This channel has literally been saving my sanity - not to mention health. After several months of COVID restrictions I had depression, low energy, lots of aches and pains and I got really thin and stiff all over (I react to stress by losing appetite). Now I'm slowly getting better and feeling better too. Thank you so much for the work you are doing!
Man, I somehow managed to stumble on your channel and I didn't realize how much I needed your message. I've ignored my health and inner well being for far too many of my 50 years. Thank you for a great boost and great advice.
This is bang on. I went from being a a high level athlete fell running, cycle racing etc to having ME and barely being able to get to the top of my street. Over many years of martial arts and movement training i realised that true health is acheived through a balanced, mindful approach to exercise, movement and meditation. Ultimately i try to bring a meditative mindset into everything i do. It is in the emptiness that we find true fullness. I love your channel Josh! Very inspiring. Thankyou!!
The calmness, simplicity, philosophy and equanimity you display in your videos is commendable! Stepping back, slowing the hectic hustle and bustle lifestyle down, and truly existing within your mind seems to be a practice that’s fading into the shadows. There’s so much value to it because our headspace is truly what enables us to survive and preserve sanity more than anything else. I had the same experience as you with the appendicitis and also had hernias as well, it’s a humbling experience realizing how fickle and fragile our physicality can be. You’re perspective is always helpful, keep up the good work man!
Sitting still and facing “the void” that we all feel inside of us on some level when we are completely still with nothing to distract us is the greatest way to evolve and heal addictions/crutches of all sorts. This video was beautiful:)
I'm a runner, and I had an injury that took away my ability to walk, and my general health (mental and physical) deteriorated very quickly. A year and a half had past since my injury and I can again walk (with some pain still), and I using your videos to teach and inspire me to move in many ways that I never though possible. In just a month, the improvement is amazing (to me). Thank you very much!
Ive found this video accidentally, lying in soft bed, chillin after long night walk, being high on weed, very nice loving emotions inside of me.. And listeming to this guy sounds so light, he's so on point and so based, grounded... Thank you for this experience :)
So many great lessons here, your channel is evolving into something really influential. I'd like to add 'love' to this list. You could do a whole video about love. The three ways of love; seeing, hearing, feeling. Everyone needs some love!
Doing nothing is definitely underrated. I love to sit in my yard and just look around. I don't really comment but this was an excellent video! Thank you🤩🙏
thnx for everything josh , ı was walking your videos when you had 50 k . human . and you have got 450 k human . strength side is the best channel on youtube and ı have ever seen the most healtiest human in the world ( josh ) you must be happy all life . you deserve it
I have no idea how I found this channel, but I'm so thankful that I did! You've given me some much needed motivation and inspiration over the last month or so. Thank you!
Josh, 💖 I love your podcasts. I spent more than a year, not being able to walk, watching the world go by. I love hiking now, just because it puts me outside, and in the sun. I'm still working on the sleep thing. My teen needs to be at swim at 5:00 a.m., and I still get him up, fed, and out the door. As for the rest, you motivate me to keep trying, even as I close on 60, and struggle with stiffness and lack of range. I celebrate the small accomplishments, and appreciate your videos that motivate me to keep trying. Thank you!!! 💖💖💖
Hi, my name is Shahaf, I am 63 years old and live in the city of Eilat in Israel, I recently discovered you 😊, I started doing morning stretches and exercises....I really enjoy your videos and honest conversations, as a Buddhist, it is easy for me to understand your revelations, thank you, you are a nice and positive person 🪷 🙏
Are you reading this love and Blessings I find my self Here today in Sep 2021 and fed up of yo-yo diets my inner consciousness knows what I have too do and it's not just healthy eating or exercise it's balance and self love and care you hitting the nail on the head I appreciate you, thank you, subscribed and notifications, passion, drive, motivation, yes simples, small things in life so important thanks again, my new next journey begins now and I'm excited about it, and I've finally put my self in a position where I can chill and not go overdrive, pandemic has made me wake up, my inner self, importance of self belief is the most high, and to drive forward and to believe in your self. Bless you all on your journey 🙌🏽 love and light
Your connected to your self, so nice that you express so well, so many people never even get to where you are. It makes me sad so many people are just focused on work and materialism. Blessings from the UK 🙏
That forest looks AMAZING. Been in a funk lately thinking the same bad thoughts and same daily routine. Thanks for this video!!! Reminds me that life is good every day we are alive and can move. Gotta get outta my funk with the outdoors. Thank you!
th-cam.com/video/UpVOZXMzCwQ/w-d-xo.html this might stimulate something. Good luck with the funk. What is helping me is rolling out of bed as soon as I wake, shoes by my bed and going for a walk around the block. Repeating a mantra. “ commitment and discipline equals focus” Developing a habit makes me feel good. It’s a simple one but it leads onto other habits.
