Welcome to the OWN It Show! In this episode, your host Justin Roethlingshoefer interviews Dr. Alok Trivedi, President/CEO of Aligned Performance Institute, about the mind-body connection and the importance of integrating health, mind, body, and spirit to achieve true fulfillment and ownership in life.
Dr. Alok has a unique approach to rewiring the way people think to achieve their desired results. He discusses how positive and negative thinking are both important and how we can bring them together to create balance in our lives.
Justin and Dr. Alok also explore the self-help, mindset, and health space, which can often be noisy and overwhelming for many people. Dr. Alok shares his perspective on the importance of expertise and how too much marketing has infiltrated the health industry.
If you're looking to achieve true ownership and live a fulfilling life, this episode is a must-watch. Join Justin and Dr. Alok as they dive deeper into the mind-body connection and the importance of integrated health. Don't miss out on this insightful conversation!
mindset, health, self-improvement, ownership, personal development, success, motivation, inspiration, wellness, performance.
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Own It
Success is different so own your different!
Welcome to the OWN It Show! In this episode, your host Justin Roethlingshoefer interviews Dr. Alok Trivedi, President/CEO of Aligned Performance Institute, about the mind-body connection and the importance of integrating health, mind, body, and spirit to achieve true fulfillment and ownership in life.
Dr. Alok has a unique approach to rewiring the way people think to achieve their desired results. He discusses how positive and negative thinking are both important and how we can bring them together to create balance in our lives.
Justin and Dr. Alok also explore the self-help, mindset, and health space, which can often be noisy and overwhelming for many people. Dr. Alok shares his perspective on the importance of expertise and how too much marketing has infiltrated the health industry.
If you're looking to achieve true ownership and live a fulfilling life, this episode is a must-watch. Join Justin and Dr. Alok as they dive deeper into the mind-body connection and the importance of integrated health. Don't miss out on this insightful conversation!
mindset, health, self-improvement, ownership, personal development, success, motivation, inspiration, wellness, performance.
The Power of Ownership Book: pre-order link https://thepowerofownershipbook.com/
Let's connect:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justinroeth/
LinkedIn: //www.linkedin.com/in/justin-roethlingshoefer-ms-7252a766/
Own It
Success is different so own your different!
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Speaker 1
We have positive thinking, we have negative thinking, and we need to bring them together inside that because you don't have just one side and we have a dark side of ourselves and the negative side. We have to learn that we're both positive and negative but different time. If I can sit and tell you what is on it, on every aspect of who you are, the good, the bad, the highs, the lows, the every aspect of it, because they're all there as lessons for you to learn to appreciate yourself and live a life of gratitude.
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Speaker 1
This is the ONA.
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Speaker 2
Show where we tell stories of how everyday people made ownership theirs. Hey everybody, welcome back to the OWN It show. I'm your host Justin or I think show for and I can't tell you guys how excited I am today because if it's your first time here, we tell stories of people who have made ownership theirs and have found that true life of fulfillment, that true life of ownership and what that ultimately can bring to you, because we know that ownership equals freedom.
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Speaker 2
We know that a redefining of ownership is what allows you to lean into your God given purpose and realize that potential that exists inside of you. So we've got a whole bunch of shows that you can go back and look at. There's over 250 different episodes that you can walk through that are chock full of amazing guests and amazing nuggets in there.
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Speaker 2
And today is no different. And if you have been following us and kind of focused on what we talk about, we lean in heavily on this mind body connection and what it means to be truly centered, because we know that integrated health, mind, body, spirit are beautifully woven together and you can't treat them individual, you can't disintegrate them because when you disintegrate, you create disintegration.
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Speaker 2
And that's what happens in our health. It's what happens in our minds. This is what happens in our life as a whole. And today we've got Dr. Alok, who has to be honest with you, if you haven't watched any of his videos, if you haven't gone to his website, if you haven't looked at his social media, the way that he is able to articulate what he does from rewiring you and being able to change the way that you think to change your results is a really impactful.
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Speaker 2
I've never seen anybody communicate it this way before, which is ultimately why I wanted to bring him on and expose you guys to him because he's going to be able to really, I think, shift the way that you see things. And there's going to be so many nuggets drop today that you're going to be able to pick up on.
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Speaker 2
So Dr. Alok, it's a pleasure to have you on the show and thank you for spending some time with us.
