Finding Balance in an Overstimulated World

In today’s episode, I sit down with Craig Goldberg, co-founder of InHarmony, to discuss the relationship between relaxation, nervous system regulation, and peak performance. Craig shares how vibroacoustic therapy uses sound and vibration to encourage deep relaxation, helping people manage stress and avoid burnout. We discuss the importance of balancing recovery with productivity, the differences between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system responses, and how technology can support physical and emotional well-being. Craig also shares powerful personal stories from people who have experienced his technology firsthand, reminding us that achieving our full potential begins with creating harmony within ourselves. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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  Welcome to Office Hours. I'm David Meltzer. We're here live at the Sirius XM Studios at The Win in Las Vegas. And our next guest is one of my favorite people. He's gold. He's Goldberg. His name's Craig Goldberg, and he's a co-founder of In Harmony, the expert in vibroacoustic therapy and a practitioner of relaxation as well. And we're about to learn so much about being at ease. Welcome back to Office Hours, Craig Goldberg.

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  Honored to be here. Thank you for having me.

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  You know, there's a lot of SKUs now that In Harmony has in a lot of different modalities, but they're all seem to be aimed at one thing, putting us at ease.

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  I try to teach people to identify what puts you at dis ease, but I really don't have the tools, other than referring them to you, to be at ease. And there's a different philosophy of identifying what puts you at dis ease, shorting the distance of that resistance compared to just being at ease. What are some of the latest and greatest at In Harmony that allow people to be at ease? And what benefit does it have?

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  I'm smirking because I don't like talking about stuff until it's in the warehouse. I've got stuff we're working on that I can't talk about yet, but it's huge.

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  But you've got enough products already.

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  We got, you know what? There's more coming. So look, all of our products are focused on, yes, ease and grace and relaxation, but all of that, as it relates to the flip side of that, which is peak performance. So your rest is as important as your go time or your uptime, your downtime, as important as your uptime. So that ease and relaxation is all about resting and doing that really well, so that we can then flip the script to peak performance and activate and really be on point to perform in all the different ways that we need to perform. And there's a variety of different ways to do that. We do it through sound and vibration through our vibroacoustic products. We have seven of them. And then we do it through our red light and near infrared products. We have two of those, along with a motorized stand. And then we have some

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  new products that haven't come out yet that are very close. And they're on their way too. But it's all about peak performance and taking care of the biochemical aspects of the body to keep you in peak performance longer without burnout.

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  You know, one of the things I'm curious about, you know, I got a chance to lay in the bed a couple of times.

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  The lounge?

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  The lounge. It was amazing. I, of course, you know, it's a unique experience. One of the things that comes to my mind, I would like to know, as I try to explain this to people, it's very difficult for me to articulate to them, the experience I have on this chair. However, I'm sure, I mean, we were talking a little bit about how, when people, like their reactions when they walk away. And I would just like for you to share a little bit about some of the experiences people have shared with you, maybe something that sticks out, that might help me, you know, tell people like, I know how amazing it was, but how might I help them understand that?

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  So I've probably put tens of thousands of people on the technology. And, and I am the face of our organization. So I'm the guy that replies to all of the social media. I'm the guy who replies to all the comments. And, and I've done events like we have today where I've literally put 100 people a day on our technology. Anywhere from two minute demos to full sessions, 22 minutes, you did 13 minutes. And some of the responses are that I've changed somebody's life, that they didn't understand what deep relaxation actually felt like. Some of the most moving experiences I've had, it's one of our top played ads. It's got millions of views on it. And it's my dear

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  friend, Josh Soto. It was in my living room, dropped down on the sound lounge, did 22 minutes or 33 minutes. It was a longer session, came up in tears. And I don't often have a camera in somebody's face when they get off the sound lounge, unless I tell them ahead of time. And I told him, hey, I'm gonna have a camera going. And he said, no problem. He was in tears. And he was, he basically said that it took him to a place that was really beautiful and gorgeous on camera. And as soon as the camera came off, I mean, he was crying. He was moved. It was beautiful and this experience that he had. And, and as, as the camera, as I turned the camera off, he told me that that was the first time he sat with his mother since she passed. And that not only did

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  he sit and have a conversation with his mom, which, who had passed a year or two before, but that he felt like he spent an eternity with her. And that it was the most beautiful experience he's ever had. I don't know if there's anything better than that.