It’s astonishing to me that once upon a time I used to come to this channel to find work out videos when I was a gym junkie. Even more astonishing how it would be the same channel in which I would find the most helpful and beneficial information that will help me reclaim the life in which I helped negatively impact. Thank you Strength Side, for all the ways in which you have helped me grow as a person and human being!
Hopefully I'll be able to find my own pace. Everything's so hard for the past years, months that I don't know what I want, what I like. But this video make me realise life
Thank you for this beautiful sharing. An experience a friend and I had when hiking up a tough part of a mountain was to focus only on two steps ahead. We did it very slowly and it became a deep meditation. It felt amazing and weirdly there was no effort going up and we passed up it quickly by going slower. Slowing down can be so beneficial.
Thanks so much for ALL you are sharing. Your voice and demeanor are empowering. I'm probably twice your age. But I want to be the age I feel; not just a number. I appreciate your encouragement!
Saved this video to come back later to watch again when I feel like my life needs some fixing. An amazing video that is deep and hits at the heart and the soul, literally. Thank you for making this video, I hope you are doing alright. You have helped me to see what life truly is and what peace means, and this video is what I need to get the life I want. Keep doing what you are doing, I find that it is wonderful to have someone like you in this community!
This is my first time watching the person. This is the most genuine motivational video I’ve heard and I’ve heard a lot. Everything he’s say is the truth and on point. I can tell you my friend, lots of us have been where you’ve been and lots of us are trying to find our way out of the “stuck” feelings like you’ve done. Thank you.
I found you a while ago but following started watching...thank you. I felt like I was just surviving without purpose. Grinding down my soul. Helped me see my path again.
I've been watching your videos for about a year now, and I'm really glad I have. Thanks for offering the reminder that being healthy also exists outside of fitness and physicality - mind, body, and spirit. I really appreciate most of your videos, but this one got me.
Doing nothing means to observe. Part of our human experience is to SEE the energy that exists within and all around us; witness magic. We can literally think ourselves out of our bodies and view reality from above to sense a deep appreciation of life. Wonderful video. Great messages. 🙏🏼💜
This is what I always tell people that fitness and health means improving mind body and soul. It has to be an equalateral triangle and we need to work out on all these three parts
Sunlight is so important! We live in a society that's so paranoid when it comes to the sun. It is so beneficial in so many ways to soak up some sun on a regular basis.
Thank you this helps. I have been struggling for the last year and a half with thoughts I don't want! It's late now so I'll have a walk in the park tomorrow as there are woods not far from me. Thanks.
Hi! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I discovered your channel by chance a two days ago and I'm enjoying your videos. As a person who loves movement and sometimes can get obsessed about "success" and goals, it's helpful to see someone like you with a lot of expertise in that area, transcending that state to be more free, happy and content. I can see it comes from a place of authenticity and love. 🥰
Super helpful take on a healthy life. One point that’s important to get right is that our thoughts come before feelings. Our thoughts create the neuropeptides that create our feelings. This gives us ultimate control over our feelings, through being intentional with what we think. If the opposite were true, that our feelings give birth to our thoughts, then our thought would not be anchored to anything stable. After all, we all know how fast feelings can fluctuate.
Yesterday you just made my day. I was soo angry and felt bad after a conflict. I wanted to train in the evening but I had no energy, so I trained with very thin resistance bands just beside the forest by night. Kind of a low resistance training with long reps. I listened my body and feeling, that was good. Then I thought about what you said in one of your videos, smth like "doing what movement I want", spontenaously. Then I just did it, I runned, jumped, and did weird things. Like a kid who's playing with nothing in the wild. Maaan I felt so better after all of this, I find a new pleasure, an ultra simple pleasure which needs nothing to be practice, that kind of pleasure are big wealths ! And now after watched few of your videos I was cooking then I was spontaneously kind of dancing witout music while I was cooking. Man I usually hate cooking, that's boring, and I'm kind of depressed I usually never dance except when I'm so happy lol. But this time I danced without being happy and that made me happy, and I danced without point. Damn you are literally the most inspiring TH-camr I ever seen since 2008 that I check TH-cam. The nature arround you, your body, your movements, your haircut/beard, your calm voice, etc .. THAT is a hominid ! That is a homo sapiens sapiens ! Healthy af. I fuckin love it haha, That's so rare in this weird society. You'd be almost a legend for me if you were strongly ecologist lol. Anyway, Sorry for my english. Peace
I find when I’m able to sit and do nothing, I’m in a pretty good place. If I’m having trouble doing it, I’m in an anxious or chaotic state. Good vid man
You talked well, but the best ikigai is being a part of a healthy supporting community. I guess u lucky to have us 😉❤️ and your brother, we all need people to resonate with. To sing to dance to advance to new thinking heights, to share our experiences with. To have around. People whom we share, is the people we resonate with. Who we grow with. Who conjoint life streching with. Connect like a net of tree roots underground, and in much define who we spirit us. Up lift. Gain importance and pleasure of giving.
