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Kathy Freston

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first: 2018-11-05
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“And pigs now. The least cruel thing you can eat is grass-fed cattle because at least they have a little bit of time and then just work yourself away from animal flesh little by little. And I really do believe my friend told me this when I was giving up meat or wanting to. She said, don't worry, Kathy, stop beating yourself up. The body gives up what it no longer needs. And I kept craving, you know, I thought I needed this and I needed that. And then after a while, I didn't crave it anymore. I just had given up little by little by little until before I knew it, I was a vegetarian and then I was a vegan. But it was easy because I did it gradually and incrementally.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Definitely, definitely, because you'll overwhelm yourself. It's too much. Give up one animal at a time. Maybe give up chickens first because they're smaller, then maybe you give up.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They do. Stella McCartney does non-leather, and most of the shoes that pay less are actually non-leather because they're cheaper. So I kind of made it a sport. So I just look wherever I am and I just, you know, kind of investigate what's non-leather. And I've made it sort of a fun hobby to see what I could find. What about your”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But they're not leather. Not the soul or anything. And honestly, some of the cheapest shoes are non-leather because leather is more expensive. Of course.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not saying do that, Oprah. And that's the thing. I would never say just do all of this at once. I didn't do it at once. And by the way, walking the walk means keeping your eyes open, keeping your heart open, keeping your mind open.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I need no other stimulation. My life is stimulus enough. One more thing. When I was giving up dairy, the hardest thing for me to give up was my latte because I loved a latte, you know, a double latte. And so I thought I'm just going to start ordering soy lates. And at first, I hated them. They tasted so bad. I couldn't stand them, but I said, you know what, Kathy? I've heard that it takes 21 days to change your taste buds. Just keep ordering them. Keep doing them. And sure enough, I started loving a soy latte. And now I couldn't drink anything else. If I went back to milk, I think it would taste too fatty and sweet and sort of I would turn my stomach.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's only 21 days, or you can do it for seven days. As with everything I say, lean into the direction of where you want to go. So if 21 days sounds like too much, do it for three days. Do it for seven days.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know why I do? Well, actually, it's much healthier to eat the bowl of beans and rice because that's a whole unprocessed food. And that's actually better for you. But for the transition to go from being a total carnivore to being a vegetarian, you want to still fit in and sort of have your food look like it used to. There's a lot of different faux meats that can make it in the book.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Trust me if Oprah goes on a cruise and says, I'm vegetarian, they're going to have vegetarian food on there waiting for you. Trust me. But, you know, there's all kinds of alternatives. There's kind of faux meats that you can go in almost any grocery store now. There's veggie burgers, soy hot dogs, texturized soy protein.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the shadow. Serving up the land. That's the shadow. That's the shadow part of our world and our culture. And if we don't examine those old traditions, and throughout time, you know, there have been traditions that we've had to bust.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, would it be that everyone would give it up at once and we would have that problem of what to do with all the chickens? Unfortunately, we're all fortunately, we're all in different places along our continuum. So where you might decide to stop eating animals, someone else is going to decide maybe five years from now or two years from now or 10 years from now. So it's going to be a gradual change. But I do think, Oprah, I think that's the direction we're headed. I think that as we awaken and human morality is marked by how much we can overcome that might makes right instinct.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. And here's the secret he won't tell you is that he doesn't either. He's down to fish right now. So he is someone who, like me, I go around talking about it. And it's something that I, you know, I'm very out with. He's sort of quietly made the choices, I think, because of the health reasons. So he's pretty much given everything up, but fish and dairy products and maybe some eggs. So he's sort of eased himself off of animal flesh as well.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's the thing there's always a lot of choices, and you had so many different choices. You had all kinds of vegetables and artichoke. I think you had avocado, which is cool. Yes, I had like.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they should eat. That's the way the chain of life is. But if you look at those predatory animals, they have sharp teeth. That are able to pierce through, hide, and skin, right? And rip the skin away. We don't have those kind of teeth. We don't have those kind of claws.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would imagine that God is not sitting up there saying, you know, you really need your protein. And I do believe in kindness and compassion. So unfortunately, you're going to have to put that aside and just get your protein. I believe that if there's some wisdom in this universe, some grace in this universe, and of course I do believe that there is, that there's a way to get all the nutrients we need, all the protein we need, while at the same time as adhering to our spiritual principles of kindness, mercy, compassion.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Down if we don't take the eggs. That's what I thought. And that's what I told myself for a long, long time. And then I looked, you know, as I forced myself to do, I'm like, okay, just take a look because I can't imagine that that's the kind of if God or spirit created this world.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Diet for a new America. Food is not just biochemical. It's not just core nutrients. It's also energy. And so if we are eating something where the animals were abused and a lot of suffering went into it or the farm workers not being treated fairly and they're desperate, we are taking in all of that energy. So if we're going to be conscious people, again, I'm not saying lay down the law and say no more meat, no more chicken, no nothing, but just to be conscious, to be aware of what happens. And then we can make our choices whether or not we want to support that kind of practice.