How Can QiGong And Traditional Eastern Healing Help You Live Better?

How Can QiGong And Traditional Eastern Healing Help You Live Better? with Yadi Alamin and Joi Abraham

Yadi Alamin was severely ill in 2000. The medical drugs he was prescribed made him sicker and he contemplated suicide due to pain and emaciation. Yadi's mother recommended he get acupuncture. Yadi got more than that.

He credits the acupuncturist for saving his life. Yadi learned Eastern Traditional Healing Arts and Exercise and has been helping people since his recovery. Charlotte Reflexology opened in 2012, and has grown since training Joi Abraham to work in clinic.

Yadi is the apprentice of 3 Master Acupuncturists,  a six-time Certified Reflexologist, and a Tibetan Medical QiGong Therapist. He has 18 years clinical experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine, No Needle Acupuncture, Reflexology and Medical QiGong for Serious Conditions.

Yadi was diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease at 24, and learned how to heal himself without surgery, drugs and a cocktail of herbs. His philosophy is simple “do what works, and do it often.” He has had clients recover from a host of ailments using QiGong, Reflexology, and food-based methods.

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Roy - Feeding Fatty (00:03):

Hello, and welcome to another episode of feeding fatty. This is Roy I'm Terry. So our show is I, um, you know, it's kind of a personal journey. What we'd like to do is, uh, share my journey. Terry is my support. I take all the credit for the fatty part of this, but, uh, she works diligently trying to, you know, help keep me on track with the eating ex, getting out of my chair and going and exercising and, you know, with COVID and working from home, it's become much more easier to be sedentary. And I posted a new video yesterday and we're going to try to post more, uh, little video clips of me being out, uh, you know, at the gym yesterday. So anyway, we appreciate you tuning in and listening. The other thing is, uh, you know, we always like to have, uh, professionals and other experts in areas come on with us, uh, to give us not only some things to think about, but points of view, and also people to reach out, to, uh, talk to, to help us through our journey. So, uh, today we have some awesome guests and Terry, I'm going to let you introduce them.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (01:07):

Yeah, today we would love to welcome Yadi Alamin and Joi Abraham from Charlotte, traditional healing, formerly Charlotte re reflexology and Yadi Alamin was severely ill. And two in 2000, the medical drugs, he was prescribed, made him sicker and he, he, uh, due to pain and emaciation yadda, his mother recommended he get acupuncture and he got more than that. He credits the acupuncturist for saving his life. He learned Eastern traditional healing, arts and exercise, and has been helping people since his recovery. Um, Charlotte traditional healing opened in 2012 as Charlotte reflexology and has grown since, since Joi, Abraham trained to work in the clinic. And she is a clinician as well. So welcome both of you to the show. We are so excited to hear more about all of this very interested. Yes.

Yadi (02:16):

Thanks so much for that warm introduction. Good morning. Good morning.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (02:22):

We are both interested in, you know, we kind of had some pre-show conversation that we, uh, been looking forward to this for a couple of weeks now, but unfortunately with our, uh, you know, knowledge base, uh, it's gonna be difficult for us as good to, you know, intriguing questions. So we, we're going to try not to be an audience here. We're going to try to jump in and add something to the conversation. But, um, you know, with that said, if you don't mind Yachty, could you just kind of tell us a little bit more about what got you started or, uh, you know, how that transformation looked?

Yadi (02:56):

Sure. Um, I used to work in phlebotomy. I used to draw blood. I was a vampire. I was a medical Porter as a really young guy, and I worked in, um, pharmacy in mail order pharmacy. So I had already worked in Western medicine, you know, up until about 2000. So everything that I knew was Western medicine. My father was a chemical engineer. My mother mother's a teacher. I'm from the Midwest. I'm from Illinois, grew up in Chicago. So I'm not as long Asia. I didn't have any experience in anything outside of the norm. Um, but I got very sick, uh, and ended up in the emergency room because my heart was beating too fast and I couldn't breathe. And I'd never really been sick in my life. I was a wrestler. I was a boxer. I did, I think, karate or whatever when the karate kid came out.

