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A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Physical and Emotional Recovery with Christopher Maher - E65
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Pushing through pain and powering ahead can feel like a badge of honor, especially for high achievers. But ignoring your body’s warning signs often leads to burnout, chronic injury, and a disconnect from your true potential.
This episode unpacks how tuning in to your body’s signals, breaking the cycle of self-imposed limits, and seeking help can transform even the toughest setbacks into renewal and strength. You’ll hear real-world lessons from someone who learned, quite literally, that the only way out of pain was through, and who now shares a radically different blueprint for building lasting health from the inside out.
Christopher Maher is a former US Navy SEAL whose journey spans military service, Chinese medicine practice, and holistic health innovation. After a demanding career that included overcoming significant physical challenges, Christopher shifted his focus to body intelligence, blending Western and Eastern health philosophies. He is the author of "Free for Life: A US Navy SEAL's Path to Inner Freedom and Outer Peace" and works with others to help them recalibrate body and mind. Christopher teaches and consults through his practice, True Body Intelligence, integrating practices rooted in physical resilience, stress release, and energetic balance. He is also the host of the True Body Intelligence Podcast, a speaker, coach and entrepreneur.
“The more tension and the more stress I removed out of my body… my body moved in a different way.” - Christopher Maher
In this episode you will learn:
- How his experience as a US Navy SEAL influenced his understanding of resilience, mindset, and the importance of being soul-driven.
- How pain and physical breakdown prompted a reassessment of his health, leading to a holistic wellness journey focused on integrating body, mind, and soul.
- How stoicism, while useful in high-pressure environments, can become limiting when overused, especially when addressing personal pain.
- Practical steps he took to recover and rebuild - from eliminating processed foods and daily stimulants, to shifting from tension-building exercise to tension-releasing movement, and incorporating help from others.
- The integration of traditional Chinese medicine, energetic practices, and daily rituals like meditation and sauna work to access deeper layers of health, energy, and self-awareness.
- Why continued internal work is central to his purpose today, and how these practices can benefit not just the individual, but also contribute positively to the collective.
Resources
- Connect with Christopher on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christopherleemaher
- Learn more about True Body Intelligence and its offerings: https://truebodyintelligence.com/
- Listen to the TBI Podcast: https://truebodyintelligence.com/tbi-podcast/
- Buy his bestselling book, ‘Free For Life’: https://truebodyintelligence.com/free-for-life/
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Transcript
A Sobering Conversation with the Body
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The conversation my body was having with me was very sobering and unrelenting. And it said, look, you're in pain and I'm going to continue to keep dishing it out until you slow down and you reach out and you ask for help.
Introduction to Home of Health Spam Podcast
00:00:22
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This is the Home of Health Spam podcast, where we profile health and wellness role models, sharing their stories and the tools, practices, and routines they use to live a lively life.
00:00:35
Speaker
Christopher, it is a pleasure to be here with you today. And I have a lot of questions following your background and the the journey you've taken since.
00:00:47
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And before we jump into that, I'm just curious, how would you describe yourself?
Christopher: The Lively Investigator
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I would describe myself as a lively, heretical investigator.
00:00:58
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Heretical investigator. And I think anybody hearing that can start to understand why I'm so excited about diving into Christopher's journey.
Mindset Over Muscle: Lessons from a Navy SEAL
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Because at one end, i mean, what your background as a Navy SEAL, one side, you know, it's the elite of the elite.
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But there's something with the elite that's also kind of somewhat of a known path. of where you're going. And I don't think what you've done since is the common path for a lot of Navy SEALs.
00:01:30
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And getting into Chinese medicine, and and I'm really curious on the role, because I think a lot of people think of SEALs for the ah peak physical aspects.
00:01:45
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But i what i a friend of mine, Rich Devaney, was ah a SEAL and and talked about is it's the mindset. And I think that's really been the driving force of your work since leaving and in your discovery. So can you talk a little bit about a little bit of your time in the SEALs, but more kind of what happened after you left?
Spiritual and Mental Focus in SEAL Training
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It's interesting. You know, when you go to SEAL training, There's a lot of big guys, like they're big, they're muscular, like they look the part, right? Like Adonis on steroids. and but not to imply that they're on steroids, but to just say that, you know, they were just physically, genetically endowed. And then, you know, i had 149 guys in my class, we graduated 13 original guys.
