The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 219. Peter Crone: The Science of Mindset and How Your Subconscious Patterns Control Your Health & Longevity
Episode Date: November 18, 2025The most toxic environment you live in isn’t your city, your home, or your workplace, but it could most certainly be in your mind. Peter Crone, “The Mind Architect,” reveals how the internal nar...ratives formed in childhood become invisible prisons that could sabotage your health, relationships, and success decades later. In this episode, you’ll discover why “being right is the poor man’s version of self-worth,” and how your subconscious programming creates the exact outcomes you fear most. CLICK HERE TO BECOME GARYS VIP!: https://bit.ly/4ai0Xwg Connect with Peter Crone Website: https://bit.ly/4r5p1dK YouTube: https://bit.ly/3XzWKyu Instagram: https://bit.ly/3JYuO4j TikTok: https://bit.ly/4o6RLQN Facebook: https://bit.ly/3LQdH57 X.com: https://bit.ly/3LQdKOl LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3K7FNZ9 Thank you to our partners H2TABS: “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4hMNdgg BODYHEALTH: “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF: http://bit.ly/4e5IjsV BAJA GOLD: "ULTIMATE10" FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/3WSBqUa COLD LIFE: THE ULTIMATE HUMAN PLUNGE: https://bit.ly/4eULUKp WHOOP: JOIN AND GET 1 FREE MONTH!: https://bit.ly/3VQ0nzW AION: “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4h6KHAD A-GAME: “ULTIMATE15” FOR 15% OFF: http://bit.ly/4kek1ij PEPTUAL: “TUH10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4mKxgcn CARAWAY: “ULTIMATE” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/3Q1VmkC HEALF: 10% OFF YOUR ORDER: https://bit.ly/41HJg6S RHO NUTRITION: “ULTIMATE15” FOR 15% OFF: https://bit.ly/44fFza0 GOPUFF: GET YOUR FAVORITE SNACK!: https://bit.ly/4obIFDC GENETIC TEST: https://bit.ly/3Yg1Uk9 Watch the “Ultimate Human Podcast” every Tuesday & Thursday at 9AM EST: YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPQYX8 Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RQftU0 Connect with Gary Brecka Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RPpnFs TikTok: https://bit.ly/4coJ8fo X: https://bit.ly/3Opc8tf Facebook: https://bit.ly/464VA1H LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4hH7Ri2 Website: https://bit.ly/4eLDbdU Merch: https://bit.ly/4aBpOM1 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/47ejrws Ask Gary: https://bit.ly/3PEAJuG Timestamps 00:00 Intro of Show 03:02 The Mind is the Ultimate Environment 08:08 Taking on a Journey of Introspection 09:09 Perspective of the Identity and Ego 22:10 How Do We Get Started in this Journey? 34:42 Gary’s Personal Journey of Introspection 36:14 The Possibility to Go through This Journey On Your Own 44:22 Universal Law of Attraction 46:09 Loneliness and Isolation as a Reflection of Being Misidentified 54:00 How to Increase Self-Awareness? 57:19 Impact of Ancient Practices and Wisdom 1:03:43 No Greater Virus than a Thought 1:05:04 Connect with Peter 1:06:40 What does it mean to you to be an Ultimate Human? The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. The Content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How many people say they have dreams and aspirations, get in shape, create a business, start a homestead,
whatever people are passionate about, but you're not doing it. Why? People become resigned and
cynical. They're no longer like actually enthusiastic for their life. It becomes normalized.
Well, because normal is safe. It occurs as safe. It's actually the most dangerous way to live.
Rarely do we really understand the correlation between our mindset and the tricks that it plays on us.
That's why understanding that the space you live with inside of this mind,
if it has a consistent, persistent conversation that is in any way self-deprecating, you're living in a hostile environment.
When a fish gets sick, we don't treat the fish, we treat the tank.
The brain is kind of like the fish and the mind is like the tank.
And if we don't clean these things out, they're constantly poisoning an otherwise healthy body.
When you recognize that we have this predisposition to want to be right, but what we're being right about is our shortcomings.
We want to be right for our ego.
I was right. But very often, being right, is the antithesis of the outcome whether we want.
There's no greater virus than a thought. And to me, you know, there's nothing that hurts us more than our own thinking.
How do we begin this journey of even getting in touch with our ego?
How do we get there? We have to, first of all, one of the best ways.
Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brecker, where we go down the road of everything,
anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between.
And today's guest coming to you live again from Saudi Arabia, which is why I have a suit on,
and I normally don't have a suit on.
Coming to you live from Saudi Arabia, our next guest is going to absolutely blow your mind.
He's going to answer questions that you've always had that didn't, you didn't know how to ask.
I have enjoyed every minute that I've spent with him since I've been in Saudi Arabia.
We've had some deep introspective conversations.
I actually watched him in real time heal a woman's trauma in a car ride.
And so I cannot wait to run this podcast.
Welcome to the podcast, Peter Crone.
Yeah, it's a pleasure.
I feel like this is well overdue in ways that we didn't understand.
But I'm so happy to connect and control.
to your audience in whatever way I can.
Yeah, you know, it's odd for me to sit down across from another human biologist, too.
I was actually reading, you know, your background, and you have a degree in human biology,
a degree in exercise physiology.
Yeah.
And then you jump to the other side of your brain, and you have a master's in information technology.
Yeah.
When these two don't belong in the same frames of the brain, right?
No, but in the same skull.
In the same skull.
Yeah, they fit in the same skull.
Yeah.
But they're very left brain, right brain.
And, you know, it's been a fascinating few days.
I mean, I'm aware of your work and my team's aware of your work.
But actually experiencing it with you and listening to you walk somebody through unpacking
their trauma in real time was fascinating.
You know, I consider myself pretty astute in the biohacking world.
And my mind is really just blown.
But it was blown because.
You know, it really returned my awareness back to, you know, the Bible says,
so a man thinketh he shall become, right?
And our thoughts become medicine.
They become real action in our body.
Yeah.
Everybody knows, oh, stress, you know, you've got a lower stress if you want to live a long time.
And stress can make you unhealthy.
But rarely do we really understand the correlation between our mindset and the tricks that it plays on us.
And even before we start, you did an interesting exercise, which I found profound.
You hooked 100% of the audience and you said, take a finger and point at your mind.
And 100% of the room pointed at their skull.
And then you said, you're pointing at your brain.
Yeah.
And you said the mind exists outside of that.
Yeah.
Can we unpack that a little bit?
For sure.
Because I think that's a great place for us to start.
Yeah, it's quite a reframe.
And I think it's very profound, especially with all the work you do, which I'm such a fan of.
And again, it's just lovely to get to know you personally.
And I'm excited for the beginning of this friendship.
I think somewhere between our intersection is the perfect.
I believe there is just such a beautiful synergy.
You know, a partner's both saying the same thing.
You know, it's like you have mastered like that whole arena of three-dimensional reality, physiology, structure, anatomy, chemistry, biology.
And I would assert, you know, as humbly as I can, I've sort of mastered the inner terrain of like,
psychology and emotional intelligence and the degree to which those are commensurate,
like they're inextricably connected, as you know.
There's not a mind-body connection.
They're just different levels of density.
And so for me, making that reframe for people is typically astonishing, right?
Because we understand that at some degree, we are at the effect of our environment.
You speak to this eloquently all the time about all of the toxicities in our soils and
our waters and our airs and the things that we accumulate.
