How many times have you visited your doctor with a health problem like low back pain but have no idea how or why it happened (and neither does your doctor)?

Unfortunately, the world of conventional medicine is set up all too well to treat your symptoms, but never to get the root of the problem. In other words, one that favors (and profits) a dysfunctional medical system and not you.

In this very special solocast, Paul explains why applying an integrated approach like CHEK Life Process Alchemy to common health problems offers the best, safest and lasting solutions this week on Spirit Gym.

Download the CHEK Life Process Alchemy Master Map and the blackboard Paul uses for this episode here.

Timestamps

6:53 Can you clearly describe the origin of your health problems to your doctor?

14:22 The goal of CHEK Professionals: Teaching clients how to master their own healing process so they no longer need them.

25:19 Have you been hurt while working out in your gym due to following inaccurate advice?

36:26 The Master Map of the CHEK Life Process Alchemy system.

39:08 A four-step model that can help you overcome a resistance to change and achieve your dream.

47:42 The 4 Doctors.

58:02 Archetypes.

1:10:24 Can you tell the difference between feeling your intuition at work and having a gut instinct?

1:20:40 “Reality is everything that supports your ability to live.”

1:29:11 Think more holistically.

1:37:24 Fire represents your desires/dreams and if you are following your heart.

1:41:47 Pay attention to your body’s many rhythms, including breathing and sleep cycles.

1:49:08 The ECHO system.

1:56:11 Your story gap and inner story.

Resources

The work of John Berardi and Lao-Tzu

Imbibition

Ken Wilber’s Four Quadrant system

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In search of the next miracle “cure,” Big Pharma has become very proficient at developing highly effective and obscenely profitable drugs aimed at treating rare diseases (think $750,000 per year) at the expense of ignoring newer, safer and effective treatments geared to a wider audience.

Alex Martinez, CEO and cofounder of Intrinsic Medicine, shares his amazing journey from being a healthcare attorney who witnessed the good, bad and mostly ugly in Big Pharma to revolutionizing how we care for the human microbiome this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Alex’s Intrinsic Medicine company at his website. Find him on social media via LinkedIn.

Show Notes

8:47 “The mission was attractive to me.”

12:27 Alex got the education he needed while ground-truthing at the same time.

20:50 Why is Big Pharma’s disproportionate focus on drugs that treat rare diseases?

30:16 Evolutionary biology.

39:07 Alex is a very intelligent vegetable.

44:42 Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) formulated with information molecules.

51:53 The fecal transplant isn’t new science.

1:06:46 Freediving helped Alex look inward toward the microbiome.

1:13:26 “What’s inside of us is all around us.”

1:25:05 The HMOs in breast milk serve as training mechanisms in a baby’s gut.

1:36:05 Is it possible that HMOs could work one day like fecal transplants?

1:44:47 Where do these HMOs originate?

1:50:33 Formulating infant formulas that aren’t inflammatory should be the norm but aren’t.

2:07:29 Creating an ethical regenerative business by integrating humanity into it.

2:12:49 Humans are so good at finding comfort in dis-ease.

2:25:34 Where probiotics went wrong.

Resources

Bifidobacterium

Fructooligosaccharides (FOS)

Paul’s Living 4D conversation with Dr. Nathan Riley

The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain by Byron Robinson

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Several weeks ago, Paul dissected the good and the bad of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the tech side on Spirit Gym with tech consultant/UX researcher Rachel Miles.

A huge question remained unanswered after that conversation: How do we retain our humanity amid the avalanche of AI tech?

Venture capitalist, entrepreneur and first-time author Jeff Burninhgam embraces the answer to that very question in his book, The Last Book Written by a Human: Becoming Wise in the Age of AI.

Jeff explains why the presence of AI is an important reminder to embrace our humanity and how the beauty in life is not trying to achieve perfection but to relish in its messiness and imperfection this week on Spirit Gym.

Read the first chapter of Jeff’s book on his website. Learn more about Jeff on social media via Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok and Substack.

Timestamps

8:01 From traveling the Ganges River to running for governor in Utah.

19:07 One blessing in disguise with AI: Reminding us of our humanity.

23:04 Disruption, reflection, transformation and evolution.

29:46 AI as a human crucible.

36:12 “No amount of education saves anyone from the Hero’s Journey.”

45:00 In the presence of AI, we will need to learn how to fight to stay in human relationships.

