THE ED MYLETT SHOW - Stop Hiding From Yourself w/ Dr. G

Episode Date: September 12, 2023

🔥Are you NEGLECTING the MOST VALUABLE asset you have?Your Physical and Mental HEALTH is the FIREPOWER behind every dream you chase! Yet, many of us play DANGEROUS games with it, not realizing its i...mmense VALUE until the alarm bells ring🚨.Time to get REAL!That’s why I’m interviewing DR. CHRISTIAN GONZALEZ, the MASTER of HOLISTIC HEALING and a leading voice in the health revolution! Dr. G is redefining the landscape of WELLNESS, revealing SECRETS that may be EXACTLY what you need to HEAL.Your HEALTH and WELLNESS is no JOKE. Don’t wait until it’s too late to try and take control. This week, Dr. G is lighting a fire under you with GAME-CHANGING insights like:⏳ How STRESS may be causing silent DESTRUCTION.🧠 How PAST WOUNDS can be harming your PRESENT HEALTH.💔 How the unseen SCARS of emotional turmoil can cause physical damage🌱 Unlocking your body's SUPERPOWER to heal itself!🍏 Connecting what you EAT, your GUT, and your overall health.❤️ How SEX can be GOOD for your health🙏 The link between to healing EMOTIONALLY and PHYSICALLYMany of us walk around with invisible CHAINS, shutting our eyes to our own health issues… THIS EPISODE with Dr. G is your KEY to these chains!This isn't just another health talk. This is YOUR TICKET to a HEALTHIER LIFE!🔥 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is the Ed Milach Show. Welcome back to the show everybody. So this man sitting across from me, I just told him if he was a stock I'd be buying him. And I mean that he is already making huge waves in the world because his work is so profound, so impactful, so much so by the way, that, you know, I do 52 interviews a year, I'd say 50 of them are through people that have reached out to the show, and then there's a few every year where I'm just persistent to find them and get them on the show. And in this man's case, I pursued him. I wanted him here today because I believe his work can change your life.
Starting point is 00:00:39 And I think we can do that in the next hour. And so I don't even know what I'd call him. I guess I'd call him like a holistic healer of both the spirit, the mind and the body. Yeah. And his work is very diverse. It's profound. It's made a big impact on me. We could go three hours today and we have to squeeze it into an hour. So Dr. Christian Gonzalez, aka Dr. G, great to have you sitting across from me.
Starting point is 00:01:02 What an honor, man. And what a beautiful intro. This might be the best one. I feel really full, nourished, open. I'm ready to talk about it all, man. You shoot, and I'm gonna be like an old Western guy, boom, boom, boom, right from there. Right, good.
Starting point is 00:01:15 I good, because we're gonna go, I just want everybody to know, we're gonna go all over the place today because you can with him. And so there's things I'm gonna ask for me, and then there's things we're gonna ask for the audience. So let's start in the very beginning for me. I want to talk about what I'd call like energetic imprints from stages of our lives and our body. Okay. So if you grew up with trauma or anything as a child in your life, does that get imprinted into your body
Starting point is 00:01:43 and how does it manifest itself if, in fact, it does? We went right off the gate with my favorite stuff, and this is so relevant to everything. It's of relevant to physical health, it's relevant to relationships, it's relevant to business, how safe you feel in your body to express who you truly are, dictates everything. And this can't be understated. Yeah, when I was in school, we were learning so much about the physical and then mental health started coming to the surface, we talk about anxiety and depression. But we're really missing the
Starting point is 00:02:17 point about what happens as you say energetically, imprinting when we're young. Ultimately, what happens is we are free children. You know, if I had a home video of you from, whenever you were five years old, guaranteed you to do a tantrum. People, parents out there, you got kids, you know your kids are throwing a tantrum. And it's because when we're children,
Starting point is 00:02:40 we have that stimulus and there's no filter. It's full expression. When we're hungry, we have that stimulus and there's no filter. It's full expression. When we're hungry, we cry or we go, mom, I want food right now. We poop when we need to poop, we cry, we need to cry, we get angry and we have that energy moving through us. Energetic imprints or construction of our true authentic expression happen at a young age right around the age of six or seven when our brain waves change. And this is going to become more autonomous in our ego.
Starting point is 00:03:07 So parents out there, if you have a six or seven year old, you're going to hear your kid going, now more, I want to do this. No, I want to, I want to climb the tree now. I want to choose my outfit now. It's because the ego is being developed. This isn't by mistake. We need to go through life with a sense of self identity. So we know who we are relative to other people.
Starting point is 00:03:26 And this is how we grow and we survive. But when we grow up in a household, where the normalization of our experience is trauma, generational trauma, when we have a father who has his own father wound, it doesn't know how to handle his own anger. So we hold it and hold it and hold it in and then blows up in the whole house is scared. So that's familiar. Right? Sounds very familiar. A lot of men out there know exactly what I'm talking about. Or when we have a mother who is just completely on edge crying all the time and then angry all the time and we don't feel safe around the feminine, what does that say when we're
Starting point is 00:03:57 children and we can't express who we are? Ultimately, what happens is this. We sacrifice our authentic expression, those tantrums, the crying, all the things we needed to do for safety. Because this is evolutionarily imprinted in us. We need to survive. We need food. We're going to conform to the norms of the household, even if it's not healthy, in order to survive. So we begin to hold back. Instead of being angry, we know, okay, now we're at the age of six or seven, we have that consciousness, that egoic part of us there. When dad gets mad, mom gets this, the whole house is not good. My brother cries, my sister cries, we go to our rooms. It's not good. I shouldn't show my anger.
Starting point is 00:04:36 This is the rationalization we make. That's the energetic imprint. We now, we can to repress that and compensate with something else like people pleasing, for example. We now begin to repress that and compensate with something else like people pleasing for example So now this is when we see teenagers young adults adults, you know, you ever meet the people who They're just really nice, but you're like this. They're like kind of too nice. You don't feel very comfortable because they're super like Yes anxious nice. Yes. Those people are just angry deeply angry and have not confronted that deep emotional repression of anger because they
Starting point is 00:05:05 never felt safe. They weren't safe to do it in their home. Of course, they're not safe to do it in school. Of course, they're not safe to do it in their college and their marriage all throughout life. And this is what happens. That affects relationships, business, physical manifestation of health, everything. And it's not just anger.
Starting point is 00:05:21 It's every emotion. Whatever it was safe or unsafe in your house Begins to be repressed or express and dictates your persona your egoic mask through your whole life Okay, I want to stay on that here. We go you guys. I told you we're right out of the gate So there's been some talk about how that does Show up in our personality but chronic people please you could actually be angry your work though struck me that it actually can show up in the body later in life as an illness or an ailment or a soreness in the body, inflammation in the body. I want everyone to really listen to what I'm about to ask in his answer
Starting point is 00:05:56 year. I've thought, and by the way, this is an over generalization, okay. My dad died relatively young of cancer, relatively young for a very healthy man. And I look at other friends of mine who have had health ailments younger than what I would think should happen in a body. Most of them come from not, I don't know what we call not normal, but some trauma, stress, something at some point in their life or childhood. So would you talk about the part of these imprints or emotions or trauma emotionally manifesting itself
Starting point is 00:06:33 in the physical? I wanna go to the physical part for a minute because there's a lot of people that go, man, my back's sore all the time. And I think it's because they sit in their seat, or man, I chronically have headaches or whatever it might be in their life. And you really believe that to some extent, this can be emotional stuff showing up physically in the body,
Starting point is 00:06:53 correct? Yeah, absolutely. We need to bridge things, right? Because we can be conventional, and we can be physically based, and we can look at Newtonian physics, right? Where we just see, this is the manifestation of physical universe. Yeah. But we know the body's energetic. Okay. So how do we bridge that?