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Speaker 1
Justin I'm so excited to be here, man. It's a lot of fun. Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 2
I really appreciate it. And I know we chatted a little bit at the beginning and this this self-help space, the the mindset space, the health space. It is so noisy, overwhelming, complicated, convoluted, confusing for everybody out there. And it's it's turned into this big marketing game. Who can have the loudest voice, who can be seen, who can be the most extreme?
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Speaker 2
Who can make you go, Hmm, that's weird. I've never seen that before. Maybe I should try this standing on my head doing push ups while holding my breath for 15 minutes to see if it actually does make me the most happiest person in the world. And so what has happened in our culture or what have you seen that has ultimately driven us to this direction?
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Speaker 2
And then what has your experience been that's allowed you to harness and communicate the way that you do in such a different way?
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Speaker 1
Well, I think it's a great question. It's two fold. I think the first part and the first question, I think it's social media. It's social and social media made it. Everyone become a coach, made everyone become people who are, quote unquote, experts are not really experts. And just because you have a story, everyone thinks that they can be a coach and guide people.
00:03:59:21 - 00:04:15:24
Speaker 1
Everyone has their story. They can help people, not take it away from them. What I'm saying is that there's an expertise level that's different. You have an expertise in what you do. I have an expertise in what I do well, especially when we talk about health, wellness and lifestyle. It's a completely different animal, and it's hard to sit and say that, look, everyone should be okay.
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Speaker 1
Looked like you can have lots of knowledge about it, but you know, the species, it's a lot of marketing out there for a lot of people. Does You can get six pack abs and look great. Everyone thinks that that's being healthy. It's just cut calories and that's all it is. And we know that that's not reality. We know that that's not our health is for.
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Speaker 1
And you need certain calories, you need certain macros, you need certain body parts. But people are listening to too many fans out there because it's become a marketing game, in my opinion, inside that. And I can't sit and say like, look, it's it's easy. It's, you know, you got to do a scroll through a real now it's not even used to look at posts now it's real and tick tock so it's just it now this is all you've got to do.
00:04:55:23 - 00:05:14:15
Speaker 1
If you can move your finger, you're in a social media business that's really what it comes down to. And content creation is easy to integrate. Well, it's not easy. It's for everybody. Anybody can do it. And there's no real filter to that. Actually, that's part of the things that one of my best friend and I, we created a healthy social media, which we can talk about further.
00:05:15:01 - 00:05:35:00
Speaker 1
It's it's called Good Self. It's about helping vetted experts actually get out there and give real vetted information so people can actually make informed decisions. And so that that's because that's a problem in the marketplace. Other people get informed decisions and informed processes to help someone to actually know what's good for them. Whether you're someone from a marketing gimmick.
00:05:35:00 - 00:05:52:02
Speaker 1
And you know what? If you're diabetic, all you have to do is eat one box of cookies and diabetes or go away. And you know what? There's nothing that regulates it. Anybody can say it. But the thing is that what if someone listens to it that could kill them and that advice could kill them. And so that's so I look at it from that standpoint.
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Speaker 1
Now, you know, the second part of your question was, I've been doing this thing for almost 25 years, like I'm not new to the game. I have studied everything from brain neuroscience to success principles to interpersonal neurobiology, pathophysiology, physiology. I'm a doctor. At the end of the day, I studied all that stuff. Then I've got study, quantum physics, neurobiology, interpersonal neurobiology, epigenetics and neurophysiology as it relates epigenetics, neurobiology.
00:06:15:19 - 00:06:38:02
Speaker 1
Because I wanted to understand, like you did Justin, is how does this whole thing, the mind body work? I wanted to master the game of that and I remember my first time I actually tried something and I created different processes. I figured out a long time ago and in my practice using a chiropractor. So I used to do a lot of work with the physical body and but I always knew that it wasn't a chiropractor, it wasn't a back pain or neck pain.
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Speaker 1
It was actually about neurologic tone. And I always knew those about neurologic tone as it were. Controls in neurology was also thinking it was always the way that we thought. I remember a patient came into my practice one time and I looked at his chart and then the third of the month, every single month in back pain. I'm like, What's the deal?
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Speaker 1
Why do you come back in the third of the month? Every day says, Well, you know, it's I don't know, like when did the studies it last night. What were you doing last night? It was the same over every month. I said, What was that? Are you with the wife or learning about money? And I was like, Oh, that's interesting.
00:07:11:22 - 00:07:29:12
Speaker 1
So. So every month you're arguing about money, about the mortgage rate because the mortgage is due on the fifth. So like, yeah, I guess that's it. I said, you know what? We're not going to touch on anything physically too. I'm just going to ask you some questions because I thought, I wonder if I could rebalance his brain and affect his entire neuro physiologic system.
