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“I created Rageheart and The Growl because I want people to know that anxiety, depression and a racing, negative mind are not “mental health problems” but symptoms of a dysfunctional survival response. That is, their autonomic nervous system is stuck in fight, flight or freeze when it’s not meant to be 🤯
– John Wood, Founder of RAGEHEART and THE GROWL, professional vagabonder (currently lost in the mountains of Peru), guitar wailer, jiu jitsu-er and obedient butler to Zeus and Storm, 2 ferocious kittens 🐱
Jack Campbell
Elevated Consulting LTD
Rageheart has given me a few EASY tools to use throughout the day to get from a DEFCON 5 to a 4… or a 3… without having to meditate for an hour.
Sonam Zahrt-Tenzin
Developer
I feel much more present and aware. By aware, I mean more intimately connected to my body. I am more sensitive to feelings and physically embodied emotions and I am less overwhelmed because of it. Life is still busy and stressful. Still very tension inducing… but I find myself recognizing when I am tense more often, giving me more agency to tend to my bodies needs.
Titus Johnson
Retired
Adyashatmypants!!!! Still laughing my ASS OFF!!! I fucking LOVE THIS!!! Priceless 🤣😆😂
David Ducatenzeiler
Product Manager
What more can there be said other than it works!?! It’s absolutely brilliant that many of the techniques and practices are designed to work with your eyes wide open when you are in the trenches dealing with the stress and anxieties of modern life.
Who knew that by focusing on your body and sensation it would help me get out of my head and process accumulated tension in my body? It’s so simple and obvious, yet genius! Now I understand what people mean when they say BE YOURSELF!
Logan Hobson
Copywriter
…harder than I expected, but once I got used to it… it silenced my mind like never before.
Chel E
Writer
The Growl is great. It’s clear, crazy, raw and real. The techniques are perfect. it’s like lucid dreaming while awake. Admittedly I had to sort of binge it because I’ve been ignoring my inbox entirely.
I feel like being a writer makes it extra hard to spend enough time in my body. But after more than a decade of neglect – I’ve blown the dust off my piano. And it’s going great. Thanks for the regular reminders to gtfo of my head.
Gayla Eastman
Nurse
Rageheart Rocks! I love listening to the Rageheart podcast. John Wood is brilliant in the way he presents and teaches about nervous system healing.
John adds a level of fun creativity unsurpassed by any other podcast. Also, I was ‘dead’ and now I am ‘alive’ since joining The Rageheart Academy and signing up for The Growl. Feeling safe in my body now has changed my life in so many ways because of Rageheart! I highly recommend all of John Wood’s creativity.
Rob Allen
Consultant
If you normally roll your eyes and say “blah… blah… mindset stuff. Yeah, I get it.”, I strongly suggest you give this another look. I can report that it helps calm that inner voice down… a LOT almost instantly.
David Newman
Engineer
I’ve been doing the somatic work for quite some time, but John’s particular way of presenting the information and approaching the process resonates well with me. He just really gets it.
He provides personal examples which help to connect the work to real life scenarios, but he doesn’t impose his experience on the overall process, allowing me to use the tools provided to work through the particulars of my situation.
He is also quite attuned to minor subtleties in the process, and he doesn’t promote a one-size-fits-all approach – he emphasizes the importance of tuning in to your own felt sense and using that to determine what is most needed in the moment.
Oh Shit!
You just woke the beast 😱
* Cue scary music *
RUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!@#@!#!!!!!
Actually, wait –
Oh… the beast isn’t awake.
Not yet anyway.
It’s snoring away while you…
- meditate
- make endless lists of what you’re grateful for
- scribble in your $49 Moleskin journal
- practice Stoicism
- drink 17 cups of coffee (ALL AT THE SAME TIME SAME TIME SAME SAME TIME TIME)
- smash yourself in savage gym workouts
- run
- listen to rock music and scream while driving
- watch endless YouTube videos and
- work that super strict routine that makes you desperate to cartwheel out of a 58th floor window screaming the lyrics to Mad World
In other words…
Your beast sleeps while you apply bandaids to your mind.
