Alive and Free

The brain is a very useful tool when we’re dealing with what’s around us. But when it comes down to real life, it’s our bodies that are experiencing it. Today we’ll talk about relying on the brain’s understanding. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• I would punch them and they would feel so good and energized because they realized it feels good to be in their body. (10:20)
• I didn’t know that I could question these things that were all ...

We’ve had our fair share of questions and comments from people who have “already done all these things”. Today we’ll explain more what we’re really doing and why it just might not be the same as what you think.  Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Somebody might have trained with people that I did but that doesn’t mean they know what I do and what I am trying to do with these techniques. (5:20...

When something happens, there doesn’t always have to be an issue with it. You can let go of the response and control it. We’ll talk about it more today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• I was leading myself to my own grave because of some teachings that I had likely misinterpreted. (12:15)
• A lot of people would rather be right and miserable and perpetuate the misery, than dissipate the reactions. (19:35)
• I want to teach people the s...

We have often had people who have a single belief of who and what they are. It’s not that they’re wrong for that, it that they had never tried to challenge it before. People who were “superior” to them had given diagnosis and those were taken to heart. Today we’ll talk about it more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• A lot of people we encounter had their mom, their teacher, their mentor tell them something and that’s never been chal...

Today, we’re going to take a pretty deep dive into some religious things. Growing up in the mormon church, I had some things indoctrinated in me that were causing me disease. We’ll talk about it more in todays episode. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Your body is what qualifies you to be alive and when you understand what a magnificent gift it is, t can lead you out of all the things that you’re struggling with. (29:45)
• I wanted to...

The main goal is to win the war within you. Not just to beat the symptoms, but the full battle that is causing tensions and stresses in your body. Today, we’re going to talk about it more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• The body has some way of remembering how it’s reacted in a situation before. (10:10)
• You are the hardest person you will ever coach. Because you have the same blind spots as the person that you’re coaching. (17:00)
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Description; “I feel happy”. Prescription; “I’m doing all of these things so I should be feeling happiness”. Don’t let the prescriptions and “shoulds” in life, run over the descriptions, and the present moment. Today, we’ll talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• In a list, you’ll be given prescriptions, not what will become good, natural byproducts of your living experience. (14:30)
• “Where am I at, where am I headed,...

After the 2024 Miami GP, Lando Norris gains his first win and declares his love to everybody. Now, after a grueling two hour race, he probably felt relieved and wasn’t actually feeling “love”. Today, we’re going to talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• In that moment, was he really feeling love? (10:15)
• Feelings of love and kindness are a direct result of the state that the body is in, in any given moment. (14:20)
• L...

This one’s for the women. A man’s “addiction” to pornography doesn’t mean that there is something wrong with you or that you need to change. It is just the way that his body has found to cope with his discomfort. We’re going to talk about this more today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Because the “addiction” is no longer sexual, we look at; what are they coping with? (15:50)
• Depression, shame, and guilt are all mechanisms that ar...

If you’re going to get help with something, at least get good help. Ruminating on the problem won’t solve it, so find someone or something that looks at the source, not the symptom. We’ll talk about this more today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Do you really want validation on your trauma? (5:20)
• If you don’t want things to continue down their current path, validation will not get you to another place. (7:20)
• When bad help becom...

Therapy is not really as useful as it seems. In reality, therapy gets you to just ruminate on thoughts and situations that are no longer useful to you. Instead of spending time pouting about it, learn from it and move on. Today, we’re going to talk about that more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• When going to some form of entertainment, the emotional controls are almost willfully set aside for the enjoyment of another story. (6:05...

Money isn’t the source of happiness and problems in life. It might just be some warning lights on your dashboard of life. Today, we’ll talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• You’re thinking of this creeping up debt as a problem, when all that’s happened in the past is that a new solution to the problem has been found. (3:10)
• The money in your wallet might be a monster. (8:30)
• Life is the greatest give that you can ge...

Biology, evolution, science, and religions are all great and can be useful tools in life. But they shouldn’t interfere with your experience. We live in the present, the now. Not 100, not 500, not 5000 years ago. Today we’re going to talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• There isn’t a bodiless it out there, like god, that is saying; “this is the case and you must accept it”. But because it’s in a book, people accept ...

FAIRO is an acronym for “false ah-ha’s impersonating real ones”. Meaning that when an ah-ha moment comes up, no time is wasted in assuming it is the answer and not just an observation. Today we’re going to talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• There’s danger in assuming that an ah-ha moment is the truth. (7:55)
• The ah-ha moment is the moment when you’ve conceptualized the world into an idea. (13:30)
• Assessing someon...

Today we’re going to do a little bit of a play by play of a book that I recently read. But as we talk, find what’s useful, and keep it. then toss the rest out. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• There are humans so busy suffering and chasing power, money, prestige and all the other things that they end up killing each other for it. (3:05)
• I was making all kinds of claims, but I found a lot of frustration in that that I wasn’t willing ...

Everyday bliss. Just being in a space where you can enjoy running your body, from just being alive. Not having to operate from a place of constant tension. We’re going to talk about that more today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• When talking about a life, it isn’t the big things that I’m talking about. It’s how do you open the car door, cut food, talk to your spouse, it’s all the little things. (8:10)
• If the nerve is already agit...

Proprioception can be often thought of how you perceive your physical situation, but it goes a lot deeper than that. It is how you perceive yourself in any situation. Proprioception is how you catch yourself in the act of living. We’re going to talk about this in depth today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• The prediction is made first, and only if the prediction is wrong, is more energy spent trying to figure out what’s going on. ...

AF 243 - Affirmations & Disbelief

Sounding like opposite ends of a spectrum, affirmations and disbelief are not so different. In fact, affirmations come for the disbelief in yourself and the lack of surety. Today we’ll talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• If you don’t go through pain, then you don’t gain pain. (3:45)
• People are trying to find a trauma to blame their problems on, and they feel worse because they’re ...

Although Integrity and honesty may seem very similar, there are a few key differences that make a whole lot of change. Today, we’ll talk about that more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• …under the assumption that in the next 20 years of life, an opinion would and should never change. (5:40)
• If I could connect to people on their goodness, then positive things would come out of it. But I thought goodness meant that people thought and...