Starting point is 00:07:11 Right. You know, dispense it does some awesome stuff with quantum physics. So what we need to bring is more clarity and simplicity. And this is about my like, listen, I ain't the smartest guy in the world. I just need simplicity to understand, okay, now it makes sense. So I want to simplify, if we look at upstream, there's a fountain head. And that's the energetic. You have to have your energetic emotional body aligned.
Starting point is 00:07:35 If not, there's a compensation that happens like the people pleasing or addiction or OCD or anxious attachment of winning attachment, the mental disorders we see that are downstream due to the emotional repression. And then the physical happens. When you're holding in so much for so long, we see the expression of that in physical. What has that happened? Okay, we know in evidence, let's talk, for example, cancer.
Starting point is 00:07:59 And that was my specialty. I did my residency in oncology. I know my mom died of cancer when I was in school. I know a lot about this. And in the evidence, we know diet, obesity, right? We know alcohol, smoking, all the things that we need to remove from our lives to put ourselves in a good state. We know the genetic piece is small, about 10% or less. But they say stress. Stress is a very ambiguous term. This's physical stress. If you and I are working out seven days a week all day, we're going to be physically
Starting point is 00:08:29 stressed, especially as we get older. It's not a hormetic stress anymore. And then there's the chemical stress. If we walk into a building that has as best as our body is going to be chemically stressed. But then what about the mental stress? People just go, I'm stressed. What does that mean? If you show up at home and you go, honey, I'm stressed.
Starting point is 00:08:46 Well, what I hear is, okay, you're stressed, but there's something deeper. You're stressed because there was an emotion that wanted to be expressed that you didn't allow or feel safe enough to express. So if they go, I'm stressed, well, why? My boss yelled at me, okay, well, why? Well, I actually wanted to yell back,
Starting point is 00:09:01 but I couldn't, because I'd get fired. What happens is when we hold and hold and hold and hold, our nervous system becomes burdened. Where does that translate into the fascia? The fascia's all around the muscles. It's sort of the deeper skin that we have. It's aligning all around, it encases everything. This is why when we are tense or stressed,
Starting point is 00:09:22 it's a full body situation. It's full, we feel it all over the body. When we have a or stressed, it's a full body situation. It's full, we feel it all over the body. When we have a headache, we feel it in the back of our head, but also there's tightness in our chest. It's because there's one piece of energetic fabric that translate electro-magnetically. It's not electrochemical, it's electro. So meaning that it's faster than the speed of light.
Starting point is 00:09:42 It's the same thing that keeps us safe in our environment. Our fascia is scanning the environment to see if we're safe. So if we grow up in a home that is not safe, our fascia is super activated, connectative to our nervous system, the emotional centers on our brain, knowing that if we smell a perfume,
Starting point is 00:09:56 if we smell a scent, our fascia contracts, what happens when we're contracted state? That tension puts a burden on our nervous system over and over and over. We're going to perpetually sympathetic state. Yes. Well, now we're thinking how that affects nervous systems to hormone, nervous system to immune. Now we're starting to see the physical manifestation. Do you think I'm going out there on a limb, but do you think that it can turn on gene expressions? Of course. So, meaning that we've all got this cancer gene in our body, but this type of stress
Starting point is 00:10:23 inflammation, whatever it might, can prematurely turn those expressions on. Exactly. So we're talking upstream now. We're talking at the fascial level, when it's communicating to your nervous system about not feeling safe. Downstream, we're starting to see that inflammatory state. When you have your quarters all really high, okay, great,
Starting point is 00:10:41 and then it dips really low. Epinephrine is really high. You're running away from a lion that doesn't even exist. Not for a day, but for a year, for two years, for three years, that's depleting your hormones, your immune system susceptible to infection. But you just mentioned gene expression.
Starting point is 00:10:57 Our genes are listening to our state of our body. If we're not made to run away from a lion every single day, but if our genes are getting that signal, they're turning on very specific proteins to protect or adapt to that state that we're in. Now, we're talking about the physical manifestation. That's downstream. That's years from you repressing emotions. When you are repressing the emotions, we're talking about years upstream.
Starting point is 00:11:21 So ultimately, the bigger question is this, how do we prevent disease? Now this isn't going to say, if you release your repressed anger, you're not going to get cancer. There's many different factors, cancers, multifactorials, or other diseases. Eat healthy. Do all the things, the working out, have close relationships, but my God, if you're doing all those things and not even looking out what you're holding in your body, you are missing the whole point of what it means to be healthy. How does somebody use the term, by the way, I'm already loving this and we're going to go a little long, I can just feel it. You talk about building a relationship with your body. That's a term that you use. What does that mean? Does that mean just pay attention to what you're feeling in
Starting point is 00:11:58 your body? Does it mean like I never do that until it's really bad? I'm like, man, my shoulders jacked right now. Of course. But I'm sure it was tense or sore for's really bad. I'm like, man, my shoulders jacked right now. Of course. But I'm sure it was tense or sore for a long time. I'm just busy, stressed, whatever it might be. As I've gotten older and I've started to do a little bit more yoga and stretching and breathing techniques, meditation, I feel like I've started to do what I think is build a relationship with my body, but what does it mean for you? And you are.
Starting point is 00:12:23 And you are. The, to be healthy is to be embodied, which you can't be embodied till you're in your body. We disconnect from our body, you were in your body, everyone around and everyone listening was fully in their body when there were kids. That's why we got the stimulus, expression without fear, and then we just went on.
Starting point is 00:12:42 And when we dropped our toy into a ravine and we lost it forever, we cried and we cried. And then When we dropped our toy into a ravine and we lost it forever, we cried and we cried. And then one hour later, we got a new toy or we're eating lunch and we forget about it. Why do we stick and stick and stick and still think about things? What happens is our ego so smart, our ego so smart, our identity so smart, it keeps us away from the pain in our body. Our body is always trying to heal. You know that, if you cut your knee, we just expect it to heal.
Starting point is 00:13:10 We are the ones that pick the proverbial, emotional scar, the wound, every time we protect ourselves from expressing. And we are always presented with these experiences through life to express it. This is why angry people attract angry situations. Sad people attract situations that make them wanna cry, but you keep swallowing it. This is why angry people attract angry situations. Sad people attract situations that make them want to cry, but you keep swallowing it. Well, what happens?
Starting point is 00:13:29 When we pull away from the body, pull our awareness away from the body and we go into our head. We're in these cycles of distraction, right? We are always picking up our phone. The sex addiction is back. The workaholic is back. The addiction to use is back. The anxiety, I can't be home, I can't be by myself. It's because subconsciously, we know that when we stop and when we're with ourselves, we're only left with what's in our head and then what's in our body. You see what I'm saying? And when we're in when we're alone and we finally stop what's in the head, the body does what it does best. And that's heal. We remove the dam and we allow the water to flow.
Starting point is 00:14:08 And when that water flows, it's intense. Now, we've convinced ourselves that we're going to die. Basically, whatever is in here is so painful that I can't bear to witness it, that I would actually ruin my family with addiction, ruin my family with overworking anxieties, the depression, all the things that ruin your life. Yes. We'd rather do that than feel what's inside. But what I tell you,
Starting point is 00:14:30 Oh, that's so good. What I'm telling the listeners here is that, what's inside, ain't gonna kill you. You wanna know how I know? Because you're alive. And when you were, well, you're young,
Starting point is 00:14:40 you were expressing everything and you were fine. You would express it, it's painful, it's intense, and then you move on. And on the other side of that emotion is this beautiful potential that you forgot was there. This is why when people release the emotions, when we're working together, they have all this sadness and then all this anger and then a shaking and fear and then they're angry again and then cry one more time and then oh my god, I feel light, I feel clear. Is this love? I feel love. Oh my God, I feel in love.
