The Journey of a Navy SEAL: Christopher Lee Maher's Transformation
Christopher Lee Maher, a former Navy SEAL, shares his profound insights into the often-overlooked consequences of stress on physical and emotional well-being. At merely 22 years of age, Maher was a paragon of fitness, boasting an impressive 1.8% body fat, yet he was unaware of the toll that persistent stress would take on his body and mind. As he recounts his journey from high-performance athlete to grappling with debilitating pain, he elucidates the critical lesson that rest and recovery are paramount to achieving one’s aspirations, particularly in a sport demanding finesse rather than sheer willpower. Maher's experience reveals that the relentless pursuit of success, if untempered by self-care, can lead to profound physical and emotional distress. We delve into his transformative book, "Free for Life," which advocates for a holistic approach to well-being, encouraging listeners to reassess their relationship with stress and to embrace a path towards comprehensive health.
Christopher Lee Maher, at the age of 22, epitomized peak physical fitness as a Navy SEAL, boasting an impressive 1.8% body fat and ranking among the fittest individuals globally. However, unbeknownst to him, the high levels of stress inherent in his rigorous training and operational duties would eventually take a toll on his overall well-being, manifesting in both physical and mental health challenges. As he transitioned from military service to pursuing his ambition of competing in the US Olympic trials for track and field, Maher's lack of awareness regarding the detrimental effects of chronic stress became increasingly evident. Despite his unparalleled work ethic and discipline, he faced a harrowing reality of persistent pain, culminating in debilitating injuries that threatened his athletic aspirations. The journey through pain and recovery not only reshaped his understanding of physical limits but also led him to explore holistic approaches to health and wellness, culminating in his publication, 'Free for Life.' In this episode, we delve into Mayer's remarkable story, exploring the pivotal moments that shaped his philosophy on health and the importance of addressing both physical and mental strain.
Takeaways:
- At 22 years of age, Christopher Lee Maher was a Navy SEAL, epitomizing peak physical fitness.
- Despite being one of the fittest individuals, Maher was unaware of the detrimental effects of stress.
- His ambition to reach the Olympic trials in track and field was thwarted by chronic pain.
- Maher's journey illustrates the importance of understanding and managing physical and emotional stress.
- He emphasizes the necessity of rest and recovery for high-performing athletes to avoid injuries.
- Maher advocates for a holistic approach to wellness that incorporates physical intelligence and emotional well-being.
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Transcript
At the age of 22, Christopher Lee Maher was a Navy SEAL in his prime. With a sleek 1.8% body fat. Pound for pound, he was one of the fittest people on the planet.
He also completed completely unaware of the full impact that stress would eventually have on his physical, mental, energetic and emotional well being. He trained all day long at a level on par with professional athletes.
In fact, after the seals, he began focusing on his dream of making it to the US Olympic trials in track and field. A lack of awareness of the impact of high stress loads kept him from ever manifesting his dream.
Like many high performing athletes, he dealt with the pain of a semi consistent basis. Over time that escalated to pain in every, every joint in his feet, lower back and neck.
He was headed for a full blown hip replacement, resorting to reading lips because he was. His hearing was shot and his vision wasn't much better. He barely slept and spent his days like a zombie.
We're going to hear the rest of the story today from Christopher and welcome him to the podcast. Well, it's so good to have Christopher on the podcast. And how you doing today, my friend?
Christopher Lee Maher:I'm good, I'm good. Yeah. Got some sleep last night, surprisingly. You know, usually I get five hours, I wake up and I'm golden.
And I slept seven hours and I was like, oh, I'm still tired, I still need to lay down.
Dr. Keith Haney:I get that. I blame mine on old age, but, you know.
Christopher Lee Maher:Yeah.
Dr. Keith Haney:So I'm going to ask you my favorite question.
Christopher Lee Maher:What?
Dr. Keith Haney:What's the best piece of advice you ever received?
Christopher Lee Maher:Can I curse?
