Alive and Free

Here's something that will make you challenge everything you believe you know:

The real reason why there's so much anxiety, or depression, or pain, or frustration, or stress, or fear, or anger in your life is NOT because something's broken inside you. Or because something's "wrong" with you.

The real reason is because you probably never trained in conflict. So when conflict shows up, you do your best and exhibit the above emotions.

And you know what?

By training yourself in conflict, you can figure out how to be free of conflict. You can even find joy in conflict, and banish these nasty emotions without any other work or effort.

And this creates a freedom to feel joy surge through your body at every moment in the day.

In this episode, you'll discover how to unlock this kind of freedom inside of conflict and live the rest of your life in immense joy.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include:

• The oddball "narrate your life" trick for never getting road rage again (1:54)
• The "Martial Arts for Healing" method for erasing your trauma through roughhousing and play fighting (9:16)
• Why the root cause of all your suffering is from conflict (and how you can create freedom and joy inside conflict) (10:10)
• The "pride is punched" secret for unlocking joy even when you're being physically attacked (12:21)
• How taking blame for the conflicts you find yourself in liberates you from them (16:19)
• The "Functional Meditation" technique I reveal at retreats which lets you bring a meditative quality to everyday life (21:08)

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.

Labels and diagnoses, from ADHD to codependency and every one in between, usually limits your potential.

For example, I recently discovered that I probably have ADHD. But since I never labeled myself as ADHD or have gotten an official diagnosis that I have ADHD, it's been a super power for me instead of a way to victimize myself.

The problem is, most people don't operate like this. They get labeled an addict, then falsely believe that they're an addict forever. It strips the power from them instead of empowering them.

The solution?

Challenge all of your narratives, even the ones you created. Because there's a chance you're limiting yourself instead of tapping into your natural super powers.

In this episode, you'll discover how to challenge your narratives and unlock the pent-up super powers you already have inside you.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include:

• The counterintuitive way creating habits to get into a "flow state" can leave you more distracted and less productive (0:51)
• Why the ADHD population is the most underserved community on Earth (and how to use it as an unfair advantage for life) (5:34)
• How thinking of your ADHD as "otherabled" lets you unlock the super powers it can give you (7:58)
• Why the mentality of modern education makes you think your strengths are weaknesses (10:09)
• The insidious way labeling yourself gives you a negative perception of yourself that lasts for decades (11:34)
• Why taking a problem solver test (like the Kolbe test) gives you a better insight into how you operate through life than a personality test (20:40)
• How starting your day by creating a "Not To Do" list can boost your productivity and make your happiness soar (25:38)

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.

The concept of "healing" might sound appealing, but it's actually a dangerous trick in disguise. Why? Well, it means you have to believe something is wrong with you in the first place, otherwise healing would never interest you.

And when you let healing lure you in like a worm on a fishing rod it can actually create more misery, shame, and suffering.

But it doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to "fix" or "heal" anything. Instead, you could just be done with that "masterpiece" of your life, and start painting a brand-new canvas, free from your past mistakes and trauma.

How do you do this?

In this episode, I reveal the counterintuitive way to stop judging yourself for your past, and how this unveils a new beauty in life.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• How diving deep into art forces you to see the hidden beauty in life (1:29)
• The insidious "fix me" trap you can fall into on your healing journey which actually heightens your misery (6:53)
• The "Masterpiece" mindset shift for becoming oddly grateful for your past traumas, addictions, and suffering (9:04)
• How writing your own eulogy can help you set down the worst things from your past and start a new life (16:27)
• Do you shame yourself for your mistakes? Here's why celebrating them instead frees you from them instead of imprisoning you to them (24:32)

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.

There's an invisible world living beneath your skin. It controls your emotions, mood, cravings, and can even alter your entire personality.

What's this invisible world that can hijack your very experience of life itself?

Parasites!

Now, I don't say this to creep you out or give you a reason to shift blame onto these nasty single cell organisms, but to offer you hope:

Whatever you're dealing with now that's lowering your quality of life, could be the result of parasites. And that is empowering because there are things you can do to rid yourself of these parasites.

