Bryant Wood
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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Yeah, I'm glad we're talking about it. I think there needs to be much more awareness around the topic and I'm very passionate about bringing it up because anyone that listens to this, hopefully it leads them into a different direction because you can fix chronic pain by rewiring your brain. You don't need substances. Kratom is very similar to opioid.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I believe it hits opioid receptors and that's why there's an addictive quality. It gives you the feeling of euphoria. It's a painkiller, natural painkiller. But it's extremely addictive. And at the end of the day, if your body is sending you signals of pain or if you're getting anxiety, that's information for you to learn how to work with and heal, not something to numb.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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So you're just suppressing all of these really important signals for your health. And then over time, the painkiller stops working, you get addicted to it, and then you have to go through the withdrawals. And that will force you to feel all the things that you've suppressed. Let me tell you. Yeah, wow.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I think because of my practices over the last decade, there was... a lack of ignorance around what was going on that I opted into. So I knew that I stopped feeling my connection to source, right? And what I mean by sources, I'm grounded. My cells are vibrating. There's almost like a beam of light coming through my body life.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Like the love of the natural love of life is pouring through me and I feel authentic and I'm grateful to be alive and it's a beautiful thing to be. But when you take something like the Kratom or opioids or anything like that, it numbs everything. It doesn't just numb the pain.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I felt like I was in a fog, but there was a part of me that was always aware that I was in a fog and not connected to myself and knew I could be connected to myself if I chose to. So...
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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The disconnect I felt mostly was with my family and friends and because there's a lack of honesty of my use, of using the substance, of why I was using the substance, of what was going on that caused me to use the substance. There was just a lack of honesty and transparency, especially someone like me where I'm a leader in my community. I'm speaking about wellness stuff all the time.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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It's just not a good look to be addicted to drugs, but it's important to discuss it. And I didn't have any real support during that time. It was pretty much ultimatums like fix this or you're by yourself. But I've always been someone that's totally down to admit where I was wrong. And at the end of the day, I was not the same person that I am without the substance, right?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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It totally changed the chemistry of my brain, the way I was behaving, my emotions were flaring up and it wasn't who I was. Because disconnection is a byproduct of making less productive decisions. And when you can rally and start making slowly conscious decisions for your health that nurtures you, your friends, your family, they come along because you're taking care of yourself.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And I've been here for about a year. So at the end of the day, this was my dream to be in the middle of nowhere with just my wife and my animals where no one else is around and just study and work out and pray and all the things. But very quickly, you realize how important human connection is.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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and how healthy it is to be around others where you can be yourself, where you can play, where you can listen, where you can grow, and how it can also be detrimental to your health when you have that loneliness. Sometimes my wife is gone working for two weeks. Sometimes I'm gone working for two weeks.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And we have to do a lot of self-work to really be able to be okay just being alone in a room with no stimulus. So I think the important thing here is Everybody needs a different amount of human interaction. Everybody needs a different texture of experiences to bring out the best version of themselves. Like, for example, I love sword fighting.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Anytime any of my friends visit me, they know that they're going to get fought with a sword. And you better believe that we're acting out like a death scenario, and it's very dramatic. And
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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the goal here is just to play your way into flow be in your body and have a fun interaction without any sort of competition really involved and i do that because it brings me a lot of joy so you have to at this day and age where everyone's on their phones people aren't going to the park anymore you got to create the experiences that bring you joy find out what you love and then invite other people that you think will enjoy those things as well to that conversation
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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So at the end of the day, you just got to be a creator and not a consumer. And I think that will really support people in solving their disconnection. For example, I went this morning and I went two miles down the street. There was some sort of MMA fight studio that was open on Thursdays or something. I knocked on the door at some guy's house. His name is Memo.
