Let the non-stop wheel of wind. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Alright, let's get going, huh? Let's go, gather up. Come on now.



Alright fellas, you got to remember, your body is like the wind. If it ain't warmed up properly, it's a real bad day. Athletes, take your mark, get set, it's time for the Addict2Athlete podcast.



Buddy out there, Coach Blue Robinson here. I want to thank you all so much for downloading, sharing, and subscribing to the podcast. Greatly appreciate you guys doing so.



Hey, as always, keep your eye on Addict2Athlete.org. That's the one-stop shop for everything team added to athlete. From our upcoming events, including our half team marathon this June, and our Recovery 5K coming up in September. Athletes, this is your place to jump on there, download our podcast, information about recovery, getting in tune with what's happening on the team, and even becoming a certified Addict2Athlete coach, maybe open up a chapter of this program in your community.



Yeah, like I said, our race registration is open, so please check out the two that we have coming up, with a multitude of events over the summer. We're excited to have you guys all on board. Well, he's got a great guest in studio today.



I'm excited to talk to him. I've been doing some stalking of his social medias, and some of the stuff he's putting out, and it's amazing content. I think that you're really going to get some benefit from listening to Craig Goldberg, because Craig, you do some awesome stuff, and before we hit record, I was telling you, one of the hardest things for these folks to do when they first coming out of addiction into recovery, is finding ways to decompress, to relax, to let go of all that tension, because they've been so in tuned with being fully charged, and full throttle for so long that their bodies have a hard time adjusting.



Before we jump into the core of this, introduce yourself a little bit to the Addict2Athlete listeners, and welcome to the podcast, brother. I appreciate that, coach. Thanks so much for having me, and thanks to everybody who's listening, and I'm grateful for your attention, and I think we're going to be able to cover some good ground here.



My name is Craig Goldberg. I'm a co-founder of InHarmony Interactive. I'm an entrepreneur for 25 years.



I'm 44. I started working full time when I was 19, and I've really been focused the last seven and a half, eight years on relaxation, and how sound and vibration can help us to reach deeper meditative states, and to reach a meditative state in the first place, and of course, to actually relax the body, what I call from the outside in. The brain and how we control the nervous system would be the inside out, and that can be very challenging, and particularly with addiction, and substance abuse, and recovery, you're kind of looking for outside sources to help you to relax, to help you to let go, to help you to turn off the monkey mind, to turn off whatever it is that's stressing and plaguing the mind, and in my study over the last seven, eight years, and really beyond that, I've really been focused on understanding the brain, the mind, how we think, consciousness, and I think I'm going to be able to share a lot of very relative findings, and a lot of sympathy and compassion for your audience, and for what we go through as human beings, because the struggle is real.



It's just that simple. This beautiful world that I'm putting my hand out to look outside, that we have co-created, can be very challenging, and I'm the first to admit that I have my own struggles, my own challenges. I think a little bit of education goes a long way, so I'm grateful for your podcast, and the topics that you share, and the people that you've had on board.



I think the message is poignant. I think it's broader than just recovery. I love that you're linking in athleticism, because I'm an athlete myself.



I was a junior Olympic volleyball player for years, and that comes with its own stresses and struggles as well, so there's a lot here that we can talk about and unpack. I'm super honored to be here and grateful. Man, me too, brother.



You don't know how long I've waited for someone like you to be able to shed some light on this, specifically because I believe this is the stuff, we're all according to Coach Blue here, right? I've been doing mental health counseling and addiction therapy for about 21 years now, and the one thing I see, brother, that is the connector of so many people relapsing and having these problems with maintaining the path that they want to choose is this freaking thing called stress. We are constantly under its thumb. I've talked to so many folks.



We're talking generational doctors and people that have studied this, and it's the number one cause of relapse. It doesn't have to be negative stress. It can be positive stress as well.



I'm curious if we can kick this off by talking a little bit about stress. I know what it does to the brain. I know that it doesn't let us relax, but we are constantly on the lookout for anything and everything.



How in the world do we kick this off with understanding it, and how do we dump it to even start the process of decompressing, getting into the form of relaxation? I got to tell you, Blue, I'm getting emotional. Just you asking the question gets me emotional when I start thinking about this because it is so foundational to life, and you hit the nail on the head with the question of, look, stress is stress. There's positive stress.



There's negative stress. There's bullshit that we got to deal with that sucks, pardon my expression, like a nail in your tire when you're on your way to work and you're already running late. And then there's positive stress of like, I got a plan.



I planned four weddings in three months. Pretty stressful, right? I host events all the time. It's stressful hosting an event.



I think it's good stress. I'm excited about it. I look forward to it as an entrepreneur.



I sit in my command center in my driver's seat here looking at five screens, managing what I manage, and I like that stress. And I talk to people all the time. They're like, I eat stress for breakfast.