In this episode, you'll discover how much control parasites have over your body, your feelings, your thoughts, and more. And I reveal some simple (and some complicated) ways to rid yourself of these life-lowering parasites.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• Why your cravings are actually caused by parasites living underneath your skin (5:57)
• "The Last of Us" problem infecting the human species in real life right now (7:43)
• How certain organisms can grow within the human system and literally hijack your body to do their bidding (11:53)
• Are your mood changes because of you? Here's why they could be the result of parasites… (14:07)
• The weird "Tapeworm" story which shows you the massive impact single cell organisms have on your personality and experience of life (16:35)
• The "Gut Microbiome" secret for giving yourself an entirely new and improved personality (18:06)
• How "Buddha Mice" get rid of all their fears and insecurities (and how you can too) (20:44)
• How to have a grounded and practical spiritual experience (no matter what your religion is—or lack thereof) (29:01)
• A simple question to ask yourself when you're craving unhealthy food that instantly obliterates your cravings (34:39)

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.

A while back, Jasmine and I considered ending our marriage. At the time, I was in a weird depressive funk, which is no place to decide on what to do in a relationship.

Now, I wasn't depressed, but I was stuck. I didn't know what the point of life was. And I lost all motivation. So, I decided to try ketamine therapy.

Well, I discovered a ton of interesting insights throughout my 6 session ketamine therapy, including how it accelerated these feelings of disillusionment I was feeling.

In this episode, I reveal my insights, so you can decide if ketamine therapy can work as an accelerant for your life too.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• Thinking about trying ketamine therapy? Here's how to decide if it makes sense for you (10:55)
• Why being in a weird depressive funk where you lose all motivation is a crucial step towards complete bliss (14:51)
• How disillusionment allows your life to move forward without your ego, personality, or any other baggage getting in your way (16:39)
• How resistance to new situations can masquerade itself as anger (21:22)
• Why the biggest obstacle and source of judgment in your life is your own name (22:24)
• How to use ketamine therapy as an accelerant for overcoming difficult life problems (and why ketamine therapy alone may not help) (24:33)
• The "Positive Trauma" secret for swapping out your suffering with joy (35:40)

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.

Do you want to be a victim of your own memory?

The unfortunate truth is, while unwilling to admit it, most people kind of like being a victim of their memory.

Why?

Well, it's comfortable and it absolves you of responsibility for things that happened in your life that you didn't like. But it comes with a steep cost:

When you're a victim of your own memory, you cannot live every moment of your life in complete joy. Your past traumas and suffering haunt you relentlessly. And it fills you with misery.

Here's the good news:

You can stop being a victim of your own memory—as soon as today. All it requires is questioning your memories, and the stories you told yourself about those memories.

And in this episode, you'll discover how to challenge your memories—even your most traumatizing ones—and delete them from your "code."

Want to live every moment of your life in complete bliss, free from your past (and your future)?

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• How treating life like one big, fat joke relieves your stress and boosts your joy (even during tough times) (0:53)
• The too-obvious observation that sounds silly but gives you a life jacket that can pull you out of anxiety and depression (2:03)
• Why questioning your thoughts about the future can instantly suffocate your suffering (4:15)
• The insidious way "pasting" and "futuring" puts your misery on steroids (5:55)
• How to make yourself grateful for annoying problems that pop up in your life like blowing a tire (6:42)
• Why embracing freedom can transform what would've been an anxiety-inducing situation into a fun experience (8:04)
• How you can literally "rewrite" your past and delete your traumas from your psyche with the GPS technique (11:25)
• The "memory doesn't exist" mindset shift for freeing yourself from a haunting past (12:05)
• Why your memories are set up in your brain to predict future things—not accurate representations of your past (and how this enables you to experience bliss in every moment) (25:20)

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

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.

In the Buddhist religion, masters would tell their students that if they saw the Buddha, they should kill him.

Why?

Well, the authorities that you revere are your last obstacle towards achieving true freedom. If you're still letting them influence you, you're not using your own eyes and ears, which can lead you down a path of judgment and suffering.

By "killing the Buddha," you become the author in your life, with the ability to change your life's experience from negative and dark to positive and vibrant.