00:07:30:17 - 00:07:50:18
Speaker 1
And I did. And I asked him 5 to 7 questions at that time. Don't you rebalance pieces of the brain now? So the price was primitive at the time. And then I kind of moved into it and then came back the next day. I said, How are you doing? He's like 85% better. That's interesting. 85% better. As a couple of questions, that's good.
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Speaker 1
Here's the interesting thing, though, is I want to ask those questions. That's fine. You get to the. Oh, yeah. Well, that was just that went away. He didn't come back on the third of the month afterwards, done those months because it was rewired. It was done. The whole stress impact, the psychosomatic stress factor was causing his entire body to go into a pattern and a system that was causing him physical ailment.
00:08:16:05 - 00:08:38:16
Speaker 1
And I said, hold on, I'm on to something here. And then I started doing this with other patients and my patients became my guinea pigs. And then we started doing more work around it. And then I started working with CEOs and entrepreneurs and businesspeople and and celebrities and athletes and professional sport. But it's just like you did. And it kind of just does spread kind of worldwide kind of what we're doing now.
00:08:38:18 - 00:08:39:22
Speaker 1
That's how the whole thing started for me.
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Speaker 2
It's amazing. It's it's so unique when we start to talk about it. And listeners, I'm sure you can relate to this is often we think about stress as this light switch moment where it's, hey, we turn the switch on stress, it's induced, were around it, let's flip it off, let's flip the switch off. But instead we actually have to consider stress as a dimmer switch.
00:09:02:07 - 00:09:31:06
Speaker 2
It's this scale that we're on that everything is stressful to us because mental, physical, spiritual, emotional. Our body doesn't know the difference between these forms of stressors. And as we're sitting here going and running a marathon or going and working out or going sitting and having a having to be aware and on for a podcast like this or going and having a conversation with your spouse or taking your kids to school or being on deep integrated meetings with your with your team for your business.
00:09:31:10 - 00:10:09:21
Speaker 2
They're all forms of stress. And whether we conceptualize that or not, our body has to handle it. And so that dimmer switch is something we have to figure out how to regulate, something that we have to figure out how to have signs and a process for how to ultimately help our body cope with that. And so I'm really curious, as you were able to start implementing this and going back to your example in the chiropractic world, what kind of shifted you away from actual physical chiropractic work to now the the work that you do with people every day?
00:10:10:12 - 00:10:38:14
Speaker 1
Oh, it's it's a great question because here's the thing is that I started doing this type of work and I'm not saying I cure anything when I make these statements. So, you know, I've put my disclaimer out there, but when I started doing this work, I started helping people with lupus and irritable bowel disease and Crohn's disease and and diabetes and type one diabetes, which these are all incurable diseases, like they're not just be cured and I've been able to reverse them simply by asking questions, by helping people rebalance the brain.
00:10:39:00 - 00:11:00:23
Speaker 1
And we've gotten the stressful incidents that have happened in their life and it started spreading and sort of going to more places. And I realized that really every part of the muscle in the body was part of the physiologic tone and I was like, I wonder if I can rebalance the tone by asking questions. And as soon as I figured that out, honestly, for me, Justin, it was like, Oh, the cause of it.
00:11:01:16 - 00:11:18:17
Speaker 1
What I'm doing is affecting symptoms, not the cause. I said, I always want to get to the cause of the problem. And so it was hard for me to go every day into practice knowing that I wasn't doing the greatest thing for someone's health. I wasn't doing the greatest thing for their life. I would tell you, don't take care of my back pain.
00:11:18:17 - 00:11:45:17
Speaker 1
It's like, okay, great. You know, they're paying us to pay me money to pay in good money. But I know realistically, in 3 to 4 weeks that that's coming back, the same pattern is going to repeat itself. It may be a little bit healthier. It was 4 to 6 months, but it's coming back because I know exactly topic became a very challenging ethical dilemma for me to continue to keep doing those things, knowing full well that I knew I had a better, better solution for them, but they weren't ready to hear it.
00:11:46:11 - 00:11:59:19
Speaker 1
People in practice weren't. They just wanted a quick fix. That's cool. I love that people that want that great. But I knew that I had some bigger to offer and I wanted. I wanted to get to them. And so that's why I kind of got away from physical practice. I still am in my I think I practice now.
00:11:59:19 - 00:12:12:07
Speaker 1
I just practice in 74 countries with my work and helping people rewire and I'm helping people heal all over the world now. So I feel like I'm still in practice. I'm just doing a different technique at a global level. That's kind of how I view it. At least.