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which was a stunning look at behind the scenes animal industries. And that just really killed me, that book. It was like,”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It would be so thinking about it. Yeah. Just to set our intention to be more aware, you know, I'm just going to at least watch the videos. I'm going to read the books. I'm going to really open my mind and open my heart to the truth of what happens behind closed doors. And my intention is to become a more conscious eater.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What does that mean? A baby, yeah, it's a little baby calf that was torn from its mother. You know, it's funny, I have a friend who I talk to her about all this stuff and she said, okay, Kathy, my commitment to you is that I'm going to give up babies. So she gave up veal and she gave up lamb. She gave up anything that said baby chicken. And this stuff is on the menu all the time. This is in the grocery stores. And I thought that was such a great thing because she was someone who was trying to get pregnant. And she thought, you know, as sort of a salute to babies, I'm just going to give up eating babies.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's very hard to wrap my brain around it too. And I think something like $6 billion fin fish and uncountable shellfish. But $10 billion. So, you know, the way the world works now, and we're getting wealthier and wealthier, so the amount of animal flesh that is consumed has gone up.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Given anesthesia and quietly went out before they were killed. That would be a beautiful thing and that would certainly be a conscious way of eating meat. Unfortunately, the world is at a place right now where 10 billion land animals are killed per year 10 billion”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Either. Because eating is such a fundamental practice we do it all the time, every day, at least three times a day. It's so elemental. So if we are on a path that we are saying, I want to practice kindness in my life, practice compassion, I want to create more peace in the world. I want to alleviate as much suffering as I can, then the most elemental practice is eating. And if we don't say, well, what kind of energy went into producing this food? Was there suffering and was there compassion applied? Was there kindness? Does this represent the spiritual principles that I want to adhere to? We're not really conscious.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, lean into whatever change you want to make. Because I think when you do things with small steps and knowing that big results can happen, then you don't get overwhelmed with this responsibility of like, oh my gosh, what do I do? Yes. If I became a vegetarian overnight, I would have been such a disaster because I would have been the first time I was out of my home and I wouldn't know what to order at a restaurant or what to have at a friend's house. I would have just thrown up my arms and said, you know what? Forget it. I can't.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With the chickens, yeah. You or someone Oprah that is so profoundly on a path of growth and evolution and awareness that there's no way that you wouldn't have gotten to at least thinking about this stuff, whether or not you thought about it.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It takes over in such a way that that's the bop over the head for us as individuals and for the planet. So it's really important to turn toward the things that are painful and really do everything we can to heal them on every level of body, mind, and spirit.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a big conversation. Yeah. I think we need to turn towards the darkness within us and we need to turn towards the darkness on this planet because we can't hide from it. It's getting so big and so intense that if we don't go within and look around us and see what's going on.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I get to watch me having an effect on someone else. Usually I do service with animals in some way. And it makes me feel so good. So I'm not only doing something good for where I'm volunteering, but I get to experience the serotonin and the dopamine and all of that stuff that's happening in the brain. And I actually feel better.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, exercise, and that's such an obvious one, you know, and it doesn't have to be a killer, it doesn't have to be in an aerobics class. It can be just a brisk walk three to six times a week and some good weightlifting. And that produces not only a leaner, stronger body, but it creates endorphins, dopamine serotonin. Everything these brain chemicals brings you a sense of well-being and peace and relaxes the nervous system. So it's good on all different levels. And then the last one is service. And that pushes you out of your own little sphere of awareness. And, you know, whenever I'm maybe feeling anxious or melancholy or something, and I remind myself to do some service, it pushes my awareness outside of my own self-centered fear.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because otherwise we get stuck in our little ego minds. And what's important for me, spiritual practice brings us back to the big picture. And then the last one is...”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, one of them is spiritual work. And that means just being around uplifting messages of hope, healing, peace. Because if we don't have some sort of spiritual work going on, whether it's going to a church. Sitting in a temple and meditating or something, we forget our larger purpose and spiritual work always brings us back to the bigger picture.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I would prefer to do the self work than just sort of rest on my laurels, whatever they are, and life to say, wake up, child, it's time to do some work again. So that's a really important thing.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, and fun. Okay, so that brings levity to your life. That brings, you know, you have to just enjoy yourself and let it go. And that's a really important balance. And another really important pillar of quantum wellness is self-work. And that means it's like Socrates said, you know, the unexamined life is not worth living. You have to really look inside. constantly and say where am I blocked now what am I doing that I could sort of upgrade and where am I stuck because our responsibility is to get unstuck and that's when the light the flow of life can go through us but we have to constantly look within to see the places where we're stuck and clear them out”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Accept what is exactly. And there's that balance, you know, of accepting what is, being what is. And I talk about that when you have a crisis, and then being proactive. So there's this balance of, okay, I have to be with the truth of what is, whether I'm sick, I'm going through a divorce, I've been fired from a job, whatever. I can't be in denial. I actually have to be with the truth of whatever it is, no matter how painful. But then I also can be proactive. I can take very specific steps. You know, I can visualize. I can meditate. I can surround myself with positive people. I can meet healers. I can read books that are going to... My mind into a new place. So that's the balance we have to strike as evolving human beings. I'm going to just allow to be present to whatever is. It's what Eckhart Toll talks about. It's just what... So we've”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Amazing grace with you fantastic. That's great. Mine for you know a theme song is like one of those things that just happens in your head. Yeah. And so you think maybe the universe is trying to tell me what my theme needs to be. Mine is always K-Sara Sara, which means whatever will be will be. Because I think I'm always trying to figure out what's going to happen. And if I do this, do I get this? And what kind of results do I get? And so I'm very manipulative. Like my little ego is very powerful in my head. It just wants to control life. And then I'll just get that song, K, Surah, Surah. Really? Yeah, I think it's just telling me to chill out, do my thing, and whatever will be will be.