Coach Ted talks about using structure to propel past the apathy that holds us back from our achievements.
The Freedom of Proper Structure
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The Freedom of Proper Structure
Season 6/Episode 48
January 31, 2023
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This is the Ted O'Neill program. There's so much information in science and philosophy, physical training, performance optimization, nutrition, human experience with Ted O'Neill and Jon Leon Guerrero.
0:23 Jon
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill program. Yesterday we talked about manifesting abundance. And we came to the conclusion (so cliche) Yeah (right). I know. It's funny to say it's just to have those words come out of here, but it sounds like (sounds like hogwash) such nonsense.
0:38 Ted
I know. But so, we say this. We reframed that from a new age, “woo woo” concept into what I believe that that actually means by putting some wheels to it. (Yeah) put in some legs to it so you can walk toward an outcome through action (Okay) instead of just sitting on your couch thinking you deserve something more because you want it.
0:58 Jon
Yeah. Now, in order to do that, you mentioned that we have to create action steps but we also have to, I think those action steps have to have some sort of sincere driver because we have to get past our prior training.
1:15 Ted
So, I want to introduce a concept that those who are familiar with the Paraphysical training model have probably heard me talk about or have already used in their training. And that's the structure versus allowance discipline. It's one of the primary PPT disciplines. So, proper structure is required to achieve a high-level outcome, and proper structure is always sequential, and its action based. So, I would say it's the reason our emotional sobriety curriculum and our body recomposition program are both prerequisite training at Lifted Academy. They set the foundation to put you in position to have a greater freedom of expression by doing First things first. So, how do we do that? The structure versus allowance. So first, let's just talk about this briefly. So, structure, think of it you know, we'd love to hear the word structure and they freak out. (Yeah) Right. And it's when they learn it the way that we teach it. It's something completely different. Think of structure as the guiding map that is one of precision that takes you to a perfectly orchestrated outcome. If you follow the directions within the structure, it's not confining you, it's not reducing you., it's not depriving you. It's giving you the container by which you can fill with your vitality and your drive and your will. (The container) Yeah. We're going to get to that in a second but you want to give some specific examples on this, I think it will be helpful. (Okay) So, allowance, oftentimes is something that people, over allowance, a mistake for freedom, when really, it's the primary, one of the primary ways that they become enslaved. So, in other words, with no structure, no new learning comes in. Right? If I have this overarching allowance, where I just kind of go with where life takes me and this kind of thing, unless you're very, very, very advanced. What's going to happen is what you're doing is our best neuroscience now tells us that 95% of the time, we replay the same subconscious models and programs. We repeat the same habits and patterns. Because that's the way the brain works. In fact, the brain embodies the job of keeping you the same. (Yeah) So, if I'm floating about with the flow the world does not really understand what that means. What I'm really doing is just creating apathy in my life to not move forward and reach my highest potential without giving myself so much allowance that there's no means of course correction. There's no way to tell if I'm in a state of integration, or if I'm in a state of disintegration. There's no way to identify if I'm aligned with a greater outcome or if I misaligned. So, structure again, it's the map that can guide you step by step. I like to think of it as a series of precise and clear-cut directions that takes all of the guesswork out of it. So, in the emotional sobriety curriculum, Jonny, what's the EMSO formula?
4:40 Jon
Get real. (Yes) Get over yourself. (Okay) Check your motive.