Dr. Keith Haney:Sure.
Christopher Lee Maher:Yeah. Wish in one hand, shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.
Dr. Keith Haney:I think my, I think my grandfather used to say that too.
Christopher Lee Maher:Yeah. So his name was Bub Akins. Right. He was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was an old army cook and he was my house parent at Milton Hershey School.
And I went up to him one day and I said, no, he was punishing me. So I had to buff the laundry room. And what would.
The way that we used to buff was used to cut off the ends of wool pants, put our shoes inside of those and our feet, and then we would move back and forth to buff the floors that he waxed.
Dr. Keith Haney:Okay.
Christopher Lee Maher:I said to him, I wish I never came to this student home. Wish I never met you. And it's. I think I was, I was in fifth grade.
And he said, well, Christopher, I tell you what, why don't you go down to the apartment, go into the bathroom, pull down your pants, shit in one hand wishing the other and tell me which one fills up faster. And I just looked at him because I was sort of like, trying to understand what he was saying. And then I got it, and then I just started laughing.
And then after that, I never complained anymore.
Dr. Keith Haney:There you go.
Christopher Lee Maher:So that stopped all my complaining.
Dr. Keith Haney:Those little gems that we never expect to impact our lives that do. So tell us about your background. I read your story, your bio. You have had an interesting journey.
But tell us about you and what inspired you to write Free for Life.
Christopher Lee Maher:I got to a place where I felt like it was time to give back. And at least if people know that there's another way, they can make a choice that's informed.
But if they don't know that there's another way, they can only continue on as everyone has been moving through the world. And I thought that the. The pathway, the journey that had been provided for me had a lot of immense value. And so I decided, okay, I think it's. It's.
,:We lost a lot of our privileges. And one of the privileges that we lost was going with your family to the airport, walking them to the gate, and watching them fly off.
Dr. Keith Haney:Right, right.
Christopher Lee Maher:Having that emotional connection. And now we've shifted to, like, Ubers and all the other companies that just sort of drop you off at the airport and buy.
And so that used to be an emotional event, and that emotional event was stripped away. So I was just looking at all the ways in which 9, 11 had impacted us negatively.
And I wanted to say, he, on this day, something good is coming into the world that's better. Then that is worse. Right?
Dr. Keith Haney:Right.
Christopher Lee Maher:Is better than that is worse. So that was my motivation.
Dr. Keith Haney:That's powerful. I know you have a background as a Navy seal, and I appreciate and thank you for your service to our country.
How did that experience as a Navy Shield, Navy seal influence your concepts in this book?
Christopher Lee Maher:I think the thing that I got from SEAL training and being in the SEAL teams is you show up no matter what. Right. If it's. If you're uncomfortable, no one cares, but if your goal is important to you, the discomfort is irrelevant.
And so I think that's the greatest philosophy that I picked up internally from going through something that was very difficult, physically challenging, emotionally challenging, energetically challenging, psychologically, and put yourself in uncomfortable positions, because the more you get comfortable with being uncomfortable, the greater success that you'll have at understanding who it is you are at your core.
Dr. Keith Haney:Makes sense. After you left the seals, what was your goal in life? What were you trying, what were you trying to achieve when you left the seals?
Christopher Lee Maher:When I left the seals, I was sort of short minded in the sense that I wanted to get to the Olympic trials and have a shot at getting to the Olympics. And I thought, man, with this work ethic that I have, with this level of discipline that I have, this is going to be easy peasy.
And it was the exact opposite. Because what I was trying to attempt to do was apply a SEAL team mindset to a sport that's about finesse, okay, and rest.
And I thought I could just show up and grind it out. And the grinding it out, meaning being comfortable with pain, was going to allow me to run past my competitors with ease.
And that didn't happen because I was going to practice every day. And every practice, every rep, every loop around the track, for me it was a race. So I was racing every day versus racing on Saturday.