And I'm like, that's great. Let's change the phrasing there and the thought process because we do handle stress well. We are designed to handle stress well.



And yet it becomes really easy to go off the rails. Let's talk about stress and just put a framework together. All right.



So top 10 reasons why Americans die. All cause mortality. Six out of the top 10.



And by the way, fentanyl just shot to the top as far as why Americans die, which is just absolutely bananas. COVID shot up right to the top 10. All right.



And the pandemic and everything related to that. So this list is constantly changing, but six of the top 10 reasons why Americans die of all cause mortality are rooted in stress and anxiety. Meaning, you remove the stress and anxiety, those six reasons for death go away.



So the impact of stress and anxiety on the body and the physiology is really important to me. It's one of the reasons why I'm here sharing the information that we're sharing. And by the way, my objective here is to be as educational and as open to the science and research that I've been to so that I can share knowledge and hopefully that knowledge brings awareness and that awareness brings change.



That stress and anxiety that we talk about, positive or negative, the body only has one response to stress. And this is really important to understand foundationally for the rest of the conversation. That stress can be physical, like you're being threatened.



That stress can be physical, like you've got a big workout going or you've got a big game coming up or work or any of the examples that I just gave. It can be emotional stress, mental stress, spiritual stress. I talk to people all the time that are like, hey, my parents raised me this particular religion and I don't agree with it anymore.



And I can't say anything about it. I can't break that news. I can't have that conversation.



And they are literally breeding stress and anxiety in the conversations that they want to have. So spiritual stress is real. Relational stress, mom, dad, living situations, whatever.



So stress comes in lots of different forms. And the body really only has that one response, increasing cortisol, increasing adrenaline, diverting energy from maintenance tasks in the body to saving your life. And if you get a shitty email from a boss you don't like at a job you hate at nine, 10 o'clock at night, you're going to have a hard time falling asleep because of adrenaline and cortisol.



If you're not getting sleep, it's this domino effect of negative impact on our body and our mind and our day that, look, if I read that email at 10 o'clock at night and then I try and close my eyes to bed and I have adrenaline and cortisol flowing through my body, I'm not sleeping. I'm tossing and turning, which by the way, I tossed and turned last night. I live in a very safe neighborhood.



I live in a very safe place. I actually fell asleep last night thinking about my daughter sleeping in her bed just 25 feet down the hall from my room. And actually, this is what was going through my head, somebody coming in my house and abducting my daughter.



And I get even emotional even as I'm thinking about this right now because I live in a safe neighborhood. I got cameras. We got lots of stuff that are going on here that can help to protect.



I have two housemates that usually live with me. They were out last night. And this is what was going through my head.



Literally, do I need to go get my daughter and put her in my bed so that I can sleep? And these are very real things that the mind conceives for us that the ego creates as a safety mechanism. By the way, it's now 10, 12 in the morning. I'm happy to report everything was fine last night.



Daughter slept in. Slept until six o'clock, crawled into my bed in the morning like, hey, dad, great to see you. None the wiser.



And I didn't even tell my wife that I was literally up until two o'clock in the morning laying in my bed, wondering if my household is safe. And by the way, we've never had a break-in. I've never had unwanted energy.



I don't welcome any of that stuff. But there's a part of the brain that is set up to protect ourselves and think about and cover our loved ones, particularly as men. We think of protection.



We think of providing. A very real thing that was keeping me up late last night that is a very real-world scenario. And again, I live in a very safe neighborhood, in a very safe city, comparatively to what's going on in the country right now.



But these are the types of things that can keep us up and create a stressful situation and a stress response in the body, which has this cascading effect on a lot of different things. Your immune system, digestion, reproductive organs, mental capacity. So, yeah, there's a lot going on, a lot to cover.



Sorry. But that's the thing. No, I love it, brother, because you're touching base on so many things that I've wanted to talk about but didn't have the capacity.



So I'm so glad you're here. Because I see this. I've seen this in so many of my clients.



I've seen this in multigenerational issues. And I've noticed something. Again, you see patterns in therapy.



You hear so much, but you see patterns. And when I started doing deep family histories, doing some biopsychosocial-type stuff, and the families are telling me that, yeah, my grandpa died of heart failure, my dad struggles with it. I don't think people realize that that flipping chemical in our body, that cortisol that you mentioned, it chills in our body.



And it typically goes the place where we hold our pain, where we hold some of our suffering. And I don't think a lot of people understand this. So whenever I find out that someone's died of a heart attack or whatnot, I'm like, what kind of person were they? Kind of buoy themselves up and take on the world and never ask for help and just shoulder to the will.



Or they were the push it down, suppress it, getting left behind, like loved but didn't know how to be loved. I see this stuff so much. And I'm curious.



