RESONANCE

Please tag @drshefali and @michaeltrainer with your take aways from the show Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Follow @michaeltrainer and @peak_mind for more Harvard article and Robert Waldinger Ted Talk: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/ Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Dave Asprey Broken Brain Link: http://click.brokenbrain.com/SHY Show brought to you by: http://www.foursigmatic.com/peak for 15% off http://www.organifi.com "peakmind" at check out for 20% off Tag us with where you are listening: @dave.asprey @michaeltrainer If you find the content valuable please leave a rating and review. We value you and this community. 4:45 Dave Asprey introduction 5:27 Biohacking - priorities - stem cell production 8:02 Adding 10 years of quality life, telomeres and stem cells 9:20 The art and science of changing the environment around you to optimize living 10:24 Moving from weight issues and burnout to more optimal health 10:50 Having a ‘wrong’ ecosystem within - the hardest choices are the personal development decisions 12:20 Value of Ketones - abate hunger and health optimization 12:50 Will power over weight loss 13:45 Bulletproof diet roadmap 15:00 Lechtins 16:04 Genetic strength - eliminating kryptonite foods - turning off inflamation 17:00 Testing - trial and error - best way to figure it out 17:28 Now more obesity and diabetes than ever 18:14 Stop spraying antibiotics - glysophate - soil is the foundation of life on the planet 19:20 Mycotoxins - moldy.com - decimating fertility 20:17 Flour, sugar, corn - dangers 23:00 Building the system around us - long term vs short term costs 23:08 “You realize that eating the best quality foods is the best investment you can make” 23:50 40 years of zen - electrodes//eeg 25:40 The stories we make up 26:00 Forgiveness - forgive everyone and everything in life that does not serve 26:50 Forgiveness is a biological act 27:17 Vishen Lakani’s book the code of the extraordinary mind 28:00 Everything bad that has ever happened to you has a good side - the gift of gratitude 32:00 Core tech to retrain the automative behaviors - reprogramming 39:15 Fear and reprogramming around food - neurofeedback benefits 41:31 Accessibility for healthy living 44:30 Quality over quantity and buying in bulk 45:48 Think and grow rich - Napoleon Hill 48:25 Giving back as key to happiness 49:00 Happiness threshold and happiness beyond money // science of service 49:53 The original Atkins Diet - and new knowledge 50:00 Don’t keep doing things that do not work 51:11 Peak States of Consciousness 52:22 Memory upgrades and the state of high performance 53:25 Vishen’s code of the extraordinary mind and A-Fest 54:30 Being “unf+ckwithable” get rid of the rules in the operating system that are no longer serving you 54:58 Developing resilience 54:29 Developing your structures to become un-f+ck-able-with 56:15 Integrity and doing the right thing beyond external circumstances 57:00 The process to getting there and the keys to state 58:14 Dave’s keys to the Peak Mind… Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Follow @MichaelTrainer and @JamieWheal and tag us #peakmind #stealingfire with your thoughts on the episode! PEAK MIND brought to you by: http://www.foursigmatic.com/PEAK for 15% off http://www.organifi.com “PEAKMIND” for 20% off 4:00 Jamie Wheal introduces flow 5:40 Being deeply connected to the present moment 6:00 What is flow state? 7:00 What are the ways everyday people can access flow? 7:15 Sleep, quality food, movement, and embodied cognition EAT, REST, MOVE, BREATHE 8:00 Virtue of oxygen in shifting stage of awareness - self-aware breathing 8:55 Control of respiration key to flow 9:11 Olympians and their tools in breathing and visualization 9:46 Wim Hoff - episode coming soon :) 10:23 Big wave surfing and flow state 11:18 Vagal nerve, and coherence affect through breath control - cascade of effects 11:49 If there was one thing you could add to your life and one thing you could take away to have the greatest effect, what would it be? 12:45 Virtue of Deep focused breathing and focused reflection/gratitude 13:25 Neuroscience of gratitude - and keeps us in the present moment 14:00 “Take the hit as a gift” 14:50 Challenge of traditional morning routine 15:50 Keep phone in airplane mode 16:11 Don’t think or say anything that you don’t want to be more true 17:20 Personal recipe for flow 17:50 Hire to cover your weak spots 18:40 What is the Flow Dojo? 20:00 How to upgrade 21:29 