1. Walking 2. Sunlight 3. Quality Consumption 4. Sleep (Our Best Friend) 5. Movement 6. Passion (Get excited) 7. Non doing (Super underrated and unexplored) Everything we need is already inside of us.
Fabulous video !! I can watch and listen to you all day long. Great summary of what is important. So simple. People need to hear this more often. Thank you, man. Beautiful channel you have👌 All the best and take care😊
Just started watching your videos, I am two months into a daily yoga routine and can see results already! Cant believe you live in Santa Cruz!!! It is an amazing place. Thanks for sharing these videos, im stoked.
I have such a hard time just sitting and not “doing” or thinking about “doing!” My mind races a mile a minute and I’m so anxious, which means I don’t sleep well either. Thanks for this reminder about the importance of rest in the mind/body/spirit connection. It’s something I’ve really been working hard to fix in my life!
Josh - I have loved so many of your videos over time. But this is my favorite so far. You pulled a lot of thoughts together about wellness, mindfulness and living an authentic life with purpose. I too can be very attached to doing, and find the non doing very challenging. Thanks for sharing what you learn and live from your heart.
In the process of going through you video playlist. Just finished the podcast series today in the park in between listening to leaves fall and squirrels rustle around. Moving to the joints series, then on to the beginner series. Im excited for each step of my plan that ultimately will lead me to play more freely in my movement practices. Namaste Josh🙏thank you.
You are truly an inspiration my guy. I have never found a youtuber that I resonate with to this degree in my life. Thank you so much for all of your insight, it has truly made me a better person. Looking forward to future videos!
So wonderfull you are here, im feeling glad about the world, greatfullness, perceiving the magic in the respect of the beeings, and the hardest, to forget about fear, thinking beyond ourselves, believing in our capacity to give, receive, feel and understand, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Bro I Appreciate You NAMASTE. YOU MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO BRINGS TOGETHER THE WORLDS OF WORKING OUT YOGA SELF DEFENSE AND MINDFULNESS ALL IN REAL TIME. KEEP IT UP
I like the idea of many passions. Gotta find some that don’t revolve around fitness. I think mushrooms were a big piece of the puzzle for me to reflect on my life without judgement and move forward with more peace and love. As always I love how you share your perspective.
You are so inspiring thank you for you time and making these videos! I am definitely at a point in my life where I have alot of health issues I’m only 41 but feel like I’m 80 and I need to take control of my health. Your videos truly inspire me. Your such a humble human and I appreciate you on every level! 🙏
Man, people are quick to judge.scientists are.currently researching the beneficial effects of psychedelics in.controlled studies. No-one is advocating the use of drugs. Concentrate on building strength Mind, body and soul .
Excited to settle down with goals, & to not think what I have to do next. Just want those powerful practices which will be my awards to just to do! & not to seek any more deep awareness. Just want to Love.
Excellent and conscious approach to life! Experiencing things like body movement, strength and the natural circadian rhythm are elemental, yet so few people are able or willing to do it. Just walking in nature will strengthen the resolve and resiliency to chart one's own path.
Thanks a bunch for sharing. I hope many will open their eyes after they listen to your talks :) I've started to go in nature and be bored - just sit on a big rock in nature and sit for hours and just be bored. At first, I got a major bad conscience, but it has gradually disappeared. It gives me a clear view on many things in my life and on myself - body and soul(or what ever we call it). Among other things, I belive it's about the brain developing new connections when you're bored. The brain begins to move out of the thought stream that you always have when you are in the middle of daily life and constantly have chores and places to go or be. Keep on - live a lifetime :)
I believe this video you made is important because it will resonate with a lot of your viewers and why they watch strength side in the first place. It certainly did for me. I am going to make 2020 a year of many more nature walks. Stay positive!
Man, you nailed this one. This is a perfect foundation to build a fulfilling life upon, thank you for creating this and thank you for encouraging myself and others to live more consciously
I'm not even sure how I came across this video, I'm not much of a youtube consumer but man, this was exactly what I needed to hear today. Thanks a lot! 🌷
This video is so damn inspiring 💙 but most importantly, it really make sence... I tend to romanticize "health", and for long time my main focus was "fitness"... that led me to a deep emptiness cause' almost all my attention was put on that, as well as diet and sleep... but I was missing something else... The point is that I realized (throughout your videos/walking/meditation/journaling...) that life is not only physical activity, but something else :) finding passion in those tiny things is even more important than having one single big passion ❤ man, I live in another hemisphere (from Chile) but I really feel your words... I'd say I consider you my friend 💪 keep it up, bro
Bro your comment makes me so happy to read. I completely relate to everything you wrote. I'm glad we are walking the same path and not he same journey my friend :)
What you said about the Circadian Rhythm is right on, looking at the sunrise WILL CURE INSOMNIA! Do it as often as you can to re set this important hormone producing clock.
