Neils Story V1
Neil Dyer · SEAL Team One · North Idaho
“Sounds like voodoo, and I don’t want nothing to do with it.”
— Neil Dyer, on a call home from Iraq, before his wife proved him wrong
He wrecked his shoulder in Hell Week and carried it for twenty years. When his wife told him frequency therapy might help, he told her exactly what he thought of that. So she stopped arguing and asked him a different question instead.
Where it starts
He broke it in first phase and kept it for the rest of his career.
BUD/S stands for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training. Neil calls it the gauntlet — a six‑month pipeline you go through to earn the qualification. In his words, “It develops grit and a lot of character out of everybody that makes it through.”
He was a student in Hell Week when his shoulder went. Hell Week requires your hands up over your head for a good part of it — logs, boats, the things a crew has to carry together. He couldn’t lift his arm past a certain point. He finished anyway.
That was the start of a career that’s now more than twenty years long. One surgery since. Atrophy in the nerve. It never came back the way it was.
“So I destroyed my shoulder from the beginning of my career and have always had issues with it.”
2018 · Iraq
His wife didn’t argue with him. She set a trap.
Neil was deployed to Iraq with SEAL Team One. His wife Danisa was home in San Diego, where the family was living full time. She’d heard about frequency therapy through friends at a Bible study, and she was telling him about it over the phone and on Zoom calls.
He was not interested. He said so.
So Danisa arranged to have frequency work done on his shoulder anyway — from San Diego, while he was still overseas, through a practitioner who offered PEMF and energy therapy. She didn’t tell him she’d done it.
Then, on a call some time later, she started asking him small, friendly questions.
Recalled by Neil · a phone call between Iraq and San Diego
Danisa
“Hey, so how are you feeling?”
Danisa
“Hope you’re able to work out.”
Neil
“Actually, my shoulder — I’m actually able to do this. It’s not interfering with work. I’m training while I’m out here. This has actually been pretty amazing.”
Danisa
“Ha. Got you.”
Neil’s recollection of the exchange, in the words he used to describe it. He noted her questions came at him “kinda like” this — the phrasing is his memory of it, not a recording.
He walked into it with his eyes open and didn’t see it coming. Nobody talked him around. He was handed the evidence in his own voice.
“She cornered me into it, and she made me a believer.”
The same technology, eight years apart
What worked on his shoulder in 2018 was PEMF and energy therapy, delivered by a practitioner. What Neil carries in his pocket today is that same technology, in a device he owns. The therapy is what changed his shoulder. It’s also what changed his mind — which is the part of this story that had to happen first.
Eight years on
Then a friend put a smaller version of it in his hand.
After that deployment, Neil and Danisa went deep into frequency therapy with a friend of theirs, Jenny — six to eight years of it by now. Jenny was the one who came across the Resona Health VIBE and told Neil about it. He got back from a work trip and contacted Resona Health directly, as a veteran.
At the time of this interview he’d had it for close to a month, and it had already been on two trips with him. He runs a few protocols in the morning and a few before bed. If something unexpected flares up, he goes looking for the protocol that matches it.
He’s also running the long anti‑aging sessions, with a caveat he volunteered himself: at 44 he doesn’t expect to feel those working. His plan is to look at a photo in ten years and find out.
The part that convinced him
He threw his back out on squats. He was back under the bar in days.
Neil hurt his lower back doing a squat workout — the same way he has before. He went looking through the device and found a pre‑programmed lower back protocol. His account of what happened next: about a couple of minutes into running it, the pain subsided by a substantial amount.
Here’s the number that matters to him. A back injury of that kind, at any point in his adult life of training, had put him down for close to a month. Every time.
“And I did that same back workout two days ago.”
That’s the sentence he keeps coming back to. Not a survey score. He got back under the bar.
Who else is using his
His wife is two weeks out from their seventh baby.
It’s August in North Idaho — still hot, and the fires are up. Danisa gets headaches this late in a pregnancy. Neil has been running the device for her migraines so she doesn’t have to reach for Motrin or ibuprofen while she’s carrying.
“That has been a blessing in and of itself, that she doesn’t have to take any pharmaceuticals.”
His sister lives with them. She has lower back trouble as well, and something going on with her lungs that Neil was upfront about not knowing the medical term for. He ran the bronchitis protocol for her and she’s been using it since.
And he hands it to people. He’s been linking up with Herd Bull University and the National Christian Foundation — back from the latter only a few days before this interview — and he gives the device to the guys there to run something on and see for themselves. Lower back, he says, is the one that keeps coming up.
Why he’s telling anyone
Twenty years in, you’ve seen what happens to the guys after.
Neil runs a nonprofit called Warriors Rise. The mission is the next generation — building young men who can go out and do hard things. The second half of it is quieter and points backward: he brings veterans in alongside him to help run the programs, so the last generation of war fighters has a task and a purpose on the other side of the uniform.
He’s also involved with his county sheriff’s department and the county dive team. There’s a VA clinic near him he intends to keep knocking on. A friend is opening a holistic health center in town and Neil is trying to get him connected to the VA too.
So when he looks at a device with brain, relaxation and anxiety protocols on it, he isn’t thinking about his own shoulder.
“If it’s got the ability to save some lives and just renew hope and capabilities in guys’ lives when they leave the military, I see a huge benefit with this with our veteran community.”
His stated plan is to buy them in tens and hundreds as he’s able, and hand them to the men who come through his programs.
From the man who built it
Mark Lee Fox designed the VIBE because of a number.
Forty‑four suicides a day among veterans and first responders. That figure is what put him to work. He’s a former Space Shuttle chief engineer who moved to Utah after Challenger to work on the redesign, and he had spent years watching this technology sit inside expensive machines scattered across the country, tucked away in clinics.
“It’s criminal that this technology — there’s not an affordable device that people can use.”
So the very first study Resona Health ran was on PTSD. More than 200 participants, measured on the PCL‑5 — the Veterans Administration’s own 20‑question instrument — before and after 30 days. 98% showed measurable improvement. 66% showed clinically significant improvement.
There are thirty or forty of these devices sitting at the Pentagon. A two‑star general looked at the PTSD results and said that if this really works, it ought to be standard issue for every soldier. When Mark asked how to make that happen, the answer was a lobbyist at twenty thousand dollars a month for three or four years. The head of PTSD at the Veterans Administration told him he couldn’t even accept them for free, because that would constitute an endorsement.
Which is precisely why the distribution runs through people like Neil instead.
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The VIBE is a PEMF device — pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, the technology family that energy and frequency work like Neil’s belongs to. It works by resonance rather than intensity. It isn’t a smaller version of a high‑powered machine — high‑intensity systems drive muscle contraction, which is a different mechanism entirely.
The device Neil is using
The same VIBE, from Neil’s link.
He didn’t go looking for this. His wife caught him out with it eight years ago and a friend handed him the small version of it last month. He’s been wearing it since, and giving it to the guys around him to try.
Neil Dyer is a Resona Health affiliate and earns a commission on purchases made through this page. It costs you nothing extra and it supports the work he does with Warriors Rise.
The VIBE is a low‑risk general wellness device. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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