Re-Patterning Your Mind: A New Approach to Mental Health

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Why didn't anyone tell me?
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I am telling you the things that I wish
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that folks had told me back in the day.
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And I want you to know that you can reclaim your agency
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over your life by choosing the beliefs, habits,
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practice, and strategies that actually get you
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to the result that you want.
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Welcome to the Re-patterning podcast,
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where we believe your mind body system is your domain
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and that choosing the beliefs, habits, and patterns
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that best support you is your birthright.
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I'm your host, Artin Lee,
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creator of the Re-patterning Project,
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an eight week course in learning to free yourself
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from the patterns of your past and program your mind
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for your dreams of the future.
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Join me for these extraordinary conversations
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as we unpack the keys to creating our reality.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to the Re-patterning Podcast.
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I'm your host, Artin Lee,
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and this is the final episode of season one.
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I have decided to release these episodes in batches of 10
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because of my neurodivergence consistency is something
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that I can sometimes struggle with.
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And I also want to make sure that rather than
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keep myself adhering to a schedule that may not always
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feel in flow with my other projects, that it is easier
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and will lead to better quality conversations overall
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if I create these podcasts with the help of my producer,
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Tomi, who has absolutely done an amazing job this season.
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I want to thank her in particular.
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I want to create these podcasts in batches of 10,
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which will allow me to make sure that each conversation
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has adequate time to be well researched, et cetera.
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And also give everyone a chance to catch up
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on any episodes that you may have missed.
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So we will be taking a bit of a hiatus for a little while
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as we go into recording season two.
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I'm very excited about some of the guests
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that I have coming up.
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So I hope you will stay with us and we'll
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look forward to seeing you next time.
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And for the end of each season episode,
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I decided that I'd like to come on and do a solo talk
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so that I can drop in with all of you
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with some of my feelings and thoughts about re-patterning,
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about magic, about mental health,
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about the kinds of discussions that we curate here
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at the Re-patterning Podcast.
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So you can also get to know me and my own thoughts,
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and so I can provide, hopefully, a good, conclusive season
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wrap-up to some of the topics that we have discussed.
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So thank you for being here.
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Thank you for listening.
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And I hope you will stick around, catch up on any episodes
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that you may have missed along the way.
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And then we'll see you in season two.
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For today, I want to talk a little bit about what I feel,
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based on my own experience, my own knowledge,
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my research into mental health, as well as my lived experience
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in it, and also some of what magic has taught me
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and shown me along the way.
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And I want to speak to the current state of mental health
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and the mental health industry.
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And to a paradigm that I believe is a more accurate map
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of the landscape that we are dealing with when we talk
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about our mental health, when we talk
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about looking into some of the things that we may struggle with
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and finding those solutions.
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It is probably no surprise to anyone
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at this point in the season that I have lots of critiques
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of the mental health industry, as someone who
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is a survivor of it myself, who is a former client of practitioners
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who, while many of them may have been well-meaning,
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have essentially been indoctrinated into a system of what
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I look at essentially as pathologization
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and learned helplessness that is quicker to stigmatize
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and further burden the very demographics that it claims
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to treat.
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And I'd like to talk a little bit about what I have learned.
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And I want to emphasize too that when I talk about research
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and lived experience and magic, or perhaps we could even
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say, noces, that sort of knowledge
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that seems to come from engaging with magic, engaging
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with spirit and being open to learning.
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And I want to simply emphasize that those are not distinct
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categories.
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There have been times when I have done magic
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in order to increase my knowledge or increase my abilities
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or in the beginning simply to solve my own mental health
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problems, which required me learning more knowledge
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and also increasing my abilities.
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And often that knowledge would come to me
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by way of research studies, articles
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that would be considered, as Dr. Jamie Marich said
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in her episode, more toward that hard science data.
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Mental health is not a hard science,
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but there are certainly everything from the most rigorous
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studies that adhere to the industry's standards
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of what is considered legitimate data all the way
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to lived experience and not that even those things
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are necessarily on a linear spectrum,
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but also the lived experience of those
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who have spiritual experiences, those who have spiritual experiences
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that intersect with their mental health experience
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that may even provide great relief and clarity
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to their mental health struggles, things that perhaps we cannot
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prove.
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We have sometimes these great experiences.
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You go into something like an Iowaska ceremony,
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like we were speaking about on the Jeffrey Criple episode,
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and you come out with this experience that maybe for you
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is incredibly meaningful.
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And then you try and tell someone else about it,
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and they're just looking at you like, what?
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You did what?