We've got so much to cover. Men versus women. We hold this stuff in different places, right? Men typically right there in the heart.



You know, women, it seems to be like the lower back and some of the things. So I'm curious with your studies and things you've seen, is this holding any truth? Does the body store the pain and the cortisol and the stress? And if so, how do we go about recognizing that that's what it is? It's not that you're working yourself to the bone to a certain degree. It's that you're worrying and you have anxiety about absolutely everything.



Tell me a little bit about your thoughts on this. Look, I mean, it's your ego, which does four things, by the way. And an ego is a good thing.



I'm not talking about being egotistical. I'm talking about your ego. And again, this gets a little spiritual, because we don't fully understand consciousness yet.



It's not like this is science that's printed and peer-reviewed. But there are studies that do study consciousness and I like diving down that rabbit hole. Your ego does four main things.



It literally creates you as an individual, Coach Blue, and gives you a first-person perspective through your eyes and your five senses of how you're processing the world around you. Your world quite literally revolves around you. That's a good thing and that's how we're set up as individuals.



And your ego creates that. It establishes time. It establishes place.



10, 16 a.m. I'm in Las Vegas, Nevada. And I think the most important is that it keeps you alive. Its own function, its number one function is to keep you alive and that's what creates fear.



And that's what creates the thoughts in your mind of how to protect yourself. And this can be as docile and basic as keeping you away from a cliff or the edge of a high building. This can be as complex as me sitting in my bed last night thinking about how I need to protect my daughter even though there was no threat.



It's not like somebody broke into my house a week ago and I need to be worried about this. It's never happened before. Why am I thinking about that? And granted, there's news cycles and there's things that I was watching and I get all of that.



By the way, I could have just as easily reached for a substance to help me go to bed. Good, bad, or indifferent. I could have reached for cannabis.



I could have reached for essential oils. I could have reached for melatonin. I could have reached for any number of different substances from the outside to help me sleep, and I chose not to.



Instead, I breathed, which we'll talk about, took a few deep breaths, I calmed down, I thought through and talked to myself about how that's ridiculous and how while I need to be prepared for that, it's not something that's going to happen. You asked a question about compartmentalizing and pushing things down and how these memories are stored and they are absolutely stored in our cellular matrix. And we don't understand this a whole lot, but the reality is we are a hundred trillion cells that are connected and communicating regularly through electromagnetic energy and we are 93% water from the neck up, 70-90% water from the neck down.



We are very much electrical beings and human bodies are antennas. We are constantly coming into and out of what's called harmonic resonance with the frequencies that we are presented with. Those can be physical frequencies like sound and changes in pressure and that can be electromagnetic frequencies like the electricity that's flowing through our walls at a 60 Hertz frequency here in the United States or Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or... You'll notice the AirPods, the ears that I'm wearing right now are air tubes.



So the microphone and electrical signal actually ends here and there's six to eight inches of air that's actually sending the change in air pressure to my ears so I can hear you. I still use these amazing devices here I try not to wear them in my ears for that long or for that many consecutive hours. I believe in technology.



I am a technologist. I believe the benefits outweigh the hazards and we need to do things to mitigate that and to support our body's ability to heal and our body's ability more importantly to operate optimally and to my point before when you're stressed and anxious your body is in survival mode. Your body is in I need to save my own life.



I need to divert energy from maintenance tasks to life-saving tasks and that's great if you're facing a physical threat. It's not great if you're in that state all day every day day after day week after week month after month. In order to work with the body and I do believe that energy memories I believe there are a ton of different ways that we store that message that memory both our life as well as the generational struggles that we've gone through.



A lot of people talk especially when you get into this this consciousness conversation they'll say something like we are spiritual beings having a physical experience or having a human experience and I agree with that. To that end a lot of people will say well these are meat suits right like we're a spirit in this body and this is a meat suit and I disagree with that. I actually call these suffer suits and I think this is something that really comes into especially when you get into addiction and recovery a conversation of mitigating suffering and a lot of people are reaching to these substances to offset their own suffering or generational suffering and they don't have the tools to shake that out of the body which is why I believe in vibration and what we do at InHarmony so much to do the breath work to ground to actually get their feet in the grass or the dirt outside and actually and literally as an antenna an antenna needs to be grounded literally transferring negative ions to the ground and picking up that energy exchange with the earth is really important and most of us are walking around wearing rubber-soled shoes all day long literally disconnecting you from the earth and the vital energy that we need that comes from that.



So the short answer to a long question is yes I do believe we house that in our fat in our cellular matrix in our five senses. That's why you can walk into a house where there's a smell that you haven't smelled in years and immediately be brought back to you know being a kid like fresh squeezed orange juice for me my mom used to fresh squeeze orange juice when I was a kid. Anytime I smell like wild orange essential oils or somebody cracks open an orange and starts eating it I immediately start thinking about my childhood and that's because of stored memory positive or negative.



