WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.712 --> 00:00:17.037 On this episode, we're gonna talk about how stress can and will affect your body, not just stress, anxiety, pressure, overwhelm, fatigue, depression, even inadequacy, insecurity, it will all affect your body. 2 00:00:17.277 --> 00:00:19.997 This mind-body connection is everything, all right? 3 00:00:20.017 --> 00:00:21.538 So we're gonna talk about it on this episode. 4 00:00:22.758 --> 00:00:29.200 I'm Coach Mike Basfink, and this is the show for high performers who tried everything else and still can't quiet their own minds. 5 00:00:32.590 --> 00:00:33.651 I'm Coach Mike Baswick. 6 00:00:33.691 --> 00:00:54.431 I'm the founder and creator of the Anxiety-Free Executive Program, the number one program in the world at helping high performers eliminate, not distract, not drug up, not medicate, but eliminate anxiety, stress, chronic worry, overwhelm, fatigue, burnout, depression, imposter syndrome, fear, you name it, we get rid of it. 7 00:00:54.631 --> 00:00:56.213 We don't distract from it, we get rid of it. 8 00:00:56.673 --> 00:00:59.235 And the folks that come to us, these are high performers, man. 9 00:00:59.255 --> 00:01:00.276 They have a lot at stake. 10 00:01:00.676 --> 00:01:03.498 They've created great lives, but they're not enjoying it. 11 00:01:03.518 --> 00:01:12.404 Whether their mind is racing and keeping them up at night or they wake up in dread every day of their life, trying to get there the next day, and they should be enjoying their life. 12 00:01:12.865 --> 00:01:14.066 They come to me, we get them healthy. 13 00:01:14.086 --> 00:01:14.866 I've been doing this for 18 years. 14 00:01:16.287 --> 00:01:18.809 And I was the poster child for the work that I do. 15 00:01:19.049 --> 00:01:20.970 And I detail it in my book, The Broken Sage. 16 00:01:21.771 --> 00:01:23.712 And you can get it at thebrokensage.com. 17 00:01:23.732 --> 00:01:24.712 But it's an amazing book. 18 00:01:24.752 --> 00:01:29.855 I tell my story of collapse, lost everything 20 years ago. 19 00:01:29.956 --> 00:01:33.518 And it was the journey, it put me on the journey, the catalyst to get me to... 20 00:01:34.445 --> 00:01:40.588 understanding the mind, learning what the mind is, and how the mind works, and how we bring the mind to peak efficiency. 21 00:01:40.608 --> 00:01:45.170 I did it in my life, and I've coached people to do it in their lives over the last 18 years. 22 00:01:45.190 --> 00:02:00.437 And I'm proud to say the Anxiety-Free Executive Program is considered the number one program in the world at helping high performers or committed people eliminate all of those emotional challenges, if you will, right, that are impacting your life in a great way. 23 00:02:00.457 --> 00:02:02.618 Today we're going to talk about what it does to your body. 24 00:02:03.607 --> 00:02:07.469 And, um, and what I was experiencing 20 years ago, right. 25 00:02:08.209 --> 00:02:14.833 Um, even, you know, 23, 24 years ago, cause I was experiencing it for a few years and then a little bit after my collapse. 26 00:02:14.893 --> 00:02:15.133 Right. 27 00:02:15.313 --> 00:02:17.234 But, um, I was stressed, man. 28 00:02:17.254 --> 00:02:20.876 I was a young professional and I had some success early on my career. 29 00:02:20.896 --> 00:02:21.997 Then I opened up my own business. 30 00:02:23.077 --> 00:02:31.841 And then as we got bigger and started to grow, I went from a one-man solopreneur to a business owner. 31 00:02:31.941 --> 00:02:38.584 And I had employees and I had responsibilities and onboarding and goals and outcomes. 32 00:02:38.985 --> 00:02:43.607 I was already a pretty wound-tight guy from my childhood, which I detail in the book. 33 00:02:44.387 --> 00:02:45.288 But I was anxious. 34 00:02:45.308 --> 00:02:45.828 I was stressed. 35 00:02:45.848 --> 00:02:47.529 I didn't know I was stressed. 36 00:02:47.589 --> 00:02:49.750 But I was just bubbling up inside all the time. 37 00:02:50.610 --> 00:02:53.812 And I had a crippling low self-esteem, too. 38 00:02:53.852 --> 00:02:55.273 I didn't think I deserved success. 39 00:02:55.293 --> 00:03:01.296 So subconsciously, internally, I was battling the goals that I wanted to accomplish. 40 00:03:01.356 --> 00:03:04.457 So as a young guy in my 30s, is in shape. 41 00:03:04.577 --> 00:03:07.159 I'd work out six days a week, and I was a heavy lifter. 