Brain Shaman

This is an interview with Glenn S. Cohen, the author of Neurological Intelligence: Volumes 1 and 2. Join us on a wild ride through Glenn's neurological life, as he shares various tools and techniques that have helped him and can help you too. We all have wounds from our past, inner children trapped in time, and destructive habits and thought patterns that we'd like to replace.  The tools we focus on in this episode fall primarily under the category of: visualizations & meditations that engage our various senses.  By deliberately and strategically tapping into our memories of sensory data (e.g. sight, sound, and touch), using metaphors and movie-like sequences, spicing it up with humor and goofiness, and repeating and repeating, we can find and fix various patterns in our body and brain. This can revolutionize our relationships both in our inner and outer worlds. We can learn to be less reactive, more calm, and more neurologically free. We also talk about body-based tools such as breath and movement (e.g. shaking), as well as combining them with visualization exercises (e.g. the 4-7-8 "John Coffey exercise") and with our love partner (e.g. the "mindful discussion technique"). We also discuss psychedelics (such as Ayahuasca), alcohol, IFS, NLP, attachment theory, brain waves, journaling, and comedy.Still, we will never be perfect. And this hero's journey deep into the nervous system can be dark, scary, and uncomfortable. It also requires you to temporarily let go of logic, rationality, predictability and let the wild unconscious mind roam free. That's how you will find your paths toward truth, freedom, and health. *CONNECT W/ GLENN S. COHEN*website: www.centerforni.comRESOURCESBOOKS - Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - Neurological Intelligence: Volume 1 by Glenn S. Cohen- Neurological Intelligence: Volume 2 by Glenn S. CohenEXPERIENCES - ManKind Project: New Warrior Training Adventure - Rythmia - Sedona Soul AdventuresMOVIES & TV - The Green Mile- Tom and JerryPEOPLE - Andrew Huberman - Carl Jung- Dale Carnegie- Daniel Goleman - James Pennebaker - Joseph Campbell - Oliver Wendel Holmes - Richard Schwartz- Steven Pressfield- Tony RobbinsLearn more at: centerforni.com

This is an interview with ADHD coach Tony Coward. We talk about how to navigate life with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) - from the fear, frustration, perfectionism, distraction, hyperarousal, and feeling of "not enoughness," to the boundless imagination, creativity, excitement, and out-of-the-box thinking that, if properly harnessed, can lead to immense levels of success and happiness. We discuss various tools and techniques for finding and focusing on your passion, managing your time and tasks and environment, collaborating with others, visualizing and breaking your goals down into tiny steps, getting feedback, receiving validation, celebrating your wins, and keep diving into your zone of brilliance. Learn to take all those new possibilities trapped in your inner world and passionately unleash them out into reality. ADHD can be a frustrating journey, but Tony Coward is here to help you manage your ADHD so that you can finally become the great person that deep inside you know you are.  With ADHD comes great creative and entrepreneurial potential. Let's learn how to tap into it. It is too sad and beautiful to waste. After listening to this episode, you might find that ADHD can become your new best ally in art, business, and life. Listen in to find out how.**CONNECT WITH TONY COWARD**LinkedIn: /tonycowardcoachwebsite: www.nomadd.coachADDITIONAL RESOURCES ABOUT ADHD:- ADDITUDE Magazine: www.additudemag.com- How to ADHD (YouTube channel): @HowtoADHD