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You went to hell and you rescued your own soul.
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That was my first Iowaska.
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Maybe that will be a different podcast episode
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where I'll tell a little bit more about that experience.
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But basically these spiritual experiences
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that are very difficult, if not impossible,
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to translate into hard data, and yet which
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create results for so many of us, and everything in between.
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So these are not--
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I'm not a big, strict boxes person.
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As much as I love logic and categorization,
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as much as my autism is geared toward that,
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I find that the questions and the spaces where the answers
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are not always sufficient to fully answer all the questions,
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I'm finding that that is for me where
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some of the richness and true understanding really lies.
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The more that we try to fit things into neat boxes and categories--
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and again, I love categorization.
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It makes my brain very happy.
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But the more that we try to fit things into these strict boxes
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or categories, the more we are going to come up
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with exceptions to those rules, and the more we
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are going to have to expand our worldview and our mindset
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to be able to include them.
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And our refusal to do so, especially
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the mental health industries, often refusal to do so,
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is I think where we can get caught up in prioritizing dogma
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over a truth.
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Woo!
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[LAUGHS]
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So I want to speak today a little bit about describing
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what for me has become the most accurate map
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for speaking about and treating mental health.
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And ultimately, what I have found is that there is a way
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of speaking about our mental health and understanding
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our mental health that distances greatly
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from the pathological models that I see in current mental health.
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So for example, one thing that you may have heard me sort of rail
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against many times is the idea of personality disorders.
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Quote unquote, the DSM is full of them.
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And you can look them up.
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And there are the symptoms of these personality disorders
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and these neat little boxes that if you tick so many of these things,
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then you perhaps qualify for having this personality disorder.
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And I want to first zoom out, and I just
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want to look at that frame, because it really bums me out.
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It really bums me out that our current model for mental health
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essentially involves someone going to a provider or practitioner
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for help, right?
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That's why we end up having our mental health treated
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is we are dealing with something some sort of a struggle.
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that is available to us, usually a therapist, perhaps a counselor,
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perhaps a psychiatrist, depending on the kind of help
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that we think we need at the time.
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And so often, the very framework that we enter into
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when we ask for that help is something that immediately is going
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to make us feel worse about ourselves.
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Because how does it feel to have a label
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slapped on you that says you have a personality disorder?
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And certainly, I think there are some therapists
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out there who are better than others at allowing that to be
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something that is non-stigmatizing to say, hey,
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look, these are symptoms of your experience.
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A lot of therapists, I know, will say, look, the DSM is essentially
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at the end of the day.
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It's a billing manual.
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If I'm going to treat you for something, if I'm a psychiatrist
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and I'm going to prescribe you something,
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I need to be able to make a diagnosis.
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And this is just the best that we have.
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But, man, when you consider that that really,
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like that's the best that we have, and that's the industry
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that trains these professions.
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And the more and more that I interact with therapists,
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and certainly, like you've seen two therapists on my show
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this season, Katie Keach and Dr. JV Merich.
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And I admire both of them so very, very much.
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But the reason I think that a therapist becomes a good therapist,
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so often is that their humanity and their compassion
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actually survive the indoctrination of their licensure.
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I believe that the institutions that are granting licensure
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are the very foundations of them, are built in frameworks
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that are not compassionate, that are not patient-centric.
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If you look at history, for example, we didn't just arrive
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here today where we are out of nowhere.
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If you look at the history of mental health,
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we're looking at history of institutionalization,
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history of pathologization.
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I mean, you don't have to go that far to look at stories
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and media, for example, of in prior centuries,
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or even just decades of abuses happening in institutions.
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Some of you may be familiar with Emily Autumn,
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and the home for wayward girls, the sort of character
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that she's created that is a sort of fictionalization
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of some of her own struggles with mental health,
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and some of the treatment that she received.
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You can look at Sweeney Todd, and they go to the inmates
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of the asylum for the hair, for their wigs, for example.
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What a way to say, we don't care about your humanity anymore.
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We're just going to take your hair away, things like that.
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And those are both fictional examples, of course.
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And look at sucker punch, sucker punch.
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And what a great if flawed movie, but it certainly--
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these are all fictional examples, but again,
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fiction doesn't arise out of nowhere.
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These are our history, the history of mental health care,
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quote unquote, is rife with abuse, dehumanization,
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the idea that those who suffer from mental health struggles
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are unworthy of being treated like people.
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And we didn't just evolve out of that past and leave it
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entirely behind.
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As we talked about in KDK, this episode,
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there's the Franklin scandal, which
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was where homes for delinquent youth
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were being used to essentially feed trafficking networks.
