065: How To Get Rid of Sickness FAST

This episode discusses approaches to recovery from illness, focusing on the importance of sleep, movement, and sweating. The hosts emphasize how listening to the body's signals can aid healing, such as wearing layers to encourage sweating and staying active, even at reduced intensity. They also touch on breathing techniques and the body’s natural responses to sickness, advocating for a mindset shift towards understanding and supporting these processes rather than resisting them.

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Transcript

Mike: [00:00:00] So, last week, I was staying up, working, had probably about five or six late nights and about three days ago, no, actually two days ago, it was about midnight, I'm about to pull another late night body aches 

I felt it, I was like, at first it was light and then it came in harder and harder, just felt like completely sore all over and then I was like, okay.

And by about one o'clock, , it was really bad, I was like, okay, I'm coming down pretty hard right now. But I wasn't done with work. So, I was like, okay, all right, well, let me, do some movements, and let me just kind of keep going. And I just took my time, took it easy. By three o'clock, I was done.

I was like, oh man, I'm pushing it now. So, I slept till [00:01:00] about 10. 30, 11 that day. And I slept differently than I usually, usually I, I sleep on the ground where I sleep on a mattress topper, but instead of being in the bedroom, , with, Natalia, Riza, where it's really cold, she likes cold, I slept in another room.

Stephen: No AC. 

Mike: No aC, and I wore socks, I wore a thermal pants, and then I sweats, sweat pants on top of that, and then I wore a shirt and a jacket on top of that, and just sweated out throughout the night. Next morning, I felt all about. Maybe 65, 70 percent, you know, still, still not, not the best, but better. And then throughout the day, I was in the morning time, I was feeling okay.

And then by the midday, I started feeling the aches again, and I wore more clothes, stayed warm, I kept moving, I kept doing what I [00:02:00] usually do and wore just a little bit slower. And then the next night, which was last night, today, we went to sleep around about 11, and I slept till 10, about 10 20.

Stephen: Took a good amount of hours. 

Mike: Yeah, almost 12, sorry. About 11, about 11 hours. Today? 

Stephen: Feeling much better. 

Mike: Feel, feel good. I think I can barely feel any trace of it at all. 

Stephen: I would say you have a very robust body, very healthy. You're able to recover pretty quick. Because I think even if most people slept like 8, 9, 10 hours when they're sick, it would still take a while to recover.

Mike: So, I don't know how it's like to be in somebody else's body, so I can only speak for my own body. I'm just always, curious, I always have this thought in the back of my head. Because , all bodies are different. If somebody [00:03:00] did exactly what I did to the, best that they could, would they increase their recovery?

They would increase their chances for sure, better sleep. 

Because, all I'm doing in the daytime when I'm sick, I'm moving. I'm not working out hard for it, you know. Yesterday, it was, uh, it was actually two days. Because the first day when I, when I was feeling about 65% ish, I had a whole bunch of meetings that day.

And I remember Natalia asking me, should I cancel the meetings? So then I took my computer and I sat outside. And I had the computer in the shade and I was sitting in the sun. And my first meeting I conducted, I was totally in the sun, I brought some weights out in the grass and I'm sitting there doing like light curls and just, , some rolls.

No real set, just any, I'm doing maybe five, six reps, I'm like, okay, that's it, I'm tired. But I'm just staying out in the sun, I'm just sweating, I'm just moving. Nothing hardcore, right? [00:04:00] Under the sun, just moving while conducting the meeting and then afterwards, I just, when I got tired, I just sat there with the computer in the shade and I sat there in the sun at some mass on the grass and I did that for almost about two hours and then we had more meetings and then I moved, 

moved indoors.

Stephen: See, that's another huge element that you are moving throughout the day, you're still allowing your body and helping your body to cleanse out whatever.

Mike: Yeah, 

and not to the extreme. I wasn't trying to push it. It's just being out in the sun and, just movement until, I got tired pretty quick, you know, i wasn't feeling strong.

And even before that, I sat in the sun and I did some light stretching even before that. And then afterwards I just sat, I meditated just for a couple minutes out. It was about midday, I think it was about 

noon, 

the sun was high. I remember closing my eyes and it felt really cool, I opened my eyes and I was so hyped.

So those two [00:05:00] things, movement and sun. 

Stephen: You drink a lot as well, liquids? 

Mike: Yesterday, or that day, it was normal, it wasn't an excessive amount I would say. Just a normal amount. It was just movement, sun, light, eating. Yeah. Light eating. Yeah. 

Stephen: Did you have stuffy nose or stuff coming out of your nose?