Flow state is accessible to all of us, mindset is the key 21:46 Difference between fixed and growth mindset 23:18 Always do the hard thing, the obstacle is the way 28:00 Training the muscle of your brain to create more space between 29:25 How to be at cause rather than at affect - watch your energy 30:00 Focus on the levers that have the greatest consequences for you 32:20 9 Trillion dollars into the church of the ecstatic - to get out of ourselves 32:25 Energy spent on state shifting activities 33:00 The agony of being 35:22 Ecstacies 38:20 Virtue of weekend to a productive week 28:30 Hedonic scheduling - how to organize your pleasure 38:50 Sex, drugs, and rock and roll - fastest route with lowest success route 39:00 Sabbath practice - schedule blow outs 39:50 What is the game? 40:00 Periods of forced abstinence 4-6 weeks off pleasure seeking behaviors 40:20 Fallow the Field 41:30 Middle structures and the “middle path” 41:46 Practice partners are essential 41:50 Many of the most liberating partnerships are based in expansive journeys - virtue of couples on the path 42:30 “There are no single presidents” 43:03 Ecstatic states give you access to the data all the way down 43:30 Paradox on ecstaies, not going too far 23:50 “Summiting is optional, getting home is mandatory” 45:00 Variety of options on bests - Jitterbug Perfume, Led Zeppelin 3 side B, 45:50 "We are not expected to finish the work, nor are we excused from it” - Talmud 46:55 Advice to self 47:30 Advice to self 15 years from now, legacy question - keep moving, keep writing 50:00 Legacy and Family Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

How to improve your brain and overall health - Broken Brain with Mark Hyman: http://click.brokenbrain.com/SHY #MINDKEY - Cold Showers for Feel good with Endorphins Increased Metabolism Improved Circulation Increased Immunity Mental determination Research: Bleakley C. M. & Davison, G. W. (2010, February). What is the biochemical and physiological rationale for using cold-water immersion in sports recovery? A systematic review. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 44(3):179-87 bjsm.bmj.com/content/44/3/179 Buijze, G. A., Sierevelt, I. N., van der Heijden, B. C. J. M., Dijkgraaf, M. G., & Frings-Dresen, M. H. W. (2016). The effect of cold showering on health and work: a randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE, 11(9), e0161749 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5025014/ Depression: Overview. (2016, March 30) cdc.gov/mentalhealth/basics/mental-illness/depression.htm Cypess, A. M., Lehman S., Williams, G., Tal, I., Rodman, D., Goldfine, A. B... & Kahn, C. R. (2009, April 9). Identification and importance of brown adipose tissue in adult humans. The New England Journal of Medicine 360(15):1509-17 nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0810780#t=article Mooventhan, A., & Nivethitha, L. (2014). Scientific evidence-based effects of hydrotherapy on various systems of the body. North American Journal of Medical Sciences, 6(5), 199–209 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049052/ Shevchuk, N. A., & Radoja, S. (2007). Possible stimulation of anti-tumor immunity using repeated cold stress: A hypothesis. Infectious Agents and Cancer, 2, 20 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2211456/ Shevchuk, N. A. (2008). Adapted cold shower as a potential treatment for depression. (2008). Medical Hypotheses, 70(5), 995–1001 sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030698770700566X Healthline: https://www.healthline.com/health/cold-shower-benefits Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Dr. Terry Wahls Broken Brian series: http://click.brokenbrain.com/SHY Foursigmatic: http://www.Foursigmatic.com/peak Organifi: http://www.Organifi.com code “peakmind” Follow @michaeltrainer and @drterrywahls and share with us what you found most valuable 7:30 Progressive MS diagnosis 8:00 Wheelchair bound and degeneration 8:50 What are mitochondria? Cellular energy that drive the fuel fo the body and brain 9:34 Shrinking brain and spinal cord, role of mitochondria 10:00 Supplement cocktail, B complex, Creatine, CoQ10 11:43 Deeper understanding of what you can do to support your mitochondria 12:17 Tracking down nutrients to where they fall in the food supply 12:43 Highly structured Paleo Diet 13:03 When I reorganized my diet.. my energy was improving, my mental clarity was improving, within 3 months I was getting out of a wheelchair… at nine months I got on my bike and I biked around the block.” 