So there's more to unpack there. I'm telling you like you're blowing my mind and I love this I mean again let's touch base on that because you mentioned something that really got to me because I do the same thing man I have these stupid little air pods in my ears all the time and you're right tell me a little bit about this frequency thing because it's a big deal a couple about six months ago my blood pressure started getting super high to the point where I started getting concerned and I'm like this isn't good I go to the doctor they're like alright man it is time coach like if you're if you're preaching this you've got to start practicing this so last six months I'm in this gym every day I've got a gym right here in my office so taking stuff out like getting here on time doing the eating thing dude within six months blood pressure perfect and I'm like what the flip was that I knew what it was man great way to shake out by the way seriously yeah great way to shake out is exercise 100% zone two cardio movement equals healing I've seen it in therapeutics experiences that's why team addict athlete exists but tell me a little bit about this because one of the things that the guy told me my doctor he's like because I can't man ADHD brain it's always on like you said I'm listening to air pods at night you know but I'm but dude I'm listening to like Stephen King audiobooks like who goes to sleep listening to Stephen King right so I saw a few of these things it says yo beta frequency hurts and it's like yo do this for sleep brother I would have told you a year ago you're up a tree but it's flipping works tell me a little bit about this the beginning like at the beginning the discussion on this decompression relaxation what is it about sound and frequency that I've heard a lot more about now that kind of helps calm soothe reset because to me it's completely mind-boggling I don't understand it yeah I will show you a couple resources and then we can dive into sound and frequency yeah I'd love to post them so first I'm grabbing my iPad here for those of you that are just listening and this is an extended music meditation that we have created it's available on our website on our YouTube channel they are free they are 11 hours long we have them for during the day and we have them for at night our sleep music and music meditations are 11 plus hours long and they have a black screen so that you can run if you don't have a subscription you can run it but I do recommend a YouTube subscription especially if you're running for that long that's available at no charge it's on our YouTube channel it's a gift to the world to both harmonize your home and your rest at night so to your point listening to frequencies occupies the brain and the mind and it does help to calm and relax the body and then we have our music meditations app which is available in the iOS app store you'll find music in here that goes from two minutes to two hours the longer tracks obviously we can't upload into the app we have to stream those live the music that's in our app is optimized for our relaxation furniture and our relaxation furniture is basically hardware we use something called a tactile transducer it's a fancy word for half a speaker my business partner hates it when I say that he's the engineer in the group but you basically connect speaker wire and this is what we use to turn sound into vibration and this is you're sitting on it laying on it feeling it and it translates the frequencies that are in our app into vibration and it's unbelievably soothing and calming it's the ultimate in relaxation from the outside in in that the vibration actually sends a message to every muscle in your body telling it to relax it helps with recovery it helps with lymphatic drainage it helps with detoxing the body it helps with increase in circulation it will help with sleep it will help you to stimulate your body to go from sympathetic which is stressed and anxious fight or flight to parasympathetic which is calm and relaxed or rest and digest and literally within a 22 minute session on our relaxation furniture or listening to specifically the music in the app if you were to do it with a bluetooth speaker or in a great sound system we were just talking about the car I was just talking about the car with another client of mine like not while you're driving because it is designed to relax you and put you into an alpha or theta brainwave state look our bodies are antennas as I mentioned before and we are constantly coming into and out of what's called harmonic resonance it's very much like the old adage of you are a sum of the five people you spend the most amount of time with right? show me five best friends that smoke cigarettes and I bet almost 100% that you smoke cigarettes right? like show me show me five friends that go to the gym five days a week and chances are you're in the gym five days a week and that is because your vibe attracts your tribe and your tribe sets your vibe so the people that you're spending the most amount of time with it's a two-way street we are constantly coming into and out of harmonic resonance with the frequencies that we're presenting to our body and if left untamed then it's whatever the universe wants to impose on you whether that's a news cycle or a thought process or again the 60 hertz frequency of the electricity that's flowing through every wall in this house that I might not hear or feel but my body does because my aura goes out six you know six feet or so give or take and sometimes even longer than that and my energetic aura is constantly picking up on these different frequencies why you can walk into a room and get the chills and be like something's going on here what did I just miss like what just happened here man I've wondered about that there's been times when I've had a group therapy going on right and it's intent and I'll never forget this Greg I'll never forget this we were confronting a client who was lying and doing all kinds of stuff and I'm like dude you've got to get honest because you know we can't help you if you're if you're messing around and it was intense and then the most bubbly client we had comes trotting in but she came in right at that moment of silence and she's usually the one that says hey everybody but she bounced in and immediately like dropped her head her shoulders went down she went and sat down I thought yeah that is intense like you know and I thought I got thinking wait a minute you can feel that too so that's a very real thing I didn't I never thought about that I thought it was you know you're reading the room but really it's your body's your body's picking it up probably before your brain does I would imagine correct? 