How Strong is your Desire to Live?

Have you ever wondered if your daily habits and mindset might be sabotaging your chance at a fulfilled life? Join us as wellness expert David Delrahim uncovers the hidden ways we undermine our own desire to live, especially amidst physical, emotional, and mental discomforts. In our latest episode of Better Wellness, David and Roland discuss how common practices—such as poor dietary choices, constant exposure to negative news, and the stressful political climate—can severely impact our overall well-being.

This insightful conversation goes beyond identifying the problems to offer actionable solutions for rediscovering joy, hope, and a genuine desire to thrive. David emphasizes the need to critically evaluate our lifestyles and the stressors we impose on ourselves, shedding light on how these factors contribute to a diminished quality of life. Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion that promises to reignite your passion for living well and cultivating a balanced existence. This is a must-listen for anyone yearning to reclaim their zest for life.

From the producers of PBS's American Health Journal and Innovations in Medicine. Thank you for listening to Better Wellness.

Transcript

Roland Perez: 0:04

Have you lost your spark, that joy of living? Some people find it difficult to find that desire to live. Could it be the result of how you are living your life? Welcome to Better Wellness, a podcast that explores the newest innovations in true wellness. I'm your host, roland Perez, as the executive producer of the American Health Journal for more than 25 years and produced over 530-minute award-winning healthcare television shows and aired nationally on PBS with an audience of over 100 million viewers. But better wellness is more than that Not only keeping your body healthy, but developing the mindset and balance that prevents illness. Our guests are experienced experts in the world of staying healthy, young and well. Our guest is David Delrahim, a wellness expert and noted visionary in the area of wellness. David discusses the many ways we sabotage our outlook on life and the understanding of ourselves. Good morning, david, glad to see you here again Good morning.

David Delrahim: 1:13

Thank you so much for having me.

Roland Perez: 1:15

Today's topic fascinating. I've sort of subtitled it as a desire to live. Subtitled it as a desire to live, but after our last podcast you mentioned this to me and it it fascinated me and I thought it would be an excellent topic to talk about today is the person's desire to live and to be well. So tell us a little bit about the desire to live.

David Delrahim: 1:46

You know the question of a desire to live. It sounds very easy to answer, but you would be surprised that when we have asked people with some discomforts, they started thinking. With some discomforts, they started thinking about it, so they really didn't come up with a yes, of course, I would love to live immediately.

Roland Perez: 2:14

They took their time, a few pauses, a few seconds and then they went on and said yeah, I have desire to live. You said people with discomfort. What exactly do?

David Delrahim: 2:29

you mean With some sort of physical, emotional, mental and even energetic discomfort. But they get up in the morning, say you know what they feel like the entire world is against them, if the whole sky is coming down on them and they have a complaint about anyone and anything around them, close and far, and they cannot find anything that moves them, that put a smile on their face, for example, or they cannot. They do. They see that they are disconnected from hope, they're not not being joyful. So the desire to live. It is not an easy question Because subconsciously or unconsciously, we do many things, and I mean the mass, overwhelming majority of the people on this planet. We do things that are probably harmful to us. That we are practicing has a lot of poisonous components on a daily basis the way we eat, the way we think, the way our perspective is or the way we just go through life.

Roland Perez: 4:32

I understand the food we eat horribly. There are a few countries in the world that they eat very well, because that's all they can grow or all they can do, but we are just mired in processed food and it's terrible, there's no doubt about it. And then what we think and the political situation that we're in. We're so divided. I mean, if you take all that thing together, it's very toxic absolutely so.

David Delrahim: 5:03

It's a stress that we put on ourselves. We could be uptight, we could get angry, but the physical and emotional stress that we experience, we are putting stress on our body, on our organs, on our cells as well. And you know, I'm sure we have experienced with some kind of a discomfort. I call it illness, sickness. And when we go to the doctor and they check everything and everything checks out fine, they say well, what do you think it is, doctor? It's a stress. So we hear that often.

David Delrahim: 5:50

So that is the stress at the cellular level. Really, it is a byproduct of the way we live our lives, our lifestyle. You know, when we talked about the processed food, of the way we live our lives, our lifestyle, when we talked about the processed food. But we eat too much, we eat too late, not the right time, not the right food, and the amount of sugar, for example, that we take, or the salt that we take, or the salt that we take, and it goes on and on and on and on. Watching the news, you know, I often say what do you expect to hear from the news channel? The news means bad news.

Roland Perez: 6:40

So the more we hear, If it's not bad news, it just doesn't make sense.

David Delrahim: 6:45

It doesn't sell.

Roland Perez: 6:46

Yeah, it doesn't sell.

David Delrahim: 6:48

And, as we are tuned to all of this bad news, it will change our frequency. We go from I call it from a state of love to a state of chaos, so we automatically get, uh, stressed out over something that we had totally control over. Just don't watch the news you don't have to.

Roland Perez: 7:15

yeah, when someone told me you know what, if I'm expected to do, I I'm sold these processed foods. I I'm sold to sit around and watch TV. I'm sold to have political feelings that are opposite to other people. I'm divided. And then I mentioned to him. I said you know, you have to take the responsibility. No one else, no one's going to start changing the political spectrum. No one's going to stop making processed foods Definitely not going to. They're going to make up more processed foods, but it's your responsibility to change that.

