Rebekah: Hey guys.
It's Bex here and welcome to a special episode of She Has Four Minutes because there's no
she sitting next to me.
I'm here with my friend Mike Perrine.
Mike: I was asked if I could just be a woman for once.
Rebekah: I said just be a girl.
Mike: Just be a girl?
I want to say that when we go through stressful times, and we're trying to take care of ourselves,
that we can't let everything else unravel.
So I went through a very stressful time in 2007.
I had Lyme disease.
I started a business in New York City.
I went through a divorce.
A lot of intense things started happening to me in 2007 and I wasn't sleeping.
Sometimes I was sleeping 45 minutes a night.
So inside, I was really stressed and everything was happening but I maintained my diet.
I continued to juice.
I never went off.
I never got into emotional eating and I looked fantastic from the outside.
It didn't mean I was completely healthy but it was balancing me.
I didn't let my entire life just unravel and just start doing things.
Rebekah: I like that you said that because I'm bringing a lot of people on that are coming
from a very happy place and they're having a lot of success in their lives right now
in this moment.
But you're saying that even when everything was completely bad -- thank you for making
the video sad now.
But when everything was completely bad, taking care of yourself is what got you through it.
Mike: Absolutely essential.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: Yeah.
It's what kept the ship moving.
It's what kept everything in the right direction and it's what allowed me by the end of the
year to complete everything.
Rebekah: Thank God you survived 2007 just for the sole purpose of being in another Bex
Life video.
We've probably done like 20 together at this point at least, and they're all really good.
So you should watch them all.
But I want to talk about these little things that we're doing.
When you came in, you said, "Oh my gosh!
My life is so stressful.
It's so busy.
I don't do the things that I'm supposed to do," but you do do things.
Otherwise, it would be unraveling still.
Give us a little bit of Mike's day.
Mike: What happens to me because I'm working on so many projects and I see a lot of clients,
so I'm kind of working on all their things and stuff.
In order to sort of bring myself down so I can actually sleep at night, I use Young Living
Essential Oils.
I put them on my feet, smell them, lavender oil.
Rebekah: You smell you feet.
Mike: Did you hear that accent come out?
Lavender oil.
Palo Santo is a fantastic oil.
You know, but I put them on.
I put them on my head.
I put them on my chest.
I put them on my feet, smell them, sit, close my eyes and it completely changes my state.
That's a big Tony Robbins things, changing your state.
Usually what he's trying to do is get people to change their state to move into action
to do something.
I'm trying to change my state to go backward and kind of rest and relax and let everything
go.
That's my ritual for doing that.
Rebekah: So you're rubbing oils on yourself and a lot of the things that you do are ritualistic.
I know that you make yourself a green juice every single day.
Mike: I do, yeah.
Rebekah: Yeah.
And you prepare your own food.
Mike: Uh-huh.
I do.
I make sure I prepare almost everything.
Rebekah: Yeah.
So you're living this hectic life and you're doing all these projects.
But you're really taking the time to be engaged in the activity that you're doing.
Mike: Yeah.
When I'm working with clients, what a lot of people are saying especially in New York
is that they don't have time for anything.
So they're suffering ill health because they don't have time for everything.
They say, "I don't have time to prepare my own food.
I don't have time to make juice.
I don't have time to do this."
They're engaging in work constantly, constantly, constantly and they're suffering for it.
Their bodies are suffering for it.
So their level of success is never really reaching where it could go.
Kute Blackson who is a phenomenal motivational speaker and coach and I follow him on Facebook
and he said something.
He has these phenomenal posts on Facebook and he said, "Personal care is not an option
for successful people."
Rebekah: Right.
Mike: It's not.
Rebekah: That's the thing.
That's when I get a little drill sergeant when people say, "I don't have time for meditation."
I offer the four-minute meditations and they're like, "I don't even have four minutes."
I'm like, "OK.
Well now you have to make time," because that's complete BS.
If you don't have time, it's like get busy living or get busy dying or make time for
health or you have to make time to be sick.
It's one of those things.
This is a non-negotiable.
You don't have an option.
So even if you do one of the things, have a nighttime ritual.
Start by preparing one meal a day.
Make yourself a green smoothie or a green juice in the morning.
Just one thing.
Meditate for four minutes.
It's just about connecting with the moment, connecting with yourself, making that time
to tell yourself that you're worthy, that you have value and it's not only reminding
yourself but it's reminding the other people around you so they have more respect for you.
Mike: You can multitask and take care of yourself.
When I make juice at night, I call my mom.
Rebekah: That's OK ...
Mike: Isn't that OK?
I make my phone calls.
I call my mom.
I call my grandma.
Rebekah: OK.
Can you be a girl for one more second and give me a high ten while I thank you for being
in this video?
You can find Mike and all of his amazing work at EverydayDetox.org.
It's going to be on the screen and then in the video description below.
It's under the video and he's just awesome.
I love having him here.
Mike: You're welcome.
Rebekah: You're a wealth of knowledge and integrity and maturity.
It's a nice switch-up from regular BexLife videos.