42 00:03:08.279 --> 00:03:12.822 And then go home, shower up, have a little breakfast, go to the office, right? 43 00:03:13.542 --> 00:03:16.706 And by 8 o'clock in the office, 8.15, here it started. 44 00:03:16.746 --> 00:03:21.092 I had started to get tingling in my pinky finger, in the tip of it. 45 00:03:21.673 --> 00:03:23.295 Then it would go through the whole finger. 46 00:03:23.315 --> 00:03:25.238 Then it would go to my next finger and be tingling. 47 00:03:25.758 --> 00:03:27.621 And it was very, like, it was scary. 48 00:03:27.641 --> 00:03:28.282 It was annoying. 49 00:03:28.322 --> 00:03:29.263 I'm like, what is this? 50 00:03:29.283 --> 00:03:30.425 And then it would go up to my arm. 51 00:03:31.025 --> 00:03:34.866 And by the afternoon, it was up here, and I felt my entire right side tingling. 52 00:03:36.247 --> 00:03:37.387 Then at night, it would be my face. 53 00:03:38.327 --> 00:03:39.287 And this didn't happen once. 54 00:03:39.327 --> 00:03:41.348 It happened every single day. 55 00:03:42.128 --> 00:03:48.610 And if I went out socially, because I didn't let it stop me from enjoying my life, but I was scared. 56 00:03:48.970 --> 00:03:51.031 If I was in a restaurant at night, I would go to the bathroom. 57 00:03:52.411 --> 00:03:53.734 I pour cold water on my face. 58 00:03:53.794 --> 00:03:54.936 I try to distract myself. 59 00:03:54.956 --> 00:03:56.899 But I thought I was having a heart attack or a stroke. 60 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.826 I had crippling fear and stress over my health, right? 61 00:04:00.966 --> 00:04:03.511 And so I went from doctor to doctor to doctor. 62 00:04:04.692 --> 00:04:06.413 And I did stress tests. 63 00:04:06.753 --> 00:04:13.714 I was almost laughed out of the cardiologist's office, you know, 23 years ago, whatever it was, when I did the stress test. 64 00:04:13.754 --> 00:04:14.895 And he looked, he says, come here. 65 00:04:15.695 --> 00:04:17.075 He says, look at your heart pumping. 66 00:04:17.095 --> 00:04:18.055 He says, man, you're a horse. 67 00:04:18.716 --> 00:04:20.936 He was right, 23 years later, still standing. 68 00:04:21.996 --> 00:04:26.638 And because you're a horse, man, he goes, you are, you're healthy. 69 00:04:27.098 --> 00:04:28.078 There's nothing wrong with your heart. 70 00:04:28.098 --> 00:04:29.758 And I said, well, there's something wrong with me, man. 71 00:04:29.778 --> 00:04:31.239 So I thought I was having a stroke. 72 00:04:32.099 --> 00:04:34.540 Did nerve tests, did blood tests, did blood pressure. 73 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:36.161 Blood pressure was high because I was stressed. 74 00:04:36.801 --> 00:04:38.082 I was wound tight every day, right? 75 00:04:38.642 --> 00:04:44.645 So my blood pressure was high and like high, high, like 160 over 100 high. 76 00:04:44.725 --> 00:04:48.006 So young guy in pretty good shape and just skyrocketing. 77 00:04:48.026 --> 00:04:51.008 So I was always feeling like something was going to happen to me. 78 00:04:52.052 --> 00:04:55.714 And despite the dozens of doctor's visits, nothing was wrong. 79 00:04:55.754 --> 00:04:59.616 At one point, it got so bad, it sounds so ridiculous now that I know what the mind is. 80 00:04:59.757 --> 00:05:00.737 But I called a psychic. 81 00:05:01.057 --> 00:05:01.838 I heard a psychic. 82 00:05:02.078 --> 00:05:05.120 She says, I can talk to people about their health, well-being. 83 00:05:05.220 --> 00:05:08.542 And I heard her on the radio, and I set an appointment with her. 84 00:05:08.802 --> 00:05:11.824 And she, obviously, whatever she said. 85 00:05:13.304 --> 00:05:13.985 She said, what's wrong? 86 00:05:14.005 --> 00:05:14.685 I said, you tell me. 87 00:05:14.725 --> 00:05:15.846 No, I didn't say that. 88 00:05:15.866 --> 00:05:19.328 And she said, yeah, you may have something going on with your stomach. 89 00:05:19.388 --> 00:05:20.748 I said, no, there's something going on here. 90 00:05:20.888 --> 00:05:25.451 And every doctor, like I'd argue with them, there's something wrong with me. 91 00:05:25.471 --> 00:05:25.971 There wasn't. 92 00:05:26.371 --> 00:05:27.152 It was all emotional. 93 00:05:28.032 --> 00:05:31.174 Then flash forward a couple of years and I dealt with it and it was scary. 94 00:05:31.955 --> 00:05:37.539 And then when everything in my life collapsed, I was just a ticking time bomb emotionally. 95 00:05:37.559 --> 00:05:43.364 I would get pains in my left shoulder and pains in my chest. 