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00:00:36.000They're talking about something and they're saying that they're really positive about something and then you think, well, that doesn't match up.
00:00:58.000Yeah, it's a very interesting thing we just did.
00:01:02.000We just did something called timeline therapy that you were telling me about, that Joe Schilling told me about.
00:01:09.000Ian McCall got really interested in it.
00:01:15.000For folks who've never heard of Vinny before, Vinny's been on the podcast before.
00:01:20.000Vinny's a mental coach and a hypnotist.
00:01:22.000And before our first session, the last time you came on the podcast, I was like, I don't know about all this hypnotist stuff.
00:01:29.000Maybe it was just a bunch of fucking crazy people and people talk to them.
00:01:32.000I mean, you for sure have seen those televangelists that put their hands on people and they go into spasms and they fall down the floor and they claim to be curative illnesses.
00:02:32.000How do you know you're not in a hypnotic state listening to you?
00:02:34.000How do you in a hypnotic state not listening to music, TV, having a bath, shower, rituals, whatever?
00:02:39.000So do you think that the term hypnotic is problematic because people think that it takes away control from you and it puts you into this netherworld or something like that?
00:02:47.000Well, it can do, but all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, so you do it yourself.
00:02:51.000I'm only a postman of information, as my first teacher said, Keith Mayer, who works at Liverpool Football Club.
00:03:31.000I like it's some sort of weird noble side of me, really, I think, when people conquer fear.
00:03:39.000When people conquer something, I think there's nothing better than that.
00:03:42.000Well, I think one of the things that we talked about when we were doing a timeline, I was talking about some of my experiences when I was younger that have kind of like clung to me, unfortunately or fortunately.
00:03:52.000And, you know, you were talking about your own, and I think that Yeah,
00:04:18.000And having these bad moments and realizing what they were and how they defined you now gives you motivation to help other people get over their bad moments.
00:04:28.000Yeah, it's just, with Timeline Therapy, which was devised by Tad James and a very, very successful guy, Tad James' company, my teacher worked for them directly, Colin Mackay, so I'm a direct descendant, really, of that.
00:04:56.000Let's say you've got an iPhone 6 or an iPhone or whatever.
00:04:59.000The apps keep playing over and over again.
00:05:02.000If they're still going on, they're going to take some sort of toll on you when you shut them down and think, well, actually, it shuts it down.
00:05:09.000It saves your battery, your memory, and it shapes your life.
00:05:18.000Yeah, it's not like a computer where a computer constantly has these things running in the background and it's using up resources and battery power.
00:05:25.000Apparently with phones it does not do that.
00:05:50.000But I think that, you know, your own personal experiences is one of the reasons why you've become a coach, not just a mind coach, but a martial arts coach, and that these experiences of negative moments in your life where you've overcome them and you realize that I can help someone else who is in that sort of same situation.
00:07:14.000You know, so that's, for me, great news.
00:07:16.000I think sometimes it just takes the realization of what's been fucking with you.
00:07:21.000That once you realize what it is, then you have it in your mind and then you can kind of look at it for what it really is instead of this like thing that's playing in the background that you can't quite identify or you know it exists but you ignore it and you just you don't ever get over it.
00:08:03.000There's different levels of it, of course.
00:08:05.000She was focusing on what may go wrong.
00:08:07.000Instead of saying, oh, we're going to a wedding, it's a celebration of two people's matrimony, whatever, and it's going to be nice and da-da-da-da.
00:08:40.000It seems to me that human beings don't really live long enough to figure out What this is.
00:08:49.000You know, I think that is one of the major problems that a lot of us have.
00:08:52.000We have a certain amount of momentum that comes from our childhood, whether it's good or bad.
00:08:57.000And we follow that momentum into our adulthood, sometimes trying to hit the brakes, sometimes trying to correct the course, and oftentimes using things like alcohol or drugs or gambling or anything to distract us from the pain of whatever,
00:09:15.000the instability, whatever it is that's fucking with us.
00:09:18.000And then you get to be a certain age and you realize, like, I'm barely figuring this thing out and I'm almost dead.
00:10:10.000But that's a problem with religion, right?
