Good morning! In today's newsletter, I'll dive deep into practical ancient healing methods that modern science now validates—and how conscious energy management can transform both your personal performance and your leadership impact on teams.
Missed last week’s insights on The Body Keeps Score? Here’s the link to catch up before diving into this week’s edition.
The Integration: Ancient Healing Practices for Modern Performance
Throughout this series, we've explored how quantum physics validates ancient wisdom about our energetic nature, and how trauma creates physical imprints in our bodies. Now comes the crucial part: how do we integrate these insights into practical methods for healing and enhanced performance?
Einstein once said, "You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it." This profound insight is particularly relevant when it comes to healing trauma and transforming our lives. The very mindset that got us stuck in chronic stress, performance anxiety, and disconnection from our bodies—the rational, mechanistic, "fix-it" mentality of modern life—cannot be the same mindset that liberates us.
This is why modern medicine often falls short when dealing with trauma and chronic conditions. By focusing solely on physical symptoms and chemical interventions, it misses the fundamental truth that ancient wisdom traditions have always known: we are complex energy beings whose healing must encompass body, mind, and spirit.
Universal Principles of Energy Healing
What's fascinating about studying different healing traditions is how they arrive at similar fundamental principles, despite developing independently across different cultures and times. Whether we look at Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, or Indigenous healing practices, we find common threads:
Energy Must Flow
Blockages create disease.
Health requires circulation.
Stagnation leads to deterioration.
Everything is Connected
Physical affects Mental affects Spiritual (and vice versa!).
Individual energy affects the collective.
Local treatment impacts the whole system.
Consciousness Plays a Role
Intention affects healing.
Awareness facilitates change.
Mindset shapes outcomes.
Modern science is now validating these principles through research in:

Practical Integration Methods
In this final section, I’ll cite some of the most relevant ancient timeless methods to initiate healing. But most importantly, they represent an entry gate for anyone willing to go beyond the traditional “biohacking” journey to truly experience holistic wellbeing and lasting sustained peak performance states. As we said, conventional Western practice is solely working on the chemical composition of our biology.
1) The Bridge of Breath
Breath is our most immediate tool for energy regulation. Traditional practices like pranayama aren't just about breathing; they're sophisticated methods for energy management. Modern research shows breath patterns directly affect:
Vagal tone
Brain wave patterns
Cellular oxygenation
Emotional regulation
Key Integration Practices:
1) Coherence Breathing
2) Energy Cultivation Breath (Here I selected a guided breath exercise from Tibetan monks “Tummo Breathing”)
3) Trauma Release Tapping Exercises (Here you can practice these exercises via both controlled breathing or not. I selected this video as it was the best at explaining “how it works”. Feel free to choose others for your practice afterward!)
Movement as Energy Medicine
This is what so many people get wrong and I want to clarify one thing: lifting weights at the gym is NOT a rigorous energy movement. Especially if you are not practicing proper body weight exercises. Then there is the issue of practicing these “sports” indoors, completely filled by indoor air pollutants and artificial lighting, but that’s another story
Traditional movement systems weren't designed just for physical fitness. They're sophisticated energy management tools. Key principles include:
Spiral movements for energy flow
Rhythmic patterns for nervous system regulation
Mindful awareness during movement
Practices like Martial arts, Yoga and Qi Gong were designed for a real full-body experience and, if you notice well, every position cycle includes both an activation phase and a counter-activation phase of that fascial network. Hence, to guarantee we always keep balance in movement and energy flow.

The Meditation-Energy Connection
After thousands of years of meditation methods and schools popping out around the globe, today's modern research confirms this isn't just about mental calm. Meditation actually changes our energy field and rewires our brain for the better. If you tried meditation and you decided it was not for you, it’s either because you haven’t tried correctly and/or you haven’t found your ideal practice. Don’t get fooled by it, there is absolutely NO WAY you can reach sustained levels of peak performance if you don’t regularly meditate. Period. I’m sorry. No way!
