Dr. Brian Pennie

So I think first and foremost, we need to spend time creating space for ourselves to be connected with our bodies, with our minds, with our emotions so we're in tune with ourselves and we know where we're at.

And only then can we have true, real, deep connections with other people.

So the core for me today is to carve space out.

It's the number one thing for myself and for the loved ones in my life to have connection with myself and connection for other people because the world is ruthlessly pulling us off course.

Technology, alcohol, the food industry, the corporate industry, consume, consume, consume.

We're being bombarded by stimuli, by social media, by advertisements, by news, wars, like the things that are targeting our brains are incredible.

And I really do believe we've got to rootlessly seek connection because the world is rootlessly pulling us in a different direction.

Phones are lethal.

Lethal.

They're lethal.

Because the harm, they seem so harmless and they are harmless in the moment, but it's the compound and impact of that and then all of a sudden you're addicted.

Again, I love because of the modern day hypodermic needle and I love that kind of line because that's what it's doing.

But it's like cigarettes, the consequences are far down the line.

So we've got to really be ruthless about

pulling ourselves away from that.

Like my little dog, my little puppy, she's not a puppy now, she's two, Lily.

And she's like my little Zen master.

Like I go walking with her in the mornings and in the evenings, about 30, 40 minutes every night.

And I try to live the world through her eyes.

What's she seeing?