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I spent my twenties training people on college intramural fields, working on music video sets for artists you’ve definitely heard of, competing in underground MMA fights, and fronting a death metal band. By my thirties, I was a certified clinical hypnotherapist, a personal trainer, and a Capoeira instructor wondering why no single discipline seemed to offer the whole picture.

By forty-nine, I’m still jumping, flipping, climbing, and running circles around people half my age. Because I finally stopped trying to serve two masters.

The world loves to tell you that you have to choose. Brawn or brain. Discipline or freedom. Physical power or spiritual depth. Hustle or peace. But here’s what I’ve learned after twenty years of developing HypnoAthletics, studying the world’s great wisdom traditions, and maintaining a body that still obeys every command I give it: the either/or game is a trap.

This is a story about integration. About what happens when you stop treating your body like a separate vehicle and start treating it as your first and most important spiritual practice. About why “living a little” might actually be killing you slowly. And about how a kid with a vivid imagination and a stack of dog-eared books built a philosophy that has carried him—fully intact and fully functional—into his fifth decade.

In this intimate origin story, you’ll discover:

• Why the “off-season” mentality destroys more athletes than age ever will—and what actually fuels longevity
• The surprising connection between hypnosis repetitions and gym repetitions (and why both matter for real, lasting change)
• How to break the cycle of starting and stopping that keeps most people stuck in fitness, business, and life
• The cognitive dissonance behind “live a little” thinking—and what you choose instead when you decide your body is your temple
• Why great health might truly be the truest wealth you’ll ever own, and how to start building it today

I’ve spent two decades weaving together Capoeira, clinical hypnosis, martial arts, Buddhist philosophy, New Thought wisdom, and a deep study of physics and metaphysics into something I call HypnoAthletics. But you don’t need my terminology to benefit from what I’ve learned. You just need to be willing to question whether the choices you’re making today are serving the person you want to be tomorrow.

Press play below to hear the full conversation. Whether you’re an athlete hitting a wall, a creative searching for deeper focus, someone questioning whether your habits are truly serving you, or simply a human being who suspects there’s more to life than the limited options the world keeps offering—this episode was recorded for you.

Listen to “The Mind-Body Secret That Kept Me Unstoppable at 49 (And How You Can Find Yours)” on Spreaker.

This is a rich and personal narrative from Dr. Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander, tracing the origins, philosophy, and evolution of his life’s work, centered on the concept of HypnoAthletics.

Here is a summary and breakdown of the key themes from his monologue:

Core Concept: What is HypnoAthletics?

The foundational idea, established in 2006, is the fusion of hypnosis (mind) and athletics (body) .

• Mission Statement: “Exercising your mind towards universal harmony and spiritual wisdom through healthy living and self-defense.”
• The Core Belief: The mind and body are not separate. Hypnosis is a form of mental exercise (repetition, like reps in a gym), and physical exercise has a profound psychological and motivational impact. He embodied the role as a “professional belief system enhancer.”
• The Tagline: “Great health is the truest of our wealth,” which he has proven to himself through his “athletic longevity.”

The Origin Story (Late 1990s – Mid 2000s)

His path was a convergence of multiple passions:

1. Fitness & Martial Arts: Started as a personal trainer in 1999 (certified by IFA, later NASM), teaching Capoeira on the intramural fields at the University of Miami. He also competed in an amateur MMA competition.
2. Entertainment Industry: Simultaneously worked in the art department on major music videos (Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, etc.) and films, immersing himself in a creative, high-energy world.
3. Hypnosis: In 2004, seeking a path to psychiatry, he instead enrolled in the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. He graduated in 2006 as a clinical hypnotherapist.
4. The Synthesis: Working as a trainer, he realized he was already acting as a therapist, motivating clients and helping them change their behavior. Hypnosis provided the formal tools to enhance this. The term “Hypno Athletics” was the natural blend of these two disciplines.

Philosophical and Spiritual Influences

Dr. Alexander’s worldview is a syncretic blend of many sources, which he synthesized into a “long tail affirmation”:

• Self-Help & New Thought: Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich), Wallace D. Wattles (The Science of Getting Rich), Earl Nightingale (“The Strangest Secret”), James Allen (As a Man Thinketh), Dr. Joseph Murphy (The Power of Your Subconscious Mind).
• Science & Metaphysics: Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe (string theory), the film What the Bleep Do We Know?! , and Einstein’s physics led him to formulate the Eternality Axiom—the idea that because energy and matter are eternal and interconvertible (E=mc²), reality is eternal and defined by interconnectedness.
• Spirituality: Buddhism (love, understanding, compassion, kindness from a friend named Christine), Hinduism, and the concept of Yoga (yoking mind, body, and spirit).
• Practical Wisdom: Bruce Lee (“take what works for you”), Christopher Howard (test your beliefs by whether they achieve desired results), and Rashid Johnson (“eat to live”).

Personal Journey and Discipline

His story is also one of personal struggle and conscious choice:

• The Choice of Masters: He realized he “could not serve two masters”—the path of athletic excellence and the path of partying, drugs, and alcohol. He chose the former, viewing his body as a vessel or “spacesuit” that requires constant maintenance.
• On-and-Off Relationship with Substances: He describes a pattern of heavy drinking and then stopping cold turkey for long periods, eventually leading to complete sobriety (over three years at the time of recording). The catalyst was always the same: intoxication interfered with his physical performance and recovery.
• No Off-Season: He attributes his “athletic longevity” (being 49 and outperforming people half his age) to the principle of consistency. He rejects the “off-season” mentality of bulking, cutting, and then indulging, opting instead for a steady, sustainable approach to health.
• Support System: Despite a self-described tendency to isolate, he acknowledges the crucial support of family (his sister, parents), friends (like Malin who gave him a bike), and mentors who helped him through tough times.

