Alive and Free

Today, we're going to think about what's really going on when you tell somebody that your day was good, or when you feel sad. Although it might seem like just a simple feeling, there's more to it than that. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• They were creating stories about how they were marred when in reality they weren't, and that goes back to, what are we creating with our own thoughts. (11:50)
• These experiences are built out of a brain that's just pulling information from the body that it happens to be sitting in. (14:25)
• It's a lot easier to live in a world where you already know what's going on. (35:25)
• Emotions are not a reflection reality at all, it is your brain's best guess about how it should respond to the situation. (37:45)

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Lee had the question; what is a human? A big bundle of nerves and tissue or some higher and wiser being on this planet? Today we'll talk more about it. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• From the very beginning, human cells are bejng supported by bacteria. (14:15)
• People are too busy saying we are meant to dominate nature, when really, we are at the mercy of nature the entire time.k (14:45)
• A human is never existent without the environment it's in. (18:20)
• If we hold our body in such a way that doesn't make viruses and bacteria the enemy, what could be possible? (30:00)
• Human is a category, but what does it mean to be you? (37:00)

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Today we're talking a little about an experience we had with the human nervous system. Maybe we'll get on somebody's nerves a little, maybe not. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• This whole collection of nerves is providing your human experience. (4:15)
• Even as he's dead, he treats him with the utmost respect. (13:00)
• The identification of one's self with the body, on one level, creates a possibility for experience, but on another level, it creates a trap inside that experience. (29:30)
• The whole nervous system was almost mapped out like a tree. (31:30)

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With all the clamoring voices declaring the latest health fads and superfoods, so many of which seem to be in contradiction to each other, how is one to know what to do? Do we follow the simple advice of Michael Pollan (Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.)? Or do we micro measure every morsel for optimum productivity and neurological function? Lots to discuss, and, as always, with an eye to making things simpler. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Nowadays you can walk into almost anywhere and see the teenagers have all the signs of being youthful, but there's something off with their physique. (5:50)
• There are a lot of experts today that claim to know what health is. But when I step back and look at it, it just seems to be that what we're claiming health is, is really distorted. (9:25)
• People define freedom as the ability to do whatever you want to do, but I've suggested the following definition; that freedom is the ability to not do what you don't want to do. (21:29)
• It doesn't have so much to do with your genetics, but the way you learned to eat. So if you change the way you eat, you can actually change what the outcomes are. (32:55)

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With the crazy season upon us, don't let that be something to take the happiness away. So many people feel they have more responsibility and expectations on them because of the chaos of holidays. Today we'll talk about that more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Everybody has expectations for a holiday when they don't have expectations for an average Tuesday. (2:50)
• With traditions, is this the kind of experience that you want to have, or are you just putting yourself on autopilot and trying to knuckle through the holiday? (8:25)
• It's almost like saying, "take a holiday from the holiday". (27:30)
• The holidays are a chance for everyone to catch their breath, not just one person. (31:25)

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I periodically get people asking me if we do couples' counseling. While we have worked with a number of couples, it's usually one at a time. So I decided to bring on a guest whose approach to bringing what she calls "everyday eroticism" into a marriage that still has to wash the dishes and get the kids off to school, might just be what turns the tides for you. Alexandra Stockwell, MD, is an author, physician, and personal coach turned relationship guide and is here to share her wisdom. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Understanding gives you enough framework to feel safe to have different experiences. (6:55)
• People don't honor the "I just knew" piece enough. It's a feeling in your system, it's not an intellectual problem with a person, it's the only thing your body could make sense of. (8:45)
• You have no chance of creating what you want if you don't know what you want. (23:00)
• I think the way to be human is to eliminate the taboo as much as we can and be integrated with all the elements that we get to express in a marriage. (47:10)

You can find out more about Alexandra's work, her book, and her podcast at https://www.alexandrastockwell.com

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.

Fasting isn't the hungry problem that I always thought it was growing up. Although the hunger may set in at some point, it isn't a "no pain, no gain" situation.

Today, we'll talk about that more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Even though I felt great, there was nothing to show a breakthrough. (11:30)
• What if fasting is a gift to my body to finally allow it to go through its full cycle? (14:40)
• Everybody's talking about a painful death, but your body is designed to make that not happen, if at all possible. (17:50)
• If you give somebody a promise of something that they haven't experienced, they'll make believe what those words mean without realizing that those words connect to something already in their experience. (40:20)

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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What is faith? Inside of all the confusing definitions, descriptions and depictions, let's look at faith as focus. Let's see faith as where you put your attention.

Today, we'll talk about that a little more. Have a listen

Highlights:

• People ask where is god in this and the response is where do you want him to be in this? Let him be everywhere. Why does he need to be in one little pocket. (2:00)
• If your focus shifts, that doesn't mean you lack faith, it just means that you're interested in something else and your focus has shifted. (10:20)
• My focus was, I want to live a full life. The life that I feel in my bones that I came here to live. And if I put my focus there, unwavering, what might happen? (15:00)
• If you don't train your brain to focus on the things that matter to you and that build life and vitality, then how is your body going to know to do that on autopilot? (16:45)

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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Throughout the years, the biggest ingredient I've found that determines whether a person finds freedom or not is what I'll call "commitment". Not commitment in the sense of making promises, but a drive to "make this work".

That drive is what led me to my own freedom. It's not the only ingredient, but definitely one of the biggest players. So let's look at it. Could it possibly be that the main reason we fail is because we are more committed to our story, our comforts, our victimhood, our traumas, our triggers, our diagnoses, and our pains than we are to creating a life of freedom? Could that be the real obstacle?

Have a listen.

Highlights:

• I just admit that I cannot do for somebody, what only they can do for themselves. (10:10)
• To put MD after your name, makes people automatically assume that you're an expert on the subject that you're teaching. Even if that's not the case. (14:00)
• The experience we're giving is also transmitting how to live a good life from your previous one. (32:40)
• Are you willing to embrace that your feelings and thoughts could have been wrong because you're finally more committed to letting go of the pain, than being right? (36:50)

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

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Here comes the second half of Amber's inside look at what really happens inside a good rehab center. This time, we'll also discuss what else might help.

Highlights:

• Your life was built to be you. A unique expression of life on this planet that has never been here before and never will be again. (4:00)
• Most people struggle not because they're stupid and don't understand something, but because the rest of their body hasn't gotten it yet. (19:30)
• When you're taking a medication, you're inserting chemistry into your body to force that chemistry into a different space. (20:30)
• The people that are the lowest on the totem pole, they start going to other places for help. It's drinks and drugs and pornography and when they're beaten down from that, they'll find somebody else who will lift them up and in those places they're being molded until they almost form a different breed of human. (29:15)

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.