The Michael Boyle Method for Embodied Aliveness Trauma Transformation and Optimal Performance
Trauma-informed Joy Therapist & Optimal Performance Coach
If you are the kind of person who appears strong and capable on the outside yet feels exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected inside, you are not alone. Most people who function at a high level do not realize that unresolved trauma, whether obvious big T events or the chronic subtle everyday wear and tear, is the hidden force keeping them stressed, depleted, and unable to access the peace and vitality they want.
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The Problem with Most Approaches
There are a lot of gimmicks out there telling you you can erase trauma in one fell swoop: a breathwork session, a week-long retreat, a "medicine" journey.
Gimmicks & Quick Fixes
There are a lot of gimmicks out there telling you you can erase trauma in one fell swoop: a breathwork session, a week-long retreat, a "medicine" journey.
Professionals Who Don't Know
Lots of "professionals" simply don't know what to do to rewire the nervous system, and "therapy" gets bogged down in convoluted theories about "all the reasons why." These conceptual approaches, like shadow work or internal family systems, inadvertently generate ego fixations.
Limited Approaches
Some insist it must be a body-based, "bottom-up", somatic approach. Others hail cognitive behavioral therapy as the only way to go.
An ALL-Around Approach
After decades of personal and professional experience, ranging from outside-the-box hardcore Ayurveda and yoga to inside-the-box mainstream clinical psychology, I've come to the common-sense experience that an ALL-around approach is best – not just for resolving "trauma" but to actually be happy because how many people do you know are? Truly?
It makes sense that there is no quick fix, but it also isn't as hard and doesn't take as long as others might think. I tell my clients all the time, "my job is to work myself out of a job," and anyone who doesn't offer a similar path to tangible results is likely well-intentioned but just doesn't know what to actually do to help you get where you want to be.
Without a truly whole-istic approach that creates an octave level of change, where one is no longer coping with their problems because they are in a place where the problem no longer exists, we get stuck in an endless game of whack-a-mole, where we fix one problem, and another pops up.
And while the entire Hierarchy of Everythings is important, the journey home to one's True Self – unleashing the healing nectars and radiant qualities of one's most optimal State of Being – is the only lasting way to heal and thrive.
YOU are a SUN ☀️
The sun itself does not have a shadow, and it doesn't matter how well you can describe the shadows or understand where they come from (typical therapy), from the perspective of the sun, they are irrelevant and insignificant. YOU are a SUN. You are not the shadows.
And if you are doing a type of therapy or healing work that doesn't include deliberate processes and practices for recognizing your True Nature as a Sun, then you will always get lost in the dark.
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Body-Mind-Spirit and The Hierarchy of Everythings
The Core Truth
Most of us think we need to heal to thrive, but in reality, we need to thrive to heal.
Most of us also believe we're not satisfied with life because of “all the reasons why.” But until we reconnect with the eternal sunshine of our own Awareness, every success will feel a bit fraudulent… and every failure will feel like proof that we're not enough.
How can you expect to be healthy and happy if your brain is stuck in a mode that blocks it? How can you expect your external wins to feel fulfilling when your inner world is chaos?
The Subtle Mechanics that Perpetuate Suffering
Regardless of circumstances
Fragmented
Self-sense at effect conditioned by cultural trance + mistaken identities from trauma
WHOLENESS
Sleepwalking
Distracted by mental movies & worldly projections as if sleepwalking/day-dreaming life
AWAKE-AWARE
Lost
Without direction, meaning, purpose
AT HOME IN ONE'S SELF
Contribution, Participation, Aim, Beneficial Presence
Intoxication
Addiction to emotions, memories, identities, fantasies, fleeting pleasures/prolonging pain
CLARITY, RESOLVE, AUTHENTICITY
Disease & Dis-ease
Unnatural disease and dis-ease resulting from all of the above
NATURAL GRACE & EASE
The natural results and byproducts of you coming home to yourself will include more energy, less pain, better sleep, better relationships, improved immunity, improved focus, more inspiration, etc., etc., etc.
