It's time to rip the cover off what really works to ditch addiction, depression, anger, anxiety, and all other kinds of human suffering. No, not sobriety. We're talking the F-word here: Freedom. We'll share, straight from the trenches, what we have learned from leaving our own addictions behind, and coaching hundreds of others to do the same—and since it's such a heavy topic, we might as well have a good time while we're at it. [00:27.6]
Bob: Let's talk miracles folks. Yes, indeedio, I used to be frustrated as all heck when I was growing up, because I would read all these Bible stories and all of these scriptural stories about all of these miracles that had happened, both in Christianity, in yogic lore, in a martial arts lore and Chinese martial arts history and all of these amazing things were happening. And then people in my own life were talking about miracles and they just felt like they were talking about coincidences, and they're like, oh man, this was such a miracle. And then people would come and talk about like the miracles of the Quran. And they were just like, oh yeah, interesting, cool patterns that you couldn't have cooked that up. And then others would come and talk about Joseph Smith and how like a young boy couldn't have written this book. And they were all what they were finding was like things that were mind blowing to them that just, they didn't have a solid explanation for that. The only explanation has to be that this is miraculous or that this is from God or something. And then they weren't putting the word miracle on that. But to me, the word miracle was like reserved for like stuff like healing phrasing from the dead and like physical changes in nature that were just not normal. And they were indescribable in some way. [01:46.6]
And so, as I grew up, I would like be frustrated by all the people that were talking about these, all these miracles. Cause I was like, no dude, cause if miracles have ceased in your time, maybe that just means that you've lost faith and these aren't real miracles. And you're just pretending that they're miracles. And yeah, okay. I was like an arrogant little kid, and I was full of myself and my ideas and I knew everything because when, when you're a teenager, you know, everything right. And a 20-year-old and a 30-year-old and it takes time to grow into the recognition of your own ignorance to where now I, I really don't know much. And so, as I grew up and I started and I just put that on the shelf, like, okay, miracles. But then I started training in healing work and I started training in biodynamic craniosacral therapy and sort of energetic work. I started training in body work for releasing root issues and all these other kinds of things. And I started seeing rapid life transformations, rapid life transformations. [02:45.9]
And as I started seeing them, I was like, wow, this is incredible. And I never put the word miracle on it. But then I started talking to other people about it and inviting them to try it. And they're like, oh, it sounds too good to be true. Sounds too good to be true. And so that was all that stuck in my mind is that rapid life transformations are too good to be true. And then it hit me one day that, you know, the types of results we're seeing with people, others would call miraculous. And in fact, the people themselves call it miraculous in many ways. Others would call it miraculous, but that's just because they don't see what's really happening. They don't see what's really happening, and so they think it's either too good to be true. It's a scam which nowadays everybody's skeptical, and so that's understandable. Or that was actually some sort of divine hand that stepped in there. But when they're talking to me, it's, I wasn't in there watching some divine hand step in, I was just doing what I knew how to do. And because I'm working when the way that I understand currently that the body works, some beautiful things are happening. [03:43.7]
We just have to teach them about breathing. And we take them through a couple of really intense sessions of breathing and certain ways to help them release things. Then we train them how to use the breath, to release other habits in their body. And then we take them through deep tissue work or we take them through some mental exercises that help them reframe and make a different relationship to their past memories so that it's no longer something that defines their life, but just something that they've learned from, and they don't lose any other wisdom of it. And this is just me over years, kind of studying what works and what doesn't work with the body. And all of a sudden, we have people coming who've struggled with addiction for long periods of time. We're talking four, five, sometimes six decades. And some of them, not all of them, but some of them within a few days, leaving it behind, leaving behind all of the trauma that they grew up with and the abuse and all that other stuff. And literally walking home going like, I don't even know who I am anymore because who I was disappeared and who I am now is free of all this stuff. And now I get to go live a totally different life. [04:46.9]
There's a lady who came to one of our retreats, not too long ago, she told me that she goes home. And now like, now her place is clean. She loves cleaning it, she's super happy. Like she used to be depressed 95% of the time and now she's happy, she tells me 99% of the time. That might be an exaggeration, I don't know, but 99% of the time. And she's cleaning her house and her friends are like, who is this? This isn't who you are. But it is. Her entire experience of life changed because she went through some very specific processes. And on the outside, that sounds miraculous. But it sounds miraculous because you and I grew up with people talking to us about geologic time and how long it takes for the earth to change through erosion and about humans and how humans don't change. And you can't teach an old dog new tricks and your personality is set by the time you're 35, which by the way, is not true, has never been true, but we've believed it's true as a society and as a nation. Or people who would say, well, you can't get over addiction and you can't do all these other things because it's impossible unless there's the hand of God involved. And so, we've believed that the only way change could happen is by miracles. And as a result, we've robbed ourselves of actually being able to see the beauty of what's happening. [06:03.0]
