Keith Mitchell

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By positive person, I mean someone who's developing themselves to grow and help us solve problems in our world. That's the only way we are going to advance humanity. We have to develop ourselves as humans. I call it universal man, universal woman, to be the ones who step into those roles to make the changes we want to see. We have to do more. We can't avoid those areas. They affect us. We can't create these kumbayas and think everything's going to be okay because ultimately it's going to invade us at some point. We have to get involved, and those are social injustices. Wherever we are flawed in our system, we have to step in and represent, and that's what I'm called to do now.

And now I had to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, who am I now?' or, 'Who do I want to be?' And I was in that predicament. I feel for people who haven't found their purpose. I feel it takes some real questioning and answering and you have to be unapologetic with your answers. You cannot make excuses. You can't run away from the hard questions. You must ask yourself, and when you speak your truth to yourself, then it begins to present the path that you must take. It's like a thing where people can speak it, think it, know it, and how you get to that space.

I begin to be the student and I begin to look at the world as an opportunity to learn, from nutrition, from everything that I have a desire to do, whether it be relationships. I begin to put formulas together to realize and search out masters who have presented themselves as such, and be the student and learn from them and learn from my own mistakes and put it together and I've seen myself grow tremendously. Mastery comes through repetition. It's not just doing it to do it. It's asking, how can I be more efficient? How can I be better? How can I be a master at what I'm doing? In life, I feel we have the opportunity to be here for what we have problems. Well, we learn to solve it. We learn to evolve with it. We learn to take advantage of this opportunity of being in nature, learning how the medicines, how the universe, if you believe in the higher power, that's presented things from the medicines on the planet to take advantage of, and I begin to follow that lead and be a student and learn.

The medicine that's presented, it starts with the diet and what we consume. There's a real thing, in my opinion. I don't know if it's really as public or in the open as much. When you talk about high blood pressure and how that affects the mind, decision making, you talk about diabetes, you talk about all these diseases that we have in our society. It affects the way that we think. It affects our interaction, our engagement with people. It affects how we perceive ourselves. So it's kind of like when the doctor says, take this and then come back in two weeks and let's see how you are. We have to create a pallet for ourselves to take and be open to the positive information that's going to allow us to heal and have the mindset to have a pallet also to take in new insight about ourselves and what we're choosing and wanting to do. I learned in the Amazon, I learned the indigenous way of eating and how to nourish my body. I share that from that perspective. I have a detoxing retreat that I do for seven days teaching people how to eat and the importance of nutrition.

She told me that when we breathe a shallow breath, the heart and lungs don't need your help. But what becomes stagnant are the internal organs. Then she told me, or I found out, that the liver controls anger, the kidney controls fear, and the intestines control worry. I was like, 'Wow, this is a whole dynamic that I didn't even understand.' So now you can go into pH balance, and really, what air and pH levels are, it's a processing mechanism. Now I can process the moment. Through the practice of processing the moment, I begin to build an emotional maturity around the situations, or any situations, that I'm dealing with. So now I can make a more constructive choice. And that's a powerful tool to have as a human.

What have I discovered my purpose to be? Well, I'm learning daily, and I get challenged daily. However, I feel the life experience I lived began to show me things that I experienced that I had questions about, and I dove into them. I made the decisions that created pain and disorder, and I see others doing the same thing, or on their way to doing it. I feel the opportunity of going through experiences just to share them with others so they don't have to hit the same brick wall that we hit. I feel the human is the medicine. I've learned that. We are to have the experiences for whatever reason, and by having those experiences we are to ultimately help others avoid them so we can create the evolution of humanity. I feel what I'm doing now feeds my soul. The amount of people, because I was in stadiums, you have hundreds of thousands of people, millions watching, all that attention, all that rush, but it's a distance, it's a disconnect. Here, in this space, I get to have the one-on-one. I get to look into each other's eyes, and I get to share insight and help them move from one space to another.

