From Stress to Strength: Harnessing Mental Power | Ep. 304

The episode explores how our mindset can often sabotage our success and health, illustrated through personal stories related to a hiring process. By understanding that stress, fear, and self-doubt negatively impact our physical well-being, listeners are encouraged to reflect on their limiting beliefs and consider actionable steps for transformation.

• Emphasis on the connection between mindset and health 
• Personal story related to hiring and interview stress 
• Philosophy of ‘expressing health’ instead of getting sick 
• How symptoms can be responses to stress and fear 
• Personal anecdotes from baseball illustrating self-sabotage 
• Discussion on the physiology of stress hormones and health 
• Encouragement to challenge limiting mindsets and beliefs

Chapters

• 0:00 Overcoming Self-Sabotage in Hiring
• 5:42 The Power of Mindset in Health
• 9:03 Harnessing the Power of Mindsets

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Yo, what's up, fam? Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. From here on out, we're changing it up no more intros, no more fluff It'll just be me, unless Coco wants to be on at some point in the future and no more outros either. We're just going to make it super simple, super streamlined and talk about stuff that I love to talk about, and we're going to start with a interesting conversation that Heather and I were just having. I literally came straight upstairs to record this. So here's kind of what went down, and hopefully you'll get some value out of this episode and just think about some things differently.

Speaker 1: 0:35

So some of you may know if you've been kind of following along on our journey, and even if you're brand new, it doesn't necessarily matter but we are in the process of hiring, like a bunch of people. So we hired West back in August, we had an intern come in in January and then we just hired a new employee who is amazing, to come in and be our creative director for a new podcast that we're launching more details about that coming soon. Um, it will have nothing to do directly with chiropractic, but just bring away more value, and it will be YouTube focused. So I share that with you because, as we're doing the hiring process, um Heather and I reached out to our church and we realized, like you know, we didn't think we were going to get that many people to apply for this position. And, man, we had a ton of people and the coolest part about it is that all the people that we were going to potentially hire were like really, really, really good fit. So it was super special and honoring to just have so many people reach out that were like interested in working with us and being our creative director, and what we were really looking for is someone who would come on and just be like a full on part of our team and just integrate with the family and be part of the family and all this stuff. And so we found the right person.

Speaker 1: 1:41

But in the process of this, there was someone that we were interviewing. Actually, this happened three times and I don't think God makes mistakes, but it happened three separate times. So I started thinking about something and it was a conversation that came up today. So I don't want to give away the details about who this person was as much as possible, but I think it's such a powerful learning lesson. So here's kind of what went down. We're looking for someone to hire and as we're looking for them, we came up, came down to the last couple of interviews, and there was one person in particular who I was super excited to interview for a number of reasons.

Speaker 1: 2:16

Um, just somebody who I think I could have poured into like a lot, and anyway, it doesn't necessarily matter all the details of it, but what does matter is that when it came time to sit down and do the interview, I got an email like the night before that was basically saying like hey, I'm not feeling super well, like I don't think I should come in, I don't want to get everybody in the office sick. And if you don't know, I'm just going to share this with you is my philosophy on healthcare right now and philosophy on the body is like we don't necessarily like in our household. We are not allowed to say getting sick. We don't even use the word sick. Uh, we use the word expressing health because we believe that any of the symptoms that our body would have is actually a natural response to something that shouldn't be there in the first place. So another way to say that would be like a stuffy nose isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's actually a good thing. A headache isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's actually a good thing. A fever isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's actually a good thing.

Speaker 1: 3:06

And while not the point of this episode, one of the things that I think is interesting is that this person, right before this probably little bit of stressful scenario, started expressing health or feeling sick, however you would like to say it, and with that I'm like okay, that's super interesting. So obviously, yeah, like not going to make you come into the office if you're vomiting and I know that you want an interview for this position, so like let's see if we can set it up again. And so then we go like another week and the same thing happens when it comes time for the next round of interview. And same person, same issue, like not feeling well again. And I just thought it was so interesting and I'm like man, that's wild, like they must have a really weakened immune system. And Heather and I were having a conversation and she was like you know, somebody we know said that this person is this. They're like own worst enemy sometimes, and I don't know if you can relate to that, but I can definitely relate to being my own worst enemy in a lot of ways. Again, a lot of ways.

Speaker 1: 4:12

And I, you know, when I shared the other night we did a workshop in our office but I shared this concept, like when I was playing baseball in high school, I could be in warmups for a game and I knew that I was going to start that game and I could throw strike after strike after strike after strike. I was the pitcher and I could tell the catcher, like wherever you put your mitt is where I'm going to throw the ball, so just be ready for me to throw, strike after strike. And I would have all this confidence and warmups Now getting the game. I would throw a ball and then I would throw another ball, and then I would throw another ball and then I would throw another ball and I would literally walk person after person after person. I would get pulled from the game, like in the first inning, and I was doing great in warmup. Person after person. I would get pulled from the game like in the first inning and I was doing great in warmup.