00:10:12.000One of the bigger issues is that the people that are sort of proselytizing or the people that are promoting it, they're in some ways, many of them, especially priests and things along those lines, which is why it's so disappointing when you hear about child sex abuse amongst priests.
00:10:27.000They're pretending to be something holy and special and above you, which is why they can bestow this knowledge upon you.
00:10:49.000I've met you, and I'm a fan of yours, and I really enjoy it.
00:10:53.000Like I said before, you've had Wim Hof, who I love, Russell Brand, brilliant, and Dr. Rhonda Patrick, and Joe, and Ian, and the companion, and all the fighters' companion.
00:11:25.000It is a weird dance that we do in this life.
00:11:29.000We're trying to sort of manage the mind and figure out what it is that's holding you back or helping you or, you know, just sort of guide yourself through this existence.
00:13:22.000Living life without fear doesn't mean there's not going to be moments where you're scared and taking chances.
00:13:31.000Because those moments, when you do take chances or you do something new, and it could be as simple as like...
00:13:37.000Being a 50-year-old man starting jujitsu or a 50-year-old woman starting a martial arts class or something like, I can't believe I'm doing this.
00:13:44.000But those moments where you put yourself into vulnerable positions can be very beneficial for you.
00:13:50.000So it's not a matter of avoiding everything that causes you fear.
00:13:54.000It's a matter of embracing the uncertainty of life And trying to experience it with as much positivity and as much openness and with as least resistance as possible.
00:14:41.000And so I had to basically do it because I lived far away from my kids and now I can drive and it was something I had to really push myself to do.
00:14:53.000But I think we're all a collection of successes.
00:14:56.000Tying your lace, writing the date right, you know, or telling the time.
00:15:03.000You know, there's loads of things, but we're too busy kicking the shit out of ourselves about what we've done wrong.
00:15:08.000You know, for me, when I watched Holly Holm fight last time, when she fought, she looked shell-shocked.
00:15:54.000I mean, I think a lot of gyms, because it's macho, because it's fighting, and yeah, you'll be all right, and patting on the back, you'll be all right, you did great today.
00:16:01.000If you have that, I deem it like this, it's like you're doing a whitewash, and you put all your whites in, and then you put all your whites in, so I've done my strength and conditioning, or right, I've got my diet right, I'm on point for my weight, blah, blah, blah, my coach says my BJJ is great, or whatever, or boxing,
00:16:16.000or whatever the sport may be, or even if it's not sport, you know, your boss, or whatever.
00:16:20.000And then all of a sudden you put one red sock in, you wash, everything goes pink.
00:16:25.000So that little thought that can infect you, so you say, oh, you might sit there.
00:16:29.000And the loneliest places, I think, fight someone and lost her in the changing rooms.
00:16:33.000I think that's my opinion of fighters, they lose in the changing rooms.
00:16:37.000They have one sort of negative thought, the mind whispers something, it becomes a shout, and then all of a sudden you drag it with you.
00:16:42.000Well, fights can be lost, but no matter how positive your thinking is, if you're fighting Anderson Silva in his prime, you're probably fucked.
00:18:09.000You have a lot of holes in whatever method of distribution that your thoughts and your actions are passing through.
00:18:19.000You know, your system, your system of life, like who you are, the way you think about things, the way you think about yourself, the way you think about other people, like that shapes all the results.
00:18:29.000All the interactions that you have with people are shaped differently.
00:18:32.000It's one of the things that I've always said about a lot of these interactions that police officers have with people.
00:18:39.000How many of these interactions would be completely different with a more calm police officer or a person who's better at handling people?
00:18:48.000And how many of them are shaped by someone who's just not that smart or too authoritarian or doesn't know how to read people well or doesn't know how to broach a conversation well?
00:19:03.000So dealing with something in their own mind.
00:19:05.000Like we talked about Limitless, didn't we, the movie where Bradley Cooper first takes the pill and he's talking to the Chinese lady on the top of the stairs.
00:19:12.000I think she's his landlady or something.
00:20:19.000I do use hypnosis, but not always, because it's not always necessary.
00:20:23.000It's getting people thinking, reframing something.
00:20:25.000Have you thought of it like that and move that out the way?
