For all of the time the tens millions of fans spend watching football every week, very few truly understand the grueling toll it takes on the bodies and souls of the people who play it.

Eben Britton shares his journey from enduring early family chaos and alcoholism to becoming an NFL starter along the offensive line and what happened after he walked away in this honest Living 4D conversation.

Learn more about Eben on his website and social media via YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. Listen to his podcast, The Eben Flow, wherever you download your podcasts.

Timestamps

• Professional football: A ballet of violence. (6:00)
• Eben discovers a new and safer healing modality on IR: Cannabis. (19:12)
• Playing left guard in the NFL is like having fist-fights in phonebooths. (23:31)
• Eben is done with playing professional football until… (34:21)
• The end of Eben’s NFL career is punctuated by taking Adderall. (42:00)
• “I realized pretty quickly I had no skills whatsoever to relate to people or to myself.” (53:00)
• Eben learns that he comes from a long line of medicine men, Shamans and witches. (1:02:31)
• The truth of the warrior. (1:15:30)
• Eben’s first steps toward rewiring his consciousness and recalibrating his nervous system. (1:35:02)
• How Eben untangled himself from his illusions. (1:49:58)
• “Love is the only answer that’s ever solved all of the problems I’ve encountered.” (2:06:45)
• Paul shows Eben how Life Process Alchemy works. (2:15:30)
• Key spokes in your relationship wheel. (2:29:09)

Resources

• The Eben Flow: Basic Tools to Transform Your Life by Eben Britton
• Take Your Pills on Netflix
• Eben’s tell-all What Does It Take To Stay In The NFL? You Don’t Want To Know on Medium
• The work of Jean Gebser, Arthur Young and Wolfgang Pauli
• Al-Anon
• Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Hamilton Souther
• The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent

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