96 00:05:43.424 --> 00:05:45.385 And I thought, man, I was having a heart attack all the time. 97 00:05:45.545 --> 00:05:51.930 Sometimes I'd have to leave the office, go home and lay on the couch for an hour or two hours during the middle of the day to relax. 98 00:05:51.970 --> 00:05:52.671 It was that bad. 99 00:05:53.732 --> 00:05:54.573 it was all emotional. 100 00:05:54.993 --> 00:06:06.406 When I learned what I teach now, after my collapse and I lost everything, marriage, business, everything, when I started to study the mind, I started to learn these concepts, and all of a sudden, all the health issues went away. 101 00:06:07.546 --> 00:06:10.408 And I didn't like set out to fix the health issues at that point. 102 00:06:10.608 --> 00:06:12.008 I set out to fix the collapse. 103 00:06:12.849 --> 00:06:18.112 And how somebody so committed and hardworking could fall on such hard times, I couldn't figure it out. 104 00:06:18.232 --> 00:06:19.032 I didn't understand it. 105 00:06:19.132 --> 00:06:21.373 But I realized that it was me the entire time. 106 00:06:21.393 --> 00:06:33.200 And when I understood what the mind is, once I learned that, and how to bring the mind to a place of being in the zone every day, you know, at that peak state, that acceptance, then everything went away. 107 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.742 And in fact, it went away and I forgot about my health issues. 108 00:06:37.382 --> 00:06:39.164 And then one day I woke up, I'm like, holy cow. 109 00:06:39.984 --> 00:06:41.305 The tingly's been gone for weeks. 110 00:06:41.326 --> 00:06:42.226 I forgot all about it. 111 00:06:43.007 --> 00:06:46.010 And it hasn't been back since because it was all emotional. 112 00:06:47.211 --> 00:06:48.171 And I'll get to that in a second. 113 00:06:48.192 --> 00:06:56.759 I've had clients like Sean, a wonderful woman, came in my program nine years ago now, or seven years, no, seven, nine years ago now, and she's like, 114 00:06:57.361 --> 00:06:59.962 And, um, and she did a breakthrough call with me. 115 00:06:59.982 --> 00:07:02.263 She says, you know, coach, can you get me healthy? 116 00:07:02.283 --> 00:07:05.085 I have crippling anxiety, uh, insecure. 117 00:07:05.145 --> 00:07:06.525 I've got relationship issues. 118 00:07:06.585 --> 00:07:08.066 I've never had a good relationship. 119 00:07:08.146 --> 00:07:09.087 I've been married twice. 120 00:07:10.047 --> 00:07:12.348 And I said, well, we can definitely get rid of the emotional stuff. 121 00:07:12.428 --> 00:07:13.849 And she says, I have Crohn's disease. 122 00:07:14.109 --> 00:07:15.370 I'm 30 pounds underweight. 123 00:07:15.410 --> 00:07:17.791 She's only, she was a hundred pounds, five, eight, 100 pounds. 124 00:07:19.171 --> 00:07:26.617 And after the fact, she sent me a picture and she was a skeleton and like, like really, really thin, dangerously thin. 125 00:07:26.677 --> 00:07:29.319 And the doctor said, Sean, if you don't gain weight, you're going to die. 126 00:07:29.479 --> 00:07:31.601 And she had two kids counting on her. 127 00:07:32.581 --> 00:07:34.763 And she says, coach, I try to gain weight. 128 00:07:35.043 --> 00:07:35.844 I can't gain weight. 129 00:07:36.044 --> 00:07:37.765 The Crohn's is just kicking my ass. 130 00:07:37.825 --> 00:07:39.727 And I said, well, I'm going to get you healthy emotionally. 131 00:07:40.593 --> 00:07:42.154 your body should respond. 132 00:07:42.174 --> 00:07:44.195 And I said, I guarantee I'm gonna get you healthy emotionally. 133 00:07:44.215 --> 00:07:50.477 I can't guarantee that the Crohn's will heal itself or whatever, but I promise you'll feel better. 134 00:07:51.458 --> 00:07:59.061 And we did, we got Shawn healthy, eliminate the anxiety, eliminate the stress, eliminate the overwhelm, and the insecurity, the low self-esteem, right? 135 00:07:59.081 --> 00:08:01.022 So she was flying high emotionally. 136 00:08:01.042 --> 00:08:04.823 And she says, coach, what's next? 137 00:08:04.903 --> 00:08:05.623 I said, time to eat. 138 00:08:06.144 --> 00:08:08.825 And so she started to eat and gained the weight back. 139 00:08:09.385 --> 00:08:10.066 And she felt good. 140 00:08:10.086 --> 00:08:13.789 And for the first time in five to eight years, she was gaining weight back. 141 00:08:14.930 --> 00:08:18.473 And within a couple of months, she was back at her ideal weight, feeling better than ever. 142 00:08:18.553 --> 00:08:20.695 And she came to one of my live events in Scottsdale. 