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And now we're going to get together and do some jujitsu this Thursday at 5 p.m. And I'm like creating these experiences for myself because I understand that they're actually really important for my overall health and well-being. So I can stay passionate about other things in life.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Because if you're only working on one thing and you're not including the joy or the play or surrounding yourself with other like-minded people that enjoyed those things too, you're really just going to have, you could have a really beautiful life, but a lot of the times they'll take a toll on your mental health.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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That's a beautiful question. So with her UN work, one of the biggest things that drew me to her first as a friend, second as a life partner was her sincerity and wanting to help other people. So she has a really strong balance of being able to be the coolest person in the room at Hollywood events. But speaking up and directing people's attention to
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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things like refugees that really need some support. And I've had the opportunity a few times to go with her when she's speaking to refugees. For example, I believe in Budapest with the UN and the stories you hear are just so, I mean, you wouldn't even imagine the stuff that people go through, but most importantly, the hope that they have.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And she goes in there and tells their story and speaks to them as a role model and someone that understands the mindset of people that have been through similar things. And she just does a lot of good. So my main thing is her sincerity. I love it. It's my favorite thing. You can feel it. You can feel someone that's actually there for others when they walk into a room. And I
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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When I go as far as a support system, I'm just going there to keep the kids present and talk about nothing, because sometimes that's all that they need. They need people to see them as human beings, not as someone that's struggling, and then help them remember to smile. And her work is just a plus. It's really, it's God's work, man. Like you don't even, it's extraordinary. It's very special.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I mean, I hope that answers your question.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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We call those good people. It was my highest compliments. That's a good person right there. And it's a lost skill set to be able to be fully present with someone and listen to their story and just be there. I always say like one of the secrets to life is walking into a room and someone before any sort of financial exchange or do this because I asked you to just ask them how they're doing.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And that unlocks a whole different dimension of experience that honestly leads to connection and not disconnection.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Thank you for asking this question. It really has a significant depth to me, signature frequency, because a lot of the times when I guide this during a breath worker meditation that I'm leading, it's usually after working through emotions that people may be experiencing, limiting beliefs, tension in their body, and then you get them into this meditative state that's
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vast and open and you ask the question, ask life to show you what your signature energy is. And I believe this is something that you experience, not something that you really discuss, but it's different from what your karmic experience is.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Your karmic experience is your present emotional state, the quality of your thought patterns throughout the day, the physical tension or flexibility or openness or contraction of the body. This is your present karmic state.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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When we say signature frequency, you've done the work in softening the body, getting your breath open, processing the emotions that you're navigating in that present moment, creating a stillness within the mind. And then when you ground your energy down, there's a connection and a sense of connection to the earth. And what that means is you can actually meditate into something higher.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And then when you bring your awareness up here and you ask, what is my soul signature energy? There is a texture of life that comes through that feels like home. It feels like you. And your goal is to fill up your little bubble of that authentic home-like energy so you can flood yourselves with that sensation. So I never... I'm never going to say this is what your signature energy is.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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It's an excavation of everything that's not you into showing you what you naturally are and then a connection to that naturalness. And when you're speaking, breathing from that space, it's authenticity. And I think I really believe that you win the game of life when you learn how to be yourself.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And we live in a world that's constantly programming us. It is terrifying to think about how easy it is to desire things that you don't have and to think that you have to be better. And really, it's always an internal journey. Any sort of discovery of happiness, it's an internal discovery, not an external accomplishment.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And the mask that you speak about, it's all these layers that are put on us every day, just layers and layers, and you've got to peel back the layers. And it's really exciting to realize that I'm not my thoughts, I'm not my body, I'm not my achievements. And then what are you? Right. That's a fun thing to explore.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I've always been someone that's totally down to admit where I was wrong. And at the end of the day, I was not the same person that I am without the substance, right? It totally changed the chemistry of my brain, the way I was behaving, my emotions were flaring up and it wasn't who I was. Because disconnection is a byproduct of making less productive decisions.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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During that disconnection phase, I hit the books very aggressively, read everything I could find, got a bunch of certifications, still didn't figure out the thing. And I flew out this little gay man named Reese to live with me for a month to train me in yoga. I always laugh because my guru was a drag queen. Really funny to me. And he was like a master of ceremonies, right?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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He could just light up a room with joy within 30 seconds. And I was like, this is a skill that I wanna learn. It's like, how do you light up a room with joy in 30 seconds? I'm like, this is cool. So anyways, I trained with him for about a month. And on the last day, we went up to the mountain and we did this practice called the 10 Tibetans.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And it's different physical postures with breathing to really clear out your system, right? A really deep purification tool. By the end of it, I was in complete peace. So I had an embodied state of peace. And before that, I was just, my thoughts were keeping me up at night. I mean, it's just so severe. You can't really explain it unless you've been there.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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But I went from being totally disconnected, so much anxiety, to all of a sudden being in a complete state of peace. And this is a decade ago. And from that moment forward, I was like, this is something I needed to devote my life to. And also another thing is this little man, remember, he's a tiny guy. He could breathe three times more than me.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And when you can rally and start making slowly conscious decisions for your health that nurtures you, your friends, your family, they come along because you're taking care of yourself.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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Because he'd be like, inhale, I'd be like, and he'd just keep going. And I was like, what the? I was like, are you telling me this guy's three times better at breath than me? I was like, that means he's like three times better at the foundation of life. So it really inspired me to train to deepen my breath as well. I was a little competitive.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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So then fast forward about five years of teaching, I experienced that chronic pain and all those injuries started flaring up. And then I, my breath work, wasn't really cutting it anymore. So I had to hit the books again and also really go into a beginner's mind of maybe I don't really know what I'm doing anymore. Cause I'm having a really hard time creating an embodied state of peace.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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I'm because I'm experiencing so much pain. I'm like, how do I get rid of this pain?
