Coach Ted discusses the need for an owner's manual for our brain and body, and how little of the input we actually perceive.
The Owner's Manual for Your Brain and Body
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The Owner's Manual for Your Brain and Body
Season 3/Episode 01
October 25, 2021
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Jon:
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill Program.
Ted:
Here we go!
Jon:
Yeah. It's going to be a great season, we have quite a bit planned.
0:22 Ted:
Season 3 is going to encompass the entirety of the ParaPhysical Training Model. And within that we're going to cover, starting off this week, what I call The Human Machine. And that's going to give way then to The Framework and The Veneer of Reality.
So, these first couple weeks really paint the backdrop for my observations on how we function, along with the research of many others. Much of the research we cite isn't my own individual research, but it might be validated through my observations as a strength and conditioning coach for over 20 years. That was really the basis for me and creating the ParaPhysical Training Model: seeing how things that maybe would normally be considered ordinary and isolated events, began to demonstrate more as anomaly, and how you could recognize patterns and behaviors. And then the deeper I paid attention to these things, you can see the cyclical nature of certain events and really predictably start to gauge where people would either not reach their potential, or on the flip side, do amazing things. There was a certain commonality of how we arrived there. And over time, I learned what buttons to push to get people to certain places.
0:40
So, for me, I went from doing probably much of what every other strength conditioning coach does—focus on the physical—and researched the field to include a larger depth of other information, because I really felt that there was more going on than meets the eye.
And so, you start to look at other sciences, whether it's epigenetics or what's happening in quantum physics and just how amazing that entire field of study is, from theoretical physics to quantum mechanics, cellular biology, and more. There are many other places that as you begin to dive into, you can start to draw relational aspects to what we're seeing in the physical.
2:33
For me, this was huge because it started to answer not only a lot of questions, but then point to potentials that were yet unrealized in their entirety. So I started to make much of my coaching built around the observance of the things that I was seeing that didn't yet have an explanation or didn't have a solution; in general terms in the field of strength and conditioning, for example, there's a whole field of sport psychology.
3:00 Jon:
It’s also one of those areas where we're just scratching the surface. I want to point out that what made you famous was you discussed viewing the mundane for the anomalous, but really, what you're renowned for comes from taking what events many people thought were anomalous, and understanding what makes them replicable.
3:35 Ted:
That's the thing. Any outcome can be reverse engineered. And as it turns out, there's a methodology to this that has been talked about for thousands and thousands of years.
And then in many ways, our greater sciences just today are getting around to mirroring those exact steps.
3:55 Jon:
Is it perhaps that science had to, over the last several centuries, take the proverbial step back to take two steps forward?
4:03 Ted:
I think science in its own hubris gets lost amongst itself. Because in science, you're supposed to be questioning everything. And I think what happens in any field, or any endeavor, is egos get involved. So, this becomes a thing where to go outside of the traditional paradigm. If you're labeled a heretic, or a charlatan. Some kind for a lot of people. They don't want to. They don't want to venture into that. They want to stay within the cozy confines of the framework that they're currently operating and working in.
4:39 Jon:
Let's start with the owner's manual.
4:42 Ted:
You had said something really interesting to me before we got on the air today. So I'm going to have you relay that story.
4:48 Jon:
Okay. When we met up today, we talked about what we wanted to get accomplished completely by coincidence on my way here. I listened to an excerpt from a talk that's available on YouTube. It's very easily searchable. And there's an excerpt of a talk from Warren Buffett, who took a question from a professor at a community college in Orlando, Florida, I think it was Valencia Community College. And she asked, “What should I be telling my students? What nugget of wisdom should they all get in the most general sense from Warren Buffett, great thinker of our times?” And he said if he could give every person a car, with the understanding that this is the only car that you're going to have for your entire life, how would you treat it? And what he said was, “The first thing you do is you'd read the owner's manual five times before you turn the key. And then you would treat that car with such care and respect, you would fix every rust spot, you would change the oil twice as often as you need to, you would understand that this is so precious, that it needed that level of care.” Well, why don't we take care of our brains and bodies in the same way? Why are we putting ourselves through the amount of neglect and abuse that so many people typically do? And that was the thrust of his talk, but to hear him say those things and reference the owner's manual? And then when I got here, you said, you know, we're going to talk about the brain and body and the owner's manual.
