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Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

Reprogramming the Body for Mental Clarity

From What Trauma and Emotional Suppression Are Doing to Your BrainJun 1, 2026

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Welcome to Quick Brain, Bite size brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. I'm your coach, Jim Quick Free Let's imagine if we could access one hundred percent capacitity. That wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. I not kun fu Children Welcome back to the Quick Brain podcast. I am your host and your brain coach, Jim Quick. I am joined today by my co founder, our CEO, Alexis Bank, which many of you are a big fans of followers of also as well. We're going to talk about we're actually in Antigo. So this is We were having a conversation that we just wanted to get on video because this is This is brain changing. This is life changing. She and I just had an experience here the human Garage team, and we're going to share some thoughts on how to release to Rise And we're going how to be able to unlock your brain through your body And so we're joined here by Gary Linham, co founder of Human Garage. Thanks for joining us What an experience So part of the brain and the body's experience is energy and how it flows between us.. So I'd like to sync us up so that we're in the same bubble I would love it love. Yeah. whyy don't you to take you across your right ankle over top your left and anybody can do this at home Everyone's doing this at home. Yeah. And if you' watch this on YouTube Deinite definitely life visual. Yeah. right hand underneath left armpit and left hand on top. And anybody in the audience can do this if you want Yeah, so we have a live audience here, live audience So your head to left. and your body to the right And what we're gonna do is we're gonna take six breaths in sync together. I'll count them out three through the mouth and three through the nose. Breathe into your mouth Exhale two Exhale Three. Exhale through your nose three times Exhale to Exhale Gree Exhale Now I could see the look on your face already It creates a weird little bubble, like we're in this bubble and we're closer to each other But the people seem farther away interesterest. That's a frequency That is interesting. I'm still trying to recalibrate from our last session because that was unexpected. So what was unexpected about it Just the amount of emotions flew out of me. in that instant moment. I was not Yeah. it was instant I'm trying to process, but it's powerful. So emotions live in the body. And when we touch the body, think of the body like a fluid adaptive biological computing system L like an od So it has a display screen which I can read, I can see what your body, your computer is saying, and I can touch it and enter things. and that's a lot of our stuff is touching, reprogramming the body. And there's a lot of things around this, but you for particularly were holding a lot of self judgment. and that self judgment was based around your feelings and your emotions. And so as soon as I touched that button, it was like a flood of emotions came And that's where emotions come from. they come from the body and our brain observes us and tells them about the them And it's interesting in the memory train we do, we talk about remembering things in our brain or hippocampus, but a lot of those memories are stored in our body Think about it this way Think of of the body being a computer and the brain being a processor. Like'PU. CPU.. And it runs programs. So it brings up into RAM memory, runs a program. Think about the word remember And think about the opposite of that, which is dis member So in the body, we use dismember to take the body apart in pieces. When we remember, we take the pieces that are stored in the body and the brain reassembles it for a running program. That's why sometimes we can get a piece and we can't That's why you do brain training and that's why you do hand movements or you walk when you want to remember things. Because the memory itself, the way I feel it is stored in the body, but more specifically the fascia because the fascia has its own brain. So for people listening who aren't familiar with fascia, when we start there, what is it and why is it important? Okay, so you can look at it a couple ways. We typically have been taught it's a tissue, it's an organic tissue which holds everything together. We used to think of it as a wrapping around muscles and organs, but we know it's more than that actually the structure of the body And but we now know it has an interstitium. It's got a brain. and that brain is super highly intelligent It's more intelligent, has more processing power than the physical brain. So it's part out their sensing phase. Like for example, when somebody walks into a room and you feel that they're angry What part of your brain told you that somethingomet had to feel it and then your brain told you that you had the feeling So that your body is the instrument of feeling. So you have five senses that are attached to the brain siteest touch tastearing smell The other tent, clairaudience, clairvoyance, those gut instincts, those feelings, they come to us through the body and ourrain interprets that We all have them, but we just don't use them at all. Like you always say, we don't it's it's a it's a It's a training issue, so we're not trained to use it So We see the fascia is the conduit. It's made of water our body and