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Bryant Wood on How to Unlock Healing with Spiritual Biohacking | EP 584
then i came across a method and that i've tweaked and mastered called the emotional freedom process and this is actually how to deal with emotional turmoil that's causing physical pain or any sort of physical symptoms and this is way different than what breathworks telling people to do where you just go into a practice for a long period of time and hope your shoulder pain dissipates so
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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this technique you actually go into in a safe uh parasympathetic way the sensation and then it untethers the sensation and then you rewire the brain that's holding that sensation in place and it actually solves the pain the tension the anxiety it solves it now i'm teaching a more of an embodied
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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breath work that's inclusive of kind of these rewiring of the brain practices to actually solve some of these issues. Because what I realized was I was just trying to elevate my frequency so much, but not actually deal with these emotional wounds that I was carrying.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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The foundations matter more than anyone realizes. Sleep, food, hydration, connection, meditation, yoga. I mean, all of these simple things. I think people don't realize how hard it is to let go of a bad habit if you're not replacing it with good habits. I think that's the biggest thing.
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And we have to find good habits that resonate with the people and what brings them joy and what feels effortless to them, not something that necessarily feels like hard work. Yeah. It's all foundations.
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And do you think that's common? Statistically, it's about 11 years. It takes someone to admit that they are experiencing a trauma from a past experience. Statistically, PTSD people hold onto it for so long until they actually have to figure out how to get help with it. So it's extremely common.
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And I think it's about one in 10 people in the US are experiencing some form of post-traumatic stress disorder. And what I mean by that is the emotional symptoms are still happening six months after the actual car accident or death, et cetera. So we really aren't necessarily equipped as a society to navigate emotional turmoil.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And also, I don't think we're aware of the physical symptoms that can be associated with emotional turmoil, like muscle tension. Like I said earlier, chronic pain. Studies show it's about 88% of people that are experiencing chronic pain. It's because of pain in the brain. It's called neuroplastic pain. And it's the pain signals that are left on after the injury.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And you learn this skill of chronic pain in your brain. So you're in this constant pain. And unfortunately, if you're experiencing pain inside, you're not going to behave in a fun way. Like you said earlier, if you're not loving yourself, you're not going to perceive the love from other people coming at you.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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And the same thing when you're experiencing emotional distress, if you're not working with it and creating a state of homeostasis or harmony within, all of your choices are going to be a byproduct of that feeling. And you're not going to be really proud of that, let's say.
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
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thanks for asking we actually started spiritual biohacking my team and i so biohacking i like to just like using science and what we have available as far as markers to hack our nervous system right so it's very easy to understand nowadays how to down regulate and up regulate to get in that optimal state for optimal well-being and health
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So we mix in the science, but then what's missing is that there's a spiritual system within all of us. Think of it as energy centers, chakras, whatever it is, that is also working in the background that's then manifesting all these physical symptoms. I like to say it's about 80% energy, 20% physical manifestation.
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So if you get your energy systems spinning correctly and get the debris out of them, then your ability to embody a state of health is way more effortless nervous system, right? So we mix in the biohacking is a huge part of it because if you breathe a certain direction, it's going to slow down your heart rate. If you breathe fast, it's going to up level your heart rate.