00:12:12:22 - 00:12:33:10
Speaker 2
It's a real unique thing, and something that it resonates heavily with me is not doing the best thing for someone's health or not doing the best thing that you know is available. And I think anybody listening can start to resonate or really hear that as well, because.
00:12:34:01 - 00:12:34:14
Speaker 1
We've.
00:12:35:04 - 00:13:05:20
Speaker 2
We're uninitiated with information and just overwhelmed with constant ads and a barrage of quick fixes and I've always said if you're just utilizing the tool, the tool can be something really helpful. It could be a sauna, it could be a cool plunge, it could be a a certain stretch modality, it could be a new meal kit that gets delivered to your home.
00:13:05:20 - 00:13:33:06
Speaker 2
Whatever the tool is. If the tool isn't actually helping you get to root cause and helping change behavior or helping change a habit, it's just another drug just in a different form. That's all it is. And that's what we've started to be. Just come so accustomed to in our world is adding drugs to everything. And again, I use drugs with air quotes if you guys are just listening.
00:13:33:12 - 00:13:58:09
Speaker 2
So it's not actual physical drugs, it's some type that's taking the same place of that. And I think being able to get down and knowing each one of you guys out there, whether you're driving, working out, walking, cleaning your house, whether you're listening to this, you know what it's like to be doing something that you fully believe in, your core, in your soul, that you're doing the right thing.
00:13:58:18 - 00:14:16:00
Speaker 2
You're doing the best thing for the person that you help. You're doing the best thing for the person that you know you serve. You know what that's like. And so, Doctor, I like as you kind of went into this, you had this feeling that was like deep down in your soul and your spirit that was working. What was the transition for you?
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Speaker 2
What did that look like as you kind of made that out?
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Speaker 1
It was a hell if I could use one word, it was hell. It wasn't easy. I mean, for four years I knew I had a different a different I'll call it a mousetrap, but I knew I had a different system to be able to help people. I couldn't get my practice and my patients to understand. I couldn't get them to see it.
00:14:37:11 - 00:14:52:23
Speaker 1
And every day I would go home, like just miserable because I was like, I can I can do so much more people. They don't want to hear it, but they don't hear it because they only view even one vantage point. They see, okay, well, you're you're my doctor or you're my chiropractor. This is what you do. But really, we have pigeonholed.
00:14:52:23 - 00:15:13:02
Speaker 1
Those are like, I'm not I'm a better doctor today than I ever was in practice because I've been able to correlate with the little transmitters I creates symptomology and the neural pattern, the neural hormones are creating patterns. I can look at someone's bloodwork today and tell you your psychology, and there's not many doctors in the world that can look at your work and tell you how you're thinking.
00:15:13:02 - 00:15:27:16
Speaker 1
And that's a completely different pattern. And so that is what doctors will take. You know, like you're just stressed out. You deal with a lot of stress. Your cortisol or your cholesterol is cortisol is up to deal with stress. No, but I could tell you where that stress started. And I can tell you exactly why that stress is there.
00:15:27:16 - 00:15:45:05
Speaker 1
And I can tell you the neurotransmitters that are being affected that's causing this entire pattern, that's a reverse engineering. When you start to do that, there's not many people that really are in the everyday space. I want that. But that's where the real help came for me, at least from what I get to see in people is like, I could take people to that place.
00:15:45:13 - 00:16:08:07
Speaker 1
And so for four years it's very challenging. And then after that, I was turned into this world, into being able to help and educate, and I went through a brutal divorce. And so then I learned what's inside that I went through losing all my money and having a 24 days to be able to grow and build a business and rewire my own brain, be myself back inside of it, because I was so stuck inside.
00:16:08:07 - 00:16:24:04
Speaker 1
And so like I feel like that the guy who did the Hair Club commercials many years ago was like, I'm not only a client, I'm also the president. I also did it for myself. I'm a product of my own work and I do it every single day and a true story to actually tell you a little side tangent if you got a second of it.
00:16:24:05 - 00:16:27:12
Speaker 1
Yes, you probably are with the brain type. Have you seen the brain testing before?
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. And it's when.
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Speaker 2
There was an article the other day or I think USA Today came out with it and it's talking about how everybody's tapping now It's the it's the.
00:16:39:23 - 00:16:48:00
Speaker 1
New and better. Well, the better. I'm talking with the brain tap using binary beads and light therapy to help increase brain performance.
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Speaker 2
No, I'm not familiar.