13:55 Learning to take each day as it comes, one day at a time 14:59 That is the day I came back and I was changing the way I was practicing medicine 15:34 I am going to teach you on to eat to feed your brian 16:30 Could you replicate the miracle? 17:29 Decreasing fatigue and optimizing health 19:24 Going back to the way human living a very long time ago 21:48 Eliminate wheat and dairy to reduce inflammation 22:00 Essential building blocks 22:36 What my brain cells need- get rid of sugar, inflammatory triggers 23:00 Protocal: Green leafy vegetables, sulfur rich vegetables, cabbage and onions help us clean house - and support in intra-cellular glutiathione - and make neurotransmitters that are very calming, mushrooms - helps tone down infections 25:24 Mushrooms for bio-remediation and lions maine - produce BDNF that tell the brain to repair and rebuild itself 26:00 Colored foods, and benefits of blueberries - 9 cups of vegetables, 3 cups of leafy greens, 3 cups of sulfuric vegetables - three full dinner plates through the course of the day 28:46 Organ Meat and the virtue therein 31:23 Integrate these concepts and save money at the same time 33:45 Urban agriculture 34:33 Tricks at the end of farmers market - food for a deal 36:12 Plan to eliminate food waste 37:17 Indigenous communities and their zero-waste precedent 37:33 The Wahls Protocal 37:47 Integrating seaweed - raw, cooked, and fermented vegetables 38:50 Get rid of sugar, white flour, and increase the vegetables 39:55 The more vegetables you eat the greater the decrease in most disease 40:00 3 weeks to mitigate against the cheat. 100 days no cheating. 44:50 Pesticides and chemical agents - toxicity to mitochondria and brain - multitude of toxins 46:26 Boost the detoxification pathway 49:50 Your why - teaching kids to be emotionally and economically strong // resilient 50:00 The pleasant life, the good life 53:00 Purpose as the core of health - meaning is central 54:25 Death as a great clarifier in life 54:45 Virtue of proper stress, combining it with relaxation 56:16 Centrality of movement 58:00 Centrality of sleep // sleep too much could be depression or hormonal problems 1:01 Know how to cook 1:05 You can come back using diet and lifestyle - Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Register for free Broken Brain Docuseries - the information shared is life-changing!! Tag @michaeltrainer @drmarkhyman #peakmind #brokenbrain with insights garnered on Instagram 5:00 Intro of Mark Hyman 5:26 My why - my dad - and Mark 6:42 Functional Medicine - accelerating the gap - treating the system rather than medicine by symptom, medicine by cause 7:40 Mercury poison and parasites create spiral of disfunction. Move beyond the name it blame it paradigm 9:59 The multiple causes for disease - it’s not one thing its a multitude of things that can go wrong that need to be corrected 10:30 Immune system, gut flora, and the path to total health 11:11 Our body is resilient, eat-move-stress-sleep-environment-toxic burden - most things don’t require a doctor 11:50 Functional medicine operation manual for the body 12:22 Biotransformation and detoxification 13:00 Real food - hormones, sleep, rhythm, connection, purpose, love and the healthy human 13:30 I don’t treat disease I create health 14:07 Dementia - decades before the first symptoms 15:10 Food - “Biggest single discovery is the concept is that food is information. With every bite you alter your genes, you alter your hormones” 16:00 Every bite changes your gut flora 16:30 Upgrading your biological software 17:23 Well over a billion people around the world that are pre-diabetic 18:00 Fallacy of the food pyramid 18:15 Very poor epidemiological data - creating the worst diabetes epidemic in the history of the human race 19:11 Healthy fat 19:55 Power of vested interests against your health 20:55 Statins increase amyloid - first thing I do is take them off statins 21:25 Epileptic diet - high fat ketogenic diet 21:50 MCT oil is a preferred fuel source for the mitochondria and the brain 22:30 Bad fats - trans fat 22:50 Good fats - fish oil, nuts and seeds, avocado 23:!0 Saturated fat and refined vegetable oils 23:38 Breast milk is full of saturated fat and it is good for you 24:04 Breast milk also good for microbiome 24:24 Dangers of bad oils - omega 6 oils increase depression and violence 25:30 Omega 3 vs Omega 6 25:40 Ansel Keys - saturated fat - Minnesota coronary experiment and flawed study 27:00 Evidence that saturated fat can actually be helpful 28:00 “Its not just about calories its about the information” - next time you are taking a bite think about what kind of fuel you are putting in your body 28:50 Mark Hyman’s personal protocol to optimal living, “Its about being able to show up in your life fully” 29:42 Most of us live in the construct - worry about the past, fear of the future, and we miss the moment. Part of that has to do with disordered brain chemistry. 