We're fundamentally walking trash cans at this point.
point. And so people understand that. We mitigate as much as we can. You know, the more extreme
do the Faraday cages to mitigate EMFs. But at least most people are hopefully doing some sort of
detoxing and cleansing and they recognize from chemtrails that apparently don't exist or, you know,
whatever they exist. Well, when they're starting to pass legislation in states that you can't do it
anymore, it's sort of, you know, they've revealed the wizard behind the curtain. It's been happening
for a while. So we understand that. And I sort of use the analogy at the talk we did at YPS.
you know, if you live within a 600 square foot studio apartment and there's mold in the dry wall,
then there's no way that you can mitigate or overcome the effect of that.
You can do the best you can to minimize it and maybe you're proactive and you cleanse,
but you know that if you live in an environment that at some level is deleterious to your health,
that over time the accumulation of that means that it's going to manifest in something.
So by reframing the fact that the mind, which to me is really a space that contains a narrative,
that typically get formed in our childhood is the space that we live in. It's the ultimate
environment. To me, there's no more valuable piece of real estate than what is within the state
of our mind. And for that reason, I know it's a bold statement, but I don't think there's
anything more toxic than dialogues that are in any way self-derogatory. You speak to, you know,
all of these diseases probably way more proficiently than me, but like a lot of people ask me
about things like cancer and we understand the genesis of a cancerous cell and I look at it energetically
and emotionally and to me it's a cell that's really in a hostile environment right it's really
the primordial imperative of every being and human is to survive and so the cell which is just sort
of the mini version is got the same MO it's just trying to survive so if it's in a hostile environment
and in this case it could be a series of different things that sort of give the impression of
hostility or defined hostility but
But for me, the mind, if it's got a narrative of, I'm not good enough, there's something
wrong with me, I'm trash, nobody loves me, I'm not safe, you're living inside of that 24-7.
So that, to me, is the ultimate, of course, I'm biased, but the precursor to disease is dis-ease,
which is the absence of ease, which means just from a purely physiological background,
which I can speak to with my undergrad, is putting you in sympathetic mode.
Yes.
And then if you're in sympathetic mode, fight-flight or freeze, then there's no rejuvenation.
there's no healing, there's no rest, you know, sleep is suddenly compromised, relationships become
more acrimonious and, you know, you've got this sort of dysfunction, you're in a state
of stress. And so that's why understanding that the space you live with inside of this mind,
if it has a consistent, persistent conversation that is in any way self-deprecating, you're living
in a hostile environment. You know, it's, there's analogies that someone told me one time,
which is very, it describes what you're saying.
And it says, you know, when a fish gets sick, you know, we don't treat the fish.
We treat the tank.
Exactly.
You know, the brain is kind of like the fish and the mind is like the tank.
Yeah.
Right.
And if we don't clean these things out, and they're constantly poisoning an otherwise healthy body.
And without identifying anyone, you know, the person you were talking about, the person you were
talking to in the car um i mean outwardly this is a beautiful woman young well-spoken yeah got along
with my wife just very very engaging yeah um but now was the fish but in the in the mind you
were able to unpack you know all of these yeah consequences of how the the mind was uh affecting her
yeah and so for somebody that's never been on a journey of introspection yeah
but doesn't know even how to go inward and find out where are these roadblocks?
How do I unlock childhood trauma?
How do I unpack the narrative that is working against me?
Because a lot of times, you know, since these are inner monologues, we might not even acknowledge that they exist.
No, they have complete blind spots.
And so it's fascinating to me, I believe that all of us have.
some of these voices going on, some of this inter-narrative.
And a lot of it has to do with the only thing that our minds, our brains, can actually
conceive is what's already happened.
It's hard to us to conceive something in the future.
So very often we take what's happened in the past and we just superimpose it on the future.
Correct.
And you're sort of fulfilling your own destiny.
And then you're not surprised when a negative outcome happens because you were expecting a
negative outcome and you go, there, see, I'm safe.
I knew everything was going to go to shit.
And it did, but I expected that.
You know, you're somewhat familiar in my work, and I know you're learning more, but I write a lot in quotes.
And so the one that comes to mind, as you say that, is I say that being right is the poor man's version of self-worth.
And so the ego, because it's fictitious in its actual nature, it's an identity, it's a personality.
that, you know, nobody on the planet is their name, their nationality, their religion.
But that's something that gets adopted.
Typically, you're born into a family and therefore, like, I'm British and you're American.
You know, then it gets even more complicated with dogmas and religions,
and then we get bloodshed over things that were made up at some point.
You start to see the absolute insanity from my perspective.
You know, we're all beings underneath it.
So when you recognize, okay, that we have this predisposition to want to be right,
but what we're being right about is our shortcomings.
That's one of the things that I was most fascinated is that someone
say, I knew that was too good to be true.
I'll prove to you that this won't last.
And it's like, wow, that's so inspiring.
You get to be right about your inadequacies.
Gosh, it's such a reframe of how we think about things.
Isn't it fascinating?
I really saw this in display so often with athletes
because you work with a lot of athletes as well
And it's like you get those tangible results instantaneously.
And when I worked with one of my first predominant, I worked with triathletes to begin with,
and I had a PGA tour player.
We tripled his winnings in two seasons, not insignificant.
Back in the day, this was before Liv and, you know, the Saudis here brought a lot of money.
And the PGA tool had to step up their game.
But he was making about a million bucks, 900,000 a year, which at the time was pretty decent, you know.
And we went to 2.2 million in his first season and then 3.6.
six in his second season together.
Wow.
Same clubs, same clothing, same instructor, different mindset.
However, he hadn't had as much success as he even wanted.
Like he was blown away.
Like he was on the verge of divorce.
You know, his wife sent me one of the most moving texts I've ever received, you know, said
just before you arrived, I thought after 10 years that we were, this was going to be
the end of my marriage.
And now since you've come into our lives, it's the beginning of a new love affair, you know.
Wow.
So just through this change in perspective.
But anyway, my whole point is, he said, look, I want to go to the next level.
You've changed my life in every arena.
But there's something obviously happening on the course, and you're not there with me.
I'm not a caddy.
He said, so, caddy.
You said, I can do it.
It's going to be expensive.
Exactly.
So I never forget, we were at one of the Texas events, Byron Nelson.
And he was playing very well.
We went into the weekend.
We were probably about four shots off the lead.
So, you know, made the cart.
it's four days of a golf tournament the first two days is where everyone competes if you make the cut
there's about 140 guys typically in a tournament 70 go through and then that's when you make the
money right so the first you know half that lose they go home suck it up and see you next week
but he was in a good position we're in the top 10 so primed for a good weekend we get to the
sixth green and he had part everything and had a good look at a buddy a couple of times and so he
was a little bit frustrated. But so anyway, this particular green he hit, he had a long pot.
I hand him the putter as the, you know, now newly positioned caddy. It's like his mind caddy.
That's immersing yourself in your work, man. I've part of that. Oh, no. I've been in some funny
situations. I've sat in dugouts with some of the greatest baseball players. I remember when I first
went in the MLB. I was in flip-flops. And guys are like, who's this clown? Some dude in flip-flops
in a dugout where they're all with, you know, studs and spitting tobacco. But anyway,
so I hand him the putter and he said to me, watch me three putters. Now, perhaps golfers
in your thing or listeners, you know, if you have a par four, you want to get on the green
ideally in two, and then one part, which is called a birdie, which is one better than the course.
