Love, Hope & Gratitude With Howard Cohn
Download MP3Only people who don't have problems are dead. So, it it's the toughest thing to do, but it it starts with having some kind of daily mantra. You know, praying's a good thing, meditating, counting your blessings, you know, get waking up and going to bed, not with your phone or scrolling to see how many likes you have, to see if the outside artificial world is is validating you. But maybe waking up before you grab your phone and and have 10 things that you feel, you know, 5, 3, 1 that you're grateful for. And then before you go to bed, rather than check your emails or your, you know, the same thing, ask yourself what you're excited about or what you're grateful for.
Howard Cohn:Those little things that cost nothing other than minutes, sometimes seconds, and no money, have the biggest impact on people's lives.
Paul Nottoli:Hello, and welcome to leave a hope podcast here at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. I'm here with doctor Howard Cohn. And, Yeah. He's gonna fill you in about what he does and who he is, and then we'll talk about the topic topic of hope.
Howard Cohn:First of all, I love the topic of hope, so thanks for having me here. Welcome. And super thrilled to be part of this. Super great. I'm excited for this message and where it's going and and what you're doing.
Howard Cohn:So Thank you. It's, it's gonna help a lot of people. So Good. Super good. So doctor chiropractic run a natural health care center in Southern California in Costa Mesa.
Howard Cohn:Lot of things going on there. It's it's basically the one stop doc. We call it the Cone Health Institute. Okay. We work with people physically, nutritionally, emotionally, chiropractors, naturopaths, body workers, acupuncture, all these different, like, healing modalities, wellness, IVs.
Howard Cohn:Anything you think of to help people move from where they're at in their health to where they'd like to be. So similarly, the you always looking at what's new, what's next, what can actually bridge the gap, not just with where people are with their health, but their education to understand that there's nothing more than their health. So nutrition's been a big part too. I mean, you know, I've made nutritional products, developed nutritional products, launching my own brand, Calm Nutrition, very soon. And then, have our our podcast or not a podcast, our summit called the Biostacking Summit, showcasing doctors who do next level kinds of therapies and help the world know that there's hope that they don't always need to go with what the one doctor said or, you know, this yeah.
Howard Cohn:And to show them that there are things that they didn't know they didn't know.
Paul Nottoli:Obviously, you're giving hope to lots of different patients and clients and variety of places, not only in LA, probably around the world with your institutes and your facilities and your supplements. But one question I always ask because everyone has different unique experiences, what does hope mean to them personally? What does hope mean?
Howard Cohn:Hope is knowing that the situation that they're in now does not have to be the situation that they stay in. That there's more, better, different always out there, and, it can happen for them in an instant. It doesn't have to take forever. I love the word hope. We were kidding around before.
Howard Cohn:I live at have a house in a town called Hope, Idaho, believe it or not. And, so yeah. Yeah. Like, as a chiropractor, I've been one of the I remember seeing a chiropractor, lecture at, actually Cal Jam. Okay.
Howard Cohn:Yeah. And they talked about, like, what we really sell for people is hope is the a different drug. It's called Hopium.
Paul Nottoli:Yeah. Yes. So hopefully, we can bring more hopium with this episode and, yeah, in your life. And, everyone that, has ever interviewed and and discussed hope is always been, somewhat somewhat similar story where it's about something better on the inside. It's about something that's greater than themselves.
Paul Nottoli:It's about having faith that at the unknown, but also knowing that's the right purpose or that, we make going forward to something better for them. So, very yeah. So that's, yeah. I love that.
Howard Cohn:Yeah. I mean, people are suffering. There's a lot of things happening. The world is a really interesting, place at this time, and depending on what you plug into, is gonna depend on how your day goes. And if you're watching the news, or you're scrolling all day, and your your life is not about finding the beauty or the good in other people and things and situations, or when things look like they're bad or hopeless, that, that there's always a lesson in it or a gift.