it's made of silica, basically sand and water and bacteria And That's actually a lot like a quartz crystal. So we say that the fascia is like this crystalline structure that's sending and receiving signals And they and Another thing that people don't think about is Calcium is a metal. You. So your bones are highly metallic actually And and so that The bones are metallic They're sending and receiving things all the time and the fashcia is a conduit like in your cell phone You have a metal antenna that wraps anding goles like that is flattened then there's a crystal on top that projects that signal Wow, is't That's fascinating. I say it's fascinating. Fashin Fascinating. You already hear that. That would make a great t shirt. So tell us about the human garage. what is it in relation to what's the mission and how are you going to go about We see a world where a billion people are taking care of their bodies's self care. And we're the largest self care movement on the planet today. We do a billion views, well, right now, currently every eighty days So we're touching a billion people every eighty days, but we're getting them to encourage them to do something for self care And just like you, it's a billion brains. Well We have a billion bodies. and we're going to hit those billion bodies actually mechanically doing something in the next two years at the rate we're going. So what we do is train people how to take care of themselves Traditionally, healthcare was thought of as something at a hospital or a doctor or something that happens Now we're moving into biile haacking where I can kind of figure it out myself. Well, there's a step which goes beyond that, which is how do I care for my own body? And that's emotional, physical perceptual because biohacking will take care of the physicality, but I still have to have an emotional response. like like Alexis you just went through emotional response. So it's a holistic carrying of the body And we're teaching people how to access that wholeist day caring. And ninety five percent of what we do is free. It's accessible to everybody anywhere at any time. I like it because there's agency. R? You're empowering an individual showing them what to do and how to do it so they could do it themselves or're not dependent on and something outside of themselves. So that was my origin story because I spent two and a half million dollars and three hundred practitioners trying to fix myself And it didn't work, so I became a practitioner. I ended up fixing myself five days a week So I had to do it for a business. I'm an entrepreneur And then the foundation, even when I had my clinic in Venice Beach, California, my wife and I started that. And that clinic, I had care all the time. I was doing really good, but when I left during the pandemic I'm no longer good again. And that feeling, even when I would go home sometimes at the end of the day and I'd have something go off and my neck was out or something and I'd feel helpless I didn't want to have to rely upon somebody else to help me feel good And it made me angry And it made me sad And what I wanted to do is I wanted to be self sufficient. And that's what this movement is about It's like giving a person a fish, you feed them for the day, teach them how to fish. We have the same thing with ours. we tell people give someone an idea, you enrich their life, teach someone how to learn, they can enrich their own lives. R. So they could be the hero that they've been waiting for believe like mean, I think we all believe that we everyone, we all have the capacity to learn, heal, grow. everythingthing is within us. We just have to open up the channels with the mind, body, is that alignment that You know, you were talking about before we started filming, I would love for you to share more about that because it's How much the brain is holding when the body is not aligned, when bodyvous your nervous system is not locked up. how much energy your brain spends That's blocking other creativity and energy that can go to. So let me give you like some really good examples When we're young and we're babies, we don't know how to move, we don know how to make things work. L babies can sign language before they can speak And because they don't have the vocal cords aren't quite developed, they haven't patterned it yet. And these patterns that we learn to do things, like one of the toughest ones actually is to drink is to grab a glass pick it up and turn it in because it takes years and years to do it right. at first they get the little handles and they like this and they get stuff all over them Well, it takes years to pattern that action because the humuculus and cerebellum, Cerebellum is elegant motion. Huculus is like that strength, that mechanics. And you have to learn how far is that glass, how hard do you squeeze it? Be at first, it's like squeeze box. Then you're got to bring it up and then not only do you bring it to your mouth, you actually have to tilt back your head, adjusting your balance at the same time to get elegant drinking. Now, once you do it, your body goes through all the steps and you literally talk yourself through it like I reach my hand out, grab not too hard, lift it up, bring it closeer mouth. Those are all programming statements. And eventually once we get an activity that we're going to do that's fundamental to our life they become a synaptic optimized program in the brain. So that program is there. Now, it's all great that it's sitting there like this and some people, like