4:45 Ted
Very good. Now let's decode that. (Okay) So, a lot of times we engage in a situation where we feel a certain way, and we're so habitually patterned into a reaction. In other words, I hear this and I'm quote “triggered”, I would then demonstrate what we would call an emotionally triggered behavior, (right) I bumped up against this but if we stop for a moment, and we get real, in other words, what's really happening? What's really happening? That can then give us the moment to get over ourselves to say, yeah, I'm kind of being ridiculous right now. (Yeah) Right? My X reaction to this current situation is way overboard. Right? That's getting over yourself. You're literally looking. It's as if you go to the balcony, and you're looking down with a totally different vantage point. (Yeah) So, you see a different depth and clarity of the Plainfield. From there once you've gotten real and now you've gotten over yourself, you can check what your motive was for your reaction. Right? So, it's a very tight, condensed, simplistic formula that gets to cause and effect and gives you the potential to overcome even long-standing challenges with the training that goes along with it in a very, very short period of time. (Yes) Now, interestingly enough…
6:05 Jon
Let me just toss it. (Yeah) You get over those long-standing challenges because you didn't realize how long standing those challenges were until you view it from the mezzanine as you said, you get over yourself, and you start to understand that, well, I've really been repeating this pattern over and over.
6:23 Ted
And what's my motivation for doing that? (right) It's often I'm afraid of losing something that I perceive I have or not getting something that I think that I want in simple terms.
6:33 Jon
And I would add to that, that this is what I know how to do. (It's a habit) And I am so afraid to do something that is counter to what I know to be a pattern that I can count on. Even if I have stated out loud. Well, I'm not going to do that again.
6:51 Ted
Yeah, right. What's, yeah, So, when we get into the unknown, that's not a comfortable place for us to be, which is why the brain and body are wired to replicate (to keep us the same) the prior learning to the things that create an imprint into our psyche, where we might call an early age trauma. (Yeah) So, that formula is one of precision now it's six words. Get real. Get over yourself and check your motives. Yet I've asked people who have taken the curriculum on multiple occasions of what’s the EMSO formula (Yeah) and they say, uhm…
7:24 Jon
You asked me not very long ago and I had to go to uhm. (So, why is that?) Well, for one thing, I really believe that I have internalized this exercise. I've done it a number of times, which isn't to say that I am flawless at the execution of it or at the recognition that I need to do it right now in whatever situation I'm in. But it is simply to say that when we don't train and train and train sometimes, we've gotten good at something. But we've lost the repetitive nature of ongoing specific training.
8:03 Ted
Right. The ability to reverse engineer. Now your case is different. Because I've watched you completely transform from your body, or now you've lost well over 80 pounds of body fat, while getting stronger, getting in the best shape of your life, while keeping all of the character traits that you still and everyone else loves about you. So, you were able to completely re-engineer your life from the ground up and be a demonstration. So, you clearly have the ability to enact that formula now for many people where they can't repeat the formula. I believe it's for the following reason. The very things that can change us are a threat to what? (What we know) (Yeah) We could call that our ego. You could call that status quo. (Yeah) So, then (our ego for sure) Yeah. So, if I accept that, this is what's wild about its six words.
8:56 Jon
Yeah, it's seven words. (Is it) Yeah, Yeah. Get over yourself. (Yeah) There's a bonus word.
9:03 Ted
Right. So, I got that incorrect. That's fantastic. So, it's seven words, and yet highly educated people will stare at me as if I'm from Mars, when I asked him the formula and go silent and mute like a third grader was on the spot for getting in trouble for something. (Yeah) It's an interesting phenomenon because they haven't taken that information in. Because what happens if they do? They would be forced to change. If they were to begin to use that. It's the precursor to creating a new identity and anytime you back something up into the corner, and threaten, it's going to fight back especially if it's fighting for its life. So, we use formulas for everything and really you can look at it as this way the formula we talked earlier about the container, the formula becomes the guide or the container by which you can then pour your vitality and your will into it. So, we have that for our barbell training. (Yeah) Where if you're learning a highly complicated lift, when you're new to it, there's a series of things that we call non-negotiable. So, once you learn to do them, you don't choose to think about them any longer. (Yeah) The same way when you get into the car, you don't look at your key, lean over, check to see where it goes and fiddle around with it. You know, you can probably do that while turning your head and talking to someone. Your hand will find where the key inserts into the car, which is a very precise thing to do. If you slow down and think about it, (yes) but it's a non-negotiable you don't think about having to start your car, you just do it.
