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Hey there, sweet spotters. You did it. You got to slow down Sunday with me here on the
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sweet spot. I'm Dr. Derek Sweet. I'm your host of the sweet spot. We've been having a wonderful
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series here on the sweet spot speaking about the inner edge and we find ourselves in our very last
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episode here. It's amazing how fast the week goes, isn't it? Oh wow, we're here. The inner edge
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final episode you were built like the stars. Here on Slowdown Sunday. So yeah, come sit with me for a
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sec. As you know, I'm a board certified psychiatrist. I work in elite performance, but more than that,
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I enjoy being your teammate here in the game of life. Before we go into anything, let me gather
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this week in a way that we have not said it. We always circle the week, but I felt like I would just
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put it differently to you. You know, all week we've been circling one truth from different angles.
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You're not overwhelmed because you're weak. You're strained because you're powerful.
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Powerful beyond measure and carrying all this weight on you that you've had to carry every single
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day. And so pressure has not been the villain. It's really you unmanage pressure that's the villain.
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Pressure is always there and you've always been really good about handling it. We've talked about
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the wiring about how your nervous system learns patterns under stress and how it repeats certain
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patterns under stress. And we've talked about how you change those patterns. We've talked about
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your recovery speed shaping how long something is going to last. And we talked about finishing
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strong not as intensity, but as alignment. So if you haven't heard these episodes this week,
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at your leisure, please go back. I want you to know that we took inner edge and we synthesized it
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into this inner edge being the capacity to generate stability from within. While the outside world
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is applying all this force throwing everything at us, we as sweet spotters here,
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we as the folks who have studied the inner edge, we protect our inner edge not with hyper or
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personality or tricks. We just stand firm. We stand strong. It is our trained ability now to
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regularly cover and remain oriented to who we are, our identity, while the world is throwing
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everything at us. Right? We are guarding our inner edge. Absolutely. So this is our last conversation
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this week on the inner edge, but it will not go away. It won't go away. So look, as you know, on
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Sunday, we always talk about astrophysics. We talk about the universe, not to be spooky or anything.
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We just love weaving something about the stars as a bit of a mirror to ourselves. You see as a
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star shines because it has internal energy, something powerful is happening inside. Deep inside
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every star, fusion is happening, atoms are pressing together, generating heat, generating light,
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generating an open force that holds the star open against the force of gravity pressing in on
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the star from every direction. Gravity never stops. It's always there, always compressing.
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That's just how the universe works. The star generates enough energy from within itself to stay
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open to stay bright, to stay whole. That's the inner edge of that star.
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And you know exactly where I'm going. Your life has gravity too. Deadlines, expectation, fatigue,
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injuries, illness, responsibilities. So much is happening. People who need you, that's the kind of
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gravity. Problems that don't solve themselves, that's the kind of gravity. Well, look, the inner
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edge is generating enough internal energy inside of you, enough clarity, enough rest, enough meaning
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and trust, so that you can stay open like the stars under all of it, so that you can keep
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shining while all this weight on you is so real. And here's what gets kind of beautiful,
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right? The universe has a law called entropy. Left alone, everything drifts towards disorder.
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That's what entropy is. Stars burn through fuel, systems wind down, things fall apart,
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because that's kind of like the default mode. Things will just go, but wild and crazy.
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In all directions, that's what entropy is. You're in a world, and my in a world,
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kind of follows the same law without tending to our thoughts. If we don't guard our first,
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don't you find that sometimes your mind is all over the place that your thoughts are just scattered?
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Then I can end that's kind of an entropy. When your patience runs thin,
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you get tired for tea, then you just all over the map, that's entropy and motion.
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That's a universal law in action. But the universe also teaches us something else.
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Stars are born inside chaos. The galaxies organize themselves out of dust.
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Yeah, there's this thing about order arising. Whenever energy is deliberately invested in it,
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and that's what today is, you're deliberately investing energy back into your inner system
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when you slow down. This is like anti-entropy. I don't know if that's a term, but I'll just
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mean it up. Okay. That's, you know, it's, it's, yeah, it's, it's sort of like,
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the wound is the place where the light enters you. Rumi said that. I want you to sit with that.
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The wound is the place where the light enters, so that ultimately wherever you find yourself
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sort of feeling all over the map and things are going crazy, that's the place to begin.
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And all week long, we've been exploring pressure, compression, what that means when life is pressing in,
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what that's where the opening is. The places you've been squeezed, stretched, tested,
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where entropy is just going left and right. Those are the places that your edge has to become visible.
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You're not a drop in the ocean. You're the entire ocean in a drop. See, you've got to flip things
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because the stars are in us just as much as we are in the stars. We both have capacity for light,
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the same ability to generate energy from within to shine, same architecture, same
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carbons and hydrogens and all the elements. You were built like the stars.
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Absolutely. So, today is slow down Sunday. We use the universe to remind us that we're connected
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to this universe. We remind ourselves that the sun rises in its sets, that rain can fall,
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and the clouds can form, that the grass is growing quietly, that life is occurring out there.
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Give yourself 10 minutes of silence. Let your thoughts settle. Like the water.
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Step outside. Look at the sky for a minute. Remind your nervous system that you're a part of
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something vast and unhurried. You're a part of a huge universe. I heard a beautiful quote from a
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friend of mine, that you know, it's tough to see yourself in the picture because you're in the
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picture and I didn't understand what he was saying until I grasped that yeah, it's hard to actually
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see the picture. If the picture is being taken of you while you're in it, you have to step on
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side of the picture to look at the picture. It's so kind of crazy. I think a better way for me to
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understand it is you can't see the frame if you're in the picture or it's hard to see the frame
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when you're in the picture. So a lot of times it's about stepping outside of ourselves.
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Be an anti-entropy to restore our fusion. That inner edge going deep. You will build like the
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stars and the only thing that requires that requires is that you keep your inner fired
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tended that you're actually taking care of your inner fire that you're slowing down
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that you're taking time to find stillness, to find silence, to find surrender. Yeah, to find some
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solitude, all the s's so that you can recover, be refreshed, recalibrate, re-energize all the
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r's. That's it for today. It slowed down Sunday. We took it easy today on you. There was no lesson.
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Just go tend to your fire. The universe is rooting for you. For science, for soul and for success.
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This is the sweet spot. I'll see you Monday to make that move.