Yadi (03:54):

And, and that was about, you know, it was, I thought I was tough, but all of a sudden, you know, my heart's beating too fast and I can't breathe. I called the ambulance and I, now I'm clueless because now I'm a patient I'd never been on that side. And, uh, they gave me Xanax and told me I had anxiety and they were so quick to give me the drug. And I didn't know anything about the drugs. I just took it. And within two weeks I had ended up in the ER, seven times. Wow. And by that time, uh, it was the same diagnosis, but then eventually they said, well, we've been an x-ray $10,000. We did an x-ray and we think you have ulcerative colitis. We want you to go see a GI specialist, blah, blah, blah, go see him. Uh, they told me, no, you don't have colitis, but I'm going to send you to a GP. I go to a GP, nothing. And finally, they sent me to an immunologist and told me I had idiopathic auto-immune hepatitis.

Joi (04:50):

Wow. That again, literally

Yadi (04:56):

Nothing. If you go back, that means they don't know why you have it. Auto immune was a guest and then hepatitis had his liver and then items, inflammation. I didn't know this really. I was like 24 years old and I believed everything they said, but I was losing weight quickly. And I went down to about 118 pounds. And you can tell, like, I'm spinning as is, imagine 30, uh, 40 pounds lighter. Wow. Um, and at that point they said, you're going to take these drugs. You're going to take interferons. Like you have hepatitis or you're going to die. And, um, I, I had been sick from the medication on top of being sick. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep. Uh, every symptom was magnified by a million. Like my heart would just pound. I would stand up the room would spin. And, um, I gave up, so for about a year, I did what people do.

Yadi (05:51):

I went on at the time it was Yahoo and I Google, um, I went on Yahoo and I'm like, yeah, what do you do to fix your body? You don't know anything. How do you heal from disease? And you realize that the world is not built that way. And people are selling things for symptoms. And you're going to keep buying things as long as your complaints. Uh, about a year later, I was suicidal and I called my mother who was down here in Charlotte. Uh, and I said, mom, I want to die. And she said, well, don't do that. Go to an acupuncture,

Joi (06:23):

Please don't do that.

Yadi (06:26):

Yeah. And she really didn't know what she was saying, but it was kinda like this don't don't kill yourself. You know, I found the guy in a book, um, Chinese guy wearing, um, a pool, like the comfortable uniform you see in the old Shaw brothers, seventies movies. Right? Well, he can like me in the neck.

Joi (06:45):

Right.

Yadi (06:49):

It wasn't much different. It, it went very deep. Uh, he checked my pulse, he looked at my tongue. He told me, uh, liver, kidney spleen, which I didn't know what he was talking about. Exactly. Was very thick. Put me on the table for about 20 minutes. And he's doing these, you know, these body manipulations, like pressing and rolling and grunting and putting his hands on the radiators. It was cold. So he put his hands on the radiator and he's

Yadi (07:20):

Like, I'm like, whatever, you know, uh, whatever you want to do is fine. Place smelled like fish. The fish market is a Chinatown. So fish markets down the hall, sort of, and his liniment and fish smell in there. I can get up. And I got to tell you the first time in a year I could breathe. I didn't feel like I was going to die. And, um, I knew this man was helping. So I just, um, I borrowed money. I was a patient for about eight, nine months, ran out of money to borrow and beg to be a student. And that's kind of what happened. I became a student and eventually decided that I didn't want to work in corporate America when I got well, because I think the whole thing was set up to keep people in that medical loop of owing money and being sick.

Yadi (08:07):

And, uh, if you get close enough to dying, you just want to be honest with people. You can't, you don't have the energy to lie or put on errors or be somebody else. So the only honest thing that I could do would be help people who ask me for help. And, um, I spent seven years in Chinatown before I quit. Cause I was making $10 an hour, the businesses, uh, a half a million a year, and I'm making $10 an hour. I went to go work for the, the, um, the Dean of, uh, Sydney college of Oriental medicine. I worked as a TA with no degree in acupuncture. I was with him for about five years. And then I moved here and couldn't find anyone to work under. So I opened this clinic. That's where her stories.

Joi (08:53):

Yeah. Joi. How about year? Let's hear about

Roy - Feeding Fatty (08:56):

You. That's awesome.