10:33 Jon
Let me interject though, because yes, there are certain things that are non-negotiable. We begin to take them for granted because we know them to be the proper habit for the execution of that task. (Yes) But when you ratchet up the performance, you always retrain and retrain and retrain. For instance, yes, you can get in the car, you can close the door, you can put the key in the ignition. However, if you were a space shuttle pilot, you would go through your launch checklist, regardless of how many times you've done it because the performance is something different.
11:12 Ted
So, what you're saying is that to go to the moon might require a higher level of training than (Yep) going the safe way. (Yeah) I would tend to agree.
11:19 Jon
So, that also goes to your container simply because we're pouring our vitality into a much more advanced occupation. (Yes) And so in order to do that, we have to tighten up the training, (right) So the container essentially has to be more condensed.
11:41 Ted
Well, let's put this little analogy. Let's put some (practical applications), yeah, Practical application. So, close your hands. (Okay) Like making a little ball with your hands. You know, like when it's really cold outside, this it was this morning (like this morning?) Yes. So, you ball your hands up and you blow into your hands. Go and try that (Yeah) blowhard. (yep, got to warm up) Yeah. (yeah, warm up the digits) Those listening to this podcast. Do that right now. All right. So, ball your hands up, blow into your hands, what are you going to feel? (Heat) What else? (Little pressure) pressure. All right. So, then if you were to now remove your hands, and we're in a not a huge room, but a fairly large room now just blow out as hard as you can. How much pressure and heat do you feel for the room?
12:30 Jon
You've really negated the effort completely. (alright) because you can’t contain it. (Yes. So) this is what you're talking about. Flitting around.
12:39 Ted
This is structure versus allowance; too much makes the container too big. Your energy becomes dispersed. You'll flounder around. It's like being out to sea without a rudder. You don't have a means of navigation. (Right) You don't have a means of pressurizing your will against the boundary to be able to create more heat. (Yeah) And he can be representative of energy. So, your energy disperses and it disperses everywhere really, really quickly. (Okay) So, it requires more and more energy and you're going to find that the limitation is within you. Right. You don't have enough energy to pressurize the walls of the room. (Yeah) Okay.
13:18 Jon
So, for instance, if you said, Hey, perform this squat without specific instructions on proper form for the squat. Yeah, I might get away to puff the, you know, I was going to say the ground I might get away the puff of myself (Yeah) but until I contain that effort, with structure, I'm not going to attain any real achievement.
13:43 Ted
Right now. Sometimes people intuitively, in all areas of life, have special aptitudes where they intuitively can-do things at a very, very high level. (Yeah) And that's just what there are two, Mozart, for example, who were writing and performing full symphonies by age five. (Yeah,) That was not a function of training.
14:03 Jon
Yeah, he was composing at the age. of five. But those aren't the ones we remember. (Right) So, he had a thing. It still needed to be structured. (Yes, he had aptitude) those repetitions. Yeah, he had aptitude.
14:19 Ted
For the rest of us. We need a system that we can reverse engineer. So, that our path and our process is precise. And that precision is a system of best practices that has been proven to yield the highest level of outcome. Because if you have that if your structure is exactly as I just defined, and your container is airtight. As you pour your energy and your vitality into that you have a predictable result. Right? That's the key to this whole thing, that the best way to predict your future is to create it. That's an Abraham Lincoln quote. So, as we receive proper training, that creates the structure that allows us to force our will and our vitality into it. That's actually what gives us the allowance of greater freedom and expression and higher-level outcomes. It's not just doing things, the doing of random things will not yield a world class outcome. It just doesn't happen that way. This requires focus, intention, attention, precision and discipline. Right? It's a demonstration of our will, directed toward the outcome. So, this is actually, this is how you develop courage and face as we define it. I always like to say courage and face are verbs. So, this is how you build the repetitions to not only build your will but to build the demonstration of faith and courage.
