Gone Fishin’

Fishing for joy, inspiration and better health.

Hey there. How was your week? Here are 5 days from my low-stress, drama-free week.

February 16

I’ve been updating the inner firmware of my Personal GPS this year and heard this gem from Michael Neill. Makes you stop and think about intention and desire (and the “M” word I have a hard time saying these days because, you know… influencers.)

But this is a good one:

You can have anything you want in life… you just have to ACTUALLY WANT it.

– Barbara Banks

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February 17

A few people in my orbit are using ChatGPT instead of a personal trainer, and they’re getting great results. It’s impressive.

Inspired by their progress, but resistant to using ChatGPT as a wellness tool, I did refresh my use of something called Shae app, which is a total health and lifestyle guide on your phone that I was trained in last year.

The platform was developed by an Australian wellness company called Precision Health Alliance, which is made of brilliant scientists, doctors, nutritionists, health coaches, fitness trainers, and more. I think Precision Health might have been the first company to start integrating a massive amount of health data with Ai, so they’ve been refining their wellness guidance for 20 years.

What I love about the company is the incredibly detailed specificity of the personalization (thus their name.) You are assigned an individualized Health Type and given very comprehensive health and lifestyle advice for your Health Type.

What’s cool is that the wellness advice changes as you change. If I gain/lose weight or gain/lose muscle, the app shifts its guidance to address the changes. It gives me very detailed meal plans with only the foods I like to eat, exercise plans and work/rest guidance that’s just for ME. What I learned about my Health Type’s sleep habits and exercise needs was SO enlightening and helpful last year. The Health Types are both validating and informative. I had major aha’s. And I’ve just updated it to give me the guidance I need now.

Here’s a screenshot of the dashboard to give you an idea of what it is:

If you want to check it out for yourself, I’m really happy to show you the platform. (It's super affordable- and if you are indeed interested in having this health-coach-in-your-pocket, please reach out to me by replying to this newsletter or email me. I advise against downloading straight to your phone… because it takes a little set up) It’s an awesome app and I’d love to walk you through it.

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February 18

I’m weirdly encouraged that AI doesn’t understand cigarettes. Or anatomy. Or reality. Feeling fairly certain it cannot replace human beings in every way just yet.

Today, I was thinking about ordinary things from my youth that don’t really exist anymore, things like ashtrays full of cigarettes. And maybe that ashtray would be next to a dial telephone. This was an ordinary vignette you could easily come across in any domestic setting in the 1970s and prior.

I was going to do a little drawing of this scenario for the fun of it, but ran out of time. And since I have AI on my mind this week, I asked the “AI image generator” here to make me a nostalgia-provoking image of this memory, using this prompt:

Elegant woman’s hand with a lit cigarette hovering over an ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts next to a dial telephone

Here’s what AI came up with:

What can I say. So many telephones.

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February 19

Did a breathwork session today and felt great after. Wanted to give myself a tune-up since I’m leading locals through a breathwork session this Saturday at Level Yoga in Vero Beach.

While working on the playlist and theme for Saturday’s class, I got a little distracted and made myself a little screen saver for my phone with a good phrase I heard, since I seem to be working on habits everything. Feel free to save it if you like reminders. ♥️

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February 20

Started the week with personal-desire-GPS-tuning, then onto fitness, food, and habits- this seemed to be an unplanned Personal Development Kickoff Week for me.

I revisited this study about getting the processed food out of your system.

(It’s sounding like I’ve gone totally off the rails, face-down in a bag of Funyuns with a backup Twix ready to go. Not the case, but I have been chasing sweets a bit too much and may or may not have been mainlining some melted cheese in the last month. What can I say- I do comfort foods, not scotch. Now I sound like “The lady doth protest too much, methinks…”)

The prompt for this image might as well have been:

rat watching national news and coping

The point here is: once derailed, you can turn your healthy food-seeking instincts back ON -but it’s not an instant return. The study fed rats processed foods and the junk-food exposure hugely impacted the rats' decision-making ability. The findings of the study indicated:

“…that repeated access to such [junk-food] diets can lead to long-lasting changes in behavioral control which may contribute to overeating and obesity… Our findings suggest that while junk-food exposure does not lead to exaggerated levels of food seeking, it does cause a dysregulation of food-motivated behavior, which may lead to indiscriminant, or mindless, food grazing…” And the study pointed to compromised decision-making ability!!!

Bottom line: JUNK FOOD CHANGES YOUR BRAIN. 😳🤯 Not just the body from the neck-down.

Here’s the study.

Junk food + brain = dysregulated thinking. Good to know.

Now go eat an apple. 💚🍎💚

♥️Lots and lots of love to you, for real.♥️

xoAubrey

P.S. One more thing

A question I’ve been enjoying asking (myself):

If not now, WHEN?!

If not now, WHEN?!

If not now, WHEN?!

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