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

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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)

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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)
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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)

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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)

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Amber joins us today for an insider's look at what really goes on at a rehab center. From the schedule, to the therapy, to the classes, there’s lots to talk about, including why the success rates are as low as they are across the board and what can be done to turn that around. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• So alcohol became an escape, and at a certain point it became a catastrophe. (6:40)
• Why is it called recreational therapy, why not just play? (17:25)
• The thing I’ll say is that therapy got me through. It didn’t get me over my troubles, but it got me through. (31:10)
• Everything that you encounter in your life is going to change the function and neurology and synaptic patterns and everything else going on inside you. Pinning that on addiction only is a bit dishonest. (39:35)
• I’m not worried about sobriety. Only addicts are worried about sobriety. I’m a human being. (44:25)

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Over the time that I have been building and running my business, there have been a good number of arguments made against me and why anything I do won't work. So, today we'll just run over a few of them. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Therapists consider it unethical to get peoples hopes up and say that it’s possible to get over depression and anxiety without medication. (7:25)
• People argue that I’m not a licensed therapist and I say, I know. Thats why I can do what I do. (10:10)
• Doctors are too busy labeling what’s happening instead of seeing what’s there. (29:35)
• There’s things that we can do with stuff that we can see, taste, touch and smell. There’s nothing we can do with a theory. As soon as you believe that theory is real, then it’s a fight against a phantom. (31:20)

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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