So, I got on this miracle kick for a little bit and I was like, yes, I'm not claiming the power of God, but basically, yeah, this is like we're in the process in the habit of working miracles every day. People who've been struggling with things for a long period of time and then they disappear. Now enter Amber. Amber is, she came to me for a, as a client a long time ago. I don't know if I've talked about her on the podcast before. She was struggling with like business stuff and whatnot, because in her life she had dealt with like Lyme disease and chronic inflammation and lack of sleep for sometimes up to six days at a time. Because of the amount of pain and swelling and 30 other co-infections like Hashimoto's . All of the doctors had basically given up on her. They're trying to make her life comfortable knowing she's going to die sometime soon, but basically there's nothing we can do. And so, she'd given up to, she wasn't looking for help. She came to me looking for help with just business stuff and getting kind of in a place where she could really sort through all this stuff in our heads so that she could move forward. [07:03.0]
Now I don't commonly coach in business stuff, but she and I met in a certain mastermind and I thought I'd help. Now come to find out that as we're going through it, there was some addiction to opioids that had happened in her life because of the chronic pain. And there were some driving factors in there, so, as we start getting down into root issues that are holding her back in business, we start all of a sudden seeing like all of these emotional things start leaving through physical work, through breath, work through some psychological work. But I'll tell you this, when you're working by just talking your way through your problems, that's such a small part of the whole issue. That that's why it takes such a long time to move it, is because you're trying to turn the entire boat using just one little twig when if you, other ways to do it, use the sail. It catches the wind, better instead of using one ore, and so things started shifting. And then she finally came out and told me about some of these physical things that she'd had been having, doing swelling and the swelling coming up and going back down by us doing some simple physical processes and breath-oriented processes and helping her work through anything that came up emotionally and allowing her to release some emotional stuff. [08:12.8]
But she finally went back to her doctor and got some blood work and low and behold, the stuff that her doctor had thrown everything at and not been able to change had changed. But there were still for heart inflammation levels, they wanted you to be underneath a one, a five means we're going to hospitalize you right now. And we're going to look at end of life plan. And she, her blood work, despite all the other things that had happened, the Hashimoto's had gone away. The leaky gut had disappeared. All of the chronic pain had gone, like literally. She's just this joyful human being, and her doctors looking at our blood, we're going, I don't understand how you're not in pain right now, because according to these labs, you should be. But those labs were a marked improvement from what they had used to be as well. But then she saw the cardiac inflammation number at a four, and she was like, I don't have anything that I can do to help you turn this around. But if it doesn't turn around quick, we're looking at some serious decisions to be made. [09:05.0]
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So, she sent her to me, me and I did some of the deep tissue work. I worked with her with some deep tissue work and some breathing. Deep tissue work is I use sticks and other types of implements to just kind of help get into areas where the body's holding thought processes, emotional residues, as well as inflammation and all kinds of other stuff. And then we also worked through some past memories that were associated with some things that came up right in the moment. So, we're helping release trauma, which a lot of these doctors recognize are associated with a lot of these autoimmune disease, as well as handling the physical components of it. And she went back to the doctor right after that, just one session and her cardiac inflammation number was at a 0.5. It went from a four to a 0.5 in essentially a day. [10:23.3]
And I don't feel like it's a miracle in some way. And yet it's something that is unheard of flabbergasted the doctor it's really, and there's some other blood work and stuff that we've seen with some other clients that is really promising in terms of the work we're doing. And all this time, I've been like, no, it's not a miracle, if you just work with the body, right, it's fine. But so many people want miracles. They want someone to divine to come in and swoop down and save them. But if that isn't in the name of Jesus, then they have a hard time accepting it. So, they think the only way I can be saved is through a miracle, but the only way that miracle can come is through the divine. But here I am doing something very simple process. And miraculously, the whole thing is transforming in this person, Amber, she just has this beautiful life that's unfolding in front of her. And all of this chronic pain and these other ailments gone, which by the way, we're working on putting together a group, a beta group of people to really go to town on this and to help people who are struggling with these kinds of auto-immune disease and chronic pain. [11:22.5]
So, if you know, people send them my way, have them send me a message, so we can help them out. But this miracle had happened. It wasn't in the name of Jesus. I wasn't trying to claim divine power. I was just doing what it was that I knew. But still miracles weren't satisfying for me in a sense, right. Because I, I realized somewhere in the middle of it, that as I'm doing this stuff, I used to say, no, no, I know exactly how this is working, but I feel like I was selling it short. And I just started to think about my own. I want you to think about your own body and your own ability to move right now. If I wiggle a finger, I actually don't know how to wiggle a finger. I don't actually feel like I'm wiggling the finger. I can see the fingers wiggling, but I'm not sitting here consciously declaring to my brain, which neurons to fire in which cascade chain of muscles that tends in which acids or chemicals to shift so that this finger moves in this way. It seems to be connected with, I want the finger to move and now the finger is moving. So, I, maybe I'm doing some kind of weird telekinesis, right? Cause I'm connected to my body in this way. And so, as I started to recognize that I started to realize that everything is a miracle. Everything in life is miraculous. And I have spent so many years missing the billions of miracles happening every moment because I was busy chasing the one miracle. That was the one that qualified in my definition. And it goes well beyond coincidence is happening. Every breath is a miracle. [12:58.1]
