Meet Kevin Russell

We recently connected with Kevin Russell and have shared our conversation below.

Kevin , so good to have you with us today. We’ve always been impressed with folks who have a very clear sense of purpose and so maybe we can jump right in and talk about how you found your purpose?

Oh, that’s a great question! At a fundamental, energetic level, I feel our “purpose” as humans is as simple as experiencing all the vast contrast this amazing world has to offer and releasing attachment or resistance to the contrast.

When we can experience contrast without resistance or attachment, that is finding the flow state in life. The flow state is where we can embrace life’s highs and lows with open arms, and still return to balance, or the “middle-way” from Zen Buddhism.

But from a more practical standpoint, I view purpose and fulfillment through a similar lens. I define fulfillment as pairing your natural superpower (that thing that comes effortlessly to you but might be challenging for someone else) with something you are interested in. When we are inwardly focused on cultivating our superpower, and externally exploring our interests, our “purpose” in life tends to emerge more organically.

My “superpower”, for as long as I can remember, has been visualization (being able to see things clearly in my mind) and problem-solving – distilling complex things down into more simple things. Even when I was little, I was able to take one look at, say, directions for furniture assembly, and be able to see the steps completed in my mind.

I discovered, or uncovered, my interest in design in first grade. I was doing homework at the dining room table, and had doodled some drawings on my folder and in the margins of my papers. Lines, shapes, scribbles, and abstract objects were scattered here and there, but it was two lines in particular that brought the power of design fully into my young field of awareness.

In and amongst my random doodles, I had inadvertently drawn a swastika. I had no idea what it was at the time. To me, I was just drawing different lines and shapes but it was something all together different to my mother, and her reaction was swift and impactful when she came to check on how my homework was going.

“What did you do?? That’s a swastika!”, she hissed with exasperation and embarrassment, furiously erasing the doodle on my page. Finishing her removal of the offending lines, she trailed off, “If your father were to see that…”, and went back into the other room.

There was no reprimand beyond that, but in this moment I was shaken awake to the power of design. “How could two lines cause that serious of a reaction in my mom?”, I thought, stunned by what had just happened.

I had to know more. At the time, our Wikipedia was the Encyclopedia Britannica, so I looked up what a swastika was.
I learned that it was an ancient symbol that has been in human culture since at least 10,000 BCE. I learned that it has held different meanings throughout the ages, from the ‘good’ (the modern derivation of the word swasktik comes from sanskrit and means “conducive to well-being.”) to the ‘bad’ (the Nazi movement co-opted and corrupted the symbol so completely that it has come to be associated with hatred and bias in contemporary times).

I was shocked and in awe. How could something as simple as two lines carry so much meaning for thousands of years, regardless if it was labeled or interpreted as ‘good’ or ‘bad’? This was the beginning of my fascination with design, and how impactful the meaning and messaging that we derive from symbols, shapes, and language can be.

By seventh grade, I knew definitively that I wanted to be a designer when I grew up, and I wanted to use the power of design to change the world for the better. I took every art class I could and, as my interest in design and the refinement of my skills grew, I was able to incorporate my ‘talent’ for breaking down complex systems into simpler concepts with my ‘interest’ in design.

By marrying my talent with my interest, I was able to cultivate a fulfilling career in the design field, as well as expand my capacity for purposeful impact by using that marriage to support the work of non-profit groups and environmental initiatives that resonated with me.

Since my “enlightenment” experience in 2019, I recognized that my whole life up until that point had been practice – building towards what has emerged as my bigger purpose, helping others to heal and reconnect with their true nature so we can transform ourselves, and our relationship to the world.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

Yeah, thank you. As a Subconscious Transformation & Quantum Consciousness Guide, I help clients around the world transform their relationship with their mind/body system and the painful past, expand their own consciousness, and return to their natural state of balance.

When we rewrite and transform the limiting/conditioned programming and beliefs of the subconscious mind-body we enable our wildly powerful “Earth-suits” to return to a natural state of equanimity and optimization.

We can release volumes of stress, & anxiety, heal past trauma, reverse entropy, and transform the whole body system without having to spend months, and even years, rehashing old stories in therapy or suppressing symptoms with drugs.

I often joke with clients that we “can’t make this stuff up” regarding the synchronicity of what we find for us to address at the subconscious level and what they are experiencing in life. I am honored that I get to serve in this way, and I am constantly fascinated when we connect with an issue from the forgotten past that previously was thought to be disconnected from the symptoms they are experiencing, and then that thing ends up being the key to accelerated healing.

One of the first thoughts I had after my “enlightenment” experience on my own self-healing journey was, “If I can do this, anyone can do this!” I am most excited about sharing the principles of “Radical Enlightenment” and Quantum Consciousness with large audiences, guiding individual and group transformation experiences, and empowering others with the tools to heal themselves.

This year we just launched our Quantum Consciousness Training Academy which incorporates all the aspects of our 1:1 transformation sessions, integrated somatic/brain-balancing practices, mindset training, and Radical Enlightenment courses. It is an immersive 6-month program for anyone ready to transform from triggered to true freedom and break through to their next level…without spending years in therapy, days in meditation, or hours in affirmations ever again.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

1) Learning how to self-muscle test – Getting out of my head and reconnecting with my body, getting out of thinking I know, and practicing staying open and curious about EVERYTHING instead of reacting to my inner or outer environments – About 95-99% of our thoughts are a version of something we’ve thought before, and about 85% of our thoughts trend towards negative (eg. fear, negative self-talk, judgment, comparison, etc.). This simple practice accelerated my journey exponentially, supercharged my intuition, and was a big factor in dissolving the conditioned patterns (people-pleasing, over-giving, feeling unworthy) that were keeping me stuck, symptomatic, and separate from my truest self, as well as creating dis-ease in my marriage.

