Does anyone here feel like they've, in the last year or 2 or maybe during the pandemic, have felt this, like, maybe it's not possible for me to live the life I wanna be living? Like, because I feel like during the pandemic and during the lockdown, it really forced us into this immobilized state and a lot of possibility dissolved. Right? There was so much stress. There was so much tension. There's so much polarity. Right? So if you're in that place of like maybe
it's not possible for me, know that you know what? It absolutely is possible for you to get unstuck, for you to be able to release the past, to manifest abundance in your life, to have healthy thriving relationships, and to create success in business. So I'm super excited for today's training specifically because it's fresh and innovative. It's also very simple in a lot of ways. But what I've come to see and tell me if you agree, the worlds of coaching and spirituality and therapy
are fragmented and inefficient when it comes to manifesting. It's like I'm over here doing my travel work. I'm over here trying to manifest my future. Maybe I'm trying to be mindful, but it's been really hard to kind of piece things together. They would have a hard time with that piecing things together. And it's almost like you're trying to educate your therapist about goal setting. You're trying to educate your coach about trauma. And it's just it's just it's it's kind of like a hodgepodge.
Right? Who's I'm talking about? Right? So if that's you, you're so not alone. That's definitely been my experience. A lot of people are stuck in the hard way. They're just trying to throw all this stuff together and and and figure out, like, is it my food? Is it my morning routine? I'm feeling burned out. Should I do Abraham or Bashar or mindset coach or if Fred Saunders or psychedelics or somatic work or plant medicine or shadow work or business training
or prayer? I just gotta give it to God. No. I have to make it alive. Allow it. Oh my god. Right? Like, maybe it's I I did my amethyst. Right? There's all these different things that we try, and it could be really frustrating when these things don't work. Right? Because they wanna feel frustrated, I'm curious. And by the way, none of these things are bad. I'm not against any of these things. What I could tell you is I do a lot of these things. I do pretty much almost everything on
here on some level. I do versions of it. I don't do the moon ritual thing, but, like, people who do that are so cool. And I don't really know what I would do in a moon ritual, but that's a little bit of a sidetrack idea. But, like, I love Abraham. I love working on my mindset. I love shadow work. I love eating high vibrational food. I love my morning routine. I have crystals. I have crystals back there. Right? So it's important to understand that it's these things are
not necessarily bad, but the problem is it's confusing. So let me give you a little bit of context on, like, how I figured this out. Okay? So my father that's my dad. Larry Kipp. Hey, dad. So my father has a PhD in biology, so that's the study of life, and he edited a peer reviewed journal. Does anybody know what that means to be an editor of a peer reviewed journal? When you have a peer reviewed journal and you're editing it, what does that mean? That's fine if you don't
know. Okay. It's heavy duty scientists. That's for sure. Okay. So with a journal, people submit papers and then peer review. Right. Basically like tries to poke holes in like, why is this not working? Right. And so for me growing up with my dad, like one of my love languages is scientific debate. Okay. Like poking holes in theories. Because in many ways with science, the purpose of
science is to prove something wrong, not right. Like for example, if you can prove like, Einstein wrong, that would be a big deal. Right? But no one's been able to do it yet. So that's why we rely on his quantum theories. Right? And so with the scientific thinking, we're always trying to poke holes in things, which is not the same thing as, criticizing you or arguing or anything like that or dash sliding. It's just debating, like debating ideas. Like,
I love debating ideas. My father taught me the scientific method when I was 4 years old. Okay? And he never stopped reminding me. Okay? And we're not gonna go deep into the scientific method because it's not necessary but just as a at a high level it goes like this. You observe something. Okay? You form a question. You form a hypothesis about what you think might be happening or what might be going on here. Then you experiment. You try around. Modern times we call that around and find out.
Okay? We just run and find out. Okay? Then we analyze what happened and then we form a conclusion based on looking at the data and then we share the results. Like that's basically science right there. So when people say trust the science, what they mean is trust this process, not trust someone's interpretation of the science. And I believe in science, but maybe not the government's interpretation of it as an example. Right? But science is it is in its in its
purest sense is a pure form. It is is about object is about trying to be as objective as possible. Okay? And at each step, there's a question that we ask. Right? So when we observe, we're saying, what do I see or what do I notice? What am I noticing? Right? What do I wanna find out? That's the question that we ask. Right? The hypothesis is what do I think is gonna happen? The experiment is how can I check if I'm right? The analysis says, what did I
find out? The conclusion says, was I right or wrong? And then how can I share other share this with other people? Okay? So this is, like, my frame on the world. Okay? Which at one level is awesome, but unfortunately, my father raised me to ask one of the most annoying questions that a kid can ask. What is it? And when you you all know what it is? Yeah. That's right. Why? Okay? But why? But why? But why? And I still I have not changed. I'm still asking
that question. I'm currently stuck with who how did the how did the availability, the possibility of a creator come into being? Like, what made God possible? The answer is God. Okay. But how did that become possible? Like, I don't know. Right? It's comes in I'm sort of stuck at, like, a very existential questions at this point. But when it comes to, like, simple things like manifesting or making money or, you know, non crazy existential things, like, asking why is super powerful. And I remember,
like, asking my dad questions about, well, why can't you drive me here? Why can't we go there? And, you know, eventually, what's one of the ways that especially in, you know, pre trauma informed and pre all the awareness that parents have today, but do they ever have their parents eventually when you ask them why just kind of basically like go, because I'm your dad or because I'm your mom, does ever, they wouldn't have anyone bottomed out at that. Right? This or because I said
so, because it's my house. Right? Guess what? That was never good enough for me. It was never and then I'm like, well, why is the fact that you're my dad mean that that's the end? Like, it just, I just always am. So he raised his worst, Like, like, he created a monster, if that makes sense. Like, I'm, like, I am so curious. Right? Who follows? Does this make sense? Does anybody else curious? I love curiosity. Okay? And so, like, I and so this is my frame on the world.