for me You think drinking is easy. I still get water on me every time I drink So somehow I screwed up that program as a kid And And what happens is this synaptic optimized program will if I hurt my arm and I can't lift it like this, then I have to Hold my shoulder and protect it and lift like this and go like this Now that is that The brain has to do a lot of work around that program because once that program synaptic optimized program is set, it like hardwires it. You never think about it again. You don't tell yourself the story Again, it just runs in the background And then everything that you do that's out of that synaptic optimized program, crawling, walking, breathing, lifting, anytime you have a malfunction in your body, your brain has to think about it So when we reprogram people's bodies, when they to heal the program, they'll say stuff like Oh I don't have to think about walking anymore. And the joke is, were you thinking about walking? Well, they actually work. becausecause their hips were out If your hips are out, you're thinking about walking. If your shoulders out, you're thinking about lifting and turning. that draws a massive amount of processing power from your processor I feel like there there's a big unlock. You know, we talk about how the brain doesn't come with the Nderers manual And the brain's part of the body and the body doesn't either, at least taught it in a way that's functional or people could use it. And I like I like the term garage because you think about all the innovation that was created in the garage. everythingverything from Apple to Harley Davidson, you know had an origin point in a garage and we get to work on ourselves. We buildilding humans, our relationship with our humanity in the garage Right. And even when you're talking about the drinking the water, you know how difficult is to program a robot like an AI robot to do something simple tasks like that even even now. You know, there's all these little things we don't think about. AO with the first robot in Japan. For years, they couldn't get it to walk properly You know, and they they took this they had this young junior engineer came in. And for years there as a program and the thing would fall over. it was unstable and they go The robot doesn't have any toes And these are little things that what is technology? Technology is an expansion of a human being. It does something for a human. So all technology technically is is derived from a human, even an iPad Apple Derived from the function of how a human works, and they closely mirror a function that a human does so that a human can do something better in the world We are the technology. We're the we're the OEM And and there will never be a copy, even AI as good as human because AI can think, but it cannot perceive It has to use logic which I have a feeling that the doesn't. I have I have this ability, this intuition. I can feel into your life You're so good because, you know, during the trip, you were just pointoing just by looking at somebody, their posture Even by birthdays too, we were just blown away. I would say I feel everything And then the birthday gives me a gives me a place in that big database where to direct that feeling. It It's fascinating and I fascinating. Fascinating And I think that's what human intelligence is. We often think about human intelligence as data processing, just remembering things But I you know, we were talking, I'm like, I think there's way more to this. I think it's our human intelligence is really sensing is being able to sense. Y. when your body, your brain, body is out of alignment, And also we often numb ourselves and we distract our minds and you don't feel anything You can't process the information that's around you. Also when there's trauma and there's incidents or fear and you're locked up, you're in that survival mode, holds you hostage from your executive function, your creativity, your promm soopp and your innovation. It also narrows your focus, right? When you're in survival mode, your focus. And so you're not even relaxed enough to be able to take in and open up your senses. goes to what we were talking about earlier, whereere does the mind exist?. So in the optimum state, if you take psilocybin, your mind exists out here, observing yourself. If you're completely serotonin is flooding through your system, you're out of stress, your mind goes whoa and you can observe yourself and the patterns. Now if you have a threat to your intellect, your mind sits into your to defend it If you have a threat to your emotions that sits in your limbic region. If you have a threat to your physical body, your mind sits in your your rear brain in that fight or flight. And this is why when there's pain in the body Our mind spends most of the time in the rear werain. Are you going to let AI replace you or are you going to become irreplaceable? Come to Limitless Live twenty twenty six two day immersive experience designed to help you think faster under pressure unlock better memory Learn faster communicate with confidence and use AI in a way that enhances your human intelligence This is a whole brain upgrade. 