30:00 Blood-brain barrier - leaky gut and leaky brain - sugar, stress, gluten, food allergies 30:52 No way to know of brian inflammation - except to be depressed, cognitive impairment - these are clues to what is happening 31:30 Fix the things you can to load in your favor 32:01 Do a reset! 10 day detox diet - quick window to see what you could feel like, you can change your brain and biology 33:17 Add in food and nutrient dense information 33:30 doing a 50% fat diet - and dropping things that cause weight gain 33:59 Hormone challenges make you store fat 42:29 Whereas fat reverses the effect - fat for breakfast ups your clarity 35:50 Social life is going out to eat - 3 meals a day on the road, there is a way to do it- “hunt and gather in your environment” 36:00 Nutritional wasteland 36:55 A clear roadmap of where you are going - essential planning 37:25 Brain Health - “eat real food” 38:46 The Daniel Plan - how to you use community - “getting healthy is a team sport” 39:13 Leave the food that man made, eat the food that god made 39:43 How many steps from field to fork, and less sugar and starch 40:17 We can’t tolerate the amount of starches we are eating 40:33 Our diet for millions of years, 10k agriculture, last 100 industrial “food” 41:10 Eat a lot of colorful vegetables and some fruit 41:30 Super foods 42:00 “We can use food as medicine, and if you understand food as medicine then its changes what you are doing” 42:35 Dr. Terry Wahls (episode upcoming) :) 43:55 Take away sugar (recreational drug) and starch will reduce chronic disease, and add real whole food! Register for free Broken Brain Docuseries - the information shared is life-changing! Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Jairek Robbins: Using you Ideal Day to unlock your Life Follow @jairekrobbins and @michaeltrainer Happiness and Fulfillment as true north. Visit http://www.peakmind.org for more Episode brought to you by: http:www.organifi.com code peak mind for 20% off 06:00 Ideal Day - and how to deal with life-transitions 07:18 Designing your business around your life 08:12 Death as a great context bringer 10:03 New definition of success, if you die tomorrow would you die proud? 13:00 Really assessing “how you want to feel everyday” 14:20 Habit and Rituals as foundational to building your ideal life 15:30 Beyond the surface, laying the foundation 15:50 Elements of your foundation: Health, Emotional Intelligence, Intimate Relationship 18:00 Life is about who you share it with: Intimate Relationships - who are you sharing it with? 19:30 Professional Life - where are you focusing your time? 20:00 Discipline is freedom 20:45 Building your dream or building someone else 21:00 Wealth: its not how much your make its how much you keep 23:40 Design, think through the habits you can stack? The catalysts 24:50 Decide and commit for 30 days 27:00 Be integrity, the strength of a handshake and being your word 27:45 Cutting our limiting beliefs and prove that your new narrative is real 28:36 Beyond stagnation and following through no matter what 28:52 Motivation: stacking pain and pleasure, the consequence of not taking action 30:00 Pain as a booster, stack the pleasure for long term motivation 33:00 Meaning and long term success, tackling the difficult first 33:30 Toughest challenge first 35:00 Planning your life around fulfillment 36:40 Standing in what is true for you 38:27 Daybreaker - class 1 experiences, priming your day 39:20 What experiences drag you down 40:15 30 days of clean living and the great results 41:16 You are the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time with 43:30 Look to people, where they are at their best 44:23 Choosing to be with people where they excel 45:00 Clearly defining what they want out of life and what they are bringing to life 46:00 Find communities that value your gifts - find your place of resonance - home 47:00 Being in your passion and focusing out and surround yourself with the resonance 48:00 Long term results - passion and putting in your time to get good 49:20 What would it look like if you committed and for 5 years? 