Evolution and Future Outlook

• From a Seed to a Tree: HypnoAthletics is the “seed” from which many other concepts and brands have grown (KappaGuerra, PhysioMeditation, Dream Action Yoga, UniquilibriuM, World Reading Club). He sees them all as different entry points to the same interconnected reality.
• Overcoming Plateaus: He recognizes a recurring pattern in his life of hitting a ceiling or plateau. He is reframing his anxiety about upcoming opportunities (like presenting at the Virginia Beach Healthy Living Expo) as excitement. He plans to combine his lifelong improvisational skills (honed in Capoeira and music) with more structured planning to break through to a wider audience.
• Current State: He feels fortunate to have maintained his physical and mental discipline. He is certain about his core philosophy but remains open-minded and certain of uncertainty, ready to adapt to new information and technology.

In essence, Dr. Alexander’s monologue is a testament to a life built on the deliberate integration of physical, mental, and spiritual practice, using HypnoAthletics as the foundational framework for that journey.

UnEdited Galaxy AI TranScript

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (00:01)
Hypno Athletics is exercising your mind towards universal harmony and spiritual wisdom through healthy living and self-defense. That was what I eventually It came to as I Mission statement and purpose many years ago with hypno Athletics. I first established the website online in 2006.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (00:35)
Although I have never officially used hypno Athletics proper meaning hypno. athletics.com as a website and instead I’ve actually used eym.hypno athletics.com, which is a subdomain and the eym meaning standing for exercising your mind which was the next website that I got. And I’m so surprised that people actually didn’t have that already, but this is also, you know, back in A mid 2000.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (01:10)
The 1st decade of 2000 so I got hypno Athletics, and I got exercising your mind.com. And And the whole idea was, you know, basically focusing on. Well, let me back up a little bit here.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (01:29)
So originally. I started back in around 19 98 19 99. I found this small company that was called.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (01:40)
If a or the international fitness association and And I got