*Extra*
16:12 Jon
The Alfred Hitchcock quote that I like is “The enemy of good cinema is a lack of limitation.”
16:20 Ted
Oh, Nice. Beautiful.
0:23 Jon
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill program. Yesterday we talked about manifesting abundance. And we came to the conclusion (so cliche) Yeah (right). I know. It's funny to say it's just to have those words come out of here, but it sounds like (sounds like hogwash) such nonsense.
0:38 Ted
I know. But so, we say this. We reframed that from a new age, “woo woo” concept into what I believe that that actually means by putting some wheels to it. (Yeah) put in some legs to it so you can walk toward an outcome through action (Okay) instead of just sitting on your couch thinking you deserve something more because you want it.
0:58 Jon
Yeah. Now, in order to do that, you mentioned that we have to create action steps but we also have to, I think those action steps have to have some sort of sincere driver because we have to get past our prior training.
1:15 Ted
So, I want to introduce a concept that those who are familiar with the Paraphysical training model have probably heard me talk about or have already used in their training. And that's the structure versus allowance discipline. It's one of the primary PPT disciplines. So, proper structure is required to achieve a high-level outcome, and proper structure is always sequential, and its action based. So, I would say it's the reason our emotional sobriety curriculum and our body recomposition program are both prerequisite training at Lifted Academy. They set the foundation to put you in position to have a greater freedom of expression by doing First things first. So, how do we do that? The structure versus allowance. So first, let's just talk about this briefly. So, structure, think of it you know, we'd love to hear the word structure and they freak out. (Yeah) Right. And it's when they learn it the way that we teach it. It's something completely different. Think of structure as the guiding map that is one of precision that takes you to a perfectly orchestrated outcome. If you follow the directions within the structure, it's not confining you, it's not reducing you., it's not depriving you. It's giving you the container by which you can fill with your vitality and your drive and your will. (The container) Yeah. We're going to get to that in a second but you want to give some specific examples on this, I think it will be helpful. (Okay) So, allowance, oftentimes is something that people, over allowance, a mistake for freedom, when really, it's the primary, one of the primary ways that they become enslaved. So, in other words, with no structure, no new learning comes in. Right? If I have this overarching allowance, where I just kind of go with where life takes me and this kind of thing, unless you're very, very, very advanced. What's going to happen is what you're doing is our best neuroscience now tells us that 95% of the time, we replay the same subconscious models and programs. We repeat the same habits and patterns. Because that's the way the brain works. In fact, the brain embodies the job of keeping you the same. (Yeah) So, if I'm floating about with the flow the world does not really understand what that means. What I'm really doing is just creating apathy in my life to not move forward and reach my highest potential without giving myself so much allowance that there's no means of course correction. There's no way to tell if I'm in a state of integration, or if I'm in a state of disintegration. There's no way to identify if I'm aligned with a greater outcome or if I misaligned. So, structure again, it's the map that can guide you step by step. I like to think of it as a series of precise and clear-cut directions that takes all of the guesswork out of it. So, in the emotional sobriety curriculum, Jonny, what's the EMSO formula?
4:40 Jon
Get real. (Yes) Get over yourself. (Okay) Check your motive.
4:45 Ted
Very good. Now let's decode that. (Okay) So, a lot of times we engage in a situation where we feel a certain way, and we're so habitually patterned into a reaction. In other words, I hear this and I'm quote “triggered”, I would then demonstrate what we would call an emotionally triggered behavior, (right) I bumped up against this but if we stop for a moment, and we get real, in other words, what's really happening? What's really happening? That can then give us the moment to get over ourselves to say, yeah, I'm kind of being ridiculous right now. (Yeah) Right? My X reaction to this current situation is way overboard. Right? That's getting over yourself. You're literally looking. It's as if you go to the balcony, and you're looking down with a totally different vantage point. (Yeah) So, you see a different depth and clarity of the Plainfield. From there once you've gotten real and now you've gotten over yourself, you can check what your motive was for your reaction. Right? So, it's a very tight, condensed, simplistic formula that gets to cause and effect and gives you the potential to overcome even long-standing challenges with the training that goes along with it in a very, very short period of time. (Yes) Now, interestingly enough…
6:05 Jon
Let me just toss it. (Yeah) You get over those long-standing challenges because you didn't realize how long standing those challenges were until you view it from the mezzanine as you said, you get over yourself, and you start to understand that, well, I've really been repeating this pattern over and over.