Speaker 5 (08:58):

Oh, wow. Um, my side of the story I put up, never orchestrated this myself any better. Um, I have always been interested in Asian medicine and health and healing, and I went through my own issues. Um, but interestingly enough, I went to live in Japan for a few years. And that is where I had my first Asian medicine experience. I had heard about Asian medicine in America, but it wasn't Japan when I experienced it for myself. And I brought my health issues from America to Japan. And in Japan, they did not like for you to take time off. They want you to be at work.

Speaker 5 (09:44):

If you have a problem that prevents you from going to work, they want to know what it is. So, uh, you know, I would be sick every month and they would ask me, yeah, they would ask me what's the problem. And then I said, you know, I have these issues every month, but I can't come in and we'll say, well, would you like to see, uh, a doctor? I said, yes, but I do not want to see a Western doctor. I'd rather see an herbalist. They took me to the herbalist and I explained my symptoms and they prescribed something called reishi mushroom. Everybody probably knows what that is by now in this country. But at the time I had never heard of it. And they gave me this hard crusty mushroom, and I was supposed to make a tea out of this. It was red. Yeah. It was red. And I said, what do I do here? I said, you know, take a hammer, break it up and make a tea, take a hammer. And I said,

Roy - Feeding Fatty (10:40):

You'll have to back up because now I really, I don't know what that is. So yeah, taking a hammer to break up a mushroom. That is a new concept for me.

Speaker 5 (10:48):

Well, really, she must remain as the hard Woodland mushrooms and then it grows, it grows very hard. So when it's dried, it gets even harder. And it's very much like wood it's artists to add to that. Um, racy in, in Chinese is called lynching and Ling means, um, soul or spirit almost. So in, um, in Asia for a long time, they believed in reincarnation. And they said, if you were good in this life, you reincarnate as mushroom.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (11:25):

Oh, interesting. Okay.

Speaker 5 (11:29):

But it tasted bad really bad.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (11:32):

Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I interrupted. So anyway, I kind of go back to that process. So you have it, you break it up with a hammer and then I guess you put it in a cup and make tea out of it.

Speaker 5 (11:44):

Yeah. You boil it and then you make the tea and strain that off and then drink it. And I was to do it twice a day and, uh, it tasted bad, but I followed the direction and it worked. It was the first time that anything natural for me had actually work. I was able to go to work without any problems. And they noticed, Oh, Joi. He must be feeling a lot better.

Joi (12:12):

How long, how long did it take for it to start working for you?

Speaker 5 (12:16):

About two months, it took about two cycles. Okay. So, um, you know, doing that and doing it and being dedicated to it was difficult, especially when you didn't exactly know what it was going to do, but I trust the process and I'm glad I did because I did see the results. So I continued to do that while I was there. And I was very happy with that method. So I stayed there for three years and then I came back to America and at the time reishi, it, it was just starting to become known, but I wasn't able to find that kind of hair here. So, you know, my health deteriorated again and it got to the point where I couldn't walk and I was only 37 years old and I was having hip arthritis. And that was very devastating, especially if you traveled and you've moved along everywhere and you walk really fast and you know, you're reduced to walking in pain with a cane.

Speaker 5 (13:19):

So I knew there was something that I needed to do or walked into the health food store. Cause I wanted to find something to try to start the process. You know, naturally he went again and I saw him, I'm a native of Charlotte. And he worked at the local health food store and I'd never seen him before. I said, okay, this is going to be interesting. So I walked up to him and I said, Hey, do you have Chinese bitters? And he kind of pauses for a minute. And he looked at me like, kind of strange, like there was this question and he said, no, what do you need it for? And you know, I told him, I, I told him all of my health issues and what I wanted to use him for. And this guy says, well, why don't you just do reishi mushroom?

Joi (14:00):

Wow. That's destiny. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:06):

But I knew when he knew what he was talking about. And through the second thing he said while we were talking was that he had been studying Chinese medicine year. And I thought to myself, does this guy look like we'd be able to study in 15 years, the beauty thing he looked so

Joi (14:22):

In meats

Speaker 5 (14:25):

And found out we had a lot in common, especially about Asian medicine. And I knew that, uh, I had met the right person. So he invited me to cheek on club, which was great. I had never had to, I've been in movement and dance for all my life. And I had never done that. So I went to cheek on class and I never stopped doing cheekbone after that. And then you explain to

Roy - Feeding Fatty (14:52):

Us, can you explain to us what a cheat dong is she quick she's gone.