Yeah –
Bandaids.
Glorified bandaids.
Helpful, sure… at least in the short term (just like aspirin, alcohol or a heroin addiction that would make Kurt Cobain proud).
But in the long-term?
HELL NO.
That’s where The Growl stomps in.
In just 5 minutes a day, you’ll ditch the usual self-help bandaids for something that attacks the root problem (nervous system dysregulation) instead of symptoms like most everything else.
That’s how you unleash the beast inside you (along with all the vitality, energy and full-blooded healthy aggression that comes with it – and the next time someone tells you to “fuck off”, you’ll simply look them calmly in the eye.. and smile 😎).
Logan Hobson
Copywriter
…harder than I expected, but once I got used to it… it silenced my mind like never before.
Supercharge Your Nervous System Instead Of Worrying About Your Thoughts
Meditation teaches you to silence your thoughts.
Gratitude lists, positive thinking and CBT are about changing negative thoughts to positive thoughts.
Journaling is about figuring out what your thoughts are.
And the “mental heath” industry assumes that mental health issues are, by definition, mental or “thought-based”.
But what if our thoughts are merely a symptom of the problem – not the problem itself?
That means that fiddling with our thoughts – whether to eradicate them, transform them or decipher them – will have about as much success as trying to mend a massive internal bleeding wound with a bandaid when what you need is 283 stitches on your liver or even laparoscopic surgery.
Instead, you need to attack the ROOT problem – nervous system dysregulation – if you’re desperate to unleash the beast inside you.
Rob Allen
Consultant
If you normally roll your eyes and say “blah… blah… mindset stuff. Yeah, I get it.”, I strongly suggest you give this another look. I can report that it helps calm that inner voice down… a LOT almost instantly.
Reactivate Your Mojo
If your nervous system is all outta whack, it’s like having a blocked or frozen pipe in your kitchen.
The energy (water) wants to flow… but it can’t.
The result?
The beast inside you falls asleep and your mojo evaporates.
In other words…
😩 Procrastination
😮💨 Negative thoughts
😕 Self-doubt
😞 Imposter syndrome
😨 Low confidence
🫠 Poor boundaries
😶 No purpose
😐 Unfulfilled
😭 Unhappy
🥵 Burn out
😬 Can’t fall asleep
🥱 Can’t stay asleep
😴 Sleeping too much
🫣 Resistance
🤢 Toxic relationships
🤮 Digestive problems
😪 No energy
😵 Blocked toilet
But scrub the pipes and “unconstipate” your nervous system and the beast inside you gradually comes back to life again.
And that means…
YOU REACTIVATE YOUR MOJO 💪
Peter A. Levine, PHD
Best-selling author
When we are unable to complete the appropriate actions, we fail to discharge the tremendous energy generated by our survival preparations. This energy becomes fixed in specific patterns of neuromuscular readiness. The person then stays in a state of acute and then chronic arousal and dysfunction in the central nervous system.
Not For The Faint Of Heart
Diving into your nervous system isn’t all sunshine, rainbows and bright, shiny unicorns.
In fact, it could be the toughest journey you’ve ever embarked on.
Why?
Because it’s literally (and scientifically) designed to stir up everything in you that’s unresolved.
Fear, doubt, anger, guilt, shame and so much more. All the stuff most people spend their entire lives avoiding. The demons within.
That’s the stuff that’s making us anxious and depressed.
So…
Keep that in mind if you continue past this point.
As the old saying goes:
Here be dragons.
Chel E
Writer
The Growl is great. It’s clear, crazy, raw and real. The techniques are perfect. it’s like lucid dreaming while awake.
Burn Your Self-Help Books. Fire Your Life Coach. Ditch The Meditation Apps.
Sign up for The Growl (a free email newsletter) and discover a powerful, new way to reduce anxiety, reverse depression and stop your racing mind dead in its tracks.
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Curious Humans
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