00:20:27.000And that changes people's opinions and can have massive effects on them.
00:20:32.000So the more people you interact with, the more people you apply these techniques to, the better your understanding of how these techniques work?
00:20:39.000Yeah, or the better understanding of people.
00:20:41.000I think you've got to be able to talk to people as well doing this job.
00:20:46.000I'm not saying I'm massively know loads of stuff, but I know little bits about things, you know, and I don't pretend to know about a lot of things.
00:20:54.000But it's just about just being able to communicate with people and actually get them, you know?
00:21:00.000People pretty much want the same things, you know what I mean?
00:21:03.000Everyone wants to live life as exciting or as easy as possible, you know?
00:21:11.000And like I said before, it's just about language.
00:21:14.000It's just about deciphering the language, what they're actually talking.
00:21:18.000And not even really as easy as possible, because a lot of people want a life full of adventure, but what they don't want to do is trip over themselves.
00:21:27.000Like, if you have a difficulty, and say if you're going to climb a mountain, right?
00:21:32.000I would think that climbing a mountain is difficult enough.
00:21:36.000You have to figure out what way to grip.
00:21:39.000You have to have strong hands and strong feet.
00:21:41.000You have to have an overall awareness of your body and balance, and you have to be physically fit enough to Be able to pull yourself and climb up to this mountain if you're Paralyzed with fear if you are consumed with self-doubt if you are overrun with guilt if your body is just dealing with the minds All the haunts of your past that compounds whatever difficulty and
00:22:11.000it makes it way worse Yeah, well, that's where, you know, people come to me after fights and, you know, they talk about the last fight.
00:22:48.000That's what we, you know, when we was doing timeline therapy, you know, there was things you learnt from that situation that has got you here, got you the UFC commentator, successful stand-up and all that.
00:23:01.000It's got you where you've got because of them things that moulded you, you know.
00:23:06.000Some people do get consumed by fear, which is why I like to change.
00:24:38.000You just want to give yourself a little excuse for not going after whatever your goals are or not pursuing whatever interests you actually have and just playing it safe.
00:24:48.000Playing it safe, I think a big part of that is what we were talking about earlier, is this need to avoid any further pain.
00:25:43.000Now, I recently, you know, people that want to fight, and then they go, I lost my fight, and blah, blah, blah, and then you find out what they did unto the run-up.
00:25:58.000You know, if you're not living it, and if you're not, you know, really immersing yourself in every way, in the language that you speak to yourself, and in the way that you do everything else, what do you expect?
00:26:09.000Your mind's not going to support you if you don't support it.
00:26:12.000Yeah, that was one of the things that I felt when Jon Jones tested positive for cocaine three weeks out of his fight with Daniel Cormier.
00:26:33.000I don't think that's a positive drug necessarily either.
00:26:35.000So I don't know because I don't have experience with cocaine, but that's not something you're supposed to be doing three weeks outside of a world title fight with one of the best wrestlers in the sport.
00:26:44.000One of the most difficult challenges you've ever faced in your professional career and you're out doing blow just 21 days before.
00:29:51.000But isn't there also the issue that fighters in particular, especially guys that have a lot of hard gym sessions and a lot of hard fights, they have impulse control problems.
00:30:03.000And those impulse control problems, I'm obviously not a scientist or a doctor, but when you talk to neurologists and neuroscientists, They will tell you that there are direct correlations between head impacts and poor impulse control.
00:30:20.000And I, you know, not looking for a scapegoat in my own life, but I've looked back at some of the poor decision making that I've done in my life, particularly in my fighting times, like back then, and I was like, I wonder if a lot of that was getting hit in the head a lot.
00:30:35.000Like, it can't be good to get kicked in the head.
00:30:43.000And so, if you've been kicked in the head or punched in the face or whatever, you know, any kind of impact, and that's the thing about football players they're saying now, is that even a shot to the chest, even getting tackled, like someone rams at you and slams their shoulders into your chest, the brain gets jostled around.
00:31:00.000You might not have a bruise on your face, But your brain is receiving essentially the same impact as a punch.
00:31:19.000He's got to look back on him and think, fuck.
