Pavel Stuchlik (NOA|AON) joins Teemu Arina for a truly profound exploration of different perspectives on the self through mindful presence, meditation and manifestation.

Pavel is an expert in self-realization technique & application, international conscious DJ/Producer, a serial impact entrepreneur & investor, a certified Ambassador of Peace and a Wim Hof Method instructor. NOA means movement, AON means "all or none". NOA|AON is bringing people back to their center in union with others. He created the BDM method to combine all of the most effective tools and wisdom from around the world to share with others.

Learn more about Pavel and NOA|AON at https://www.noaaon.com!

This conversation was recorded in December 2023.

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Key moments and takeaways:

00:00 Introduction by Teemu Arina

03:46 Pavel's background

04:43 First steps as an entrepreneur

05:25 Professional cycling

06:09 The first burnout

06:38 Biohacking and Wim Hof

06:55 Travelling to the USA & starting businesses

08:54 Leaving Orange Theory & the second burnout

09:25 Outside the comfort zone every 3 months

10:10 The first darkroom experience & vision of NOA|AON

11:27 Workshops & retreats

11:40 Losing everything & starting fresh

12:39 Teemu reacts to Pavel's story; darkness retreats

15:25 Pavel's repeated 10-day darkroom experiences

18:08 How the body & mind respond to complete isolation

21:20 More details on the darkroom

22:34 The process of unhooking; from darkroom to everyday life

26:07 Everything is connected; micro to macro

27:25 Learning through love & joy as opposed to pain

28:04 Teemu's take on processing trauma

30:31 The misconception of "success"

32:09 Life is a lot simpler than we make it seem

32:28 The "me", "we" and "be"

33:53 Software directs hardware; mind directs body

35:13 Disengaging the autopilot

36:43 Some people get wet, others feel the rain on their skin

37:23 Teemu recalls how Pavel handled a mishap at the Biohacker Summit in Amsterdam 2022

39:03 The difference between surrender and not giving a f*ck; react or accept

40:32 Teemu remembers handling a blackout during a well-prepared presentation

42:19 How Android Jones handled losing all his work in a fire

43:48 Every loss leads to a new gain

44:53 Five physical senses & four spiritual senses

48:33 When you think, you don't know; when you know, you don't need to think

50:03 From "me" to "we"

52:29 The four-step process

54:14 Wake up, clean up, power up, and rest up

54:42 Teemu's detachment from materialism & the minimalist approach

56:19 Obsessive control & psychosomatic feedback

57:48 When your belief system starts to rule you

58:46 We have to be OK when things don't go our way

59:06 Darkroom experiences vs. biohacking

60:15 Reframing the concept of a virus/pandemic

61:51 "System Reset" - how it works & a basic exercise

66:38 Teemu's experiment with HRV monitors during a stressful 2-day event

68:48 Another simple breathing exercise to increase HRV

69:50 Body awareness - where am I?

71:17 Pay attention to the silence beneath the noise

72:32 Breathing & its effects during a conversation

74:28 Listening vs. listening to oneself

75:26 Recalling an entire conversation

76:35 It's not easy to be social when you've reached a certain level of conversation

77:20 The plane mantra

77:56 Humility in the face of the very idea of manned flight

79:27 Where to learn more about...