Yadi (14:59):

Um, so she gone after China changed their politics. They created that word too long before that it probably would have been called like young sin or, uh, nourishing, nourishing health nourishing light, or a Dallion or the path within it's kind of a generic word. It's almost like saying a martial arts or saying, uh, health. And she goes, I'm going to be a lot of things, but when you standing and be breathing can be, uh, very physical. It can be meditation. It could be teaching could be many things, but it's abroad. Okay. Okay.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (15:44):

I'm sorry, Joey. I didn't mean to interrupt you again, but I just, that's a term that I'm just unfamiliar with. So those, okay.

Yadi (15:50):

It was a great question that, especially in the seventies, you know, like with, with the Chinese, when you say words in English, uh, that's called whether you spell it out, it's called opinion. Right. And, uh, that's changed over the years. Like years ago you could order pay King duck, right. Pay King is now Beijing. Right? Right. So in the seventies, when she came here, they spelled it Chi K U N G like clean food cheap, but now they spell it with a Jew and the Cuban sounds like, sure. So if you see Q I G O N G she gone. Um, yeah. If that helps anybody I'm okay.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (16:31):

Yeah. Go ahead. Joi. Sorry to interrupt

Yadi (16:38):

Problem. I think we were getting to like how Keith on the cheek. And I remember one time after class, or actually we were hanging out and I wasn't same age. So we, you know, we grew up in the same time period and somebody, all of the things that you did or, you know, similar music flows, you know, a lot of like, I always tell people like nowadays, um, like hip hop and rap music is big. It's, it's huge. And it's mainstream. When we grew up in the eighties, it was not mainstream. Like you had dance, music rock. We had house new. You had like this goal, which died, you had pop music, but rap was not a big thing. You know, now everybody wants to rap. And some of the people who rap are over 40, 50 years old. And I always tell people, if you saw the space shuttle crash, Oh gosh, you should stop rapping. Right.

Speaker 6 (17:53):

That's like save and close, you know, save and close that you think you'll fit into. You know, it's going to come back around. Well, if it comes back around again, you're too old to wear it, you know,

Speaker 5 (18:06):

Boom gone by that point. But, um, uh, yes, we were hanging out one night and I had a flare of arthritis and I couldn't walk, but I was trying not to show it to him because I didn't want him to worry about, you know, me not being able to walk, but of course he likes to walk fast. Uh he's from Chicago. So he's like, okay, what's wrong? And I told him, you know, I have, uh, hangs in my head too. It's a really nosy, you know, so he said, okay, we get to this little space in the park. And he said, why don't we do this? She goes, that he did not tell me it was an advanced sense. And that we were going to be doing this for a full 20 minutes. And we're, it's the summer night and it's really hot outside. So I'm doing this advanced, she gone that I have to hold my arms out.

Speaker 5 (19:09):

I had to control my breathing. I start sweating. And then I started feeling pain in my leg and I'm looking at her like, Oh, hate this. Why do I have to do the aspirin? Give me stop. No, just keep doing it. He was very calm. We were just doing it for the whole 20 minutes and the whole 20 minutes. I hated it. I hated him. I hated being there. And then finally the 20 minutes was over and I was so upset, but I got to walk. I went to walk and there was no pain wow. At home. And I didn't believe that that was actually true. So I tested it. I walked up Hills, I ran downhills. I walked in circles. Cause when I have put my Fridays, I would turn and I would try to shift quickly. And my hip joint would not move because of the plane, but I didn't have them. And I could walk around in circles and it was pain-free and it lasted for three whole days. Wow. No pain relievers, no medication for three days. And I was convinced that that was something that I needed to do continue school. That's how I got into what you do.

Speaker 6 (20:23):

It's true.