David Delrahim: 7:56

Well, it is our responsibility and we have to know that we have choices. We have a choice to watch or not. We have a choice to be part of the division energy that is being created, being promoted for the sake of control. Of course it's a choice. For the sake of control, of course it's a choice. So I believe the desire to live is a question that you have to go inboard to find the answer and going outward, there are so many components that you perhaps get confused. You cannot even connect to this simple question, but very profound, very deep question. So if we have desire to live, then why are we doing the things that are not good for us, which is in contradiction to what we think? We believe that we have desire to live. So, even though it is a simple question, it is a very deep question and then you start questioning yourself. It's a way of creating awareness for yourself.

Roland Perez: 9:26

And responsibility for yourself 100%.

David Delrahim: 9:29

You take responsibility, you have choices and you own the consequences of those choices. We eat bad, we don't exercise, we don't meditate, we get emotional. All of those things lead us not to be well, and right at that point we have to ask ourselves did I really have desire to live? Because having a desire to live is totally in line and in alignment with loving yourself. When you love yourself, you don't harm yourself and you are showing to yourself and others that you have a desire to live.

Roland Perez: 10:29

And self-respect 100%.

David Delrahim: 10:34

So the desire to live. Then you go to desire to live in the quality of living space. Then that comes up Because, all right, I have a desire to live. Where do I go from there? Huh, quality, quality of life. Quality of life is the space that we create, is a structure that we create and everything you do within that structure promotes the quality of life and the desire to live.

David Delrahim: 11:15

We often hear this from, unfortunately, the people who are up against. You know, living, you know, with a chronic issue, could be cancer, last stages, could be even alcoholism and alcoholism. There's so many, absolutely there's so many chronic challenges that can put us at the point that we have months, weeks, days to live and then say I want to live. You know, like Steve Jobs, right Towards the end he said that he was willing. Apple, exactly the founder of Apple, he was willing to give everything he had so he can live, but unfortunately that option wasn't available. So you see, desire to live, that living, which is a gift. We often do not think about it because we take that gift for granted. It's given. Of course I have it. What Until we don't have it? But often just like a safe job. It's too late, but often, just like Steve Jobs, it's too late. It happens over and over and over again and we take a pause and we think about life and a few moments after that, we forget what we talked about.

Roland Perez: 13:18

You know, steve Jobs said something very interesting in a book I read on him and that was the one thing that when he got ill and he knew he was facing death eventually from his disease, he said the one thing that hit me the hardest was I wasted so much time. I wasted time and now that I have let's sub it, I use it, I concentrate it more and I always thought to myself, now that we're speaking, that you have your regimen of yoga and other things and you make the time out of your busy schedule to do these things Because you have a desire to live and to live a healthy lifestyle.

David Delrahim: 14:05

Exactly. It's a choice. You know what? Getting up four o'clock in the morning five days a week is a choice. But I have placed myself within that structure of living, quality of life, and it started by truly loving myself and loving this gift we call it living or life and I want to treasure this, I want to protect it. So, putting all of those things in it, within that structure, having the awareness and the consciousness that guides you to be in touch with that question 24-7, you don't do anything to harm yourself, including perhaps getting even angry, in other words, treating others in a not loving way, because laws of attraction you receive what you put out.

David Delrahim: 15:24

I want to receive love. The only way I can receive love is by putting out love. Yes, I love people, but I love myself too. So by loving them they will love me and the energy of love comes back to me. And unfortunately, with anger the same Often. You know with and unfortunately with anger, the same Often, what people, in the extreme cases, they have heart attack from too much anger. So they've done that to themselves.

Roland Perez: 16:00

Yeah, there's two ways to an argument. You're absolutely right. If you get yourself angry, if you let yourself get worked up and get yourself angry, there's another. You have another path. You can step away from that sort of thing and live a lot longer.

David Delrahim: 16:19

Everyone says it, but few of us do Exactly. Because we have there's so many distractions around us, so many News technology Technologies are are good, but you know. But social networking, all of these things? You know even the way we eat. We eat, but bad food, and we eat too much of it, at the wrong time and in the completely toxic mindset, because when we eat, our emotions and mind has to be balanced for that food to give us the nutritional value and this energetic value. But if we eat it really fast, behind the steering wheel, while we are honking horn and cutting people off and getting angry, what are we doing?

Roland Perez: 17:23

Shortening our lives is what we're doing Exactly so.

David Delrahim: 17:26

The question is what is your desire to live If we are taking the path of being completely disconnected with ourselves? It is a very legitimate question. What is your desire to live? Fascinating?

Roland Perez: 17:53

Thank you, david. Again, a wonderful topic and wonderful answers Always amazing. I want to thank our audience. I sure hope that you found something from this discussion with David today that will help improve and enhance your life. And remember, the Better Wellness podcast is available just about anywhere, including Spotify, amazon Music and iHeart Radio. So once again, thanks for supporting Better Wellness. I'm your host, roland Perez. Thanks for listening.