6:37 Ted:
So, there's this concept of if there was an owner's manual, with exactly the same as your analogy with the cars, you would, you would want to understand those points. And so you could have the highest level of experience and not just be flying blind.
6:51Jon:
For this most complex machine that we possess, that we’ll only possess one of.
6:56 Ted:
Yeah, so I frequently say to anyone who's been at Diablo for more than a minute, has heard me say that, in order to have a sustained, elevated human experience, you have to have your brain and your body on total lockdown. That means not being run by your compulsions, and your mental obsessions. And so, we're going to get a little deeper into that, and much of the how, and the why is going to work its way to the surface in these first three weeks of this discussion of season three. So, one of the things I want to point toward right now is how little of the owner's manual we actually understand the entire universe is made up of frequency and vibration. So, it's not something that's separate from us. It's actually what we come from and what we all emerge from. And it's everywhere around us. That's all that there is. And yet, in this massive field of frequency, being the only relatable thing to every single item in space, and every single item and matter. We see less than 1% of the light spectrum, we hear less than 1% of the sound spectrum. And even the pieces that allow us to have the human experience our parts, like our eyes. Our optic nerve takes in some, I forget what the numbers are, like 10 million bits of information per second, but only decodes 40 of those pieces of information. So, when we've talked about this in the past, you said we're all essentially like moles.
We are kind of burrowing underground and not aware of what's actually going on around us. And to a large extent, that's true. If you look further, within our own genome, in the age where you and I grew up, we were told that 98% of our DNA was called junk DNA. Then that starts to change, do some forward-thinking scientists’ figure out oh, well, this particular sequence that we didn't know was there actually does this. So now let's not consider junk DNA, it's the field of potential.
8:58 Ted:
It's the things that we haven't yet learned how to realize. And so, if we're only using something like less than 2% of our genome, to experience life that would make sense in relation to those other numbers.
9:11 Jon:
Yeah, it sure would. So, then the question becomes, how do we awaken parts of that remaining 98%? And how do we even know that we could awaken some of them? How do we perceive them properly?
9:27 Ted:
Yeah, so here we go.
9:29 Jon:
Yeah, here we go. Indeed.
Welcome to the Ted O'Neill Program.
Ted:
Here we go!
Jon:
Yeah. It's going to be a great season, we have quite a bit planned.
0:22 Ted:
Season 3 is going to encompass the entirety of the ParaPhysical Training Model. And within that we're going to cover, starting off this week, what I call The Human Machine. And that's going to give way then to The Framework and The Veneer of Reality.
So, these first couple weeks really paint the backdrop for my observations on how we function, along with the research of many others. Much of the research we cite isn't my own individual research, but it might be validated through my observations as a strength and conditioning coach for over 20 years. That was really the basis for me and creating the ParaPhysical Training Model: seeing how things that maybe would normally be considered ordinary and isolated events, began to demonstrate more as anomaly, and how you could recognize patterns and behaviors. And then the deeper I paid attention to these things, you can see the cyclical nature of certain events and really predictably start to gauge where people would either not reach their potential, or on the flip side, do amazing things. There was a certain commonality of how we arrived there. And over time, I learned what buttons to push to get people to certain places.
0:40
So, for me, I went from doing probably much of what every other strength conditioning coach does—focus on the physical—and researched the field to include a larger depth of other information, because I really felt that there was more going on than meets the eye.
And so, you start to look at other sciences, whether it's epigenetics or what's happening in quantum physics and just how amazing that entire field of study is, from theoretical physics to quantum mechanics, cellular biology, and more. There are many other places that as you begin to dive into, you can start to draw relational aspects to what we're seeing in the physical.
2:33
For me, this was huge because it started to answer not only a lot of questions, but then point to potentials that were yet unrealized in their entirety. So I started to make much of my coaching built around the observance of the things that I was seeing that didn't yet have an explanation or didn't have a solution; in general terms in the field of strength and conditioning, for example, there's a whole field of sport psychology.
3:00 Jon:
It’s also one of those areas where we're just scratching the surface. I want to point out that what made you famous was you discussed viewing the mundane for the anomalous, but really, what you're renowned for comes from taking what events many people thought were anomalous, and understanding what makes them replicable.