Speaker 2 (01:47)
An on

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (01:48)
Fine, personal trainer certification for 99 bucks. And because a girl that I was dating Or I’ll just see my girlfriend. She was a student at University of Miami.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (02:03)
I started going out to the im fields, or the intramural fields where there were people practicing soccer and all kinds of other stuff, and I’ve started training people doing kapo, wet at first I started with a group of closer friends that I met through her. My friend Kevin, who’s still a friend and another guy. And another people would come out.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (02:20)
And I would train them out there, and that’s how I first got my start. As a personal trainer, and I was teaching kapo, weta, actually Because that’s what’s my obsession. And so that was 1999, and that was around the same time as well that I started working in film and TV and working doing in the art department with Jerry Bloom working on music videos for Trina and trick, daddy and Jennifer Lopez and Christine Aguilera, and Ricky Martin and Brittany spears, all that stuff, cash, money millionaires, man.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (02:58)
It was a lot of stuff. Yeah, I worked on movies with Julianne, Moore and I’ve worked on photo shoots for Oh, man, what was that Annie Liebowitz? And I mean, it was an amazing time.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (03:17)
And I was also I was doing security at a nightclub called club Atlantis on the fort. Lauderdale beach and competing in their amateur tough man MMA competition called hardcore king of the ring Monday night raw, which was copying a lot of stuff in the names. But it was a great little, you know, independent promotion.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (03:38)
Pretty awesome. I’m glad that I got to do that. But my point is, around that time, it was a really interesting kickoff for a lot of things with me.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (03:45)
And I was, and I still remain, you know, the same way pushing up forward a lot of that energy where I just go for things and just do. And without really asking, I don’t ask for permission for anything. I just I see an idea.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (04:01)
I feel like I want to To share something or get involved with something. So if it doesn’t, if there’s not already a platform for it, then I just create it myself. And that’s how hypno Athletics exercising your mind came about.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (04:14)
Because as I said before. I was already interested in fitness and doing that. As I guess you could say, a career, or at least as you know, as an independent contractor as a job, that’s what I wanted to do.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (04:28)
And what I still want to do, and So that’s how it got started off in 1999, with ifa, which is no longer around Eventually, years later, starting in 2003I would eventually find the national Academy of sports medicine and get certified by them, and then started working at a gym called bodies in motion in California, on Encino boulevard. I don’t know. I was on venturable boulevard in Encino.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (05:00)
And Very shortly after that. I’m not exactly. I think it was in the same month, actually.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (05:08)
That I was looking to also enroll in a program to go to medical school to become a psychiatrist, and instead I came across the hypnosis motivation institute, which you can find a hypnosis.edu. And which is a school for clinical hypnosis, and they had a program for lay hypnotists, focusing on the scope of practice being vocational and avocational motivation and self-improvement, meaning that scope of practice allowed you to practice by without having a medical license without being a doctor as long.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (05:44)
As you stayed within that scope of practice and you could work on other things, but you would have to be supervised by meaning, have a referral from and work in direct communication. And as a supplement to treatment with a licensed medical or mental health professional. So So right after I started working at that gym.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (06:08)
I enrolled I remember specifically, it was November 4th. Of 2004, when was my first class at the hypnosis motivation institute and I graduated in 2006 which I should have graduated. In November of of 2005 Or maybe not maybe I did graduate just in time, but it felt like it took a little bit longer because I had some issues.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (06:40)
But right after that, I had started using the term hypno Athletics, because Both of these things were for self-improvement, right motivation and self-improvement and a lot of the things that I was doing with clients, the way that I was speaking with them, even before back in 1999 on the im fields at University of Miami. It was all about keeping, you know, clients motivated and inspired to continue their fitness program. And a lot of times I actually felt like a therapist, and I know that this is a sentiment that a lot of trainers also have echoed because I’ve heard it a lot.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (07:21)
I’ve read it in magazines and in industry publications. Lady knowing you’ve I hear people talking about all the time that you know, I’m like a therapist and people tell me all their problems and not that really was it. But it’s because it’s an intimate It’s an intimate business.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (07:38)
You know, you’re working with people who are dealing with, you know, their body image and you know, people feeling insecure sometimes and you know, you’re there helping them out and you’re you’re next to them training them, sometimes putting your hands-on them to adjust their their form and posture and things like that, so you’re very close with people and they talk to you about a lot of things. So it was definitely a very interactive and close setting, and people put a lot of trust and faith in you as a trainer.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (08:12)
So right around that time. That’s when that’s when hypnoathletics really got launched, because then I got a laptop and I went online, I found godaddy. And you know, there was another guy who who referred me to it.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (08:27)
His name was Patrick bell, who I just looked him up online, not too long ago but he also had a compound thing that he was doing, that was an innovation. He’s an opera singing magician. And he had decided it’s no longer online because I looked it up, but he had the website called opera cadabra.com, which I thought was really clever.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (08:46)