So when I shared about, you know, going to therapy or reading Abraham or the law of attraction material or going to Tony Robbins or meeting Louise Hay and Oprah and, like, getting into all this stuff. Okay? Like, that was also my frame. So, like, when I'm thinking about, like, the Tony Robbins seminars that I go to, or I read the self help books or I'm, you know, all the Hay House books or I'm doing breath work and yoga, people say shit, and they make really bold
claims sometimes. Right? They're like, this breathing pattern will rewire your neural pathways in your adrenal glands. And I'm like, what the how do you know? Right? Like, what? I'm no. I'm just as believing it as I disbelieve it because when you take a scientific approach, you're neutral. You don't rush to conclusions. It's just as intellectually lazy to believe or disbelieve something. Who follows? This make sense? Right? So I
test it. So whenever I'm engaging in material, I'm asking myself like the author or the speaker or the coach, what did they see? Right? What did they wanna find out? What did they think would happen? Right? How would they check if it's right or not? Right? Did they find out if it was right or not? Did they find out if they were right? Right?
And are they are they appropriately sharing things? And what was so confusing for me is different people were saying different shit, and it was like, why is everyone saying different stuff? Like, do I allow it to be, or do I, like, make it happen and work hard? Or do I, like, is is it bottom up? Is it top down? And everybody has a different perspective. So what I've noticed is that everybody has these are teachers. These
are authors. These are speakers. Even scientists. Everybody. Right? We all have different life experience. We all model something from other people. We all have our preferred modalities. Like, you know, for some people, it's breath work. For some people, it's EMDR. For some people, it's coaching. For some people, it's, you know, polyvagal theory or somatic experience. You know, there's different things for people. Right? But there's also
personal bias and a lot of conflicting messages. So to put it briefly, y'all, I was confused because I was taking in all this information, and I'm like, how do you know that this is true? How do you know? Like, where's the proof? Where's the evidence? And, of course, now there's so much more research available to us. But what I can tell you is is that I realized everything happens in the nervous system. Right? That was my big takeaway.
Right? So whether we're talking about coaching and, like, conditioning your nervous system for success, We're talking about healing. Right? And releasing trauma from the past. We're talking about performance. Any of these things. The vehicle through which everything happens is the nervous system who follows. This makes sense? Because the nervous system is how we experience life. It's the
it's the it's the way in which our sensory experiences. It's how we experience smell, taste, town, cut, touch, all the different senses. It's how we make meaning. Okay? It affects health. And of course our health affects it. It's there's a symbiotic relationship. Right? But really who we are biologically speaking, not spiritually speaking, is basically our nervous system. And so I started to go, okay. Hold on a second. How does the nervous system work?
Maybe I should start there. Right? Because if you take a first principles approach, which is, like, what's the most fundamental way of thinking about something. Right? I'm like, well, first of all, my father's a biologist. Well, I should study human biology. And then all of a sudden I said, holy shit. Because when I I dropped out of college to get my dream job at 21, I went to the music business. I was working with LipBiscuit and Korn and
Linkin Park, and I was, like, living the rock star life. Right? And here I am studying biology. I had become my father. Right? I was like, oh my god. I came up full circle moment. Holy shit. This is crazy. Right? But it was so important because everything was so confusing for me and it didn't make any sense. Okay? And so what I can tell you is that I realized that if something didn't align with how our nervous system
actually works, it should be challenged or discarded. Because a lot of the models that are out there, therapy models, come from, like, the sixties, the forties, and there there there could be good observations that people make, but if it's not aligned with your biology, if it doesn't play by the same rules that your biology plays by, that's not a good idea. Let me give you what tell me tell you give you an example. Imagine trying to send a spaceship into space, but you don't know the
laws of physics. You're just making some shit up about what could work. Who falls? Does this make sense? Right? You're gonna fail no matter how charismatic somebody tries to convince you that like gravity doesn't work that way. It works that way. Right? And so for me, it's like I'm analyzing everything through how does the nervous system work and how does this fit into what I know about the nervous system? And I also recognize I don't know everything about
the nervous system. I'm willing to change my mind. But what I've found is that modalities that are not aligned with your biology keep you stuck. And then you blame yourself versus recognizing, hold on a second. I need something that works for me and how
I'm wired. That's the most important piece. Right? And a lot of modalities come from people, coaches and therapists and stuff like that, observing things, but through their lived experience, through their bias, through their blends on the world, coming up with ways to do things. And sometimes they're great, and sometimes they're not great. Sometimes they're helpful, sometimes they're not helpful. Right? And what I wanna do is make
sure that whatever you're doing, it's aligned with how you actually work. Who follows? Does it make sense? And that goes for manifesting too. Okay? And there's certain things, in the law of attraction material we can't prove right now. Right? We can't prove certain things. We just can't prove certain things. So I'm going with what we could actually verifiably see. Now remember yesterday, I said the most important skill set of an emotionally fit nervous system is focusing on what's useful.
