Get ready for a no-holds-barred exploration of life and why we’re all here. Each week, world-renowned Holistic Health Practitioner Paul Chek and his guests will tackle topics like spirituality and metaphysics, human performance, diet, science, plant medicine, relationships, sexuality, lifestyle, and personal development with a depth and honesty that you won’t find anywhere else. Previously called Living 4D with Paul Chek, the podcast changed name to Spirit Gym with Paul Chek on Episode 300.
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370 — How to Stay Human When Machines Get Smarter With Jeff Burningham
Episode 370
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 • Duration 02:28:26
Several weeks ago, Paul dissected the good and the bad of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the tech side on Spirit Gym with tech consultant/UX researcher Rachel Miles.
A huge question remained unanswered after that conversation: How do we retain our humanity amid the avalanche of AI tech?
Jeff explains why the presence of AI is an important reminder to embrace our humanity and how the beauty in life is not trying to achieve perfection but to relish in its messiness and imperfection this week on Spirit Gym.
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369— 5-7-5: The Simple Poetry Formula That Heals With Anne Helfer
Episode 369
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 • Duration 02:04:52
Remember the good ol’ days in elementary school when your teacher introduced you to haiku, a Japanese form of poetry based on syllables, not rhyming?
Psychotherapist and author Anne Helfer describes haiku as the rap of expressive writing that unlocks the door to emotions hidden deep inside and leads to even deeper healing.
Anne explains how the 5-7-5 formula behind haiku is a simple healing exercise in mindfulness and why more people should follow her Silver Rule this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Anne and her work as a psychotherapist, author and healer on Instagram.
Timestamps
6:22 Anne’s maternal abandonment, wounding and emotional neglect.
11:57 Teaching people how to externalize their truths by writing simple, condensed haiku is an exercise of mindfulness.
24:25 Anne’s Silver Rule.
36:04 Learning how to be comfortable without certainty.
40:44 Writing haiku is a practice.
47:37 Why do people live in their left brain?
54:40 Numerology and the structure of haiku.
1:00:07 “Renaissance woman, professional amateur, master of nothing.”
1:14:40 Learn to enjoy the glimmers.
1:25:30 Is it possible to breathe deeply through your womb/pelvis and use that experience to create haiku/mantras of focus, relaxation and calm?
1:38:16 How the Japanese language affects the benefits of using haiku (or not).
1:46:09 The impact high tech has on the world has forced Anne to stop working with kids.
360 — The Shocking Truth About Nutrient Loss in Food With Dr. Autumn Smith
Episode 360
Tuesday, August 26, 2025 • Duration 01:38:49
No matter how many resources of great scientific information that are available to us, how little you don’t know about the foods you eat can be the difference between living the good life and one full of sickness.
Dr. Autumn Smith, co-founder of Paleovalley and Wild Pastures, knows this all too well as a once very sick person who healed herself via nutrition (with help from Paul via CD) many years ago.
Autumn shares her life’s continuing food as medicine mission, her recent Ph.D. studies on nutrient densities of meat and her concerns about efficiency over ecology in the food industry this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Autumn’s inspiring journey on YouTube and watch her eight-part ReThink Meat series here. Follow Autumn via social media on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Timestamps
4:07 What people really don’t know about the food they eat.
11:09 Could farm-to-table nutrition in schools be part of our future?
29:03 Our top soil may run out within 60-80 years.
43:16 The most common reaction to food sensitivities for pork consumption.
52:31 “We prioritize efficiency over ecology.”
1:01:38 Are synthetic vitamins really good for your health?
EP 270 — Dr. Nathan Riley and Mimi Lindquist: Unveiling HPV: What You Need to Know
Episode 270
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 • Duration 02:11:35
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease in America and has been linked to health problems from genital warts to a list of cancers, including cervical cancer among women. Those concerns have spurred a push for HPV vaccinations, typically among young teens, but are they your only options before or after a positive test? ?