And I had hypno Athletics, so I went online with hypno Athletics. I it’s 20 years later now it started in March of 2006, it’s now March of 2026. And so I’ve been online with hypnoa Athletics since then.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (09:02)
And you know, from a lot of the things that I was getting into and a lot of the new wage stuff, and many of the other things that I was exposed to at the time I came up with this long form affirmation. And that’s where the tail end part that I spoke. I recited at the beginning came from, which is hypno Athletics.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (09:27)
His exercising your mind towards universal harmony and spiritual wisdom through healthy living and self-defense. Actually, it was originally hypnoathy. Is exercising your mind, right?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (09:38)
Hypno Athletics, exercising your mind. That was originally what it was just like that. Because, of course the mind hypnosis, right?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (09:45)
And And you know, fitness is exercising, but also I saw hypnosis. Do the repetition just like how you do reps in the gym was a form of mental exercise? So I mean, really Jill.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (09:59)
Those things had to me, they were pretty inseparable, and so and also, you know, the initials of hypnoathletics you know, ha also my name Hakeem Alexander. So there were a lot of really cool things there and to this very day, I still have which I started using the ha logo way before. But it was only when a guy named John I was at his house, and I used his computer, and I printed out an HI think it was times new Roman like the simplest font.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (10:29)
And then I took the same piece of paper, and I printed an a over it. And then that made that my logo, because before I was signing my name like that with an H and an a superimposed on each other. And then So, you know, all of those things together.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (10:45)
I thought I was pretty clever but it’s amazing. Because together, both of those things, they really seemed like they were, you know, a very similar type of practice, which was, you know, this consistent repetition motivation. And helping people to improve themselves and they went hand in hand like a lot of times there were things that you would you would you would work with clients in a hypnotic setting, and it would help them to improve their physical fitness, because that’s what they came for was that motivation and other people you would help them in the gym with their physical fitness, and that would help them with their gems.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (11:29)
Their thought space, their subconscious, their behavior because that’s really what We learned that hypnosis motivation institute, that we are professional belief, system, enhancers, and hypnosis, hypnotist, clinical hypnotist, master hypnotist we are a special kind of behavioral scientist that specializes in incremental change through belief system enhancement, and you know, focusing on that scope of practice of vocational and a vocational motivation and self-improvement. And it’s It’s been a very interesting journey to see how that’s unfolded.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (12:04)
And for me, it’s taken, I’ve I’ve taken a lot longer to mature than a lot of people have to really get a lot more coherent with my practice.

Speaker 2 (12:18)
And

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (12:19)
I’m okay with that. Because one of the things that I’ve sustained is my athletic longevity. And And that?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (12:32)
Is an amazing thing to me because of how I’m still able to physically play My Body is an amazing A tool where I’m able to do some of the most amazing things like I’m still jumping flipping, climbing running, you know, and I have a high level of mobility and endurance. And flexibility and strength and power. And it’s just, it makes so many other things.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (12:57)
So much more. I would say tolerable and just it makes life more enjoyable, so that I don’t have the burden of having to deal with a burned out. Tired rundown, physical body where I’m like sore and achy and stiff and lugging around extra weight like I don’t have any of those issues.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (13:17)
So life in general and so many other ways is so much more simple for me to focus on other things in life like reading and writing playing music, which are my passions, things that I’m, you know, extremely dedicated to. And the fact that my physical body serves me and is obeying me rather than the other way around is been, it’s a testament and an experience that I somehow I lucked out and I stayed on the right path with the, you know, the tagline of the website exercising your mind.com. It.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (13:56)
Was wealth attraction research? Great help as the truth truest of our wealth. Great health is the truest of our wealth.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (14:03)
And that has proven to be exactly correct for me, at least I mean, I know there are a lot of people who who, who I’ve achieved amazing intellectual and spiritual pursuits without physical fitness. I’ve decided that physical fitness and martial arts were and are to be my doorway. My entryway, my path to those other things that well roundedness of body, mind and spirit, and that’s the way that I’ve chosen to approach it.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (14:37)
And I’m glad that I have because Now that I’ve been on earth for almost half a century, right? It’s crazy that I am able to continue pursuing my intellectual spiritual mental psychological, academic pursuit and still have a fully functional body that is obeying me. And that is a really, really powerful experience to have, that I know that, you know, a lot of people don’t have that experience.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (15:19)
And it’s kind of sad sometimes, but I’m really fortunate. That this is the path that I took. And so, as I was saying that there’s a longer tail.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (15:33)
A longer tail affirmation that led to hypnot or stems from it actually stems from the original hypnoathletics. Exercising your mind, but I took pieces from Earl nightingales. The strangest secret from thinking grow rich by Napoleon hill from The signs of getting rich from Wallace D waddles from the science of mind by earnest, Holmes from the power of your subconscious mind by Dr.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (16:03)
Joseph Murphy from as a man thinkth by James Allen. From Buddhism from my friend Christine, who introduced me to Buddhism.