I really like your videos, but this was so inspiring. I experience this myself, after I was operated two years ago. Thank you and keep on with this wonderful videos that have already making a great difference on my mind and hopes
I suffer from depression and anxiety. I’m unsure if my old daily routine helped me with depression because the activities helped, or if simply doing anything positive regardless of what it was help me make a mind shift. I have since stopped my routine and my depression returned strong. I’m unsure if I stopped then depression returned or if depression returned and therefore I stopped. All that said, my routine was get out of bed as soon as I get up, drink tall glass of water, meditate, journal, thank the world for another beautiful day, cardio exercise (skateboard) and calisthenics, shower, eat breakfast (vegan home made whole food), sit outside in the sun. Walk later in the day. It took a lot of time to do this entire morning routine but felt worth it. I’m also extreme and anxious thinking makes me search for answers to solve my problems where in many cases just practicing self acceptance would be fine (according to my therapist). But I will say with the morning routine I felt an overall subtle feeling of optimism. I had all the same problems and was still so anxious and many times depressed. But I felt line I could push forward and it will be ok eventually.
I would offer this... Don't overthink why or how or if the "morning routine" is working. Just do what you can and follow good feelings. You can't out think depression but you can out-feel it :) !!!
Yeah, every time you did that routine you were improving yourself, you were creating a better future. It's important to be flexible too - sometimes things will happen in life where you can't do it all exactly the way you want so you need to work around obstacles.
What i admire most is the journey! You have walked a long road coming to this point. And that is what makes what you say and the way you view our world much more meaningful. It shows that they are not just words, but experience. Keep on going and exploring! And dont forget to tell us abou it!
Hey! I made 900 on your likes. I just found you this morning before work and I already love your channel. You really go right into the things I'm looking to be more rooted with. Bless you.
Thank you for a great vid. Fascinating how less we actually need to stay happy and healthy. The steps are so simple and well-known, however often we ignore them.
I love your channel for my quest into embodiment and getting in touch with our wild nature and feeling into the body. Thanks for your work!! The philosophy videos are a great idea!!! I’d love to see more of that! Perhaps strength side is not only physical strength but may stretch into mental strength, emotional strength, and spiritual strength. Cheers Josh
"There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself." - Miyamoto Musashi
This dude just keeps on evolving.
that's my plan :)
Agreed. Subscribed. But how many cats does he have.... I count 2. 3 is pushing it 🍄 🍄 hahahaha. Maybe when I retire
This channel has literally been saving my sanity - not to mention health. After several months of COVID restrictions I had depression, low energy, lots of aches and pains and I got really thin and stiff all over (I react to stress by losing appetite). Now I'm slowly getting better and feeling better too. Thank you so much for the work you are doing!
Man, I somehow managed to stumble on your channel and I didn't realize how much I needed your message. I've ignored my health and inner well being for far too many of my 50 years. Thank you for a great boost and great advice.
"All that you need in life is already inside you", Josh, Strength Side.
This is bang on. I went from being a a high level athlete fell running, cycle racing etc to having ME and barely being able to get to the top of my street. Over many years of martial arts and movement training i realised that true health is acheived through a balanced, mindful approach to exercise, movement and meditation. Ultimately i try to bring a meditative mindset into everything i do. It is in the emptiness that we find true fullness. I love your channel Josh! Very inspiring. Thankyou!!
Great perspective provided through your own introspection, thanks.
Truly Appreciate that Daniel... been a fan for many years.
😲 Whoa!
Haha I knew these two dudes where mutual fans
The calmness, simplicity, philosophy and equanimity you display in your videos is commendable! Stepping back, slowing the hectic hustle and bustle lifestyle down, and truly existing within your mind seems to be a practice that’s fading into the shadows. There’s so much value to it because our headspace is truly what enables us to survive and preserve sanity more than anything else. I had the same experience as you with the appendicitis and also had hernias as well, it’s a humbling experience realizing how fickle and fragile our physicality can be. You’re perspective is always helpful, keep up the good work man!
Sitting still and facing “the void” that we all feel inside of us on some level when we are completely still with nothing to distract us is the greatest way to evolve and heal addictions/crutches of all sorts. This video was beautiful:)
This! Stillness is a superpower🤞🏿
I'm a runner, and I had an injury that took away my ability to walk, and my general health (mental and physical) deteriorated very quickly. A year and a half had past since my injury and I can again walk (with some pain still), and I using your videos to teach and inspire me to move in many ways that I never though possible. In just a month, the improvement is amazing (to me). Thank you very much!
Ive found this video accidentally, lying in soft bed, chillin after long night walk, being high on weed, very nice loving emotions inside of me.. And listeming to this guy sounds so light, he's so on point and so based, grounded... Thank you for this experience :)
So many great lessons here, your channel is evolving into something really influential. I'd like to add 'love' to this list. You could do a whole video about love. The three ways of love; seeing, hearing, feeling. Everyone needs some love!
MMM! Thank you for adding love. A love for life and for everything in it.