00:02:31
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And so if you look at the attrition rate, that's what 92, 93%. And the guys that made it through, well, they weren't those guys, right? They were the guys that had a strong mind that had, um, that were grounded emotionally.
00:02:49
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And I think we're focused spiritually. When I say spiritually, i mean, they're just guys that do things the right way. When other guys were out Friday night and Saturday night and Sunday night and you know getting high on alcohol and you know wasting a lot of their time and energy and coming to work on Monday, those guys were eventually going to fall out of the program. But the guys that just sort of stuck to their narrative of who it is they really are inside, they were just these guys are just like that. like
00:03:22
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When I was in SEAL training, I remember walking around and most of the guys that I talked to and I had a bond with, they seemed familiar to me. At a soul level, I was like, I swear I know this person.
00:03:35
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And I realized in retrospect is, yeah, I didn't know them because they were raised in Wisconsin or they were raised in Nebraska. They were raised in Atlanta. i never ah We never crossed paths physically before, but I recognized the soul.
00:03:52
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Right. And all the guys that I bonded with, there was all all those guys graduated. There was just because there was just something inside of us that was different than the other guys that went to SEAL training. And besides the mindset, I would say there's there's there's the mental mindset, a strong mind. And then there's a person who's spiritually focused on doing the right thing.
Soul vs. Personality: Resilience and Fearlessness
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And what I mean by that is they're clear on their vision. of what it is and their purpose of why their soul is here. And if you're clear on why your soul is here, then you're soul driven.
00:04:27
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And if you're soul driven, the soul compared to the personality, the personality is fragile. Okay. The soul is unfazed by anything.
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It's fearless in all times. It doesn't care. Your soul doesn't care if you can see or if you can smell, if you have hearing in one ear or if you have one leg.
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The soul doesn't care. It's willing to endure everything because that's the spark that's connected to God.
Unyielding SEAL Standards
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And that's part. And the more those guys, the the guys that graduate are more connected to that part of themselves. Of course, there's some guys that squeak through that that isn't the main driver for them. But I think if you look at the guys like that are out in the public, David Goggins.
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if If you look at Jocko Willink, if you look at myself, right there's just something that's very similar about all the guys that are out in the public. And you know they're there for service.
00:05:28
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but They want to serve humanity powerfully. And they're there for a bigger reason than just... getting through SEAL training, getting into the SEAL teams and being an elite operator.
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They have a bigger vision. And so I think that that that spark inside of me is something that I was always aware of.
00:05:51
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I just needed the system or the structure to be able to evolve my personality through. And SEAL training was the perfect place for me to evolve that part of myself through because it's a non-compromising community.
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They accept nothing except the best. That's it. Everything else is unacceptable. Tardiness is unacceptable. Laziness is unacceptable.
00:06:18
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Mistakes are unacceptable. Half-heartedness is unacceptable. And so you have to show up every day and push up against this system that says, we will squeeze the best out of you or you will fail and you will walk out of here.
Pain as a Catalyst for Change
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So you were distinguishing the soul from, it the personality? from From some people have a strong mind, right? Like mentally, but the soul is very different because the soul is fearless.
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It doesn't care. And is that universal? I guess that's my question. yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the question. The question is the soul is, is universal, but many people are very sort of,
00:07:01
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Guys that are mentally focused or guys that are just physically focused, that can only take you so far, right? There's a limitation to physical focus. There's a limitation to mental focus.
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There's no limitation to soul focus. In soul focus, I'm being driven by a force that's greater than me. By mental focus, I'm relying on the strength of my mind.
00:07:24
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Muscling through it kind of mentally. Yeah. on physical focus, I'm relying on the strength of my body, but in soul focus, none of those things matter. Yeah. It's a revision of Nietzsche's, you know he who has a why to live for it can endure almost anyhow, but it, what you're saying, it needs to be the right why. Yeah. It needs to be that.
00:07:42
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Yeah. And so was this an inner knowing, you were conscious of going in or was it something that through the process and through your journey since you've come to to realize how how aware were you?
00:07:57
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I think I was really aware of that part of myself because, you know, in terms of like the hard work and all those kinds of things, none of that stuff in SEAL training ever fazed me. It never bothered me. It never tired me out. I wasn't somebody who went home at the end of the day and was ever like, I'm exhausted.