Speaker 2 (16:18)
And

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (16:19)
So many things and so II put together this long tail affirmation, which I’m really happy with, because It’s sort, it’s kept a focus for me to go back to Even though I’ve chased a lot of bright, shiny objects and got confused. And lost my way in part, not really, because I’m still going. And like I said, my athletic longevity, is it’s nothing to bat an eyelap.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (16:54)
I mean, it’s just amazing because not everybody is able to move like me even people who are literally half my age or even more than half my age. I mean, I was at a park the other day. For example, and it’s across the street from one of my favorite cafes, and when I went in to get some food, the baristas were like, oh I saw you out there I was like, I can’t do any of that.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (17:18)
And you know, this kid was like, 22 years old, I’m 49. I’m that’s. I’m 27 years older than this person, and it’s kind of ridiculous, because a lot of people share the same sentiment.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (17:31)
A lot of people that age And all ranges, people have come up to me and literally said to me, how can I get like you like people in the gym that are much younger than me? And there’s people of all ages I move My point is that it’s a success. It’s a huge success.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (17:51)
It’s a huge win. To have this base of physical fitness, as well as continuing to be able to research and study and apply various different spiritual disciplines. And To utility.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (18:14)
I’ve come out. And the way I mean, I I mean, there’s there ‘S.A. lot of different aspects to this.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (18:21)
There’s a lot of things that have happened in my life. That have allowed me to focus on things the way that I do. Because I have family members and people that I know from high school and friends.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (18:29)
People who I know were straight a students who you think would have had a different outcome in life that didn’t. I mean, I know straight a students who Former cheerleaders and captains of teams and you know With graduated at the top of their class and ended up being like Drug addicts. Crack heroin myth alcoholics just destroying their lives and their health.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (18:59)
And just all kinds of crazy, different health problems and not really doing anything like, I mean at all, like not even and I’m not talking about professional either. Like there are people who were the top of their classes and they’re not doing anything like they’re not I know people who were, who I was in band with who I was in chorus with who I was on the wrestling team swim, team cross-country who were math whizzes science whizzes, who were computer tech geeks, all this other stuff, and they’re not doing anything.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (19:35)
With that at all, like I don’t mean that they went to school and got a degree in something. And are you know, just not, you know, they’re they’re stuck paying, you know. School loans with but just not doing anything.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (19:53)
They’re not even as a hobby which Sometimes difficult to think about and just to know about a lot of things that I’ve seen along the way. And you know, I really count myself as fortunate as somehow to take the path that I did, to be so obsessed with reading books and having such a vivid imagination. I remember that specific term.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (20:15)
My mom said you have a very vivid imagination, and I had to, you know, define what that meant. And it just meant that II could see things in my mind. And really clearly that I was could fully immerse myself And in My imaginative world.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (20:38)
And the fact that, you know, I have always been fascinated by books like the choose your own adventure series of books and I read animal farm as cool and this book called the last mission by Harry mazer and like just things like that, that have really influenced and just I continued to read. And from what I know now and what I’ve been developing over the years is that that is actually a form of self hypnosis, the things that I’ve exposed myself to on a continual basis where I could have focused on a lot of other things that other people did, and you know, when I did.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (21:16)
I got myself in trouble. You know, it’s, you know, there’s a saying from NLP, well, at least that’s where I learned it from. Originally it was NLP and maybe Tony Robbins that said, you know, you become the sum total of the 5 to seven people you spend most of your time with and that could also mean the 5 to seven people that you are.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (21:37)
Influenced by from either books or other media. Whether you listen to them on the radio, watch them on television and nowadays, you know, with YouTube and social media and podcasts and everything else, whatever you read. Listen to and watch all of that stuff.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (21:51)
And who you’re around, that’s your influences. And fortunately, I’ve taken a path where I even worked at a border’s bookstore for a while. And so that’s what II remember very clearly My managers at the bookstore told me to take the day off and I didn’t.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (22:11)
And I remember staying till about around midnight to do inventory on my birthday. And that’s just what I wanted to do. And yeah, there were tie definitely partied.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (22:23)
I definitely had my fair share of getting wasted getting drunk and doing stupid stuff. And especially The Times when I was with I was with this death, metal band acrimonium, and we play shows and some of the places you know, in Davy and Hollywood Florida didn’t care about checking my idea. I was delete singer of this death metal band and so they would just hey, drink away.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (22:47)
You gotta open tab to drink whatever you want. And that’s what I did. And so I had those times but you know, I’m there’s a saying that comes from the Christian Bible.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (22:59)
And at least I think it does. I’m attributing it to that. But or at least it comes from that specific tradition where it says, you know, you can’t serve 2 masters.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (23:09)
One cannot serve God and mammon, and to me that was, I can’t be Going out and partying, which that’s not a party to me. Kapoeta is a party going to a coupleueta Hoda, a capoeta circle, a capoeta event where a bunch of people are standing around clapping and singing and playing instruments and jumping around and kicking at each other. And just dancing and having fun?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (23:29)
That’s a party to me going out and getting drunk smoking. And doing drugs, all this that’s not a party to me. So I couldn’t do I couldn’t consistently do those things when I was going out and doing all that stuff.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (23:41)
It was robbing my Physicality, it was just sapping my energy from being able to do the things that I wanted to athletically, specifically with kapoeta, martial arts and running and playing music. It was just, it was really screwing me up. So I had to make a decision.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (23:59)
I could not serve 2 masters. And so I chose the healthy, and it’s not really even serving 2 masters. I’m serving myself.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (24:08)
I am the master of myself. We all are the masters of ourselves. And it’s probably a better idea to think of it that way, rather than thinking that we have to petition to anything outside of ourselves, but at least that’s the understanding that I’ve come to And what’s interesting about that too is that even with all of that, you know, getting intoxicated that I was doing I remember there were often very times there were very oftentimes when I would completely stop.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (24:40)
So I would be drinking and hanging out and parting, but then I would just stop 6 months, stop cold Turkey for a year, 2 years. So that from the very first time that I smoked a joint. When I was 17 years old to now which now I’ve been straight completely straight edge since I mean it’s been 3 years now, I haven’t touched anything maybe longer than that.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (25:03)
But. But in all of that time, let’s just say from 17. Let’s say, 20 years, right?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (25:12)
17 to 37, right. That’s 20 years. Less than half that so 5, if we, if I took all the time that I was actually drinking and getting intoxicated and doing that kind of stuff.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (25:29)
It only amounts to about 1 of that time, about 4 years, if I condense it all together. Because I just I had to stop like I was just stopping myself. I couldn’t do it.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (25:39)
I didn’t go to any programs. I wasn’t doing aa or any of that other stuff like that, as just my body, my mind like I would get app in the morning, and I’d be hung Uber when I really wanted to go to a cup with a Hoda or a friend of mine wanted to play a game or I wanted to go run or I had something I needed to do or I wanted to write a song or I had plans to go to the beach and my body was just messed up from being hungover or whatever. And I just thought, I mean, this is not for me and then and then the feeling that I would have for days afterwards, like, especially alcohol is just terrible.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (26:11)
How I would notice that my muscular definition would go away and then I had these contrast, where I remember one time I went into this one shop. And I used to wear these shirts that But the only thing that was not torn up was the collar, and that was the only thing that was holding the shirt together, and I have pictures of this where it was just basically strings. It was like one of those bead curtains, but it was just strings.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (26:37)
I would just shred the shirt and I remember I went to this one shop and this girl I remember. Her name was Alana. She says, you don’t drink alcohol, do you?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (26:44)
And I said, why would you say that? Because cause you’re crazy ripped, he’s like you can’t drink alcohol and have that kind of muscular definition, and I’ve thought about it. And I was like, yeah, this is one of those dry times when I’ve decided like, I haven’t drank for like a year and this was in California.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (27:02)
And so I do very clearly remember, and those kind of experiences would pile up and I would start to notice the contrast. And so I would have these on and off on and off times and you know, and then you know, I had a tragedy really difficult experience in my life when floor. Died in 2019 and for 7 months.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (27:27)
I just drank myself into a coma. Not the best healthiest thing to do. But that’s what I did for 7 months.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (27:32)
And then 1 day I just decided I’m gonna stop. And now, I remember several times I’ve done that. I remember once when before I met her.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (27:41)
I started working at this place. Called fiesta cantina. In California and West Hollywood and I remember the first night that I worked there.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (27:52)
I asked a bartender for a shot and a beer. And I drank a shot, chased it with the beer and then I never drank again after that. For a long time, and then when did I do that again?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (28:05)
And then I remember because I was going to China. So, I’ve started working at Yoga works, and then floor found an opportunity for us to go to China. So then I heard about their drug laws about cannabis, and at the time in California, it was really big smoking weed and so I decided I don’t even want it in my system.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (28:21)
So that’s so I completely stopped smoking. And that was in 2015 2000 yeah, 2015. And that was, that, was it?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (28:32)
I was done with that. And then You know, and then I had, you know, the laps were, you know, I tried myself to sleep, and I just decided to stop started going to the gym. Again started performing on stage, and then I had another short lapse again.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (28:51)
In In Virginia, and then I started working at this place called the green parrot and I did the same thing. And I remember it was this bartender named Kendra who she still works there now and I went up to her, and I thought I want to shot in a beer. She says what kind of shot I was like.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (29:05)
I don’t care when I took the shot took the beer and that was the last time I drank and the green parrot it had a fire and it closed down some years ago. Black butt but I remember I started working there before I started. II don’t remember exactly when it was, but it was it was in early to mid.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (29:27)