51:51 “As our machines become more intelligent, our work as humans is to become wiser.”

1:04:52 The beauty of life is in the mess, the work and the process.

1:12:45 “We are human beings, not human doings.”

1:27:15 The origin of most existential pain in our lives.

1:35:48 Emptiness.

1:43:39 Social media: The baby AI.

Resources

The Silicon Slopes

Paul’s Living 4D podcast on Lucifer-Christ-Ahriman

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Remember the good ol’ days in elementary school when your teacher introduced you to haiku, a Japanese form of poetry based on syllables, not rhyming?

Psychotherapist and author Anne Helfer describes haiku as the rap of expressive writing that unlocks the door to emotions hidden deep inside and leads to even deeper healing.

Anne explains how the 5-7-5 formula behind haiku is a simple healing exercise in mindfulness and why more people should follow her Silver Rule this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Anne and her work as a psychotherapist, author and healer on Instagram.

Timestamps

6:22 Anne’s maternal abandonment, wounding and emotional neglect.

11:57 Teaching people how to externalize their truths by writing simple, condensed haiku is an exercise of mindfulness.

24:25 Anne’s Silver Rule.

36:04 Learning how to be comfortable without certainty.

40:44 Writing haiku is a practice.

47:37 Why do people live in their left brain?

54:40 Numerology and the structure of haiku.

1:00:07 “Renaissance woman, professional amateur, master of nothing.”

1:14:40 Learn to enjoy the glimmers.

1:25:30 Is it possible to breathe deeply through your womb/pelvis and use that experience to create haiku/mantras of focus, relaxation and calm?

1:38:16 How the Japanese language affects the benefits of using haiku (or not).

1:46:09 The impact high tech has on the world has forced Anne to stop working with kids.

1:50:00 Equanimity.

1:57:28 Interpersonal peace.

Resources

Healing With Haiku: A Poetic Exploration of Self by Anne Helfer

The work of Bashô, Dr. Dan Siegel and Caroline Myss

Jeffrey Mishlove’s conversation with David Whyte on YouTube

Alexithymia

Paul’s Spirit Gym conversation with Nancy Mellon

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In this pharmaceutical drug obsessed culture we live in, could you ever imagine a gentler, healthier approach to treating chronic headaches starting with an appendix scar?

CHEK Professional Matt Sorensen explains why most health problems like pain originate from dysfunctions to the glands and organs which illustrates why health practitioners need to look for complications from the inside — not the outside — this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Matt at his HealHub website. Check out his The Wizard and The Priestess podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to them. Find him on social media via Instagram.

For Spirit Gym listeners: Based in Sydney, Matt is offering Spirit Gym listeners a very special 30 percent discount on his programs at this link. Use the promo code CHEK30 at checkout. (Special offers from Spirit Gym guests are time-sensitive and at their discretion to redeem after 30 days.)

Timestamps

2:47 Being a groundskeeper for nearly a decade helped Matt better appreciate the health of soil.

6:19 Matt’s professional life shifted after his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

13:15 An unhealthy migration from a results-based (integration) to a research-based (isolated) medical system.

20:36 Matt’s successful treatment for a client with severe headaches began by locating an appendix scar.

29:06 Visceral manipulation.

40:15 Organ motility.

47:07 Medicine is often practiced from the outside inward rather than the inside outward.

58:40 How often is the origin of pain is really a symptom or dysfunction of the glands or organs?

1:03:14 “Generally, if someone’s got a visceral issue, they’ve got a vascular issue too.”

1:24:25 The story you tell yourself affects your health more than any food or drink can.

1:30:09 The conventional definition of good postural alignment is based on dead people in a morgue.

1:45:00 Matt estimates roughly 85 percent of a person’s visceral or glandular problems start with lifestyle and diet.

1:52:23 The challenges Matt faces with patients during a recent week.

Resources

What Pain is Telling You (Spotify audiobook) by Matt Sorensen

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There is very little in the practice of holistic health that has escaped the attention of Dr. Christiane Northrup over the past quarter-century.

Christiane has experienced the huge highs as a highly successful New York Times best-selling author and a favorite of many (including Oprah Winfrey) to the dark days of COVID when her once-coveted advice was censored and ignored.

Fortunately, none of the recent pushback has silenced Dr. Christiane Northrup who describes a plandemic gone bad and all of the problems associated with women’s health, including the misuse of synthetic hormones, this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about the asset-based sharing system for gold and silver ownership that Paul and Dr. Northrup talked about here.

