Episode 03: The Science of Well-being

Discover why life’s toughest challenges are actually your greatest teachers and how resistance reveals who you truly are. In this episode of Common-Sense Wellness, Dr. Martin dives into how life is designed to teach us who we are not, using resistance and stress as tools for growth. He explains how early experiences shape stress patterns in the body, creating unconscious habits and conflicts between the mind’s desires and the body’s conditioning. Listeners learn how unresolved traumas replay through everyday triggers and how awareness of these patterns can transform challenges into opportunities for insight, healing, and authentic living. Key Takeaways: We are here to learn through contrast, experiencing what it feels like to be who we are not, and resistance is the mechanism that creates growth and understanding. Life brings specific people, places, circumstances, and events that resist our authentic nature, creating stress patterns that shape behavior and identity. The body can become conditioned to stress hormones, leading to unconscious addiction to familiar emotional states formed early in life. There is an ongoing conflict between the mind’s desire to live in alignment with the soul and the body’s addiction to opposing stress-based patterns. Unresolved experiences repeat across life through new situations and triggers until they are consciously understood and integrated. Connect With Dr. Gary Martin: Website: https://biri.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commonsense.wellness/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61584201081424 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-martin-962403397/