I’ll summarize a simple (definitely not complete) guide on ancient practices you can decide to investigate further, try out for yourself, and pick for your daily routine. Therefore, you have no excuses 😆
Tradition | Key Practices | Benefits | Best For |
---|---|---|---|
Yogic Traditions (India) | - Pranayama - Asanas - Meditation | - Energy regulation, anxiety control - Physical blockage release - Mind-body integration | - Stress management - Mental/physical flexibility - Deep emotional work |
Chinese Medicine (East Asia) | - Qi Gong - Acupuncture Points - Meridian Work | - Energy cultivation - Specific organ healing - System-wide energy flow | - Chronic issues - Preventive health - Energy building |
Shamanic Practices (Various Indigenous) | • Energy Clearing - Nature Connection - Ritual Work | - Trauma release - Grounding, restoration - Deep emotional processing | - Major life changes - Deep-seated trauma - Spiritual connection |
Kabbalah (Western Esoteric) | - Energy Centers - Sacred Geometry - Sound Practices | - Psychological development - Pattern recognition - Vibrational healing | - Personal development - Life purpose work - Mental clarity |
From Individual to Group Energy: The Leadership Connection
I want to end up this 3-article series with a new view on leadership. One that goes beyond external metrics—productivity, innovation, market share—to a more fundamental one: energy. What the ancient wisdom traditions understood, and what quantum physics now confirms, is that we are constantly participating in an intricate dance of energy exchange with everyone around us.
As we have seen in previous articles, the research of the HeartMath Institute has shown that people's heart electromagnetic field extends several feet from their bodies, literally affecting the nervous systems of those nearby. When you walk into a room agitated, you're not just bringing your mood; you're creating a measurable impact on the physiological state of your team.
I learned this lesson the hard way during my startup's early days. Despite having all the right strategies and systems in place, something felt off with team dynamics as soon as I entered a room with the wrong energy. And more often than not, that “wrong” energy was due to incoherence between my co-founder and me. When we were aligned, though, magic could literally happen!
It wasn't until I began working with these energy principles that I realized how my own unprocessed trauma and stress were invisibly influencing our entire organizational field.
And it’s now my mission to bring this understanding into every room I enter: a commitment to be mindful of the impact I bring and get to and from the beings I interact with.
The most effective leaders I've encountered understand this intuitively. They know that their primary role isn't just decision-making or strategy; it's energy management. They create environments where energy flows freely, where people feel safe to innovate and express themselves, where collective resilience can build. This might also look like starting the business day in alternative ways: with a moment of centered breathing, designing offices with spaces for both collaboration and restoration, or instituting regular practices for team energy renewal.
But it goes deeper than that. When leaders do their own energy work—releasing their trauma, understanding their patterns, cultivating their presence—they naturally create fields of coherence around them. Teams become more synchronized, creativity flows more easily, and challenges are met with greater resilience. Let alone the impact of revenue-making when you coherently practice group manifestation! I discussed this very same topic with founder Daniel Okon on the Funder Bible podcast a few months ago.
This is the future of leadership: not just managing resources and processes, but consciously working with energy fields to create environments where people and possibilities can flourish. It requires us to be both ancient wisdom keepers and modern pioneers, bringing timeless understanding to contemporary challenges.
The question isn't whether you're influencing the energy field of your organization—you already are. The question is whether you're doing it consciously and skillfully.
Let’s Wrap It Up: From Integration to Transformation
It’s been quite a long journey, I know. But if you are reading until here, it means my words and reasoning process—from Quantum physics to peak performance, passing by fascial networks and ancient energy practices—somehow made sense to you too!
Now it’s time for Integration and transformation. It's time to fundamentally shift how we understand and work with energy. When we combine ancient wisdom with modern understanding, we create something more powerful than either alone.
The key is consistency and patience. Don't try to implement everything at once. Start with one practice, master it, then add another. Remember: this is about transformation, not just change. It requires time, but as you know (by reading The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy or Atomic Habits by James Clear), with consistency, you can achieve anything!
Your journey of integration is unique to you. Use these principles and practices as a framework, but trust your experience and intuition to guide the specifics.