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audio experience,
is Quality Living with Peaceful Support. And I
am Amanda Whittemore,
And I am literally broadcasting
to everyone
from a really unique space and place. I
feel like I'm on an entirely different planet.
I think
that this last forty eight hours has been
the most unique
that I really feel like,
the power of now
is what it's about.
Communication
and sharing
our experiences
improves
the way that we live, which I think
improving the way that we live improves our
quality of living.
Just a simple fact.
And
tonight,
as you've tuned in before or if you're
new to listening to the Quality Living Show,
we normally have guests on our program.
And
tonight
is going to be a little bit different.
It's just gonna be myself
enjoying
a true moment with everyone out there and
hopefully connecting on a real level,
working with the power of now.
And I just want to give everyone a
couple of minutes to think about
that.
Normally, we ask the question, what does peaceful
mean?
What does
the word quality signify
to you?
How do you apply it in your life?
Today, we're going to talk about now,
like, right now
in this very moment.
The significance of now definitely doesn't have anything
to do with later or tomorrow.
I'm talking about right this minute.
And
the reason we bring this up because sometimes
that's all we have.
We don't really know how much time
we're really ever gonna get for any situation,
whether it's
you know,
I could go on and on about what
it could or could not be, what we're
not gonna do that. We're gonna talk about
its energy
and its availability.
And
how do we recognize it? How do we
recognize when we need to do
something
now?
Have you ever felt that sensation?
Because it's real. It's like a gut feeling,
and it's something that guides us and that
is more important
than
our own thoughts or our own agenda.
And
with this,
before we go any deeper, because it's gonna
get crazier in a minute.
If you've listened to any past shows, you
might actually wanna stop listening to this one
right now and go to a couple other
other
shows of the quality living
and just
brush up on what exactly may be happening,
or
just turn up your radio and enjoy being
here in the power of now.
And, honestly,
there okay.
I don't even know how to start this.
Even though we're way into it, we're gonna
keep going. And so
recently,
I've been called to duty. As you all
know, I am an end of life doula.
I do work with death. I'm also a
yoga instructor
and a fitness coach.
Wellness
is
a way to quality living. And so
with that preference,
prefect
I'm not sure the right word. Pardon me.
It's been a long week for me.
Honestly, with that introduction
of end of life doula, yoga,
fitness, wellness,
It's a holistic package of,
obviously, improving quality.
And how do we do that best?
We do it now,
right now.
Whatever you're thinking about putting into your mouth
or any other orpheus of your body for
that matter or to your human
being that you are fully responsible for, please
just set it down and look at it
and think about it.
Whatever's around you or wherever you're about to
go, just kind of give yourself this moment
of right now to think about it
and really listen to yourself. Is it something
that is going to
fuel you, that is going to give you
the outcome that you honestly truly are requesting?
We never know. We honestly never know. But
the fun part is a very human experience.
However,
at the end of the day,
we are personally responsible.
It's a tough one to swallow.
There's a guest that's on our show quite
often, Horacio Rora.
He is a holistic health coach
and a phenomenal teacher. There are many other
teachers
that talk about the power of now
and self responsibility.
And a lot of the times,
it's so simple for us to say,
oh,
the doctor messed up. The doctor's the one
who didn't give me the right medication.
Well, I'm gonna ask you honestly.
Is it the doctor's fault of everything that
you did for twenty years before you walked
through that door to see the doctor?
Probably not.
And this is being honest and being truthful
and being supportive
As a teacher and a guide
and a coach,
it is my duty. I took an oath
as the end of life doula
and as a health coach
to guide in the best way that I
have learned through my personal experiences and my
trainings.
And if I were to give you any
other answer
other than whatever you're doing
to yourself,
we all
are with the option and the opportunity
to do something now
for our current situation
and our possible future.
However, the more that we deny ourselves,
even that five seconds to ask ourselves, is
this
really what I need? Is this really what's
going to get me to my goal?
If we even think the answer's no for
one second, remember the power of now. Set
it down or do something different. It is
that easy to get
to your best place of quality living.
You may need to rewind this show.
Save it in your favorites
because
I have no other way
to
support you
in your process
of self healing
than other to simply
hold up a mirror
and hold your hand and give you a
big hug and tell you how special you
are and
how important you are
and that you deserve to be number one
in your life.
There isn't I mean, there might be other
people that are gonna do that for you,
and it feels really good when they do.
But it's not their job. It's not their
responsibility,
and they need to be number one in
their life
so that they can do even better for
others.
And
with the power of now, I recently realized
how much I actually overuse this because
I recently
like, as of
five days ago from when you know, what's
today? I don't know if I can date
this.
We could put a time stamp on it
because it's relevant.
Today is February 16.
It is approximately
five
06:04.
It's a Monday, 02/1926.
And I'm gonna do this intentionally with the
stamp,
so that
it's it's valid and important so that we
remember when was now when I first learned
how to do now.
How how much time has gone by that
I let now turn in tomorrow? How much
time has gone by
that I allowed now to turn into five
years from now?
I'd say you've really interesting thought, and I've
been thinking about it a lot.