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If you're experiencing depression, you're not going to want to do a meditation. You want to do something that's going to activate the vagus nerve. You're going to shake it out. You're going to breathe faster. get the energy going. If you're experiencing anxiety, you want to downregulate. There's these key things that you need to know how to use with your breath and also your body and your mind.
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But then there's things that transcend the act of doing, right? That is the spiritual system in the body. And if you don't look at both, you're not going to really be able to create the effects that you desire. And most importantly, allow life to work through you. I think we take a full spectrum approach, mind, body, spirit of some of these things.
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And we're seeing many people have now the skillset of what they can control change their lives.
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I think we're really used to a faster paced society and an accomplished based society. We always want to figure out how we can do more and be more, but really deep healing occurs when you're able to just be. And if you think of churches, I love churches.
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i've always loved church we'll be going on we'll be going to like costa rica or let's say mexico and i'll walk into a church we'll be going in barcelona i'll walk into a church i absolutely love it because there's an intelligence in a church of how it's out like how it's designed to create spiritual experiences right there's an energy to that of devotion
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So I can't personally speak to the decline of people's church experiences, but I do believe with YouTube and whatnot, spiritual experiences are accessible. And that's the thing it's if people ask for spiritual experience and they're sincere about it, it'll be produced. And that's a cool thing to really play with.
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If you're listening to this and you don't know what a spiritual experience is or how to feel connected to spirit. Like just sincerely ask and see. And then what will manifest is something that will be really beautiful.
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What are your thoughts on that? It's hard to have hope when you're hopeless. It's hard to have gratitude when you're trying to survive. It's a lot of these quote unquote spiritual states of being is actually what's left over when you heal the things that are coming up for you. So if you excavate the anxiety, if you excavate the limitations, what's naturally there is the joy and the hope.
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I think you can through experiences generate hope. You can through...
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breathing right now and saying i'm grateful generate gratitude but there's still going to be the thing that you're working on and this is what's called a karmic trace and these karmic traces is the debris in our system that when a certain circumstances occurs that looks like something that's happened in the past that's caused us pain that emotion flares up and we our brain makes a guess on what we're experiencing and why and then we have an action that either strengthens
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Thank you, John. Really grateful to be here.
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that debris in our system or it suppresses it. And both of those things are less productive. So if you're looking, I think it's important to live a spiritual life where you're actively healing the behaviors and the emotional trauma that you're experiencing to then become someone that's more peaceful. And I think peace is a beautiful North Star. In meditation, can I reach peace?
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Can I experience peace for a long period of time? Okay, outside of this meditation, can I change my behaviors from things that make me aggressive? Can I change it from a peaceful way of responding? And then if you have the skill set to be able to shift into a peaceful state anytime that you want, then you're doing a really wonderful job.
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And I believe that's like the simplest way to explain a kind of a spiritual lifestyle. Yeah.
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I have this buddy named Spence and he is the most grateful person I've ever met. And one of his favorite things to do is go on top of a mountain and lift his arms up and just take big, deep breaths and just say, I'm grateful for life. I'm so grateful. And when I observed him do it the first time, I was like, that is a powerful tool. That is cool.
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And when he rolls out of bed, the first thing he does is he opens his arms and he just is grateful. And I think that those little things to start the day with that is such a profound baseline.
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We're going for the extraordinary. I love it. Exactly. Exactly.
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There's a lot to this question. I will say that if you have media credibility or if you have views, you naturally have a space to share your message. And that could be productive or not, depending on what message you're sharing, right? So someone that maybe doesn't have
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really bringing breath work and mindfulness and other things to the mainstream and also exploring the science of happiness but how did you first get introduced to emma emma's a legend anyone that's not familiar with her work i highly recommend checking it out because she has i think 20 to 30 years in academics on the forefront of the research of meditation and breath work and this is supporting veterans of ptsd this is supporting college kids with stress i mean she's
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the proper experience can share things and then manipulate people into believing them because of the amount of views and natural position of leadership that you'll get into because of that. I will say that in my early twenties, when I got my first a hundred thousand followers, It was more significant. It was more, my followers gave me a false sense of pride.
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And then that pride allowed me to be many different things. And then I remember I spent, as soon as I hit my pinnacle of almost a million followers, I just deleted Instagram for two years. I was like, this is not healthy for me. And I went and furthered my studies and education and learned how to be present.