In this episode, we're discussing the last "Adventure" of my new book, Built for Freedom. You'll discover how to kill the Buddha, how to unlock an endless source of joy, and how to leave all your suffering in the past.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• The "Kill the Buddha" secret for finally overcoming your final obstacle towards achieving real freedom (1:19)
• The insidious way idealizing someone subconsciously creates negative experiences of life for you (even if the person you idealize has improved your life) (4:17)
• Why pursuing happiness will always keep it just out of reach (and how to make it naturally arise inside you instead) (6:11)
• The "Happiness Happens" mindset shift to stop chasing approved from others and unlock blissful peace (7:53)
• How to radically change the way you see yourself for the rest of your days by reading this book (19:48)
• Why the only thing standing in your way of unlocking ultimate joy and peace in your life is simply learning a few basic (and fun) skills (21:58)

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.

We have several tour guides throughout our lives. Our parents, our teachers, our mentors, and our friends. When used correctly, these tour guides steer you down creating your own path, and becoming an experitus.

But the problem many people face is that they lose their own experiences in the process of bouncing from tour guide to tour guide.

The result?

Your tour guides become stumbling blocks, introducing more pain and suffering into your life instead of freeing you from it.

But at some point, life's all on you.

And, as you'll discover in today's episode, that's great news. Because it means you—and you alone—have the power to change your life, replace your negativity with positivity, and experience true freedom and joy.

Want to know the secret for becoming your own experitus and watching your freedom and joy jump through the roof?

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• The "expert of your life" mindset tweak for instantly boosting your self-esteem and joy (2:25)
• The special "BBP Experience" which trumps every other kind of experience and enables you to get rid of decades of trauma in 4 days (3:01)
• How learning from "experts" actually makes it harder to internalize the lesson (and what to do instead) (4:36)
• Why you don't actually learn from your experiences unless you do this key thing afterwards (11:51)
• The "Experience Over Thinking" secret for resetting your mental habits and changing your default state from negativity to positivity (15:46)
• How "aha moments" and brilliant insights are the true enemies to making actual change (17:28)

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.

"What entertains you, trains you." It's a pithy quote I've repeated often on this show, but there's also hardcore scientific evidence that proves this phenomenon is true.

For example, in science, there's what's known as the placebo effect, and the nocebo effect. Both of these phenomenons prove that your thoughts can alter your reality—both in positive and negative ways.

Here's what that means for you in your life:

You are in the driver's seat. You have complete control over the experiences you want to have. And the experiences you don't want to have. You just have to pay attention to what's training you.

Take suffering for example. It's not a fact of life, but it happens. And it's an option. But most people don't realize there are other options available too.

In this episode, we dive into the 8th chapter from my brand-new book, and reveal how much control you have over your thoughts and feelings. And how to pick more positive options instead of drowning in your suffering.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include:

• The "Placebo/Nocebo Effect" for bending reality to your will and unlocking a deeper sense of peace (1:18)
• The weird reason why your own name can cause your trauma to attack you (2:12)
• How social institutions subtly brainwash you to hyperfocus on negative things instead of looking for the positive things we're surrounded by (6:11)
• Why your thoughts alone about a past experience can morph it from a positive one to a negative one (and vice versa) (10:44)
• How physiological experiences can wipe out lifelong trauma in mere minutes (10:59)
• The scientific mechanism which proves—beyond a shadow of a doubt—that your thoughts change the way your body operates (14:07)
• The strange "religion as a technology" secret for feeling better and even living longer (17:03)

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.

There are a lot of similarities between pain (even chronic pain) and emotions. But the most important similarity is this:

Your pain and emotions are an opinion!

This fact is backed by the leading neuroscientist on pain research. And it's great news.

Why?

Because opinions can be challenged! And by challenging your opinions, you can stop decades-long depression and chronic pain in its tracks.

In this episode, you'll discover why pain is just an opinion your brain has, and how this makes it easier to overcome your pain.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include:

• How to take control of your experience with chronic pain (without relying on painkillers, therapy, or physical therapy) (1:23)
• The "Pain in your Brain" secret for significantly reducing the pain you feel in your body almost immediately (3:36)
• The weird way even watching a hammer smashing a hand on TV can cause low level aches in your hand (and how to use this "power" to eliminate your pain) (4:42)
• Why a clinical neuroscientist believes that pain you feel is 100% made up in your brain (8:19)
• How to reverse 7 years of excruciating back pain by getting punched in the back (11:13)
• The scientific explanation behind why chronic pain isn't actually "pain" (and how this helps you get rid of it for good) (12:04)
• Why tickling the side of your face can clam even the most debilitating headaches (17:42)

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.