00:08:15
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That never happened for me. That happened for a lot of guys around me. But what I'm alluding to, the idea I'm alluding to is that there's just certain guys that are living from their soul strength.
00:08:32
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And for those guys they're indomitable, not from ego. They're indomitable from the sense that they know who they are and why they were created.
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And they're simply following the breadcrumbs that they agreed to follow when they got here. They're aware that there's something greater than them. And they're letting that drive them as opposed to relying on the fragile,
00:09:00
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um conditioned personality. And so that that got you through not just the training, but obviously people think that the how weak and the training is the part. You're like, no, that's that's just getting you set up to then go do the work of the job.
00:09:17
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But then I guess coming out the other side, you still had that soul, that inner drive, but it sounded like maybe your body started to send you some
The Body's Plea for Change: Ailments and Insights
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signals. Yeah.
00:09:28
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Yeah, it sent me some loud signals. It said, listen, yeah, there are limitations to your body. And yeah, you might be living on sole purpose, but you have to respect your body, Christopher.
00:09:40
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You need to slow down. You need to recalibrate. You have to look at your limiting beliefs, and you have meaning you have to reassess and you have to walk forward in a different way because your your body can't handle the strength of your soul.
00:09:58
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Where it is currently. So let's take a half step back and let's reassess and let's call in some people who can help you start to understand what it takes to build a truly intelligent body that's aligned with the power that's in your soul.
00:10:16
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And if you can do that, you can be really effective and you can change the world that you live in in a very positive way. And so could we unpack kind of the three phases of that? Like one, the the conversation your body is trying to have with you, what that looked like, what that felt like, what that journey is. And then then we get to the the help and the journey of learning. And then from that, the journey of then teaching others to to learn the same.
00:10:42
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The conversation my body was having with me was one that was very sobering and unrelenting. And it said, look,
00:10:54
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You're in pain and I'm going to continue to keep dishing it out until you slow down and you reach out and you ask for help. And so my first bit of pain I had was plantar fasciitis.
00:11:08
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And then, of course, I kept training because I got a CLT mindset. Right. And I kept training through that. And then I ended up with runner's knee. OK, then I ended up with iliotibial band friction syndrome.
00:11:23
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okay And then I had compartment syndrome in my left calf. And then I shifted from compartment syndrome to ah rupturing of bursa in my left hip.
00:11:36
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And then I ended up with low back stiffness on the left. And then I ended up with frozen shoulder syndrome. on the left. And then I ended up with a cyst growing on my left wrist. So like I literally couldn't carry groceries with my left hand and grass for back grocery bags.
00:11:56
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And then I ended up with an inability to turn my head tool to the left, which means now it's dangerous when I'm driving. Right. So I have to turn, imagine you're driving. Now I have to turn my whole body.
00:12:08
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instead of my head every time I'm changing lanes. Right? So now it's, it's, it's getting more risky. And then I started losing. the first thing I started losing was my hearing in terms of my sense organs.
00:12:20
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Then I started losing my vision and then I started losing my sleep. And then when my sleep went into this insufficient, ah inconsistent level of rest, then all of my symptomology, it got more intense.
00:12:42
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Right. But of course I kept training because I got a CLT mindset. And once I put my soul in a specific direction, there's no stopping me. And the only thing that did stop me and make me reassess was the pain. So in the end, the pain was the thing that woke me up the most.
00:13:03
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It was the thing that got me to say, hey, slow down. You have basically you have to change. What was the time frame on this? Yeah, that time frame would have been 1997 is when it first started to show up And that went on until I had successfully interrupted it 2001.
00:13:25
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Okay. okay So for your period. And when you slowed down, what did slowing down mean for
From Stoicism to Seeking Help
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you? Because it might not mean the same for other people depending on where they are, right?
00:13:37
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Well, what happened is is that all happened. And I've left out the most important thing was in 1999, was in a car accident. I was in Ocean Beach driving to teach class, fitness class that I was teaching, and this car ran the red light and T-boned my car.
00:13:59
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And then after that, i could never get away from the pain. The pain that comes and goes, It's you can deal with it. OK, but pain that never leaves eventually says, hey, you better wake up.