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Paris Hilton has also spoken out about some of her experiences
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and the experiences of her fellow incarcerated, quote unquote,
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delinquence.
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This is a history that we have not eradicated.
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And these same fields of expertise
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that have produced these institutions--
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I'm not saying it's all the same people, et cetera,
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but it is essentially the same behemoth,
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the same aggrigor, so to speak, that licenses your average
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therapist.
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I don't think that there are many clean hands in that industry,
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because we are paying in many ways for the sins of the fathers.
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We have not-- just in the same way that, especially in America,
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we have not evolved out of systemic racism.
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We look at, yeah, sure, we can all share water fountains today,
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but that doesn't mean that it's over.
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That doesn't mean that those things don't still run
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through the veins of this country and this society.
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And I think that mental health care is guilty
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in much of the same ways.
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So I think that for many therapists,
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what separates a therapist who is effective
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is has their own compassion and their humanity
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survived their indoctrination into this institution.
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And that is not to say that they're not also good researchers
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who are doing work in those fields,
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and that effective care cannot be based on some of that good
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research.
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I'm just saying that things are not so black and white,
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and it's important, I think, for us to keep our eyes
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and our minds open to where those patterns
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are still insidiously affecting us today.
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And I think personality disorders are one of them, quite frankly,
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because I think it's really cruel if a person is coming
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to a professional for help to immediately place a label on them
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that stigmatizes them and others them, rather than looking
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at like, hey, what happened?
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Where is the curiosity?
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They are also circular diagnoses, right?
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You have a personality disorder because you display these symptoms,
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you display these symptoms because you
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have this personality disorder, quote unquote.
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And it really just amazes me that here we are in the year
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of our Lord, 2026, and this is still in many ways the standard.
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There have been terrific evolutions in the conversation.
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I have seen, especially within the last decade,
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many thought leaders in mental health begin
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to speak out about how, for example,
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there was a popular article that circulated a while back,
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titled Something Along the Lines of its Time,
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we start calling borderline personality disorder,
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what it is, which is a response to trauma,
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specifically early attachment trauma that creates these symptoms.
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So I'm not denying that personality disorders
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are a real thing in the sense that there
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are clusters of symptoms and patterns
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that we humans have categorized into what we think
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are these neat little boxes and that those patterns
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are not often present in people.
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I am saying that the framework for treatment
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is sometimes the cure is just as bad as the poison.
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And I have seen speaking of borderline personality disorder,
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I have seen particularly young women,
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and I was one of them at once.
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I was never formally diagnosed with borderline,
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but it was sort of thrown around as a possibility.
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And I remember specifically feeling like there is something
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wrong with me, I am damaged.
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So therefore I am lucky to receive whatever love or care I receive
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because the problem is with me.
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I am inherently damaged or broken somehow.
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And what did that belief lead to?
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That belief led me to settling in a lot of my relationships
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and settling for the kind of poor treatment inconsistent,
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intermittent reward, intermittent reinforcement,
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which is going to like really ramp up someone's anxious attachment.
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It led me to settle for that kind of treatment
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because I thought that that was sort of all I deserved
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or that I should be grateful for what I do get.
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And that if I am not being loved in my relationship
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as I wish to be, that I need to please better,
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to please harder, to be better, to squash down
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and repress those emotions that were causing those sort of borderline
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style outbursts.
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And again, sure like yes, those needed to be healed,
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but repression was not the way to do that.
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The way to do that for me would have actually been to listen
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to my body and say, this is a terrible relationship.
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You're being treated poorly.
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You need to get out of here.
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And the only reason that you think that this is as good as it gets
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is because you did have early attachment trauma
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and that formed a lot of your ideas about relationships, right?
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And I think again, there are probably many therapists
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out there who understand this and can treat folks
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with those symptoms in that way.
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But again, they are surviving the framework
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into which they are indoctrinated.
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That's been my experience, that's been my knowledge.
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And as much as there are times that I want to believe
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that things are getting better with few exceptions
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of many therapists that I do admire,
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whose work I have promoted here in elsewhere,
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I often end up being disappointed.
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So that's the old framework that I want to invite us all
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to break out of.
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If you are someone who is listening to this podcast right now
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and you go to a therapist, which is like,
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it's a great and healthy thing to do
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to ask for help with your mental health, whatever that looks like.
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And if you have a good therapist, I know there are a lot of people
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out there who have therapists that they like
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and they have a good working relationship with.
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That's amazing, that's awesome.