It is 100% okay - and quite expected - for you to be here looking for those things, and you will find tons of websites and social feeds selling you what will amount to snake oil if it doesn't purposefully or inadvertently help you discover WHO YOU REALLY ARE. Without that, nothing else will work, which, I'm guessing, you've noticed.
The Michael Boyle Method
The journey home to one's true self, which uncovers, recovers, and discovers one's intrinsic values and a life characterized and guided by the JOLKA-GPS.
JOLKA-GPS
Joy, Openness, Love, Kindness, Awareness
Gratitude, Presence, Surrender
Living this way unleashes one's innate healing nectars, and the journey begins with the foundation of ALL – Awareness, Loving Life, Extra and Open attention.
The 4-Step Journey
Reset the Nervous System
Resetting the nervous system to clear tension and restore balance.
Establish the Creative-IAM
Release the Reactive-iWAS and activate the Creative-IAM for aligned action.
Embodied Aliveness Trauma Transformation (EATT)
Dissolve the Primary Negative and embody your natural aliveness.
Future-Now Work
Create, enjoy, love, and share your best life for yourself, others, and ALL.
The Heart of the Method
ACCEPTING - RELEASING - EMBRACING - CHOOSING
I ACCEPT
Radical acceptance is the only door to authentic, beneficial change. I accept especially that what is past has passed. Sometimes the most important thing about the past is that it's over.
Acceptance of what is includes acknowledging the truth that the past has passed, that what is current will soon be past, and that the past has no power over me except that which I give it. I accept the arising conditions in my life as what I can digest (EATT) in order to turn the past, into the future that I value and choose.
I RELEASE
I RELEASE the residue of fear from my body from a place of loving acceptance as a demonstration of my commitment to choose love over fear: love of life over fear of death, love of health over fear of sickness, love of doing good over fear of bad, love of bettering my best over fear of failure, love of joy over fear of suffering and misery.
When it comes to Embodied Aliveness Trauma Transformation (EATT) and Optimal Performance it works better to create solutions than it does to fix problems.
I EMBRACE
I EMBRACE what is present - everything is only now. Even suffering about the past or worry about the future only happens NOW. Along with everything else that matters most.
Only Love wins the day.
I CHOOSE
I CHOOSE to do the work using the practical maps, tools, and instructions available to me so that I will accomplish embodied change that is beyond intellectual understanding, new age affirmations, talk therapy shortcomings, and religious guilt and shame.
I do so by asking the Grace and Ease Question, orienting to the JOLKA-GPS, coming from my Creative-IAM, over-writing the Reactive-iWAS, dissolving the Primary Negative glue, and following my Neurochemical Roadmap to the Future (NRF) I value and choose.
Embodied Change vs. Intellectual Understanding
For these choices to be embodied as our new reality, where we no longer need to cope with suffering because we have outgrown it altogether, we must gain access to, rewire, and upgrade our operating system.
By playing the Greatest Game of ALL, we cultivate Embodied Aliveness – using real tools to rewire the body and mind to be congruent with our Spirit. This is how we don't end up in common pitfalls:
- ❌ "Trading chances", with "icing on shit cake" or "pasting wings on a caterpillar and hoping it will fly"
- ❌ The existential anxiety and frustration of our intellectual understanding of "wisdom" greatly outpacing our lived experience
- ❌ Spiritual bypassing, gaslighting ourselves
- ❌ Playing Whack-a-mole: fix one problem, another pops up
Hey, I'm Michael
A licensed psychotherapist, optimal performance coach, and spiritual guide. For decades, in one way or another, I've been helping people like you experience it ALL: Awareness Loving Life.
Through my personal journey with complex PTSD, a childhood tendency towards severe depression, I came to understand therapy as an important step. As a high-level athlete with ambition and drive to be the best and make the biggest positive impact, I knew I needed to always be in pursuit of optimal performance, despite the hardships associated with traumatic brain injury and a life-threatening medical condition that haunted me for 25 years.
Learning that none of that — therapy healing, or optimal performance — truly satisfies, I've embraced an honest path of spiritual awakening as my most precious priority in this amazing life.
Read more about Michael's journey, including how he overcame 25 years with a life-threatening illness to write his first book, "How to Find Joy Even if You Have a Hole In Your Bucket."
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