THE ED MYLETT SHOW - Stop Hiding From Yourself w/ Dr. G
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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,
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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,
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.
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,
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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,
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,
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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,
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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,
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,
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?
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
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,
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,
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.
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?
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,
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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?
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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,
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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?
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,
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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?
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,
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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,
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you so much man.
I appreciate it.
Alright, God bless you everybody.
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