2) Learning how to self-regulate and reset my nervous system in seconds – Using brain balancing techniques and holotropic breathwork we can positively disrupt negative stress responses and autonomic nervous system (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) reactions in seconds, returning to our system to its natural state of peaceful presence and non-attachment. It can be challenging to override a stress reaction because they are so familiar (most of us are on a low-grade IV drip of stress and fear all the time) and they are so powerful. Our subconscious is about 500,000 times more powerful than our conscious mind, and most often a reactive nervous system response feels justified, familiar, powerful, and righteous. But in a reactive state, the autonomic system pulls on the limited reserves of the adrenal, immune, and endocrine systems – leaving us depleted, sick, tired, inflamed, and symptomatic. I’ve created a daily disruption practice that takes about 15 minutes in total (about 5 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening) and clients who use it regularly report a massive improvement in their day-to-day lives because they are no longer trapped under the powerful influence of the conditioned and programmed subconscious mind.

3) Learning how to transform emotions, beliefs, stress, and trauma at the subconscious level – The prevailing recommendation from thought leaders I heard when I started to explore consciousness was to meditate up to 8 hours a day, or repeat your mantra up to 800 times a day. That just seemed wildly inefficient to me, and I was open to transformation methods that are more effective, more efficient, and more objectively transformative. I am very grateful to my wife Kelli, for spearheading the research and exploration of these powerful modalities – specifically The Emotion Code, Psychological Kinesiology, and parts work. Using self-muscle testing and these powerful transformation technologies I was able to release and transform a lifetime of undesirable physiological symptoms, revolutionize my relationship with my mind/body system, and eventually break through back to my natural state of expanded consciousness and connected state of “enlightenment”.

My recommendation for anyone starting out on their journey is to:

– Practice, Practice, Practice. In order to experience a different way of being, something needs to change. We can’t expect a different outcome by not doing anything differently. And also recognize not all tools are going to work for everyone, so explore what is out there and try a bunch of different approaches/practices to find what works for you. The important thing is to commit to practice for a set time (give yourself a week or month challenge for whatever it is – journaling, breathwork, cold plunge, exercise), and dive into the practice without an attachment to the outcome. Most times we quit things before they have a chance to start working because we have been conditioned to expect silver bullet/magic pill results and get easily discouraged when we don’t see immediate changes. But it took years to get into this place of dis-ease, so give yourself a break, release the attachment to the outcome, and the journey becomes a lot lighter, you might even find you can smile in the process!

– Become your inner anthropologist – think Jane Goodall. Observation and Awareness are key. You need to become aware of the interworking of the mind/body to be able to do anything about it. Challenge the assumptions and beliefs that you experience in your mind, become curious about a symptom you experience emotionally or physically instead of being reactive, resistant, and fearful, and stay open to the message behind the symptom. Any symptom you experience is a signal that something deeper needs attention. Getting behind the signal to the root cause is where true healing begins.

– Find more space in discomfort – move through fear and do the hard thing – The only thing that holds us back from revolutionizing our lives is attachment and resistance, and most often the thing we avoid the most is the key to breaking through. I was working with a client and everything they were experiencing was pointing to the source of the symptoms being their relationship with their mother. But they weren’t ready or willing to go there, even though their system tested strong to it. It was still too painful, even after years of healing in other areas. Our systems prefer familiar chaos to unfamiliar safety, and I like to say our comfort zone is where our dreams go to die. Remember the story of the cow and the buffalo. Cows will run away from a storm, but end up getting caught in it longer because they are trying to avoid it. Buffalo will run into the storm, ultimately spending less time in it, and thus spending less time in discomfort. Recognize that not all storms are avoidable, but it isn’t the duration or intensity of the storm, but rather how we react or respond to it, that defines what we experience.

Push your comfort zone edge, challenge the old ways of being (the programs and beliefs of the subconscious), and recognize that discomfort only lasts as long as we are stuck in the storm.

Okay, so before we go, is there anyone you’d like to shoutout for the role they’ve played in helping you develop the essential skills or overcome challenges along the way?

My wife Kelli. When we started working at the subconscious level to heal our marriage (by healing ourselves) she was the one who was really exploring the literature, researching modalities and practitioners, and pursuing certification in the practices. And then I just picked up and ran with the things that were working. About 2 years into exploring these modalities Kelli said, “You’re really good with people, very empathetic, and you are using these tools every day, would you ever want to facilitate this type of transformation work?” At the time I was happy and fulfilled working as a designer, so I said, “Maybe in 20 years or so…” but the universe had other plans. About a year later I had my massive breakthrough, which changed everything. I wrote a book in about 2.5 weeks (Radical Enlightenment: My Guy on the 9th Floor) on the connection between quantum physics, consciousness, and enlightenment that guides people on how to live an untriggered life, all those natural extrasensory abilities came online, and I knew that this healing work is what I was truly meant to do NOW, not in 20 years ; )

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