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Then I was like, okay, I'll get back onto social media because I have more of a shield up and a resilience from being manipulated into thinking I have to be a certain way or do a certain thing. And I don't think people nowadays really value social followers or media as much as we think they do. I think people can weed out inauthenticity pretty quickly.
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And we value people that are kind to others that are more embodied in how they treat all beings instead of just what they show online. And I think that really, When you're embodied as a good person, I think that is a really powerful form of leadership where it's less dogmatic. We're not here to tell people how to behave, but when you behave good, you're able to observe that.
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And especially when it happens to you, you're able to replicate it to others. Let me know if I'm answering this on point, if there's a specific part of the question, because there's a lot here to unpack.
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What it means to me to be a strong and compassionate man in today's world is a man that's willing to be wrong at the end of the day. someone that doesn't know anything for certain, but is able to listen and grow in every single moment. I think that form of leadership is really powerful.
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I think nowadays with people going through so much that have such unique journeys, it's impossible to assume what someone's going through and deep listening needs to occur for a natural evolution to take place. What I love most about myself as a leader, and at the end of the day, I am a leader. I'm in positions of leadership all the time.
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And I've accepted that because I create a space for everyone to be a leader if they're open to leading. I'm always like saying, hey, listen, you want to speak? Go ahead and speak. It's your turn. You need something? Let me hear what you have going on. You want to go do this? Absolutely. It's okay. And... It's more of a uniting of everybody's flame.
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That's the most important thing to me more than me sharing wisdom or leading itself. But for example, let's say if you notice someone's dehydrated and they're not drinking water, if you're naturally inspired to say, hey, listen, drink some water because it's good for you. Is it for you to tell people what to do? It's not. But do you get the inspiration to invite someone to something healthier?
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Then do that. So there's a spiritual maze that occurs when you have knowledge because you can't just tell everybody what to do because you think it's healthy because you're going to eventually collect their karma and then have to deal with the things that they're navigating. It's this weird thing that occurs where You just tell people the secrets all the time.
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For one, they're not asking for it, so it's not going to resonate with it. And then you have to deal with thinking that you know what to do. So what happens is you create questions and dialogue that inspires people to come up with their own answers. And then once they have their own answers, if they act on it, that's when evolution occurs. I think the new age leadership is like,
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many of us being leaders like the moms are leaders the dads are leaders the kids are leaders the homeless people the people that have homelessness on the street their leadership right we can't assume what they need or that they want and the more space we create for more voices to be heard i think we're going to come to these simple truths that we're all more connected than we are different and this is how we make the world a better place
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really on it and has produced significant healing for people that need it the most. So she's just absolutely a legend. But I met her through Sri Ravi Shankar, who is an Indian guru. He runs the Art of Living Foundation. They do the Sky Kriya, which is mindfulness, breathwork, and then I think some yoga postures as well.
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Thank you for valuing that. It's what I value as well in leadership. The reason why I lead the way that I do is because I've known a lot of leaders in the past and the ones that have been extraordinary are the ones that have created a lot of safety for me to be myself. And I tried the dominance thing. I was one of the top physique competitors, not competitors, but physique models in the world.
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I was a D1 wrestler. I was a bad ass mother shucker. And it was force things into existence, be as aggressive as you possibly can, and then achieve. And it's, when you're in the healing work, you realize people heal through being held. You realize people heal through almost feminine energy, right?
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So if you want to be a good leader, it's really the ability to shift states from the act of doing and achieving and also being present and sensitive and allowing what is to unfold. And that is empathy. That is compassion. It's from the heart and it doesn't break someone open to be better.
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No, it allows them to create safety within what they're experiencing that might be uncomfortable so that they know who they are at their core is beauty, is love, is peace. And once you realize that, I mean, listen, I honestly, I think the aggressive masculine mentality is a little silly. I do. I think it's silly. I don't think it's, I think it's, I think it's special to build.
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And he's in 106 different countries and helping tens of millions of people's lives. And she's devoted her life to him. And I find that to just be so admirable because not only that she is at the pinnacle of research and science, but she's also deeply connected to the spiritual aspect of life.
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I think combativeness is good in regards to building energy. What I mean by that is disagreeing with someone. So I think disagreeing is good. I think that's healthy. But as far as like moving the pendulum forward, it's allowing yourself to be totally available for whatever is.