Doing nothing is definitely underrated. I love to sit in my yard and just look around. I don't really comment but this was an excellent video! Thank you🤩🙏
Isn't it the best? It's interesting that I sometimes resist it. Thanks for hitting the keyboard, I truly appreciate it :)
It's crazy how much value you're providing on this channel. Much love.
"What we put in your body eventually become us." This is treasure
thnx for everything josh , ı was walking your videos when you had 50 k . human . and you have got 450 k human . strength side is the best channel on youtube and ı have ever seen the most healtiest human in the world ( josh ) you must be happy all life . you deserve it
I have no idea how I found this channel, but I'm so thankful that I did! You've given me some much needed motivation and inspiration over the last month or so. Thank you!
Creativity! I believe I touched on it between passion and movement but creativity has gotta be in there :)
Thanks for this video; affirmed my core 'Quality Of Life' values! ✊🏾💯💜
@@feliciaholman4768 Its so simple yet can be challenging. Here's to high quality lives :)
@Strength Side..most DEFINITELY! 🤗🙌🏾
Yeah, even if your songs or poetry suck, it's the process that helps individuals
Can you explain the name Strength Side? Side of what? It implies that there is a thing with multiple sides and you’re focused on this one side.
Josh, 💖
I love your podcasts. I spent more than a year, not being able to walk, watching the world go by. I love hiking now, just because it puts me outside, and in the sun.
I'm still working on the sleep thing. My teen needs to be at swim at 5:00 a.m., and I still get him up, fed, and out the door.
As for the rest, you motivate me to keep trying, even as I close on 60, and struggle with stiffness and lack of range. I celebrate the small accomplishments, and appreciate your videos that motivate me to keep trying.
Thank you!!! 💖💖💖
Thank you for such a meaningful comment. Really warms my heart! Keep up your journey :)
Hi, my name is Shahaf, I am 63 years old and live in the city of Eilat in Israel, I recently discovered you 😊, I started doing morning stretches and exercises....I really enjoy your videos and honest conversations, as a Buddhist, it is easy for me to understand your revelations, thank you, you are a nice and positive person 🪷 🙏
Are you reading this love and Blessings I find my self Here today in Sep 2021 and fed up of yo-yo diets my inner consciousness knows what I have too do and it's not just healthy eating or exercise it's balance and self love and care you hitting the nail on the head I appreciate you, thank you, subscribed and notifications, passion, drive, motivation, yes simples, small things in life so important thanks again, my new next journey begins now and I'm excited about it, and I've finally put my self in a position where I can chill and not go overdrive, pandemic has made me wake up, my inner self, importance of self belief is the most high, and to drive forward and to believe in your self. Bless you all on your journey 🙌🏽 love and light
Your connected to your self, so nice that you express so well, so many people never even get to where you are. It makes me sad so many people are just focused on work and materialism. Blessings from the UK 🙏
That forest looks AMAZING. Been in a funk lately thinking the same bad thoughts and same daily routine. Thanks for this video!!! Reminds me that life is good every day we are alive and can move. Gotta get outta my funk with the outdoors. Thank you!
Amazing how easy it is to stay in the same mindset and mood... the body loves the path of least resistance. But the outdoors can set you free :)
th-cam.com/video/UpVOZXMzCwQ/w-d-xo.html this might stimulate something. Good luck with the funk. What is helping me is rolling out of bed as soon as I wake, shoes by my bed and going for a walk around the block. Repeating a mantra. “ commitment and discipline equals focus” Developing a habit makes me feel good. It’s a simple one but it leads onto other habits.
Me too maybe it’s the transition from one season to the next?
@@michaelsmith9714 During winter... waking up earlier was helping me keep up the motivation and focus when I wanted to be lazy. Nice share man :)
@@bubbie23jw Season transitions always seem to stir something up I agree. I think its necessary!
It’s astonishing to me that once upon a time I used to come to this channel to find work out videos when I was a gym junkie. Even more astonishing how it would be the same channel in which I would find the most helpful and beneficial information that will help me reclaim the life in which I helped negatively impact. Thank you Strength Side, for all the ways in which you have helped me grow as a person and human being!
I feel so much peace just listening to you brother.
Lots of love. I really want to be there and talk to you directly!
Walking is so underated and underappreciated. I agree with the sun in the morning. The sun is just so good for your overall being
Hopefully I'll be able to find my own pace. Everything's so hard for the past years, months that I don't know what I want, what I like. But this video make me realise life
Thank you for this beautiful sharing. An experience a friend and I had when hiking up a tough part of a mountain was to focus only on two steps ahead. We did it very slowly and it became a deep meditation. It felt amazing and weirdly there was no effort going up and we passed up it quickly by going slower. Slowing down can be so beneficial.
Thanks so much for ALL you are sharing. Your voice and demeanor are empowering. I'm probably twice your age. But I want to be the age I feel; not just a number. I appreciate your encouragement!
Saved this video to come back later to watch again when I feel like my life needs some fixing. An amazing video that is deep and hits at the heart and the soul, literally.