143 00:08:21.596 --> 00:08:22.517 And she said, Coach, it's time. 144 00:08:22.537 --> 00:08:25.700 She says, I'm going to get off all these drugs. 145 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.683 I'm going to literally, my gut, Crohn's, everything. 146 00:08:29.383 --> 00:08:31.225 I'm going to keep getting healthy emotionally. 147 00:08:31.325 --> 00:08:33.967 And I'm going to be the healthier I've ever been physically. 148 00:08:34.948 --> 00:08:38.570 And sure enough, within about six months, Sean went back for her test. 149 00:08:38.590 --> 00:08:42.111 They were normal doctors, and there was no sign of the Crohn's, none. 150 00:08:42.832 --> 00:08:47.754 And they sent her a letter, and they said, what did you do? 151 00:08:47.874 --> 00:08:49.315 Like, we don't know how this happened. 152 00:08:49.335 --> 00:08:51.115 We've never seen Crohn's go into remission. 153 00:08:52.156 --> 00:08:53.897 And she goes, well, I got healthy emotionally. 154 00:08:54.657 --> 00:08:56.598 And the doctors, like, laughed at her, right? 155 00:08:57.258 --> 00:08:58.139 And we knew the truth. 156 00:08:58.939 --> 00:09:02.161 And now flash forward all that time, Shawn's still part of our community. 157 00:09:02.201 --> 00:09:03.582 She's wonderful. 158 00:09:04.962 --> 00:09:05.923 She's the picture of health. 159 00:09:06.583 --> 00:09:09.144 There's been no sign of Crohn's for eight years, right? 160 00:09:09.585 --> 00:09:10.445 So how can that be? 161 00:09:11.065 --> 00:09:13.407 If she couldn't gain the weight, she wouldn't be here. 162 00:09:13.787 --> 00:09:15.068 I promise you that I wouldn't be here. 163 00:09:15.548 --> 00:09:22.912 You know, with the chest pains and the arm pains I was having, blood pressure through the roof, there's no way I'd be here if I was still suffering emotionally. 164 00:09:23.132 --> 00:09:25.093 And once she got healthy emotionally, 165 00:09:26.365 --> 00:09:27.426 her body responded. 166 00:09:27.466 --> 00:09:32.548 We've had people, migraines, chest pains, acne. 167 00:09:32.668 --> 00:09:33.808 We've had back pains. 168 00:09:34.549 --> 00:09:47.234 And in addition to stomach issues and things and headaches and constant headaches or you name it, there's countless things that people have moved through physically when they get emotionally healthy. 169 00:09:47.375 --> 00:09:51.957 And the reason being, and listen, there's experts in this arena who, 170 00:09:53.518 --> 00:10:01.109 Um, I'm not an expert in the, the mechanics of the body and everything, but I do know that the mind body connections, everything. 171 00:10:02.351 --> 00:10:07.098 And there's no separation and you could see it when you're afraid of something. 172 00:10:08.359 --> 00:10:25.898 let's say public speaking, and you go up on stage and your voice changes, your face is red, you're sweating, cotton mouth, heart palpitations or heart racing, sweating, and you're emotionally afraid of public speaking. 173 00:10:27.496 --> 00:10:28.997 All those things are happening physically. 174 00:10:29.957 --> 00:10:36.461 If, like, I don't like heights, outdoor heights, and I'm okay with having that fear because I don't want to go to the edge of a building or a mountain. 175 00:10:37.541 --> 00:10:50.628 So, but even if I see something on TV, like, or I was at Disney with my daughter last year, and we were on this, like, flight ride that we, like, we're supposed to be flying over the mountains and stuff. 176 00:10:51.168 --> 00:10:52.809 And my stomach, I enjoyed it. 177 00:10:52.829 --> 00:10:53.969 I loved it because I knew I was safe. 178 00:10:54.049 --> 00:10:58.932 But my stomach was, you know, doing jumping jacks, right? 179 00:10:59.292 --> 00:11:02.793 And like, whoa, you look down, you feel like you're at 30,000 feet in the area. 180 00:11:02.813 --> 00:11:04.734 You're not, but you feel that. 181 00:11:04.774 --> 00:11:05.535 So the stomach reacts. 182 00:11:05.555 --> 00:11:09.196 If I see something on TV, that would be like heights or scary. 183 00:11:09.216 --> 00:11:10.097 Their stomach reacts. 184 00:11:10.117 --> 00:11:11.297 You guys have all experienced this. 185 00:11:11.938 --> 00:11:13.178 That's the mind-body connection. 186 00:11:13.218 --> 00:11:20.562 Now, the way I explain it, the simplest way I explain it is you look at your body as one big communications hub. 187 00:11:21.402 --> 00:11:28.545 So when people have a panic attack, like people have anxiety, I've had panic attacks in the past, but I've had clients that I've watched have panic attacks. 