Darren Waller

Somebody can probably explain it better than me, but it's like,

those sounds, they can like,

start to penetrate your body in these areas.

Like almost like the, um, like you were public people talk about chakras, like these blockages that you have, um, energetically in your body, they can start, you can feel them like ringing in your body and like feel like uncomfortable, like, Oh my gosh, like what is that?

And then it like, it naturally, like my spirit, my mind went to that place.

I wasn't sitting down, like I'm going, my objective for this is going to that place mentally that I was not, I was just trying to have a good presence, present experience with that.

But it's just like, that's where my,

like in their brain, it's just like, it wouldn't connect because it's like, here we are in this sport, in this industry where it's like, it thrives on imposing your will on other people and showing no weakness and being strong and being tough and just violent and all these things.

It's like, there's not really space for that in that career path.

So I, yeah, most would be at least be like, what?

Like, no, probably not being able to connect to that in that way.

Right.

And on a general level, it's like you – it seems obvious, but it's like it's also not because we're these like football players.

But it's like there's a human in the pads.

And like that human goes onto the field, the same human with the same way you think, the same way, whatever you're feeling or dodging, like you bring those things onto the field, which is what I started to realize when I went to rehab.

But it's like, yeah, like if the human being mentally, emotionally, spiritually isn't right, you can't expect to go out on the field and expect your product or how you play to just completely flip a switch and be something different.

Like that's just not the case.

Right, but it's like we're not necessarily taught in a deep and elaborate way that all those three make up the football player, maybe even more so mentally and spiritually have even more of an impact because it's like the physical gifts with me were always there, but once I was able to

Step away for like the first time and go to rehab and those things and come back.

The physical skills weren't different.