Starting point is 00:15:06 My feel so embodied. My body feels so good. Chinese medicine is awesome. It's been around for a long time. And they've done some great work at identifying what's where. Ultimately, if you look at Chinese medicine, they pretty much nail the emotions to the body. We know that sadness and grief is in the lungs. This is why when people are sad or they're so allowing all their emotion, they may manifest with something like asthma
Starting point is 00:15:35 or a tight chest or feel like a weight is on my chest. That's not by mistake. What I see is a lot of anger and fear is in the belly. So when, think about when you get punched in the stomach and you hold, that tension happens when you don't want to release that anger. So usually I see people with gut issues. This is why when you release those deep repressed emotions,
Starting point is 00:15:54 those physical issues downstream almost miraculously change. And I'm not, this isn't a pie in the sky. Yeah. I've seen women who are infertile for two years come and in one hour, one session, crack open that pain that's in the womb from this particular person having her boundaries crossed in college when she said no, and a month later, I get pregnant. I've seen gut issues go away, skin issues like miraculous type shit. Why? Because they're finally letting themselves be. You've even seen period pain in women.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Mentional pain become diminished when they release some of these things, correct? There's actually a court of property of that even, you believe, to some extent. And I'm saying this from the perspective of, yeah, I mean, I try to, I try to, like, I understand the pathologies that happen. I understand the mechanisms of what happened. I understand the importance of food and supplements. This was my career. Right.
Starting point is 00:16:48 And by the way, everybody, stay tuned because we're about in a minute going to turn to food, gut health, breathing, nose breathing techniques that will help you with these things. So we're about to go there, but I want to establish the basis. There's also something really interesting that you had a piece of content on. It was either podcast on your podcast, by the way, which is called Healed I Self, you guys. It was awesome. I might have been on your Instagram, I'm not sure.
Starting point is 00:17:10 But you're actually talking about physical signs that you may be in a relationship that doesn't serve you. So I just think this is like a neat thing to add to the equation because I think, I think a lot of times people are, right now, millions of people that are listening to this, some of them are like, am I in a good relationship? Should I stay in it? Is there a better one for me? Is this causing me stress?
Starting point is 00:17:29 Is it serving me? Is there a toxic element of it? This relationship, by the way, could be an intimate relationship, a friendship, the way you connect with your mom or your dad. It could be all different types of relationships, but you actually say, actually pay attention to your body when you're around these people. So this is awesome, you guys. What should say actually pay attention to your body when you're around
Starting point is 00:17:45 these people. So this is awesome, you guys. What should we be paying attention to? That's a great question, Ed. Man, this is good because everyone isn't something. Some sort of relationship, life's about relationships. And relationships are essential to nurture our overall health. We need to feel in community and connected. Ironically, many of these relationships are going to show you exactly the part of you that is unhealed. That part of you that is so repressed and unhealed,
Starting point is 00:18:13 this is why that person that we love so much that we live with shows us that mirror and gets us the most angry than anyone it ever has. It's because we often look at that mirror they show us, and instead we look past it and we start cursing them out. You're right. Stop showing me the mirror of the things that I don't want to heal that are so unsafe
Starting point is 00:18:33 for me to express in this relationship, and you're reminding me of what it was to live in the household that I did. That's essentially what happens. In so many words. So it takes a level of first, self and body awareness. You need to connect to your body and we'll go over a few things later, but there's an importance of feeling what it feels like in your truth.
Starting point is 00:18:54 What does it feel like if you put a plate of broccoli or a plate of kale in front of you? Which one does your body want? Because you need to be that in tune with your body. If you're on a first date, within five seconds, 10 seconds, you can tell if this person, if your body is open or contracting to this person. Contracting. It's all about the expansion or contraction.
Starting point is 00:19:14 Your body knows better than you before you even know that you know. There you go. And you have to be connected to that. So when you have that self-awareness and the relationship you're going to see, okay, this is something that is showing me the triggers. Can I authentically and take the full accountability of,
Starting point is 00:19:31 yeah, you know what? This is my shit. I love you. You've been calling me out and, holy shit, I am angry and it's not about you. It's the relationship with my dad and you're reminding me of my dad, the way that you say and do this. You know what I have work to do. Or, actually, I love you, but this is not my shit.
Starting point is 00:19:51 You know, this is not me, I love you, but this is yours. So are you paying attention to the tension in your body if someone's in your presence? Because I'm gonna share something with the audience that's surprised me. I heard you do that piece of work. Can't believe I'm gonna say this out loud, but it's true. I started to actually listen to my body when I was around certain people. that surprised me, I heard you do that piece of work. Came to say this out loud, but it's true.
Starting point is 00:20:05 I started actually listen to my body when I was around certain people. So like one of my really close friends, Kelly, I noticed when I'm around in my bodies at ease, I actually decided to take an inventory of physically how I feel. Obviously I laugh with them and all this other stuff, but like, I went and visited my mom right about three days
Starting point is 00:20:24 after I had viewed that piece of content. I was like, man, my body's relaxed around my mom. Yeah. Right. I have a other person in my life business wise, though, that immediately it was a zoom. Man, I got tense right away. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:39 It really tense. And then the other one shocks me, bro. When I'm alone with me, I have tension in my body. Because all that thing you said earlier is really true. And I went, I'm not comfortable with me yet. Yeah. That relationship with me really tense. Like I found myself wanting to watch that flexor get on my phone or think about a problem to distract myself
Starting point is 00:21:07 instead of just being with me. And I went, that's something to evaluate. And so everybody listening to this, how's your body respond when you're around somebody? Those of you that also are listening, here's how I've profound his work is, you go, I didn't have trauma as a kid. It can be pretty subtle. And I'm not going to have you go into this because I got I gotta ask about some solutions. But one thing you said is like, even having a little boy, which one of the worst things you can say to a little boy, stop crying. That doesn't seem like trauma when you were a kid,
Starting point is 00:21:32 but it's a form of it, right? It's a form of expression that was suppressed that gives an imprint. And I think back with my son, I did that all the time. Max, stop crying, right? Stop crying. I didn't do that with my daughter.
Starting point is 00:21:43 I did it with my son, right? I treated him differently based on their genitalia, which is insane, right? But I did do that with my son. Stop crying, Max, stop crying. And these are just things to learn. You go, I didn't have trauma as a kid. There's just imprints that happen.
Starting point is 00:21:58 There's things when you're a kid, you're playing on the playground, and someone rejects you in its embarrassing moment. That's an imprint. So to evaluate these things matters, let's talk about a little bit of some of the solutions that you recommend. And some of them we're gonna go like really based stuff,
Starting point is 00:22:13 but talk a little bit about breathing and nose breathing for a minute, because it's really made an impact on my life. And I feel when I breathe what I consider to be differently than my normal breathing pattern, I immediately transforms my physiology and it transforms my emotions. So what would you teach the audience about breathing,
Starting point is 00:22:35 how they should breathe and the importance of it? Yeah, so it's funny because when I see my clients, we have very specific breathing that I look at. Most people have their stomach fully sucked in and they're breathing all the way to the top of their chest. And if you and I go for a hike and we see a bear, the first thing we're gonna do is go, and we're gonna suck in all that air to our chest, right?
