Why Most People Aren’t as Relaxed as They Think | Barak Swarttz

In this episode of Common Denominator, I sit down with Barak Swarttz, founder of GRIT For Good and a former trainer to more than 20 NBA and WNBA players, for a conversation that starts with reframing pain and expands into consciousness, faith, and what it really takes to stay grounded in a divided world. Barak walks us through the medium session that connected him to the grandfather he never met, born just two weeks after his grandfather passed, and what that conversation revealed about the belief systems quietly running his life.

We get into why most high performers skip the inner work that actually builds lasting strength, David Hawkins’ map of consciousness and what it means for your daily emotional state, the four pillars Barak uses to raise his own consciousness (self-worth, self-love, surrender, sovereignty), and the lesson he carries from a group of kids with nothing in Soweto, South Africa.

This is a conversation about grief, belief, and what it takes to actually do the work most people avoid.

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0:00 Sport, music and food: the three universal bridges
4:00 Growing up between the US and Israel during the Second Intifada
8:00 How to stop judging people the work behind the calm
14:00 Joseph’s story: the most powerful reframe in the Bible
19:00 The map of consciousness David Hawkins explained
24:00 The war on consciousness: fear, media and the collective mind
28:00 How to raise your consciousness the 4 S’s
33:00 Pen to paper: the hardest and most important tool
38:00 The medium session with his grandfather — what he said
44:00 Soweto, South Africa and what kids with nothing taught him
47:00 GRIT For Good building resilient communities worldwide
52:00 Astrology, consciousness coaching and 1% better every day

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