That's a, you know, an accolade. That's a good thing. Two part is you, you know, you make a four,
which is the score, and that's called a par. That's okay. Not great. Three part means he would
made a five, which is one worse than what is expected. So he was already predetermined. Watch me
three part this, meaning he's going to make a five. And it was such a fascinating insight into
way the insidious nature of the ego that he was more unconsciously determined to be right,
because what was actually happening is he was scared. Much of his world of prison that he lived
in is like that he could mess up. It was more, he was Australians. It was more like, I'm going to
fuck up, right? A slightly different lexicon. Yeah. But anyway, so that was his way of mitigating
the perceived stress of a disappointing outcome, because even though it's not what you want,
at least I'm right. Isn't that fascinating? And that's the differential between most people
who become winners and those who are looking at winners. So it was a par two and he was going to three.
It was a par four. He got there in two. Two part would have been okay. That's fine. No damage,
right? You want to, you ideally want to make a one part. You know, when some some guy hits it near the
pin and everyone's applauding is because he's going to tap it in, and he makes a three on a four
or a four on a five. And that's great. The lower the score and golf, the better. Didn't mean this
to be a golf education. But anyway, the fact that he declared a future that was now the antithesis
of what he as a professional athlete is trying to accomplish showed the absolutely insidious
nature of the ego. Wow. The ego wanted to be right, even though it was against his outcome.
everybody's. And that's what we're up against. It is the greatest adversary. You know, that is
the, you know, even Ben Hogan, one of the greatest golfers, he said, the most difficult place
course you'll ever play is the four inches between your ears. Yeah, and so that's what we're up against.
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can't wait for my education to be advanced by you, that to me is secondary, not in a way that
like I'm, you know, in any way putting myself above you, but relative to the mind being outside
of the body, that's the ultimate influence, right? Because if you live in an environment,
And sort of the cascade of the hierarchy of the things that influence who we are, you know,
for me, I get a little more esoteric.
There's karma.
We came here to incarnate to process things.
So that's the bigger picture.
Beneath that, we have our genetic code.
You know, you're not going to change the color of your eyes just by taking, you know,
some supplements, right?
Correct.
That's pretty hard-wired programming.
Then the subconscious patterns, which give rise to the conscious thoughts that eventually
cascade through the physiology and manifest based on our predisposition, you know, will then, you know,
lead to whatever the great things that you do to help replicate or to repair some of the things
that people are creating. But for me, getting into that subconscious code, you know, even I know
for myself, as we discussed off air, that like I have a high homocysteine. But I've never been on
medication. It's not something that I, you know, apply to. Because there are more than one way.
I mean, this is exactly what we were discussing. In human physiology, I don't know that there's
ever absolutely only one way. No, not at all.
And I think a risk of science in general is that, you know, we think very often that science is done.
It's finite.
It can't be questioned.
It can't be challenged.
This is it.
It's as absolute as gravity.
Yeah.
And it's not.
That's why I love Ayveda, which we started to talk about because I studied that for 25 years.
The oldest form of medicine in the world.
Yeah.
And it makes today's modern medicine, which we both know is not healthcare, sick care and disease management, right?
you know pharmaceutical companies aren't celebrating in their HQ when they discover that drug
cells are dropped you know it's like no they're pushing more like reps out there and so from
a point of view of iaveda one of the things that i love so much one of the tenants they said the
greatest wadja wadja being a doctor is the one who has no patients and i don't mean like the ability
to be with people but he has no people he's helping because he has empowered and educated his
community how to take care of themselves yeah and yeah you know i spent a lot of time
LA when I first got here and it's like, you know, who's the best doctor? Who does everyone go and
see? I'm like, how freaking good could he be if everyone's going to see him? Yeah. That's actually
really how good can be if everybody keeps going to see up. That's called job security, which
you don't want in a doctor. I mean, I'm very familiar, not as familiar as you are, but I'm
very familiar with Ayurvedic medicine, one of the oldest forms of medicine based largely on
observation, which I think is excellent because we really, people stand in front of us and we don't
see them, you know, especially in medicine. We might see the lab values, but we don't see
the person. Yeah. And we don't see their stress. We don't see the color of their eyes. We don't
look at their tongue. What's going on at home? How's your relationship? You know, you sit down
with a doctor for three minutes and it's like, da-da-da, you know, this particular ill for this
particular pill next. Yeah. Yeah. So back to, you know, the fascination that I have with trying to unpack
this on on our own you know yeah yeah we all know that we have some limiting beliefs we have some
limiting thoughts we all have an inner monologue yeah that we don't share with the outside world
yeah um we only share with our inside world and the way that you frame the egos is so incredible
because we want to be right yeah for our ego yes i was right but very often being right is the
antithesis of the outcome that we want. Correct. And we don't realize that these conversations
are happening. Where do they come from? Mike, what is the genesis of these conversations in our
mind? Great question. And I feel that's where if I were to sort of, you know, differentiate myself
from a lot of great teachers, coaches, therapists out there in the world, is for whatever
reasons, just like you have the brilliant insights that you're able to get to, you know, I heard
your talk today, which is great about like being diagnosed as ADHD or, you know,
or whatever, when you're a kid, and that actually was sort of turned out to be your superpower,
you know, this sort of ability to recall and to memorize.
And I think for me, if I have sort of some inherent gift, it's that I delineated what I consider
to be the 10 primal prisons or constraints of the subconscious.
So just as we have certain genetic codes that we all have, you know, like whatever it is,
99 point, whatever percent that we're all the same.
So for me, from the perspective of the identity and the ego, we all have the same 10 primal
prisons. And so this is what I'm writing about in my first book. And so that's where it comes
from is really it's the opportunity that it is to be human. To me, this is cosmic hide and seek.
We're souls, boundless, timeless, limitless beings incarnate into this confined identity to have
a human experience, to feel the experience of separation and what it is to have to survive, such that
we can bring to the surface and ultimately to transcend the constraints with which we arrived.
and the ultimate destination then is liberation to me that's the sole purpose of being human
and so it becomes like a definition of the soul yeah you know yeah absolutely yeah and so
because we all have these inner monologues and and we all have this narrative going on in our
mind yeah i want to give people some some tools that they can use to bring awareness to it
yeah because i think that it's so ingrained in our the physiology of
how we live, how we think, that it's not something that we recognize.
You know, listening to you talk to this woman the other night, what was fascinating was
how she was unaware of how her own limiting beliefs were limiting the exact outcome that
she was after. And I found it very fascinating. And while you were, I don't know what do you want
to call it, psychoanalyzing her, I was doing the same thing in the front seat by myself.
No, you were tracking beautifully.
Going through my own checklist, you know.
And then my ego popped in and said, well, she's way worse off than I am.
I'm good.
Yeah.
And then it protected me, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And then I actually caught myself.
And I was like, well, that's exactly what he's talking about.
Yeah.
There's your ego wanting to be right.
Yeah.
You're okay because somebody else is worse.
Yeah.
Finding validity through comparison is like one of the ways that we try to survive.
Yeah.
It's so, it's so incredible.
I intentionally focus on.
not being that person.
I don't feel like I'm good because somebody else is bad.
There's a lot of that pervasive mentality in my industry that I'm good because
everybody else is bad.
Or Gary made more mistakes saying something.
So everything that he says is absolute garbage and he's a charlatan and what have you.
And that's for them to deal with them.
That's them protecting their own ego.
Yeah.
So how do we begin this exercise of even just.
drawing awareness to some of these voices. Some of this inner monologue. Great question. And I love
your dedication to your community. It's beautiful. Thank you. My crass responses, you know,
whatever pisses you off. That's life. You know, my more profound poetic, because again, I write in
quotes, and one of my more popular ones is that life will present you with people and circumstances
to reveal where you're not free. So if you really get that, like that to me is this dimension.