00:14:18
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Because it's getting worse. And then at some point I just did what I needed to do. I reached out to someone and I told them, hey, look, man, I'm in pain, which I think for me was a big hurdle to to get over.
00:14:32
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Because in the SEAL teams, you're going to SEAL training, you're never complaining to anyone. like I don't ever remember anyone coming to me going, man, this sucks. Or like you don't want the guy next to you to know that like you're you're you're struggling internally.
00:14:47
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So there's a certain amount of stoicism that you have. That I think the guys that graduate from SEAL training, they already have that level of stoicism, right?
00:14:57
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It's not something that you, that that's pushed into you as you're going through that program. You already have that. You're already a stoic person, right? And my stoicism was a limiting belief.
00:15:12
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And the more stoic I became, the more pain I endured. And then finally, when I let someone in on my internal discomfort, somebody came over and they helped me out. Right. They brought a yoga mat to my house and a juicer.
00:15:25
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And my favorite beverage at the time was beer. Right. Guinness versus like a carrot, beet, celery, parsley, radish juice.
00:15:37
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I was going to take the beer every time.
00:15:42
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So yeah I basically had to change how I did everything. I changed the way that I ate. I changed the way that I moved and i invited people in. And the more people that I invited in to help me, the faster my wellness trajectory changed.
00:15:59
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Right. I literally went from being on like a slow level escalator at the airport or the mall to being on an elevator. And then once I got on the elevator and I met people who could teach me how to work on myself, because I've always been self-focused, self-disciplined, then i was able to grow exponentially.
00:16:24
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You talked about the stoicism as a limiting belief. And I want to run this by you to see what you think of it more as a tool yeah that in certain situations serves you really well.
00:16:35
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Yeah. But when it becomes your only tool. Yes. Then it becomes really problematic. Yeah. Yeah. Because you can, you can turn on that way of being and no one knows how you're really feeling, including you because the stoicism is a mask. Yeah.
00:16:54
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That disallows you to crumble underneath the weight and pressure that you're under. Right. But there are times for you to actually feel the impact of things so that you can measure whether or not this is good for you.
00:17:15
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But when you're stoic all the time, you're just driving ahead with goals in mind without understanding that, hey, there's a cost for what you're doing because you can't feel the cost in the moment.
00:17:29
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Because your stoicism overrides you're the the true level of sensation that you should be tuning into. Like if I go on a 14-mile run and I come back home, I should feel tired.
00:17:43
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That was a lot of effort. But if I'm just like, oh my God, ah should go take a nap. But I override myself with like, no, there's this other thing that I need to get done today.
00:17:56
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And I keep overriding, I keep overriding, I keep overriding. What eventually what happens for me is I became numb to pain. And then I couldn't even feel emotional pain. So I might be in an interpersonal romantic relationship that ends.
00:18:10
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I really care about this person. And yet they can't feel the pain or the discomfort that I'm in. Their takeaway is like, oh, well, just this didn't have any effect on him.
00:18:24
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He obviously didn't care. And nothing could be further from the truth because I don't have the ability to access the feelings inside of me. And I think that that mindset that I had was, it it it was limiting.
00:18:39
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It limited my life expression. How old were you once you recognized that? Yeah, I was probably 33. so like a decade before me. Because you know I was an open water swimmer, so I'd swim up to 25 kilometer races. Yeah.
00:18:54
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And when you talk about the numbing, right, like feeling pain was handicap. So I taught myself to ignore the signs in my body, ye which carried over. So when I would train, like you, I had plantar fasciitis and just...
00:19:08
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would run through it lift weights and bursitis and just don't don't care. Don't rest. Uh, and realized my body's trying to send me signs, but I, it's a language that I forgot, right? Like as a children, we hear and we can listen. We're in tune, but I guess maybe seals and endurance athletes, others, others, you train yourself to, to lose that language because it serves you. But again, it's a tool that serves you in one environment and is a handicap in another.
00:19:37
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I imagine at 33, this wasn't an overnight flip, right? This is a and a journey. So it sounded like it started with maybe nutrition and how you moved your body in a different way. And so can you take us through what that journey was, that kind of timeline?
Relaxation and Sensory Focus
00:19:54
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Yeah. Yeah. That journey was, well, the very first thing was really just to... No, I got rid of all the daily acceptable drugs in my life. Right. So I got rid of my relationship with white and brown sugar.
