How Psychedelics Could Make You Smarter Than Ever Before!

You actually have two seasons of life up to age 7, and then that age of 17 to 24 for most people where you're like, your brain's growing again. You're more sponge-like or you're subconsciously more open to learning and changing in your energy and your mindset. But what happens is by the age of 25, your thought patterns, your default patterns are pretty well set.

I'm not a specialist in trauma. I know you are. So is this like a self-defense mechanism that the, the mind has to protect itself, right?

Yeah, exactly, it is. And it's— here's a pretty— this book, Healing Trauma by Dr. Peter Levine, tells a story of polar bears in the 1980s. All right, and this was a huge breakthrough in our understanding of trauma and why we're so different as humans versus much of the rest of the animal kingdom. Well, in the early 1980s, they're researching, like, polar bears. Polar bears, they would chase them down with a helicopter, shoot them with a tranquilizer gun, carry them back to the base, measure their vitals, put a little orange tag in their ear, you know, just make sure its population count, make sure things are good and all that. They'd release them back out in the wild. Well, for decades, researchers were befuddled or deeply confused. Why on earth do these polar bears, as the tranquilizer is wearing off, why do they make frantic movement? And they couldn't figure it out. Like, basically their legs were moving a lot. Well, then one day, a researcher in the 1980s played the video in slow motion. And they realized what the polar bear was doing was it was running off the energy. Because last time it was conscious, it was being chased by this hunky— like this giant metal machine flying through the air that's, you know, the polar bears used to be in the top of the kingdom, right? Well, now it wasn't. And so it had actual trauma that it was energetically releasing, and its body is programmed to release it. Wow. What do we do as humans? We go through something really crappy as a kid. Our parents don't know how to help us self-regulate. We freeze. We hold on to it sometimes for the rest of our lives. And then we carry that into our marriage. We carry that into our business. We pass that on to our children.

It just affects every area of your life.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah, that is mad. We'll come back to that later. It's very interesting. I just wanted to continue with the book, The Life-Death Experience Analysis of Your Time and Energy. What do you mean by that?

Yeah. So what I look at, a big piece of what I see with a lot of my leaders is sometimes they're on the edge of burnout. Like I have a client I'm meeting with on Friday. We did a session and this will be our second coaching call and she has been on the edge of burnout, and it's because she's had way too many things in her life that bring her death versus the things that juice her, that make her alive, make her excited, right?

So, yeah, yeah.

So think of like, there's probably some things that you just hate doing. You— I mean, I know you're only 19, but yeah, I hate running. Running?

Yeah.

So imagine part of your day you had to go run for, yeah, for like 8 kilometers a day, and then you were just hanging out with a bunch of runners, like people that love running, and you hate running. You're like, so guess what? If that's all you had access to, then you know what, you would start burning out. But sometimes, like, one of the leaders, one of the CEOs that I've worked with, he, um, uh, his whole day was stacked he— with administrative meetings. He thought he had to be in all these project meetings and all these things. And he's a visionary CEO. He's not a guy that's supposed to be managing all the details. And so guess what?

He was hating, just hating it.

Yeah, even though he made more money than he'd ever made in his life the year before. He's like ready to burn the ship and get out of the business because he's just miserable. But then we started deleting all those things that gave him that negative— putting in. Yeah. And started giving him like, what brings you life, David? What do you enjoy? What excites you? And we started adding those things back into his life. One month later, he went from being depressed and ready to get out of the business to being more inspired and excited about his business than he'd been in 2 years.

Hmm. Yeah. You know, thinking back, my example was very bad because It's funny because as a way to challenge myself, I just signed up for a marathon here in Lancaster, so I'm forcing myself to run because obviously running is good. So that was a bad example, but I see what— I do understand what you're saying. Um, and yeah, how to create a power positioning statement that anchors your identity to your career or business vision?

Yeah, good question. So, you know, what you end up doing to create a power positioning statement So you think of this bold statement like, I— let's see, I, for example, mine is, I'm America's top neuro rewiring coach and I help high performers rapidly release trauma and PTSD and rewire their nervous system for their highest levels of success. And it's because the nervous system is so much deeper than the mindset. So you formulate, you identify words that resonate with who you really are that fits the market need. You know, what do people really need and, and who are they really? And, and then you start just basically creating a, what I would call a power positioning statement, where you're ideally the only one or one of the few. So not, you don't want to be the best of like a thousand because it's kind of hard to be known as the best. You ideally want to be known as only one or one of the very few in the specialized fields. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Okay, it's funny how you say about, um, being known, because I, I saw somewhere a client that said, uh, he considers you as the most famous entrepreneur he never heard of.

Yeah.

So what's your, what's the relationship with fame, and what went through your mind when you heard that?

Um, That I need to do more work on getting myself known. That's what I first heard that. So, but it's just part of the journey and so I don't have issues with it. But yeah, ultimately I was like, okay, I gotta get myself out there a little bit more.

It's like an awakening call. You're like, okay, I've gotta double my efforts. Amazing. Yeah. You mentioned how to double your neuroplasticity for 2 to 12 days. And why is it beneficial in any way for the average person, and how do you do it?

Yeah, so a couple things. When, when you think of how fat— like, you're still in a heightened period of neuroplasticity. You actually have 2 seasons of life, up to age 7, and then that age of 17 to 24 for most people, where you're like, your brain's growing again, you're you're more sponge-like or you're subconsciously more open to learning and changing in your energy and your mindset. But what happens is by the age of 25, it's like your thought patterns, your default patterns are pretty well set. Now, neuroplasticity means that I can change faster. The more neuroplasticity, the more flexible my brain or nervous system is. Versus the less rigid. Why that's important is essentially almost all growth is predicated on neuroplasticity. So, and when I learn something new, and we all are learning new, something new every day, but it might just be incremental versus rapid. You know, you think of how fast a kid grows from 0 to 7, they are growing like crazy. Yeah, you're growing, you're growing really fast right now. But once you get to full-fledged adulthood, you can't recreate that as easily. So using plant medicines, mainly the ones that I recommend the most are MDMA or sassafras, which are— MDMA is synthetic, but then psilocybin, the magic mushrooms, you create this massive surge of neuroplasticity. In fact, the first 3 to 6 hours is the acute subjective experience. And that's where your nervous system is more open to change and growth than at any point in your lifetime, including when you're a little kid. But then you have this— yeah, so that's why like when I'm dealing with trauma or I'm like, I'm helping someone to elevate their money mindset, I can do so much in that one 3 to 6 hour window versus, um, a normal like window of normal, just meditation or guided breathwork, wherever I'm trying to access the subconscious, I can pretty much guarantee I'm gonna get into the subconscious and be able to heal, shift, re-pattern your nervous system. So it's almost a guaranteed outcome. And that second window is the critical period reopening, which is after you come down from the high of the medicine. Then you have 2 weeks, up to 2 weeks for them, depends on the substance. But like ketamine is 48 hours, MDMA and psilocybin is a little over 2 weeks. And you have this opening of your neuroplasticity back to the levels of like you right now, age 19, or when you were a little kid. So you're at this heightened state of growth, and what you do in those next 2 weeks is really important. So, um, anyway, so So that's, that's a big piece of what you gotta do.