Coach Ted discusses the chemical changes that precede physical transformation.
The Chemistry of Transformation
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The Chemistry of Transformation
Season 4/Episode 18
March 23, 2022
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This is the Ted O'Neill program where we explore the science and philosophies for performance optimization, and the elevation of the human experience from the mind of Ted O'Neill with Jon Leon Guerrero.
0:23 Jon
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill program. Well, I'll proclaim myself an expert on this subject. And typically what I do in this podcast is tried to corral your thoughts and then digest them for our listeners and make them into pieces that I think that we can relate to and offer a viewpoint that maybe allows for people to take your message, apply it to whatever they're going through, and maybe somewhere in there, tie it all together. We're talking about the power of choice. And then, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the fallacy of the repetition-based model. And then, last week, we talked about…
1:17 Ted
About the illusion of conscious will and the confines of the framework.
1:22 Jon
Right, the illusion of conscious will and now we're applying these things to a concept and it's a little different in consciousness.
1:32 Ted
Chemistry of consciousness, as you know, alters our perceptions, beliefs, ideals, actions, behaviors, state of being.
1:41 Jon
Now having recorded a couple 100 episodes of this podcast with you. I think I may have a leg up on this content. Just because of my proximity. So, I have that advantage, but I still have revelations and I had one just now because when we talk about choosing and identity, you know, when we talk about what is and what isn't the rep and you say the movement of the barbell is not the rep. The rep is in the thought that precipitates the movement and then your own ability to take control and execute when execution is uncomfortable. And I think that there's another way to look at that, which is that in the midst of addiction, allow is not the word because when we lose the power of choice, the change of identity allows us to relinquish choice to that which feeds the identity. So, the reason I proclaimed myself an expert in this and because I enjoyed a physical transformation, but prior to enjoying a physical transformation, I experienced an identity transformation. And then, we talked on this podcast about how I would just kind of watch the movie unfold. And in doing so, really, what I was doing was I was relinquishing my choice to that which fed the identity.
3:25 Ted
You starved the old construct of who you are. And by watching the metaphoric movie unfold in front of you, you created a predictable future, through your actions.
3:36 Jon
Yeah. So, in the same way that someone would know that they're feeding their addiction, and say “that's it I'm powerless”, to quote the 12 steps. “I'm powerless”. What I did in some of those circumstances where I would see the finish line and I would be either you know, carrying something or pushing something or pulling something, and then viewing the finish line and absolutely not allowing for any other outcome besides getting to the finish line. I was relinquishing what normally would be my choice, which is I'm going to bail on this right now. This is uncomfortable, and instead, I thought, no, I'm going to relinquish, I'm going to let this happen. painful as it is.
4:25 Ted
You surrendered your attachment to being the person who would quit. Then using MPPT nomenclature. We would call the scale of polarity you created an opposite identity, which allowed you to seamlessly walk into a chosen future by creating the chosen identity. And step by step through demonstration by starving the old construct you walk into a completely different identity. I don't have your body comp sheet in front of us. What's the net? You've lost something like 80 pounds of body fat. And put on 15 pounds of muscle or something, 20 pounds or something? So, that’s a ridiculous result to do that. You literally have to continue to become somebody completely different than who you were. And like you've mentioned before, it doesn't mean you have to get rid of all the things of self you get to keep the character traits, you still enjoy it. But you then went on a course of redefining who you were step by step. So, to do that you had to change your chemistry. And you changed your chemistry through your thought, because that's the thing, right that the University of Wisconsin will study in 2019. I believe highlighting advanced meditators showed that you can absolutely change your brainwaves. And your internal chemistry by thought alone. So that's one way you did that. You also employed meditation, right? So that's how you got there, but also just creating that ongoing mental movie of who you were choosing to be in the moments of challenge gave you another way to perceive that you change your chemistry by getting rid of the old, habituated pattern behaviors, maybe alcohol and coffee. I think you put it on the shelf for a bit. You changed everything in relation to your identity around food. So, you're no longer putting in the same raw material that would create a certain chemistry within your body. You began training. And, you know, today was a great example of where your training has taken you because literally if you had somehow been able to complete the conditioning that you did today and the training, say three years ago, when you started you would have had a heart attack. That body would have died out there. And so, through a series step by step you've created such a massive transformation. Give me an athlete because I've coached professional and do one athlete. Give me someone in that category. And let's go head to head and if they beat you by a little bit, they'd beat you by a little bit. But you crushed, you know, essentially a 20-minute nonstop medley with hundreds of rep’s distances of pushing the Prowler distance of caring thing balanced with skill overhead for like 20 straight minutes. And so, the overwhelming majority of people who train would have bailed out because they don't have the power in their mind and their body. So, we've talked about this and you're now an example of one of the things I want to talk about this week, and that's in order to create a sustained, elevated human experience. And I've said this frequently. So, this is one of the things I repeat with regularity for a reason I want everyone to get this in order to create an elevated, sustained human experience. We have to have our brain and our body on total lockdown, which means we have to be free of our cravings and compulsions that's in the physical and our mental obsessions. So, you just blueprinted that whole thing. And we talked about how you did that to become someone new. So that now paves the road. And that's why I say it's the minimum prerequisite, all that work, that's stamping your ticket, right to now being able to go on too much greater and deeper things.