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  100%.

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  Right?

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  I love it.

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  Jealous.

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  Yeah, that's amazing.

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  Like remarkable, right? So that perspective shift. Now, I don't know exactly what the relationship was. I don't know if there was a hatchet to bury. I don't know what it was that that was so beautiful about that experience. But to be able to give somebody that experience through a technology that I created and one 22 minute experience, it's, it's just, it's beautiful how this technology can change lives.

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  Craig, I got so many questions for you, man. I could take up the whole 20 minutes.

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  From the top.

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  I don't know where to start because, you know, I really started getting, I played football, back when they actually played real football, where we were talking yesterday, where the two a days, three a days, when they hit, and you know, you, your body took, it took a toll. You know, the hitting took a toll on you. And then after, that's in the 80s, right? And early 90s. And then just recently, I, well, not recently, but I read a book on, it's called Breath. And I can't remember who the author is, but I got into this whole relaxation thing. And then there's another book about frequency. I can't remember the guy's name. He's, he's famous. I was trying

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  to look it up on my audiobook. But once I found that wavelength or that frequency, it's a real thing. My question is, how, how do I, you know, fine tune that frequency if I don't have it at the beginning, or I want to get on that wavelength? How do I do that?

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  So it's less about the external and more about the internal. So I get this question a lot. How do I know what frequency for my client? How do I know what? It's less about that. It's more about what happens to your body when you're listening to music, when you're laying on our technology, when you're being exposed to the many different frequencies even in this room. Your body is like a big antenna, constantly coming into and out of harmonic resonance with the frequencies that you're presented with. It's not about being presented with 432 and getting into harmonic resonance with 432. It's more about what happens when your body is feeling those vibrations. And as it relates to our technology in particular, I call it relaxation from the

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  outside in. What we see in the brain and the body is a return to a 10 hertz frequency, which is actually the flicker of a candle and flames or a fire, fireplace flickering, whether it's gas or wood, it doesn't matter. It's flickering at a 10 hertz frequency. And there's a lot of science and research that shows that the resonant frequency of the human body is somewhere between 5 hertz and 16 hertz. It averages about 10 hertz. When you go out into nature, Lake Mead, the desert, forests, you can measure the frequency of those environments. It's about 10 hertz. So there's an alpha brainwave in the brain is about 10 hertz. So it's not about the external, I'm listening to music that's tuned to 432 hertz, or I'm listening to 432 hertz frequency. It's more about what

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  happens in the inner monologue. What frequency is, are your synapses firing? What frequency is your body vibrating at? And, and that's the sequence that, that you really start to need to focus on from that. It's not necessarily about the external frequency, but instead what happens internally in your body.

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  What if I'm amped, right? And I got this, like inflammation in my body from playing or, you know, you, you know, I'm a lawyer too. Sometimes you get so amped up. How do I get it back? I want to get, I want to get into harmony right now.

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  So you're amped up, the very, the very, the, the very fact that you're amped up means you're in a sympathetic nervous system response. You're having a response to something that's happening. The body only has one response to stress. Whether it's physical, emotional, mental, relational, nutritional, financial, it doesn't matter. That emotional and mental side of things would be the lawyer and the attorney side. The physical side of things would be the football player, amped up kind of side of things. When you're amped and you're ready to go, the body only has one response, kicks up cortisol, kicks up adrenaline, you're in that sympathetic nervous system response. My technology kicks in the chemical cascades associated with the parasympathetic, the opposite of that. Now, here's the important part. When you're in that sympathetic nervous system response,

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  your body has a different set of priorities than when you're in a parasympathetic nervous system response. Your body's in fight or flight. But the real, the real way that I like to label that is survival mode. Think of an animal backed into a corner when it's in survival mode. What percentage of its energy does it want to put forth surviving and saving itself? 100% of its energy. Well, in order for it to do that, it has to turn off your brain, which uses 20% of your energy consumption every day, needs to turn off digestion, needs to turn off your immune system, needs to turn off your reproductive organs, needs to turn off a whole swath of different maintenance mode tasks that are happening in the body to divert that energy to survival mode. That's great if it's on the field, even three times a day, that'd be a lot to be in that