And so by the time Saturday came around, there was no gas in the tank. And then I was frustrated emotionally, I was frustrated psychologically, I was frustrated energetically. And I had no idea why I was frustrated.
And so I created a limiting belief. I bought into it.
For the SEAL teams, that mindset is great, but if you want to be a high performing athlete in a finesse sport, then rest is more important than grinding things out.
Dr. Keith Haney:What moment in your, in your journey, in trying to be an Olympic athlete did that realization hit? And what, what did you do to adapt, to adapt your thinking, to deal with what you came up with from discovery of that?
Christopher Lee Maher:I mean, the, the end result of that limiting belief was a body riddled with pain, all on my left side. So I had a bunch of overuse injuries, a bunch of tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, runner's knee, iliotibial band friction syndrome.
I got compartment system syndrome in my left calf. I ended up with running, rupturing a bursa in my left hip. I end up with frozen shoulder syndrome on the left.
And I wasn't able to turn my head to the left anymore. And so we'll just say with anymore, just a limited range of motion relative to my right side.
So my right side of my body all had great ranges of motion. The left side of my body all had limited ranges of motion. And I felt it when I walked.
Just even standing was uncomfortable because my brain was in a lateralized state of function, which means one hemisphere electrically was Firing on all cylinders. And the other one was asleep.
And so I was stealing too much energy from the week before, and then I was stealing too much energy from the month before. So it might be November. I was already stealing energy from January.
Dr. Keith Haney:Wow.
Christopher Lee Maher:So if you. So if. If you look at your life as like a bank account, right? The amount of energy that you have, you only have so much.
And so when your goals are fixed and your ideas are fixed, and even though your ideas are being challenged, you're ignoring all of the signs that they're giving you to create a new idea, then your limiting beliefs will eventually cause you to miss the boat. And I gained something from that instead. What I gained was an opportunity to put my body back together, because none of it really made sense to me.
Like, how can you go to bed on Monday and you wake up on Tuesday, and now your body hurts?
Dr. Keith Haney:Right.
Christopher Lee Maher:That doesn't make any sense. Right. So I knew philosophically, Right. I was able to analyze and go, hmm, this doesn't. How's that? Hold on.
I went to bed on Monday, felt great, woke up on Tuesday, and I feel terrible. What happened in those eight hours?
Dr. Keith Haney:Right, right.
Christopher Lee Maher:And I thought to myself, well, if I felt good before, I can feel good again, so there must be a way to do it.
Dr. Keith Haney:Right?
Christopher Lee Maher:Right.
Dr. Keith Haney:So you just train harder than. Right.
Christopher Lee Maher:Yeah, that's. Well, that's what I did. I decided to train harder.
And what's funny is, you know, we're laughing at it, but you train harder, and then the injury just moves from one place to another.
Dr. Keith Haney:Right.
Christopher Lee Maher:So my foot stopped hurting, and then the out. And then my knee started hurting, and then my knees stopped hurting, and then my iliotibial band started hurting, and that stopped hurting.
And then my calf started hurting. Right. And I just continued to push the injury up the body. Yeah.
Dr. Keith Haney:So you were basically the national debt on your body is what you did.
Christopher Lee Maher:Yes, I was the national debt on my body. I was a trillion watts in debt. And I was.
You know, to be honest with you, when I was in my situation, the level of holistic care on the planet, it didn't exist. Right. There was. I mean, look, if I'm being real, there was just a bunch of bums out there, right? And. And they knew a little something.
But in the last 25 years, holistic care has gone through the roof. Right.
You've got, you know, brilliant minds and open hearts that have decided, yeah, I'm gonna pull away from allopathic medicine, I'm gonna pull away from engineering, and I'm Gonna put this analysis that I have, and I'm gonna put it on my body, I'm gonna put it on my soul. I'm gonna put it on my spirit. I'm gonna put on my energy, I'm gonna put it on my consciousness.
And so now if you were an athlete and you end up with something like I had, you know, there's a hundred different places to get reputable help, right? Reputable assistance, right? You'll sit down in an office and someone will ask you, why are you doing this to yourself?