100% look we perceive as human beings we perceive the world around us through the five sense and this gets into a little bit of a consciousness conversation which I'm down to die if I don't know that it's relative but the reality is your brain is I was recording a podcast yesterday and she said what was the question the question was something along the lines of like how do you see your brain like what is your brain and she wanted me to compare it to like a unicorn or a park bench or you know whatever and I was like my brain is literally sitting in a black hole processing electrical signals your eyes are actually a window to your brain and a window to your soul you're actually looking at your brain like when I look at your eyes I'm actually looking at your brain the optic nerve and how it just ties right into the brain and it's the only part of the brain that can see and have light aside from obviously the ears and your ear canal your nose your mouth but predominantly your brain is sitting in a black hole and it's processing electrical signals which it translates into sight and an image of what's happening around me and it processes changes in sound pressure waves as sound and what's happening around vibration is felt by your skin and by the mechanoreceptors in your skin smell and taste obviously but your brain the supercomputer that it is is processing something like 4 billion inputs per second let that settle it ok the human brain the conscious mind can handle 4 inputs per second 4 thoughts at one time ok so your brain is filtering out 4 3 billion 996 million whatever that number is right it's filtering all of that out as not relative but your brain to your point of that room when she walked in her body felt it knew that this was not a place to be bubbly and she immediately came into harmonic resonance with the energy in that now we can change and shift that energy we can make a conscious decision that says hey hey everybody that was that was pretty deep hey let's let's shift topics here and go a little lighter and bring them we can decide to do that but a lot of times we're going to come into and fall in line into what's happening in the room and what's happening around us which is why I walk into some rooms and I'll turn around and walk right back out I listen to my gut and my intuition see and that's the thing that blows my mind so would it be safe to say that even last night while you were sitting there kind of like going through some anxiety about what could might happen to you know your family that you were also picking up on stuff just you know the energy in and of itself like coming from other areas it wasn't just your thought of like this could happen the anxiety right which by the way is even more horrifying to me yeah because that's what keeps me awake and goes maybe I'm picking up on something maybe there's somebody on the other side of the wall that I'm sleeping on right now and I'm getting a hit of like go sleep with your daughter I have no idea right maybe it was somebody casing my house maybe it was nothing you are speaking you're speaking gold brother because so many times this is and this is almost verbatim like maybe nine out of ten clients that come in right it's I got caught by the cops because I did this and they always say this I had a thought don't leave this out don't get behind the wheel they all have these thoughts they project it they know what's coming and then boom it happens right and they're like if I would have just listened to my gut I fractured a law or two in my life I've used a substance or two in my life and I've had a lot of fun doing it and not breaking the law although sometimes when I'm breaking laws right like I get it look the reality is we are humans and we have a metronome and I believe even the worst criminals in the world that do horrific things to other human beings and I mean victims you know that they have I still believe somewhere in their mind they're like this is wrong they're justifying it in some way shape or form it might be pushed deep down and that's what they're suppressing but we all know when we're doing something not right that we're doing something not right and we know when the risk tolerates that it surpasses something that we're you know capable or not capable of you know if you had a drink and you're capable of driving or not you know when you're pushing the limits of what is legal and what is morally right and you know look I live in Vegas we got 24 hour liquor laws here I literally drive my dad used to drive a New York City yellow cab I've got very good driving genes and I drive so defensively when I'm here in Vegas because my assumption is that everybody else is drunk we all know when we're doing something that's not right and we know and that that gut is what tells us that it's that measuring stick that goes hey probably shouldn't be doing this or worse yet this is the one you know hey I've gotten away with this so many times before but stay let's stay home today you know we've all felt that sure it's something that you need to train right because you can get your gut confused with with the ego you can get that fear confused with the gut which really is feeling into that energy that is all around us versus the the monkey mind you get so used to suppressing the negative self-talk that you that you don't listen to the gut and you can't separate the two and the two conversations and signals and that's an important part of of listening to and being aware of that awareness so then how does breathing connect into this because until I see it I know no I don't believe it but I'm telling you like it's the craziest thing and I told my wife I need to go get trained in breath work because this stuff it was mind-blowing tell me a little bit about the connection man because you're going through going through the audio the visual but then the breathing you're like I breathe every day for 44 years and I didn't know I wasn't doing it right here's the simple thing to remember breath controls the mind mind controls the body