Michael Trainer: Preserving Humanity Through Ancient Practices

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We are a species that–whether we want to face it or not–is on it’s way to becoming extinct and this earth will carry on with or without us. So the great question Michael and I explore in this conversation is how can we pull ourselves back from all the noise so that we are able to hear the signal? Michael believes the answer to this question is shifting the way we live by reverting back to ancient ways, techniques, and worldly views. What does that mean? Download now to find out more.

Michael is a social entrepreneur focused on building movements for social impact. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied community-building strategies in Sri Lanka, where he lived and researched for two years. As a member of the Board of Directors of Sarvodaya USA Michael worked intimately with Sri Lanka's largest social movement and NGO, Sarvodaya, serving 11 million people across 15,000 villages. Since that time he has traveled and worked to build global movements.

What we discuss:

The collective vs. Individual way of living: 6:00

Shifting the way we live to preserve humanity: 20:00

Michaels shamanic experience: 34:00

Using psychedelics 37:00

RIghts of passage: 42:00

Find more from Michael:

Instagram: @michaeltrainer

Podcast: Peak Mind

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together
0:05.2	world's leading exports. Exports. They are not goods. They are human beings.
0:10.4	World's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you
0:14.4	optimizing your mind and your body and your movement and this conversation was with
0:20.6	my dear friend Michael trainer Michael is a pretty brilliant human being
0:25.8	he has much experience in the shamanic worlds and the various different healing
0:31.4	practices around the world.
0:33.4	He is the co-founder of Global Citizen, which is a foundation and event, musical event, fundraising event, which who knows when the heck, one of those will happen again,
0:47.3	that brings together millions of people and millions of dollars and all sorts of a-list celebrities, the Jay-Zs and Beyonces of a list celebrities the JZs and Beyonces the world come together to help
0:56.4	support Earth and the people amongst it. So really valuable conversation we get into many of the indigenous practices that
1:05.6	Michael has stumbled across over the years a lot of mind-body stuff really fabulous
1:11.4	conversation and you guys will absolutely devour it the quote that
1:16.5	I have for the day this comes from a book that I was reading called I think it's
1:21.3	called how to think like a Roman Emperor, I'm pretty sure.
1:23.8	And I have a few that I wrote down actually that I find relevant, especially presently.
1:29.2	First one that I found to be pretty fantastic. It goes like this. He who knows how to suffer suffers less. We
1:39.1	will typically multiply our suffering by adding layers of fear and worry. So learning how to
1:45.3	effectively suffer is one of those things that you can't really read about you
1:51.4	just need to do hard things with regularity. So you start to build up
1:56.4	some degree of stress inoculation. Be a fancy way of saying exposure therapy, which is another fancy way of saying of doing hard
2:05.4	crap and being able to essentially work out your attitude on the way that hard
2:11.4	crap makes you feel.
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