Learn more about Christiane and her work on her website and her product line for hormonal balance at Amata Life. Find her on social media via Truth Social, Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Rumble, Instagram and Telegram along with Substack. Download her free Should You Try Herbs to Support the Change ebook at this link.

Timestamps

9:22 Christiane’s decision to go to medical school was based partly on how the established medical system was failing her family.

12:12 Focusing on obstetrics and gynecology and being with pregnant women was what Christiane was designed by God to do.

20:54 Many bodily problems women suffer from are their way of expressing their distress.

30:03 Why do women living in the Western world suffer from so many bad symptoms associated with menopause?

46:35 “If you did things to animals that we do to humans [at birth], the mother would reject the cubs.”

1:04:03 How the chapter of John in the Bible fits well with the message of The Matrix Trilogy.

1:15:59 Christiane’s take on the countless ways so many handled/orchestrated COVID so very badly.

Resources

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Are you living a robotic, automated life and unable or unwilling to do the work of being truly conscious?

With tools like quantum physics at your disposal, you can begin to dissolve the structures and programming that prevent you from achieving your life’s goals and helping others.

Paul Levy shares the wonderful things quantum physics can do for you if you’re willing to embrace the dreamlike nature of reality this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Paul’s work at his Awaken in the Dream website and on Facebook.

Timestamps

2:57 The precious jewels Paul added to the revised version of his recent book, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (Revised and Expanded).

5:30 Why is quantum physics controversial?

13:16 The dreamlike nature of reality.

19:22 Paul believes there’s nothing in our world more important to understand than quantum physics.

29:17 Our species may be doomed if we don’t embrace quantum physics.

33:52 In the subtext of quantum physics, there’s no distinction between mind and matter.

47:06 If you believe the world is objective, you are “a subject that is separate from the world.”

58:40 It has taken Paul more than four decades to understand quantum physics in its totality.

1:05:41 Two kinds of dreams.

1:17:24 “It’s easier to awaken right now than it’s ever been.”

1:32:51 The hidden treasures (Terma).

1:40:07 How you know you’re receiving a message from God?

1:53:49 Paul’s conversations with his unconscious.

2:01:27 The mind is secondary to dreaming.

2:10:33 According to Carl Jung, God lacks one quality that humans have in abundance.

2:16:24 Could you be living an automated life?

2:24:27 Planck time.

2:36:23 “When you stand in somebody's shadow, it's producing healing energy.”

2:53:18 Everyone has the choice to become midwives of awakening.

3:05:32 The name, Paul, means the messenger.

Resources

Quantum Theory and Free Will: How Mental Intentions Translate Into Bodily Action by Henry Stapp

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox

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What you don’t know about artificial intelligence (AI) can really harm you (and your health). Considering there’s so much misinformation everywhere you look and AI is a real thing you can’t avoid, managing your digital footprint is vital… so where do you begin?

Tech consultant and UX researcher Rachel Miles returns to dissect the pros and cons of AI and how it can be a valuable tool so long as you use it properly this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Rachel and her expertise in AI and other computing technologies at her Renaissance Rachel and Conscious Navigator websites. Check out Rachel’s free AI course — Navigate AI Consciously in 7 Days — at this link.

Listen to her Renaissance Rachel podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download them and on YouTube. Order Rachel’s ebook, A Conscious Navigator’s Guide to AI, here. Find her on social media via Facebook and Instagram.

Previous conversation: https://paulchek.com/blog/podcast-episodes/episode-317-rachel-miles-making-technology-work-for-you/

Timestamps

9:53 The great equalizer.

21:24 Artificial intelligence is no more or less than a large pattern synthesis engine that has been trained on lots of data and is not conscious.

31:22 Humans need to stay in the loop on AI development so we don’t give it too much power over our lives.

41:47 Avoiding AI tools completely and not understanding them make you much you more vulnerable to manipulation.

55:48 Did you know AI (or Google) doesn’t generate completely accurate information?

1:06:21 Bad algorithms and coding lead to biased, non-factual data.

1:14:07 It takes a lot of computing power to train AI models.

1:23:49 The environmental cost of AI versus the benefits.

1:30:20 AI is designed to give you answers and opinions even when it’s wrong.

Resources

The ELIZA effect

Qualia

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