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The list of the eight things. Fun is right in the middle of it because, you know, myself, I'm a pretty serious person. I just came onto this planet and I'm a serious person. I'm not just like, you know, a party gal yipping and yahoo. So I have to actually remind myself.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the law of attraction. So it's just sort of imagining yourself as you'd like to be and then you sort of hold yourself differently, you respond to food differently, relationships, things like that. And so you're setting up a roadmap for how you want to be. Very simple stuff. And personally, I like to do it in a flash. I'll just visualize really quickly like a moment of myself being healthy.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Visualization is another one. And visualization just means setting up your mind to be able to imagine how you want to live your life. It's like laying out a blueprint. It's very simple. It's like attracts like. So you sort of attract.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, you can get protein from beans, nuts like you're eating almonds here, avocados, tofu. There's something called satan, tempeh.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is really rough, but what about my health? I don't know. I don't want to sacrifice my health just because I want to be a spiritually integral person. But then if you look at the health issues, it is widely said that a plant-based diet is more healthy for your body. And so far as less cancer, less heart disease. So on that level of health, it's also better to eat a plant-based diet. So you look at it from the spiritual angle, you look at it from the health angle. And then if you look at it at...”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, exactly. What do you do with it? Exactly. So you look and hopefully it affects you, but then, you know, as in all things, quantum, I think it's body, mind, and spirit. So you say, okay.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and you may have to do something. And I can't tell you how long it took me to read the books, to watch the videos, the behind the scenes videos of what happens in a slaughterhouse. I didn't want to look. But as I went along on my spiritual path, I realized I have to. If I'm serious about what I say, that I want to be someone who's compassionate and kind, and I don't want to add to suffering in this world. And in fact, I want to do as much as I can to alleviate suffering. How can I not look? How can I not look?”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But what it gets Sophie opened my heart that way. She opened your heart. And it's interesting that this show happened so close on the tale of her passing. Yes. It's almost like she's making sure that your heart continues to open. And you're right. People don't want to look at that stuff because it's painful.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's what conscious eating is. Because spiritual integrity, remember the spiritual principles are compassion, mercy, empathy, kindness, alleviating suffering, all of those things. So if we're going to adhere to spiritual principles, if we think about what an animal goes through in being raised for our steak dinner or a chicken lunch or something like that, and how they get slaughtered, it is so deeply heartbreaking. So if we're going to be conscious in our lives, we have to be, it means to be awake. So I'm not saying don't eat that stuff, but open your eyes to it. Think about it. And I think what happens, because most people I think have a really good heart, that when we open our eyes to that stuff and we're aware of it, we're just going to not want it. Very interesting and very much.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. And that's not what life is all about. And I really do venture to say that when you're eating from a place of spiritual integrity, like I really want what's best for me, but I also want what's best for everybody else involved, including the animals. Then it's going to work out for you in a way that you don't even have to worry about”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That her discipline was no longer one of deprivation where she felt like, oh, I can't have this because it's got too much fat in it or too much whatever. It was a joyful life.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And would keep it off for long periods of time. You can do dieting and that works and exercise and you can even add into it some meditation and some visualization. So visualize myself being thin and fit and having energy. And so I have a friend who did all these different things, very smart woman, Janet. And she did everything that she was supposed to do. But then she would bounce back and gain the weight, whether it was some stressful situation that would set her off or something. And so until she started becoming a conscious eater, which means she thought about the animals and what they went through to get to her dinner, her steak dinner or her chicken lunch, whatever it was.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, for me, conscious eating is one of the very most important because it's the most elemental fundamental thing we do every day. And that means that we are aware of where our food comes from, how it gets to the table, what goes into it, whether cruelty and abuse goes into it, whether farm workers are overlooked and overworked, chemicals, fertilizers, hormones, all kinds of stuff. And everything in quantum wellness appeals to the body, mind, and spirit. And so what I maintain is that if it's good for our health, it's going to be good for our soul and vice versa.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's incredible. And all that openness, what could happen with all that stillness, the miracle that could come through and all that chattering ego, you know, everyone just sort of stops for one minute and breathes and receives. My gosh, I can imagine miracles happening.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do know that. Life whatsoever. And that's the ego speaking too. That's the ego saying, Oh, no, no, you got to get back to doing that. And you got to think about that crazy situation there. And you got to go grocery shopping. That's your ego. And that part of your mind that's fearful does not want you to get quiet because when you get quiet, that's when the shift happens. That's when the miracle does come in.”
2018-11-05 · Oprah's Super Soul · Kathy Freston: The 8 Pillars of Wellness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source