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And what I found in my own life is that when I freed the body, all the aches and pains and the mechanical issues of the body, then my mind started observing more And I actually have evvidence of it scientifically in brain scans because I've been doing brain scans since twenty twenty And Inead of having a naturally formed brain where all the layers go front to back, All of my colored layers are in my right right frontal hemisphere which means that I'm like a'm monill cyon all day and I just see patterns. And that's actually what I want. I want to see the pattern rather than have to remember something to feel safe Because if I can see a pattern anytime and any time, then I use less cognition to memorize things If that makes sense. It it freezes a lot of mental cognitive energy because there's a big cogitive load, you know when you're focused on survival or how to be able to walk. or injuries. likeike we talked about my traumatic brain injury as when I was a child And so what would you? And I had I had one at six And I had eight of them. cussions concussions significant. So what's going on there? Like when when I and by also ye, I I had FLF seizures. I didn't know until my eighth concussion Wow. I actually had car accidents because of epilepsy and I didn't even know I had epilepsy because no one had ever seen me have a seizure. I just woke up on the floor So many people have had accidents or some kind of physical trauma Maybe they remember it, mayaybe they don't remember it. In my incidence you know, when I was five, I had the brain injury. And then I was on your table for just even a little bit. And what I love it is you balance everything out with, this is how you do it yourself Right because I'm very big on taking personal responsibility, not being reliant on something outside, you know to best my ability. So what's can you describe what happened when I had this accident in my body And related to the release that we had with the I had one of five two. I got hit by b Okay clocks in the head. Oh my go it was an accident. It was kids playing, but I got fully clocked in the head And so When you hit the body and this is I work with a lot of reallyally super elite pro athletes, like some of the top athletes in the world boxers, athlete you name the athlette. If they're the elite in the world, they probably see me or close to it. And what I've noticed is is in my own case, so I'll just dissect what happened for me and then what I've noticed on other people U I've noticed that When When you have a concussion or a hit to the head, the fascia around there because there's layers of fascia muscle, it contracts. And then that contraction until we release the fascia never goes away So somebody who's had a brain injury or a hit to the head when they were five like you That was still there And what I was doing was opening that up. So now what happens is that restricts blood flow inside the head and the brain in that area. So then the brain has to build mechanisms around that to function And at whatever part of the brain it restricted blood flow. It could be the frontal, it could be the left side, the right side. And you'll see this quite often. You'll see somebody who has their right side brain injury and they're very focused on details and structure and details and numbers. And then when you release the right side, it's like, Who, this creativity opens up. So we open up the flow in the fascia And that flow allows the brain and all the cranial bones and everything to start moving better This is something you do yourself. like twing we have an entire upper body reset. We've got a non surgical facelift, but they and we appeal to beauty quite often because that's where we. We heing a lot comments on YouTube about non surgical facelift. Well, it's cool because the very first time you do it You see the difference. Take it before and after. you do a non surgical facelift on yourself. you take a before and after photo and I encourage people to do this changes the face right away. And if you do that over and over again, it continues to change it That could disrupt some industries. We'll definitely put a link also to in our show notes at gymcuick. com for slash notes to I'm sure to your YouTube. Yeah we even put it Youube and you know, there's a couple of things that we recommend that people do to start off with I would I would love that. I wt want to just sit talk about just the feelings because I think some people have had the experience where they've had work done and they have this release of those emotions like just a few minutes ago I'm still processing, by the way. That's why I'm a little like I'm here. but I'm like, okay, there's a lot just flowing through me. you know, from our session and just allowing that to just be here I's to say this, say I'm letting go of the resentant I'm letting go of the resentment. For holding all this grief in my body. for holding all the disgrif in all of the dis grief in my body For my father my father. I no longer want to hold it I no longer want to hold it. It's not my It's not my Actually it' safe to let it go feeleel safe to let it go Yeah feels you feel that huh? I feel I feel its I even feel the energy here also as well because it does it does go outside of us, right? It's not just what you could what you could see with those five with your sense of sight, right? in terms of what what you could process right the other dimension the other senses, the other ten that that people really focus on So there, we have them in extreme circumstances. The things that I hold in my body that I don't want other people to know are the things that keep me sick and dysfunctional. Yeah. That is the greatest thing that I've learned in my journey So I wrote a thing called Privacy, an article called Privacy is My Dease. And when I told people the things