00:31:21.000Well, he's also got to figure out what it is that he took.
00:31:25.000They haven't isolated what he took, but...
00:31:29.000The whole lifestyle, it's most certainly an issue, and it's almost like one of those things where you say you don't know what you got until it's gone.
00:31:39.000Well, it was kind of gone for a little while, but not really.
00:31:42.000He was always still in the mix, and there was always multi-million dollar fights awaiting, and then he fought over in St. Preux, so he's back in the mix, and everything's looking good.
00:31:51.000He's slated to fight at UFC 200 against Daniel Cormier.
00:31:56.000He's gonna make like 10 million bucks.
00:31:58.000It's going to be giant and then whoosh.
00:32:01.000It's gone for something that if you talk to people that are experts in performance enhancing drugs, they'll tell you that this clomiphene is what he got popped for, which is an anti-estrogen supplement.
00:32:40.000You've still got to have a guide, you know, to just say, look, is that the best thing you should be doing?
00:32:44.000Or someone to talk to, you know what I mean?
00:32:46.000That's not going to be high-fiving you because you're going to, you know, stick a load of bugle up your nose.
00:32:52.000Isn't it harder though, I think, for champions, because once they dominate someone and kick someone's ass, like say if you fight the most difficult fight of your career, you fight, you know, whether it's Daniel Cormier, whoever it is, you dominate him, you win in a beautiful fashion,
00:33:08.000and then you're like, God damn it, I am the fucking man.
00:33:11.000And then you just want to do whatever you want to do after that.
00:35:20.000You start believing that no one's gonna beat your ass, and then you fight Buster Douglas with very little training, and he fucking puts that leather to your face.
00:35:27.000And reality hits you when that referee's standing over you counting.
00:35:31.000You realize, oh, this is happening to me now.
00:36:10.000They might not have been the hardest kid at school.
00:36:12.000They might not have been, you know, the most popular.
00:36:14.000All of a sudden, you know, after a few fights, it just seems like whack, like John Jones or Ronda.
00:36:19.000And all of a sudden, you're in this loads of money and people are paying you attention that, you know, wouldn't have talked to you at school and stuff like that.
00:36:36.000You have to have someone who helps you.
00:36:39.000I think every fighter I mean I shouldn't say every fighter because some kind of figured out on their own there's some guys that don't seem to fall into those traps but Most fighters can use some sort of guidelines and there's also these facilitators that manifest themselves in your life.
00:36:54.000These people that want to make your life easier so they could be a part of your life.
00:37:10.000And what they're doing is these guys are, they get into your life.
00:37:15.000And the way they get into your life is by making things easier for you so they could be a part of the, you know, Mike Tyson camp, or whatever it is.
00:37:22.000And then next thing you know, you've got this entourage of 20 people hanging around you, and most of them are just fucking idiots.
00:38:54.000I mean, how ridiculous are New Year's resolutions?
00:38:56.000How many people have come to you after New Year's and they're like, I'm going to lose 50 pounds, I'm going to stop smoking, I'm not going to eat any unhealthy...
00:39:18.000Health clubs go, right, you join in January, you get free January, and then you blah, blah, blah, and they go, yeah, I don't have to have any joining fee, and then they join, and that's it, new year, new me.
00:40:23.000So if in fact you're not perfect, that means you're considering whatever you've done that maybe you could have done better or maybe you could have handled better or maybe you could have thought about in a better way or a more beneficial way.
00:40:35.000And then you grow and learn from that experience.
00:40:40.000You know, I'm a different person as I was.
00:40:41.000I was here nearly spot on a year ago and I've learnt more and changed and had different opinions.
00:40:48.000I think if you read anything or you, you know, because we've got YouTube and we've got the likes of you, you know, with Rhonda Patrick and about turmeric.
00:40:56.000That I learnt from listening to you and listening to other people and off Facebook and I got a tumeric user group because I've got arthritis in my foot, went to the doctors, can't do anything, just have to take paracetamol.
00:43:42.000A lot of people have tried my kale shake recipe and almost vomited.
00:43:45.000I have a friend who, I have a friend called Nathan Wright and his hands, he said he couldn't, his hands were that bad with arthritis that he couldn't, you know, spray deodorant, said he stunk and that's his words, not mine.