00:16:51:00 - 00:17:10:01
Speaker 1
Okay. So it's a it's a device out there. And I went to do the scans on it, and it's a healing modality. People use it for healing and calming the brain and activating the parasympathetic. And that anyway, the biohacking conference I was at recently and I did the scan and they're like, This is impossible. Your brain is completely balanced.
00:17:10:01 - 00:17:24:15
Speaker 1
Like, how is that possible? Like we work with people all over the world that doesn't do that. And the guy who created it actually said, What do you do? I said, I rewire people's brains. That's what I do for a living. I rewire them to bring brain biology because you can see it because you do this yourself, don't you?
00:17:24:15 - 00:17:47:19
Speaker 1
I said, Every single day he goes, Because I had never seen people with this type of a brain balance. Doctors, professional athletes, there's always more imbalance in the brain. And I said, Well, that's because we're balanced. We're continuing bouncing in and healing. And so I the reason I'm saying that to you is because I had to figure it out for myself and I had to become a product of it myself.
00:17:47:19 - 00:18:08:13
Speaker 1
And I had to heal myself and my own journey inside of it. And what I can tell you is that the more work that I did on me, the more I got to actually. And I got to appreciate who I was. I got to love who I was. And I think the greatest health act that there really is is brain balance to be able to love who you are.
00:18:08:22 - 00:18:35:02
Speaker 1
If you can love who you are, all of you, then you get to heal anything you want. Like it doesn't have to be an ailment or a symptom. I've said that for many years. Is that your emotions are the factors, whether you're going to be sick or ill and all every chronic condition stems from an emotional beginning. I believe that I've seen it every every chronic condition stems from an emotional beginning.
00:18:35:10 - 00:18:55:20
Speaker 1
Every every thing we eat. It comes from an emotional perspective. So when I started to figure this out, it was it was really understanding that the brain controls literally everything we do, everything we feel all actions. And if we can rewire that, then we can actually move ourselves to a place of greater gratitude for our life. We've all heard this before.
00:18:55:20 - 00:19:06:24
Speaker 1
That gratitude is the ultimate healer, and if we can be grateful for it, then we can actually heal our lives and live our lives to most fullest. And as you say, you can own your life and why we're here now.
00:19:07:07 - 00:19:31:11
Speaker 2
You're so right. And I want to come back to that statement of every chronic condition begins with an emotional beginning. It's so true. I mean, we talk about that within a minute all the time. You've got your inner and outer energy component that synergistically comes together and it's not enough to go and choose a willpower of, Oh, I'm just not going to eat this food or I'm going to adopt this new behavior.
00:19:31:18 - 00:19:56:10
Speaker 2
And we live in a culture that's continually going to give you vision boards or continuing to give you 20, 23 plans that you set this resolution of what you're going to do or a new habit to break this old one. And if we can't get to the underlying behavior, to the true cognitive behavioral component that exists neurologically, we will never get down to the true area that exists.
00:19:56:10 - 00:20:17:19
Speaker 2
And and listeners, you guys have heard me say this before. The fake health continuum on the left, you've got death and disease. On the right, you got true health. And in the middle you got fake health and you got 90% of the people living their disease free. But symptom four and that's all that symptom full component is ultimately why we earn our diseases.
00:20:17:23 - 00:20:43:10
Speaker 2
We earn them. We earn them through the behaviors, the lifestyles and the habits that we engage in every single day. And that's what Dr.. Like talking about here is that every chronic condition begins with an emotional beginning. It all comes back to us. And if we learn to surrender and we learn to come into balance and harmony with ourselves and becoming more of who we were called to be, that's that's what that's the magic.
00:20:43:10 - 00:20:45:15
Speaker 2
That's the secret. That is not such a secret.
00:20:46:21 - 00:21:18:12
Speaker 1
And the hard part is I think that and there's other modalities. I mean, there's different ways to get there. But I think that what we've been doing for centuries, what we've been doing is trying to get people to balance the brain. And now we're using technology, we're using different modalities. And like I'm saying, brain tap is one. There's I think music and there's a bunch of these different what's it called, whatever the devices, the medical devices, biohacking devices that are trying to lower neurologic tone to balance that out.
00:21:18:21 - 00:21:38:07
Speaker 1
But if we and you said it so well, this at the beginning, right, whenever you disintegrate, you disintegrate. You know, that's that is I've never heard so that's actually dead on If you disintegrate you are breaking down. I agree with that 100%. And I've never heard it said that way. But you're absolutely correct. I won't have to borrow that from you.