2022. So I think around August of 2022 when that was when I had my last drink ever. So it’s, you know, so if we go to August of 2025, yes, 3 years, so it’s been over 3 years now.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (29:44)
And so yeah, and that’s been, that’s been it. But again, the reason is because I just could not my body me personally, I just can’t Do any drugs and alcohol and maintain as high level of physical performance as I do currently and that has been, for me more important than what people call party. And it’s the reason why I don’t indulge in junk food and high sugary things and process stuff.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (30:20)
Because I just know exactly how it feels in my body, and I just it’s completely intolerable for me, it’s more important for me. And it brings to mind. You know, I was talking to the organizer.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (30:35)
For this event, the healthy living expov, Virginia Beach. That’s coming up in May. A second, and May 3rd the weekend, Saturday.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (30:46)
And Sunday of 2026, and I was telling her, I was like, yeah, I one of the reasons I know that I’ve maintained this athletic longevity is because I wasn’t the kind of person who felt like an offseason was a good idea. And I feel like this is one of the reasons why a lot of athletes get broken down so much as they get older because they have this idea that, oh, I’m going to cut weight and do all this stuff rapidly and all these crazy fad diets and dehydration and all this stuff for the competition.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (31:17)
And then once I’m done doing all this crazy training to get up to that level, and then I’m done. I’m gonna party, I’m going to relax. I’m gonna live a little.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (31:25)
And then they start poisoning themselves with alcohol and drugs and junk food and all the cheat meals and I found that by being more consistent. You don’t need to do all of that up-and-down Yoyo diet, cutting weight, dehydration, all this stuff, it’s just not necessary that I’m that I maintain a consistent level of general overall qat. You know, elevated health and so I don’t need to do those things.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (31:55)
And that’s one of the reasons why I’m able to continue to do backflips and climb and spin and crunch and lunge and squat, and do all these crazy. Dower rolls in 540° spins. Do the air because I decided that there’s not going to be an off-season for me.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (32:13)
And there’s sort of a jab. I made about, you know, live a little because I remember there was a guy who I spent a lot of time with. We were roommates at 1 time.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (32:22)
Music come on hot live a little and that always uses strike me as being pretty dumb, because I literally thought remembered thinking that drinking and smoking and doing the stuff that you want to do is not living that’s actually poisoning and killing yourself poisoning yourself is not. So it’s so crazy how the cognitive dissonance that people are suffering from I’m saying things like live a little and partying when those things are not really fun. Not for me, so I don’t know what’s going on.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (32:54)
And I really do feel a lot of empathy for a lot of people and a lot of people are struggling. And I’m not negatively judging people for going through those things. I’m just saying Rap for me, I’ve gotten to a point where what makes sense most for me is to serve my higher order of media.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (33:15)
What my level of spiritual awakening is starting here. Right now, my heaven on earth starts in the Temple of my physical body. And you know, like, you know, there’s there’s a lot of you know, different stereotypes that I’ve heard like how, you know, women don’t take care of their cars.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (33:35)
They don’t go for regular oil changes, and this, and that, and that’s why? You know, they break down on the side of the road. And data data, all this other stuff like that, right?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (33:43)
There’s that stereotype. I don’t buy into all that stuff, but it ‘S.A. it’s an interesting picture to paint because it’ S an analogy to the human body.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (33:52)
And a lot of people are like that stereotype with their body. Where people aren’t doing the regular oil changes, and the regular maintenance and the tire rotations and the check-ups and the things like that to keep their body, which is a vessel on this Earth. I really for a long time seriously.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (34:11)
This is what I think, like I really believe in a way like it’s not just to me. It’s not just A What I’m what I’m going to say is not just an analogy. I really believe this idea that you may have heard before that our body is a spacesuit, or like a you know, like how people would put on a spacesuit, to do extra vehicular activities in space like Eva, the spacewalks, or to go deep sea diving right?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (34:39)
You, we are, our consciousness is dead. Deep physical Exploration, right at the equivalent of going, this is a physical space. And our consciousness is in this vehicle.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (34:58)
And Just like how people Buy a car or get a car. And it has to be maintained in order to to serve them. That’s how the physical body is for me, like this guy, Rashid, who was one of the sales advisors at body’s emotions to say, you know, eat to live?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (35:22)
Remember one time he gave me a nice shiny apple. Eat to live brother, but you hunger, brother eat to live and he’s a swim. Coach kept himself healthy, very militant, kind of guy.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (35:34)
All right, but just I mean, he Rashi Johnson, he had great dude, man, and he put a lot of wisdom and knowledge in my head, and that’s one of the things that he said, and he was he was so right about it. And And so again, that’s, you know, that’s that’s the hypno Athletics part of the hypno Athletics journey.