0:23 Jon
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill program. Well, I'll proclaim myself an expert on this subject. And typically what I do in this podcast is tried to corral your thoughts and then digest them for our listeners and make them into pieces that I think that we can relate to and offer a viewpoint that maybe allows for people to take your message, apply it to whatever they're going through, and maybe somewhere in there, tie it all together. We're talking about the power of choice. And then, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about the fallacy of the repetition-based model. And then, last week, we talked about…
1:17 Ted
About the illusion of conscious will and the confines of the framework.
1:22 Jon
Right, the illusion of conscious will and now we're applying these things to a concept and it's a little different in consciousness.
1:32 Ted
Chemistry of consciousness, as you know, alters our perceptions, beliefs, ideals, actions, behaviors, state of being.
1:41 Jon
Now having recorded a couple 100 episodes of this podcast with you. I think I may have a leg up on this content. Just because of my proximity. So, I have that advantage, but I still have revelations and I had one just now because when we talk about choosing and identity, you know, when we talk about what is and what isn't the rep and you say the movement of the barbell is not the rep. The rep is in the thought that precipitates the movement and then your own ability to take control and execute when execution is uncomfortable. And I think that there's another way to look at that, which is that in the midst of addiction, allow is not the word because when we lose the power of choice, the change of identity allows us to relinquish choice to that which feeds the identity. So, the reason I proclaimed myself an expert in this and because I enjoyed a physical transformation, but prior to enjoying a physical transformation, I experienced an identity transformation. And then, we talked on this podcast about how I would just kind of watch the movie unfold. And in doing so, really, what I was doing was I was relinquishing my choice to that which fed the identity.
3:25 Ted
You starved the old construct of who you are. And by watching the metaphoric movie unfold in front of you, you created a predictable future, through your actions.
3:36 Jon
Yeah. So, in the same way that someone would know that they're feeding their addiction, and say “that's it I'm powerless”, to quote the 12 steps. “I'm powerless”. What I did in some of those circumstances where I would see the finish line and I would be either you know, carrying something or pushing something or pulling something, and then viewing the finish line and absolutely not allowing for any other outcome besides getting to the finish line. I was relinquishing what normally would be my choice, which is I'm going to bail on this right now. This is uncomfortable, and instead, I thought, no, I'm going to relinquish, I'm going to let this happen. painful as it is.
4:25 Ted
You surrendered your attachment to being the person who would quit. Then using MPPT nomenclature. We would call the scale of polarity you created an opposite identity, which allowed you to seamlessly walk into a chosen future by creating the chosen identity. And step by step through demonstration by starving the old construct you walk into a completely different identity. I don't have your body comp sheet in front of us. What's the net? You've lost something like 80 pounds of body fat. And put on 15 pounds of muscle or something, 20 pounds or something? So, that’s a ridiculous result to do that. You literally have to continue to become somebody completely different than who you were. And like you've mentioned before, it doesn't mean you have to get rid of all the things of self you get to keep the character traits, you still enjoy it. But you then went on a course of redefining who you were step by step. So, to do that you had to change your chemistry. And you changed your chemistry through your thought, because that's the thing, right that the University of Wisconsin will study in 2019. I believe highlighting advanced meditators showed that you can absolutely change your brainwaves. And your internal chemistry by thought alone. So that's one way you did that. You also employed meditation, right? So that's how you got there, but also just creating that ongoing mental movie of who you were choosing to be in the moments of challenge gave you another way to perceive that you change your chemistry by getting rid of the old, habituated pattern behaviors, maybe alcohol and coffee. I think you put it on the shelf for a bit. You changed everything in relation to your identity around food. So, you're no longer putting in the same raw material that would create a certain chemistry within your body. You began training. And, you know, today was a great example of where your training has taken you because literally if you had somehow been able to complete the conditioning that you did today and the training, say three years ago, when you started you would have had a heart attack. That body would have died out there. And so, through a series step by step you've created such a massive transformation. Give me an athlete because I've coached professional and do one athlete. Give me someone in that category. And let's go head to head and if they beat you by a little bit, they'd beat you by a little bit. But you crushed, you know, essentially a 20-minute nonstop medley with hundreds of rep’s distances of pushing the Prowler distance of caring thing balanced with skill overhead for like 20 straight minutes. And so, the overwhelming majority of people who train would have bailed out because they don't have the power in their mind and their body. So, we've talked about this and you're now an example of one of the things I want to talk about this week, and that's in order to create a sustained, elevated human experience. And I've said this frequently. So, this is one of the things I repeat with regularity for a reason I want everyone to get this in order to create an elevated, sustained human experience. We have to have our brain and our body on total lockdown, which means we have to be free of our cravings and compulsions that's in the physical and our mental obsessions. So, you just blueprinted that whole thing. And we talked about how you did that to become someone new. So that now paves the road. And that's why I say it's the minimum prerequisite, all that work, that's stamping your ticket, right to now being able to go on too much greater and deeper things.
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