50:10 The power is in the commitment 50:33 Being okay with failure as an iterative part of the journey 51:30 Giving up before you even try 53:00 Celebrating the commitment 53:30 Falling in love with life no matter what the circumstance 54:00 Loving the day when it falls apart just as much as when it comes together 54:30 Life happening for you not to you Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Navin Pillay For more visit http://www.peakmind.org For Navin: https://www.dvinstitute.com/study-workshops/ and blogsite:https://rightnessliving.com/ Episode brought to you by: htttp://www.foursigmatic.com/peak for 15% off http://www.organifi.com "peakmind" at checkout for 20% off Timecode justified to youtube, please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly1mionrXUY&t=709s 2:17 To allow yourself to be seen from the orientation of your essential nature 4:30 Life beyond the roles society sees you through 5:58 Reflected self: Identifying yourself with the role you play in society 8:40 Doing vs Being and discovering your true nature 10:50 Doing as an expression of the value one holds for oneself 12:30 Life depends on on recognizing the power of our being, where the evolution of the world evolves through you - 12:50 Yogam - the living out of your essential nature 14:30 Life reinorientation, life happening to me to me happening to life 15:00 What is the next step of me? 18:50 The true meaning of Fate - alignment with our essential nature 22:23 How to come to know that which is uniquely alive in you 24:20 Following your bliss as a door to you 25:30 Krishnamurti - As I am the world is 26:50 What is the point in me transforming? The dismissal of one’s self - “And because I dismissed me, I dismissed humanity of my flowering, many could have been blessed by it.” - Navin Pillay 29:30 The love affair of being a disciple - keeping humble to one’s fate 31:30 “If one sees that life happens only when I happen, then oh my god I am the most important thing, because I know in my importance being acknowledged, claimed and lived another importance will be claimed and birthed to.” 32:00 Life beyond preservation and survival 33:20 Escaping vs Rushing into life - the importance of full participation 34:40 All you have to do is come to know you, when you have known you, you have known all 37:00 The true “selfish” orientation 40:20 How have we been fundamentally oriented to escape oneself? 41:20 The uncompromised warrior, living their stand 41:30 “Participating with what you cannot escape of you, and that is your blessing for you, you will open to see what the next step of you, and in that humanity gets to so to, that is yogam” 42:45 To be right by something is to be in union, that which is done to someone is done to you 43:15 Turning life into your ally 42:20 The beauty of seeing someone living their truth, their gift 45:12 The power to choose to be right with what is right in your life 47:00 Participating in that which is happening as you 47:40 Turning every element of life into an opportunity, for this to participate in the next evolution of itself 49:30 Participating in your curiosity and fulfillment 51:00 Living who you are for real Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Terry Crews For more video and exclusive insights sign up: http://www.peakmind.org Subscribe to YouTube for the video release: http://www.youtube.com/michaeltrainer 0:00 Intro to Terry Crews 1:23 Lion’s Maine organic coffee, check out http://www.foursigmatic.com/Peak for 15% off 2:40 Organifi protein powder, http://www.organifi.com - peak mind at checkout for 20% off 4:33 Terry Crew’s episode begins 5:55 Coming out of an abusive household and art as a refuge 8:00 Athletics as a way out of Flint 9:20 Bet on me, being source for the family 10:23 Drawing teammates to make ends meet while in the NFL 12:50 Life after the NFL 13:12 From Alfa-male and friendships to the loss of identity 15:00 Deep depression, moving out of the pity party 16:35 Not seeing who we are, and stoping the descent 17:40 asking friends for money and moving beyond broke 19:14 Sweeping a factory floor and the magic of taking charge of your circumstance 20:22 Revisioning your low-point, beyond pride to self-responsibility 21:14 If anything needs to change it is on me, and making the hard stand in true friendship 22:20 The masculine sense of entitlement that is built in culturally 22:50 When pride prevents you from seeing things how they truly are 23:31 The lone male gong out their alone and