Michael Allison is an educator and coach who uses polyvagal theory to help athletes optimize their resilience, performance, and overall nervous system. In this episode, we talk about the neurophysiology of safety, danger, connection, competition, and play. Learn to "meet your body where it is" and use play as a way to regulate your nervous system, connect with others, and improve almost every area of your life.  We also talk about how play improves creativity, learning, relationships, health, performance, and so much more.We discuss tools for both calming down and for leveraging that mobilized energy in a safe, social, and connected way by entering the "play zone." The basic tools include: breath, sound, posture, voice, eyes, facial expression, etc. The real powerful ones are things like: singing, dancing, acting, improv, and sports.The ultimate goal is to develop safe, playful, and trusting relationships with our own body and each other. Find your trusted teammate(s) by playing together.**CONNECT WITH MICHAEL ALLISON**    website: theplayzone.comRESOURCESPolyvagal Institute's website: https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/What is Polyvagal Theory? https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/whatispolyvagaltheory Michael Allison's courses with Polyvagal Institute:Play Zone Pro: A Polyvagal-Informed Certificate for Wellness & Performance CoachesThe Play Zone: A Neurophysiological Approach to Our Highest Performance

Nathalie Giraud Desforges is a sex, couples, and IFS therapist. We talk about how to use tantra to connect with our body, mind, multiple selves, nature, and each other. Concepts from Internal Family Systems (IFS) weave through the conversation. Learn to be kind and compassionate to both the "good" and "bad" parts and people in both your inner and outer world. Get jiggy with yourself and each other, in a never-ending orgasm that permeates your entire life and being. Blast love through your heart, into everything that you are. You will learn how to have longer-lasting, more pleasurable, connected, satisfying sex. You will learn how to flap your perineum's beautiful butterfly wings and how to feel as powerful, light, and free as that butterfly.  The past will become less of a burden as your inner children reunite and inner villains find a friend. You will feel more alive and aware, as your hidden sensations, selves, thoughts, feelings, and memories slowly reawaken. Energy will flow, opening you up and reconnecting you to yourself, the world, and other people.**CONNECT WITH NATHALIE**website: www.nathalie-giraud.frInstagram: @nathalie_giraudTed Talk (in French): www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQn0A4rGY1YWe also talk a little about hypnosis. If you want to try to the Reveri app by David Spiegel that I mentioned, you can learn more about it here: www.reveri.com.I've also found The Hypnotist podcast by Adam Cox to be quite useful (though this wasn't specifically mentioned in this episode).If you would like to join one of Nathalie's tantric seminars or receive a private consulting (online) *offered in both English and French*, you can find more information about that on her website. 

Faye Sahai is the managing director at Telosity Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in digital wellness and mental health startups. In this interview, you will learn all about current trends in mental health and the some of the latest technologies and solutions striving to improve it. We discuss this from various angles: cultural factors, human connection, trust, autonomy, agency, personalization, etc. We also talk about the causes of the rise in mental health disorders (especially in youth), the role of technology (such as smartphones, social media, sensors, data, VR, and AI), assessment tools, environment, nutrition, behavior, and more. For those of you interested in creating or investing in mental health startups, you will also get advice on how to build or identify a great company. As a teaser, some of the things we touch on include: user engagement, determining how well the product/service truly helps people, and diversity. This is also a nice chance to get to know Faye's story - her upbringing, career journey, motivations, memories, pains, sensitivities, influences, family, hopes, and beyond. We delve into some darker topics such as suicide, depression, dementia, and social isolation. But there is light at the end of this conversational tunnel. **CONNECT & LEARN MORE** website: telosity.coLinkedIn: /telosity-coTelosity Report (Market Guide): telosity.co/mkt-guideRESOURCESCOMPANIES- Daybreak Health - Flipd - Ksana Health- Manatee- Maslo- MindRight Health - NeolthPEOPLE- Andrew Huberman- David Eagleman- David and Jan Baszucki- Dylan FoxPODCASTS- Huberman Lab- Inner Cosmos with David EaglemanTELEVISION- Alive Inside (documentary) - It's Okay to Not Be Okay (TV series)- The Brain with David Eagleman (documentary series) **CONNECT & LEARN MORE** website: telosity.coLinkedIn: /telosity-coTelosity Report (Market Guide): telosity.co/mkt-guide

This is an episode about finding balance between our two main modes of perception: interoception (the inner world) and exteroception (the outer world). Sometimes we get stuck too far in one direction, either internally within our body-mind or externally out there in the world of other objects and things. We are always dancing between these two realities, struggling to keep our balance with a foot in each world. Often, we pull both feet into one extreme - perceiving too much of the inside and not enough outside, or vice versa. Today, let's talk about how to fine tune that dance, how to build ourselves a home between both worlds, so that we can feel happy and alive both on the inside and the outside. We also discuss various tools for altering our balance between interoception and exteroception, including: our visual environment, visual exercises, clothing, breathing, food, and more.Compliments of suno.ai for the semi-sweet song at the end.