I begin to be the student and I begin to look at the world as an opportunity to learn, from nutrition, from everything that I have a desire to do, whether it be relationships. I begin to put formulas together to realize and search out masters who have presented themselves as such, and have presented themselves as such and be the student and learn from them and learn from my own mistakes and put it together and I've seen myself grow tremendously. Again, I still make mistakes, but I feel myself still progressing in a way that I feel I would have never progressed as such. The work that I do, I do an array of work. Dr. Sei was my teacher in nutrition. In my healing, I began to migrate to Honduras. I've been there 17 times and he was my teacher. I learned in the Amazon, I learned the indigenous way of eating and how to nourish my body.

Keith curates transformative retreats worldwide, designed to foster connection, healing, and conscious problem-solving.

The work that I do, I do an array of work. Dr. Sei was my teacher in nutrition. In my healing, I began to migrate to Honduras. I've been there 17 times and he was my teacher. I learned in the Amazon, I learned the indigenous way of eating and how to nourish my body. I share that from that perspective. I have a detoxing retreat that I do for seven days teaching people how to eat and the importance of nutrition. I have an intimacy mastery retreat that I do from a standpoint of how we take the meditation that we learn, how we integrate that, how we have challenging conversations, how we show up in the world as the masculine and as the feminine. We put that dynamic to a test to learn because where else are we going to learn?

Well, the biggest struggle is when you get into going against the norm, going the opposite of the herd. You're speaking English, but you might as well speak a foreign language because a lot of people are not going to get it. You begin to disrupt the notion of conditioning. You begin to realize how we've gained the information that we hold on to. We call it belief. We call it faith even. And when you get to the bottom of it, it's just because someone told you so. And so what is your truth? This is why we talk about speaking your truth. What is your truth? A lot of people don't have that truth. This is why they lack confidence, because they have questions about what they've been told, but they're not sure or they haven't been bold enough to go down the tunnel of questioning it or realizing maybe a different way. So they lack confidence. I feel for people who haven't found their purpose. I feel it takes some real questioning and answering and you have to be unapologetic with your answers. You cannot make excuses. You can't run away from the hard questions. You must ask yourself, and when you speak your truth to yourself, then it begins to present the path that you must take.

Luckily for me, or ironically for me, I found yoga, which is union. I found myself. I'm all about creative ways of doing it differently. On the hill, we worked with Congressman Tim Ryan. We created the Congressional Yoga Association when former President Obama was in office. Tim Ryan is an amazing friend of mine, a yogi too. Can you believe it? Congressman from Ohio. I was on the hill a lot. Charles Wrangle, we would do stuff with the kids in Harlem, just showing and showcasing a different effect instead of coming to the schools and talking about sports where 1% make it. I feel there's another opportunity.

How did I figure out what's next? I think the compelling insight is breathing. I talked about while in the hospital, the nurse talking to me about breathing and really conceptualizing what breathing does, the capacity of breathing for the organs, emotion, and the body's wisdom. That really clicked for me. In a sense of being an athlete my whole life, it's like, why have I never thought about that? And it stuck with me. What's else is there? And then realizing, oh, now I have a tool to combat the situation that I'm in. She told me, 'Do you know what happens when you breathe?' She says, 'On the inhale, the diaphragm pushes down. On the exhale, it pushes up.' She told me that when we breathe a shallow breath, the heart and lungs don't need your help. But what becomes stagnant are the internal organs. Then she told me, or I found out, that the liver controls anger, the kidney controls fear, and the intestines control worry. I was like, 'Wow, this is a whole dynamic that I didn't even understand.' Now I can process the moment. Through the practice of processing the moment, I begin to build an emotional maturity around the situations, or any situations, that I'm dealing with. So now I can make a more constructive choice. And that's a powerful tool to have as a human.

And on this particular day, my eighth season or seventh season playing, I made a tackle I had made so many times in my life from high school, college, pros, and I ended up on my back, and in this particular place I lost all movement. Through that, I was diagnosed with a spinal contusion, and my whole life that I invested into this character was gone, and all I had known myself to be, all I had known myself to do, was be the sports person. That character was gone. And now I had to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, who am I now, or who do I want to be?' And I was in that predicament. Luckily for me, or ironically for me, I found yoga, which is union. I found myself.