Speaker 5 (20:26):

You able to see me go from walking without a pain, to being able to walk as fast as you want. And it did not take very long in order to see that change. You've seen somebody standing in a horse stance and low in the stance they'll have their arms up in some kind of position. Right? Um,

Yadi (20:48):

Likewise,

Speaker 5 (20:51):

It

Yadi (20:51):

Was light that only arms were straight out and the fingers were kind of bent like this. And then there were certain movements in between. So it's a, it's a martial arts kind of stance. Um, and it was 20 minutes. Wow. It was long enough. 20 minutes is long enough for the kidneys to filter every drop of blood in your body. So if you do something for 20 minutes straight, if it's walking or if it's deep breathing or whatever, um, if you're excited for 20 minutes, that's enough time to change the way your blood chemistry looks under a microscope. Interesting. That's a big deal. Yeah. And so, you know, for, for people who want to learn anything, you want to learn yoga, you want to do walking or whatever it is you want to learn. She gone do it for 20 minutes. 20 minutes is probably a good cutoff. Um, because after that, that's when you go into the negative return cycle, like if you keep doing it after that, that's when you fatigue, that's when the pain comes. So it was good to do things in 20 minute cycles. Why you're a beginner, you know? But yeah. That when, when Jordan, um, you want to help somebody that's in pain. Right. And we just met and you know, we, um, I don't know. It's hard to look, uh, young and attractive when you're limping. You know what I mean? Like it's hard to be,

Speaker 5 (22:13):

Apparently I try. I tried. Um, but yeah, in the end he could tell, you know, cause he's used to movements, he's into body movement, body moves and, and you know, as a dancer, I understood that. And you're trying to hide that didn't work very long because then you start to see it in other parts of your body. So that's what he was thinking.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (22:38):

So now do, y'all just, uh, do y'all work mostly with people with, I would say like a physical ailment, like, you know, like a joint pain or something in that movement issue or is it, you know, because I think of like the, uh, uh, overeating and smoking and I think of all those types of things as well.

Yadi (22:58):

Well, yeah, it is a good question. Uh,

Speaker 5 (23:02):

Well we see a lot of different kinds of issues.

Yadi (23:05):

Asian medicine is holistic. So if the person has a movement problem, um, joints are connected to your liver and your gallbladder. If you have, if you're smoking, there's usually an emotional reason why, and there's a physical reason why, um, and that's more holistic how we deal with it. So, you know, there's the chemical part that you may be addicted to nicotine, but then there's the feeling you get when you take deep breaths, you can take long exhales. A lot of times people smoke because they don't get a chance to just take a deep breath and instantly excuse to let things go. Because these threats interesting, interesting times my Japanese teacher would say the same thing. She really likes smoking because she could relax and I never understood that, but it made a lot of sense.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (23:54):

Yeah. And you know, it's funny you bring that up because that's something that, um, it's something that has been pointed out for me in the past is the breathing part. And it's, uh, something I didn't even realize, but like, uh, you know, I did some martial arts training and uh, my sensei would, he would walk by me all the time and tap me on the shoulder and say, take a breath. You know, because I would just, I guess, get so tensed up doing that. And then another time it was a fun setting. We were out at a paint painting party where they have a lady instructor painting. And so you, she says get brushed one and paint green. And so I was following her instructions and she came by and tapped me on the shoulder and said the same thing, you know, and this was all in the same time period.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (24:39):

And she's like, this is fun. You can take a breath. It's all right. And I thought, you know how these other people could see that in me, you know, but I could not see it in myself. And so I, uh, you know, I actually had a, um, a list of things to do every day over my desk. And one of them was to breathe. Just a reminder that take those deep breaths. Because even if I'm not thinking about it, I feel, um, short breaths. I don't feel like I ever like and do that, but that's a good, um, I guess that's a good analogy for the smoking that I'd never thought about is people, you know, having that big release and that big exhale.

Yadi (25:17):

Oh yeah. Can we do something for fun? Is that All right? I'm glad you brought up breathing. Um, because this is an exercise that works really well for people who experienced anger, frustration. Um, and it's just something you can do with breathing. You don't have to deal with any body movements. Um, let's make it as realistic as possible. Find something that makes you angry.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (25:46):

Yeah. My internet connection. I don't have to look that far. I had some internet troubles this week and I like to throw my chair out the window and Terry stopped me from doing that like, Oh God. Yeah.

Yadi (25:56):

Yeah. Okay. So to be authentic, everyone let's do this together and find something that makes you upset and feel how your body responds to the feeling of being angry and being angry. Like, okay. So a lot of times you feel the tension in the chest, the throat will get a little tight. You might even feel heat in the cheats and under the eyes. Right? So I want you to remember how that felt when you thought of it. This is not hypnotism. This is just, she'd gone. We're going to take a breath in. And as you exhale, I want you to make a sound. The sound is shoo shoo, next time you do it. I want you to inhale. It was standing in front of a big green tree and you can see the green leaves. You inhale fresh air in the tree and then exhale the sound. One more time. You're standing in front of a tree, bright green leaves. You inhale. And then exit go back to the thing that made me angry. Well, back to what made you upset and think of it. See what your body is done.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (27:11):

Yeah, no reaction. Interesting. Yeah. Wow.