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I think one of my favorite compliments that I get is people feel like they're at home and can be their fullest selves when they're around me. And really my default program is try to just be in a personal state of love for myself and then allow whatever that the people around me want to do to be okay. I'm not trying to change them. I'm not trying to make them better.
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I'm not trying to perceive them as limitation. Even when they say, oh, I'm experiencing this. I don't have the confidence for this. I don't see them like that. I just see them with the confidence that they want. I see them with the love that they have. And it has a lot to do with how you perceive reality.
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And I think that shines as leadership because people are being seen in the way of who they actually are. And I learned that actually very similar to the quote that you brought up that I wrote about the the pictures on my face is I was in an environment in public. And I remember I could feel all the insecurities of the people around me. And I go because my empathy was
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like really on and I could see different mannerisms. And then all of a sudden I was guessing on what they were experiencing and projecting. And then I started saying, I'm like, what if I just see this person as someone that's happy? And then immediately all the energy shifted in my body, right? What if I just experienced this person as being confident, all the energy shifted in my body.
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And I realized when I was, when I thought I was being empathetic, picking up on all these things, it was really just parts of myself that wasn't fully awakened yet. And that's a really powerful place to be because you begin to take responsibility for everything and then let go of any sort of it not being personal at all. Like, I think it is...
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It is now more important than ever to see the healing within the people and then allow them to choose it themselves instead of seeing the limitations and then trying to fix them. Make sense?
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And this goes back to really Emma's research as well. She did a study with horses where children would go up to a horse and because horses are animals of prey, they would all of a sudden act really scared if the kid had anxiety around the horse. But as soon as the kid with anxiety said, hey, I have a little bit of anxiety, the horse began to calm down because the kid was authentic.
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And this was a fascinating study to me. So when we have these emotional things that arise throughout different circumstances, I think what is going on? How are you feeling? Is there anything that's keeping you from being present? And then starting a conversation from a baseline is super important.
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Oh, I think we're just getting started with it. I have a lot of big plans for the VR space, especially with haptic suits and vibration. And when you're in VR, your imagination is immediately activated.
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you can in meditation for example i do this thing where i have people envision their guardians around them and even the act of envisioning their guardians in a meditation creates reverence these icons are depicted throughout history for a reason because they have this kind of texture of power associated with these different icons so in vr you can have pretty much any sort of visual right
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accessible, any sort of color accessible. And then now we're getting to it where you have these, we're going to eventually get these haptic suits where imagine vibration on your belly and then just breathing into the vibration that you're experiencing and teaching you how to breathe deep into different parts of your body. I mean, the future is going to be absolutely incredible.
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I have so many ideas for this. What I've personally done in the past is more simple where there's an orb on the screen as it expands and turns into sacred geometry, you're inhaling, you're filling yourself up with breath as it contracts, you exhale and it controls the pace of the breath. And that can really very quickly teach someone how to regulate their nervous system.
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I'm at Bryant wood on Instagram. Please come say hi in the DMS. And then I have the spiritual biohacking community launching in about a week. So come join us on school. That'd be great.
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Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I've actually had the pleasure of interviewing him about three to four times. So I got in there and he's like a kid. He's a kid with just the utmost wisdom. You look into his eyes. It's pure, unconditional love. He always answers things in a way that's like specifically for you. It's a very magical thing to be able to interview him.
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So I really hope you get the chance to someday.
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So I like to pick up on... I'm very interested in why people become the way that they are, especially in the spiritual realms, because for me, there's not... more powerful place to be than to be someone that people respect in regards to directing their life path and how to think about life, how to behave. So he's reached the pinnacle of what I consider success just from an embodied state of love.
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And when I observed him, he was very open with me in a way about his skill sets. One was he was extremely versed in the Vedas. So he knew Every of the ancient texts, he had it memorized. And I think he was like 10 years old, citing them off from memory. So obviously there's past life relationships with that information. And then simultaneously, there's the cities.
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The cities are enlightened gifts that you get. And he has access to be able to read a TV screen and get intuitive hits that then can help a message resonate. And so there's psychic abilities mixed with the ancient Vedas and then just being an embodied loving person. And that's how I see him being so effective just from an observer perspective.