00:20:09
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ah got rid of my relationship with alcohol. I got rid of my relationship with pharmaceutical drugs, painkillers like Maltrin. I got rid of my relationship with recreational drugs, marijuana, alcohol.
00:20:22
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And I got rid of my relationship with processed food. Right. So food colorings, preservatives. And that alone was a huge shift for me.
00:20:33
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So um the other thing that changed is instead of putting tension in, I spent the majority of my time taking tension out. I think as athletes, I enjoyed moving my body. I enjoyed competition. It was fun for me.
00:20:50
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So what became more important to me is is how I felt in my body. right So as I started to remove tension and stress into structural distortion, what I mean by structural distortion is every muscle in your body is is connected to two tendons, and those tendons connect those muscles to your bones.
00:21:13
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a When the belly of the muscle becomes too short, it puts an unnecessary amount of stress on the bone that it's connecting to. And all bones have what are called rotational relationships.
00:21:25
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So as you remove the tension out of the belly of the muscle, you change the bone rotational relationship. Well, what sits between your bones always is a joint. So now the more tension and the more stress I remove that of my body, the inter- bone rotational relationships changed.
00:21:46
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And when that changed, my body moved in a different way. How did you release that tension? By using what are called eccentric contractions, right? So I put a heavy load of weight on my body in a particular position and I would lower the weights as slow as humanly possible.
00:22:08
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And then that caused the muscle to contract maximally and lengthen simultaneously. And now I was pulling out, you know, generations, like decades of tension strikes. Go ahead. You had a question.
00:22:19
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I was curious what exercises you would do that with. I would do so. I would take yogic postures. Right. And i recruited my friends and i would resist against their force maximally.
00:22:34
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And then they would beat my force. Right. And I would do rep after rep after rep after rep. And we would work on each other for like three and four hours at a time. Like we were getting after it.
00:22:47
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And we were really building a whole new science at that time. And we did that for seven years straight. And we figured out every single position you need to get into in order to remove any kind of excessive st stress or tension that was putting unnecessary stress on your bones and joints.
00:23:09
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And then the end result of that was like an incredible posture. Right. But incredible structural strength and resilience, I would imagine. and resilience. Yes. Energetic
Chinese Medicine: Balancing Energy and Senses
00:23:21
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resilience. Because what I didn't know at the time, I didn't study traditional Chinese medicine when I first got started.
00:23:25
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You know, my first three years into doing what I was doing in terms of research, Chinese medicine came later. For me, it was just physical in the beginning. I could see that like emotionally I was more available. i could see that psychologically, in terms of I was using different language, my penmanship was changing. I knew there was these deep kinds of things shifting inside of me, but I didn't put the energetic component together until I started studying Chinese medicine. And then once I studied that,
00:23:54
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I was able to go, oh so this change that I'm experiencing is related to the release of excessive heat, the release of excessive dampness in the body, the release of excessive energy.
00:24:08
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okay And so because the Chinese, when they look at the body, either you're deficient Right. Or you're excess. You're either too hot or you're too cold. You're either too weak or you're too strong.
00:24:19
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And so what I was doing was balancing all of that out. I was balancing out the energy. I was balancing out the bone rotational relationships. I was balancing out the tension. I was balancing out the temperature.
00:24:32
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And as I continued to keep doing that more and more, I started packing massive amounts of energy back into my body. And then what happened is my vision corrected itself. And in my hearing, it turned back on.
00:24:45
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And then my sleep changed. And then my smell increased. And then in my taste increased. So suddenly, instead of like looking for really savory or sweet foods, I was...
00:24:58
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tuned in to all the natural flavors in food. So I got rid of all the sauces. I got rid of the excessive salts, all the excessive spices. And because my senses became so strong, I've got satisfaction out of bland food.
Unlocking Energetic Power through Taoism
00:25:16
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In adding in the Chinese medicine layer and component, Did that unlock more for you than just having a vocabulary or understanding the why behind the what that you were doing?
00:25:28
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Absolutely. Because when they when you're going to school, they have what's called a clinic, right? And in the clinic, they treat people who are in the public. And then as a student, you can get a treatment for 10 bucks, right?