00:43:58.000And then he started taking this turmeric paste and he's fine.
00:44:24.000Coenzyme Q10, but it's a little bit of a higher level one.
00:44:28.000And, yeah, and my friend now, Aaron, has just got this turmeric and arnica Thai oil type stuff called Three Leopards Liniment that I've, you know, you're going to try.
00:45:34.000It makes you feel like a lot's happening, like you had heat there, it feels good, but he goes, in order for that stuff to absorb deeply into your system, get into your tissue, he's like, it would have to get into your bloodstream, and then it would be toxic.
00:47:12.000And so how quickly did it take, like, how long did it take before it was like you were really rock solid with it where you realized that this is really beneficial for you?
00:47:31.000No, I was really pissed off because the doctor went, well, there's nothing you can do.
00:47:36.000And sometimes you say to the doctor, I think I've got this, that and the other, and because they think that you're self-diagnosing, they think, no, you're not.
00:47:53.000You know, I didn't want that, and then when I put on Facebook, which is a good tool sometimes for getting information, like the internet is, and it worked a treat, and then it got into this group, and yeah, it was brilliant, and it's worked for me fantastically well.
00:48:06.000Yeah, you have to sort of separate the bullshit from the reality, but if you can do that, you can definitely find a lot of stuff online.
00:48:13.000It's confusing to me when doctors dismiss dietary solutions, you know, because very few doctors are really well-educated in nutrition, and especially educated in the understanding of the mechanisms involved in absorbing nutrients.
00:48:32.000And what compounds or accentuates nutrition absorption?
00:50:13.000We're talking about double-blind placebo-controlled studies on inflammation, if they did something along those lines.
00:50:19.000One of the big issues that's going on with medical marijuana is the There's a pushback from pharmaceutical companies that are trying to stop medical marijuana from becoming legal nationwide, and they've halted, at least delayed, the Supreme Court's changing of the designation from a Schedule I to a Schedule II in this country.
00:50:40.000Schedule I shows no medicinal value whatsoever.
00:51:15.000I mean, it's incredible how much benefit there is in this one plant, but yet the pushback from the pharmaceutical industry is still incredibly strong.
00:53:16.000I just think there's loads of stuff to explore yet.
00:53:18.000The mind is a fascinating solution to a lot of issues that people have and thinking positive or thinking negative or worry and the stress and we were talking earlier about cortisol and the stress response to literally thinking about something affects your physical health and thinking about things in the wrong way affects your physical health.
00:54:52.000Because when we were talking about all these different things that happen in life that sort of set you up for the next stages of life and define you and sort of alter and affect your decision-making process and your behaviour process...
00:55:08.000Don't you think that a lot of these people just live very unfortunate existences?
00:55:13.000And whether it's by chance or whether it's by bad decision-making that has just compounded itself over the years, when you see some of the hateful things that people posted about, let's say, John Wayne Parr, who's the nicest guy.
00:57:33.000But I just think you'll get, whatever you get, whatever you do, I deem this...
00:57:38.000Like, I think Joe Schilling said, Jesus was great.
00:57:42.000You'd invite him to a party, he could turn this water into wine, he could, hey, your granddad dead, don't worry, bing, we'll bring him back to life.
00:58:26.000Yeah, but they're not really faceless, right?
00:58:28.000Like, at the end of the day, if you get to who they really are and what's really bothering them, they're no different than you or I. They just, they got a fucked up start in this life and they never recovered.
01:01:01.000Because his friend who was in it, in Luther, the other detective was Warren Brown, who's my mate, my friend.
01:01:07.000He won two world titles in Thai boxing.
01:01:10.000So I think they've been talking about and Warren's been helping him and Kieran's been helping him, but it should be a good show because you see all of him, you see him training and between movies like he's made when we Spielberg, The Dark Tower or something with Matthew McConaughey.
01:05:13.000I'm obviously a big fan of kickboxing, and I'm super psyched that Glory is going to put on Badr Hari versus Rico Verhoeven if Badr Hari can stay out of jail.