That is the opportunity as a being who's incarnated, you know, the gods, again, without getting to out there, didn't say, go to planet Earth, it's Nirvana.
No, go to planet Earth, because your in-laws are going to piss the, forget out you, and you're going to get divorced, and, you know, that's where you're going to have to process stuff, right?
So this dimension that we're all here in is because we arrive without constraints, the opportunity in common vernacular, it's like, what are you triggered by?
You know, it's triggered me so much.
The trigger is, the misnomer is that you're at the effect of life.
I'm upset because, fill in the blank, my wife, my kids, my boss, my neighbor, you know,
somebody else who did something to elicit an expression and reaction. That's how it occurs.
It's like when people say, I'm so worried what other people think about me. No, you're not.
You're not. You're worried what you think other people think about you, which is a relationship
with self, right? So everybody else is equally worried about what you think about them. They're not
worried about you. Right. So when you start to unpack these things, you start to see how, again,
how slippery it all is and as you said with the girl that I was helping these are blind spots and
they're actually deeper than beliefs beliefs belong to the identity it's the you that you are
for yourself which is a perhaps a weird sentence but if people really get that it is it's not that
i have a belief it's the eye that you think you are is the constraint that then generates the
belief all about yeah yeah isn't that right so that's why so you think that's why it gets so so
subtle and again why you know I would say if I have a super parrot's listening because I can hear
where people are lying to themselves and yet they're oblivious of that so what I hear like just as you
will see the presentation of symptoms you probably see and you know even the presentation of a body
let alone their data right but you can then reverse engineer that into okay well because of X the
homocysteine for example or the Dana's you know you can take that back to okay well this is you
know follow the cookie trail and then let's go to the causative factors
I do the same, but psychologically.
So if someone is dealing with a health issue, a relationship issue, a financial issue,
then I immediately, within a couple of minutes of them telling me a story,
already know the predominant prison that they're defined by.
Yeah, I've heard you describe it.
And if you wouldn't mind, walk us through a real-life scenario.
Sure.
You've described a number of these.
At the YPO meeting, you used an excellent one with a basketball player.
You just sort of described one.
And there was a woman who you also walked out of a similar prison, mine prison.
If you wouldn't mind, just identify one of these people and walk us through the process.
Sure.
There's so many.
And for those who really want to witness it, you know, better than me recalling conceptually to watch it in real time on my Instagram.
I still get goosebumps, you know, and I've done this thousands of times.
you know so but there's a couple that come to mind just because i was recently doing a live event
and one woman beautiful articulate you know this is in front of 100 people that i don't know i mean
bearing a couple of friends or people who are repeat customers because they're like i can't get enough
of this you know this is a woman i've never met 60 you know smart successful articulate and her
quote-unquote issue is she's like you know i'm just so hurt and scared because i would love to have
another relationship i've been divorced twice and both of my exes cheated on
on me. Something that unfortunately happens in everyday life. There's many people right now who are either,
you know, the recipient of such infidelity or themselves acting from it. And so I said, okay,
and so I wanted to get a little bit of a better understanding where she's from. And so typically I go
straight to childhood to tell me a little bit, you know, what's your relationship like with the folks and
da-da-da-da. And so she talks about, you know, perhaps the lack of affection. That's one contributing
factor to the language that she learned to use. So I, again, one of my expressions is to say,
there's language we use and there's language that uses us. So the language we're using,
English. The language that uses us is the code that we're oblivious to, the programming that got
instilled at a very formative phase of our life that now we're being driven by. So I always want to
find the language that's using somebody. So she started to tell her story and the one that really
stood out as her sister would, uh, older sister, would just like any sibling, pick on her,
bullia, fatso, da, da, da, da, you know, you're not cool. You can't come and play with me and my
friends. Just everyday stuff. But what people don't recognize is the degree to which that can
actually have a lasting imprint. And here's a six year old woman, couple of marriages, kids.
And so she said, I've done so much work, which a lot of people say, I've been a therapy and
we've identified, you know, that, yeah, that I was made fun of. And so what I've realized is I
believe there's something wrong with me that's great you've done a fair amount of work but it's
clearly hasn't mitigated whatever you're struggling with or you're suffering so i said okay that's
not inaccurate but it's insufficient for the full story so i said okay so when you're cool fat so obviously
that hurts as a kid you know i say there's two primordial emotions that are the basis of every human
beings emotional scope you're either hurt or you're scared typically both so it's like you feel the energy
of a kid, right? When something happens that you're made fun of, you're mocked, you know, you tripped
up in the classroom and people laughed or you did a presentation, you know, it hurts. What that then
does is I say past hurt informs future fear, just as you were saying, right? We have this
superimposition of past trials tribulations. And so now the brain designed to predict and protect is
rightly so, we're going to say, well, how do I make sure that doesn't happen again? Because
that sucked. Right. So I start trying to protect myself. Which is the scared.
where the dialogue starts yeah so we have people that we know even though i haven't started this
relationship yeah so that's the you know so sabotage absolutely self-fulfilling prophecy which is physics
so even though i'm you know spiritual teacher the mind architect whatever really i'm just
dealing with physics like you right like the conversation you shared about you know women that
had some questions about your process or the offense you took you know it's like you're explaining
physics it's okay and so the same for me it's like it's that category you know if i sat down with a tech
and I said I want to build this particular website
and he had the ability to write code
and I want the background to be blue
there's a particular code that will give that effect
same with language of the code of the mind
so for her thinking there was something wrong with her
definitely impactful that she could see it that's helpful
but what that would give rise to as a behavioral adaptation
is now trying to make sure there's nothing wrong with her
right you know that she's broken somehow
well then the logical approach is to try and fix herself
Yeah, which also manifests, especially as a woman, you know, being more subservient, secondary to the male, which itself is unattractive, because really it's a degradation of your own sense of self-worth, which energetically, whether it's aware or not, is unattractive.
So the man is then going to find or the woman is going to go and find somebody who's more confident, right?
So, again, self-fulfilling.
But anyway, I said, okay, well, that's definitely part of it.
But if there's something wrong with you, that's the symptom of something much deeper.
what does that mean and i said remind me when you said your sister said you can't play with them
what does that feel like as a kid you know that really speaks to that primal sense of not belonging
and so we got to or she got to i try and get people to understand it sometimes because it's so
blind they don't know until i said in which this case i said you know what if it's just that you're
not wanted and that like you know going back to the mind being the space she lived in when she
suddenly saw the lights came on of the home that she's been in, which is she's not wanted. The
floodgates just opened and the body starts to go into this sort of tremors and this response
very similar to a gazelle being chased by a line, you know, where all of this pent-up survival
instincts. Yeah. Which was beautiful, uncomfortable sometimes for the person, but she she was such a trooper.
You know, even at the age of 60, the older we get typically the more ingrained these condition
programs are. And she's like, she just got it. She's like, oh my God. Of course.
course, I would attract humans that would replicate or at least reflect me not being wanted,
which meant they had to cheat. And so when you understand the mechanics, and what was for me the
most powerful part at the end is I said, okay, you know, so now do you see, like I always investigate
the validity of these statements? So is it true that you're not wanted? Is that an absolute
truth? And she's like, no. That's when you step out of prison. We use the evidence of our
childhoods typically and then that becomes you know reinforce over time see that like my my husband cheated
of course i'm not one and the next guy and you know it's like we just want to be right again
about our own shortcomings yeah so but what i do is i use this just basic questioning is an
absolute truth that you're not enough is an absolute truth you're not wanted is it an absolute
truth that you know you're not going to be okay no you know who could you be in the absence of that
constraint. Wow, you know, I could be free. I mean...