Yadi (27:18):

What if I told you what was going to happen, then it's hidden. It's hidden, right? I don't tell you naturally. So the problem is being angry. Isn't the problem. It's the problem that we hold on to anger. And then we take anger with us. Like it's helpful to us. Angry was just inspired to be angry when you're angry, but to be angry when you're not even angry, that's, that's resent mint. And that becomes dizzy. That becomes where you hold onto the tension or you waste all that, all that energy. Yeah. Sometimes we're taught that a physical ailment may have started as an emotional issue first. And a lot of times when you start to heal the physical, the emotional, then it come up and you have to deal with both at the same time. Yeah.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (28:04):

Yeah. There's a, there's a great saying that I heard years ago, it was like that being mad at somebody or holding on to some anger with somebody else it's like drinking poison and hoping that somebody else dies. You know,

Yadi (28:20):

That's a big thing. If you think about the word resent, it means sent twice. We sent. And a lot of times when somebody has cancer or somebody has a disease that's rotting and festering inside them, they carry. Even if they're the sweetest person to you, they carry that resentment, that anger, and it becomes a physical thing was now your body is constantly making that tension, constantly making that heat and constantly breathing shorter, as you mentioned. Interesting. Just something that might help people know. That's awesome.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (28:53):

So let me just, uh, this may be too deep to get into, but maybe we can touch on it. But what about the, um, what about the overeating? I mean, it's like me, you know, every emotion elicits eating, you know, we, we talk about this all the time and it, you know, part of it is culture growing up in habits that, you know, you come home from school or from work and something bad happened and they're like, Oh, let's go get them. You know, let's go eat something, let's go get an ice cream. I'll make you feel better. Or you come home like, Hey, I just won first place and things are great. Awesome. Let's go get an ice cream to celebrate. You know, I was like, you know, you're sad. You're down and get tense, stress, all of that. But, um, anyway, I just love food and uh, I love food. It's a, it's a bad habit. It's, uh, you, I do it unconsciously, you know, sometimes I'll be doing it and think, ah, why am I even doing this? I should've thought about this before doing it. So any, uh, any little helpful tips or tricks for that?

Yadi (29:55):

Well, the simple answer, why do we overeat? Or what, what does it mean outside of, um, the, the chemicals that we like, you know, sugar makes you feel happy. Obviously you have sugar, um, in, in Oriental medicine, this stomach and the spleen organs are connected with elements of nature. Um, as is the liver. The liver is representative of anger and we connected with wood. The tree was the exercise in terms of food that's earth. So when things are out of control, what you want to do is have rounding and balance. You want to have stability, you want to be stable. So you eat things that make you more stable or make you feel more stable in stock. Okay. Interesting. If you think about it, um, when the pandemic hit, what did people do? They went and bought out everything from the grocery store, right?

Yadi (30:53):

Well, actually from food and a lot of friends who are trying to create that comfort and safety, usually what we go through first. And that's usually what, like you were saying, most of our special events, right? All that as a way of, uh, combat. So in clinic, we, um, we overeating is often seen as an excess of heat in the stomach. Um, and the stomach is warm. I mean, in, in the West, we know we have stomach acid in, in, uh, Asian medicine. They would call that stomach fire. Um, but what will happen is you'll get too much, uh, you'll have too much heat and it doesn't mean you're digesting. Well, it doesn't mean you have a good metabolism. It just means the fire is burning. The fire is burning and you in clinic, there are things that we would do to kind of reduce the buyer or, you know, disperse the buyer, not to put it out because you have to eat know, and there's nothing wrong with liking. Ooh, it's just moderation is key. Right. My teacher would say moderation, everything in moderation, including moderation.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (32:11):

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And the comfort issue, you know, that's a good point because, um, you know, something that I started years ago was that, uh, you know, kind of not eating like right before bed, I'd be like, uh, you know, leading, wanting something, whatever. But then it got to be, I think it was that comfort feeling like, like if I wasn't full, then I didn't feel like I could go lay down. And so that is one thing that I have noticed is that, you know, and the other thing too, I mean, you, you know, like somebody who's big, like me, I get a little hunger, you know, twinge and like, Oh my God, I got to stop and eat. And then, you know, you think through this, like, I don't know that that little hunger thing is probably going to kill me within the next three or four days. I can probably, you know, wait 20 minutes or an hour to eat a meal instead of getting that snack. So, uh, you know, I know a lot of this is self-awareness and then trying to stop yourself before, you know, taking that plunge.