Starting point is 00:22:59 That's the sympathetic signal to our body that we're not safe. Now, how many listeners right now is your belly sucked in, right? Because you're just too afraid to just let it out in the first place. And you're breathing very shortly to your chest. Your diaphragm isn't even fully expanding. This is a first thing to just bring awareness. Are you even in a grounded state? Because if you're relaxing your belly, you're giving permission for your diaphragm to fully expand, fully contract, and you're allowing your nervous system to ground, to calm down. Think about
Starting point is 00:23:31 it this way. If your belly sucked in and you're breathing into your chest, you're running away from a lion. If your belly is relaxed, your shoulders are down and you're breathing into your belly, you're in your tent in safety or you're in your cave in safety. So good. Right. So if we use our mouth, right, oftentimes that's going to be the same thing. If we see the bear, we're going to go, we're going to suck in, if we're not going to go,
Starting point is 00:23:53 we're going to suck in all the air for my mouth and we're either going to freeze or sprint. You're a big guy, but you ain't fighting the bear. You and I are going to run real fast, right? That's right. High school track type stuff, right? So when we're breathing into the mouth and sucking all that air,
Starting point is 00:24:08 that's putting us in the sympathetic. So this is where you talk about that nose breath. The grounding is really powerful when you're breathing in and then breathing out even longer. That's a perfect way to ground yourself. Let's say you feel it. Breathe out through the mouth. No, through the nose, through the nose.
Starting point is 00:24:21 In through the nose, out through the nose. In through the nose, out through the nose, but longer out, longer exhales. That's a great way to ground yourself while paying attention to your belly, is your belly relaxed or your shoulders down. So let's say you're about to get on stage and you hate public speaking, you know?
Starting point is 00:24:37 Put some ear plugs on or go into your car, close your eyes, relax your belly, put your shoulders down, do a breathe in maybe for three and then a breathe out for six. Do that 10, 15 times. You're already going to be in a grand assay. You're going to be nervous, but not as nervous as you were. Whereas if you really want to activate yourself, suck in your stomach, breathe into your chest,
Starting point is 00:24:55 breathe, go through the mouth, suck in all this air and then breathe out shorter, long inhalation, shorter exhalations. That's a way to activate. This is why breath works. A lot of breath works. Go, go. Ah, ah, ah, right. Breathe in, short out.
Starting point is 00:25:09 Breathe in, short out. You're activating the sympathetic. Yes. And this is where we go to when emotions start moving. Because usually when there's an intense charge of emotion, we have to be in that sympathetic state, right? Like, when we're going to cry, we're not just going to be chilling and then out of nowhere cry.
Starting point is 00:25:24 We're gonna be Right, so both work most of us are in sympathetic so we really need to ground ourselves Every day like I know what work for you do it in the mornings or do it in midday, right when they're in that tornado work That's right five ten minutes. You're back to grounded. You're good for the afternoon. Brother. It's brilliant work I have to tell you that I Teach the mouth breathing and short breathing with my athletes who need to get in a peak sympathetic state to go compete or go to combat or go to whatever. But when I'm teaching people to,
Starting point is 00:25:53 we won't talk about it today, but your CRV and everything your heart and brain coherence is the type of breathing that he's describing through the nose and out through the nose again, as I really work. Now, you use the word grounding. I want to talk about literal grounding now. Most people don't even know what that term means.
Starting point is 00:26:09 But one of the things, I live at the beach, but I also fly a lot. And one of the things you recommend is actually doing actual grounding with your feet. And I think people just take the stuff for granted. But I know in my body, I really guess I am maybe becoming more into it in my body because I feel so much better. I mean, instantly when I take my shoes off and I can be outside on
Starting point is 00:26:32 the earth and I'm grounding. So can you tell them a little bit about what and by the way, might as well also add to that why inside someone's house, they shouldn't wear shoes from from health benefits. Just overall talk about having your shoes off and grounding. My brother, this is sometimes grounding is too free to believe, or it's too good to believe. But what intelligence that we are around, what body intelligence, what wisdom, that we are conductive beings and the earth literally has the things we need in order to reduce inflammation, increase our nervous system, reduce blood sugar, increase the antioxidants, brain health, balance of parasympathetic and sympathetic. Right?
Starting point is 00:27:11 Whoa, you mean to tell me my nervous system can be balanced if I put my feet on the ground? Yeah, that's the reason you feel so much better. Every morning, I take off my shoes. Every morning I'm in my front yard, there's people walking their dogs and I'm doing Tai Chi or I'm moving my body, right? Just loosening my joints and it's so important. You will find the more that you get into a grounding state if you have any of these trackers,
Starting point is 00:27:31 like your whoops or your or rings, you're going to find things are gonna get better. Your heart rate variability will get better, your sleep will get better. It's so free and so amazing. And it's not on some hippie stuff. There's evidence to this. And when you read the evidence, you're like,
Starting point is 00:27:47 whoa, like this is like day and night. Now, to contrast that, putting on shoes rubber is stopping the conductivity from the ground. Should you wear shoes at home? No, no. We know that shoes track in feces, germs, yeah. But also pests the sides. The stuff that we really need to watch out for. It's not only in feces, germs, yeah. But also pests the sides, the stuff that we really need to watch out for.
Starting point is 00:28:07 It's not only in our food, but we try, it's unfortunately all over the environment. So we're picking it up, tracking it. And there's different studies that show that there's actually not a negligible amount, but a significant amount of crap, literally, and pesticides that we bring into our home. It can be affecting our health.
Starting point is 00:28:22 So look, your grandma was right, your auntie was right, take off your shoes, go in, everyone, even the cleaning people, the mechanics, or the maintenance people, they take off their shoes. Everyone got booties on. You ain't coming to my house with no shoes. Seriously.
Starting point is 00:28:38 So one, there's a, I'll call it germ effect, whatever one I call that. But the other one, you guys, if putting your feet on the ground with no shoes on. It seems so darn basic. By the way, all of you that have done it like as a kid, you're like, that does feel better. And you don't give yourself the gift of doing it. I find, by the way, for whatever reason, the closer I am to the water, for some reason, it's even stronger for me, not the vibrational frequencies. It's absolutely stronger. Is it really? That's why the beaches, if you're, if you are, how many people love
Starting point is 00:29:04 the beach? Because if you think about it, what do we really like about sand? It gets in your food, it gets in your toes, it gets in your eyes. What is it that we must like? So that's what we like. Dude, this is, this is, how many people are pissed,
Starting point is 00:29:14 go to the beach and still pissed? There's a reason we're grounding. We are, we are evolutionarily seeing bodies of water that are, that our body is coherent to. So literally our nervous system gets coherent to the ways. Right. And on top of that, the closer you get, you're getting a wave of negative ions, just like from the ground, but now from the water.
Starting point is 00:29:35 Every Wednesday, my friends and I go to the beach and we jump in the water. We do it. We have a dip club every Wednesday. And for that reason, not only community, grounding, nature, seeing the horizon, seeing the sunset, getting the sun signals and we're getting the negative ions. Everyone is on cloud nine after. This is so good. You know, you think about it. Very few people leave the beach mad. I bet if they did a study, I'm sure there's been fights at beaches. There has been, but
Starting point is 00:29:59 I bet of all the locations on earth, it's one of the least violent fighting environments on the planet. It has to be. Think about the, um, think about how many fights there should be at the beach. There's hundreds of people all within inches each other. Everyone's body showing every dude's checking out every girl loud music, drinking. There should be tons of fights at the beach, but there's not. But there isn't. They keep it to the boardwalk. It's not on the beach. Like sacred ground. I actually think that there's some data to the boardwalk. It's sick, right? They come out on the beach like sacred ground.