00:25:40
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So I was in there as often as possible. And there were things that were changing that I didn't understand. Right. But I knew we're good. i would be laying on a couch and suddenly I would have a vision of of, of the solar system in front of me and all the stars in our solar system. I was like way above them. I could look down and see the sun and the earth. I was like, Whoa, this is wild.
00:26:05
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And so I knew there were like these things, extrasensory perceptions that were getting activated, like these specialized systems inside of me, the more consistent I was with those treatments.
00:26:19
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And so now I started to develop a deeper interest in understanding those things. So I went to study at the Universal Healing Tao University Chiang Mai, Thailand with Grandmaster Ma Tak Chia.
00:26:32
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And I started studying that and getting a deep understanding there. And I was inspired to go into like a dark room. retreat for 28 days and absolute darkness and have those experiences. And, and so all of it was continuing to help me evolve into who I always was, but because of all the generational tension and all the generational trauma that was passed off to me through the epigenetic channels,
00:27:01
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from seven or 11 generations ago, all of that was suppressing my internal spiritual power and my energetic power. And so Chinese medicine and Taoism and Buddhism and meditation and Tai Chi and Qi Gong was helping to reactivate those dormant forms of intelligence that were sitting in my fourth, fifth and sixth strands of DNA that I no longer had access to.
00:27:32
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Wow. OK. And so how long was that? I mean, you're studying. Well, that study is still going on. So I study with mickey Dr. Mikio Sankin, who is the world's foremost authority in esoteric acupuncture.
00:27:46
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Right. And I see him probably for, I don't know, 50 treatments or 60 treatments a year. Right. Because, you know, I'm at this point where for me, it's all about evolution now, like because I realized the more I light up myself, the more it affects the collective mind. Right. So you have the theory of relativity e equals MC squared. Right.
00:28:09
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and Einstein, which was beneficial because it gave credence and the understanding of the mechanical. Right. Okay, but the problem was that he left out the most important part of that equation, which would be IC equals MC squared, right? Which means into individual consciousness equals mass consciousness times the speed of light, which influences me the most and motivates me the most. E equals MC squared gives me no internal motivation.
00:28:38
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But IC equals MC squared motivates me enormously because I know then... That everything that I do to myself that's positive affects everything else around me. And vice versa. Everything that you do that's positive affects everything around me as well at a subtle level.
00:28:56
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And so now I'm more motivated to do the things that I do in terms of the treatments and the healing and the growth and evolution of myself, because I understand that I am connected to a collective mind, to a collective will, to a collective soul that we all share here on earth.
Internal Self-Governance and Collective Well-being
00:29:14
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And I guarantee you, I'm going to do my part. I'm going to do my part to make this world a better place, except the way that I go about it is gonna be very different because I'm focused on the internal.
00:29:26
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Versus the external. Let's say someone wants to be a governor. They want to affect external policies, right? Forget that. I'm going to be the governor of me and I'm going to affect the internal policies inside of myself that govern me. And when I do that, I free everyone that I have that's in my sphere of influence.
00:29:44
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And so I'm constantly motivated to continue to grow because I can see the change in the world and all the growth that I have inside of myself. And so what does that work look like today? Right. Like the inner work never stops.
00:29:59
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What's the work look like today? Like on the practical, what it looks like is in my infrared sauna, seven minutes, 10 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes 20 minutes, depending on what I need that day. And during that time, i' running different attunements.
00:30:18
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So for instance, one attunement, which I think will be really beneficial for you, which you'll like, is is you're going to sit down in a meditative state. i do it in a sauna because I'm sweating at the same time. I like to stack things.
00:30:31
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And you would say to yourself 36 times in a row, Body-brain-nervous system locate, activate, stimulate, and turn on all divine dormant forms of intelligence, energy, frequency, vibration, love, light, presence, and consciousness inside of all 12 strands of DNA inside of each and every single cell within this human body.
00:30:56
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Your conscious mind is there to give directives to your subconscious and unconscious flesh and emotions. And when you give directives, then what happens is the body has to follow suit.
00:31:08
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So if I say body, brain, nervous system, locate, activate, stimulate, and turn on all divine dormant forms of intelligence, energy, frequency, vibration, love, light, presence, and consciousness embedded within all 12 strands of DNA inside each and every single cell with this human body.