Now, I'm curious if you guys, if you caught the same thing that I got. 

Mike: Not, not that much, no, no. But what I did do is I kept clearing my nostril anytime. So it wasn't like there's a lot of stuff coming out but I just, I kept clearing. 

Stephen: That was a, that's a usual thing for you. 

Mike: Yeah, that's what I usually do anyways, , but inhale through the mouth, double exhale on the side.

And I kept doing that anytime I felt blocked and that, that helps too. Okay. 

Stephen: That's another thing I think people should really just become more conscious of is just how, just how easy it is to, to [00:06:00] breathe with your nose. Yeah. Because I think a lot of times people have, it's, at least one of them is pretty plugged up, right?

And it really affects, Just your, your perception and your experience in life when, it's clogged there because it affects your body and it also affects your mind. I can totally tell, that my energies are much lower when even just one of them is clogged up. Some people have that just normally as, as their every day.

Mike: Which then means they breathe through their mouth.

Stephen: That's why there's a mouth breather thing going on and now at nighttime, they got to take their mouth together. You know about that? Yeah. Yeah. And 

the strips I was a mouth breather for, most of my life. Oh, wow. Yeah. I remember working out and talking and hearing people talk about breathing through their nose, and I tried and I feel like I couldn't get enough air, so then I just stopped.

Mm. 

Mike: And my breathing always was terrible. 

Stephen: How did you open it? 

Mike: I consciously kept my mouth closed, [00:07:00] and try breathing through my nose. And what I would do is I would be able to do it for., maybe short moments at a time and then I would open my mouth and it feels like I'm suffocating every time.

Yeah, yeah. And I remember like doing this every single day. Throughout the day, I close my mouth and I breathe through my nose and then I would get in, , maybe under 10 breaths and then have to breathe through my mouth again because it's like, okay, oh, now I can breathe again. 

Stephen: That's a terrible feeling, huh?

Mike: Yeah, yeah. It's like I'm just, I'm just suffocating. Practicing on just light suffocation, that's what it felt like. And then I did it more and more and more until finally, I was able to just keep my mouth closed and breathe through my nose. And then, next level, trying to exercise, trying to work out breathing through my nose.

Stephen: Oh, that's intense. 

Mike: Now, 

when I train, mouth is closed. Heavy breathing all through the nose. Heavy breathing just through the nose.

Stephen: I have to try that out. Yeah. Yeah. It is.

Mike: It [00:08:00] feels, it's definitely intense because the breathing is heavy but you're 

doing it. Yeah, then you're trying to get ready for another test.

Stephen: How does that change your workout and how does that change just your internal system? 

Mike: Just more, more mental clarity, more focus because the air travels differently. The air travels upwards.

Stephen: One of my teachers, he was saying that when you're sneezing, we're all doing it wrong. Because usually when we sneeze, we sneeze through our mouth.

You're supposed to have your mouth closed. And sneeze so that you can get all the stuff out of your passageway in your nose. 

Mike: Which was the purpose for needing to 

sneeze. 

Stephen: Yes. I still can't do it just yet. Maybe I have to go do some training first and go do some hard workouts, open it up some more because I feel like something will rip if I try and do it right now.

Mike: So then you just close your eyes and just press [00:09:00] your mouth, press your mouth together. That's it. Okay. It's like practicing those 

exhales. 

Stephen: Mmm. It's true

mmm. Let me see. There's something going on right there. There's a bit of a, yeah, there's a bit of a like tension or somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so that's an area that needs to be released for sure.

Mike: So in this case, you don't even want to, uh, go into the nose, just go into the mouth. 

Mm. 

Because the way, like, because if you want to sneeze, usually the nose is. 

Yeah. 

Stephen: Trading for sneezing. 

Mike: Yeah. And then what happens if you do a good one, it'll all come out. Oh, yeah. Which is, I mean, it's the same thing as going inhale and just exhaling right now through the nose.

Yeah. What's the 

difference between that and a sneeze? 

A sneeze is automatic. Automatic. It's like it's the body is [00:10:00] forcing, it out because we didn't, listen to our body. 

Stephen: Yeah. 

Mike: So, if I'm sweating, that's something I found works really well with healing the body, sweating. Part of getting out in the sun is getting the sun, but part of wearing a lot of clothes, you know, when I'm sick, I wear a lot of clothes.

Not because I'm cold, but because I'm purposely trying to sweat. Because sweating, if you think about it, right, , we're cleansing the body. And when we're sick, we just need to get rid of this stuff. And there's always a general rule of thumb, we need to get rid of it through one of our holes. Heat it out, spit it out, leak it out, sweat it out, it needs to come out.