Yadi (33:11):

It does take time to be able to find something that you can use to stop you from doing it. You don't replace something with nothing, right. It's not like, okay, we're going to get you to stop eating, just stop. Cause then you go back to what you were doing before. So a lot of the times, um, so, uh, just speaking from my own experience, like my, who was angry, um, I'm a small guy, I'm five 11, you know, I'm 155 pounds and I'm from the city of Michael Jordan. Like I like people are big in Chicago. Um, and I had to fight a lot when I was growing up and I had a chip on my shoulder, which, you know, as we talk about it, doesn't help you as you get older, it just becomes kind of like your problem. Now you have an, I you're just mad.

Yadi (34:03):

Um, so I would notice that when somebody would say something or I would interact with somebody, I always had this feeling of tension. And when I started doing Chico long exercise and it wasn't the commitment, um, I use the same energy that I would use to be angry, to do whatever with my anger, to talk crazy about you to go punch a punching bag, which I still do. Um, but I would use that energy to go, do she gone? No, I'm not saying she goes the thing. Sometimes it might be calligraphy or it might be, you know, uh, what was the, uh, like demean more in ghosts? Like if you go make pottery, right. But it's, it's, you have to replace one thing that makes you feel good with something else that makes you feel good. You don't just moving out. Like that's, that's like, just like, okay, that makes you feel good. That's the one time you get to be free. No, one's telling you where to be and what to do. And how, how much money are you going to make? What stop. Yeah.

Yadi (35:05):

Terry and I were talking earlier and I told her that I was a flight attendant and I, I remember I would always accurate flight go find five guys in Dallas international airport because they had the best price. And I always wondered why I wanted to do that after a flight. And I realized that, you know, as a flight attendant, you encounter a lot of people. It's very fast paced and it's very high stress and my stress would be through the roof. But there are certain things that you can't say you can't in front of people and you have to keep certain appearance while you're on a plane chain.

Yadi (35:45):

But I, I would go and kill a bag of five guys, French fries after the flight. And I, I started to realize that it was making me feel bad afterwards. And I was wondering, why am I always triggered to go do this after you're eating your anger? My frustration. So once I figured out that's what it was, I then had to start going through what I could do then like right there to distress so that I could perform my job, but also not depend on high cards in order to make myself relax. So that is what, uh, that's what I had to do. That's what I would find. One little thing. Yeah. I find little things breathing, maybe getting, um, nice water or something, taking a walk and help a lot. So if I had time in the terminal, I would take a few laps and that would really help. And that made a huge difference.

Joi (36:47):

What'd you say?

Roy - Feeding Fatty (36:51):

Yeah. The, uh, I think that's an awesome idea. That the cause that's why I was thinking about is maybe doing some breathing, maybe just drinking water. Uh, anyway, it give me something, cause I have tried to replace that a little bit more, you know, with getting to the gym, instead of sitting around here, you know, eating a popcorn or whatever, you know, get out and go for a walk or, you know, do something more productive

Yadi (37:15):

And expressing your feelings at the right time to the right person who also important. You don't want to hold in what it is that you're feeling. I mean, sometimes you need to find a way to tell whoever it is that you are experiencing. Um, I'm hungry [inaudible]

Joi (37:35):

Oh,

Yadi (37:40):