you want to control the body control your breath that's the equation breath controls the mind mind controls the body and the reality is when we're stressed and anxious we know it you're breathing shallow you're you're typically hunched over when we start to get depressed we start to literally the physical body comes in and what we really need to do is sit back stretch out open up and take deep breaths with the diaphragm the diaphragm is between the pelvic bone and the stomach and and it's basically the stomach muscles are what control inflating and deflating of the lungs but most of the time we're breathing up here we're not breathing down here and taking that deep breath there's some Andrew Huberman's got some great science and research on how to slow down your heart rate and and to do so through breath by inhaling four counts holding four counts exhaling eight counts and that longer exhale then inhale scientifically proven to bring you into that parasympathetic to help you to calm and slow down your heart rate to decrease your blood pressure and there's solid science on this this is not like consciousness where we're just not sure this is solid breath of fire and things that we can do to excite the mind scientifically proven right to increase blood pressure to get more blood flowing to increase circulation and there's a time and a place for them right so there's understanding that ebb and flow of how we can control the physiological the physical body and breath is a very powerful tool for that look so is salt sun exposure cold therapy hot therapy right athletes are accustomed to ice baths and that sort of thing we're just learning more and more about cold shock protein release and and other things that are happening during that process but understanding and taking control of this physical body and breath is is that foundation right um tony robbins have you ever gone to any of his events which i'm a huge fan of his he will anchor in a make your move and it's something that they do in upw unleashed power within and and there's a there's a move that i can make instantaneously that changes my state and it's something that has been ingrained and ingrained and ingrained in me such that there is an anchor in that move i just made and my physiological exchange i just got the chills i just got a surge of energy and my mind body and spirit is now ready to go well even you talking about that the energy that you're throwing off i can feel it it's just in the words you're using and so that makes a lot of sense but again you're right i think that the way that we breathe it's almost like again we're always locked up and ready to have to fight i mean it seems like that's kind of been our go-to for so long when when we did this breath work here it's a small little thing yeah i'm like wait a minute like to actually feel like you can breathe like it's funny i thought you're breathing fine but like to really utilize what the body is designed for and like you said the four in and then the eight out i didn't realize that like there's still a lot left in there that to me i'm thinking how are we missing all this if this is the if this is this what brought us you know from you know cave dwellers to the modern world what the flip happened how did we untrain ourselves to be so accustomed to the formological responses or the you know this 24-7 grind well so look even think back to 2000 years ago to our hunter and gatherer descent you know those that we are descendants of they understood the power of breath you bet your ass if you're hunting a tiger you're learning how to approach from down wind and you are controlling your breath so that you're not but instead very cool common collected if you shoot guns or bow or any type of right weapon you're controlling your breath you are slowly releasing that bow on your exhale not on the inhale you're not holding your breath you are instead breathing through that shot you're not holding your breath you're breathing through deep long breaths to keep the heart rate down to keep you focused so that you're not shaking in any way shape or form breath work is really important and controlling the breath is really important especially as you get into elite athletes you talk to MMA fighters UFC fighters they're controlling their breath in the ring boxers controlling their breath in the ring they're controlling that fight or flight now they have conditioned themselves to operate in that space so somebody getting into the ring is not stressed and anxious like I would be if if you were like hey Craig we're putting you in the ring tomorrow with you know insert powerhouse here and I'd be like wait what what no all of a sudden that stress response comes on but to somebody who's been training for a fight for years they're ready to go to work they have trained that stress response in that environment not to not to be stressful our technology does the same thing our music meditations do the same thing we are not removing the fight or flight look if that boxer that can arguably defend themselves and and you know their fists are lethal weapons and you know recognize lethal weapons right somebody like that yeah getting in the ring they might not be so stressed out you know to that fighter if they were out walking in a dark alley and somebody pulled a gun on them can't bring a knife to a gunfight can't bring fists to a gunfight right their stress response would kick in now they might handle a little differently in the face of that threat but nonetheless that stress response is still there and for mindfulness and meditation for relaxation for what we're doing using our music meditations and in our relaxation furniture the more often you use it just like going into the gym you are conditioning your nervous system to regulate itself more stably and to spend more time calm and relaxed than stress and anxious because again if you're not tending to your inner garden then you're letting everything else around you tend to that garden and that's when we spin out and we get stressed and anxious and the littlest thing triggers us and your friend says to you hey you want to go get a soda and you're like a soda I don't drink soda like you know like you get triggered and it's like and it's like dude I tea I'm sorry I said soda like you want to get it like a tea or coffee I don't drink coffee like whatever right like the littlest