00:31:29
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As I say that again and again and again and again, what happens is I'm recognizing my brain. And I'm building a neural pathway. Well, if I did that 10 days in a row, I've said it 360 times. If I did it a hundred times in a row, I gave my body, my brain and my nervous system, the same command to unlock, right? To activate and stimulate all the divine dormant forms of intelligence.
00:31:53
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Right. embedded within all 12 strands of DNA. You got to remember, we're on a third dimensional plane of existence, right? So first, second, to third dimension, that's what this universe is about. You know, this is the first Hubble universe, but then there's a universe higher than this, which governs the fourth, fifth, and sixth strands of DNA.
00:32:12
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right So when Earth descended from the fifth dimension from Tara down into where we are in this neutral part of this solar system, we essentially turned off the fourth, fifth, and sixth strands of DNA and our access to those divine dormant forms of intelligence, which are now we're just starting to wake up because of people like you and people like me.
00:32:35
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that are out in the world that are motivating people to get into practices that allow them to evolve beyond the intelligence that we picked up from our ancestors, right? Basic intelligence, the intelligence to be able to gather food, the intelligence to be able to commune, the intelligence to be able to pray, the intelligence to be able to provide. Those are all basic forms of intelligence. Yes, they're important, but they're third dimensional forms of intelligence.
00:33:04
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But now over the last 50 years, right, we've got into meditation, we've got into yoga, we've got into breath work, we've got into ah nonviolent communication, right? We're getting into higher forms of frequency and intelligence. And so when you're repeating that 36 times every day, while you're sitting in a sauna or in a meditative position,
00:33:26
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You're getting more intelligent every single to Every time I do it, the next day when I'm having a session with a new client, I'm in my observation consciousness and I'm watching myself dissect and deliver and dissolve forms of stress and tension and distortion that should be impossible with very little effort, time,
00:33:53
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and consideration just by increasing my intelligence. And so there's massive amounts intelligence that's available for every human to access. But if you don't give your body, your brain, and your nervous system the command to do so, it never will.
00:34:08
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It will only do what your parents gave you in their training during your parentage, right? Which what our parents gave us is, you know, I mean, It's like watching a football game from 1904. It's so ancient and outdated. Well, our lives can be much longer, but they can be also much more satisfying and much more complete, but much more elevated.
00:34:32
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Because if I elevate my intelligence, it means I can manipulate my environment more successfully to produce the results that I want. And if I'm soul-driven, Well, then my focus is on what is I'm providing opportunities for myself and for others that elevate their connection to the divine and allow them to honor their principles, their values, their ethics and their morals at the highest standard.
00:34:59
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Yeah. I mean, this this is really not the work of a lifetime, but I mean, potentially many lifetimes, right? yeah You're running through in the soul, the building, because it's moving from ah a capped environment, a ceiling of, hey, we're trying to reach this to this limitless. they're There are realms that we haven't even...
00:35:16
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reached yet. And Christopher, you have an absolutely beautiful soul. It comes through ah just in the the conversation, all the work you do. For those interested in learning more, following your work, potentially working with you, how would they find you?
00:35:30
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The first place they could go to Instagram. I, I post there less often, but there's a lot of posts that I've done that they could go through and listen to that are like 60 seconds or 30 seconds to give them a little piece.
00:35:43
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Uh, so they can understand stress and the effects of stress. And they can, I give them actionable steps that they can take to their own benefit. They can go to true body intelligence.com. And there they can read a book.
00:35:56
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They can order a book that I wrote called Free for Life, a U.S. Navy SEAL's Path to Inner Freedom and Outer Peace. And they could go to TBITrainingacademy.com if they're interested interested in learning how to impact people's lives. You know, maybe they're a meditation teacher or a growth specialist and they want to have tools that do what they say and say what they do, that answer the call, then they could come learn from me in that way. I think those are probably the three best outcomes.
00:36:29
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That's amazing. I mean, the inner work you have done and are doing clearly translates to an outer impact on a better world, better universe. So let me just thank you for that. And thank you for the time today and joining the show.
00:36:42
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Outro and Exploration Invitation
00:36:45
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Thank you for joining us on today's episode of the Home of Healthspan podcast. And remember, you can always find the products, practices, and routines mentioned by today's guests, as well as many other Healthspan role models on Alively.com.
00:36:57
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Enjoy a lively day.