Why are you putting yourself in so much pain? And nobody questioned me. And I think the challenge was, is that when you go through SEAL training, at some point your body's going to be in pain.
But the instructor cadre, they don't care. Like, they went through SEAL training, they were in pain. It sucked for them.
So you're not going to go up there and be like, ah, Instructor Johnson, my shoulder hurts. He's just gonna start laughing at you. And. But, like, it really hurts. So. But it really hurts. I don't give a. Get out of my face. So. So. So you're not.
So, so. You know, things aren't cuddly. You know, they're. They're unforgiving, and they need to be. You know why? Because you're being trained to be a warrior.
You're being trained that if you get shot, you better pick up your gun and you better point it down range and you better get that guy right. If one of your teammates gets shot, you better throw him over the back.
I don't care how much he weighs, and you better drag him into the bush for cover. So I was being trained for that, and I thought I could take that training and apply it to these other things, and you just can't. You can't. It's.
It's too much too often.
Dr. Keith Haney:Right.
Christopher Lee Maher:You know what I discovered which is really relevant for society is, is that a formula? You know, part of the formula is, is lifetime accumulated stress loads and daily accumulated stress loads.
And you can only recover from your daily accumulated stress load if you have an efficient amount of sleep and rest. And if you don't have an efficient amount of sleep and rest.
Now you're taking Tuesday stress and tension and strain, and you're taking it into Wednesday, and it's just a little more. And then you're taking all that into Thursday, and it's just a little more, and you're taking all that into Friday. And so let's just.
Let's pull off the Navy SEAL Bit and go to somebody who works in a factory or go to someone who's a professor, right? It's ended a season. I mean, it's ended a school year. You know, they got all the papers to correct. They have. They have all the.
I mean, they have all the tests to correct. They have all the papers to review. And it teach five classes, and it's at Penn State University, where there's 75 kids per class, right?
And so you just look at that and you go, okay, the way that life is set up, the way that we've organized it as. As a race, as a culture, as. As a community, as a family, as individuals, is as Americans, we don't. We have one speed hardcore all day long.
I'm gonna get there. Because Americans are peasants. Like, if you look back, even if we look at African Americans, they were sold into slavery by Africans, right?
Dr. Keith Haney:Right.
Christopher Lee Maher:And so. And then you look at the Irish and you look at the Jewish, and, you know, you just look at all these different races.
You look at the Polish that are here and the Italians, they. Where they came from, they were peasants. They didn't have a pot to piss in.
And so they're on the grind because every one of them wants to be the king, right? And so they want to be the king of their own castle.
They don't want anyone to tell them what to do or how to do it, because for thousands of years they were suppressed and they were oppressed by people who were tyrannical, and they took advantage of their goodness for their own benefit. And so when they came to the States, they were like, look, we're going to do whatever we can in order to move ahead.
But we have already moved ahead, but we still have the same mindsets. And so what we need is, we need to get our mindset checked. And our bodies are the way is.
Is the tool that checks us that goes, hey, I don't know if you're thinking about this the right way. And you're going, really? Yeah. You've been constipated for four days now, right?
So there must be something going on in the way that you're living, right? In the way that you're being the way that you're thinking, the way that you're perceiving in a way that you're emoting, that isn't working for you.
But we just keep on moving ahead anyway because we don't have time to slow down because there's so much pressure.
And if you look at inflation and everything that's going on Financially, economically, it's difficult to get take your foot off the gas, because if you do, you might not be able to pay your rent, you might not be able to feed your children. So you have to stay locked in at all times in a hypervigilant state, or you might get left behind.
Dr. Keith Haney:So let's talk about your true body intelligence system. Tell us how that differs from regular wellness programs. Because what you're kind of leading us into is we have to change how we think.
We have to change how we take care of ourselves. So how do we do that?
Christopher Lee Maher:How do we do that? You know, it's a simple answer, right?