00:21:38:07 - 00:21:58:21
Speaker 1
I'm not going to lie. It's a good. And so as we look at our health and our well-being and our longevity is a part of longevity just in that nobody's talking nobody's talking about is the mental capacity of longevity. We all talk about muscle, we all talk about blood glucose. We all talk about, you know, cholesterol and all these variables and stress.
00:21:59:04 - 00:22:19:02
Speaker 1
No one's talking about brain balance for longevity, right? Like no one shouldn't say, what's your mental faculties and how are you regulating about your brain? Here's why I'm going to say we do this is because most of the world is living on a dopamine driven, feel good structure and a driven, feel good system. And I think of your show, I can do this.
00:22:19:02 - 00:22:41:17
Speaker 1
We have three major catecholamines. We can go into the science of it. All of the three major catecholamines in dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine. All three of these cause massive amounts of stress. Dopamine feels good, and the loss of dopamine creates depression. We know this. This is a fact. Okay, so what's what's our society? We say we met a mental health crisis in the world.
00:22:41:17 - 00:23:01:10
Speaker 1
We don't have a mental health crisis in the world health crisis. We're just now separating our mind from our body. That's a wonderful way that the community or medical community would love to do that and say that now we can give just drugs and things around medical care on the brain. Not true. 94% of the serotonin that's in your brain, that's your feel good neurotransmitters in your stomach.
00:23:01:24 - 00:23:16:17
Speaker 1
This is true. So if you're not taking care of your gut, you're not taking care of your brain. Yeah. And I just read an article yesterday, actually, and you probably read this before, too, is that they now have a microbiome. They found a microbiome heart axis. If you said.
00:23:17:14 - 00:23:18:18
Speaker 2
Yes.
00:23:18:18 - 00:23:37:23
Speaker 1
I just read it and it was like, brilliant. I don't like I agree. I've always thought that. But now they're proving it's like antibiotics. So we had we have to look at our health from a holistic perspective inside of this and sit and say, okay, well, it's not just mental health, it's complete health. And every aspect of us has to function.
00:23:37:23 - 00:23:54:07
Speaker 1
If we're always in a state of stress, of getting something from a past that we haven't learned to actually heal, then we're going to release more epinephrine. Epinephrine. If we're looking forward to the future and don't always just excited about it like they do the person to go with the you said it perfectly and I use a vision boards.
00:23:54:07 - 00:24:13:00
Speaker 1
I call them multilayer boards because you put them on a wall and you're staring at and you're staring at and you're staring at it mean it doesn't come true. Here's what happens is you get the suicidal calls, you get the depressions, I get the phone calls weekly. I've been in car and my car, we're like taking calls from a lady off of a bridge.
00:24:13:00 - 00:24:21:04
Speaker 1
And it's crazy. But we live in a positive thinking society. But the positive thinking is the reason we have the mental health epidemic. We have the country.
00:24:21:21 - 00:24:41:17
Speaker 2
And you're so right. And I want to go back to what you talked about within the brain capacity side, because when you think about brain capacity, I want you guys to think about a cup. And if you actually know what, I'm going to go to a light bulb because that's that's where that's the example that had written down on my paper here.
00:24:42:11 - 00:25:01:17
Speaker 2
If we think about a light bulb, what happens when the light bulb continually stays on? It starts to burn the filament, The filament gets hotter and hotter. When you shut it off, it starts to cool down. That's why your mom or your dad, when you were a kid, said, Hey, make sure you shut the lights off. Not just for the electric bills, but so that you don't have to continue to change light bulbs all the time.
00:25:02:04 - 00:25:36:03
Speaker 2
What if you keep that light bulb on all the time? It's going to burn out faster. The same thing with our brains, the same thing. And we don't think that sending emails at 11, 12:00 at night are a big deal, but it's causing our stress reactions, our cortisol levels to stay elevated, the epinephrine and Nora protections, the adrenaline's to all stay elevated, which to Dr. Lock's point, it's not just serotonin that's produced in our gut, but there's 400 times more melatonin produced in our gut than produced by our pineal gland in our brain.
00:25:36:09 - 00:26:08:20
Speaker 2
And so ultimately, when you're constantly having this one brain, there's one mind on all the time. It's a light bulb that's continually shining. It never gets the opportunity to downregulate, it never gets the opportunity to truly heal. And we have these glial cells that produce this almost washing and rinsing of the brain when we're sleeping. But if we don't get into these deep stages of sleep or slow wave sleep and our REM sleep, there's no way we can heal because our light bulb is still dim.