thing starts to set you off and it's like dude I just wanted to spend some time hey don't worry about it we're good right and and it's very you could see the potentiality for that very simply when you won't we all know you wake up on the wrong side of the bed like like you don't sleep at night and you get up in the morning and I like to drink coffee I also love spilling things on myself my wife thinks it's hilarious after 15 years she doesn't understand why or how it happens there's not a meal that goes by that I don't spill something right it just it happens right so you know you're drinking your coffee and and the cap falls off and and you spill coffee all over yourself in the morning okay it could happen you spill you know you break the carafe I broke a carafe in my kitchen a couple weeks ago I didn't do it on purpose I just moved my hand and and I hit it and it tipped over on the counter and done okay if you're having a bad day that is like the worst thing that could possibly happen and it just becomes this downward spiral what am I gonna do I don't have time for this I got to get to work I got to do this this and that if you're having a good day you're like cool I'm gonna clean it up sweet shift gears no problem that just happened nothing I could do about it now it's already broken I'll just clean it up or or better yet you know hey you know what nobody's gonna be home today house is gonna be closed I gotta get to a meeting I'm gonna deal with that later yeah mistake super sad that I did it but I'm going to get to my meeting and I'm just gonna leave that for later same scenario you broke something two different mindsets so think of using our music meditations and our relaxation furniture as an opportunity for you to condition your nervous system to spend more time in parasympathetic or rest and digest or calm and relax and as these situations come up you take them in stride traffic on your route on your way to work where there's never traffic and you're now late for an appointment if you're calm and relaxed you turn on the radio you lower the music you're not driving you send a quick text to your boss or your meeting and you say hey I'm 10 minutes late I don't know what's going on there's construction same situation when you're stressed and anxious with a poor night's sleep and and months of of a dysregulated nervous system and you're freaking out like why am I you're thinking about driving on the grass you're thinking about what the holdup is you don't know what's happening and and you don't think to just send a quick text that says hey I'm running a few minutes late and the person's gonna be like cool no problem don't worry about it 99 times out of a hundred and what happens is if you do start to you know future trip down the chaotic highway you will bump into more I mean you attract that stuff I remember I used to lose my mind when I needed to be somewhere and you got to be there on time but no one cares we'll get there when we get there and then no matter how fast you go the best you're gonna do is maybe four or five minutes earlier right I mean you're not gonna you're not gonna create this a massive amount of time so why waste the energy right that's right you're not gonna shave off that many and at the end of the day if somebody tells me that they're running late I just reply back hey thanks for the heads up I don't have a hard time filling time I got more than enough to do like oh I got an extra 10 minutes hey thanks a lot I appreciate it appreciate that I can dive into what I was just doing no stress get here safe take your time or hey you know what we had a 30 minute meeting you're gonna be 15 minutes late hey let's reschedule and that's okay too and I need to take personal responsibility if I'm the one that was running late that says all right that's fair I'm running late I wasn't respecting their time I didn't try and get here early or I couldn't for whatever reason sometimes just better to reschedule and that's okay too and if I missed an opportunity I got to take that personal responsibility percent and not making excuses but to be accountable and be like yeah man that was my bad I shouldn't have taken the freeway you know I don't think again I think we avoid that kind of stuff because we don't want to be you know looked at as less than in the yard is the ego gets in the way and it does it dominoes into bad here's the biggest undercurrent that I hear about what we're talking about especially when it comes to addiction recovery be kind to yourself the person who's hearing this message right now be kind to yourself cut yourself a break don't be so hard on yourself don't get me wrong there's a time to drive there's a time to press forward there's a time and a place for all of the different emotional experiences that we have potential for on this planet and in this human experience but give yourself some slack and don't be so hard on yourself all of the time I was just listening to Andrew Andrew Tate Andrew Tate real hard ass I'm actually going to see David Goggins speak in the next couple days and and I can't wait like it's a chiropractic convention here at the Parker like I'm really curious who's going to show up and at the same time I know exactly who's going to show up it's the same David Goggins every single time he does not change he doesn't skip a beat I know personal friends of his that's he's like that all the time and I can appreciate that but he doesn't if he's running late for whatever reason he doesn't beat himself up he is kind to himself even though he holds himself to a higher standard which is great but if he's late he's late hey I'm running late here's what happened here's what's going on I appreciate that I'm sorry thank you for your patience I'm on my way So be kind to yourself and don't be so hard on yourself and be fluid and flow like water like that martial artist said from yeah Bruce Lee exactly right flow like water be in it I love it I love it so I think I think you know to kind of put it into perspective we've got to give ourselves the time for ourselves I know we occupy it with a lot of responsibilities and obligations and circumstances but if we don't put ourselves first become one with ourselves we can't become one with anything else and we else. And I think that's a huge, like, like red flag when at the end of the day, our batteries are completely depleted.