Thank you for making this video, I hope you are doing alright. You have helped me to see what life truly is and what peace means, and this video is what I need to get the life I want. Keep doing what you are doing, I find that it is wonderful to have someone like you in this community!
A good one to come back to! I learned a lot along the way of making this. Thanks for the support Ryan 🙏
You are a wise man. I hope you are 100 %recoverd from the operation.
This is my first time watching the person. This is the most genuine motivational video I’ve heard and I’ve heard a lot. Everything he’s say is the truth and on point. I can tell you my friend, lots of us have been where you’ve been and lots of us are trying to find our way out of the “stuck” feelings like you’ve done. Thank you.
Listening to you talking to my soul while having a chicken salad alone in my kitchen is the ultimate mind calming
Thank you
Such beautiful advice, inspiring people to honor their own authority, listen to their personal inner guides. THANK YOU
I love you man... and I don’t even know you. Such a beautiful soul ❤️
I found you a while ago but following started watching...thank you.
I felt like I was just surviving without purpose. Grinding down my soul. Helped me see my path again.
I've been watching your videos for about a year now, and I'm really glad I have. Thanks for offering the reminder that being healthy also exists outside of fitness and physicality - mind, body, and spirit. I really appreciate most of your videos, but this one got me.
ayyyy thanks David. It was my intention to hit people in the feelz haha
Thank you Josh. Anyone who feels something just « isn’t right » in themselves could start here with this video.
Love the concept of "feeling your own body." And simply experiencing what it's like to "be in here."
Thank you for affirming that I don't need to spend all day thinking about what I need to do next because honestly it does my head in.
This vid is so deep cuz I could relate. I am learning how to just be by myself and appreciate that while staying in the moment.
Doing nothing means to observe. Part of our human experience is to SEE the energy that exists within and all around us; witness magic. We can literally think ourselves out of our bodies and view reality from above to sense a deep appreciation of life.
Wonderful video. Great messages. 🙏🏼💜
This is what I always tell people that fitness and health means improving mind body and soul. It has to be an equalateral triangle and we need to work out on all these three parts
I've been coming to this realization for a while now as well. Thank you! This is an organized piece that I will always come back to.
Sunlight is so important! We live in a society that's so paranoid when it comes to the sun. It is so beneficial in so many ways to soak up some sun on a regular basis.
Hey guys, I miss this kind of videos.I'm so lucky that I found this channel.
My only purpose is life to be healthy but I sticked in a race for years now. You reminded me to do something for ..Thank you...
Wow what he says at 10 min though I really relate with. Everything we need is already inside. Believing that gives us power.
Thank you this helps. I have been struggling for the last year and a half with thoughts I don't want! It's late now so I'll have a walk in the park tomorrow as there are woods not far from me. Thanks.
Skate boarding in the mornings or just stepping out side and enjoying some sunlight like you suggested is a really positive way to start the day.
It really is man!
Hi! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I discovered your channel by chance a two days ago and I'm enjoying your videos. As a person who loves movement and sometimes can get obsessed about "success" and goals, it's helpful to see someone like you with a lot of expertise in that area, transcending that state to be more free, happy and content. I can see it comes from a place of authenticity and love. 🥰
Super helpful take on a healthy life. One point that’s important to get right is that our thoughts come before feelings. Our thoughts create the neuropeptides that create our feelings. This gives us ultimate control over our feelings, through being intentional with what we think.
If the opposite were true, that our feelings give birth to our thoughts, then our thought would not be anchored to anything stable. After all, we all know how fast feelings can fluctuate.
Yesterday you just made my day. I was soo angry and felt bad after a conflict. I wanted to train in the evening but I had no energy, so I trained with very thin resistance bands just beside the forest by night. Kind of a low resistance training with long reps. I listened my body and feeling, that was good. Then I thought about what you said in one of your videos, smth like "doing what movement I want", spontenaously. Then I just did it, I runned, jumped, and did weird things. Like a kid who's playing with nothing in the wild. Maaan I felt so better after all of this, I find a new pleasure, an ultra simple pleasure which needs nothing to be practice, that kind of pleasure are big wealths !
And now after watched few of your videos I was cooking then I was spontaneously kind of dancing witout music while I was cooking. Man I usually hate cooking, that's boring, and I'm kind of depressed I usually never dance except when I'm so happy lol. But this time I danced without being happy and that made me happy, and I danced without point. Damn you are literally the most inspiring TH-camr I ever seen since 2008 that I check TH-cam. The nature arround you, your body, your movements, your haircut/beard, your calm voice, etc .. THAT is a hominid ! That is a homo sapiens sapiens ! Healthy af. I fuckin love it haha, That's so rare in this weird society. You'd be almost a legend for me if you were strongly ecologist lol. Anyway, Sorry for my english. Peace
I find when I’m able to sit and do nothing, I’m in a pretty good place. If I’m having trouble doing it, I’m in an anxious or chaotic state. Good vid man
Will just sitting longer help? Or is something else needed 🤔... maybe some movement
You talked well, but the best ikigai is being a part of a healthy supporting community. I guess u lucky to have us 😉❤️ and your brother, we all need people to resonate with. To sing to dance to advance to new thinking heights, to share our experiences with. To have around. People whom we share, is the people we resonate with. Who we grow with. Who conjoint life streching with. Connect like a net of tree roots underground, and in much define who we spirit us. Up lift. Gain importance and pleasure of giving.