I could have a relationship with meaning. I could have a relationship that lasted.
An entirely different existence. Could be someone that deserves to be loved. Yeah.
Rather than someone... By herself to start with, because really all of her attempts were to overcome
and compensate for who she was, the you that you are for yourself. She didn't know that who she is
is not wanted. She just got to experience the ramifications of that perspective.
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and I just wanted to do a quick test because she was very smart. I said, okay, so what if?
Now you see the pure possibility, love, connection, intimacy, infinity, all the things we want
with the primal urge to belong, and especially as a woman,
to be held and safe. I said, you can see that's now very. So I'm so excited. She said,
but also I don't need it now, which is so profound, right? She'd found it for herself. And I said,
I'm just going to do a little litmus test. If you date a guy and he cheats on you, does that mean
you're not wanting? She said, no. So she was even okay with the same result, but not eliciting
the internal trauma that had been there for decades. Yeah, what was amazing about, um, uh, just because
having been in proximity to you doing this and watching this sort of liberation
happened in real time, what was interesting about you investigating this, this woman's
picture of who she was.
Yeah.
Was you, she had just exited a tough relationship.
Yeah.
And, you know, it made her obviously feel very unwanted.
Yeah.
And you said, well, what if I was to tell you that next week you're going to meet?
prince charming yeah you know this is the one you've always waited for yeah right and finally uh
you're gonna have the relationship that you wanted she said i wouldn't believe you yeah um
and it's it's it's very it it was just very profound to me because uh i had a period like that
in in in my life you know as a as a scientist you know human biologist um biology background very
matter of fact, you know, this causes this, this leads to this. There's an explanation for
everything. And I think men in general, there was a book written years ago called Men are from Mars,
women, or from Venus. Do you remember that one? And they always talked about the man's toolbox.
Like, the woman is like espousing all this emotional stuff. And as she's talking, she's not even
getting to the end of her sentence. The guy's trying to fix it. He's like, well, it hurts when
you do that? Don't do that. What do you mean? You don't like your best friend. Stop talking to her,
but she's my best friend. But you don't like her. So just cut her off, but I can't do that. You
You know, like men are trying to fix, fix, fix.
And then eventually, you know, as a book was saying, they just want to be hurt.
I've learned that being in a marriage.
But, you know, it was a very difficult time for me to realize that the repeated consequences of my environment were all of my own self-sabotion.
You know, and I had become a very narcissistic person, developed this very egocentric personality that I was protected.
And when I left my previous industry and said, I'm going to not just leave that industry,
but that person behind.
And you have to leave a lot of people in your past, too, that still think that you're
that person.
They will drag the old you forward to.
But it was the most liberating thing for me.
And mine was just a massive career shift.
I'm not going to predict mortality anymore.
I'm going to help people live healthier, happier, longer lives.
The difference in the people that I have.
attracted from my wife to the relationship with my children, which is dramatically deepened since
then, to the relationships of the people that I've been blessed enough to be around in this
industry, so much more fulfilling than what I had back then. I wish I'd had you, you know,
years before that. Because I think there's so many people that are, you know, in places in their
life where they are frustrated they're not happy they're not happy with themselves they're not happy
with her environment their relationship what have you and they're like you said looking to the outside
world yeah look what my neighbor did to piss me off you know my spouse did to make me feel this way
yeah yeah and i think going on this journey of introspection is it possible for someone to do this
themselves it is it just takes a profound level of discipline
and self-reflection and honesty and honesty i think the nature of life is relativity right you know
you're lying in bed you're hot you move your leg to another part of the sheet it's cooler
only do you have an experience because of relativity and so in the experimental experimental
range and the experiential range of life it's all based on relationship you know which is why
relationships themselves typically romantic uh normally the number one
topic of conversation in any coffee shop around the world.
Right.
Because that's where really we're getting the reflection.
So it is possible.
I've certainly done a lot of introspection, but I also know I'm not naive to say that
the profound shifts that I went through similar to what you're just describing,
which I'll speak to in a minute, I feel like are the byproduct of relationship,
for me particularly romantic.
You know, wherever I, you know, my parents died when I was very young.
And so my first profound relationship where I thought had meaning and love as best as I knew
at 27 years of old of age, you know, really when that, when she left me, you know, I thought my
desperation and my fear and my upset and the sleepless nights was because of her leaving
me. No, that was the catalyst to pull to the surface, all of the unprosed trauma of my parents
dying and me being stuck in the narrative of I lost my parents, which is, you know, it's a common
experience or a narrative that people, I was sorry for your loss. You know, I kept hearing that,
like oh my gosh often by the age of 17 it's awful you know and so you continually are getting
reinforced the story of woe and so for me relationships are the conduit you know especially
especially romantic because it's almost like a surgeon right like I guess at one level
I'm sort of doing this emotional spiritual surgery and you know oftentimes I'd walk into a sports
team and the training staff the coaches are like you know when you're not here how can we help
the guys I'm like you can't unless they're willing to open the door right because the ego and
the mind is it's designed to defend itself. And so, you know, I use a very simple analogy of like
if I were the greatest interior designer in the world, got all the greatest furniture, my tastes are
impeccable, everybody's seeking my counsel. If I went to somebody's house barge through the front
door, you know, with all of my guys and my furniture, you know, depending on which state I'm in
America, I could get shot. Right. Florida for sure. In Texas. And Texas and Montana. Do it in Los Angeles.
fine. Yeah, it's their fault. Yeah, so even I might be well sought after I wouldn't be
well received. So, you know, so a long-winded answer of saying, yes, you need interaction,
you need communion, you need community, you need conversation. So for anybody at home, like,
you know, in my panel yesterday, I was talking about how people can start this process is
just find at least that one person with whom you feel the least amount of judgment from.
Now, I hope people at least have that.
It might not be your spouse even.
It might not be a parent.
Typically it's not, but it could be a best friend.
It could be, you know, somebody at work who, for whatever reasons, you feel kinship
and you feel like they've got your ear.
And I'm going to be speaking about today.
I think there are three things that every human being craves more than anything is to be
seen heard and held. And so that's the space to start to unpack because typically people don't
know how to listen. People are too busy reacting. It's like, you know, the old radio expression
of, you know, WIF, whatever it is. What's in it for me? WIIFM. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so that's
typically the lens that people listen through. And so there's no holding somebody's reality.
I was sharing on another show. Like I was at a retreat in Hawaii working with a group. And this mother was
talking about how she's so concerned for her younger son who always feels inadequate relative
to his older brother. And she can see the dynamic in the older brother because he's older
is faster, quicker, smile, whatever, you know. But for the younger sibling, this was like,
you know, distressing to the point that he kept saying, you know, he was feeling the malaise
and the apathy of like, well, what's the point? You know, da, da, da, da, he's always better.