188 00:11:29.725 --> 00:11:32.026 And they get jittery. 189 00:11:32.386 --> 00:11:32.906 They jump. 190 00:11:33.166 --> 00:11:33.966 Their heart races. 191 00:11:34.006 --> 00:11:34.807 They quiver. 192 00:11:34.827 --> 00:11:35.387 They cry. 193 00:11:36.567 --> 00:11:39.328 And it's a physical reaction to an emotional thing. 194 00:11:39.388 --> 00:11:43.810 But people, when they have panic attacks, the blood pressure skyrockets. 195 00:11:43.830 --> 00:11:46.731 Or any of you that have had the white coat syndrome, right, you go in. 196 00:11:47.591 --> 00:11:52.575 You see the white coat and the checkup for the doctor, and your blood pressure skyrockets. 197 00:11:52.596 --> 00:11:54.938 And the nurse knows this, so she says, let's give it a minute. 198 00:11:55.618 --> 00:11:58.421 Let's give it a minute, and we'll take it again, and it's plummeted. 199 00:11:59.201 --> 00:12:03.565 Because as soon as you see the white jacket, your mind says fear, and the body responds. 200 00:12:04.286 --> 00:12:06.368 It's all one big communications hub. 201 00:12:06.508 --> 00:12:11.452 And doctors will say, well, you regenerate your cells, you've got an entirely new body, and... 202 00:12:12.072 --> 00:12:18.278 in X number of months, right, a year or whatever, you keep regenerating cells, regenerating cells. 203 00:12:18.298 --> 00:12:32.790 But if the cells come into an unhealthy emotional environment that's stressed and overwhelmed and fatigued and worried or depressed, the cells will adapt to an unhealthy environment, right? 204 00:12:33.111 --> 00:12:33.911 And they have to. 205 00:12:34.472 --> 00:12:37.955 So they become part of the community that already is. 206 00:12:38.015 --> 00:12:38.856 You take a child, 207 00:12:40.043 --> 00:12:47.809 and you put it in a crime-infested, gang-infested neighborhood or poverty-stricken neighborhood, what's that child going to grow up and be like? 208 00:12:48.349 --> 00:12:53.753 The odds are gangbanger, crime, poverty, okay? 209 00:12:53.953 --> 00:13:03.100 But you take that same child and you raise it in a loving home in a great environment, great neighborhood, filled with opulence and love and support, that child's probably going to grow up and be pretty good. 210 00:13:03.980 --> 00:13:08.221 So no difference with the cells, no difference with the body. 211 00:13:08.381 --> 00:13:16.903 And if you look at people who are suffering emotionally, I've had a lot of experience here, the color goes out in their face. 212 00:13:17.083 --> 00:13:18.143 They don't look healthy. 213 00:13:18.183 --> 00:13:19.383 They're slumped over. 214 00:13:19.423 --> 00:13:20.063 They're sore. 215 00:13:20.463 --> 00:13:22.964 Their body aches, arthritis, all that stuff, right? 216 00:13:24.004 --> 00:13:25.624 And yet they work out. 217 00:13:26.365 --> 00:13:27.245 They eat healthy. 218 00:13:27.285 --> 00:13:28.485 They just don't feel good. 219 00:13:29.494 --> 00:13:30.375 That's all emotional. 220 00:13:31.056 --> 00:13:33.760 The emotional mind is the driver. 221 00:13:33.780 --> 00:13:35.122 Now, the mind and the brain are different. 222 00:13:35.142 --> 00:13:42.673 The brain is the switching station in your head that takes and receives signals from the mind. 223 00:13:42.693 --> 00:13:43.775 The mind is your awareness. 224 00:13:44.576 --> 00:13:45.336 It's who you are. 225 00:13:45.396 --> 00:13:46.977 Like thoughts don't come from the brain. 226 00:13:47.017 --> 00:13:49.718 They come from the mind, the subconscious mind. 227 00:13:49.978 --> 00:13:51.518 And it's hard to quantify. 228 00:13:51.538 --> 00:14:00.381 It's hard to really understand what the mind is because it essentially isn't really, it is physical in the sense that it's who you are. 229 00:14:00.861 --> 00:14:02.522 And part of that is your physical body. 230 00:14:03.382 --> 00:14:05.664 But the mind is the consciousness, it's the awareness. 231 00:14:05.884 --> 00:14:07.565 And that's where all your emotions come from. 232 00:14:08.525 --> 00:14:10.226 That's where all the habits are formed. 233 00:14:11.127 --> 00:14:17.171 And that's the director of this physical environment you're in. 234 00:14:17.851 --> 00:14:22.194 So if the mind is suffering emotionally, then you're going to suffer physically. 235 00:14:22.554 --> 00:14:22.934 Okay? 236 00:14:22.954 --> 00:14:23.955 You're not going to feel right. 