1. Walking
2. Sunlight
3. Quality Consumption
4. Sleep (Our Best Friend)
5. Movement
6. Passion (Get excited)
7. Non doing (Super underrated and unexplored)
Everything we need is already inside of us.
Fabulous video !! I can watch and listen to you all day long. Great summary of what is important. So simple. People need to hear this more often. Thank you, man. Beautiful channel you have👌 All the best and take care😊
Very good. I've started to adopt these principals into my life and feel so much better for doing so. Thanks for making. Thanks for the share. Peace!
Great video. Thanks dude.
Just started watching your videos, I am two months into a daily yoga routine and can see results already! Cant believe you live in Santa Cruz!!! It is an amazing place. Thanks for sharing these videos, im stoked.
I have such a hard time just sitting and not “doing” or thinking about “doing!” My mind races a mile a minute and I’m so anxious, which means I don’t sleep well either. Thanks for this reminder about the importance of rest in the mind/body/spirit connection. It’s something I’ve really been working hard to fix in my life!
You are incredible, you help me to get through a hard phase of my life right now, thank you, keep it simple and real
Your way of talking and explaining is really enjoyable. Thanks for your view on this complex and kind of philosophical question :)
Josh - I have loved so many of your videos over time. But this is my favorite so far. You pulled a lot of thoughts together about wellness, mindfulness and living an authentic life with purpose. I too can be very attached to doing, and find the non doing very challenging. Thanks for sharing what you learn and live from your heart.
Your words make me feel great, thank you! Yes the non doing is really a lifetime of work :) appreciate you
Peace and love to you. Thank you for the time and effort you dedicate to your channel. A life and mind saver for me. Thank you
In the process of going through you video playlist. Just finished the podcast series today in the park in between listening to leaves fall and squirrels rustle around. Moving to the joints series, then on to the beginner series. Im excited for each step of my plan that ultimately will lead me to play more freely in my movement practices. Namaste Josh🙏thank you.
Appreciate that, thank you !
I listen to you everyday, makes my day and keeps me on track, thanks for what you're doing
You are truly an inspiration my guy. I have never found a youtuber that I resonate with to this degree in my life. Thank you so much for all of your insight, it has truly made me a better person. Looking forward to future videos!
So wonderfull you are here, im feeling glad about the world, greatfullness, perceiving the magic in the respect of the beeings, and the hardest, to forget about fear, thinking beyond ourselves, believing in our capacity to give, receive, feel and understand, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Bro I Appreciate You NAMASTE.
YOU MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO BRINGS TOGETHER THE WORLDS OF WORKING OUT YOGA SELF DEFENSE AND MINDFULNESS ALL IN REAL TIME. KEEP IT UP
I like the idea of many passions. Gotta find some that don’t revolve around fitness. I think mushrooms were a big piece of the puzzle for me to reflect on my life without judgement and move forward with more peace and love. As always I love how you share your perspective.
I hear you man! Most of my hobbies are movement related so I'm always seeking being inspired in other ways. Yeah the shroomies help :)
You are so inspiring thank you for you time and making these videos! I am definitely at a point in my life where I have alot of health issues I’m only 41 but feel like I’m 80 and I need to take control of my health. Your videos truly inspire me. Your such a humble human and I appreciate you on every level! 🙏
Man, people are quick to judge.scientists are.currently researching the beneficial effects of psychedelics in.controlled studies. No-one is advocating the use of drugs. Concentrate on building strength
Mind, body and soul
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I have been watching your videos for a long time man and your content has evolved so much. Thanks for sharing your ideas! #physical #mental #spiritual
Thanks my man! Trying to grow each day!
@@Strengthside Life is all about the evolutionnn
Thank you brother.
This came to me when at the right time.
Keep up the great work and keep spreading the light
Night walks have helped me and allowed me to discover my city from a new angle! Great video as always!
Excited to settle down with goals, & to not think what I have to do next. Just want those powerful practices which will be my awards to just to do! & not to seek any more deep awareness. Just want to Love.
Excellent and conscious approach to life! Experiencing things like body movement, strength and the natural circadian rhythm are elemental, yet so few people are able or willing to do it. Just walking in nature will strengthen the resolve and resiliency to chart one's own path.