And the mother, being very nurturing, would come in, no, no, no, you're this and sort of
giving accolades and acknowledgement. And I said to her, but you're not listening.
to him and she was like what do you mean like you're not listening to his reality you're in reinforcing
and superimposing your reality on top of his and she's like oh my god like he's always telling me
i don't listen i said well there's your first clue i said i don't want him to stay there but in order
to be able to take him to a new frequency you have to at least acknowledge where he's at then you can
inquire well oh i really what what's that like to feel like that next to your brother get into his
world and immediately what you're showing him is that you care which is a value proposition you know
the appreciation of a stock in a corporation that I work with is directly correlated as far as I'm
concerned to the degree which you appreciate your personnel right so true versus like making people
wrong for mistakes you know now people are living in fear and pressure so she's like my god I never
thought about that and I said yeah like he just wants to be heard then when he's heard he's going
to feel seen and valued and then his value which is his main concern relative to his
other starts to all boats rise with the tide and he's going to feel better about himself just by
being heard to say what's it like to yeah where did that start and then you'll find a memory oh you know
well i don't know i was playing with him like you know could be years ago and he just didn't want me to
play with him and his friends oh my god i can really see how that would hurt come here you know
like it's a totally different way of engaging the thing that i always love i always like to
these sort of, you know, closing invitations.
And I say to the woman, go home and meet your son.
And she just lost it.
Wow.
Yeah.
So, but to the point being.
I think there's a lot of that, though.
I mean, I grew up as an only child.
But I raised three children.
And now I have a fourth with Sage who entered my life at a very young age.
She was five and a half.
She's 17 now.
Amazing.
And it's like a daughter to me because of the time frame that she entered our life.
We have this great modern family.
But it is very interesting to see the dynamic between siblings, right?
As they get older, certain are very independent.
Some are dependent.
Not one's not better than the other.
No.
It's just interesting how the hierarchy coming into the house, right, and establishing their
domains, leads to these vastly different personalities.
And I would assert, you know, again,
there's no evidence, you know, it's just intuition and people can take it or leave it. But
that is a conscious choice from the soul to experience because it's often seen as, okay,
you're the runt of the litter, you're the youngest, the weakest, you know, that's sort of
the worst case scenario. But the number of people I've worked with who were the eldest
sibling who had no childhood, because their role became, I'm responsible for the life with
pressure of my youngest sister or brother. And then they become the care provider, the people
pleaser, they don't know how to speak up because their needs didn't matter relative to the younger
sibling who was weaker.
Right.
And so, you know, wherever you come in, you're here to experience what it is that you're
wanting to transcend.
So, and these are the stages like to, I want to, as a man of my word, come back to what you
shared about this shift in your life and you started to attract all these other people.
To me, that's no different than shifting the frequency on a radiate.
You came from one particular vibration, which attracted a particular, you know, in this case,
music, which was the lifestyle, the people, the career, the dysfunction, and the trials and tribulations,
you shift currency, which to me is like a vertical ascension. You tune yourself to a different
vibration and then just no different to a radio. Everything is out there, all the data. You're
just going to attract different scenarios. So incredible. I mean, just the, you know, the universal law
of attraction. I am such a deep believer now. And, you know, there's a lot of evidence, science,
and physics that are starting to explain this.
We're getting more and more sensitive equipment.
You know, we're really starting to reveal this quantum entanglement, you know,
where we really are truly all interconnected.
You know, there are things, interestingly, sometimes that don't fit the scientific narrative.
So we just sort of push them aside.
We talked about this the other day.
And one of them is the quantum.
A lot of people don't believe in this entanglement, this universal entanglement.
But it's very true.
Yeah.
And, you know, we call it intuition.
all kinds of other things, but it really is this interconnectedness.
And I talk about this all the time about how in blue zones and longevity research,
isolation was the single biggest impact other than terminal illness or trauma, right?
Obviously, a bus could take somebody out.
But isolation for human beings as a comorbidity, which is how we put things into the model,
had one of the greatest impacts on life lifespan.
So if you wanted to cut somebody's life expectancy in half, at any age, you would put them in isolation.
Broken Heart Syndrome, you know, we have these terms, but they're very real issues.
And what you're saying is that, if I'm paraphrasing a lot of what you're teaching, is that we can be isolated in plain sight.
Yeah.
Because we've isolated ourselves.
Some of the lonelous people I know are married with kids.
You know, I like you, only child often.
You know, I could assert that I've probably spent more time alone than any human being.
Again, there's a big claim, but, you know, in that realm.
Right.
And yet, I'm not lonely.
I've never been lonely.
You know, and again, without sounding too poetic or, like, philosophical, I'm connected to source because I am source.
Right now, of course, I love companionship.
The number of people like yourself and sage.
that I've met on this trip that I'm so excited for the friendships and the creations that we're
going to explore together. But loneliness is really a reflection of being misidentified with
the identity as opposed to the essence of who you are. I don't say that again. Loneliness.
Yes, is where we've become misidentified with our identity, our human existence as opposed to the
essence of who we are. We're human beings. The human points to the equipment. Brain and body. The being is
the essence. Like, if I died right in front of you, as inconvenient as that would be for the show.
Yeah, I mean, I'd have to cancel the podcast. Yeah, no, no, no, you'd play. It'd probably be the most
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Yeah, I, as far as you see me, as most people, as a human, you know, my, my outfit, my clothes, my
Every tissue and all of my organelles and my cells, they're all here.
Where the hell did I go?
Didn't see me get up and leave.
So that to me starts to, just in pure logic, explain that the essence of who we are
is ineffable.
Like we can only point to it.
You know, it's all of these beautiful expressions.
Like the seeker is the sort is one of my quotes.
Like the essence of where we're looking from is what we're looking for.
It's like a lighthouse, you know.
Yeah, the essence of where we're looking from is what we're looking for.
is what we're looking for.
That is so profound because it's we orient ourselves based on our perceptions, our mind.
You know, it's funny.
Years ago, I know a very, very famous stock trader.
And he's being interviewed on CNBC and we were talking about his history of picking great stocks.
And they asked him, you know, what his secret was.
And you were expecting this big explanation about,
P.E ratios and all of those things, performance and finding the needle in the haystack
that nobody knew about. And he said, the secret to my success is that I have come to
materially understand that perception is more important than reality.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it is so true.
Yeah.
You know, the fear of missing out makes people impulsively buy very often a drive style.
It drove the whole dot-com revolution.
You know, most of these companies weren't worth the day.
dust that floated around the paper they were printed on, much less the paper they were printed
on.
And then we get to a billion dollar valuations because there's fear of missing out.
And I think we create these perceptions.
Of course.
And that becomes our reality.
Reality is really.
Deception is reality.
We live on one globe, but there's eight billion worlds.
Yeah.
Because we all live in our own in reality.
And it's so beautiful.
If you understand the mechanics of this dimension, that every human being will attract,
whatever is necessary for their own evolution.
Isn't that cool?
So you're not seeing, it's not the world you see,
it's the way you see.
And when people really get that,
it's not that you're upset by or because of,
it's just the way that you're interpreting that
as usually a perceived threat.
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You know, one of my early on quotes or expressions for myself is, you know, when I was growing and starting to be more at peace with circumstances, like, can I be with this?
Whatever it is. Can I be with this? Like unaffected, not a victim of anything. And that to me was the equivalent to true peace.
and vitality. Dis-ease, the absence of ease. I'm not at peace with circumstances.
You know, road rage, you know, that person just cut me up. You know that person? No, but you're
giving them all that power over your internal terrain of emotional well-being.
