Alive and Free

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 "just that messed up". (8:35)
• I can say that I feel like there's something missed in the beauty of life, in its natural form. (22:25)
• What if, by itself, without any need to improve it, just being human is one of the most glorious things we can experience. (24:30)

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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 operated the same way I do. (14:55)
• At different times in the world, goodness would have been defined differently. (18:00)
• Only when the perception change, does the reaction change. (27:05)

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The culture around addiction and mental illness today convinces you that you have a massive problem. It's fueled by your subconscious mind. And it's something you're helpless over.

But what if none of that is true?

Well, good news: It's not true.

You don't have a problem with addiction or mental health. You don't have a subconscious mind plotting against you. And you have full control over your body and mind.

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So Bob is out of town, and Lee decided to do a classic rewind of an important podcast. With one of two amazing episodes; this is from September 1, 2021, called The Body-Based Approach to Happiness, Health, and Well-being.

In our modern society, we put too much emphasis on our minds, thoughts, and feelings. The problem with this is your mind is just a fraction of your total experience of life.

In fact, your whole body is a brain. And I can prove it. Pinch your finger right now and you'll experience pain signals shooting up to your brain.

Yet, when it comes to emotional baggage, trauma, addictions, and other mental ailments, we forget about the body and hyperfocus on the mind.

If you want to permanently free yourself from these mental diseases, you have to first start in your body. Ancient cultures from all over the world knew how to do this. But we forgot how to do it in our modern world.

In this episode, I'm revealing how a body-based approach to happiness, health, and well-being is more effective than any therapist could hope to be. Listen now.

Show highlights include:

• The strange way laws prevent therapists from helping you as much as they could (4:09)
• Why therapy and counseling can only help a fraction of your mental health problems (even if it feels like they're working) (14:33)
• How chanting mantras can actually make your anxiety, depression, and even schizophrenia subside (17:11)
• Why using your body is the single best way to eliminate all your mental and emotional baggage forever (19:32)
• How to teach your body freedom so you can erase mental health problems, addictions, and even chronic pain from your life (28:38)

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Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

Comas aren't always, lights out and unconscious for a long time. Sometimes it's just the lack of energy from overstimulation. And in today's world, there's a lot of it. Today we'll talk about it more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Everything you see is changing the tension patterns in your body, and that's going to change your perspective of things. (8:00)
• When you prime your system with; something's gone wrong and we have to find the mystery, you unconsciously live your life that way. What entertains you, trains you. (13:05)
• When you do something unconsciously, it seems like you don't experience it. (20:35)
• Instead of wondering why there's little energy to do things, maybe, just maybe, It's being used to process everything you see. (28:00)

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The breath has been studied many times over for years. All the little tips and tricks can help understand the breath. But mastering it comes for paying attention to how it feels to you. Today, we'll talk about the breath. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• People tend to try to master breathing by only thinking about breathing in certain regards or certain breathing practices instead of understanding the nature and depth of what breath really is. (6:30)
• The best place to start, in terms of mastering the breath, is to pay attention to it. How are you breathing during the day? (8:40)
• How are you breathing? And when you consciously slow it down, what changes? (14:25)
• You're never going to see the link in how you're breathing and what you're doing and how you're feeling, until you pay attention. (26:50)

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Not everything is purely psychological. The biology of a person has a lot to do with their emotions, their thoughts and their moods. So, connection the biology to the psychology can be a key experience to letting go of trauma and addiction.

Highlights:

• I'm taking my years and years of experience understanding how the mind and body are intertwined, to bring the mind and the body together too un-stitch all of the quilted patterns of misery that people have stitched to themselves over the course of their lives. (12:50)
• There's nothing wrong with allowing breath work to happen, but why not let it happen on purpose? Why not be deliberate with how you use the breath? (14:05)
• I hold people in this spot, teetering on the edge of play and challenge and discomfort, back and forth to where they can't keep holding on to their old reasons to suffer. And somewhere in the middle of it, the magic happens. (27:05)
• The key understanding is that people's thoughts and feelings come from their biology. (33:50)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

Recovery shouldn't take forever. There's no reason for you to be an addict, or a recovering addict, for a majority of your life. Today we're gonna talk about that a little more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• If you are not able to live a life free of that thing, and happy, and more capable than you were before, then it doesn't deserve the title of a rehab center. (4:00)
• I've often compared it to being chased by a rabid dog; you always have to stay one step ahead and you can't stop. (6:55)
• If it takes 30 years to overcome something that can happen in days, weeks, or months, then whoever's running that program, doesn't have a clue about it. (11:20)
• How closely have you paid attention to the small things, and how well have you trained yourself to recover. (14:20)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

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Knowing that there are more than the 5 senses you were taught throughout your childhood, let's talk about another one. Today we're going to talk about the sense of self. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Humans use a sense of self as a way to navigate the world of society and as a way of motivating ourselves. (9:00)
• We talk about ourselves as if that's who we are all the time, but really, that's something that is altered. (13:25)
• That self is whatever I've identified as me. It has to do with experiences I've collected, or had powerful emotional responses to, or the things that have felt "important". (18:45)
• This search for who you are, is what a lot of people are on. (27:05)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

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We live in such an immense world. The belief that humans are a superior race and are built to rule all is not true just because we've invaded everything. Today we'll talk more about what's going on in not our world, and what we're missing. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• We are so dependent on our eyes, We are so dependent on our eyes because they are the most delicate of our senses. (4:00)
• Across the board, humans aren't really doing much difference, except in terms of quality. (13:20)
• There is something that we're calling life that is massively varied, all of which is experiencing itself in a variety of ways that we humans can't even understand and yet we have the hubris to believe that we are the reason for all of it and that we are more important and better than the rest of it when there's so many places where we fall short and so many things we do not see. (15:30)
• There's so much that we don't understand about reality, so much that we are missing because our senses are set up to help our species survive the way that this species does. (18:05)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.