237 00:14:23.975 --> 00:14:26.897 That's why people get fatigued or you wake up at night and then you're fatigued. 238 00:14:27.757 --> 00:14:29.937 And, you know, supplements and all that stuff. 239 00:14:30.518 --> 00:14:32.538 Sean tried everything to get healthy. 240 00:14:32.558 --> 00:14:34.438 And I can give you a number of my client stories. 241 00:14:34.798 --> 00:14:37.739 And I had a client, Jason, out of New York one time. 242 00:14:39.099 --> 00:14:41.260 Healthy guy, his blood pressure was through the roof. 243 00:14:42.520 --> 00:14:46.021 And like 190 over 120, like scary shit. 244 00:14:46.861 --> 00:14:48.401 And he had a blood pressure machine at home. 245 00:14:48.421 --> 00:14:50.442 And he would take his blood pressure four or five times a day. 246 00:14:51.282 --> 00:14:52.882 So we started doing work together. 247 00:14:54.002 --> 00:14:56.043 I told him, don't throw the machine out, but give it to somebody. 248 00:14:56.383 --> 00:14:57.303 And he gave it to his sister. 249 00:14:58.846 --> 00:15:00.329 and she kept it so he stopped taking it. 250 00:15:00.349 --> 00:15:01.291 He stopped focusing on it. 251 00:15:02.153 --> 00:15:03.536 I said, let's get you healthy emotionally. 252 00:15:04.057 --> 00:15:05.661 Now, he had the high blood pressure for years. 253 00:15:07.061 --> 00:15:09.843 Young guy, though, maybe 40 years old, pretty good shape. 254 00:15:10.684 --> 00:15:11.705 And he did the program. 255 00:15:12.045 --> 00:15:15.748 And towards the end of the program, I said, now take, when's the last time you took your blood pressure? 256 00:15:15.768 --> 00:15:16.969 He goes, it's been seven weeks. 257 00:15:17.230 --> 00:15:18.010 He told me not to. 258 00:15:18.691 --> 00:15:19.431 I said, go take it. 259 00:15:20.112 --> 00:15:22.634 And it was like 125 over 85. 260 00:15:22.674 --> 00:15:24.375 So I'm sitting super low. 261 00:15:24.395 --> 00:15:25.296 He goes, I can't believe it. 262 00:15:26.017 --> 00:15:27.758 The mind completely changed the body. 263 00:15:27.778 --> 00:15:28.679 Yeah. 264 00:15:28.979 --> 00:15:35.623 And so if you're in an unhealthy emotional environment, you're going to create an unhealthy physical environment. 265 00:15:35.643 --> 00:15:36.883 And that's where the problems start. 266 00:15:36.903 --> 00:15:38.004 That's where my problem started. 267 00:15:38.104 --> 00:15:41.626 I had, if I drank alcohol, I'd be hung over. 268 00:15:41.686 --> 00:15:42.707 I'd have headaches the next day. 269 00:15:43.667 --> 00:15:47.269 I had constant tingling, constant chest pains, constant arm pains. 270 00:15:48.270 --> 00:15:49.210 I was fatigued. 271 00:15:49.230 --> 00:15:49.750 I was tired. 272 00:15:49.770 --> 00:15:55.334 I remember being like 33, 34 years old and being with my kids at Disney who were all young. 273 00:15:55.354 --> 00:15:57.915 I don't know how many were, maybe, I think they were all born. 274 00:15:58.795 --> 00:16:01.857 And I remember being so tired. 275 00:16:02.437 --> 00:16:03.598 I worked out six days a week. 276 00:16:04.158 --> 00:16:06.800 I was jacked and I was fatigued. 277 00:16:06.940 --> 00:16:07.700 I was tired. 278 00:16:07.760 --> 00:16:09.721 I kept thinking, my God, it was 80 degrees. 279 00:16:09.741 --> 00:16:10.461 It was a beautiful day. 280 00:16:10.481 --> 00:16:12.002 I said, it's so hot here. 281 00:16:12.022 --> 00:16:14.824 And I kept having to sit on, any chance I could to sit on a bench, I would. 282 00:16:15.824 --> 00:16:17.425 And I remember being just so tired. 283 00:16:17.445 --> 00:16:20.026 And that was also, I thought I had an illness. 284 00:16:20.086 --> 00:16:20.987 I thought something was wrong. 285 00:16:21.847 --> 00:16:22.608 There was nothing wrong. 286 00:16:23.108 --> 00:16:24.429 It was emotional resistance. 287 00:16:25.269 --> 00:16:27.410 stress, overwhelm, anxiety, and security. 288 00:16:27.770 --> 00:16:32.551 And that emotional resistance permeates itself to every fiber, every being, every cell in your body. 289 00:16:33.531 --> 00:16:34.632 You're going to be unhealthy. 290 00:16:35.072 --> 00:16:38.453 And now, you know, I go to Disney every year with my daughter who loves it. 291 00:16:39.213 --> 00:16:44.414 And we'll do 28, 29,000 steps a day in the parks and stuff. 