Yeah. You know, that's a, that's a wake-up call to, do you want to be responsible for your
health? Do you want to give it all over to that complete stranger in a piece of metal and
plastic, you know, that interrupted your day for five seconds? You know, it's quite fascinating,
you know, so that's where people really, again, for me, it's an on-off switch. You're either a
victim of circumstance or you're fully responsible for your life. End of story. Wow. Yeah. And that's a
that's a place that most people don't want to go. They want the experience of it, but it's much easier
to point fingers. But you know, as they've often said, you point a finger at someone, you've got three
coming back at yourself. Yeah, but that's the, that's the ego being meant. That's a protective
mechanism. I mean, it's- Which is isolation. I mean, what is one of the worst consequences for a human
being? You get thrown in prison, and then how do you amplify that? Solitary confinement. Oh, yeah.
Second law of thermodynamics.
You separate a piece is going to entropy and eventually die.
That's right.
You know, and so what I'm speaking to is, you know, I can remember a line.
I'm going to see if I can actually recall it exactly.
I said, you know, at the end, this guy was so scared that he didn't belong.
He was adopted into a family.
So much of his story was, well, I wasn't actually part of the family, which was really a deeper, you know, underlying sense of like he just doesn't belong.
similar to not wanted not loved you know they're all bedfellow and at the end i said welcome to the
gang that you were never not a part of yeah humanity life right and that itself like because he was
worried it started with instagram posts he's like you know i'm always worried about the one person
who doesn't like my posts oh my god if i worried about the one person didn't like my post
yeah i've been a hole somewhere but it's something we can all relate to you know like we get nine
compliments and one criticism, that's the one that keeps us up at night. It's so true.
Because what it does is it triggers that part of us that we're here to reconcile.
Especially if it hits close to that sensitive part that we've protected with our ego, especially
if it does that. How do we become more aware? It's through talking to people like yourself
that makes me more aware of the stages that I went through. But I won't say that I consciously
said, okay, I've recognized my ego, I've dismantled my ego. I'm now this person, not that
person. It happened to me by circumstance, being frustrated with, you know, where I was, really
wanting a material change in my life. And along with that came this profound, deep sense of joy,
connection, satisfaction. And now I'm conscious of what really feeds my soul, for lack of.
a better words, you know, where I really draw true enjoyment, which is almost entirely from
the close to the inner circle of my family. Like I live for these in-betweens with my kids and
my wife and the time that I, you know, get to spend with them just being real. Yeah. And I would
exchange any monetary cycle in my life, you know, for those moments. Yeah. And it usually is
very basic things. Like in in the woods, driving racers around on the property, getting
the work out in with my sons, you know.
Yeah. But how do we begin this journey of even getting in touch with our ego?
Because sort of by its very nature, it's asking us to invite the question of whether or not
we're not really in control or haven't been in control, which has his own set of issues, right?
Huge, yeah.
So I think drawing awareness to the fact that, I mean, the ego.
is really, really detrimental.
It's the greatest adversary of our life.
And yet, for that reason, the ultimate form of accomplishment.
And a lot of people, you know, the ego gets a bad rap.
And ego, to me, is interchangeable with persona, personality, persona identity.
It's just really like the you that you are for yourself.
Peter, Gary, you know, it's like, whatever.
And then it's got all of these undercurrents of, like, narratives that are, like, deleterious.
So start with his awareness.
right like I say these two main buckets that I deal with is awareness to Carl Jung said you know
until the unconscious is made conscious it will rule your life and you'll call it fate right
so you know the traditional definition of guru in Sanskrit is one who brings light so awareness
is really bringing light to that which you can't see a blind spot you know the number of times
I've worked with someone oh my god I've that's been there for 40 years yeah and it's that
like it's that sneaky you know and yet it's the greatest game of foot to me like this is the
game and you know when I start my three month mastermind helping people understand and teach all
of this you know I always say you're not going to survive this mastermind because the you
that arrived is not going to be the you that leaves right so and that's a good thing right yeah yeah
and so it's helping them understand that really who you are for yourself the opportunity is
to break out of that like it's this sort of invisible like straight jacket for the soul you know right
and so how do we get there we have to first of all one of the best ways is really to become sufficiently
aware not necessarily even of your constraints but have become aware of the effects of circumstance right
you know the thing is in this day and age we've got so many means of escape right to meaning placate
suffering and pain yeah right fill in the blank you know food being probably one of the first of
earliest ones, right? The early adopters of a, you know, comfort. And then, of course, we've got
alcohol, nicotine, they were early on. And now we go. Just things to keep our mind busy.
Because, you know, being present, being silent, I mean, years ago was a very difficult thing
for me. I never liked to sit in silence. So it constantly filled my time. And I think a lot of
us do that. Yeah. You know, the moment, you know, we arrived to a meeting, we're five minutes
early we can't actually just sit in the lobby and wait to be calling we've got to get on the phone
we've got to get that stimulus we've got to because maybe it's you know it's a threat to be with
our own thoughts yeah that's the awkward silence on a first date yeah it's not awkward silence it's just
silence and then you're left with your internal dialogue which is awkward right right yeah
you're left with your internal dialogue which is awkward yeah i hope they don't find out what
I think about yourself which of course then you go into marriage and hope to be
protect for the next 20 years until you can't do it anymore and then they're like screw you i'm out of here
you know yeah yeah take your trials and tribulations and internal conversations to the next yeah my wife
is always telling me you're lucky you don't hear the internal conversations going going to get rid of that
so i'm going to work on no that's great i'm excited for you to work with sage you know as a as an
arabidic practitioner um yeah too which i find fascinating that you've sort of melded all of these
things this left brain right brain uh ancient wisdom ancient uh ancient practice of medicine the oldest oldest
all this form of medicine.
Yeah.
They have these different, I don't want to misdescribe them, but bonymorphic images and
or body morse, for lack of better words, pita, vata, kaffa.
Yeah.
I think I'm a pita kaffa.
Yeah.
And when it was described to me, it was incredibly, you know, spot on.
I have all the manifestations of it or run hot, you know, all those things.
Where does that play into all of this?
because as an aerobic practitioner, you don't just put that aside.
No, no, it's a beautiful compliment to the work.
You know, for me again, since I started like you, human biology, exercise physiology,
I was a trainer to the stars for a few years, sculpting bodies.
That was great, but it's dense, right?
This stuff takes a while to shift.
And most of the people that go on the track that you and I are on don't wind up where you are.
No.
Right?
Yeah.
No, I feel very fortunate that I slipped into this through my own sort of trials and tribulations
fucking around finding out and go through a ton of my own suffering.
I kind of break through the other side.
What was more helpful?
The fuck around or the find out part?
I think they were sort of inextricably connected.
Can't have one without the other.
So I think, yeah, it's sort of, it's a calling.
It's even on chat GPT, look up Peter Crone.
They're like, oh, his is more, it's not a work.
It's so much as a movement and a calling.
It's like, so really I have the audacity now to think that I can truly shift the course of
humanity by ending human suffering because really we're running a redundant operating system,
which is based on survival.
So, you know, when we get out of that, then it's literally an entirely different frequency
to live from.
It's an entirely new domain and world.
So, yeah, for me to, like, why I got there is, again, I just felt like I saw the
matrix, you know, like not just the movie, but the world that we live in, you know,
that will be at a film from, it's hard to believe they made that 25 something years ago,
maybe more.
And it was so spot on, but it was a documentary about human life, you know.
And so for me, for whatever, call it cosmic, my karma, my astrologers will always say,
I've got Mercury and Jupiter in the first house, you're a guru, you're a great communicator,
you articulate these intricate patterns, you make the profound, palatable, and so it's just Dharma,
you know, it's like, why are you brilliant of what you do?
Like, this is my realm of genius.
And so I feel blessed, fortunate that I can truly dissolve suffering.