Speaker 1: 4:58

So what happened is my mindset would completely wreck me and mess me up, and I share this with you, that story of me, because I don't know if you can relate to being your own worst enemy, but in that baseball situation, I was my own worst enemy where, as I worried more about messing up, as I was more fearful that I was going to suck or that I was more fearful that I was going to throw another ball, it's exactly what happened. The more I worried, the worse I got, and I see this play out so many times. But it's such a good physical example to talk about. This interview is like this person maybe actually was their own worst enemy, where it's like they had so much fear and so much worry and so much doubt about themselves that it ended up manifesting in a physical like feeling like they're ill, feeling like they're not well. And the question will be why?

Speaker 1: 5:42

Well, we know that when we have the physiology, when our brains start to think that something is scary, it releases stress hormones, cortisol, adrenaline, norepinephrine. You've heard me talk about this a lot, but one of the things that happens when we release cortisol specifically is we actually put sugar into the bloodstream. And if we put sugar into the bloodstream, then what'll happen is we actually pause our immune response, so like we pause our body's ability to fight off bacteria and viruses, et cetera, and it's an ingenious design of why our body does it this way, and it actually does it this way to keep us safe and protected. We want to use that energy. Instead of creating white blood cells and fighting off infection, we want to use it to be able to fight or run away. So if we don't have the resources available to work on our immune system and focus on our immune system in a parasympathetic state, obviously what's going to happen is we're going to succumb to these, like illnesses, if you will, when really it's just opportunistic. Bacteria or viruses are going to overcome the system as soon as the system gets weak enough for that to happen. And which is again why I say expressing health instead of getting sick, because it's your body's ability to try to fight off the bacteria and viruses in the first place.

Speaker 1: 6:53

So, neither here nor there, just like in baseball, when I would throw balls and walk and then get pulled out of the first inning, I see this time and time again, where people become their own worst enemy, and their own worst enemy just like I was by the thoughts that we think, and the more that we worry, and the more that we stress, and the more that we fear and the more that we doubt ourselves and the more that we have insecurity and the more that we don't think that we're good enough, and the more that we compare ourselves to other people and the more that we stop focusing on ourselves and start looking externally for validation and like all the things. That list could go on and on and on and on. It literally triggers stress responses within our system, and those stress responses, triggered long enough, will literally cause us to have these symptoms of illness. And so when I see it and Heather and I were talking about it it's like, oh my gosh, I gotta record a podcast on this, because I think it's critical to understand the concept that we can be our own worst enemy. And oftentimes, like literally 99% of the time, from what I see in my practice is that people who come in with injuries, people who come in with ailments, people who come in with difficulties, people who come in with whatever they're coming in with, it's often tied up to emotional states in the way that they're thinking. And the coolest part about what we're doing is that, when we're moving joints of the spine, all we're doing is affecting that balance of the stress system, of the sympathetic system and of the parasympathetic, or the healing system in the body, and we're affecting the brain.

Speaker 1: 8:23

And so my encouragement for you on this episode if you haven't been around us or you haven't hung out with us long enough is to start thinking about your mindset, like I have plenty of workshops, I have done plenty of workshops, I have done plenty of workshops. I teach plenty of people how to break these patterns within their nervous system. But my encouragement for you on this episode would literally just be to start to consider that your mindset is going to allow your body to express it in certain ways. And if you deny that and you're not willing to actually start to look at your mindset, then you're probably sabotaging yourself in ways that you don't even imagine. And this gets down to the point in the heart of the matter is this is that every single person was designed to be successful.

Speaker 1: 9:03

The way that we think, the way that we interpret our external world, the way that we interpret our life circumstances is a direct result of our brain function, and that brain function is weakened by those stress hormones that I talked about cortisol, adrenaline, norepinephrine. So if we have a poor mindset, if we have bad thoughts about life. If we're constantly worried that we're not good enough or we're not going to do good enough and we stress and we get scared, like this scenario, you're going to express less than vitality in your life. Like my baseball scenario, you're going to express less than what we would consider success. And so, my friends, this is the challenge I have for you on this episode is to look at where in your life do you feel like you're having limited mindset, limiting beliefs, fear, anxiety, uncertainty. And then what's one step you can do to start to break those patterns?

Speaker 1: 9:53

And what I can tell you from what I've seen, from the thousands and thousands of people that I've worked with inside of my office, is that as soon as you can start to break those patterns of stress, of fear, of worry, of anxiety, what will happen subconsciously is your body's physiology will organize itself around a success physiology. Maybe on the next episode I'll go into what that success physiology looks like in the structures of the brain, but for this episode I'm not going to do it. So, my friends, that's all I got for you on this week is like, just consider that you might be your own worst enemy and your subconscious is either working for you or working against you based on what you program it with. Just like I shared the story of this person who we were potentially interviewing, of my story in baseball and so many of the things that I've seen inside of my life with practice members specifically, so hope you got some value out of it. I'll come at you again next week. I love you, I appreciate you, peace.