If you've got stress and strain on the left, and you've got distortion on the right, and in the middle sits complex tension, okay, well, if you remove the complex tension, then guess what happens on the left, the stress and the strain, they reduce. On the right, what happens? The distortion psychologically, emotionally, energetically, and structurally that also reduces.
So what's, what's the simple solution? Spend a sufficient amount of time, which is like 10 to 15 minutes a day, okay.
Removing the stress and strain that turned into physical tension from the day before in your body. Turn that into comfort and flexibility and strength.
And if you do that 10 to 15 minutes a day, at the end of 30 days, you will have already removed decades of stress and strain out of your body.
And if you do that, your mind is going to get quiet, your body's going to get comfortable, your emotions are going to be grounded instead of anxious, and your energy is going to be abundant instead of deficient. And so what's, you know, what's the perfect life?
Well, if I want to achieve my dreams and I want to have the experiences that I crave as a soul, meaning the connection that I want with my loved ones and my family and my peers, my co workers, well, what do I need in order to maximize that potential? I need an abundant amount of energy. I need a clear mind. I need an open heart. I need a comfortable, strong body.
And I need an effervescent spirit and a mind that is vivacious. Meaning has. Has levity, can make light of any situation. If I have those things, man, the sky is the limit.
And I get to have the experiences that I crave because I can manipulate my environment to produce the results that I want. But if my energy is deficient, what's going to happen? I'm just not going to do the things that I need to, to take care of myself. Right?
Dr. Keith Haney:Right.
Christopher Lee Maher:If my mind is unclear, I'm going To make poor decisions. If my body's uncomfortable and. And strained and weak, what am I going to do? Am I going to be able to achieve the things that I want?
No, because my discomfort is going to have my int of my love, having my attention.
And then if I don't have enough of that spirit, meaning if I don't feel connected to a greater cause, to a greater purpose than just myself, what's going to happen? I'm not going to have the inspiration that I need in order to get out of bed, put my feet on the ground, and do the right things.
I'm going to do the wrong things. Because when people feel bad, they do bad. And what I mean is they harm themselves and they harm others with the actions that they take.
And an action of harm is as simple as getting up in the morning and pounding three cups of coffee, right? You wake up, your eyes are bloodshot, you're super tired, you've slammed the alarm five times.
And now your choice, rather than go for like a brisk walk for 10 minutes, your choice is to pound three cups of coffee and a bunch of sugar to get out the door. Then you're harming yourself, right? And this is what people do when they're under great stress and great strain.
So to answer your question and come back around to what you said is spend 10 to 15 minutes a day reducing your daily accumulated stress and your lifetime accumulated stress loads by reducing physical tension.
Dr. Keith Haney:I love that you didn't learn that in the Navy seal. So where did you. How did you discover how you do that?
Because what you described before and the way we as Americans live is we kind of are living our life as Navy seals. We are pushing and pushing and pushing because we're preparing for the war that's coming. And we're not ever taking the time to stop and assess.
How can I reduce the load on my life, on my body, on my spirit? By tapping into the relief I need and the stress that I'm dealing with.
Christopher Lee Maher:Yeah, yeah, we just put it off to the side, right? Just keep moving ahead.
And, you know, so what's interesting is that for Americans, our greatest gift, which is hope and ambition and discipline, has become our greatest curse. Because now we're the. If you go to the list of all the countries in the world, we're the sickest, right? Greatest amount of wealth, right?
We wanted to be kings. We wanted to have money. We wanted to have positional leverage. We have all those things. But now what do we have?
We have the greatest amount of sickness. We have the Greatest. We had the least amount of mental health, right? Mental wellness. Ours is the lowest of any country in the world. Okay.
Our physiological health is the worst of any country in the world.
And so, yeah, we have the money, we have the resources, but we don't have the minds or the emotions and the bodies to enjoy the benefits of the things that we've achieved. And so if you look at the spiritual sickness in the United States, I was.
