A person's thoughts and emotions create their state of being, which directly influences their biological and genetic health.

“Thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel creates your state of being.”

Every experience, including emotions and social relationships, leaves a biological imprint and shapes our physical metabolism.

“we are the metabolic product of experience and experience doesn't happen in isolation it happens in The Matrix of relationship”

The body and mind are intimately linked, and when individuals lie or live inauthentic lives, their physical body experiences weakness and illness.

“For me one of the things I talked about in the way of Integrity is that when we lie our bodies get very weak so um like I could do a simple little hokey test with you where I could oh you want to do it okay so stick your arm out yeah and hold it up don't let me push it down okay don't let me push do”

The mind and body are a single unit, and thoughts have a profound, direct control over physiological states and health.

“let's put the mind and body back together in one place if the mind and body One thing, wherever you're putting the mind, you're necessarily putting the body. The amount of control that opens up for us, Julian, is enormous.”

Stressful thinking and ruminating negatively impact physical health.

“well, we know that because like if you're stressed out, if you're ruminating, if you get really negative, you know that it makes your body feel better.”

The brain and body communicate through mechanical and chemical signals from organs, and regulating these internal conditions can significantly influence brain function and mental states.

“If you can learn a little bit about the mechanisms of self- sensing, of understanding what's going on in your internal millu, as we say, your internal environment, you will position yourself to do some very simple things that can lead to outsized positive effects on everything from sleep to body com”

The brain constantly regulates the body's resources ('body budget'), and emotional feelings are low-dimensional summaries of this metabolic state.

“your brain is running a budget for your body and it's not budgetting money it's budgeting glucose and salt and oxygen and water and all the nutrients that you need to stay alive and well”

The placebo effect is a valid and evidence-based therapy that utilizes the brain's own mechanisms to influence the body.

“People denigrate placeos, but if it works, we should study placeos. Yeah. And so there's a lot of you know high high quality research on the place on the brain's mechanism to that gut brain connection the placebo if your brain perceives that it's working.”

The mind and body are not separate entities to be listened to, but rather an integrated system that can be refined through intentional practice and heightened granular awareness.

“I believe that the the system that is human curiosity which drives a lot of social media, not all of it. I do think that when you have a lot of low resolution stuff, the signal to noise becomes people our senses I almost said this earlier but our sensory apparatus whether or not it's our skin or our”

Pain should not be categorized as either purely psychological or physical, as it is inherently both a sensory and emotional experience that must be treated as a whole.

“I don't try to distinguish between this notion of psychological pain, physical pain. It's pain. End of. End of. I think once I get into or you get into this trying to distinguish is this psychological pain or psychogenic pain, which was a terrible term, or physical pain, you end up putting value jud”