Especially, like, I'm gearing up to say,
last
Sunday,
the
eighth,
I landed in
Central America
to be with my father who'd been in
the hospital for a while.
And he just thought I was the silliest
kid ever because I always wanted to
do everything
right now.
And, in Central America, just like like Hawaii
time
or ocean time, everything's kind of for
tomorrow.
Ah, yes. Even in Brookings. Even in Brookings,
we're like, we can get to it tomorrow.
There's no hurry and hurry.
We
could wait to do it.
Well, I just
feel called to share with you my experience
of these,
seven days
of really valid moments that I feel
all of us could relate to, which is
the reason I'm here on the Quality Living
Show
with Peaceful Support
to present
extremely important reasons
of how
valid it is to if you're thinking of
it, do it.
If you're walking past something and you're like,
oh, I should pick that up, or, oh,
I need to fold these clothes, or, oh,
I should probably put the dishes away, do
it.
I'm gonna be honest with you. You're gonna
feel better. It's it's gonna feel,
unless there's something pressing,
obviously,
of course. You know? But, yeah,
have fun with it.
So I'm gonna start with example number one,
my father's will.
And I'm gonna do my best to make
it through the rest of the show.
I have audio.
I have attorneys.
I have everything
I need. My father is in was in
complete communication with them about everything he wanted
for his will and last testimony.
And for about five days,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
we
were going to do the will. We had
it all set up to go. We had
the attorney on call.
They were going to the hospital to do
the notarization.
Everything is ready to go.
And my brain, everything in my body, in
my heart, in my soul said, Amanda,
as an end of life doula, you need
to see it through that his life wishes
are achieved to the best of your ability.
I do it for all my clients.
This time, I'm doing it for my own
father.
And
every time I called and I said, alright,
dad. Let's do it now. I showed up
in the hospital. Alright, dad. I'll have the
lawyer come over.
Yeah. And I think we I think I
think it'll be okay if we just do
it tomorrow.
You know, tell him it's no hurry. It's
not it's not like he's gonna die next
week.
Well, he did.
He definitely did. He died today at 12:30PM,
and the lawyer was scheduled for Tuesday. Today
is Monday.
So,
unfortunately,
there's no legal documents or paper. However, fortunately,
I did
with me being with the power of now,
I was able to ask my father all
those questions even though part of me was
resistant
because they're hard things to talk about.
Do you want to have a celebration of
life?
Do you want to be cremated?
What do you want me to do with
your stuff?
How do you want me to access your
accounts?
How about your vehicle?
Oh, yeah. And you're still married. You've been
separated for five years.
Do you keep and, honestly, like,
nobody knows what's gonna happen. Nobody knows of
how we can
resolve things or do them in the proper
amount of time. There's no judgment at all.
None.
There's complete
and
entire acceptance of all that is and all
that meant to be. I think there's a
song about that.
I wish we could inject that right there
on here on the Quality Living Show. Just
so you guys know, I am Amanda Whittemore.
I am the host, the creator, the voice
of this program,
and we're talking about the power of now
and valid reasons, whether it's for your own
health or somebody's else else's help.
Not that it matters because once we get
to wherever we are
Guess what?
There we are.
And, you know, God has his plan while
we're busy making our plan.
However, from experience,
I've learned that when I do things now,
they're done.
I don't tell myself,
it coulda, shoulda, woulda.
By the way, that was my father's
favorite
favorite saying since I was a little girl.
I'm pretty sure it's from somewhere.
He would say,
shoulda, coulda, woulda.
I didn't like that.
I don't like it at all. It's not,
didn't really feel very good growing up.
So as an adult,
I turned it into shouldn't have.
I I probably
couldn't I coulda not done it, but I
did.
I did.
And that's
the way I live, which is kind of
interesting. You know? Because we all have our
own idea of
what is quality,
what is living.
How do we do it?
Not that it would have made a difference,
but I'm I'm pretty sure that for anybody
who's,
suffering from any illness,
illness,
and disease, it is almost impossible for it
to live in a oxidized
oxidated
environment,
which is why they
the boiling bubble, stuff like that, you gotta
be completely encapsulated in oxygen.
And, you have to have a certain environment
around
a certain,
incubated area in order to keep the virus
from passing to a different area.
So for instance, cancer
and I'm not a doctor.
Maybe one day, I will be.
However,
this is from personal experience
from my friends and my family,
who fought cancer in one
and other illnesses.
As soon as you find out if you
have cancer,
do oxygen treatment, ozone treatment immediately.
Immediately,
do oxygen. Ask the doctors in the hospital
for oxygen.
I wished that my father
would have been able to,
how do you call it, hear what I
had to say
and got oxygen from himself the day he
entered into the hospital.
For the only fact that I would have
loved for him to have gone a little
bit more pain free
without the,
experience that he had,
cancer
is awful.
Awful. Awful. Awful. Awful experience.
And,
oxygen is
pure, and it's real, and it's so supportive.
And I wish everybody could
have more of it.
So even if you're well, even if you're
perfectly well,
get oxygen, do oxygen treatments.