Um, because we mentioned that, that, uh, that, that hunger, a lot of times comes from heat and a fire. Uh, a simple technique that they do, this comes from the fasting and this is something you could do is very easy. Like you take a simple breath and then exhale, then click your teeth together. About 36 times with the mouth closed, when you do it, you'll generate saliva. And you just switch the saliva around in the mouth and swallow the saliva, which not only lubricates the Brode, but, um, that feeling of, um, being full sometimes diminishing, not saying this is going to work every time we try it. Right. Right. Um, sometimes I was going to say, Oh good, you have all types of things in your saliva that, that are energetic, like immunoglobulins things that your immune system needs, enzymes, even electrolytes are in your saliva. Um, and your teeth are extremely of your bones. So there's an electrical charge that's generated just from clicking with teeth, just like there is when you make impact when you run

Roy - Feeding Fatty (39:04):

So awesome. Because I, you know, I've heard a long time about the, uh, you know, how much breathing is important. I think y'all reinforce that with these other little tips and tricks that we can do to help disperse some of the anger anxiety, and, uh, you know, maybe think about replacing that, you know, that eat the, not the good, healthy eating, but that snacky type eating. So I know you guys need to get to an appointment. I know you've got something that's coming up. Cause we could actually probably talk to y'all for a couple more hours here. It's just so interesting. And um, you know, I'd love to have y'all, uh, back on the show, uh, to, you know, to go off into this, you know, some of these things a little bit more in depth, but we appreciate your time. Uh, so very much it's been such a pleasure meeting both of you and having this conversation,

Yadi (39:54):

You too, as well, enJoied it very much. It's fine. Have you pick a little bit of time and share it? Thanks for having us. We appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (40:02):

If you don't mind, uh, before we let you go, first off, I'd like to ask both of y'all, uh, what is something that you do every day? And it could be an app, a program, a habit or ritual, what is something that you do every day that you couldn't do without, that really adds a lot of value to you?

Yadi (40:22):

Your life is. Um, and, and the great thing is to be able to, um, you know, send them a little good morning, you know, my daughter's grown up. Um, yeah, just being able to, uh, to communicate with family on social media is probably one of those things that like we didn't have before that. I, I think it would be hard to live with that. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to spend some time, whether it's five minutes to 30 minutes and silent, no cell phone, no computer. I wake up before everybody else so that I can have that mental space where I have quiet and it sets me up for the day because I, I, both of us are in a situation where we have a lot of people come and ask us a lot of questions and they're asking to help them. And then we deal with people outside, like our families that need help. And then you just need that time where you can get centered and get still. And if I don't do that, it's not a good day. That's awesome.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (41:38):

Oh yeah.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (41:40):

Uh, if one of y'all would tell us, so how can people, uh, well, first off, who is your client, uh, what you can do for them and then how people can reach out and get ahold of you. Yeah.

Yadi (41:52):

Well, if you're in Charlotte or if you're in the Carolinas, you're welcome to come to the clinic. We're close to the border of South Carolina in South park. Charlotte, we have Charlotte traditional healing located about five blocks away from South park. Um, the only mall with the valet that I've seen, um, also you can go to Charlottetraditionalhealing.com, uh, or where you can go to, she gone, qigongsaved.me if you're interested in learning a full set of exercises. Um, and we have, tele-health, we're really big into other things, which we haven't mentioned, but this is, um, yeah, this is how you get ahold of, or call called Joi. Don't send me messages like, Hey man, I got my movies helped me. Like I get, I get those at 3:00 AM. We help people all over the country and depending on the time, we can help people in different types of worldwide.

Roy - Feeding Fatty (42:54):

Awesome. Well, again, thank you both so much. We appreciate it. Uh, that's going to do it for another episode of feeding fatty. Of course, you can find us at www dot feeding, fatty.com. Uh, this interview, the audio and the video will both go up live. It'll probably be three to four weeks. We'll get that up. Uh, the, uh, also find us on social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the video will also be on our YouTube channel. You can find the podcast on all the major platforms, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and probably a dozen more. So reach out, give us a listen, should be sharing. Share sharing is caring. So share this with all of your friends, get them involved. We would love it. Visit us on our Facebook group. We'd love to start a discussion with, you know, with our listeners and see what we can do. If you're a professional that can help people with wellness and wellbeing, or if you have a great story, we're always looking for those. So reach out to either me or Terry. We'd love to get you on a future episode. So until then take care of yourself and take care of your family. This is Roy.

Terry - Feeding Fatty (44:04):

This is Terry Yadi, Joi. Thank you so much. We really appreciate your time and expertise and sharing all of this.

Yadi (44:12):

Thank you so much for having me.

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