I thought biohacking was taking a bunch of supplements and using different machines (all external)... not things that we do internally like meditation, brain rewiring, emotional excavation, dry fasting etc.. There's nothing "biohacking" about these approaches, if there's one "biohack" I've been using lately in the last 18 months has been mouth taping due to reading james nestor's book, but again, this shouldn't even be considering a biohacking although the folks on the internet, youtube/tiktok call it so, but in my mind this is a return to normal breathing, no animals breathe through their mouth during sleep, only human beings do so due to the brainwashing they receive during their lives, but I digress
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All of what you've said can be summed up by "nothing changes if nothing changes". I agree that "ego led" is not the way, and that was definitely not the case when I did my long fasts because you need to surrender the control, "control" and "fear" which are all illusory, since the body is self sufficient, it can last months without food and 14 days without water easily, the suffering on a fast comes from ego, resistance, doubts etc. I can guarantee you that people can heal 95% of modern diseases with long dry fasting, But of course this is hard because people have been brainwashed into thinking that they need food every two hours which is ridiculous, dry fasting will lead to complete resolution of inner conflicts, it will unbury your repressed emotions and it is cathartic, I experienced all of this during my last 2 long fasts and I didn't even know about TMS, I didn't have the foundation which is the knowledge about how TMS works, and that is very important too, but since dry fasting taps into our inner healer majestically it will do all these things without us having to focus on it, our bodies know how to heal if we get out of the way, dry fasting is the ultimate surrender, it's a form of ego death, to go 10 plus days without water and food, just relying on your internal resources, knowing that you are enough, ditching the hundreds of supplements and drugs you were taking, few people would do that, I did because even though I didn't know about TMS I saw all the stories of healing through this practice. All these things you cited are ego led, cold water plunges, tapping etc, those are the ego, fasting is divine.
Implementation is doing the work, doing the inner work has nothing to do with beating around the bush like in the examples you cited (micro managing, externalizing, outsourcing, and coping), those things created the problem in the first place, people need to FEEL TO HEAL (A book by Giten Tonkov btw on somatic release) if they don't face their fears and their repressed emotions, if they don't face their shadows they'll stay in the hamster wheel. "invariably be something else to contend with down the road because the emotional charge is once again getting suppressed" Yes that's what's being discussed here, why is it getting suppressed again? Because the 1st pillar wasn't embedded? The first pillar is knowledge, and by knowledge Sarno means changing one's paradigm, people need to understand that life happens and they can't suppress their emotions anymore, they need to feel the full spectrum, there's no light without darkness, they need to listen to their bodies, they suppressed too much anger that's why they're experiencing back pain, so the next time they need to express their rage, say no, or if they can't scream or yell, they must shift, cut off a relationship, stand up for themselves, impose boundaries, this is the change they need to make, not numbing the rage, grief or any negative emotion, by snorting cocaine, smoking weed, drinking alcohol, that's what most people do and that's why they're sick, because when you numb pain you also numb joy and you end up depressed. This is doing the work, changing stuff in their lives like their old paradigm (which doesn't serve them) is paramount to recovery. And these tools are there for this very reason. There are also cases where the trauma and emotional baggage accumulated when the person was too young, like before 6 years old (ACE study which proved that childhood trauma causes chronic symptoms later in life), therefore they don't have that much access to events of such an early period of their lives, so here methods like holotropic breathwork can be very useful (yes, your breath can heal, what a surprise, no, it makes sense once we understand the science), stanislav grof has treated thousands of patients in his multi-decades time in the field. And it's all aligned with doing the inner work that TMS requires. When people enter holotropic states of consciousness their neocortex shuts down, allowing them to access the limbic system and brainstem where subconscious memories of even their birth can be recalled, so the people who went through childhood trauma can heal, by using an excellent tool, it directly access their bodies (the body keeps the score..) and releases childhood trauma, stuff they didn't remember because they were 3 years old and grew up in a dysfunctional damaged household, like a child that was molested when they were too young, this is too much for the nervous system and the brain literally buries that memory and the person reaches adulthood, start experiencing symptoms and they don't know why, then they need to do the inner work, be it meditation, be it holotropic breathwork, be it somatic awareness, TRE etc, some things can't be accessed rational introspection.
So yeah, a lot has changed for me for instance, the old paradigm? The old brainwshing societal programming that I received? I discarded everything, it doesn't serve me anymore, it never did, it's not useful, it didn't fulfill me, and it was a process, it took some years, I actually changed it throughout my healing journey as I was seeking answers and little by little was ditching the mainstream narrative. It's funny you say you experienced a book cure that didn't last, so you're admitting that only knowledge is not enough and something had to be done to change your situation right? Yeah... exactly, that something is doing the inner work, Dan buglio above is right, a definitive book cure only happens in 10% of the cases, the rest has to do the inner work, and this is vast, there are plenty of people in the TMS space doing great work, people like sarah baldwin, cathleen king, dan neuffer, raelan agle, cfs health, howard schubiner, nicole sachs etc etc etc, I just scratched the surface, they all have their methodologies and approaches and they're all helping millions of people out there