Howard Cohn:And, you know, as you know, doctor comes from the Latin word, doser, which means to teach or go to show people that, you know, their body can do wondrous things, and if they allow it. And, at the end of the day, the most important thing is for people to get their power back. And I think, as you probably see when people become ill or they have health issues, it's because they, somewhere along the way, gave their power up to somebody or something. And that's when it all started
Paul Nottoli:to go south. Which brings me to my next questions. Kind of good segue segue on that is, I like to have my guests give a specific time or a trial in their life to help people relate to that where they had to rely on a lot of hope when things didn't look best to greatest for them. So can you think of an example that you had? Yeah.
Paul Nottoli:Probably a lot. I know just as a business owner with it. I get it. I know just as a business owner, there's a heck of a lot of those usually. But,
Howard Cohn:yeah, I think it's all over the place about a lot of different things. I think this last 4 years has been an interesting thing, and I think it was a test of faith, in doing the right thing. And I I know, obviously, that's a lot different for a lot of people, and a lot of people have, awaken to different things even if they made other choices years ago. But, you know, how you do anything is how you do everything, they say. 1 had to choose that, you know, to love thy neighbor in spite.
Howard Cohn:And, I think doctor George Goodhart, who was, founder of applied kinesiology, had a statement, where he said, you know, he would say, you don't have to like everybody, but you gotta love them. And, I saw the statement once, that said, love love everyone. I'll figure it out. I'll I'll sort them out later. Yeah.
Howard Cohn:God. You know? So, I think, having, faith and hope that that this is temporary, even though it looked dark, like a very dark time, and thank God we had the faith and the hope to know that humanity was gonna win.
Paul Nottoli:Loving the person for where they're at and whatever situation they're in because everyone has some different experiences, and we don't know what those experiences of, guilt, shame, fear, trauma, whatever that comes from. I think that's super important because the last episode I was just doing, I was talking about how you either you gotta give blessings to people, you gotta receive blessings for yourself, but also, the power of words matter, and they can they can build or destroy. And so you do have to love your neighbor, and, it's hard a lot of times. Yeah. And it's, yeah.
Paul Nottoli:So that's a that's a good lesson because so as people are loving their neighbors more as they're as they're having faith that everything's gonna be okay, how do they spread more hope in their own life as well as, in the community?
Howard Cohn:You know, I I think 4 or 3. Okay. You're still a baby. So there's, it was like a little movement for a hot minute where people did what we call the random acts of times. And I think how one can spread hope is actually look let's pay attention.
Howard Cohn:Let's look for people that are not high on their life, and then do something sometimes style at somebody. Not just say hello, not just to compliment something about somebody who looks like they're having the most miserable day. That could change the whole trajectory of their life and their day. So for a lot of people, it's really doing those kinds of things. And really, as good as it makes the other person feel, it makes the person doing it even feel better if they allow
Paul Nottoli:So, you mentioned in your definition, hope is looking for something better in the future. How does one maintain the hope or the betterment of the future that they're looking forward to, but also rounded into the area that they're at? Well, I mean, you know, in our profession, we have a philosophy that we're founded in.
Howard Cohn:What although kids getting out
Paul Nottoli:of school today, I don't know if
Howard Cohn:they know. But that philosophy was a d I o, and there used to be a school with that in its title, meaning above, down, inside, out. So hopefully, we all are or most of us have an opportunity and the blessing to know that there's probably something bigger than us in the universe. Call it God, call whatever you will. And, that helps us have faith that we can take the next step.
Howard Cohn:The doing this now is to take the next step. You know, the most important thing I think people can do is to execute, is to do something. You know, if you're walking the saying is if you're walking through hell, just don't look down.
Paul Nottoli:If you
Howard Cohn:look down, you're just gonna look like it's you're gonna focus on on where you're at rather than where you can be. And yet, there's an appreciation for where we're at, because we're at a moment in time, is going to be gone one day. And then one day, we're gonna run out of time, which we even had this shitty moment. Yeah. So pain and discomfort and things not working out the way that we want is a sign of being alive.
Howard Cohn:The only people who don't have problems are dead. So, it it's the toughest thing to do, but it it starts with having some kind of daily mantra, you know. Praying's a good thing. Meditating, counting your blessings, you know, get waking up and going to bed, not with your phone or scrolling to see how many likes you have, to see if the outside artificial world is is validating you, but maybe waking up before you grab your phone and and have 10 things that you feel, you know, 5, 3, 1, that you're grateful for. And then before you go to bed, rather than check your emails or your, you know, the same thing, ask yourself what you're excited about or what you're grateful for.