Okay? So we wanna wisely choose to direct your energy by focusing on the past, the present, or the future based on what serves your growth and well-being now. So if it's useful to go back, great. If it's useful to not go back and to move forward, great. It's more about what works now because if I'm healing, it that's what works in healing may not work in performing. And when I'm performing, that might not be what works in healing. Who follows? This makes sense. So we need to be able
to switch between how all these different things work. So my research in, to the nervous system in, like, you know, 14, 15 led me into studying the vagus nerve, which most people know about the vagus nerve. Now if you don't, you're about to learn more about it. But it the vagus nerve for me is one of the most important pieces of our anatomy. Okay. Maybe the vagus nerve of the brain together are like for me, like top 2 most important things. But the
vagus nerve, we could argue about which one's more important. They're both obviously super important. But what I could tell you is the vagus nerve is the principal component of the parasympathetic nervous system. So it's a mixed nerve that's 80% afferent and 20 percent efferent fibers. Massive what the fuck does that mean? Okay. Let me show you. Okay. So efferent just means pathways that go from the brain down to the body. Aferent means
pathways to go from the body up to the brain. So what that means is the primary nerve that's responsible for health, growth, restoration, healing, being in a flow state, feeling good, positive relationships, like joy, all the things that we want, the primary nerve that helps us heal, helps us grow, helps us restore. Okay. 80% of the fibers go from the body up to the brain. 20% go from the brain down to the body. Now I'm gonna ask you a rhetorical question, but I would
love for you to answer anyway. How's that sound? Is that cool? You play a lot with me. What number's bigger? Eighty. Okay. Okay. Just glad we're we do all math. Okay. So what this means is the vagus nerve has incoming and outgoing fibers. 80% sends signals from the body to the brain. 20% sends signals from the brain to the body. And this is the nerve that's most responsible for us. It being in a flow state, feeling good, feeling positive, raising your vibration. Okay? Wouldn't
that be important to know about? What do you think? I think it is. And don't you think that if you're violating first principles of this nerve, you could be maybe not being successful in your life just like you're violating the first principles of gravity who follows. This make sense? Okay. So think about this for a second. Okay? This is gonna sound kind of ridiculous, but the laws of physics are impersonal. So imagine
this for a second. Imagine you don't understand laws of physics and you accidentally walk off the roof of your house or your apartment building. What's gonna happen? Accidentally, you don't you don't know. You don't know the laws of gravity, but you accidentally walk off the end. You might break a leg. You could die. At minimum, you'll get injured. Okay? Now let me ask you a question. Did gravity do that to you because you're a mean person, because you deserved it,
because you're not worthy, because you deserve to be hurt. Yes or no? Come on y'all. Yes or no? No. So what this tells us is if we violate first principles, it has nothing to do with you. Okay. It's just the way that we work in the world. It's the way the world is wired. The same thing is true in your nervous system. Sometimes it's not about you. In fact many times it's not about you. And if you violate a first principle or a law you're going to experience
consequences. So we might as well know what they are. Who follows this makes sense. Okay. And this is what's so cool is because this takes away whose fault is it? It's like, well, this is how life works. This is how biology works. It's not about fault. It's about function. And if you understand how things function, you have more control. If you have more control, you can live life that you wanna be living. Okay? So what this means is achievers focus on the 20% without addressing the
80%. And that's why they get stuck and burned out. Who follows? This makes sense? They're just try to willpower their mindset and to put their body into submission. They will then use will comply. Right? And then what happens with the healers? Right? Healers focus on the 80 without adjusting the 20, And that keeps them from change because they they're not able that 20% helps us change the way that we think about the past, the present, and the future. And we get stuck in the emotions. We need
to be complete in these things. Does that make sense? Y'all. Okay. So think of it this way. Healers are great at the 80 Achievers avoid it. Achievers are great at the 20. Healers tend to avoid that. We wanna be able to have both on board. If we violate this, then what we know is if we're just focused on the 80, we're stuck in emotion. If we're just focused on the 20, we're stuck not feeling our feelings and we're violating first principles. Who follows? This
makes sense? Okay. And guess what? It's not your fault. It's not because you're a Pisces. It's not because Mercury's in retrograde. Okay. It's because this is how we're wired. And if there's anything that you're doing that doesn't align with this, it might be worth challenging it or throwing it out because this is neuroscience.