“In the world of neurofeedback, we're going to do some brain training. We know what an average brain looks like but training to be average is a terrible idea. So, what we're doing in our studies with 1,500 high-performance brains of people who have done big things in the world, even some gurus, and we're training brains towards building higher human performance.” – Dave Asprey
Wellness + Wisdom Episode 482
Four-Time New York Times Bestselling Science Author, Host of The Human Upgrade Podcast, Founder of Upgrade Labs, and the ‘Father of Biohacking,' Dave Asprey, returns to Wellness + Wisdom for the third time to share why he never actually focuses on wellness but human performance, how to achieve a fast path to healing, his favorite biohacking tools to experience a higher flow state, and how to shift your mind to deprogram both false and victimhood beliefs.
Are you ready to unlock the secrets of achieving equanimity, upgrading your life, and feeling dangerously good?
Join Dave and Josh as they cover all sides of the Wellness Pentagon: Emotional, Physical, Spiritual, Mental, and Financial in this very special third eye-opening conversation.
[click_to_tweet tweet=”‘In the world of neurofeedback, we know what an average brain looks like but training to be average is a terrible idea. In studies with 1,500 high-performance brains of people, we're training towards building higher human performance.'- @bulletproofexec” quote=”‘In the world of neurofeedback, we know what an average brain looks like but training to be average is a terrible idea. In studies with 1,500 high-performance brains of people, we're training towards building higher human performance.'- @bulletproofexec”]
Listen To Episode 482 As Dave Asprey Uncovers:
[1:30] How to Deprogram False Beliefs + Negative Voices in the Mind
- Dave Asprey
- Upgrade Labs
- Own an Upgrade Labs
- Danger Coffee
- Bulletproof
- 250 Building Bulletproof Emotional Intelligence: Dave Asprey
- 389 Dave Asprey | Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be
- How Dave is able to operate at such a high level with all that he does every single day.
- The legions of self-deception that we all have and why we have these beliefs about ourselves that may not be true.
- 40 Years of Zen
- The 6 Phase Meditation Method BY Vishen Lakhiani
- How Dave has been able to remove the critical, mean voices in his head with the reset technique included in 40 Years of Zen.
- Why many of the beliefs we hold are not reality-based but were programmed into our minds without our consent.
- How Josh and Dave have healed their critical wounds including the trauma Dave experienced being born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his head.
- Why the brain stores memories based on emotions and how you can pull the bad feelings away from memories to make them neutral.
- David R. Hawkins
- How you can participate in and even join Upgrade Labs by owning one of their franchises.
- About Dave's new coffee company, Danger Coffee, and why they have loaded it with trace minerals.
[18:40] Food + Beverage Chemicals' Impact on Behavior + Mood
- How chemicals including those in food and beverages impact our behavior, decisions, and mood with studies to prove it.
- Judges are more lenient after taking a break, study finds
- How a fungus turns ants into zombies
- Why having empathy without boundaries can lead you to feel and become ill.
- Upacking the better, healthier route of focusing on having compassion rather than empathy.
- What equanimity is and why people who have this are the “most dangerous” of them all – they observe from 30,000 feet without being triggered.
[25:40] The Fast Path to Healing: Pros and Cons
- The different paths of Buddhism including the middle way and the fast pathway.
- Pros and cons of trying a fast pathway with different tools such as Ayahuasca and psychedelics.
- How Dave knows that he is about biologically 38 years old when he is chronologically 50 years old based on really reliable blood tests, the Horvath Clock, and a True Age test.
- GlycanAge
- Josh's traumatic experience at an Ayahuasca retreat center in Costa Rica and how a place like that has negatively impacted other people he knows including those looking for a quick fix in their life.
[32:00] How to Correctly Use Plant Medicine & Psychedelics to Heal Trauma
- Useful tools to help you heal trauma on the fast path that came from the research of psychedelics: EMDR.
- The Birth of LSD with Dr. Stanislav Grof, Father of Transpersonal Psychology – #428
- How Stan Groff created holotropic breathing which is a replacement for LSD and has been profound for Dave's wellness journey.
- Why psychedelics haven't helped Josh heal as much as breathwork.
- 462 Ben Greenfield: Should You STOP Using Plant Medicines? Wisdom on Microdosing, The Muscle of Faith + How to Grow Your Spiritual Strength
- Why doing hundreds of plant medicine or psychedelics one after the next is not the answer to healing.