Howard Cohn:Those little things that cost nothing other than minutes, sometimes seconds, and no money, have the biggest impact on people's lives.
Paul Nottoli:And one of the interviews that I did a few weeks ago, someone was describing that a tree just like, if there's a tree growing, it's not worried about the outside world. It's literally trying to be, how do we be the biggest, strongest, durable tree to withstand all storms and and be as healthy as possible and grow as big as I can? And I think and he was using the example that we should kinda think like a tree. And then he asked me if trees have hope, and I said, I'm I have to ask somebody that's smarter than me to plant some trees actually have hope. I go, I don't know.
Paul Nottoli:They might not have problems because they just look to be biggest, strongest, most resilience, but they're always just doing they're always just focused on, how to do that and be as prosperous as possible. I think that, like you said, going, having those gratitude moments, having the moments where even when things aren't looking good, that you can probably find something that's positive Yep. In those moments. And, hopefully, you listen. If you don't, hopefully, this podcast can help you bring more hope and positivity to your life as well.
Howard Cohn:Interesting about the tree is that the tree will always also move to the light. And as you see us as a tree, it bends, it moves to the light or your plants. If you're putting plant by a window sill, it always bends towards the light. So if you wanna live like the tree, which I highly recommend, you move away from the dark Mhmm. And move towards the light.
Howard Cohn:Like BJ Palmer, who's on my shirt said, it's a lot easier light in.
Paul Nottoli:It was just funny because that's quotes come up probably 3 or 4 times as I'm interviewing people. Oh, really? That's throughout the
Howard Cohn:throughout the podcast. That's such a hope.
Paul Nottoli:It is. It is. Is there anything else you'd like to add about hope or inspiration that we haven't discussed?
Howard Cohn:Sure. I think, you know, I think, since we're both health practitioners, I think health is a big thing to talk about. And I think we don't appreciate it until it's gone. And, as we spend so much of a declining life, unless you're fortunate enough to take a breath and that's it, in hopeless situations that put us under, let's say, crisis medical care that could have been prevented with different knowledge and tools about how we move our body, how we eat, how we supplement, how we think, I think all these things come in the outcome, but they also determine how well we experience everyday life to begin with. And, there's always hope no matter what.
Howard Cohn:And, and there's always somebody that can help just like there's always somebody that has it worse. I mean, you know, sometimes it's not hope comes indirect. Hope comes from the philosophy of I I used to be upset I had no shoes till I met a man with no Mhmm. You know? And so and it defaults us to gratitude if we pay attention, that everything we feel hopeless about, everything we're bitching about, somebody's praying for to have in their life.
Howard Cohn:You know, if I'm feel like my knee pain is hopeless, and yet there's somebody else that just lost their leg, they would trade everything to have your knee pain. Because even though they it's painful, it's a leg, and they have an opportunity. And even the legless person probably hopes that the, technology of of, you know, support of, artificial legs
Paul Nottoli:Yeah.
Howard Cohn:Continues to improve Mhmm. So that they can, be their little avatar and sit around. So there's always hope. So,
Paul Nottoli:how do people plug into you, learn more about you, and, being healthy and get health and hope into their lives? Well,
Howard Cohn:you could always find me on all these social medias, which are at doctor h o w a r d c o h n. There's the cone of health institute, c o h n, health institute dot com. And to see the other doctors and people we do showcase and brands, on the Biostacking with an sbiostacking summit.com. And that's what it's all about. You know?
Howard Cohn:Just, we're I like you, I think we're in a blessed world and a blessed time. You know, the fact that you sit down to do this podcast when you could be doing 20 other things is, you know, speaks volumes. I you're here to help. Thank you. Yep.
Howard Cohn:Thank you. So, yeah, We hope
Paul Nottoli:you enjoy this episode and put more hope into your life. And, we'll bring you another episode of the Believe the Hope podcast. Thank you.
Howard Cohn:Bye, guys.
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