3:35 Ted:
That's the thing. Any outcome can be reverse engineered. And as it turns out, there's a methodology to this that has been talked about for thousands and thousands of years.
And then in many ways, our greater sciences just today are getting around to mirroring those exact steps.
3:55 Jon:
Is it perhaps that science had to, over the last several centuries, take the proverbial step back to take two steps forward?
4:03 Ted:
I think science in its own hubris gets lost amongst itself. Because in science, you're supposed to be questioning everything. And I think what happens in any field, or any endeavor, is egos get involved. So, this becomes a thing where to go outside of the traditional paradigm. If you're labeled a heretic, or a charlatan. Some kind for a lot of people. They don't want to. They don't want to venture into that. They want to stay within the cozy confines of the framework that they're currently operating and working in.
4:39 Jon:
Let's start with the owner's manual.
4:42 Ted:
You had said something really interesting to me before we got on the air today. So I'm going to have you relay that story.
4:48 Jon:
Okay. When we met up today, we talked about what we wanted to get accomplished completely by coincidence on my way here. I listened to an excerpt from a talk that's available on YouTube. It's very easily searchable. And there's an excerpt of a talk from Warren Buffett, who took a question from a professor at a community college in Orlando, Florida, I think it was Valencia Community College. And she asked, “What should I be telling my students? What nugget of wisdom should they all get in the most general sense from Warren Buffett, great thinker of our times?” And he said if he could give every person a car, with the understanding that this is the only car that you're going to have for your entire life, how would you treat it? And what he said was, “The first thing you do is you'd read the owner's manual five times before you turn the key. And then you would treat that car with such care and respect, you would fix every rust spot, you would change the oil twice as often as you need to, you would understand that this is so precious, that it needed that level of care.” Well, why don't we take care of our brains and bodies in the same way? Why are we putting ourselves through the amount of neglect and abuse that so many people typically do? And that was the thrust of his talk, but to hear him say those things and reference the owner's manual? And then when I got here, you said, you know, we're going to talk about the brain and body and the owner's manual.
6:37 Ted:
So, there's this concept of if there was an owner's manual, with exactly the same as your analogy with the cars, you would, you would want to understand those points. And so you could have the highest level of experience and not just be flying blind.
6:51Jon:
For this most complex machine that we possess, that we’ll only possess one of.
6:56 Ted:
Yeah, so I frequently say to anyone who's been at Diablo for more than a minute, has heard me say that, in order to have a sustained, elevated human experience, you have to have your brain and your body on total lockdown. That means not being run by your compulsions, and your mental obsessions. And so, we're going to get a little deeper into that, and much of the how, and the why is going to work its way to the surface in these first three weeks of this discussion of season three. So, one of the things I want to point toward right now is how little of the owner's manual we actually understand the entire universe is made up of frequency and vibration. So, it's not something that's separate from us. It's actually what we come from and what we all emerge from. And it's everywhere around us. That's all that there is. And yet, in this massive field of frequency, being the only relatable thing to every single item in space, and every single item and matter. We see less than 1% of the light spectrum, we hear less than 1% of the sound spectrum. And even the pieces that allow us to have the human experience our parts, like our eyes. Our optic nerve takes in some, I forget what the numbers are, like 10 million bits of information per second, but only decodes 40 of those pieces of information. So, when we've talked about this in the past, you said we're all essentially like moles.
We are kind of burrowing underground and not aware of what's actually going on around us. And to a large extent, that's true. If you look further, within our own genome, in the age where you and I grew up, we were told that 98% of our DNA was called junk DNA. Then that starts to change, do some forward-thinking scientists’ figure out oh, well, this particular sequence that we didn't know was there actually does this. So now let's not consider junk DNA, it's the field of potential.
8:58 Ted:
It's the things that we haven't yet learned how to realize. And so, if we're only using something like less than 2% of our genome, to experience life that would make sense in relation to those other numbers.
9:11 Jon:
Yeah, it sure would. So, then the question becomes, how do we awaken parts of that remaining 98%? And how do we even know that we could awaken some of them? How do we perceive them properly?
9:27 Ted:
Yeah, so here we go.
9:29 Jon:
Yeah, here we go. Indeed.
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