that I didn't want them to know All of a sudden I had more capacity in my life. It was crazy. Yeah The best way to do it to just release it. Probably the most band it off. Yes, Pull the vandaid off. But it's interesting like for people to just to talk about it, it doesn't have the effect because that's not how that it was installed, right? And then so I always think the fastest way to be able to change your brain is to be able to change work with the body because the body is like almost the expression of It's like the body is like your subconscious, right? It's it's like your mind Also even just talking just speaking out loud the second time already feels You feel different, right? Lighter. Yeah than the first time. So one more say, I feel safe to speak my truth I feel safe to speak my truth. It truts for my heart That' the truth from my heart, evenven when it's inconvenient for others. even when it's inconvenient for others See You can feel that. And what happened was is we opened up the fascia so that the brain, the emotions, the energy and her body flowing. now words make a difference. They really do because the body is in what I call programming mode After we do a fasioncial maneuver, single maneuver, we will enter a mode called programming mode. So we then can say stuff to affect the programming of our fluid adaptive biological computing system And then the brain here is I In the reticular activating lobe of the brain, when we're in programming mode lights up one hundred percent. You can actually see it on an MRI. You can actually see when when you do a fasion maneuver, you see the neurons moving all through the brain and building new connections. And then you say something and your reticular activating lobe lights up to one hundred percent and it goes, okay, and it wants to prove whatever you say true now. So this is the hack that I know for reprogramming the fluid adaptive biological computing system are humans is to put the body into programming mode. So basically what I found is a programming hack And that's what I do. That's my background. How can people go deeper in your work, stay connected to you and your team? Let's give everybody a challenge. Okay. Yeah Pe like challenges, right? I mean you did the ward. And I'm like, oh, we're in the car trying to do that. Aaron's trying to do that while he's driving. I'm like, stop at. So let's give everybody a challenge. Because a lot of people in your community are used to doing things to enhance their cognitive function. They're doing speed reading drills, memory drills, testing themselves, maybe they do before and after. Yes. They could do one of our memory names or numbers or words test their reading speed and then do Yeah, so I'm going give them you and then two things to do. Okay.. I'm give them I'm going to give them a fifteen minute stress reset that will neurologically and physiologically take the stress out of their body. Now when you remove the stress, more you have more mental or processing capability So fifteen minutees restress resets on our YouTube, we can link it in the show notes. And there's one other one specifically for brain And we'll do it together. I'll show you really quickly Take your hands, put it out like this. Everyone do this with us I'm gonna to do one finger. I'm gonna do your right hand T, grab your right hand right finger. Turn it away from you Pull your left elbow r Turn your head to the right and breathe your mouth three times Do your nose three times No feel something that happens inside your head You feel it, man? Yeah. So your fingers, these are ten organs, ten fingers. Y fingers highly impact your brain's ability to perform So there's a there's a Finger release. that I'm gonna to put in the show notes with you guys. So for all of the brainiacs, you do these two things and do whatever brain function cognitive tests you want and report the results. It'll be crazy. People will have amazing transformations that they couldn't even imagine to be possible. It'll be ten fingers, ten organs Oh my God We weren' taught that in an anadomy back in high school. We weren't taught everything. The basic fundamentals of how our body works, we weren't taught. And what we're doing here is ninety five percent of what we do is free of charge. We curate programs to people to support us. We have some supplements, but what we ask is when you our primary ask is If this benefits you, share it with three people. That's it. And if you do that, you've done all that you need to to support us. And if you want to support us another way, buy a supplement, take a seven day reset, twenty eight day reset, join a coaching program, those are all benefits that you can do. But our primary thing is help yourself and help three other people. And can people connect also with your team on social media? Absolutely. Just type in Human. I mean, we're everywhere Yeah, you really are. Ver carry Thank you so much, buddy. We really appreciate you and your entire team. Thank you so much for working with us. than to building better brains and better bodies, you know, a real mission we could get behind. Appreciate what you guys are doing. and the crazy part is This conversation needed to happen a long time because What you do and what we do is they' just hand in hand. it's right hand left hand. Yeah. And by getting people to focus on physiological fascial health and mental health, cognitive health at the same time, you actually create a new human.

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