00:26:08:20 - 00:26:44:05
Speaker 2
It's still on a little bit at night and it never fully shuts off. And when something doesn't fully shut off, it burns out faster. We get foggy brain, we get forgetful, we get all of these different health components that we think are isolated to one instance or something that I ate or something that I did. It was the chronic overload year after year after year of living in that fake health space that ultimately earned us whatever we fall into.
00:26:44:22 - 00:26:58:18
Speaker 2
And there's a way in which we can come back to that. There's a way in which we can reverse this and not have to have these detrimental health components, these chronic illnesses that began with some type of emotional beginning.
00:27:00:02 - 00:27:24:19
Speaker 1
I like to think about it a little different. I just I had just add another layer to it in that like, you know, the diseases, the cure, right. The disease is the cure. Like the disease is not an accident. It's not something that is there as a mistake. The body works in a 100% order 100% of the time and it's doing exactly what it needs to do.
00:27:24:19 - 00:27:47:00
Speaker 1
But when we look at it from what I call a positive thinking, serve me like only feel good paradigm and definition of health. And we don't realize that it's actually it's functioning the way it's supposed to. It it it is doing exactly what it needs to do. If you put that much stress into the system and if you change the stress, then you'll actually change the way the body responds.
00:27:47:07 - 00:28:16:11
Speaker 1
I've never found a body that's not working 100%, believe it or not. And what I mean by that is not that you're functioning biologically, performing a appreciate. It's not it's just not that it's not doing what it's supposed to do at 100%. So if you have an ailment or disease or something of that nature, it's doing that because the disease is part of the realization that you're actually trying to balance your body, you balance the brain, then the disease kind of dissipates and goes away.
00:28:17:06 - 00:28:40:14
Speaker 1
Then you go put the right food, you go, That was part of it. But, you know, listen, I know this just in, but your microbiome changes when suddenly your microbiome microbiome, it's not one set of my microbiome is changing hourly depending on how you're thinking. It's always changing. And so an individual and I'm all for taking prebiotics probiotics, so I'm not against those things by any means.
00:28:41:01 - 00:29:03:03
Speaker 1
But if you want your melatonin and your serotonin in your stomach to function a certain place, that means you have to control this guy up here. This guy up here and this and this are going to work together to express this. I like to say that if you're listening, you got to get your mind and your gut work in symbiosis in a symmetry so that you can let your heart express itself.
00:29:03:21 - 00:29:22:24
Speaker 1
Then you'll actually be able to connect. As you were saying earlier, the mind, the body, the emotional, the spiritual side of yourself to be able to live your life ultimately to own it, to live your life, to do what you want to perform. If you're an athlete performing at the highest level, or if you're a mom performing at your highest level, it's a relative experience.
00:29:23:07 - 00:29:26:00
Speaker 1
So as long as you love that experience, that's the game of life. And I mean.
00:29:26:19 - 00:29:48:11
Speaker 2
I love it. It's a going back to even what you said was the silence that that needs to happen in the brain. I go back to that verse in the Bible where it says, Be still and know that I am God and it's it's not be busy and know that I'm God. It's not be doing things and know that I am God.
00:29:48:13 - 00:29:49:18
Speaker 2
It's it's be still.
00:29:50:10 - 00:29:50:18
Speaker 1
Sure.
00:29:51:04 - 00:30:17:04
Speaker 2
And the stillness is what we as a culture have almost forgotten. We we feel like we need to rush. We need to we need to be on the move. We need to be going. And by stilling ourselves, by stilling our mind, we're able to create that rebalancing, that that neutrality that we're we're really seeking to add a major degree.
00:30:17:22 - 00:30:33:24
Speaker 1
I agree. I agree with you on 10%. I like to sit and say like, you know, it was chasing the halves of the world, right. And more and then we do more. Things are like we're just constantly doing, doing, doing, doing, doing. The more things that we do, we get to have more things. But the secret to it all is being.
00:30:34:17 - 00:30:43:17
Speaker 1
And if we can actually be who we are, we don't have to worry about doing more things or having more things. We can actually just be who you are and create whatever it is you kind of want to. And so we're like.
00:30:45:02 - 00:31:12:10
Speaker 2
I love that it's almost like we need to shift from the verb to the noun is going from the action to just the simple state of being the state of awareness, the state of what's actually going on around us and and be there. I was talking with John Gordon the other day and he said, You have to know that wherever you are, you are.
00:31:13:03 - 00:31:15:05
Speaker 1
Yeah, I agree with that.