dying in the pride of solitude 25:00 The caustic mix of religion and alcohol and the birth of shame 26:36 Pornography as an escape, and learning to have a double life to hold up the false-self 27:44 Becoming the false-self and descent into porn addiction 28:45 Wife- I don’t know you anymore, I am leaving. Facing rock-bottom 29:30 Facing you darkest secrets 29:44 Guilt and shame, and facing it by coming clean 30:10 Facing another rock bottom 31:50 Being alone with yourself, who are you really 32:12 Facing the shadow, claiming the liar, and moving beyond 32:50 Believing the lie 34:00 Changing your beliefs 34:14 That I was more valuable than my wife and kids 34:44 Facing your own shadow and confronting way relating to those you love the most 32:25 The cult of masculinity and de-programming 36:10 Growing up without a role model and a process of individuation birthing boys to men 36:44 Pimp-culture 37:00 “The Game” - keeping women off balance to manipulate and control 37:23 Bringing it back to psychology of slavery and pimp culture - and praising this toxic masculinity 38:00 The thing you believe is the things that is repeatedly discussed and shown - that is what you accept 38:42 A conscious state of questioning 39:15 The challenge of saying no to people, moving beyond people-pleaser 40:40 That is your power, the ability to say no, and yes! - the impeccability of your word 41:27 The seismic shift within 42:20 “The world can be an illusion… I found there were things that were wrong with me that I liked… and that is a very dangerous place to be” 43:55 “You are priceless already, there is nothing you have to do to get more value” - number one thing…. as a human being. 44:45 The opposite of creativity is competition 45:24 You need other people to be successful for you to be successful 46:33 “Creativity, you are the only person who can give what you got” 47:00 “You can only be creative when you know your value, when you know you are priceless” 47:20 The fallacy of being more valuable - “when you become your wins, you inevitably must become your losses, and when you becoming losses thats where the challenges come in” 48:35 The cycle of shame 49:00 When you know you are good just the way you are, then you can do anything 49:34 The true success is just doing what you want 50:14 The power of authenticity and creativity 51:00 And that is where I choose to live, on my own planet 51:20 Choosing your atmosphere 52:11 Being at affect to other people’s agendas, vs being at cause 53:00 To know I am one person 53:23 Life gets better! 54:00 When you are free from the paradigm I am not jumping back in! 55:00 “I stand for love, I stand for strength, I stand for being a real man” 56:10 “Its impossible to realize an outside, without first realizing an inside!” 56:54 Death as a moving up 57:19 The sun does not go down, we go around the sun, its an illusion… 58:00 My spirit, it ain’t going nowhere 58:47 Acknowledgement of Terry Crews Please tag @michaeltrainer and @terrycrews on social with any insights from the episode. For additional insights, inspiration, and the first release notification, sign up at http//www.peakmind.org and follow: http://www.instagram.com/michaeltrainer and http://www.instagram.com/peak_mind on instagram and http://www.Facebook.com/michaeltrainer for photographs and additional insights/inspiration. Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube&

Introduction // 0:00 Intro Begins 0:40 Maria’sTenacity 1:00 Unstoppable the Book 2:45 2 favorite products 3:00 http://foursigmatic.com/peak Epic Organic Lions Maine Coffee 15% off 4:33 http://organifi.com checkout code - PeakMind Epic organic protein powder & other great products for 20% off // 06:07 Maria Sharapova Interview Begins 07:15 Maria’s early days and entry into Tennis 09:10 Trusting your Gut and following the signs and role it played in Maria’s life 10:30 Maria’s training routine 11:15 Saying No when it matters, the trap of yes 11:50 Not toning something for today, doing it for tomorrow - long game planning 12:30 Tenacity 13:30 Mindset shifts and winning when everything seems stacked against you 13:50 Power of words and support 14:00 Putting together the little wins / segmenting 14:20 Having something to win vs. having something to loose 16:10 Evolving into a new chapter and requiring new levels of coaching 17:14 Reinventing your game + plus tenacity 17:35 Who do you need to bring on your team? 19:30 Cutting through the noise 19:48 Making tough decisions inspire of relationships 20:20 Long-game strategy 21:10 The discipline of authenticity 22:00 Respect vs/over Friendship 22:30 Gametime Prep 23:00 Ice-cream! 