Know Thyself

E200 - Ido Portal: The Body Knows What the Mind Can'tIdo Portal is one of the most original movement thinkers alive. He has spent decades studying the body across martial arts, acrobatics, yoga, dance, and ancient movement traditions, not to master any one of them, but to ask a deeper question: what does it actually mean to move well, and what does the body reveal when you finally start listening to it? In this conversation, we go long, covering ground that most movement conversations never reach. What We Dive Into: 1.Most of us treat the body like a car to maintain, something we service occasionally for performance or appearance. Ido's entire framework starts from the opposite premise: the body is not a tool you use, it is what you are. That shift alone changes what practice means. 2.What we attend to grows. What we neglect crumbles. Ido applies this principle everywhere, from babies in hospitals to athletes on the field. Bringing undivided attention to even one part of your body for one minute, with no music, no phone, no audience, begins a transformation most people have never experienced. 3.The most important moment in Ido's own journey was admitting he didn't have what he was looking for. Not as defeat, but as a beginning. The person who thinks they already have a connection to their body is the one most closed off to finding it. Not knowing, and staying there, is the actual practice. Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself. https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com ✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyself Try LMNT & get a free sample pack https://www.functionhealth.com/KNOWTHYSELF Code KNOWTHYSELF25 for $25 off membership ___________ 00:00 Intro 01:44 How Most People Relate to Their Body 09:22 Movement vs. Practice vs. Exercise 10:27 Life Is for Practicing, Not Just Living 20:13 Attention as the Primary Tool 23:49 Stop Practicing for Exposure 28:12 How to Begin: Removing Leakage 35:22 Diagnostic Play and the Art of Seeing 37:30 The Ancient Schools of Practice 43:33 Tensegrity and the Body's Inner Models 49:28 Proprioception, Sensing, and the Pain of Feeling 1:02:05 Tension, Connection, and What the Body Actually Needs 1:08:00 Ido's Journey: Searching for a Real Teacher 1:13:15 Why Real Teachers Refuse to Give Clean Answers 1:23:49 What Am I Before Who Am I 1:29:23 The Chariot Analogy: Body, Emotion, and Intellect 1:36:42 Feeding the Emotional Body 1:40:14 The Weber-Fechner Law and Reducing Inner Noise 1:52:29 How the Body Reveals What We Hide 2:02:15 Pursuing Weakness Over Strength 2:05:46 Discipline, Motivation, and Real Will 2:16:02 The Practice of Sitting and Choiceless Awareness 2:37:22 What Inner Work Without the Body Misses 2:41:31 The Heart as the Missing Path 2:45:55 Community Questions: Practical Tools for the Body 2:57:18 On Animals, Archetypes, and the Spirit of Movement 3:03:02 Closing Message: Become a Practice ___________ ✨MORE FROM IDO ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/portal.ido/↳https://www.idoportal.com 📜MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF ↳Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l ↳Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ ↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum ↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/ ↳https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/ 👁️MORE FROM ANDRÉ ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum ↳Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast ↳Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list/book-list

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E199 - Dr. Caroline Leaf: How to Stop Your Brain From Holding You BackDr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscientist and bestselling author who has spent over 40 years studying the relationship between the mind and the brain. At a time when neuroplasticity was still emerging as a field, she was already building clinical tools to help patients recover from brain injuries, trauma, and conditions that conventional medicine had written off as permanent. In this conversation, we go deep into a distinction that changes everything: the mind is not the brain, and once you understand that, you stop being a victim of your own biology. What We Dive Into: 1. The brain does not generate thoughts. It responds to the mind. Everything you think, feel, and choose originates in the mind and then gets coded into the brain and body. 2. Depression, anxiety, and other mental health labels are not diseases you have. They are signals pointing to an underlying thought that needs to be found and restructured. 3. You cannot change what happened, but you can change the impact it has on your present and future. Through a process of deconstructing and reconstructing toxic thought networks, the grip of the past loosens. Know Thyself, but not by yourself. A guided space to return home to yourself. https://www.knowthyselfcollective.com ✨THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: https://www.bioptimizers.com/knowthyself Use code KNOWTHYSELF to save 15% at checkout ___________ 00:00 Intro 03:11 The Difference Between Mind and Brain 07:17 Why the Brain-Is-Boss Model Gets It Wrong 12:25 Consciousness Beyond the Physical Body 14:25 Quantum Physics, Microtubules, and the Mind 21:24 Science and Spirituality Converging 23:41 Early Research: Neuroplasticity and Traumatic Brain Injury 28:50 Mind-Driven Change: Telomeres and Cellular Health 31:56 Working in South Africa: Healing Through Mental Frameworks 34:31 The Origin of the Neurocycle 40:13 The Non-Conscious, Subconscious, and Conscious Mind 49:35 How Thoughts and Memories Build Into the Brain and Body 51:59 The Five Steps of the Neurocycle 57:01 Step One: Gather Awareness 01:00:24 Step Two: Reflect 01:02:10 Steps Three to Five: Mindstorm, Recheck, Active Reach 01:09:28 Community Questions: Fear of Losing Your Identity 01:14:32 Working Through Shame, Grief, and Emotional Signals 01:15:46 Retroactive Causation: Changing the Past Through the Present 01:19:28 Intelligent Design, Choice, and the Source Behind Life 01:22:45 Mindsets, Patterns, and Teaching Children 01:25:58 Stress as Intelligence: The New Book ___________ ✨MORE FROM DR. LEAF ↳Website (for books, courses, 1:1 coaching): https://drleaf.com/ ↳Neurocycle app: https://drleaf.com/neurocycle-app ↳Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dr-leaf-show/id1334767397 ↳Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DrCarolineLeaf ↳Neurocycle Certification: https://drleaf.com/certified-strategist 📜MORE FROM KNOW THYSELF ↳Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4bZMq9l ↳Apple: https://apple.co/4iATICX ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knowthyself/ ↳TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@andreduqum ↳Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/knowthyselfbyandreduqum/ ↳https://knowthyselfpodcast.com/ 👁️MORE FROM ANDRÉ ↳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@andreduqum ↳Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/know-thyself-podcast ↳Book recs: https://www.knowthyselfpodcast.com/book-list

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