Alive and Free

After the 2024 Miami GP, Lando Norris gains his first win and declares his love to everybody. Now, after a grueling two hour race, he probably felt relieved and wasn't actually feeling "love". Today, we're going to talk about this more. Have a listen. Highlights: In that moment, was he really feeling love? (10:15) Feelings of love and kindness are a direct result of the state that the body is in,...

This one's for the women. A man's "addiction" to pornography doesn't mean that there is something wrong with you or that you need to change. It is just the way that his body has found to cope with his discomfort. We're going to talk about this more today. Have a listen. Highlights: Because the "addiction" is no longer sexual, we look at; what are they coping with? (15:50) Depression, shame, and gu...

If you're going to get help with something, at least get good help. Ruminating on the problem won't solve it, so find someone or something that looks at the source, not the symptom. We'll talk about this more today. Have a listen. Highlights: Do you really want validation on your trauma? (5:20) If you don't want things to continue down their current path, validation will not get you to another pla...

Therapy is not really as useful as it seems. In reality, therapy gets you to just ruminate on thoughts and situations that are no longer useful to you. Instead of spending time pouting about it, learn from it and move on. Today, we're going to talk about that more. Have a listen. Highlights: When going to some form of entertainment, the emotional controls are almost willfully set aside for the enj...

Money isn't the source of happiness and problems in life. It might just be some warning lights on your dashboard of life. Today, we'll talk about this more. Have a listen. Highlights: You're thinking of this creeping up debt as a problem, when all that's happened in the past is that a new solution to the problem has been found. (3:10) The money in your wallet might be a monster. (8:30) Life is the...

Biology, evolution, science, and religions are all great and can be useful tools in life. But they shouldn't interfere with your experience. We live in the present, the now. Not 100, not 500, not 5000 years ago. Today we're going to talk about this more. Have a listen. Highlights: There isn't a bodiless it out there, like god, that is saying; "this is the case and you must accept it". But because...

FAIRO is an acronym for "false ah-ha's impersonating real ones". Meaning that when an ah-ha moment comes up, no time is wasted in assuming it is the answer and not just an observation. Today we're going to talk about this more. Have a listen. Highlights: There's danger in assuming that an ah-ha moment is the truth. (7:55) The ah-ha moment is the moment when you've conceptualized the world into an...

Today we're going to do a little bit of a play by play of a book that I recently read. But as we talk, find what's useful, and keep it. then toss the rest out. Have a listen. Highlights: There are humans so busy suffering and chasing power, money, prestige and all the other things that they end up killing each other for it. (3:05) I was making all kinds of claims, but I found a lot of frustration...

Everyday bliss. Just being in a space where you can enjoy running your body, from just being alive. Not having to operate from a place of constant tension. We're going to talk about that more today. Have a listen. Highlights: When talking about a life, it isn't the big things that I'm talking about. It's how do you open the car door, cut food, talk to your spouse, it's all the little things. (8:10...

Proprioception can be often thought of how you perceive your physical situation, but it goes a lot deeper than that. It is how you perceive yourself in any situation. Proprioception is how you catch yourself in the act of living. We're going to talk about this in depth today. Have a listen. Highlights: The prediction is made first, and only if the prediction is wrong, is more energy spent trying t...

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 th...

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...

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...

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.  I...

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...

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...

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-sti...

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 bein...

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 somethin...

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...

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 e...

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 nev...

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...

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 mak...

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...