you ever seen this?

I grew up in Michigan - the metro Detroit area- with a pond and a creek in my backyard.

Every so often branches would build up in a bend in the creek and block the water in the river and low and behold the water in that part of the stream becomes nasty.

Weird bacteria starts breeding, all sorts of random stuff gets stuck in it. It gets cloudy and murky and green. And it smells horrible.

Why is this?

It’s not like someone came by and added foul smelly poop water to that part of the stream.

It’s the same water as is flowing in the rest of the stream.

It’s just blocked.

And the lack of motion. The lack of fresh energy becomes rancid. Foul. Gross.

We need to both inhale and exhale.

We need consistent fresh energy moving through us.

When I was 19 I did a year long ashtanga yoga apprenticeship.

Apart of the study was a reading list.

I tried to figure out the book I’m referring to was when prepping for this podcast, but I couldn’t. So I’m just sharing a memory.

In a well known book written by one of the main dudes that brought yoga to the west...

He wrote about the importance of pranayama. The importance of the breath.

Working with the breath is the more advanced form of yoga. Where Asana / body movement is the first step, the initiation into working with the breath.

This teacher spoke on, in an oh so concise guru way, how breath is the most important nourishment there is, and the most important health practice there is.

It’s the first way we take in the world. From the moment we’re born

We sit on our couches & consume too much food without presence, we buy a bunch of stuff off of amazon

We keep riding the shoppers high

• Retail therapy is called therapy for a reason. It brings us pleasure, however fleeting, on a molecular level with pleasure chemicals being released in your brain with every purchase, every act of consumption.

Or we’re exhausted after a long day of work

We’re producing but meaningless shit - not the true inspiration birthed from our souls

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