And if it doesn't come out and it stays in, then we burn it up. If we burn it up, that means we gotta move. So, if we eat too much, then we can't burn it up because we're sitting there having to go and burn up the food instead of burning up all the other stuff inside that's not good for you.

Stephen: Then you might be feeding it.

Mike: So, [00:11:00] wear a lot of layers of clothes. Yeah. 

Stephen: Would you say that that's almost for anything like a cold, a fever, any of those? 

Mike: Sweating, like this is basically the staple of the general rule of thumb for almost all sicknesses. Somebody has a fever, right, they're not hot, they feel hot, but you ask them, Wow, you're burning up.

So cold. Right? So, anytime when the , body's sick, it needs to release, it needs to release. When we have a fever, all we're doing is, is increasing the temperature in the body so the body can burn it up. But the body knows to do that, just like how we sneeze. So, the body knows, so it's automatically trying to do that.

If we have things coming out of the nose, it's because it's trying to get rid of it, so then we help it. So, it's always like looking at it Watching the symptoms of sickness and helping those symptoms more, helping those symptoms more. If things are wanting to come out, let it come out more. If we're heating up, then if you have a fever and then you're cold, right, you have a fever, what do [00:12:00] you do?

Go into a sauna. Wear a lot of clothes. Get really warm. It's not like, oh wow, you're burning up. Let's put you, in an AC room. No, it's like you're burning up. Okay, so your body is heating up to burn out things inside. Great, let's help you with that. Let's go and keep you warm.

Right, your body is, wow, you're sweating a lot. Great, let's help you sweat more and let's give you more liquids and keep sweating, keep sweating. So, when someone goes, wow, I'm sweating a lot and I don't know why, good, that means your body is trying to get rid of something. Instead of trying to figure out how to stop sweating, you should figure out what are you doing that's causing the sweat.

Don't try to stop sweating. What is your body trying to get rid of? What do you keep giving to your body that your body doesn't like and trying to get rid of? Yeah, I think, all we're really doing is we're just, understanding what the body's actually telling us.

Because it's, sometimes if we think about it, , it's kind of obvious. 

Stephen: Yeah, it sounds very common sense, but it's not very common. Yeah,

Mike: but it's, it's like your arm hurts, what do you do? Train it more! [00:13:00] 

What? 

No, it hurts, stop. I think it's, it's because people, people are just. They learn a whole another framework of thinking, and so therefore, the most common things they don't.

Pay attention to it because they're so conditioned to another way of thinking. A lot of their ways of thinking is based on appearance. I don't want to look this way. I don't want people to think of me this way. So then they do things to try to maintain a certain appearance versus looking at the obvious.

Stephen: Yeah. So, let's talk about, in this example, sickness, what would you mean by, like, appearance? 

Mike: Well, so, let's say,, when somebody sneezes, hey, uh, keep your mouth closed so you just let it come out of your nose. 

Stephen: Ah, okay. They'll be like, oh, that's disgusting. Got it. Okay. 

Mike: Well, you know, when you, when you take a clap, that's not disgusting.

Right? Hey, when you have something [00:14:00] Ah! Right? Oh, that's disgusting! Well, that's I have programming like everybody else, you know, I, I cared about the way people looked at me. I cared about my appearance. I cared about having dirty feet or somebody said he said something.

I'll be like, never again. I need to clean it first. No, but after my awakening back in 2015, it's like I broke all, of the programs that I had, broke them all. And then from there I was completely open to learn. New things insert new programs. 

Stephen: Mm hmm. 

Mike: And then that's when I started learning about all of these things all of these things that suddenly I started to be able to see how Ridiculous, some of the things that I was doing was and how like obvious, Common sense things I wasn't doing I started to pay attention.

I started to learn I started to listen to my body things That's when it changed And then from there, I didn't know how to [00:15:00] do things, I didn't know what was good or bad, so I had to learn. But I was, the programs were broken, they were unplugged. Yeah, that's why for somebody to do that, they have to get their body, they have to be able to change the energy in their body.

They have to get their body to relax, they have to be able to feel more calm in the body, so this way they can change the programs in their mind. If not, they can't change it. It's like their programs are fixed, plugged in, they're like cemented and then because people aren't connecting to their body most of the time,, they don't have a lot of body awareness, their nervous system is not calm and relaxed.

So, therefore, the energies, Stay very stagnated. So, it's hard for them to, be able to accept another way of looking at things, even if they hear it. It's like it's so, difficult, even if it makes sense to them. Even if they go, wow, yeah, it does make sense. But, They were fine.