6:23 Ted
And what's my motivation for doing that? (right) It's often I'm afraid of losing something that I perceive I have or not getting something that I think that I want in simple terms.
6:33 Jon
And I would add to that, that this is what I know how to do. (It's a habit) And I am so afraid to do something that is counter to what I know to be a pattern that I can count on. Even if I have stated out loud. Well, I'm not going to do that again.
6:51 Ted
Yeah, right. What's, yeah, So, when we get into the unknown, that's not a comfortable place for us to be, which is why the brain and body are wired to replicate (to keep us the same) the prior learning to the things that create an imprint into our psyche, where we might call an early age trauma. (Yeah) So, that formula is one of precision now it's six words. Get real. Get over yourself and check your motives. Yet I've asked people who have taken the curriculum on multiple occasions of what’s the EMSO formula (Yeah) and they say, uhm…
7:24 Jon
You asked me not very long ago and I had to go to uhm. (So, why is that?) Well, for one thing, I really believe that I have internalized this exercise. I've done it a number of times, which isn't to say that I am flawless at the execution of it or at the recognition that I need to do it right now in whatever situation I'm in. But it is simply to say that when we don't train and train and train sometimes, we've gotten good at something. But we've lost the repetitive nature of ongoing specific training.
8:03 Ted
Right. The ability to reverse engineer. Now your case is different. Because I've watched you completely transform from your body, or now you've lost well over 80 pounds of body fat, while getting stronger, getting in the best shape of your life, while keeping all of the character traits that you still and everyone else loves about you. So, you were able to completely re-engineer your life from the ground up and be a demonstration. So, you clearly have the ability to enact that formula now for many people where they can't repeat the formula. I believe it's for the following reason. The very things that can change us are a threat to what? (What we know) (Yeah) We could call that our ego. You could call that status quo. (Yeah) So, then (our ego for sure) Yeah. So, if I accept that, this is what's wild about its six words.
8:56 Jon
Yeah, it's seven words. (Is it) Yeah, Yeah. Get over yourself. (Yeah) There's a bonus word.
9:03 Ted
Right. So, I got that incorrect. That's fantastic. So, it's seven words, and yet highly educated people will stare at me as if I'm from Mars, when I asked him the formula and go silent and mute like a third grader was on the spot for getting in trouble for something. (Yeah) It's an interesting phenomenon because they haven't taken that information in. Because what happens if they do? They would be forced to change. If they were to begin to use that. It's the precursor to creating a new identity and anytime you back something up into the corner, and threaten, it's going to fight back especially if it's fighting for its life. So, we use formulas for everything and really you can look at it as this way the formula we talked earlier about the container, the formula becomes the guide or the container by which you can then pour your vitality and your will into it. So, we have that for our barbell training. (Yeah) Where if you're learning a highly complicated lift, when you're new to it, there's a series of things that we call non-negotiable. So, once you learn to do them, you don't choose to think about them any longer. (Yeah) The same way when you get into the car, you don't look at your key, lean over, check to see where it goes and fiddle around with it. You know, you can probably do that while turning your head and talking to someone. Your hand will find where the key inserts into the car, which is a very precise thing to do. If you slow down and think about it, (yes) but it's a non-negotiable you don't think about having to start your car, you just do it.