I say I don't solve problems anymore, I dissolve them.
So for me to get to that place where I can remember my ski instructed for a while too
one summer during college and I had two people at the top of a slope and I'd watch them
come down on paper identical, you know, different name and family and, you know, astrology
and whatever.
But they had same body, same experience, same equipment, but one was super timid and one was
just like, go for it.
You know, that to me then I started to see it's not hardware, it's software.
Yeah.
And so then I was like, okay, this is like, okay.
if I can change the software, then I completely and directly impact hardware.
And that's why the mind for me sits out the body.
Because if you have code that is, I'm not good enough, I'm this, I'm that, then your body is living in that sort of hostile derogatory environment.
So at some time, depending on your constitution, you know, if you're cuffer, great, then I can understand that you can withstand.
Oh, yeah, you're charged through it.
You're thick as, you know, tough as nails.
Your skin is thick, you know, literally, but also figuratively, you know.
If you're pitta, then yes, you're going to have inflammatory disorder.
So where it helps me in my work is it's supportive in as much as I know of utter person,
more like a sage, and they're going to struggle more with future propositions that are like
worst-case scenarios, which then what's that going to create?
Fear, anxiety, worry.
How does that manifest in the physiology?
Might eventually become Hashimoto's adrenal fatigue because you're too busy like the hamster on the
wheel, trying to figure what's going to happen because really you're being driven from the
concern that you're not going to be okay.
Yeah. Pull the rug from beneath. It's like, oh, then all of a sudden the physiological impacts
dissipate. It's a person. I know they're going to run hot. What does that mean emotionally?
They're the perfectionist. Light, fire brings the ability to see. So you and I have the capacity
to see things other people can't see. But when it's out of balance, that becomes perfectionism,
maybe even tyranny. Right? The CEOs that we work with, they're visionaries. They see. But if they're out of whack
and it's built on a foundation of not enough, then that has to be, they have to be in that
position. They have to be right. But fire when it's balanced is inspiration, it's teachers. It's
people who see, they can help you see without making it a judgment or making you wrong. And then
our beautiful, you know, kaffirs, like I said, they're a cumulative disorder. So I understand that they're
going to hold on to things. They're going to be stuck in their history. They're going to tend
towards things like depression, guilt, shame. They're holding on. There's a heaviness. It's a
It's hard for them to get out a relationship and a job.
There's a density.
So they need, you know, I can speak to a kaffa way tougher than I can speak to a Vata
who needs a little bit more mulley cuddling.
It's okay, don't worry about it.
They want to feel safe.
They don't feel, you know, secure in themselves because they're all up in the ethers.
Again, brilliant, tapped in.
Like, you know, they're so enthusiastic about life.
They're passionate.
They're spontaneous.
They're the great PR and marketing people, you know.
They're enthused, but then they collapse, you know.
They get things really quickly.
They forget them just as quickly, you know.
They're going to long term end up in the Parkinson's and Alzheimer's because they're degenerative disorders.
Right.
So I can pull from all of these different energies.
And then immediately when someone's telling my story, you know, almost unconsciously, I can see, okay, well, they're a pitts a predominant person.
They're going to be super self-critical.
You know, so where did they hear from a teacher, a high school coach, a mom, a dad that, you know, I have one of my MLB guys.
He could go four for five at a baseball game, which is batting 800.
And he'd still kind of walk around like on his chin on his chest.
And I'm going, what's up?
You know, and he's like, well, I could have, you know, I could have done better.
I'm like, where did you learn that?
And he's like, well, I don't know.
We'd go home from games and my dad would always say, what happened at the fifth at bat?
Yeah.
You know, so he's still in that code of like it wasn't quite enough.
You know, I heard you say there's, there are plenty of male professional athletes that are male professional athletes because they wanted to prove their father wrong.
Yeah.
And it just shows how profound these voices are.
Yeah.
there's nothing more there's no greater virus than a thought and to me you know there's nothing
that hurts us more than our own thinking and when you really get that so to go back to your question
how people can start look at the impact of the way that you talk to yourself over time sometimes
it's not so obvious because it comes normalized or as we discuss you you learn to escape the pain
you know even medication which is a medication right it's drugs like no one's taking medication
in pharma medication is preventative or curative right if you have to get a refill you don't have
a medicine you have a drug very simple distinction right and so that's the first thing to see
anyone out there on any form of medication whether it's social media actual drugs street or
recreational prescribed food sex Netflix you know look at the effect you know how many people say
they have dreams and aspirations get in shape you know create a business start a homestead
whatever people are passionate about but you're not doing it why there's an effect but you've just
become okay with it people become resigned and cynical they're no longer like actually enthusiastic
for their life it becomes normalized right so that's one of the places to look at because normal is safe
you know I mean it occurs as safe yeah it's actually the day most dangerous way to live yeah
yeah I totally agree with you yeah wow um I that was that was amazing um Peter I mean first
Where can my audience find out more about you?
Just my name is everywhere, like in terms of all the platforms, meaning it's not everywhere,
everywhere, but it's petercrone.com for a website.
It's at petercrone for Instagram, my LinkedIn, my Facebook.
Yeah, so I think my Instagram is probably the most informative.
Like I don't post pictures of me, you know, with cars and salads.
It's all like hopefully, it's all hopefully inspirational clips.
I don't know, people do.
So inspiring.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
your Lamborghini and your quinole salad.
Exactly.
Here's my lunch today.
No, I like to take clips from beautiful conversations like this.
Hopefully it's super informative.
If people want to see live in action when I'm working with people, because everyone can relate.
You know, that's a beauty.
I can work with six people in front of hundreds and, yeah, everybody got something because,
oh, my God, that's how I feel, you know, so the vicarious effect.
It's why I always take questions from the audience, too, because somebody brave enough to raise
their hand and ask the question, and there's somebody five seats away.
That's the exact same question.
100%.
And somebody who didn't even know they needed the question.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Well, fantastic.
I don't think I've ever been more excited to ask a guest this question because I end all my podcasts by asking the same question.
And then after this, we're going to go into my VIP group and they have some special questions for you.
I have this group of called the ultimate human VIPs.
And this is the community that I'm really trying to build to influence the world.
and I let them know ahead of time who's coming on the podcast.
So they have some questions for you.
Okay, great.
But I end all my podcasts by asking every guest the same question
and there's no right or wrong answer.
But what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?
What does it mean to be an ultimate human?
I think I already have a predisposition because of my work.
To be a being who not only embraces their humanity,
but recognizes the misidentification,
with it such that they can really live from the essence of who we are and therefore experience
true freedom love and possibility from the essence of who we are that's a big distinction yeah because
most people are most people are trying to get away from something they don't want right even with the
people you where they have their issue the high you know hypertension and like the whatever's going on
in their physiology so most people again I say you'll never create the life you want by trying to
fix a life you don't want. And that's the way that most people are currently wired. I have my
problems, health, wealth, relationships. How do I fix it? Which only perpetuates it. That's trying
to get away from something. If you're more proactive, you're at least working towards something.
But they're both based in time. And for me, I want to live from something, the essence of who
we are. So that is to be the ultimate human being is to live from the essence of the timeless,
limitless beings that we all.
If it's not the best answer I've had so far, it's up there.
Hundreds of episodes.
Peter, this was absolutely amazing, brother.
Thank you so much.
I'm looking forward to continuing to get to know you and following your work.
You definitely piqued my interest, and I think my audience is going to absolutely love this.
Thank you.
Guys, until next time, that's just science.