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  sympathetic nervous system response. If you're running a three a day, or if you're an attorney, it could be day after day, month after month, week after week, for eight, 10, 12 hours a day. That's where chronic ailments and chronic dis ease begins to settle in. The flip side is you want to spend most of your time in a parasympathetic nervous system response, when your body's in maintenance mode. It allows cells to divide and multiply. It allows to rework the detox aspects of your body. Your body functions the way it was so beautifully and gloriously designed, miraculously designed to operate. So it's really sympathetic versus parasympathetic. And we want to spend more time in parasympathetic, and that's what our technology does. I call it relaxation from the outside in, because all you have to do is recognize that you're stressed and anxious,

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  lay down, push play. 22 minutes later, you're going to wake up in that parasympathetic, and you're going to stay there until the next stimuli comes.

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  And you do categorize

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  Oh, yeah.

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  that we want to. So if it's grief that you're dealing with or other types of trauma, you can address it. You don't have to know the frequency.

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  Not even.

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  That best allows you to be harmonious with the dis-ease that you're experiencing.

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  That's right.

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  Mental, physical, spiritual, emotional. So I've been a user of the vibroacoustic lounge and even the red bed that goes over my lounge to give even a greater impact on harmonious living and being at ease. Rhea, this is right up your alley.

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  It is. So excited to share about that because of course, as a Feng Shui master, we talk all about creating harmony and to what we call the yin and yang combination. And it's literally what you're bringing is that frequency level, you know, a lot of people don't know how to create that balance, that harmony in themselves between two different parts of the nervous system. And so you have created the, the tools, right, for people to get there fast. Because I think right now, people don't have time anymore, right,

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  to get to, or perhaps they need to walk for a few hours at the beach or climb a mountain. And that kind of vibration that we're creating when we do that, you can get that in 22 minutes, right? That's exactly what you're doing. So you talk also about mental health issues, how that can help with mental health issues, especially for the younger generation that really needs that. Is that something you can relate to it?

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  So look, 740,000 people around the world per year take their own lives. That's one every 40 seconds. Most of the time, it's because of a dysregulated nervous system. Think about that. Your nervous system is reacting to the outside world, looking for threats. It's finding threats that aren't actually life-threatening and making them life-threatening to a point where that voice and that inner monologue makes you think like the only way that you can leave, the only way that you can deal with this, the only way that you can make it right is to take your own life.

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  Yeah.

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  And there's a whole, I mean, obviously, there's an entire disarray of mental health issues that go along with that. But 740,000 people a year, it's a number that we want to absolutely change. We work with PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, treatment-resistant anxiety. And it's a tricky point. There's a term now that, that, look, we've been talking about this for 10 years. We've been making and manufacturing vibroacoustic therapy. But over the last six, eight months, it's really been about nervous system dysregulation. And, and what is that? Well, it's, it's a nervous system reaction, that sympathetic nervous system reaction that is misfiring or triggered for whatever that reason might be. And look, there's a lot going on in this world. Just look outside in the casino that's

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  right outside this beautifully quiet room. It's a very overstimulating world. We have cell phones that are constantly trying to get our attention. I would say hundreds of thousands of multimillion dollar marketing budgets that are constantly trying to get your attention as well. So there's a lot to be distracted. And technology, I have this saying, technology got into this mess, got us into this mess, technology can get us out.

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  Beautiful, thank you.

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  And we can use that to help regulate the nervous system and get you back into that parasympathetic, as I mentioned before.

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  He's eloquent and intelligent. You can see why we invite him back to educate us on the most powerful tool that we have is self and being at ease so that we can connect to and through what I call an omniscient, all-powerful, infinite, abundant, unified system of thought that lives in harmonious unity and allows us to truly reach our potential. Craig Goldberg, Changing Lives, co-founder of InHarmony. He is a certified vibroacoustic therapist, practitioner, relaxation expert, and technologist, and an extraordinary entrepreneur, and I dare to say a good friend. Thank you, Craig, for joining us.

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  Thank you, brother.

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  Thank you.

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  We are blessed in all modalities here on Office Hours.