I had a friend who had gotten into some trouble, and I decided to do some research for him, and I found that, you know, the.
The pornographic industry in the United States, the amount of money that they make is greater the amount of money that the NFL and the NBA makes combined.
Dr. Keith Haney:Wow.
Christopher Lee Maher:So. So. So there's a level of spiritual sickness that's going on our country. So emotionally, mentally, we're sick.
Physiologically and structurally, we're sick. And spiritually, we're sick.
And it's all because of the things that occurred thousands of years ago that have been passed on to us through the epigenetics and the genetics that go, hey, don't value yourself. Value the image that you've been creating in your mind.
And I look at peasants, I imagine what it was like to be a peasant, and you see the king coming by and. And the queen, and they're carrying them and some sort of apparatus or they're on their horses and their shiny helmets, and.
And you're looking at that and you're thinking, wow, how. How come I can't have that? And so there's just been some level of resentment underneath, but not really understanding the cost.
So we want something like we. We want that beautiful thing at the end of the rainbow, but we don't know that there's an enormous cost to.
Dr. Keith Haney:Have that thing, right?
Christopher Lee Maher:Because the most important thing in my mind, in my body, my energy, my emotions, my experience is to have a direct connection to the source that created you and to have a life filled with loving kindness and generosity of spirit.
And if I can have those things, and I'm sharing those every day, the world around me is a better place because as I lift up and I rise up, I bring up those around me, right? As I elevate my energies, I elevate my consciousness.
And my feeling is consciousness will be the new gold in the future, because people are going to get to the place of going, hmm, yeah. No, there must be a better way. I have to have a different driver in life. And the driver for me has got to be your own intelligence, right?
Your physical intelligence, your Mental intelligence, your spiritual intelligence, your emotional intelligence. And if I can write, if I can raise those up in myself, then all rivers rise to my location. Right?
Dr. Keith Haney:Right.
Christopher Lee Maher:All energy around me in my sphere of influence, it, it comes up to meet me. So I have to have a driver that's greater than me.
Dr. Keith Haney:So when people pick up your book, how can readers apply the principles of free for life in their daily lives?
Christopher Lee Maher:Well, that's interesting, isn't it? How can they do that? I think the biggest step and the first thing that they can do is they can ask themselves.
They can pull up a chair to a mirror, look in a mirror, eye to eye level, level, and ask themselves a very simple question. Who am I? Why am I here? What do I need to change in order to become who I'm meant to be and get in a deep soulful connection with yourself?
I mean, there is the old adage that the eyes are the windows to the soul.
And if this is the case, then there's great benefit in looking into your own eyes and questioning yourself and communicating with your soul so that you can get back what it is you really want from this life experience and then to find the courage you need in order to make those shifts and those changes. Because life is really meant to be simple. What do we need?
We need a little bit of food, we need a little bit of beverage, we need a fair amount of sleep. And we need a purpose that's greater than ourselves.
Dr. Keith Haney:Right?
Christopher Lee Maher:Right. And, and if, and, and if you have a community that cares. Right. You know that that's, that's, that's a bonus.
If you got a community that cares and you got a purpose that's greater beyond yourself, and you got a body that's healthy and emotions that are grounded and energy that's abundant and a mind that's clear, then you got a great life. You don't have a good life, you have a great life.
And if somewhere in there you can realize that, oh, there's something greater than me that's created all of this for me to experience and I'm in a co creative experience with this essence, then guess what? Now it's, it's better than a bonus. It's, it's, it's like a quadruple bonus. And now I feel good.
And when I feel good, I do good because I feel connected.
Dr. Keith Haney:So you've laid out for us this wonderful pathway in this book that you have free for life. What future books do you have in mind or projects related to true body intelligence?
Christopher Lee Maher:Yeah, I think one of the projects for me is getting into a filming studio and building out some programs so that other people can order them off the net and they can do the things that I'm doing to make myself feel good every single day and make those available and affordable for all humans. So that if you have the ambition and you have the drive and you care about yourself intensely, you have a way of showing yourself care.