10:33 Jon
Let me interject though, because yes, there are certain things that are non-negotiable. We begin to take them for granted because we know them to be the proper habit for the execution of that task. (Yes) But when you ratchet up the performance, you always retrain and retrain and retrain. For instance, yes, you can get in the car, you can close the door, you can put the key in the ignition. However, if you were a space shuttle pilot, you would go through your launch checklist, regardless of how many times you've done it because the performance is something different.
11:12 Ted
So, what you're saying is that to go to the moon might require a higher level of training than (Yep) going the safe way. (Yeah) I would tend to agree.
11:19 Jon
So, that also goes to your container simply because we're pouring our vitality into a much more advanced occupation. (Yes) And so in order to do that, we have to tighten up the training, (right) So the container essentially has to be more condensed.
11:41 Ted
Well, let's put this little analogy. Let's put some (practical applications), yeah, Practical application. So, close your hands. (Okay) Like making a little ball with your hands. You know, like when it's really cold outside, this it was this morning (like this morning?) Yes. So, you ball your hands up and you blow into your hands. Go and try that (Yeah) blowhard. (yep, got to warm up) Yeah. (yeah, warm up the digits) Those listening to this podcast. Do that right now. All right. So, ball your hands up, blow into your hands, what are you going to feel? (Heat) What else? (Little pressure) pressure. All right. So, then if you were to now remove your hands, and we're in a not a huge room, but a fairly large room now just blow out as hard as you can. How much pressure and heat do you feel for the room?
12:30 Jon
You've really negated the effort completely. (alright) because you can’t contain it. (Yes. So) this is what you're talking about. Flitting around.
12:39 Ted
This is structure versus allowance; too much makes the container too big. Your energy becomes dispersed. You'll flounder around. It's like being out to sea without a rudder. You don't have a means of navigation. (Right) You don't have a means of pressurizing your will against the boundary to be able to create more heat. (Yeah) And he can be representative of energy. So, your energy disperses and it disperses everywhere really, really quickly. (Okay) So, it requires more and more energy and you're going to find that the limitation is within you. Right. You don't have enough energy to pressurize the walls of the room. (Yeah) Okay.
13:18 Jon
So, for instance, if you said, Hey, perform this squat without specific instructions on proper form for the squat. Yeah, I might get away to puff the, you know, I was going to say the ground I might get away the puff of myself (Yeah) but until I contain that effort, with structure, I'm not going to attain any real achievement.
13:43 Ted
Right now. Sometimes people intuitively, in all areas of life, have special aptitudes where they intuitively can-do things at a very, very high level. (Yeah) And that's just what there are two, Mozart, for example, who were writing and performing full symphonies by age five. (Yeah,) That was not a function of training.
14:03 Jon
Yeah, he was composing at the age. of five. But those aren't the ones we remember. (Right) So, he had a thing. It still needed to be structured. (Yes, he had aptitude) those repetitions. Yeah, he had aptitude.
14:19 Ted
For the rest of us. We need a system that we can reverse engineer. So, that our path and our process is precise. And that precision is a system of best practices that has been proven to yield the highest level of outcome. Because if you have that if your structure is exactly as I just defined, and your container is airtight. As you pour your energy and your vitality into that you have a predictable result. Right? That's the key to this whole thing, that the best way to predict your future is to create it. That's an Abraham Lincoln quote. So, as we receive proper training, that creates the structure that allows us to force our will and our vitality into it. That's actually what gives us the allowance of greater freedom and expression and higher-level outcomes. It's not just doing things, the doing of random things will not yield a world class outcome. It just doesn't happen that way. This requires focus, intention, attention, precision and discipline. Right? It's a demonstration of our will, directed toward the outcome. So, this is actually, this is how you develop courage and face as we define it. I always like to say courage and face are verbs. So, this is how you build the repetitions to not only build your will but to build the demonstration of faith and courage.
*Extra*
16:12 Jon
The Alfred Hitchcock quote that I like is “The enemy of good cinema is a lack of limitation.”
16:20 Ted
Oh, Nice. Beautiful.
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