292 00:16:44.474 --> 00:16:45.254 I walk all day. 293 00:16:46.075 --> 00:16:50.476 And yet 23 years ago, whatever it was, I couldn't, I had to rest all the time. 294 00:16:50.496 --> 00:16:50.996 Yeah. 295 00:16:51.576 --> 00:16:55.942 And so it tells you that the mind is governing the body. 296 00:16:56.900 --> 00:16:58.281 And it's going to get you sooner or later. 297 00:16:58.461 --> 00:16:59.682 You can't move around. 298 00:17:00.243 --> 00:17:01.604 Like Sean would not be here. 299 00:17:01.864 --> 00:17:03.745 I probably wouldn't be here physically right now. 300 00:17:03.765 --> 00:17:10.350 I wouldn't hurt myself, but I wouldn't be here because my mind, my body would have kept deteriorating along with my mind. 301 00:17:11.091 --> 00:17:13.052 That stress is dangerous, right? 302 00:17:13.072 --> 00:17:24.321 That's the one variable that like, you know, heredity and DNA and habits like smoking and stuff, they can definitely affect your health. 303 00:17:24.361 --> 00:17:24.741 They will. 304 00:17:24.761 --> 00:17:25.402 Okay. 305 00:17:25.662 --> 00:17:36.828 But the one variable that's the most powerful, aside from your heredity, if I'm saying that correctly, is your emotional core. 306 00:17:36.848 --> 00:17:38.348 If you're stressed, you're going to experience it. 307 00:17:38.368 --> 00:17:46.052 I have so many clients who sent me before and after pictures like Sean did, but Debbie Peterson and John Bennett, and these people lost their light. 308 00:17:46.392 --> 00:17:47.313 They were just blank. 309 00:17:48.153 --> 00:17:53.076 And then they come through to Julie Jo, man, she looks 10 years younger than she did when she came to the program eight years ago. 310 00:17:54.117 --> 00:17:59.180 And it's just, it's really like there's no separation. 311 00:17:59.220 --> 00:18:02.602 So you've got to get healthy mentally and emotionally. 312 00:18:04.503 --> 00:18:06.965 And if you don't, you're working against your physical health. 313 00:18:06.985 --> 00:18:09.547 You can go to the health, and there's people in the health club that... 314 00:18:10.307 --> 00:18:13.171 that will never miss a workout, but they're stressed. 315 00:18:13.712 --> 00:18:17.157 They live in constant worry and they're thin, but they're not healthy. 316 00:18:17.597 --> 00:18:18.919 They're in shape, but they're not healthy. 317 00:18:19.700 --> 00:18:24.667 And, um, because when you're emotionally not healthy, you're going to be physically not healthy, period in the story. 318 00:18:25.428 --> 00:18:37.141 And the dangerous stuff, the excessive stress, the overwhelm, the anger, the rage, you know, the pressure, that's the stuff that really affects your heart. 319 00:18:38.102 --> 00:18:45.349 That's the stuff that really affects, like, strokes, dementia, all those things. 320 00:18:45.389 --> 00:18:46.210 And then the fear. 321 00:18:47.071 --> 00:18:49.153 The anxiety that affects your stomach. 322 00:18:49.473 --> 00:18:52.236 And now you're a magnet for deeper disease like cancer and things. 323 00:18:52.256 --> 00:18:59.102 And I'm not saying that any of us are impervious to that stuff because we can all do that stuff. 324 00:18:59.122 --> 00:19:10.653 But when you're in a state of being of fear and worry and anxiety and you're a magnet for that stuff, you're literally increasing the odds of you getting something. 325 00:19:11.453 --> 00:19:20.155 And a lot of my clients, when they're in resistance too, when they come to me, they always have something, whether it's back pain or a cold that they can't get rid of or something. 326 00:19:20.935 --> 00:19:24.596 And then when they get healthy, that stuff's off the table. 327 00:19:24.656 --> 00:19:27.157 I can promise you I haven't had a headache since 2007. 328 00:19:27.577 --> 00:19:28.057 I mean that. 329 00:19:28.397 --> 00:19:31.158 I've not had a headache since 2007. 330 00:19:31.198 --> 00:19:32.798 If I drink alcohol now, I'm fine. 331 00:19:32.939 --> 00:19:33.759 I don't get hungover. 332 00:19:35.019 --> 00:19:38.480 I wake up clear-minded, happy, tremendous energy every single day. 333 00:19:38.980 --> 00:19:43.064 I've got aches and I'm a golfer and I'm, you know, not a spring chicken anymore. 334 00:19:43.084 --> 00:19:44.606 So I have aches and pains and things. 335 00:19:45.306 --> 00:19:48.709 And I also had torn meniscus in both knees in 2004. 336 00:19:48.750 --> 00:19:52.273 And my friend who was an orthopedic surgeon said, Mike, you got to fix this. 337 00:19:52.753 --> 00:19:53.314 I couldn't walk. 338 00:19:53.374 --> 00:19:54.535 It was so much pain. 339 00:19:55.096 --> 00:19:59.840 Every step I took was like a razor blade inside of my ligaments, just cutting it. 340 00:20:00.981 --> 00:20:03.422 And I couldn't afford it at the time. 341 00:20:03.442 --> 00:20:05.123 That was the beginning of my downfall, right? 