Starting point is 00:30:25 I actually think that there's some data to support this stuff for sure. All right, a couple other things. By the way, I told you guys, I just told you, I just told you, you're already sharing this and writing this stuff down. And we're gonna go back into some other stuff in a second as well.
Starting point is 00:30:38 But I've become more and more fascinated with the gut, with the microbiome as well. And I want you to talk a little bit about that relationship in the body as well. And then also, I'm gonna add to it, you are work about colors and food. By the way, I told you, I prep for you. You did, so you went deep.
Starting point is 00:30:58 Well, I love your work. I said, this is more for me today than anything, but talk a little about the gut a little bit. How that has a connected, obviously negative or positive benefit to the body and our mind, our spirit, and also food colors. Yeah, 100%.
Starting point is 00:31:13 So now we're going into that physical realm of gut and gut health. And it's crazy when it came out of school, we were talking about gut health. Years later, 10, 12 years later, it's blown up that there's always when it came out of school, we were talking about gut health. Years later, 10, 12 years later, it's blown up that there's always new data coming out and it's becoming more and more expansive and exotic. We're like, well, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:31:34 This disease is connected to your gut health. This emotional state or mental state is connected to your gut health. We know that anxiety in the pression has a role with our gut dysbiosis. How inflamed or imbalanced is our native gut species to the pathological gut species. Unfortunately, the food system has
Starting point is 00:31:52 lended itself to imbalancing our gut. But it's not only the food system, it's not only just eating crappy food. It's also your mental state, but it's also coming again to tie to emotions. If you're in a sympathetic state, that is changing your gut ecology over time. If you're in a sympathetic inflammatory state, but it's also coming again to tie to emotions. If you're in a sympathetic state, that is changing your gut ecology over time. If you're in a sympathetic inflammatory state, it's not nurturing your gut, right? Your body doesn't even care about nutrient absorption.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Your body does not even care in that moment about your digestive system working to optimal levels. Care is about getting blood to your muscles. Care is about your brain being focused enough to get you away to survive. That's it. It doesn't even care about reproduction. We have to think about our gut ecology. This is where the nutrition piece comes in. I said, if you're doing the things nutritionally, you're working out, you have the good connections
Starting point is 00:32:37 community, but you have the emotional repression, it's all for not. It really is. You need to look at the emotions. But also, you got to be eaten good fiber, man. I've always been on the fiber train, man. And there's a lot of doctors out there that are super pro fiber, and then there's a lot that are super no fiber and just meat. How you eat, how you eat, but I really, really think that it's irresponsible to look at fiber as a part of your diet
Starting point is 00:33:06 that should be just thrown away in the garbage. Fiber is so powerful for the body, so powerful, but most powerful for your gut ecology. Those beneficial bacteria, oh, they are consuming that fiber. They're having a new year's party every time you eat fiber. And on top of that, they're giving you back very specific nutrients, they're helping break down, produce micronutrients, right?
Starting point is 00:33:32 And also giving you short-chain fatty acids that are going to your brain and then your brain health is better. I'm sure you've had someone talk about this stuff and we know about this, but I would say fiber is so, so important. What are you going to get fiber from plants? And when I started, I came out of school so, so important. What are you gonna get fiber from plants? And when I started, I came out of school, I love nutrition. And I still love nutrition, but I really loved it.
Starting point is 00:33:50 And I was talking about plants, all the colors of the rainbow. Right. And this is still as important. I don't care how many diets came out since. It's still classically important. And there's so much data to support it. Plants are some of the healthiest foods. You have beans, legumes, amazing stuff.
Starting point is 00:34:06 But when we think about colors of the rainbow, that's our format. We want to think a rule of thumb when we're going to the supermarket. By the time you're checking out, look at the colors of the rainbow. Do you have a mango, an orange, lettuce, maybe an eggplant, blueberries, right?
Starting point is 00:34:27 Do you have red, orange, blue, violet, green? All of the colors of the rainbow, why? Because each color pattern is giving us very different nutrients, antioxidants, carotenoids, anthocyanidins. They're working in the body as anti-inflammatories, as antioxidants, but also different parts of the body are benefiting even more.
Starting point is 00:34:45 It has a systemic effect, but heart, brain, kidneys, gut. This is why we can't just be like, I'm gonna eat healthy, I just eat kale. I'm gonna eat healthy, I just eat kale and zucchini. No, man, you need to have that variety, not only in colors, but also in just in foods. You wanna make sure you have that abundance of foods. The healthier your gut is, the more variety you can have in foods.
Starting point is 00:35:09 The healthier your gut is, the different colors you can have in foods without having reactions quote unquote. Got you. Yeah, I evaluated that on my, I eat meat. Obviously, I eat a lot of protein. And I was like, but I get a lot of greens. Yeah. And I think a lot of people that eat meat
Starting point is 00:35:24 or that it train physically think, well, I nailed the vegetable thing. But the truth is, for stuff, I need to go to the grocery store more. I actually experienced that, but the other part of it is like, there's not a lot of colors. And when I saw your work,
Starting point is 00:35:35 I'm like, I don't get any blues. I don't get any reds. I have no oranges. I don't know that stuff. I got green and meat. Right? I got green and meat. And I think, I like,
Starting point is 00:35:44 I think in my case, a lot of people are saying, well, I'm better than just be able to eat chicken and meat all the time, throw in some green in there. I've got some fiber, at least. But it's something that I haven't done. And it's one of the my takeaways in preparing for this interview is like, I need more colors of the rainbow
Starting point is 00:35:58 in my nutritional program. For sure, man, for sure. Think about it, everything has, like I said, an affinity for different organs. So there's, listen, for sure, think about it. Everything has, like I said, an affinity for different organs. So there's, listen, I remember I was really in a fitness in college, and I was in chicken, rice, broccoli, pretty much for every single meal. Maybe some oats, maybe some eggs.
Starting point is 00:36:15 And I get that whole fitness industries approach, but also let's add some colors, right? Let's get creative. Maybe you put a handful of blueberries, raspberries, one of the highest pound for pound fiber fruits out there, put it in there, put it in your breakfast, put it in your shake, put it in something, mix it up, you're gonna feel better.
Starting point is 00:36:35 You're gonna feel less inflamed and different organs are gonna get stronger. Again, it's a systemic effect, but again, these different colors have different affinities, stronger eyes, stronger heart. You're so brilliant, by the way. I love pushing in your presence. I always say this, that the smartest people
Starting point is 00:36:52 have an ability to take super complicated things that they understand on a complex level and translate it in a simple way so that people like I can understand it. But they don't have the need to be sound like the smartest person in the room, even though clearly with the two of us in need to be sound like the smartest person in the room, even though clearly with the two of us in the room, you're the smartest person in the room, right?
Starting point is 00:37:09 Only for this stuff, man. No, brother, listen, by the way, this is the most important stuff. So I'm gonna go to some random stuff, which is super random. Hip tightness. You did your research, man. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:24 You are the best research podcast that I have sat across, man. You did your research, man. Yeah. You are the best research podcast that I have sat across, man. You did your research. And let me just say this. We talked about zoonogenous and we talked about the embodiment. And this is what you do for all of your stuff, man. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:37:36 I, first of all, I was so bad at math, I was so bad at business. You know, like, I have people around me to do that because they're so good at it. But, but you make me understand better. Thank you. I tell you what, you keep me alive and I'll help you with that stuff.
Starting point is 00:37:49 I'm okay. Exactly. Exactly. I'll be alive. So, dude, it's, and this is, this is, this is the connection. So, hip, woo. A lot of us don't even think about how tight our hips are.