I mean, you've got to save some for yourself, right? I mean, when you're going too fast, too hard, you're going to burn out. I'm going to credit, I'm going to credit my buddy, Andrew. I'm going to credit my buddy Andrew Reed, who says, um, you, you may be familiar with the term, like your cup has to be overflowing before you can serve others.



And if you're not familiar with that, right? Like you need to take care of yourself and serve yourself. Like on a, when you're on the airplane, right? Like if the mask comes down, put your mask on first and then your kids, which is hard to think about. But the reality is if you die, cause you putting on your right, like put your mask on and then take care of the kid.



He's going to be fine or she's going to be fine. And, um, and the reality is you got to do that. We, uh, Andrew says serve from a saucer.



So serve others from the saucer, which means your cup and a teacup is overflowing and you've served yourself. And now you have the power and the strength to be 100% whole. And now you can serve others from your saucer, which I really liked that example.



And I liked that visual. Um, and, and we do need to take care of ourselves and we do need to give ourselves time. It can be as simple as 10 minutes.



I do want to touch on something cause you started a hint towards it. The word meditation is intimidating for a lot of people. I mean, super intimidating, especially for A type personalities like you and I that are like, wait, you want me to do what? You want me to sit there and do nothing for 10 minutes? That's not happening.



Right? Cause the entire time you're just thinking about what you should be doing and what you're not doing. And I was there. That is me.



It's why I built the company that I built. It's why I do the research that I do. And, and I tell people this often, I secretly, and Oh, not so secretly cause I tell everybody, but I've managed the growth of this business in developing the products that we develop because I use them every single day.



I am streaming. I just showed you my YouTube account. I'm streaming my music meditations all day long.



I have my app open. There's a sound lounge and a meditation cushion here in my office. I am constantly using the technology that I have so affectionately developed and I use it every single day because I need it.



I think we all do as human beings. I'm constantly tending to that garden and I'm constantly taking time, even if it's five minutes to get 40 Hertz, which is a magical frequency, um, where I'll just lay, sometimes I just lay on the sound lounge and, and text message and get back to an email, um, read something, watch something while my body is experiencing 40 Hertz frequency and, and getting that going. So got to take these little moments to take care of yourself.



Look, it could be as simple as just taking a shower, cold or hot, but like, Hey, I'm clean. I haven't sweat yet, but you know what? I'm going to just hop in the shower and, and, and change my state, change my physical being, let some water run over me. Or one of my favorite things to do is I'll go to the strip and just walk.



I call it a walking meditation. There's plenty to look at. It's overstimulating.



I literally just park at the wind and walk down to, uh, and, and walk down to one of the other hotels and then walk back Bellagio or, uh, and I'll just walk right back and just walking through all the people and walking past everybody cleanses my auric field. It cleanses my energetic field and it allows me to see everything that's going on, get a little distracted, take my mind off whatever I was doing and then I can dive back into it and be deeper. So yeah, those breaks are really important.



How do they find you? Because I'm going to, I want to attach a lot of your socials to this episode, but tell the listeners a little bit about how to find you, what, uh, check out some of your, some of your sound furniture, things of that nature because I, I, I'm believing I see it. I feel it. I appreciate that.



I am one of the easiest people to find on the internet. Uh, you can Google Craig D Goldberg. You can Google in harmony interactive.



Um, we pay for your attention there. So just putting that in, we'll find us our website. I am in harmony.com two most powerful words in the English language.



I am because anything you put after it, you are and why not be in harmony with the world around you? So, um, we're in harmony, interactive on all of the socials. Um, tick tock, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, uh, YouTube, Google. I mean really like I'm super easy to find.



Uh, my phone number, this phone rings with the phone number that's at the top of my website. People cannot believe that my phone number is on the top of our website and uh, literally it's give me a call. You think I can help you with a comment? I'd love to be supportive.



I clear my desk of everything else so that I can be creating content like this and evangelizing, not just in harmony interactive, but of course our entire industry health and wellness as a whole. We drifted on and off some topics here that fall a little bit outside the scope of in harmony and yet it's all connected at the same time. And I love this conversation.



I'm grateful. Thank you. We'll have to get in touch with you.



Maybe have you do a little stream interaction with our athletes on one of our Tuesday night meetings. Uh, cause I know that there's a lot that we'll want to get to know more about what you're doing. But brother, I appreciate you carving out some time for us today.



Athletes, we will attach everything that's been discussed here today in the show notes. So make sure that you'll check those out, getting connections with Greg and all the stuff that he's doing. Um, there's, I, we've barely scratched the surface so I know there's going to be another opportunity by which you and I are going to have another conversation because you know, every door opens a room to many other doors.



So don't get too comfy cause you're going to, a lot of athletes are going to want to know more. Appreciate you coach. Thanks so much.



My pleasure. Athletes, again, you've been well, you've been well- I'm ready to rock and roll. Yeah, we're coming.



Let's go. I'm excited for it, man. At least for the better weather too.



It's cold up here in Utah. Uh, check out the website, AttitudeAthlete.org. All of the content you need is right there to be followed. Um, reach out to us.



All of our contact information is there. If you need more information, please don't hesitate to reach out. That's what we're here for.



We got a team behind you. And until next time, do your best to turn your mess into your message.