01:07:44.000The thing about Rico is that Rico's been super active while Botter's been dealing with all these problems, and Rico's been getting better, and Rico's been beating guys.
01:08:00.000He had some problems with some guys in the past, and you see him now, and he's just a much better fighter in every way, shape, or form.
01:08:09.000Yeah, when he fought Benjamin Adebui, I thought that was brilliant.
01:08:12.000I mean, he was sparring with Tyson Fury, wasn't he?
01:08:28.000But the thing about Badr is like when he was at his best and you kind of got to assume that it's possible that he could go back to how he was when he was at his best.
01:08:38.000When Badr was at his best, he was a fucking hurricane in there.
01:12:20.000Hear what you hear and feel what you feel about this situation with the window open.
01:12:25.000Now I want you to start moving backwards, further and further away from the window, so the window gets smaller and smaller.
01:12:35.000And as you move really, really back from the window, I want you to allow that window to get smaller and smaller.
01:12:44.000And as you go really weary away from the window, so the window's really, really small, I want you to go out of that room and close the door.
01:13:30.000I learnt it off a lady called Dolores Ashcroft Nowieski.
01:13:34.000And to just move away from things that are going on and just give yourself just even a few minutes of just quiet.
01:13:40.000And when you shut down, you shut the door and you just beat, you can just imagine yourself sitting and then you can start using your breathing techniques or...
01:13:48.000Just allowing yourself to just sit just for a few minutes and see what comes up for you.
01:14:30.000It's set up to whatever yardage you're trying to shoot at and your bow gets sighted in and once your bow is sighted in you can kind of dial your scope to or your sight to like 20 yards, 30 yards, 40 yards and what happens is People put that pin on the target,
01:14:48.000whether it's at a competition or whether it's bow hunting, whatever it is.
01:14:52.000You put that pin on the target and the moment that's on the target, you start freaking out because the moment that this all is going down is happening soon and people hammer that trigger.
01:15:04.000When they hammer that trigger, they jerk the pin off line, they don't stay still, they panic.
01:15:10.000And this target panic causes bad shots.
01:16:06.000So it's a hypnotic state, and it's quite easy to do.
01:16:11.000I've done it with a lot of people and it works very very well just to calm yourself down a little bit so as I said before what you do is I'll just sit down and do it so you basically there's lots of different ways of doing it you can find a spot on the wall That's higher than your eyeline.
01:16:27.000So you're kind of looking up on a diagonal.
01:16:29.000And imagine that you're looking through your third eye, you know, looking through the middle of your eyebrows.
01:16:35.000And what you do is you focus on a spot on the wall.
01:16:37.000And while you're focusing all your energy on that spot, you imagine that you can see all the way to the left.
01:17:50.000And he's standing in front of this other guy and they start throwing blows and this guy literally, he's wincing, his eyes are almost closed and he's doing this.
01:19:02.000So you're opening your unconscious by just seeing more than you can actually see.
01:19:07.000So say if you were in an archery competition, you're shooting at this target that's like 70 meters away, and you really have to concentrate, and you're looking at that spot, and you're like...
01:19:18.000And there's all these nerves and everything like that.
01:19:19.000And you're drawing your bow back and you're concentrating on that spot.
01:19:42.000Just allow yourself to spread your awareness.
01:19:44.000There's also another way of doing it, where you can have your palms out like this, right?
01:19:49.000And then when you bring your palms in, and when you can see your own palms, you drop your hands.
01:19:55.000So you also put your hand over your head, and then when you can see your fingers over your head, you drop that too.
01:20:01.000Okay, so you spread your arms out, you can't see your arms, and then you start bringing them in, and the moment you see your hands, you drop your hands.
01:21:25.000When you get control of yourself by just focusing your awareness, which is your area to relax, then you just get yourself into a calm position.
01:21:39.000So say if someone was in a hunting situation and there was a deer.
01:21:42.000A deer is moving to 30 yards away and it's moving right into what you would call a shooting lane in between two trees.
01:22:28.000One of the theories is recoil bracing.
01:22:31.000Like you know that something's going to happen, so you're preparing for this thing to happen, and then in preparing for that thing to happen, that is becoming more of your focus than actually making it work correctly.