Starting point is 00:38:02 And I started talking about this because I've seen close to a thousand people, one on one, they've came and they go, I want my emotions expressed. I want a heel, I want that, you know, okay, great, let's go through it. Again, I ain't the heeler, the body's the heeler. I just open the space for you to feel safe enough
Starting point is 00:38:18 with yourself to express the true you. The one that society doesn't judge, the one that your parents didn't judge. Unfortunately, one of the most judged parts of us is sexuality. One of the most judged parts of us for men and women. My God, the hip tightness in men is we can't even dance and move our hips to the left and right because that's too feminine. That's gay. No, no, no, no, no, right. Unless you're a Latin man, I was born that way. Yeah. But but you I was just thinking of a and Winari Ave. My really good friend. There's my he's close. He's got some moves and he's got some hip looseness. He's got some hip looseness. We're born with that. Shout out to the Latinos out there. But we, you know, I do live events, right? And there's
Starting point is 00:39:02 a there's a dance session. Like we have dance. And I always tune into the men. The first dance session, they are like robots. Wizard of Oz, Tin Men. Towards the end, they go through a lot of emotions and they're cracked open and they're moving fluidly. And I go, what happened in three hours? Yeah. What changed?
Starting point is 00:39:19 And they cried, they yelled, they cried some more, and then they were just more comfortable in their body. Hip tightness and hips, the root, the genitals, the lower back, they all tend to hold a very specific set of emotions that I see. And I would say the smartest people are open to being wrong and say, also, I don't know everything. And I don't. I'm learning a lot about this. The guilt, shame, and repressed sexuality are so manifested in the hips. And when I see a woman who has period pains, infertility, pain with sex, something's going on. Oftentimes it's a repressed sexual, authentic expression.
Starting point is 00:40:00 I actually think this is the biggest wound in humanity. Is we are ashamed to Proclaim our sexuality and and whatever that looks like sure just to say I'm a sexual being Oh my god, and that's not evil. I'm a sexual being and I'm not being judged. It's okay. It's okay And sexual being doesn't mean I'm sleeping with everyone, but it could mean that I just feel good as a man Proclaiming I'm sexual, but I'm also soft and sensual. Right. Whoa. That doesn't mean that I'm too feminine or that doesn't mean that I'm seen in a
Starting point is 00:40:30 way that I don't want to. I can be both. Yes. You can. And when you come to that truth, you notice that your body just feels better. Your hips feel better. Right. Things open up now.
Starting point is 00:40:41 I will say this. I will say this for women. There's oftentimes when there's tight hips also, if there's an abortion, a miscarriage, a rape, a molestation, a surgery, there's often anger and sadness also in the hips and the womb. That's very specific for women who've gone through that.
Starting point is 00:40:57 They often hold that. But a lot of men have that fear of just being who you are, right? Because there's a lot, you ever see the group sex show? There was the sexual that went on Tantra and Body and they had the sex coaches. Absolutely, yes. Okay, there was a scene where one of the men,
Starting point is 00:41:15 all he knew was pornography sex. This is what men grew up on, right? This is all we know how to have sex. And this man, when they fight, he was working with Jaya, a coach, and she was doing this energetic movement on him and he was connecting to his body and his body started shaking. He started crying. And I felt so deeply for that man because I go, that man, all his life for however old he is,
Starting point is 00:41:36 I think it was in his 40s, thought that sex was just intercourse and get it out of me. Yes. When in reality, his truth, his authentic sexual expression was a lot more energetic, meaning that he needed to connect. He needed to feel an energetic openness. He needed to stare at the eyes of his partner, right? Before they even, that was his foreplay. Instead, foreplay was pornographic foreplay, so he never felt fully authentically in his
Starting point is 00:42:01 sexuality. Bro. This is so important important and I can't understate this enough. Everyone listening, ask yourself, are you truly authentic in your sexual self? Forget parental, forget religion, forget everything. What is your true sexual self? Are you afraid to be who you are sexually? Are you more kinky? Are you more sexual? Are you more sensual? Are you more energetic? Who are you as a sexual being? Have you even sensual? Are you more energetic? Who are you as a sexual
Starting point is 00:42:25 being? Have you ever thought about this? And can you express that safely and authentically with your partner? Or whoever it is? Notice how your body feels when you're in your authentic expression of sexuality. Oh my god, you are liberated. You feel so good and so yourself because it's such a deep wound that we hold. You have talked about even for you that that was your view of sexuality as well, right? But which I think takes a measure of courage for someone in your stature and position to say that. And when men are together amongst men, that's even ratcheted up more. And so this is really something to evaluate. And connected to that is shame. And a lot of your work involves this.
Starting point is 00:43:12 Shame showing up in the body. And then giving, this is profound, everyone. Listen really closely to this part. I want him to speak on because he's awesome at this. But there's this shame that can only be released by giving yourself some grace, right? And those two words resonate with me. I think even in my case, oh, I'm open with monies,
Starting point is 00:43:33 I have shame about things that I'm not even sure what they are, meaning, did I have, I think growing up as a child, I had an alcoholic dad, as you know, there's a measure of shame that came with it. There wasn't my doing. But I remember thinking, man, I don't want people to know our families like this. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:51 And I would carry that to school with me every single day. Or when my dad was yelling, I remember thinking, they can hear him down the street in their house. They must think. So there's a measure of shame. Like you can carry shame from things that aren't even your bags. And then of course's your bags you made a mistake you didn't treat somebody well you told a lie you were human and What Dr. G's work you guys is that this is stored in your body and your emotions and it's going to show up
Starting point is 00:44:20 until and if you give yourself some measure of grace. So and it has shown up for me in different ways in my life. And I'm at such an interesting time in my life and it's the reason that your work resonates with me where I'm like, I do wanna show up as me. The sexual me being more sensual. Right? I'm just so whatever. That is right.
Starting point is 00:44:43 And in my personal life like this, being more authentic and transparent and vulnerable with people feels good to me. It actually feels good in my body when I do it. Feels good emotionally. I feel good about me when I do it. So talk about that relationship between shame and then in the body, the heart and then grace. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:04 And thank you for sharing your background. I want everyone to notice, when you feel awkward, that is shame. When you feel awkward, you're holding in, that's your shame being activated. Wow, right? So think about it. How many of us feel awkward?
Starting point is 00:45:18 Just when we see things, when we see someone expressing something that we want to express, but we judge them and said, right? Because we're triggered by them. Why are they dressed like that? I don't like how they're dressed. It's, oh my God, as a man or as a woman, you can't dress like that. The truth is, is that the part of you that feels awkward and disconnected and wanting to
Starting point is 00:45:35 be, like, just create distance and triggered by them. The truth is, is the inside of you, the part of you that wants to express like that is being shown. Now, I want you to think about it. Growing up in your household and feeling, oh, God, I, I want the neighbors to hear. I don't want the neighbors to hear. There's this too loud. This is too loud. Ironically, is giving your body the signal that I can't be fully big, fully me. And it's crazy because you've created such a beautiful brand for yourself to tell people so many people and you have this bigness to you. But I wonder how
Starting point is 00:46:03 much more personally you walk in the streets, you at a party you walking through the office is is even wanting to be expressed more of and It's this I can't understate this The fascia in your body has no linearity of time doesn't care about past. It doesn't care about future Meeting that that's why we talk about inner child There's no linearity of time. Doesn't care about past, it doesn't care about future. Meeting, that's why we talk about inner child. We're talking about our fascia. Our fascia remembers just like it happened one second ago.