- Ancient Healing Arts for Your Modern Life – Shaman Jorge Hachumak
- How to use psychedelics and plant medicine safely with a therapist or shaman.
- Why you must do a neurofeedback training session with caution and be careful with which company you work with for this experience.
- What happens when neurofeedback training companies and workers don't use proper technology including poor sleep for extended periods of time and hallucinations.
[49:00] Relationships, Friendships, Soul Mates, Twin Flames + Conscious Uncoupling
- The experience Dave and his ex-wife are now going through after their divorce and conscious uncoupling.
- Why it can be easy and even not uncommon to be friends with your ex.
- How Dave and his family are still a solid unit, it just looks different now than it did before with the divorce.
- Christopher Ryan: Sex, Sex Culture & Sex at Dawn
- Esther Perel
- Sex at Dusk: Lifting the Shiny Wrapping from Sex at Dawn by Lynn Saxon
- What people should know about dating and caring about another person's happiness.
- How to determine whether or not someone is a good life partner match for yourself.
- The Better Baby Book: How to Have a Healthier, Smarter, Happier Baby by Dave Asprey
- Exploring the soul mates we have in relationships, friendships, and past lives.
- What a twin flame is and wondering if the idea exists or not.
[1:00:00] From Healing to Upgrading + Biohacking
- The fact that our immune system and physical body have their own consciousness.
- How Dave healed his poor health to now be at a place of upgrading and biohacking for many many years and into the future.
- Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine by Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.
- Why we are not the meat body that we are but like a stream.
- How you can separate yourself from just your physical body and be aware that you are actually more than that.
- Simulation argument (Planck scale)
- Joe Rogan Experience #1159 – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Exploring the universe, the origins of everything, and questioning whether or not we're in a simulation.
- Dr. Joe Dispenza
- The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton
- Bruce Lipton's extensive science background and how that experience and knowledge led him to write his books.
- Dave's chronic health issues and why he turned to alternative methods when he exhausted all of the western medicine tools that were supposed to work but never did for him.
[1:08:00] How to Teach Children Not to be Victims
- Dr. Gabor Maté
- What do Corn Flakes and masturbation have in common? Mr Kellogg believed sexual desires caused disease and invented the plain cereal to stop self-pleasuring
- Vani Hari | Food Babe
- Why we need the whistleblowers to call out big-name brands for putting chemicals in their products.
- How Dave has made healthier decisions especially when it comes to food and investing in regenerative, organic farming.
- Why Dave focuses on putting his energy into being for a cause rather than against its opposition.
- The very nefarious way that we are teaching children to be victims.
- Why there's nothing wrong with you if you feel triggered by something; it just means that there is work you have to do for your wellness journey.
- How they train equanimity in children in Nepal.
- What we can do to help teach children not to internalize mean comments said to them and realize it's not about them but the source – the other person saying those harmful things.
- How Joe Rogan tried to ruin Dave's reputation on social media for 18 months because of a commercial disagreement for the interview.
- The trauma that was triggered within Dave because of Joe's actions and the work he did to reset and heal with EMDR and 40 Years of Zen.
[1:23:00] Safety is an Illusion
- Jordan Peterson
- The space that Josh and Dave are trying to provide for their children and not allow their amygdalas to be hijacked but live in a “dangerous but careful” way.
- Why it's important for kids to experience pain and learn from it to help them grow and evolve.
- The natural pain parents feel when they see their children hurt either physically or emotionally.
- Daniel P. Brown
- About attachment theory and why parents should learn more about it.
- Why children are wired to ignore what their parents say or warn them about and go ahead with doing something anyway.
- Liver King
- Modern Nirvana
- Why safety is an illusion and how we can move forward with courage and confidence by telling ourselves, “I have enough to handle anything that comes my way.”
- Why Dave's focus is on human performance rather than just wellness.