01:23:09.000I know there's a weightlifter called Emma James that's like a 20-odd time world heavy lifting lady person, and she uses Hakala, and it works.
01:25:24.000That's an interesting solution to a really common issue with archers.
01:25:31.000Like tournament archers, they panic so much that they've come up with a method of allowing this bow to go off without them doing it on purpose.
01:25:46.000They have this thing called a hinge release.
01:25:48.000And what a hinge release is, you clip it onto your bow, and as you pull it back, instead of hitting a trigger, you're slowly moving your hand, and you never know when it's going to go off.
01:25:58.000You're just slowly curling your finger, and there's a little hinge inside of it.
01:26:01.000And once it gets past a certain point, it just goes off.
01:27:51.000With a compound bow, you're settling in and relaxing and trying to stay calm and keep the pin Relatively close to the area but concentrating on the spot and then you release.
01:28:01.000And as you release, it's got to be in one smooth motion where your hand pulls back as you do it so there's no yanking this way or pulling that way.
01:28:10.000There's nothing that's going to affect the travel of the arrow.
01:28:58.000And that's one of the big things about it is when someone prepares for a bow hunt in particular, at least a tournament, you have multiple shots.
01:29:23.000There's a lot going on and there's so much to consider.
01:29:26.000The position, the placement of your feet, the position of your front shoulder, how you're gripping the bow, pulling back to the same consistent anchor point, looking through the peep sight correctly, make sure you center the peep sight with the sight housing on the bow, releasing with no movement whatsoever, making sure that everything is done perfectly,
01:29:43.000keeping the mind concentrating specifically on a spot.
01:29:46.000You have to look where you want to hit.
01:29:48.000You can't look in the vague area and you can't hope you're going to hit something.
01:30:35.000Yeah, and I think in this one it does.
01:30:37.000It's just an extreme thing, and it's also a thing, this archery thing, and bow hunting in particular, where a lot of people who are engaging in it, they might not have a lot of experience in performing under extreme pressure.
01:30:51.000So you don't have a lot of opportunities where you're performing under extreme pressure and then you have an incredibly intense moment where it's literally life or death to this animal.
01:31:53.000This positive affirmation or positive way of looking at it.
01:31:57.000Like, my friend Shane Dorian was here and he was talking about his friend and that his friend, right before he goes to shoot the arrow, and he said his friend's a really nice guy, his friend says, I'm gonna fucking kill you.
01:33:04.000Well, I would really like to see if this is effective or if it helps other archers, because that's one of the things of me getting involved in bow hunting.
01:33:14.000I've been exposed to this common problem that people talk about, and I'm absolutely fascinated by common problems.
01:33:21.000Problems that seem to represent a pattern of thinking that's really almost natural, but obviously should be avoided.
01:33:48.000What you do is you focus on what you want and you keep focusing on what you want and deal with things that get in your way but keep focusing on what you want.
01:34:12.000And this comes back to what we were talking about at the very beginning of this podcast.
01:34:15.000The language that you use in your own mind can be very self-defining and can sort of really not just define you but define your future and how you interact with life.
01:34:29.000And how you interact with people, how you come across and how you perceive yourself and how you project everything into what happens, you know?
01:35:23.000But when I've seen you, you know, the first, you know, I've seen you that spinning back kick, you're showing John St. Pierre, George St. Pierre.
01:36:15.000I do more, I do a thing called Four Weeks to Freedom, or I have people that sign up for a year with me as well, because it's an ongoing process.
01:36:39.000People will try to point out inconsistencies in someone's behavior as a sign that maybe that person shouldn't be the one that's being a mental coach like yourself or someone who has maybe not succeeded in everything they've ever tried.
01:36:53.000How could this person possibly be a mental coach when they're not even capable of running their own life?
01:36:58.000But no, every human being is essentially the same in that regard, is that no matter where you are, you can probably do better.
01:37:05.000And no matter who you are, you have learned along the way a lot of it by failure.
01:37:26.000There's a Schultz test where you have 1 to 25 and they're all in a square and then all the numbers are in squares as well and he has to touch them.
01:38:11.000He went back straight away, beat Gary Russell, who's a great fighter too.