Dr. Nathan Riley and Mimi Lindquist explain what everyone needs to know about HPV, how to proceed after receiving a positive test and what you can do to protect yourself in this very revealing Living 4D conversation.
Why men and women need to know more about HPV. (6:44)
Who do you trust? (16:57)
EP 269 — Adriaan Zimmerman and Ret Taylor: Nature’s Pharmacy
Episode 269
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 • Duration 02:46:45
Do you give much thought to the products you use and the foods you eat every day and the companies that produce them? Choose the passive approach — like most people do — and you’re giving up all responsibility for the health of your mind and your body, plus making the pockets of Big Pharma/Big Ag fatter.
Throughout his long career, Paul has always been the iconoclast, sharing safer and healthier approaches to daily living that start with investing your dollars in foods and products you consume from clean sources.
So what really constitutes a healthy, clean source?
Adriaan Zimmerman and Ret Taylor describe the journeys they’ve taken to create Ned, a company that produces an array of organic botanical products derived from non-GMO resources straight from regenerative farms in this restorative Living 4D conversation.
For Living 4D listeners: Save 15 percent off your first purchase of any Ned products, including Mello Magnesium, The De-Stress Set, Brain Blend and The Sleep Set, at . Use the promo code CHEK at checkout to receive your discount!
EP 268 — Gary Greenfield: Water Essentials
Episode 268
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 • Duration 03:00:44
Most people treat water as a necessity for human sustenance, but you’d think that such an important part of our lives would merit much more attention, care and reverence.
This week on Living 4D, explore a very different way of looking at water with respect and love with Gary Greenfield in this Living 4D conversation.
The contaminated information in purified wastewater. (10:47)
The story of creation. (17:01)
Aether and water. (26:28)
Everything is connected in nature. (33:50)
Reverse osmosis: The best way to filter water. (42:09)
The invisible qualities of energy. (54:58)
Placing structured water devices in strategic locations throughout a town can eliminate the need for cleaning chemicals. (1:07:37)
A toxic switch from chlorine to chloramine. (1:12:02)
EP 267 — Paul Chek: Are You Spent?
Episode 267
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 • Duration 02:15:47
Have you reached the 2023 holiday season and wondered why you’re feeling so exhausted, tired and spent?
Luckily, Paul has been thinking a lot about this problem many of you are facing this holiday season and has some strategies that can help you recharge your batteries and give yourself the gift of good health in this special Living 4D podcast.
Do you think a lot about the mysteries that lie beyond the mundane matrix of daily living and why things happen, often against humanity?
Begin to pierce the veil of the matrix with guidance from Paul and his special guest, filmmaker, actor, author and truth-seeker Sean Stone, in this exploratory Living 4D conversation.
Learn more about Sean and his work on his website where you can learn more about his writings, his workshops — Heart Magic and The Art of Success — and book a consultation. Watch his six-part documentary series, Best Kept Secret, on Vimeo.
Meet YaHuMa, a uniquely gifted man whose skills span the worlds of martial arts, poetry, music, Shamanism and art, in this very spiritual Living 4D conversation.
Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Ari Honarvar and
EP 264 — Jason Pickard, Chase Ramey and Mimi Lindquist: Abundance in Relationships
Episode 264
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 • Duration 02:53:46
Are the relationships with the loved ones in your life the perfect everything, or are you looking for a deeper connection?
Learn how to achieve abundance in your relationships with the friends and family on Your Dream Team with help from the amazing Jason Pickard along with Mimi Lindquist and Chase Ramey, hosts of TheMedicin podcast, who found their way back from divorce to a beautiful, fulfilling life in this illuminating Living 4D conversation.
For Living 4D listeners: Jason is offering a $500 savings on his The Abundance Archetype Method course. When you register, mention Paul Chek in the answer to the question How did you hear about the abundance archetype? to get this discount.
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