- Living 4D with Paul Chek – Episode 6 – Danny Way: Inside the Life of a Legend Part 1
Power Quotes From The Show
[click_to_tweet tweet=”‘People get it wrong when they say I'm in the health and wellness industry; I'm not – I'm in the human performance industry. I don't know that I've ever really focused on wellness, ever.' – @bulletproofexec ” quote=”‘People get it wrong when they say I'm in the health and wellness industry; I'm not – I'm in the human performance industry. I don't know that I've ever really focused on wellness, ever.' – @bulletproofexec “]
How Playing the Victim Makes Us Sick
“There is a sick energy you get from being a victim and we're actually teaching children how to be victims in a very nefarious way right now. When you're a victim, you feel this negative energy and it's kind of addictive because it's validating and you get to feel special. We experience and pass on to younger generations today that there is a merit to being a victim but it turns out the next step in victimhood is to fight against something instead of working towards something else…
…In victimhood training, you will learn how to shift your mindset away from that toxic state of thinking and focus instead on the world that you want to live in, why you want to live in that world, and how to live in that world. It's amazing how tearing something down because it's not fair is so dirty compared to building something up and I think we have lost a lot of that in almost all psychology in popular culture.” – Dave Asprey
Why Beliefs Are Dangerous
“A belief is a story that you tell yourself and it may or may not be true. Unfortunately, we are wired to usually believe in our own stories. I have legion power of self-deception – so do you and so does everyone else. Beliefs are actually dangerous because once you get a belief, they're infectious. If it's not an accurate belief you will possibly spend your entire life doing something based on that belief.” – Dave Asprey
Living a Life Focused on Human Performance
“I don't know that I've ever really focused on wellness, ever. I do wake up and I say to myself, ‘I want to feel well.' For me, I get lit up by being in a flow state and being in that feeling of awe, joy, and curiosity. For me, wellness is never up there. Wellness is something that's harder to feel if you don't already experience those feelings and flow state. I want my body to work flawlessly but it's okay if it doesn't. For me, I want to feel amazing and not necessarily feeling healthy needs to be a part of that. People get it wrong when they say I'm in the health and wellness industry; I'm not – I'm in the human performance industry.” – Dave Asprey
Links From Today's Show
- Own an Upgrade Labs
- Danger Coffee
- Bulletproof
- 250 Building Bulletproof Emotional Intelligence: Dave Asprey
- 389 Dave Asprey | Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be
- 40 Years of Zen
- The 6 Phase Meditation Method BY Vishen Lakhiani
- David R. Hawkins
- Judges are more lenient after taking a break, study finds
- How a fungus turns ants into zombies
- GlycanAge
- The Birth of LSD with Dr. Stanislav Grof, Father of Transpersonal Psychology – #428
- 462 Ben Greenfield: Should You STOP Using Plant Medicines? Wisdom on Microdosing, The Muscle of Faith + How to Grow Your Spiritual Strength
- Ancient Healing Arts for Your Modern Life – Shaman Jorge Hachumak
- Christopher Ryan: Sex, Sex Culture & Sex at Dawn
- Esther Perel
- Sex at Dusk: Lifting the Shiny Wrapping from Sex at Dawn by Lynn Saxon
- The Better Baby Book: How to Have a Healthier, Smarter, Happier Baby by Dave Asprey
- Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine by Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.
- Simulation argument (Planck scale)
- Joe Rogan Experience #1159 – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Dr. Joe Dispenza
- The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton
- Dr. Gabor Maté
- What do Corn Flakes and masturbation have in common? Mr Kellogg believed sexual desires caused disease and invented the plain cereal to stop self-pleasuring
- Vani Hari | Food Babe
- Jordan Peterson
- Daniel P. Brown
- Liver King
- Modern Nirvana
- Living 4D with Paul Chek – Episode 6 – Danny Way: Inside the Life of a Legend Part 1
- Shop the Wellness Force Media Store
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About Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey is the founder of Upgrade Labs & known as the ‘Father of Biohacking'.
He Is a four-time New York times bestselling science author, host of the Webby award-winning podcast The Human Upgrade, and has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, The New York Times, Dr. Oz, and more.
Becoming Bulletproof
Over the last two decades Dave, “The Father of Biohacking”, has worked with world-renowned doctors, researchers, scientists, and global mavericks to uncover the latest, most innovative methods, techniques and products for enhancing mental and physical performance. Dave has personally spent over $2 million taking control of his own biology – pushing the bounds of human possibility all in the name of science evolution and revolution.
Unlock Your Inner Super Human
The creator of the Bulletproof Diet, and innovator of Bulletproof Coffee, Collagen Protein supplements and many more advances in commercial wellness products, Dave’s mission is to empower the entire globe with information and knowledge that unlocks the Super Human in everyone at any age. The proof of these advancements are better sleep, energy, and expanded capacity for all. Be a better partner, parent, provider and overall human being in every aspect of life.
The Bulletproof Diet
Through the Bulletproof Diet, Dave has maintained a 100-pound weight loss, improved his sleep cycles, and upgraded his brain, ultimately transforming himself into a better entrepreneur, a better husband, a better father and overall a better human being