01:38:14.000And because he didn't dwell on it, and because he had a mind coach saying, look, control your emotions.
01:38:18.000Me and Brian Dalbury have come to, we're talking about it, I read about it, that he was saying that his mind coach got him to not focus, to control his emotions.
01:38:26.000And that's what it's about, it's controlling your emotions, controlling you, because you are your emotions after all.
01:38:32.000And just, you know, getting through what other people wouldn't.
01:38:36.000And isn't he fighting Salido in a rematch?
01:38:38.000I think it's muted, but I've heard also that he's going to move up to lightweight and fight Manchester's Terry Flanagan for the WBO title.
01:40:05.000You know, you see a guy like Lomachenko and you see Gennady Golovkin and Kovalev, and you go, God damn, these Russians are bad motherfuckers.
01:41:05.000And so, well, I would think that that would help because just the ability to control your body, gymnastics in particular, is fantastic for that.
01:41:13.000The ability, like, Hicks and Gracie famously was into yoga and he was into this very specific type of yoga that's very gymnastics oriented.
01:41:34.000And those flowing type movements are one of the reasons why he was so good at jiu-jitsu is because his ability to control his body was like truly exceptional.
01:41:44.000He had a very unusual ability to control his body.
01:44:53.000I've seen Jim Lampley asking him questions, and I think his dad was an addict of some sort, died really early, I think he died at 46, and his mum was a former drug addict, and Jim Lampley asked him about it, and you could see him well up, and he started crying and stuff,
01:46:18.000I mean, if you're just driving, just look forward.
01:46:21.000You know, you wouldn't see anything coming from a junction or, you know, you still look in the rear view mirror, don't you?
01:46:27.000Even though you're not really going to get, you're not going to get, it's more often than not, you're not going to hit from behind unless you're stopped.
01:46:33.000You know, that's the stereotype about Asians being bad drivers.
01:46:38.000A friend of mine who's Asian tried to tell me that the reason for that is their culture, when they're in Asia, especially in China, nobody looks to the left and looks to the right.
01:46:48.000It's like traditional to look straight ahead and, you know, to mind your own business, don't be staring, don't look off to the left.
01:47:37.000And then Jeremy Lin, this kid who I know who lives in Hong Kong, he was saying that the mainland Chinese are miles different than the people from Hong Kong.
01:47:45.000You have a different sort of, you know, values and culture.
01:48:34.000Well, that's, again, going back to what we were talking about, like language defining things.
01:48:39.000It's like you're defining the fact that even though you are observing things, you're being conversational about it and you're not being, you know, you're not like the authoritarian.
01:48:51.000You're not like the authority of all information that's being passed here.
01:49:42.000And he'll say stuff that's on his mind, like swearing and...
01:49:46.000Yeah, for people to know, we're talking about my friend Michael Chevelle, who does commentary for AXS TV. He does Lion Fight, which is the premier organization in the United States, at least, for Muay Thai.
01:50:28.000When you watch a guy like Sanchai, or Yadson Klai, or all the greats, Bukau, you watch these guys fight, and the artistry, and the beautiful techniques and moves, and also the excitement, the excitement of Muay Thai.
01:53:36.000Well, because people, this is my opinion, I may be wrong, but it's like, you know, people sit there and they get the beer or whatever, and they come in and they watch the fights, and then they just say, what's that on his head?
01:53:45.000Well, you're a fan of martial arts, so you're not going to really see what they see.
01:53:48.000But I can see it from, you know, what's that got in his head for, and what's that music, why are they dancing, blah, blah, blah.
01:53:53.000The dance is odd, and also the music while they're actually fighting is a little odd.
01:53:57.000But if you watched it, you wouldn't hear it.
01:54:26.000Yeah, I'm just happy that Lion Fight exists because it seems like there's so few organizations that are showing high-level Muay Thai in the United States.
01:54:35.000I mean, if it wasn't for Mark Cuban's Access TV, it's like there's not any other options.
01:57:17.000And there's a lot of teachers that are starting to teach, like Emmanuel Stewart was doing that towards his end days, was teaching guys to fight with their strong hand forward.
01:57:26.000So he's taking right handers and having to fight southpaw.