Welcome to another family edition of The Tony Robbins Podcast. In this intimate and at-home conversation, Tony Robbins, alongside his wife Sage Robbins and podcast host, Mary B., delve into a critical topic that touches us all: Mental Health. It’s a universal truth that no one escapes this life without experiencing periods of pain, loss, frustration, anxiety, sadness, and stress. While we all face our own unique challenges, there are fundamental keys that we can use to unlock and maintain a state of mental well-being, flexibility, and emotional fitness.
First, consider this: according to metastudies (studies that combine and analyze all discoverable results), only about 40% of people respond to treatments for anxiety and depression, and of those that do, they show an average of 50% improvement in their symptoms. Some studies have even shown the response rate to be as little as 33%.With this in mind, the Stanford Genetics Lab conducted a controlled study at a Tony Robbins Date with Destiny seminar to measure its effects. Of the participants that were clinically depressed before the seminar, 30 days after the event, 100% of study participants who were depressed were in remission, and their average improvement was 87.2%. No drugs, and in only 6 days of seminar participation.
At the beginning of the study, 17% of participants experienced suicidal thoughts. Thirty days after the seminar, none of the study participants reported having suicidal thoughts. Remarkably, one month after the Tony Robbins event, study participants still experienced a +50% increase in positive emotions (like satisfaction, inner strength and well-being), while also reporting a -50% decrease in negative emotions (like loneliness, anger, sadness, stress, and anxiety). In addition, they reported feeling happier and more satisfied in their relationships. Study participants saw a -38% decrease in anxiety even 11 months after the seminar while the baseline population (non-Tony Robbins Date with Destiny participants) saw a 28% increased anxiety.
Together in this episode, Tony, Sage, and Mary B., explore the critical ways to improve our emotional fitness and swiftly navigate out of any “stuck state”. They also uncover specific mindset practices and tools to use in the moments we feel overwhelmed, stressed out, angry, or fearful. In addition, the family explores the fascinating connection between the triad of our physiology, focus, and language plus human beings’ ultimate power move: assigning life events empowering meanings.
Listen to this genuine conversation for valuable insights and guidance to help you reclaim a state of clarity, flexibility, centeredness and well-being . Please enjoy!
SHOW NOTES:
00:40 Intro by Sage Robbins – What do you do when you feel stuck?
02:41 Clarity, flexibility and well-being
03:45 Emotional fitness vs. emotional intelligence
04:57 “Nobody escapes this world without extreme stress at times.” -Tony Robbins
05:56 How we deal with feeling stuck
07:27 Mary B. asks Tony about the term “Internal Representations” and its current significance
08:47 Same event, different experience
10:24 How the body controls emotions
12:18 Sage and Tony on their relationship’s evolution
17:59 A breakup caused by negative stacking
19:02 Stack the good / change your physiology!
22:32 Watch your language patterns
24:18 Mary B. on overcoming stress
26:54 Dinner for GOATs
29:11 Sage on getting unstuck
31:48 Byron Katie’s Four Questions
34:22 “Life changes the moment you trade expectation for appreciation.” -Tony Robbins
36:50 Out of pain comes drive
37:36 What do you value more than your pain?
40:06 Suicide / Lonliness / Where to start if you’re feeling on edge
41:40 When the vision is division
42:23 Creating meaningful futures, preventing suicide and fostering compassion
44:00 Man’s Search For Meaning
45:10 Sage on the intent of these conversations
45:57 The Rabbit Listened, the power of silent presence
47:12 Transformative power of love and presence
48:36 This place called home
49:30 Nurturing the essence of home, creating an environment of love
50:04 What works for you? / Tony signs off
52:17 Segment Two: Exploring the power of a single thought
53:44 Navigating the labyrinth of thoughts
55:24 Tune-in, the power of mindful attention
56:29 Focus on mindfulness
58:03 Thoughts as energy, embracing their transience
59:51 Waves of the human mind
01:01:43 Sage on the importance of getting out in nature
01:07:02 Finding compassion for ourselves
01:12:24 Suffering brings us closer to Source
01:16:46 Sage on surrendering control
01:19:36 “Let your problems bring you closer to God”
01:21:42 Looking back on painful moments to find “life happening”
01:24:24 Sign off (“We’re on the same team.”)