Speaker 2 (35:53)
And and it

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (35:56)
It’s really about the maintenance. And when you synchronize your mind with the body, which is a big thing with Yoga. Another thing I was talking to Marcella about, you know, she’s one of the Partners in the event organizers for the healthy living EXPO for Virginia Beach at the ocean front, coming up in Maine.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (36:16)
Is, you know, I was saying this is like Yoga? That’s literally one of the definitions of Yoga is yoking the mind-body. And spirit, it’s showing that they are unified.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (36:26)
They are not separate. And this is a truth that I’ve explored for a long time like in my in my hybrid system that I’ve created based on coppoweta, I call kappagera kappa, Guerra, the kappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet. And I look at that in numerology, the divination tool and 10, which is, again kappa, is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet is really a one when you add a one and a 0.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (36:56)
So it’s one, and Guerra means war. So kappa gearra to me, is one war or the only war to wages within. And then hypnoa Athletics, exercising your mind.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (37:07)
Another one of my concept brands is physiomeditation, or my dream action. Yoga exposing the conditioned personality. All of these things circle around that same idea.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (37:20)
That there is no separation of mind, body and spirit. They are all co-eternal coextant with each other. And so you don’t you, you do not The sacrifice won for the other.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (37:37)
You don’t need to wait to die to experience a paradise you make that here and now and there’s different path to that and people find Different ways. But I feel like I’m being well-rounded. And because we’re in a physical world that the physical and material existence needs to be focused on starting with your health.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (38:03)
And you are a little bit more mental, mentally, healthy. When you’re aware of how you are maintaining the mobility. And the fuel the nutrition of your body.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (38:16)
Again it’s not something that you can just gloss over. It takes a lot of vigilance. It’s the same thing as technology.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (38:27)
Like AI right now, you know, you have to keep things from moving. So fast but so does the the understanding of how we fuel our bodies, because so many different things get added to food and so many fads come out. And so many things people say And so you’ve really got to stay on top of healthy living.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (38:49)
And to me, that’s why, you know, the term’s healthy, living in self-defense, go hand in hand because in a lot of ways. You are practicing self-defense by focusing on healthy living, and that reminds me of the movie. Inception where the service that was provided was sort of you know, a psychological self-defense in preparing people.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (39:14)
So that their dreams can’t be hacked in mind for different information and things like that. And again I was setting up to talk about the whole affirmation of where this, you know, where hypno Athletics really planted the seed and expanded into and so I would say. I Hakeem alibocus Alexander do know that I am the source of all wealth.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (39:48)
Spiritual, intellectual and material wealth. Therefore, all of my actions are guided by love. Understanding compassion and kindness.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (40:07)
I declare myself the steward of ethical and responsible businesses that generate excessive cash flow while serving purposes greater than money. I engage only in transactions that benefit all whom it affects while obeying the laws of mutual exchange. This is true because my organizations, including kappageta, dream action, Yoga, physiomeditation.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (40:46)
Unique, equilibrium and world reading club are exercising your mind towards universal harmony and spiritual wisdom through healthy living and self-defense. So I paused there a little bit, because originally it was, you know, this is true, because hypno Athletics is exercising your mind towards universal harmony and spiritual wisdom through healthy living and self-defense. But I’ve added, you know, those other ones And That has always been the goal.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (41:21)
And from certain perspectives, I haven’t been successful in building businesses in the traditional sense because well, when it comes to systems, because I’ve been a sole proprietor and an independent operator most of the time. And And things have developed more slowly for me, mainly because of a lot of Deviation from the path of that affirmation that mission statement, that purpose and getting distracted by a lot of things, but at the same time, it’s been good because I’ve learned. And I’m glad that I formulated that to be able to go back to that all the time.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (42:07)
And I don’t exactly remember where all the pieces came from, but I do know that. For example, my friend Christine, who introduced me to Buddhism. That’s where the luck came from.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (42:17)
Because I heard a lot in Buddhism, understanding, compassion and kindness and when IA lot of times when I see letters. Automatically acronyms come to mind so I added love love understanding, compassion and kindness because love is a synonym. When I say universal, harmony and spiritual wisdom, right?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (42:38)
Universal harmony when people are harmonizing with each other. That’s a form of love and spiritual wisdom is a form of love. Some people you’ll often hear in some pop popular talks.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (42:49)
That, you know, love Vs fear, right? Pain Vs pleasure, destruction versus, you know. Development, but there’s all these different juxtapositions and opposites, good and evil, right?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (43:09)
And you know, it was like I was saying earlier about I can’t serve 2 masters. I have to focus on the healthy living side, and not that Toxic behavior of those things that destroy the body. So love understanding compassion, kindness, I know that was directly influenced by the Buddha.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (43:32)
The exposure to Buddhism that I got And engaging only in transactions that benefit all whom it affects that I know that comes from. Thinking go rich, obeying the law of the mutual exchange that comes from Earl Nightingale. This strange secret.