00:31:15:05 - 00:31:34:22
Speaker 2
Meaning that whoever you are at that moment, whatever you are at that moment, that is what you are, that is who you are. And so stay connected to that being that be pre present in that then and that's where the power comes from. And so I love that. And I think it kind of just brought a little bit of that up in that case as well.
00:31:34:22 - 00:31:35:14
Speaker 1
Yes, I agree.
00:31:36:01 - 00:31:54:15
Speaker 2
What is what is your given that given your place of work and how you operate and the way in which you pour into this world for good, somebody who lives in the definition of of ownership So. Well, what is your definition of ownership?
00:31:55:05 - 00:32:10:20
Speaker 1
That's a great question. I think that you have to own at all, not just the good side. We all have two sides of ourselves. We have to own the dark side, the part of ourselves that we don't like, or everyone wants to love, the things that are good, everyone said So it's our own. Everything that's good, that's bad.
00:32:10:20 - 00:32:33:15
Speaker 1
No, I don't want that. It's like. Like you're saying about your child. Oh, that. He's really good at school. He's really smart. That comes from me. And the fact that he's a little bit of a rebel that comes from his mother or father blames someone else for those things. But the reality is that I like to sit and say, if you can sit and say, if you're bold enough to say that you created the good, then that means you also created the bad.
00:32:33:23 - 00:32:52:04
Speaker 1
So you need both of them to earn in order to love your life. So we have positive thinking. We have negative thinking, and we need to bring them together inside that because you don't have just one side and we have a dark side of ourselves and the negative side, we have to learn that we're both positive and negative, but different times.
00:32:52:16 - 00:33:08:21
Speaker 1
If I can sit and tell you what is on it, on every aspect of who you are, the goods, the bads, the highs, the lows, the every aspect of it, because they're all there as lessons for you to learn to appreciate yourself and live a life of gratitude.
00:33:09:18 - 00:33:26:13
Speaker 2
I love it. That's so great and and so heavily aligned. Dr. Elcock, where can our audience find more of you? Where can they take in some more of your content, books, events, anything that they may be interested in leading into you and your community more often?
00:33:27:04 - 00:33:44:02
Speaker 1
Yeah, there's lots of stuff. I got a book out there called Chasing Success, which I think sells books. There's a score that divides to see what part of brain you're actually using and how much of it you're using. And that's a rewire scorecard dot com. You've got a Dr. Rewire, AKAM, all that stuff is there as well you can.
00:33:44:06 - 00:33:56:24
Speaker 1
YouTube is a lot of it I think I know how many videos on YouTube, 400 or 500 videos on YouTube. I think it feels poor in there's some stuff on Facebook, Instagram, Google me, let's see them and go for them. You got to rewire.
00:33:57:12 - 00:34:14:24
Speaker 2
I love it. Dr. Rewire I will put those places down in the show notes for you guys. You can go and access them and be able to understand again how you're operating and and give you an opportunity to lean into. Dr. Elcock There. So guys, as you go forward, again, I don't know where you are listening to this.
00:34:15:05 - 00:34:36:12
Speaker 2
I don't know what the impact is, but if this episode brought you some new way of thinking, if that brought value to you, if it was like, man, this, this opened up my, my mind to something new and there was something kind of came alive inside, you be sure to share this right of review. Be sure to comment because that's the only way that we can reach more people.
00:34:37:18 - 00:34:57:16
Speaker 2
I know this is going to be a blessing to somebody so be sure that you send it to somebody. Reach out to somebody, get them acknowledged to this, because when we come back to this, health is real. On the other side of a treatment, on the other side of a prescription, on the other side of of just simple advice, it's a real human being.
00:34:58:04 - 00:35:26:14
Speaker 2
It's somebody livelihood. It's somebody's only body that they have that they'll ever own, that we're impacting. And so that you have to realize that every chronic condition that you have, not only have we earned it, but it's also begun with an emotional beginning. And so we have to come back to understanding what stuff do we have to open up, what stuff that we have to become clearer to, and knowing that every single thing is integrated together.
00:35:27:00 - 00:35:51:24
Speaker 2
My mental, physical, spiritual and emotional, they're all beautifully intertwined together to make up our existence and that we can ultimately have the greatest gift, which is true freedom, which is true life, which is true health. And that's available to you. But it starts with taking ownership. It starts with owning everything. The good and the bad. We know success is different.
00:35:52:10 - 00:35:56:21
Speaker 2
So own your different and we'll see you guys next week.