Uh, but it's still hard for me to do it because I [00:16:00] care so much about the old thing. The reason they care so much is because their body energy and feeling is still the same, which means they still have the old programming running. So when someone goes, I know this is right.

But I still want to do the wrong thing, that's because the old program of you like this thing, this is familiar, or you know, care about how people think of you, da, da, da. All that stuff is still running in the back. So, they go, this is the right way to do it, but I like doing it this old way. I know it's wrong.

Yeah, I know it's bad. This is like, that's the type of voice that's, I know it's bad, I know it's wrong, I know it's not good for me, I know I should stop but I can't. When they clear the energy from the body, that one stops. That's what happens. Then it's easier for them to create new programs in their mind and then new habits and new actions.

They come from there. Well, you mentioned earlier that you think I just have a robust, [00:17:00] my body's just different. What have you, because I know you said you're a little under the weather. What have you been doing to get better? 

Stephen: It's very similar things, like a couple of nights I was wearing long pants, long sleeves.

I should have put on socks, forgot about socks. Although actually one day I did, mainly because I'm also trying this out. So far it seems like it's working because every day in the morning or the day after I feel better, which is to put onions on the bottom of my feet. Oh yeah, yeah. And so, I would need a thought to have it stay on.

I don't know exactly why it works, but I have been feeling better when I do it.

Mike: Supposed to pull things out. 

Stephen: Yeah. And so, doing that, I should actually move more when I'm still feeling like shit. Usually, when I feel like shit, I'm just like, I just want to chill. 

Mike: You don't, you don't move that much. You don't run up the stairs?

Stephen: You see, unfortunately, 

Mike: you see me, I'm running up the stairs all the [00:18:00] time. 

Stephen: Yeah. Yeah. So I should be moving more. I think those are the times where I'm just like, I don't need to do anything during this time. I can just chill. So, that I think is a program that I can change. That's a big 

one. That's a big one.

And it should be easy for you because you like to move usually. 

Yeah. Yeah. In my everyday, I like to move. Yeah. And then when the sickness comes, usually I'm just like, eh, I don't want to do anything. I'm just going to chill. But, I think it will be a good one to shift. So, sitting in the bath, hot water, staying in there.

And then, for me, I had a bunch of stuff just coming out of my nose and so just consistently getting whatever I need to get out, making sure, rubbing it, popping, and then getting all the mucus just loose and liquid so I can flush it out. 

Mike: How about stretching? 

Stephen: Stretching. It's the same as movement. Ah.[00:19:00] 

So, Yeah, I can definitely, I'm going to play with that next time when I get sick. Or, now I'm kind of back in my routine, like this morning, I just want to keep moving. Yeah. I was like, shit, time is almost up, I gotta get ready. Um, and so, it's funny how it's not integrated during those times, but, yeah. So, I mean, I can tell, because, I was the last one to get it out of my family.

I think my daughter got it first, and then Anya got it, and then Kayo got it, and then I was almost about to get out, because they're starting to get better, and I was almost out, and then there was one night where I couldn't sleep, I had just too much energy, and so I, I woke up around 2, And then didn't sleep until six and then that next day was when I started to feel a little bit creeping in.

I was like, ah, no. [00:20:00] Yeah. So, it comes back to the, basics again, just enough sleep. 

Mike: And you see, that happened to me, uh, on one of those days where I stayed up, one of those days, I woke up at four. I went to sleep at, I think, five, maybe like midnight or 11, but I woke up at four and I didn't go back to sleep.

I just stayed up. 

Mm hmm. 

And 

yeah, 

and then I think like a day later or two days later. He 

shots it. Nothing. 

Stephen: Yeah. I was hanging in there. and I think it's also maybe karma or something like that because in my mind I was like, yeah, I'm good. I'm healthy. Like I remember the day before, I'm not getting sick.

Mike: Yeah. Yeah, that's, that's, uh, it's so important to remember. Sickness is all around. It's always there. Mm. But whether or not we get sick is based on our immune system. Yeah. And then our immune system heavily is based on sleep, [00:21:00] right? Sleep movement, care, movement, nutrition, same stuff. That's why when someone's like, Oh, you know, be careful.

There's this thing going around, you 

Stephen: take care of yourself. It doesn't matter. So much. taken every care. Yeah. 

Mike: You know, it's just, I don't, I'm not going to get sick, but if I don't take care of myself, it doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter who would stick around me, I'm going to get sick because there's always something to catch.

Yeah. It's always something. 

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thanks for listening to another episode of Body Open Mind. See you on the next episode.