Thanks a bunch for sharing. I hope many will open their eyes after they listen to your talks :) I've started to go in nature and be bored - just sit on a big rock in nature and sit for hours and just be bored. At first, I got a major bad conscience, but it has gradually disappeared. It gives me a clear view on many things in my life and on myself - body and soul(or what ever we call it). Among other things, I belive it's about the brain developing new connections when you're bored. The brain begins to move out of the thought stream that you always have when you are in the middle of daily life and constantly have chores and places to go or be. Keep on - live a lifetime :)
Thanks for sharing that Allan! The power of being bored and day dreaming a bit. Really powerful
Bruh🤯 I don’t know your story but I can feel it in how you speak and your “perspective” 🙏🏽
I believe this video you made is important because it will resonate with a lot of your viewers and why they watch strength side in the first place. It certainly did for me. I am going to make 2020 a year of many more nature walks. Stay positive!
Thx man, realizing I shouldn't let go of my own practice, no matter how I get pulled away for material (in my case loss of material)
Man, you nailed this one. This is a perfect foundation to build a fulfilling life upon, thank you for creating this and thank you for encouraging myself and others to live more consciously
Thanks Callum. Truly appreciate that man
I'm not even sure how I came across this video, I'm not much of a youtube consumer but man, this was exactly what I needed to hear today. Thanks a lot! 🌷
This video is so damn inspiring 💙 but most importantly, it really make sence... I tend to romanticize "health", and for long time my main focus was "fitness"... that led me to a deep emptiness cause' almost all my attention was put on that, as well as diet and sleep... but I was missing something else... The point is that I realized (throughout your videos/walking/meditation/journaling...) that life is not only physical activity, but something else :) finding passion in those tiny things is even more important than having one single big passion ❤ man, I live in another hemisphere (from Chile) but I really feel your words... I'd say I consider you my friend 💪 keep it up, bro
Bro your comment makes me so happy to read. I completely relate to everything you wrote. I'm glad we are walking the same path and not he same journey my friend :)
we're all more than just the things we're known for. good message, josh. i'm twice your age and appreciate your insight.
What you said about the Circadian Rhythm is right on, looking at the sunrise WILL CURE INSOMNIA! Do it as often as you can to re set this important hormone producing clock.
YEAH man it feels so great :)
The best video on TH-cam EVER. and the comment section is so positive ❤️
I really like your videos, but this was so inspiring. I experience this myself, after I was operated two years ago. Thank you and keep on with this wonderful videos that have already making a great difference on my mind and hopes
I suffer from depression and anxiety. I’m unsure if my old daily routine helped me with depression because the activities helped, or if simply doing anything positive regardless of what it was help me make a mind shift.
I have since stopped my routine and my depression returned strong. I’m unsure if I stopped then depression returned or if depression returned and therefore I stopped.
All that said, my routine was get out of bed as soon as I get up, drink tall glass of water, meditate, journal, thank the world for another beautiful day, cardio exercise (skateboard) and calisthenics, shower, eat breakfast (vegan home made whole food), sit outside in the sun. Walk later in the day.
It took a lot of time to do this entire morning routine but felt worth it. I’m also extreme and anxious thinking makes me search for answers to solve my problems where in many cases just practicing self acceptance would be fine (according to my therapist). But I will say with the morning routine I felt an overall subtle feeling of optimism. I had all the same problems and was still so anxious and many times depressed. But I felt line I could push forward and it will be ok eventually.
I would offer this... Don't overthink why or how or if the "morning routine" is working. Just do what you can and follow good feelings. You can't out think depression but you can out-feel it :) !!!
Yeah, every time you did that routine you were improving yourself, you were creating a better future. It's important to be flexible too - sometimes things will happen in life where you can't do it all exactly the way you want so you need to work around obstacles.
I enjoy as much reading a book as listening to your depth. Thanks!
I realise through you that I never embodied this realm.
Positivity and high quality energy ooze through the video.
Keep up the good work.
You are inspiring man..
Appreciate you mayank!
thank you for having such a good influence over me
What i admire most is the journey! You have walked a long road coming to this point. And that is what makes what you say and the way you view our world much more meaningful. It shows that they are not just words, but experience. Keep on going and exploring! And dont forget to tell us abou it!
Yes passion is everything and then you do not need motivation!!!
Hey! I made 900 on your likes.
I just found you this morning before work and I already love your channel.
You really go right into the things I'm looking to be more rooted with. Bless you.
This is the best channel for health and overral body.
Thank you for a great vid. Fascinating how less we actually need to stay happy and healthy. The steps are so simple and well-known, however often we ignore them.
That is fascinating how the simple things can be the hardest to do!
Thank you for being so honest. 'Being' in every moment as you are in this video is the real nugget. Many thanks.
I love your channel for my quest into embodiment and getting in touch with our wild nature and feeling into the body. Thanks for your work!! The philosophy videos are a great idea!!! I’d love to see more of that! Perhaps strength side is not only physical strength but may stretch into mental strength, emotional strength, and spiritual strength. Cheers Josh
"There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself." - Miyamoto Musashi