Because people say, oh, well, how do I love myself? Well, you love yourself by taking inspired action to your own benefit. Well, what's an inspired action to my own benefit?
Stepping away from the daily acceptable drugs that I've been addicted to, whether it's nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, marijuana, refined sugar, brown sugar, pharmaceuticals, or recreational drugs, stepping away from those and then removing tension and stress and distortion from my body that's built up over the last 30 years, the last 25 years, the last 55 years, the last 65 years, and getting into a cohesive relationship with my mind, body and spirit.
Dr. Keith Haney:That's great. I love to ask my guests this question. What do you want your legacy to be?
Christopher Lee Maher:I want my legacy to be simplicity.
You know, when things get complex and we get used to complexity, we need more complexity in order to feel like we're alive, that life is worth living. And I hearken back to Arkham Razor's principle.
And in that principle it states that the answer that is the most true often is the one that is the most simple. And so live a simple life, right? Get out into nature, walk a little bit, be loving and kind. Work, but never work more than you play.
Find something that you love outside of work. Get into some kind of music or poetry, some kind of art, whatever it is, whether it's drawing or music or singing.
Like, do something creative every day for at least five or 10 minutes or a couple times a week. And be honest with yourself about your own limitations.
And invite people into your story that can that tell you the things you don't like to hear and to remind you that you that you matter. And then get up every day and hit, repeat and do that again.
Put a little time into your body, put a little time into your energy, put a little time into your mind and share all the gifts that you have generously with those you come into contact with.
And every time you judge someone, realize that you're judging yourself because you're saying that if I look like that, if I sounded like that, if I behave like that, I would be unworthy of love.
Dr. Keith Haney:Right? Where can listeners find your book Free for Life and connect with you on.
Christopher Lee Maher:Social media, they can go to true bodyintelligence.com and they can start to get some information and understand the book is there. There's an audio, two audio versions of the book. You get the paperback there.
And social media, they can punch in my name, Christopher Lee Maher, and go to Instagram and TikTok and Facebook and all the usual platforms.
Dr. Keith Haney:As we wrap up, Christopher, can you kind of summarize our discussion with some key takeaways for our audience who are listening to us today?
Christopher Lee Maher:Yeah. Yeah. Let me think about what I feel is important. It's the key takeaway.
Wherever you have pain in your life, that pain is directing you towards a place where you have an inner deficiency. You have an inner. You have an insecurity, you have a limiting belief, or you have a fear and summon the courage to address that directly.
Let someone in to your secrets, because your secrets create secretions that cause you to defeating behavior. And so be honest with yourself about your pain, about your discomfort. If your brain is foggy, find somebody who can help you get a clear mind.
If your body's uncomfortable, find somebody who can help you get your body comfortable. If your body's weak, find somebody can help you get your body strong.
If you're anxious, if your emotions are anxious, find somebody who can help you reduce your anxiety. And if your spirit is deficient or disconnected, find somebody who can help you feel more connected and more directed towards source consciousness.
Dr. Keith Haney:That's good. Well, Christopher, thanks so much for taking the time to kind of make us take a step back and think about our life, even the pace of life.
I think that was a revelation for me, thinking about the fact that we're living our life like Navy seals. And while I've always admired the seals, I never intended to live my life like one. So I think that was a revelation for me.
Christopher Lee Maher:Great. Yeah, it's, you know, it's important you get one shot at this, and love is the most important thing. In the beginning, all there was was love.
In the end, love is all that matters.
Dr. Keith Haney:Yeah. Well, blessings on your book and in the work you're doing and keep moving forward.
Get that studio going so you can get more content out there in the hands and eyeballs of more people.
Christopher Lee Maher:Yeah, that's the plan. Let's make that happen this year.
Dr. Keith Haney:Let's make that happen. Thanks so much, Chris.
Christopher Lee Maher:Thank you.