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My fondest memories as a kid were either the hardships or the connection to, we'll use the word God for this, but I vividly remember just being in church, always having my hand up, crying, praising the Lord. It was like my favorite thing to do. I was like, yes, God. Yeah, you know, I would never miss an opportunity to confess my sins or get baptized.
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I think I was baptized like seven times because I enjoyed it so much, the ritual of it. But then the praying every night, the small moments of gratitude before meals with my family, somehow they slowly got lost because of the hardships of what my family had to go through with the divorce. And You're just trying to make ends meet and survive.
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Typically, when you don't have that level of safety, you start making what you lack your God. And then the gratitude for the super intelligence of existence goes away because you're like, where am I going to get my next meal? How am I going to survive? How do I process these emotions as a kid?
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And then when you get away from that prayer or that gratitude or that just when you close your eyes and you have that beautiful dialogue with your personal God, eventually the lack of those interactions with the divine happens.
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depletes you if you're someone that gets nourished from those experiences and I just went into wrestling and went into working out and went into being the most aggressive man I could be to get a full ride d1 for college that any sort of sensitive moment of hi life how you doing today you know what's going on that just dwindled away into like how do I make my next meal how do I be
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beat this person in wrestling, etc. And then I started experiencing very severe side effects. So depression, anxiety, couldn't sleep at night, like really severe things where I was just completely out of balance. And it got to a point where, you know, you're on your hands and knees, and then you finally have to pray because things got so bad.
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And when you pray, it's that honesty kind of puts you on a trajectory of figuring out that connection again.
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Oh, studies, any sort of extracurricular activities did not exist. You were there just as an athlete. I do believe athletes nowadays have a different experience because I think like physical therapists and doctors and instructors are telling people not to go as hard.
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on athletes so their body can recover, their mind can recover, and they're putting academics on more of the forefront than the athletic performance itself. But in my time, it was pretty much you were just a wrestler. There's nothing else that you did other than wrestle. Yeah.
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It's a lot. And for recovery, for brain function, for muscle growth even, it's just not the most productive way to, in my opinion, run some of the athletes.
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And I just recently watched someone at the Olympic Training Center for Wrestling, this woman, this doctor, talk about how they're actually giving a lot more time to recover to their athletes than they did previously because now the science has proven that's how you actually make gains. That's how you evolve your body, your mind, et cetera. So I think times are changing, but...
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I mean, I don't remember a single day out of the 10 years I wrestled where the goal wasn't to get you on your knees where you couldn't move anymore. Like every day, that was the goal goes hard as you possibly can until you can't move anymore.
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other drugs etc to help them get through the pain did you find it the same thing fortunately my time all sort of medical substances were just a complete no wrestlers you would dope, you would do steroids, but you get tested. You get tested for everything. I found painkillers later on in my life because of my wrestling injuries, 13 broken bones or something. I have a broken neck right now.
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I got a back surgery last year and people don't know this, but if you're putting your kid in a sport, Like their rehab, their recovery from any injury should be the number one priority because if you don't rehab it properly and build its strength back or set the bone, it slowly over time, your body reorganizes around the injury and then things are out of balance and then you get chronic pain.
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So I had severe chronic pain. I think two years ago, it flared up out of nowhere where I could barely walk down the street. And then I got all these x-rays and found out I had all these broken bones that were never set properly. And I got on opioids and this thing called Kratom. Have you heard of this by chance? And this is important to talk about. So there's these things called feel free.
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that I think colleges are being sponsored by, professional baseball teams are being sponsored by. And this is like death in a vial. It's like an opioid, Adderall and ecstasy all in one. And you take it and you just feel for the first time pain-free, you feel free.
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But what they don't tell you is the withdrawal symptoms from this is you can get addicted to it within three days and then have visceral intense withdrawals where your body's dependent on it and you actually need it to keep going. And this is the same thing with opioid crisis, heroin, all these different things. And after my surgery, I got on opioids and then I had such a
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an addictive personality naturally that led me to when the opioid prescription went out, led me to the feel freeze. And then it was the same addictive qualities and withdrawal qualities. So I couldn't get off it when I wanted to had to go to recovery, recovery worked immediately. I was there for a week and got off all of it, but people have a much harder time and it's ruining lives.
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So yeah, there is now substances you can get over the counter that are sponsoring athletes that are absolutely terrible for you.