Starting point is 00:46:34 That's how deeply it is evolutionarily to our protection. So if you grew up in a household that had an alcoholic dad or an alcoholic mom or bipolar just not safe. And you have not done any work around that. You are not going to feel safe in your own body because your fascia believes that it's still in the same moment as it was 40, 50, 30, whatever years ago. So this is so important to understand. This is why it's protecting you.
Starting point is 00:47:02 The fascia is always protecting from the environment. This is why when there's someone raising their voice and getting loud and it's reminiscent of that, there's a party that contracts. Geez. Right. Right. Bro, can I interrupt?
Starting point is 00:47:18 When I'm in a restaurant and someone's loud, I drives me nuts. Right. Nuts, and I'm always wondering, like it doesn't bother anybody else at the table except me. Like, why are they being so loud? Because that sensitivity is in your fascia, your body remembers as if it was yesterday. So any loudness is going to trigger you internally. Now, you're a rational mind, you're a grown man, and you're not going to go, okay, I'm going to shake and I'm going to cry. Or I'm going
Starting point is 00:47:42 to be like, hey, shut up. Don't be so loud. You're going to be rational and be like, okay, hey, this is bothering me. But let's get back to the conversation. But guess what? You can stop listening, but your body's not. Your body's going to be contracted. You're going to get in your car. You're going to get home and be like, I don't know how my back is hurting again. I don't know why I can't really breathe today. It's because your body's communicating with you. Hey, there are some things inside of you, whether it's anger, then wants to be expressed for that, or sadness and pain. Why were you like this? Why wish we could?
Starting point is 00:48:09 That needs to be expressed out of you. And that's everyone listening. When you feel awkward or feel triggered by someone else, that is your body talking to you. And you have two things you can do. You can either ignore it and judge them and be like, fuck them. Or you can be like, why am I feeling this way in my body? There's something about this person, right? For me, and you said, I've been very open about this,
Starting point is 00:48:30 like I grew up in a place where we celebrated like, fat living, right? Drinking, parting, Jersey Shore, this is where I was, like you've seen the show, that's real, like that's what the consciousness is. Guys would celebrate sleeping with the most women at the end of the summer. I was in that tornado.
Starting point is 00:48:49 And it was a part of me that felt so inauthentic doing it. Cause I knew I was much more soft. I knew I was much more gentle. I knew I was much more of, I want a connection. I've always been more romantic. I grew up like that, right? But it was so hard not being that. It was easier being just
Starting point is 00:49:06 One of the frat type frat guys, right? Yeah, so it took many years for me to come back to that place and go hold on wait That's not too feminine right? That's not too feminine. I can be sensual I can move sensually I can be slower I can make love Not just fuck right like and this is this is where so many men are This is me. I gotta get out of me. How do I?
Starting point is 00:49:31 Instead of going hold on take a moment like what's true for you? And that's that's when we talk about the sexuality and sexuality, but shame is everything You could be ashamed to just be big. You could be ashamed to take up space. You could be ashamed to To do anything you could be ashamed when someone's space. You could be ashamed to do anything. You could be ashamed when someone's angry and you don't want to get angry. Shame, that's why shame is such a iron blanket on our shoulders. And we put our tails between our legs. And ultimately, what that does is it holds back your authentic expression, which is ultimately the state of health that everyone I want the world to be in
Starting point is 00:50:05 is authentic expression. Because when you're in that state of health you've told your body, I am me. And when you tell your body that, your nervous system is in harmony, your immune, your hormones, your gut, you're able to eat what your body wants to because you know what you want to.
Starting point is 00:50:18 And on top of that, you're giving to the world what you're here to do, right? When you're in your authentic expression, just you being you shifts mountains just by you being you don't have to put in the work. You put in the work, but you don't have to push against the grain. You can just show up and flow and be like, this is me and the words that I say that are authentic to me. Why are they touching millions of people?
Starting point is 00:50:39 It's because you're you and people feel that. This is what you send to begin in the podcast before we started. You go, Dr. G, you say these like things, but people feel you. People feel me because I'm coming from my authenticity. Bro, your work is so brilliant and profound and I'm going to share with you. I'm going to confirm with what you just said. This last week, I was at a golf tournament, a celebrity golf tournament. I brought my son in it and then I want to make sure I say this the right way, but the night before the tournament, I ended up in a long conversation with Caitlyn Jenner. And I've watched Caitlyn's life when Caitlyn was Bruce. I'm old enough for that, for the Olympics all the way through to this day. And I've always had a genuinely good feeling about her. Same time, that issue,
Starting point is 00:51:28 I haven't been able to navigate my true feelings about, first off, I always want somebody to express them true selves, but all the way to men, biological men, fighting women in sports, all these issues are very complicated for me, and I don't feel comfortable with that, and then, does that mean I'm not supporting of trans people? You know that whole dynamic. And so there's been a, I don't know what I would call it. There's a curiosity slash, probably some assessment of Caitlin for me.
Starting point is 00:51:55 And I ended up, we ended up talking for like an hour and I can genuinely say that it was one of the most enjoyable conversations of my lifetime. And it's one of the people, it makes me emotional actually to say this. One of the people I have liked the most I have ever met in my life. Trans non-trans athlete, non-athlete, celeb non-celeb, so much so that the next day we were at another event together and we ended up sort of just gravitating to one another. She says, man, you keep showing up on my phone and all this motivational stuff.
Starting point is 00:52:29 And I said, that's probably because we were talking and now the phone heard, you know? But we had this visit the next day. And then I watched how everyone responded and people filming her and this or that of the other thing. And I remember, I think the reason that I liked her so much is exactly what you just said, that assessment, judgment, setting that aside,
Starting point is 00:52:49 this person is their authentic self. And that overrides everything else that's the noise in someone's life. And I think that's a pretty extreme case of someone expressing their true selves who knew they were gonna to take enormous criticism, enormous blowback. And then even in the trans community, because Caitlin doesn't support all of the, you know,
Starting point is 00:53:11 niche issues of trans people. And so, wow, what a gutsy person to come out as trans to change their, their entire life and look. And then at the same time say, and I'm not locked up and bear with all of you, either on some of my beliefs. It's like that, no matter if you, I'm not saying I agree, disagree with stances, positions, any of that stuff.
Starting point is 00:53:32 What I'm saying is what overrode all that was this human being is their authentic self. Man is that attractive. Man was that interesting. So much so that I'm expressing it on my show right now, a week later. So I just want to make sure that I acknowledge you guys, there is something to this just being you and expressing you and being free to be you. That is so attractive.
Starting point is 00:53:57 So magnetic. So magnetic, that's the word. Yeah. In order to be you, you have to face the parts of you that are you that you don't want to look at. You have to go into the proverbial house, the body, and open that closet that is the angry you with horns and fangs in the tail. And you have to open up the closet and you have to see yourself on a fetal position crying, the heaviest tears you've ever cried or another closet you shaking so scared of monsters when you're a kid, whatever it is,
Starting point is 00:54:29 you have to see that in order for you to fully be you. Because ultimately, you know, you hear so many people go love yourself. And I go, what the fuck does that even mean? Yeah. How do we even do that? Right? Essentially, when we were children, we are this full spectrum of expression. We were that as kids. We know that because we were the saddest of the ss. And then a minute later jumping on the bed and the joy of the joy and everything in between. We and self-help and motivation we go, let's just look at the light and you've got to be all of the loving positive emotions, negative emotions, you know, go for a walk or do some breathing, meditate through them. No, man, you have to embody all parts of you. Until you embody all parts of you, you cannot use the word love for yourself. Unconditional love, you know when people say it's a container, what does that mean?