23:30 Good vs Great 24:00 Playing when not everything is going your way - mindset through the imperfections 24:30 Work ethic to make it look flawless 25:00 Always be improving! 25:12 The power of winning a match when nothing is working 26:00 Judge me by the number of times I’ve gotten knocked down and got back up 26:30 Re-focusing your energy through the obstacles 26:50 We have a choice in the challenge 27:11 Getting out front of the challenges 28:20 Unstoppable 29:15 The internal game of success 29:55 The satisfaction within beyond the trophy 30:00 Revising the notion of goals 31:00 Embracing uncertainty 31:30 Interview Finishes // 31:56 Share your thoughts Subscribe, Rate, and Review if you like it. Tag @michaeltrainer @MariaSharapova and let us know your thoughts and share your insights, I share out the love back into the community Pick up Maria’s book Unstoppable: https://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-My-Life-So-Far/dp/0374279799 Visit http:www.peakmind.org for exclusive free content for our community Thank you for listening!! Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Show Notes For more video and exclusive insights sign up: http://www.peakmind.org 0:10 Ways to cultivate the mind, and different forms of meditation (see episode 2) 0:58 Reason I launched Peak Mind 3:19 His Holiness the Dalai Lama comes in to set context for Meditation 4:40 Soft focus and gaze in front of you, but do not close your eyes 5:30 Focusing on the breath useful for when you are agitated, 20-30 reps 6:04 Process begins (silent) 10:10 His Holiness comes back in, discusses shamata and vipassana, and Indian origins 11:23 Pray to god with music, their mind fully focused on god, is common to all 12:11 Think more about faith // or love - love is the key message, message of love, forgiveness 12:50 Faith is the conviction to develop practice of love 13:50 As far as the fundamentals all roads lead to love, philosophies differ, but not essence 15:00 If focus on love, conflict will be reduced 15:30 Question and Answer period begins 17:00 The love of a child, the origins of love 19:00 Universal rights, unbiased love, is not oriented towards or affected others attitude 19:50 What is the Dalai Lama’s process for making a tough decision? 20:15 The melding of the head and the heart 21:14 Warm-heartedness brings determination, compassion is truthful 21:30 A lot of unhealthful activities are selfish, and cause one to hide, breaks trust 22:00 Trust is built on concern for others well being 22:45 How to face responsibility of being at the center when billions listening 23:14 Dalai Lama - each of us have the moral responsibility to think about humanity 24:24 If focus on self- leads to loneliness, see commonality 26:00 How His Holiness the Dalai Lama feels when meditating 26:30 If focus your mind it will really change your life, you can cultivate calmness of the mind 27:27 If granted one wish for humanity what would it be? 28:15 The power of dialogue 29:40 Billionaire not necessarily correlated to happiness 31:45 Existing education system is inadequate 32:00 ‘Believers’ unless carry seriously, we are lacking serious conviction about inner-value 13:30 Atlas of human emotion 34:00 Shunyata - emptiness - similar to quantum physics 35:30 Anger and Fear, the dangers within 35:50 Forgiveness helpful in calming the mind 36:30 Correlation “MIND CALM, IMMENSE BENEFIT FOR HEALTHY BODY” 37:10 More important is inner-beauty, and knowledge of system of emotion is crucial 38:50 Respect all religions and non-believers 39:40 Nalanda masters, ancient knowledge - students of that tradition - http://meridian-trust.org/about-buddhism/tibetan-buddhist-tradition/ 42:08 Ahimsa - non-violence and religious harmony 42:50 Dalai Lama cracks up in laughter 44:12 Aloe Blacc sings “Love is the Answer” Gratitude to all for listening and to all those that supported in making the event and this podcast a reality. Thank you for listening and joining the community. Please like, subscribe, and share with those who would find this information valuable. Special Thanks to Forest Whitaker for the introduction, Tim Fain and Aloe Blacc for the music, and Andrea Fennewald for her tireless support in making the vision a reality. For the video of the meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsPD-48OBac&t=676s and for more videos subscribe at http://www.youtube.com/michaeltrainer For additional insights, inspiration, and the first release notification, sign up at http//www.peakmind.org and follow: http://www.instagram.com/michaeltrainer and http://www.instagram.com/peak_mind on instagram and http://www.Facebook.com/michaeltrainer for photographs and additional insights/inspiration. Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

