Are you curious about the nervous system approach to health and healing?
Want to know more about the benefits before you commit or invest?
Got a little healthy skepticism but also open to a different approach to your problems?
This is for you.
I asked members of The Rageheart Academy about their experience inside the academy.
These answers come from Jon, one of the first members inside the academy, and a gifted communicator and storyteller to boot.
First, Jon shares 8 benefits of nervous system healing.
Then he talks about who he thinks would benefit from this powerful, new approach to dealing with your shit.
Enjoy!
What is the primary benefit that you have received from Rageheart?
Feeling better, more grounded, and in control.
Not letting stress, anxiety, or challenging emotions run my experience.
Getting back to myself and feeling “good”.
Not stuck as often feeling shitty.
Putting into practice identifying how I feel, experiencing the feeling, working with the feeling, and ultimately state change.
Becoming familiar – and ok with – my emotions.
Releasing pent up – or current – frustration, stress, anxiety, etc.
Badass tools to mobilize energy and emotions.
Jon M
What type of person do you think would benefit most from Rageheart?
Everyone can benefit from the work, but I think this appeals to people who have tried “all the things” to feel “better” and keep hitting dead ends and running into walls.
I’ve known about the nervous system, regulation, polyvagal theory, somatics, etc. for years.
And I’ve known about how important and foundational these topics are.
But I couldn’t get myself to do more than scratch the surface of these topics.
I thought I had my own path to healing covered by biohacking, meditation, journaling, taking my supplements, being “healthy” and dialed in AF.
I thought I was addressing things at the root cause.
The root?
I was convinced that I was suffering from some mystery illness that my doctors were failing to catch and observe via exams, labs, and extensive testing.
Depending on the flavor of the week, I thought I battling lyme, or CFS, or EBV, or a generational curse that some witch had put on my Polish great-grandmother for continuously stinking up the neighborhood with never-ending batches of stinky sauerkraut.
Each new self-diagnosis brought with it a new supplement, going to a different doctor or energy worker, trying different diets, buying a new tool (e.g. – somehow I managed to stuff an infrared sauna in my tiny NYC apartment).
Truthfully, none of these tools/practices/diets/etc. made a meaningful impact on my life and I kept on hitting wall after wall, wondering when I’d finally feel good and stop feeling shitty and malaise.
I never considered that I was simply shutdown and dysregulated, and all these interventions were bandaids on bullet wounds.
Enter your email a few years ago to your copywriting list about the downsides of meditation and other practices people lean on to heal, ground, feel better, bypass lol. It made me stop and think about all these practices and routines I had, and whether they actually made a difference.
And whether I was engaged in bypassing my experience.
Whether I was actually getting to the root or chasing phantoms.
Flash forward to when you launched Rageheart – at this point I came to the realization (between my partner, other people I followed – e.g. Mastin Kipp, Gabor Mate, etc. – and your emails) that I needed to learn about my nervous system and how to regulate.
Something about you and the Rageheart brand made it feel the topic more palatable and approachable than some of the other people I followed.
I think the masculine and primal energy attracted me (I mean this in a good way because I have a balanced masculine/feminine energy and don’t vibe with over-the-top bravado and chest-thumping).
Anyway, once I got into the content and started applying the practices, I started to feel glimmers of how I wanted to feel:
A loosening of a tight band from around my chest.
More ease.
Less tension.
More flow.
Less withdrawn and malaise.
But truth be told – for as good as those moments felt when I applied the practices – I’ve been shitty about being consistent and applying the practices.
I’d like to chalk it up to a super inconsistent schedule and constantly changing my environment as I’ve been traveling.
Now that my travels are winding down, I’m considering starting the program over from scratch to rebuild my foundation.
Rageheart has been a good entry point from theory to practice.
I’ve been slow to get through it and can do much better about being consistent, proactive, and applying in the moment.
Jon M