Michael Morin Nissen is a psychologist, body-oriented psychotherapist, and TRE trainer. In this episode, we talk about various trauma therapies such as Tension and Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), bioenergetics, and body-oriented psychotherapy.  We discuss the history behind such therapies as well as how they can be used to help people with, for example, multiple sclerosis (MS), depression, or childhood trauma. The conversation largely centers around the role of the eyes and face in understanding and releasing such trauma. By the end of the episode, you will have a greater understanding of trauma as a whole-body phenomenon, TRE and other therapies, and the connection between trauma and the eyes. This will hopefully help you better understand your own bodily, facial, and ocular habits, and how to return your nervous system to a safe and regulated state. **Connect with Michael Morin Nissen** website: www.morin-nissen.com LinkedIn: /michael-morin-nissen-0b6a90114 YouTube: @tredanmark8689RESOURCES PEOPLE - Alexander Lowen- Bruno Adler - David Berceli- Sigmund Freud- Stephen Porges- Wilhelm Reich - Will DavisTHERAPIES - bioenergetics- body-oriented psychotherapy- brainspotting- EMDR- Emotional Core Perception (ECP)- functional analysis - grounding- Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) CONNECT WITH MICHAEL: website: www.morin-nissen.comLinkedIn: /michael-morin-nissen-0b6a90114YouTube: @tredanmark8689

This is an episode about distraction, busyness, to-do lists, dreams, goals, pleasures, and how all such things are preventing you from seeing yourself and living your authentic life. Stop adding noise, drop whatever it is you think you need or want to do, and roll with the true spirit hidden inside. Time is disappearing as you cover it up with things that do not really matter. We keep ourselves busy running around because we are scared to start living.  

This is your brain on Christmas. Hop on this wild neurochemical sleigh ride through the brain. Learn how things like serotonin and dopamine affect your behavior during the holidays. More importantly, learn how to optimize them to ensure that you will indeed have a very merry Christmas. Life is a battle between connection and solitude, a see-saw between having and wanting, being and becoming, present and future. This episode explores such themes through the lenses of biology, culture, and psychology. 

This is an interview with Kirill Krasnogir, the CEO of Cleverpoint, which combines VR with physiological sensors (such as EEG, EMG, and ECG) to analyze and assess your mental health state.It helps people determine and track the state of their nervous system - levels of stress, fatigue, anxiety, risk of burnout, and more. Get to know your unique psychophysiology through emerging technology. We discuss topics including: heart rate variability (HRV), electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), electrocardiography (ECG), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), brain computer interface (BCI), artificial intelligence (AI), fitness trackers, psychological tests (such as the Stroop Test and Schulte Table Test), and more.A recurrent theme throughout this episode is the idea that we each have our own unique psychophysiology. Health data must therefore be interpreted according to each individual and the numerous variables in their life. For example, stress levels or HRV can be either adapative or maladaptive, depending on the person and various other factors. So, we need to collect and analyze physiological data (e.g. from the brain and heart) from each person so that we can provide more individualized and effective solutions, tools, and protocols. Not every tool will work for every person. So we need to learn the reality of our own body-mind and thereby find our own solutions. Know thy body and brain. The unexamined mind is not easily treated.**CONNECT**  Cleverpoint website: cleverpoint.pro  Stressonika website: stressonika.com  LinkedIn: /cleverpoint-neuro,  /kirillkrasnogir,  /aleksandr-smirnov-1000-b1733327  Facebook: /CleverPointNeuro