When people have a hard time dealing with back pain that keeps them from doing the tasks that make up their day, they rarely think about the health of their core, the locus of their body’s visceral somatic expression.

In this very special solocast, Paul shares a wealth of knowledge he’s accumulated for more than a quarter-century about the core and explains why doctors and therapists commonly misdiagnose the origins of back pain and assorted injuries this time on Spirit Gym.

This episode is also available as a video on Paul's YouTube channel. To see the graphics he talks about, download the accompanying handout here.

After you listen to the podcast, take a few minutes to complete the NLC CHEK Health Index — an official CHEK Institute assessment tool — at this link.

Timestamps

3:17 Mapping out your core, the foundation for your arms and legs.

6:42 Why many physicians and therapists misdiagnose core dysfunctions like back pain.

9:00 The CHEK Totem Pole.

15:09 The most unstable part of your body and spine.

25:43 Why it’s common to see hip, knee, ankle and foot injuries originate in the spine and low back.

28:24 How the inner and outer unit muscles work.

37:10 “You cannot fire a cannon from a canoe!”

44:14 The RC Factor.

51:43 Functional exercise and infant development.

1:02:53 The Primal Pattern™ movement system.

1:15:31 One of the most dangerous things you can do in a gym.

1:21:44 The human microbiome.

1:28:33 Without healthy glands and organs, optimal conditioning and strength development cannot happen.

1:48:59 Fear changes everything from your breathing to your muscle tone, posture and hormones.

1:52:53 Achieving balance between the right and left hemispheres of your brain.

Resources

The filum terminale

The Spinal Engine by Serge Gracovetsky (FREE PDF link)

How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy (20th Anniversary Edition)

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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music

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While navigating the very narrow habitrail of daily living, it’s very easy to forget there’s an amazing, alluring and mysterious universe all around us that we simply cannot completely quantify (but take very much for granted). Over time, this daily dulling of our imagination can kill our heart, mind and soul, but only if we let it…

If you’ve misplaced your sense of wonder and want to reclaim it, join Paul and his very special guest Fred Provenza on an exploration of the cosmos through the world of dreams this week on Spirit Gym.

Download Fred’s recent paper, Cosmic Dreaming: Memories of a Moment on Earth, for FREE at this link. Check out Fred’s earlier work on Acres USA at this link.

Watch Fred’s recent discussion, Cosmic Dreaming: The Ecology of Food Systems and Human and Environmental Health, with the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine on YouTube.

Learn more about the Behavioral Education for Human Animal Vegetation and Ecosystem Management (BEHAVE) program co-founded by Fred at Utah State University at this link.

Timestamps

2:21 The conversation begins with prayers.

4:59 What happens when God become an idea instead of a mystery?

14:25 The one lesson all of us need to learn during our time on the planet.

25:38 The book that saved Fred from a life of depression.

31:16 What is consciousness?

37:58 How Fred developed a course on Myth and The Management of Natural Resources.

44:19 The danger of dogmas.

56:57 “You depart from nature when the death you produce no longer feeds or supports life.”

1:08:09 Has the human race become doers at the expense of losing out on feeling alive?

1:11:35 How much do you want to be owned?

1:33:13 The inherent creativity of human beings.

1:38:08 Challenges, opportunities, living in an evolutionary spirit and transcending boundaries.

1:51:36 The importance of studying principles that transcend time and space.

Resources

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Lucid Dying: The New Science of Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death by Sam Parnia

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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music

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Seeker, scholar and spiritual detective Dr. Joanna Kujawa describes the divine journey that led to her life’s work — exploring the gospel of Mary Magdalene — along with a deeper, better understanding of the Divine Feminine and Goddesses and how that knowledge can change the world this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Joanna’s work on her website. Find her on social media via Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Read her books Alien Goddess: UFOs, AI and the Goddesses of Ascension and The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge.

Timestamps

4:42 Why Joanna calls herself a spiritual detective.

10:46 Joanna was told to write her book, Alien Goddess.

21:08 In imaginal space, we can communicate with aliens rather than just listen to them.

29:34 What is a Goddess?

37:09 The differences between Goddesses and Gods.

42:59 Why civilizations suppress the feminine.

56:44 The ongoing struggle between good and evil in the universe.

1:03:56 The reason Joanna became a spiritual detective and seeker: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

1:18:27 “A teacher may fall, but their teachings that were passed to you are still there.”

1:25:47 “There’s immense power in the feminine eros, and I think that’s why they are afraid of us.”

1:29:18 AI, posthumanism and transhumanism.

1:49:21 Do you have an overwhelming feeling right now that something is missing in your life?

1:56:15 Why matriarchy and patriarchy have their limitations: We need both in our lives.

2:04:42 “The only place that you can find the divine is within you and in nature.”

2:15:27 Men do not know how to address and embody their own Divine Masculinity.

2:36:11 The equal importance of Mary Magdalene and Jesus who embodied the Divine Feminine and Masculine as examples for all of us.

2:44:14 Eros: The creative power of the universe.

2:50:16 Baba Yaga insisted on being included at the end of Joanna's latest book.

Resources

Joanna’s conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove on New Thinking Allowed on YouTube

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