Speaker 2 (43:53)
And

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (43:55)
You know? Things like being the source of all wealth are influenced by the signs of getting rich Wallace dew wild. So there’s a lot of things that go in there.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (44:05)
And there’s a lot of overlap with a lot of those other spiritual traditions, and what’s interesting is they and I wrote a paper and published this as well. But they can all be traced back to Hinduism and monastic theories of the universe, which align with, you know, Einstein when he said he believes in God, he believes in the God. It’s benota and what’s pinoza, actually believed it’s that it’s basically unity that the idea that even comes, you know, Buddhism, we are all one, that interconnectedness of all beings of all consciousness of all thought.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (44:43)
And You know, that led to me. 2 formulating, an establishing the eternality, axiom and how that I looked at Einstein’s E equals mc squared, the first law of thermodynamics, which is conservation of energy. And also, the conservation of mass, which both say that energy cannot be created or destroyed mass matter cannot be created or destroyed.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (45:12)
They just change form and you see that they’re both equal E equals MC squared, so they’re interconvertible, and so if mass Which is, the measurement of matter, is Is indestructible? It just changes form. It always has been will be Right, it always has been is and will be.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (45:34)
And if energy is indestructible, always has been is and will be that means their eternal, that that’s co. Eternal, that’s synonymous with being eternal. And so those three things, there demonstrate that reality is eternal and in eternal reality, there is nothing but interconnectedness.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (45:53)
Interconnectedness is the essence of existence. And so, and that is ultimately my metaphysics, and And so seamlessly integrates with physics because it’s all one Just like how Ed Whitten saw that there were five different string theories and you unified them into one, because they were just being seen from different perspectives. That’s what how I practiced.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (46:20)
Metaphysics, I’m also on that quest for unification, and I’m just looking at these things from a different perspective, and saying no, they’re all unified. And you know that seed was planted in me by looking at The presentation of the elegant universe by Brian green, who’s a theoretical physicist who specializes in string theory. And at the same time, I got introduced to what the bleep do we know?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (46:47)
And then I saw, you know, I got introduced to the secret. And and while I was going to the hypnosis motivation institute and on and on, and on, as you can see, there’s A And there’s a legacy, there’s a tradition. There’s a standing upon the shoulders of Giants that I’ve done and that I’m still doing.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (47:03)
And I’m not saying that I’m like, or even comparable to any of these giants. I’m making my own way. I’m taking works for me and discarding the rest and not even having to discard the rest.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (47:15)
I’m just taking what works for me. You know Bruce Lee said that take what works for you and discard the rest but that you know but if you look at auckham’s razor it says what can be done with less is done in vain with more so why do I need to discard anything all I need to do ISIS apply what works for me. Christopher Howard university of excellence years ago, he said something that I thought was profound.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (47:41)
It stuck with me, and you know, he says that basically his idea is that the only reason why you should continue doing anything is if it continually helps you to achieve the results that you desire, that is the test of anything that you should continue doing anything that you believe in, you’re all your belief systems, all of your behaviors should only be practiced if they’re consistently achieving the results you desire through their application. Why would you do anything else? And it can be summed up as integers.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (48:09)
You can score your entire life as integers. And I admit, I haven’t always done it like I said, I’ve been distractive, and it’s Uber time, and thankfully By focusing on my wealth, attraction research, which is great health, is the truest of all wealth? I’ve been able to see the simplicity.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (48:29)
Life is composed of either negative ones. Zeros or plus ones. Man, you just take them off.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (48:37)
You know you they’re there. There are a lot of traditions that’ll teach you that there’s a mental bank concept from the hypnosis motivation institute. There are various different things.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (48:46)
And I could just go on and on and on. But Hypno Athletics has a very rich and deep and life-affirming history. And it it.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (49:02)
Is it has many names? It, because everything that I do, they’re just interconvertible, just like energy and mass unique equilibrium is hypno Athletics is exercising, your mind is physiomeditation is world reading club. Is that I say unique equilibrium already right?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (49:23)
Is dream action? Yoga is 613 records is redcoin studios. Is the blog dealer is on and on and on whatever it is Hakeem alibocus Alexander, it is Dr.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (49:39)
Hakeem alibocus, Alexander. It’s the eternality, axiom. These things are not separate.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (49:48)
They’re just different entry points to the interconnected reality of our existence that I’ve been following all this time. And I just, you know, one of those Lynch pins. Those significant times in my life was was graduating from the hypnosis motivation institute while being a fitness trainer and martial arts instructor.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (50:14)
And coining that term hypno Athletics and exercising your mind. And I coined it for myself. I mean I saw that it got used elsewhere but I established The Domain name and used it heavily in a lot of things that I’ve done.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (50:30)
So. I own it. Because I established that I’ve put the specimens out there.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (50:39)
I built on that intellectual property consistently over years. And took that to be mine. So That It is just really one of the seeds.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (50:55)
And You know, I definitely have You know, my parents were supportive even though a lot of things they did weren’t really good examples. But. They definitely did the best that they could do to support their kids.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (51:15)
And I am very fortunate for the support system that I have for my sister, who was in the navy for 20 years who let me come and crash at her house in Virginia. When I was going through a rough spot after living in China for 5 years and And friends who loan me money to get a ticket, to get back here and on and on and on and support system. And the people who’ve stayed in touch, and who knows what It’s it hasn’t been done in a vacuum.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (51:45)
And it hasn’t been done alone. And even though I spent a lot of time by myself, because I just don’t really vibe with sometimes a lot of the things that people are doing. Even these people who have helped me.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (51:55)
We just have a lot of different perspectives on life. But I haven’t done this alone, and I’m not doing it alone. As much as I seem to be in a lot of ways, you know, I just I was it just hit me the other day.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (52:13)
This term. An extroverted introvert, but I guess if I’m going to put some kind of label that really does define a very definitive part of my existence and experience. And But again, it’s related to this idea.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (52:34)
I’m I’m I might be. I might self-isolate, but I’m not alone. There’s a lot of people out there, you know, my brother, Malin, who It works at either car salesman.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (52:52)
He gave me a bicycle which I rode for 20 miles to go to that job at the green parrot that I was talking about earlier, which then ceded another relationship, which then got me a job work, another place which then I was able to save money and then go to his dealership and buy a used car. And then use that car to drive Uber and then save up enough money in a month, to be able to then put a down payment on a new car. And on and on and on right and just keep building and moving forward and onwards.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (53:22)
And now I have a different barrier that I need to break through, because I noticed that there’s a plateau that I’ve gotten to, which is Which is, when I when I look at it, has been A A thread in my life it’s sort of like a ceiling and I need to break through that. And I’m and I’m feeling what that is because Like this event that’s coming up the Virginia Beach, healthy, living EXPO. There I have opportunity to be a presenter and do demonstrations there and introduce kapo kapagera and hypno Athletics to a wider audience, and I feel some excitement there which I was before thinking about it as anxiety.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (54:15)
But no, it’s excitement, and it’s because I care. And because I want to make sure that the impact that I share is going to be the best that it can be. And I show app all the time, and I’m well received, and I have a really strong history of when I show up, I show up in full force.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (54:34)
And so there’s no reason for this to be any different. It’s just the way it is. I you know, even when I make mistakes or you know.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (54:46)
If something doesn’t go exactly the way that I want it to. I’ve learned to just while I’m in it. If I’m in a live event, I’m just going to recover and go and you know what?

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (54:57)
Kapoeta and the improvisational nature of that and all of the improvised music that I’ve done in so many things that I’ve improvised my way through in life. And come out on top. It’s it’s really Been quite impressive and now Now I’m realizing that I had to come.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (55:20)
I’m realizing to combine that with a little bit of tweaking and planning and building some other systems, and I can see how These things that are seeming to be overnight, successes that are happening right now are developing And so I’m very fortunate and I wish everybody the best and I’m excited for the things to come and I’m glad that I’ve maintained the type of position and mindset and physical discipline. And mental discipline that I have, because Now I have this experience, this experience that I can share.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (56:05)
And I’m and I’m certain about it, and I’m also certain about the uncertainty. I’m certain that I don’t know everything. And I’m certain that I’m going to continue doing what I’m doing, which is to remain open-minded.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (56:19)
And to understand that things can change in new information can develop and technology will improve or and so on and so forth. And that there’s no reason to be stagnant in any way, shape or form Hypno Athletics is exercising your mind. You have no Athletics, has been exercising.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (56:41)
My mind.

Speaker 2 (56:46)
Hi, I’m Hakeem.

Dr Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander PhD (56:47)
Alibokas Alexander.