Starting point is 00:55:16 It means it's the container that holds all parts of you, the heaven and the hell, the dark, the light, all parts of you. And then once you hold yourself fully, you can hold another, you can hold a lover, you can hold your children. Then you've held so much of your deep grief and deep sadness for the shit that's happened in your life, that when your child cries, they ain't triggering you, you don't have to say stop crying. You can be with them fully open-hearted. You know how many women I see and they go, I love my dad. He provided and protected for us, but I never had an emotional connection to him. Why? Because that man
Starting point is 00:55:48 has doesn't have an emotional connection to himself. He's never looked at the pain that he's holding. And until a man does that, it's going to be very difficult to have a deep connection with your wife and your daughter. So this is our responsibility as men. This is our responsibility as humans. And here's the biggest superpower all human beings have. We know. We have this awareness. Even if it's so turned up and we think we're unconscious, oh, we know.
Starting point is 00:56:11 We know when we're not doing what our body wants to do. We know when I want, we know we're not being authentic. We know when we're putting on a mask. We know and we definitely know when people are doing it. This is why people can only fake people out for so long until things just stop working out for them Right, you can't you can't just fake it out at some point people are gonna be just eat through a bullshit And this is why we buy stocking people who we go that's authenticity. I want stocking that whatever they're talking about
Starting point is 00:56:38 They they're just being them and they're radiating from internal External and the external is lining itself as the experience to them. Not internal, how do I show up for the world so everyone likes me? Bullshit. You gotta be you and whoever likes you will, you'll find their way to you. Brother, this needs to go everywhere.
Starting point is 00:56:56 We'll talk in a little. I mean, giving you, how profound what you're just saying is like, even if you don't even agree, what I was just talking with, Kate and like, you didn't even agree with the person's position or stance, there's something so attractive about somebody saying, this is who I am, and it's okay if you don't like me,
Starting point is 00:57:12 and what ends up happening is there's a magnetism, an affection, an attraction to something that is real and true to somebody, even if it is, like I have friends of mine that are super political, I'm really not that much, but like super left leaning, like oh my gosh, and then I have friends that are super right leaning.
Starting point is 00:57:33 And they're both really great friends of mine because I know who they really are, and there's something awesome about that, even if I think they're both wacky. Yeah, that's beautiful way to say it, and this is what was happening. Caitlin was only mirroring your authenticity. What you saw in her is you.
Starting point is 00:57:52 So that shows you, there's parts of you that are dying to come out, that doesn't mean it has to be that. Yes. But there's parts of her, the authentic, the I'm big. I don't care who sees me. Maybe that's something in you that even more wants to be expressed. I don't care who sees me. Maybe that's something in you that even more wants to be expressed. I think absolutely, you're right.
Starting point is 00:58:09 This is why we're attracted. This is why we're attracted to people who are being themselves unapologetically, not hurting people, but being them from their soul out to the world. I think you just explained why I was attracted to you. Yeah, I really do. I mean, I saw this man out and now you all know why, right? And I told you, by the way, in the very beginning, I'm gonna ask you. Yeah. I really do. I mean, I, I sought this man out and now you all know why. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:26 Right. And I told you, by the way, in the very beginning, I'm going to ask you one more question that we could easily go three hours. Can you believe we've been doing this for about an hour now? Yeah. Like I can't have a belief. This has been an hour, right? I mean, it's flown by for me.
Starting point is 00:58:37 So the last piece I want to ask you is a hard question. I don't know if you've been asked this before, but part of your work is like surrender to what is, right? I've heard you say this statement before. and I asked this before, but part of your work is like, surrender to what is, right? I've heard you say this statement before. So this is a hard question because I'm in both camps on that. There's parts of my life that I have to surrender that these are parts of me or these things have happened
Starting point is 00:58:56 in my life and they're part of my journey and they weren't failures, they were lessons, they weren't experiences necessarily, they were also lessons. Same time, I wanna know that I have the power to change things in my life as well. So how do you navigate? That's a hard one.
Starting point is 00:59:09 How do you navigate, you know, surrendering to what is, but also holding on to the belief that progress and change is within me. And in some case, my duty and responsibility. So how do you navigate those two? Yeah, this is very important. I do both. You have to do both.
Starting point is 00:59:28 Right. When you surrender to what is, see, emotions, let's go back to the emotions, won't move until you bring acknowledgement, awareness, and surrender to them. That's always a step in my practice when I work with people and myself. You have to bring awareness that your tense, you have to bring awareness that you're tense. You have to bring awareness to that there's an emotion there and you have to allow it. Surrender, you're there. You're allowed to be there because ultimately, just like people, emotions just want to be
Starting point is 00:59:57 seen. They want to be seen that I'm here. You know, I'm here. They're in that closet and they just want you to open a closet and be like, hi, I'm here. I know I look scary, but I'm here. You know I'm here. They're in that closet and they just want you to open a closet and be like, hi, I'm here. I'm I know I look scary, but I'm here. When you accept acknowledge and just surrender to what is ironically, that's when things start shifting. The energy of resistance, well, you can push against it. You're going to tire out, right? You're going to go, okay, this is this is what it is. I'm going to change it and I'm going to grind and I'm going to go against it.
Starting point is 01:00:25 You can do that. The human will is unprecedented. You can do that all your life, but you ain't gonna feel good. You can also go, here's what is, I accept what is. It's a shitty situation. I grew up shitty. My current situation is shitty.
Starting point is 01:00:39 Whatever it is, I'm gonna accept it. I'm gonna see it for what it is. But also, I have the power to transmute that energy into something else. Just like you have the power to transmute, repressed anger, for example, into that potency of clarity, of love, of empowerment, of boundaries, of all the things that you've been looking for,
Starting point is 01:00:58 it's the same thing when you allow it to express or let it be, just be, you're there. It's okay, I surrender. I want to heal, but first let me surrender that I'm sick. Right? Let me surrender that, okay, I've been resisting that, like, my health isn't that good. Let me take a moment and be like, I'm not in the best of health.
Starting point is 01:01:18 Ultimately, when you're saying that, you're telling your body now I'm ready to heal. So you have to do both. Bro, you're brilliant. I have a friend of mine that's in recovery right now. There are a few weeks into recovery. They're actually in rehab right now. That's exactly what they've done. They've surrendered. I have this problem. I've got this ailment. And once that surrender happens, now let's go to work on living a different
Starting point is 01:01:38 life, on ridding myself of this ailment that's harming myself and so many other people around me. And I'm very proud of that friend that's doing that work. I'm doing exactly, exactly verbatim, how you just described it. The application of Dr. G's work, you guys, is so profound. I told you guys on camera, the food's a stock, I would buy him.
Starting point is 01:01:59 I told him off camera though, that when he speaks, I not only learn things, but I feel things. And unbelievably awesome conversation today and I want to thank you for being here and you and I are going to be friends for a long long time. Hey listen I feel that energy already. There's there's an authenticity to you man. They're really as you're in your purpose and you're giving what your soul is meant to give to the world and more. There's more to you that I feel it wants to be kicking down the door and be like, I'm here.
Starting point is 01:02:28 Likewise, brother. And what everyone's felt today was two people trying to make a difference in the world and being their best selves together. And when you do that alone, you're powerful, but when you find like-minded people that wanna make a difference together, you can create magic.
Starting point is 01:02:43 And this hour was magic. So thank you. Everybody I want to ask you to please share this show with anybody and anyone that you care about. Make sure that you're following Dr. G on, well, let's go to his Instagram, Dr. Gonzales. And also you guys heal thyself podcast andganzalas.com is his website. Thank you brother.
Starting point is 01:03:06 Thank you so much man. I appreciate it. Alright, God bless you everybody. Max out your life. This is The End My Let's Show. you

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