To get exclusive updates and video from the event with his Holiness the Dalai Lama please sign up at http://www.peakmind.org If the content was of value, please like, subscribe, and share across platforms. It is our intention to have this free valuable content benefit as many people as possible and in taking said actions you boost its relevance across these platforms. Thank you! :27 Origin story for Peak Mind 1:00 Harvard’s research on the cognitive benefits of meditation 1:55 The launch of Peak Mind Summit 2:50 What shocked me about His Holiness 7:23 His Holiness the Dalai Lama comes in // Grounding the space 8:55 Forest Whitaker comes in to lead Happy Birthday for His Holiness 10:35 Forest Whitaker introduction evokes Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Theresa 13:20 Our collective obligation for our planet, our connection to to each other 16:22 Musical tribute by Tim Fain 21:23 The beginning of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s talk 22:30 The virtue of closeness to nature 24:27 “Each day is a new birthday” 24:48 His Holiness on the very purpose of our life 25:30 The caged tiger 28:26 Intelligence/brain combined with warm-heartedness/compassion is constructive 29:45 Seeking joy through sensory level experiences 31:15 the impermanence of sensory satisfaction 32:00 Need for more attention to mental level experiences, beyond sensory experience - sensory experience can overshadow true mental level experience 33:21 Diminishing the importance of sensory dependence 34:24 Cultivating greater focus, single pointed meditation 35:50 Focused attention on consciousness itself 37:30 Part of the practice is disengaging from sensory activity 38:48 cultivating mind itself, true consciousness 39:15 The impossibility of immediate gratification 41:15 Insights into impermanence 42:20 The conviction of critical reflection 42:40 hearing, analysis, and experience is the third way of knowing (analytical meditation) 43:20 The virtue of different perspectives in analytical meditation 44:40 Negativity distorts your reality, the necessity of objective inquiry - Vipassana - insight meditation 46:00 The necessity of compassion 47:00 need for concern for 7 billion people’s well being, moving beyond color and nationality and anything that separates us 48:39 We are essentially the same human being 49:20 We depend on each other, compassion is the way to celebrate the 7 billion and nature Gratitude to all for listening and to all those that supported in making the event and this podcast a reality. Thank you for listening and joining the community. Please like, subscribe, and share with those who would find this information valuable. Special Thanks to Forest Whitaker for the introduction, Tim Fain for the music, and Andrea Fennewald for her tireless support in making the vision a reality. For more: http://www.instagram.com/michaeltrainer and http://www.instagram.com/peak_mind on instagram and http://www.Facebook.com/michaeltrainer for photographs and additional insights/inspiration. Youtube of Part 1 of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mBdiJQRw3M&t=12s Please subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/michaeltrainer for first look at all the videos from the Podcast plus bonus content Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube 

Welcome to Peak Mind, I am your host Michael Trainer. I have spent the better part of the last 23 years traveling the world to learn from the best in human optimization, the Peak Minds of the world. From traditional healers to doctors at the cutting edge of modern science, from Nobel prize winners to elite performers, my goal here is to share the insights of the world's best thought leaders. The vision is that their teachings can find a place in your tool box, to help you navigate the unique challenges and opportunities of 21st century living. Peak Mind is a new kind of platform, with the committed aim of providing you with the cutting edge tools and next level wisdom to help unlock your full potential. Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.Featured in Forbes, Inc, Good Morning America.  Follow on YouTube