It's worth it.
And I've kind of derailed my thoughts here
a little bit.
Power of now, being present. The key of
listening. Okay. The power of now.
When we talk about communication
being the key,
to everything,
So
communicating
could be the key.
However, that keyhole,
if communicating is the key,
the keyhole
must be listening.
Because if somebody's always talking,
that's great that we're communicating. That's great that
there's communication
happening.
But the other side of that is listening.
Because if there's not really listening happening, there's
no true communicating.
And,
it makes it difficult.
You know?
Listeners out there
on the KCIW
one hundred point seven station, I hope you
are listening
because I'm talking.
And
when it's,
like this on a podcast without a guest
in the studio,
it's a little bit,
a little bit different. You know? So I
feel like you're all my guests. Every time
I do a show,
I I really hope and pray that I'm
reaching you wherever you are,
and I hope that you can hear
and listen to some of the little things
of advice. I'm I'm no expert. I'm the
furthest thing from perfect.
I have made more mistakes than
I can't even tell you, and maybe I
will someday. But,
all the time. You know? And one of
my biggest mistakes was
showing up and not listening to the power
of now and doing more
in the time that I had,
wherever I go, whether it's at the office,
whether it's
at Rep's Gym,
Center twenty one,
peaceful support yoga studio.
I've been really rushed.
I have I have a lot going on,
and I just apologize
to, you know,
those that are showing up for me. And
I I am going to focus
in,
now
and take a little bit more time for
the really special beautiful community that I have
there in Brookings and everywhere
in the world
and just kind of really
do a little bit more
listening
than just talking and a little bit more
of taking my own medicine
in the moment that it's needed
instead of waiting for it to build up.
And that's the second part of this show
or the last bit of it.
Honestly, I did not put on a timer,
you guys, so,
I'll get notified here. So that's okay.
I'm just gonna keep going, okay, with this
last little bit, guys. We're almost there.
Okay. So,
when we hear,
we can listen to our own self, and
we don't have to listen to anybody else.
So I if you've ever taken a Pilates
class for me or a yoga class,
again, Amanda Littlemore,
you will be familiar with this line.
Do not listen to me.
Do not do anything that I say.
Listen to your own body
because it is
screaming and yelling at you, and you are
ignoring it.
All those signs,
those weird little things that show up that
you're like,
What is that?
Oh, that looks funny. Oh, that feels weird.
No.
That is a huge
stop sign. That is a huge
traffic jam somewhere. That is a collision ahead.
That is warning warning hazard lights.
It's no joke. You may think it's just
a rash. You may think it's just a
bug bite. You may think and not to
get everybody all freaked out and hypochondriac.
Like, please, like, just
take these
little bit tidbits that I'm blistering out here.
Blisters. If you see a little blister, whatever
it is,
just take it lightly.
You know?
At the same time,
listen to your body. Look at your body.
Be in tune with what do you feel.
So I'm gonna tell you right now, my
father,
for his sixty nine years,
stopped
everything. He
refused
to look at himself.
He refused
to look at his body.
He refused
to listen to one single sign
that all of his loved ones
attempted to support him with and guide him
with
and say, hey, dad.
I don't think the doctors are telling you
the truth. I know you're going to get
checkup all the time, and they're telling you
you're fine. You're healthy as could be, but
I'm telling you there's something wrong.
He didn't believe me. He believed the doctors
and ignored all the signs that were huge
warning signs. And he, honestly, everyone
showed up to the hospital with his entire
body riddled with cancer,
and all of his tests from control were
coming back perfectly normal.
All of them. It's impossible. I don't know
how this is even possible.
Lung cancer spread to the liver, spread to
everywhere. So all I'm saying is take time
now to listen to your body.
Because if you're in pain emotionally, it's gonna
show.
If you're stressed and upset and angry and
holding on to something
for twenty years, it is going to fester
and show up in your body.
So take a little bit of time now
before we're on our deathbeds
to do something special for your own personal
self and your own
path of quality living.
And this is simply just from my own
experiences. This is no doctor, no anything other
than just
how much I care about our community
and all of our listeners
and
and my own self. I do care about
me. I love me. I'm my best friend.
My dad is my best friend.
We talked every day, but,
we can still do that in spirit.
So, yeah, I love myself more than anything.
And Brookings, you taught me how to do
that. You showed me a safe place to
live happily
with so much peaceful support, and I just
really, really, really hope and pray that I
can
really fine tune my abilities to just
show up for everybody and show up for
myself first and foremost
and get some oxygen.
Do something now
that you're not really sure what it is,
but you'll know. You'll know. And you're like,
oh my gosh. Amanda totally said this is
gonna happen. You're gonna feel it. You're like,
oh, I gotta do this right now.
Be safe. Do it safely
with love and compassion
and patience
and tons of peaceful support.
Thank you, listeners.
You're some of my favorite, and I couldn't
do this without you.
And, dad, wherever you are out there in
spirit world, thank you for being my best
teacher ever.
And
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Thank you, yoga.
Thank you, community. Thank you, airwaves.
Alright,
Brooke.