And what I mean by miracle is that, which I do not understand how and why it's happening and that which I'm not really in control of, but it's happening anyway in a beautiful way. Every moment is chock full of miracles. And because I have sat there in my life and pretended that I know what's going on, I've missed the miracle. And that has robbed my life of so much joy and so much gratitude and so much just pure ecstasy at watching the tiniest things happen. [13:34.0]
So then when I start looking at my kids, I'm just watching the way their skin moves on their cheek when they talk. Could entertain me for hours sometimes, watching the way the sun comes in the window and glints across their face, watching the way my dog moves and ripples or how he breathes or the way his teeth are shaped, watching the way the garden water runs, watching how the sun sets and recognizing that I'm in control of none of this, it's all happening in this miraculous way that I have no clue what it's like. And I get to experience it. Has shifted so many things for me. And it made me for the first time in my life, want to turn around and say, instead of chasing being the one who's the miracle worker, I would now like to be the one who recognizes the miracle in every moment. [14:25.2]
When I was involved for a period of time in psychedelics and, and looking to substances to try and solve my life issues. I wanted these heightened states of consciousness you know, I wanted to be in these elevated states where I was having visions or having thoughts that, and deep aha moments. And I realized that every state of consciousness is just another state of consciousness. And they're all, they're all not the real thing. That as soon as I hold one way of being above every other one, then the rest of my life becomes a problem. And we have this problem in the West with spirituality. As soon as we decide, one thing is spiritual, we automatically in our minds without being able to control it, judge, everything else is non spiritual. And therefore, less them, unless we think spirituality is dumb and then it goes the other way. We inherently by saying, this is spiritual and this is not automatically are running around judging the world. And yet the world, the entire world was created by something. And we're sitting here saying, no, it made a mistake on that. Only this part of it was good and the rest was bad when we're part of what it created. [15:35.4]
And so, in chasing all of these spiritual experiences and breakthroughs and aha moments, I had labeled inadvertently the kinds of miracles I was chasing, the kinds of experiences I wanted to have. And as a result, I was robbing myself of the grandeur of the experiences I was having. You see the moment that you and I decide that there is a goal out there that is better than what we have now. We will no longer be able to enjoy what we are currently experiencing. There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The moment that you decide that something out there is better than what you currently have is the moment that you fill your life with misery so that you can go chase that other thing. But guess what the misery came from you. And so also does the miracle. [16:27.6]
So, when I started recognizing that, no, I don't want to chase these altered states anymore. I want every state to be miraculous. I want picking my nose to be as ecstatic and experience as having a newborn baby. I want them all to be glorious experiences and beautiful and wonderful and miraculous. And that means enhancing my ability to perceive the miraculous in everything. To do that requires working with your mind and your body in a different way. It requires being open to things that maybe you weren't open before. And then when it starts happening and I don't live in it all the time, I don't see the miracle in every moment, all the time, at all. I'm still training my mind and rhino enhance my perception so that I can see it all. But when it starts happening, I can't begin to tell you the number of times that I've just been overwhelmed with utter joy and pure ecstasy and seeing the tiniest little thing and just feeling all of my cares, wash away and feel my whole being renewed. Because I finally got to see the miraculous gift that it is to be alive in this moment. And maybe just, maybe that's the whole point of this existence anyway. It was a gift, a chance for us to experience in a body form, the miracle of life. And all the time that we spend chasing miracles, we miss the miracle that's happening underneath our feet and, in our heart, and in our lungs and in our soul. [18:04.7]
So, as I wrap up this talk on miracles, and I know it's been a little bit of a wandering talk, I just wanted to invite you one to start looking for miracles, the big ones and the small ones, because just as every breath is a miracle so, two is the miracle of Amber being able to take, turn her cardiac inflammation down, or the other client that we had being able to completely alter her personality traits, because now she's happier. And to have another client drop 50 years of trauma, because he just did some breathing in a certain way and to mental processes in a certain way. So, look for the big ones and the small ones, but whatever you do, stop closing down possibilities in life, quit looking for what's impossible, quit affirming, and gold-plating your limitations. And you might just find that life blows your mind and shows you things that you never thought possible and enables you to see that even the ordinary mundane things are far more miraculous than you ever possibly considered. [19:10.4]
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