Shiraz Baboo

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back to life back to reality back to the here and now yeah okay I just wanted to make sure I connected with the audience soul to soul did it work I might come back to my life and quite a different reality started when I was 22 years old I was in university studying to become a doctor and I also was a bodybuilder I know it's hard to tell I've stopped but I was bigger than you see the world was my oyster except the world didn't give me pearls it gave me arthritis within months I was in intense pain in every joint in my body there

were mornings where I could feel the joints in my ankle grind as I walked and there were evenings where I sipped my dinner through a straw because my jaw was so swollen and painful and you may not have been through this kind of physical circumstance but have you ever had that plan in your life all set out and then out of nowhere bam that plan is gone and you're left scrambling yeah you know the feelings that come with it the anger and frustration the despair the self-judgment and pity why is this happening to me what did I do to deserve this what am I supposed

to do now and I tried to get out of it I tried medication and don't get me started on child-proof caps for arthritic people oh my God I tried I tried diet supplements yoga I tried magnets nothing worked and it wasn't until 22 pain nope 18 pain-filled years later that I met the guy that would change my perception on reality I'd flown to India and because it was India I expected him to do some sort of Reiki heal Shiraz we're going to get this out of you heels but that didn't happen he just talked to me for two weeks it was like being with a

psychiatrist except he wasn't trying to solve anything he was just gathering information and then finally he said Shiraz you believe you're responsible for everyone in your life no I don't know I know you don't think you do but from everything you've told me you've created this belief and it started when you were eight years old all right I don't think I'm responsible for everyone but even if I am what's this got to do with arthritis oh you don't want to be responsible for everyone well yeah and if you're lying in bed in pain you don't have to be responsible for anyone and you don't have

to feel guilty about it if people see you're using all your effort to get to the day they can't come to you and ask for you to take care of them it's the solution to a problem you don't realize you have well that's messed up but that's what most chronic illnesses are solutions to problems people don't realize they have so wait a second if what you're saying is true then all I have to do is say I'm not going to be responsible for anyone but me and I shouldn't have arthritis anymore yes if you believe it deep down so I gathered my will and I

said I'm not going to be responsible for anyone but me and guess what happened nothing but the next morning I woke up no pain no inflammation more Mobility I could even breathe better so I am freaking out because this illness doesn't go away overnight and yet it had now the damage was still there and I'm working on that but the arthritis was gone and there was a track that I was on every day where I was there and I was doing my little old man Shuffle because my body is like a 70 year old now except the embarrassing thing is I'm getting passed by 70

year olds on this track but not today today I'm out I'm moving I'm passing everyone I'm dodging and everyone said what the hell and I said I know right and when I got home no one asked me to be responsible for them because why would they there was a belief created by an eight-year-old but it gets better you see when I looked into this this isn't just about illness your mind would rather have you in physical distress than emotional distress especially guilt shame and heartbreak and when I applied this to other areas of my life everything started to change often as if by Magic why

are my relationships not long I'm hiding from heartbreak stop it my relationships got better why am I not make enough money I'll feel shame if I have so much and I see other people suffering let that go my money shot up I can create Magic and the great thing is so can you when you really recognize that the consistent problems in your life are solutions for emotional problems you're not seeing they'll bubble to the surface and you can change them so I want you to say this with me you can stand up if you like but get into that same space that I got into

and say I can create Magic in my life ready all together now I can create Magic in my life that was great thank you I'm sure remember

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