342 00:20:05.884 --> 00:20:08.185 And I just said, no, I was self-insured, self-employed. 343 00:20:08.225 --> 00:20:09.565 And I'm like, I can't do that now. 344 00:20:10.366 --> 00:20:12.247 And, but I would walk in pain every single day. 345 00:20:12.307 --> 00:20:15.448 I couldn't bend down in like what we would call the catcher squat, right? 346 00:20:15.508 --> 00:20:18.590 If you, you know, I would read a putt, I'd stand and bend at the waist. 347 00:20:19.370 --> 00:20:22.432 I couldn't bend my knees, couldn't run. 348 00:20:23.392 --> 00:20:27.234 And when I learned and did this work, I realized that that pain went away one day. 349 00:20:27.855 --> 00:20:30.696 And it's been gone for years, 19 years. 350 00:20:31.056 --> 00:20:31.657 It's been gone. 351 00:20:32.277 --> 00:20:33.017 I can do anything. 352 00:20:33.037 --> 00:20:34.038 If I want to run, I run. 353 00:20:34.058 --> 00:20:37.180 If I want to read a putt, I crouch down in the catcher position. 354 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:38.320 Zero pain. 355 00:20:39.061 --> 00:20:40.702 And so what, the body healed itself? 356 00:20:40.842 --> 00:20:41.062 Yeah. 357 00:20:41.662 --> 00:20:42.002 It did. 358 00:20:42.022 --> 00:20:45.584 Either that or it's masking it because I'm in such a state of acceptance. 359 00:20:45.644 --> 00:20:48.506 But I think it's the former. 360 00:20:49.006 --> 00:20:50.127 The body heals itself. 361 00:20:50.787 --> 00:20:58.531 So if you're stressed, you're overwhelmed, you're anxious, you're worried, you're inferior, you can't live like that, it will definitely affect your body. 362 00:20:58.972 --> 00:21:00.793 Your energy level, you're going to be fatigued. 363 00:21:00.813 --> 00:21:01.873 That's where burnout comes from. 364 00:21:01.893 --> 00:21:02.974 That's where fatigue comes from. 365 00:21:03.014 --> 00:21:04.195 That mind is taxed. 366 00:21:05.015 --> 00:21:07.096 every minute of every day, you can't live like that. 367 00:21:07.616 --> 00:21:11.096 You're literally a magnet for disease now. 368 00:21:11.297 --> 00:21:12.317 And nobody wants to live that way. 369 00:21:12.357 --> 00:21:14.917 So the important piece is to get that mind healthy, right? 370 00:21:15.578 --> 00:21:21.359 And there's a lot of things that we teach on these episodes to get that mind healthy. 371 00:21:21.639 --> 00:21:25.200 And so I would say to listen to them and apply what I teach you, right? 372 00:21:25.260 --> 00:21:25.480 But 373 00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:28.504 understand there is a correlation, there is a connection. 374 00:21:28.524 --> 00:21:37.637 Now, if you want our help in addressing any of this stuff or bringing your money to peak efficiency, click the link below, nolimitsnation.com forward slash book. 375 00:21:37.677 --> 00:21:38.799 And book a call with our team. 376 00:21:38.819 --> 00:21:40.261 We'll talk to you about what you're dealing with. 377 00:21:41.162 --> 00:21:44.363 and how it's affecting you, but also what the other side looks like. 378 00:21:44.884 --> 00:21:46.504 We get rid of those thabs like I did with Sean. 379 00:21:46.924 --> 00:21:48.265 This is where we get you healthy. 380 00:21:48.525 --> 00:21:51.506 You know, you're not only going to enjoy your life, but your health will probably turn around. 381 00:21:51.566 --> 00:21:51.966 And it did. 382 00:21:52.347 --> 00:21:52.887 And it has. 383 00:21:53.467 --> 00:21:54.267 It's the key, guys. 384 00:21:54.307 --> 00:22:03.551 So again, if you like this video, like it, hit the like button, hit the subscribe button if you want more, and share it with someone you love because it's powerful stuff. 385 00:22:03.591 --> 00:22:05.492 All right, guys, we'll see you on the next episode. 386 00:22:06.012 --> 00:22:07.194 All right, that's the episode. 387 00:22:07.334 --> 00:22:09.677 If something in there hit home with you, here's what to do. 388 00:22:10.118 --> 00:22:12.681 First, hit subscribe so you don't miss the next episode. 389 00:22:13.322 --> 00:22:22.934 Next, check out the show notes or YouTube description because my team puts all the links mentioned from today's episodes in there as well as ways we can help you beyond this episode.