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I invite you to challenge your therapists
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on how they operate within this framework.
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I think that would lead to a lot of very interesting discussions
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to say the least.
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And there are many who will come out and say,
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like, yeah, no, this is messed up and we do the best work
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that we can, but it's very difficult to get institutions
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on that great level to change.
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There's so much red tape, there's so much, you know,
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things that are that large are slow to move and evolve.
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So that might be an interesting conversation, right?
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And I want to talk about what I feel is a new and better paradigm
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to look at things from.
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Like, of course, I feel it's a new and better paradigm, right?
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I, it's essentially what I teach in the repatting project,
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which is the eight week course that I teach to help folks
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to understand a comprehensive map and manual
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of their human mind body learning system in a way
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that's going to help them to better pinpoint the roots
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of some of their mental health struggles
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and to fix them at the source, to rewire them at the source,
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I should say.
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Again, I believe that our mind body systems are our domain.
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And while there are a lot of forces out there
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that are fighting for our attention and fighting to program us
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and our behavior in ways that they want us to comply with,
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at the end of the day, our sovereignty, our freedom,
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our agency lies in reclaiming our mind body learning systems
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for ourselves.
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This is my belief.
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This is the core belief and value of the repatting project.
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So again, this is my work.
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I'm biased, of course.
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This is what I believe.
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And I believe you should question everything, even from me.
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And you should always take everything
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that anyone tells you with a grain of salt,
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because it is always coming from their own personal experiences
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as all of our perspectives are coming
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from all of our personal experiences.
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So I just mentioned that, right?
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Of course, I believe this is what I teach.
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And I'm also here to let you know about my course
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and to let you know that that is available for you to take
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if you want to.
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You can join us in one of our live cohorts.
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You can also go ahead and purchase for download
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the self-study version and get started on that today
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if you want to.
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So any time anyone is selling something to you,
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you should always take it with a grain of salt.
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That said, part of the reason that I began this podcast
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is because I want this information to be available to more
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and more people.
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I absolutely believe that I will be sustained and supported
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in my work.
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Just fine.
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The universe will take care of me.
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It will bring me the people who want to work with me more
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directly.
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It will bring the people who want to go through the official course,
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right?
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And that that will be taking care of regardless.
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And the important thing to me is to get this information out
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to as many people as possible so that we can quite literally
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change ourselves and change the world.
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I want us to be bigger than this industry, you guys.
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I want this industry to stop being able to operate so
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harmfully in with such impunity.
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And if we just take our power back, reclaim our agency
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and find the solutions for our mental health that actually
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work for us, whether that's a good therapist
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that you like and have a great relationship with,
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or whether it is a non-licensed practitioner,
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or a practitioner licensed in a different modality,
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whether it's-- I don't know, you guys-- whether it's
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acupuncture and Chinese medicine, or whether it's
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raky, whether it's timeline therapy, what I practice,
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whether it's repotterning and those modalities,
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whether it's hypnosis like Phil Farber is speaking about
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and brain magic, whether it is actually
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taking up a practice of magic and learning
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to become good enough at magic that you can cast on yourself,
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like we talked about in our inaugural episode
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with my teacher, Grant Morrison, that the purpose of magic
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is this elevation of the self.
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That is really the closest path to what I did.
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But of course, in the process of that magic working,
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I learned all of these things and was deeply inspired
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to put them together in a curriculum and offer them,
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as if not a modality in itself at the very least
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a school of thought, a way of thinking, that for me, anyway,
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has been far more effective than any path
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I was able to follow within the mental health industry.
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So it's important to me that I spread this information
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as freely as I can.
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So that is what I'm going to speak about.
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This new way of thinking about our mental health,
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about our neurodevelopment, about our human operating system.
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We were not given an owner as an operator's manual
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when we were born.
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And there was part of me on my path that
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was a little resentful of that when I finally figured out
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so much of it for myself.
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Why did no one ever teach me this?
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Why when I went to therapy, when I visited mental health
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professionals, if they had just told me this information,
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that would have changed my life.
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Did they know where they gatekeeping it?
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Did they not know?
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Which is worse, right?
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They also failed to spot my autism in my ADHD, which now
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that, looking at myself now, I'm like,
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gosh, how did anyone miss that?
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But there you have it.
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So here's the paradigm that I operate from.
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We are born, and we are a consciousness
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that is anchored to a body.
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You understand that the day that you die,
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your consciousness is going to move on and evolve,
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and your body is going to stay behind and slowly decompose.
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So we understand that the part of us that thinks and feels--
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it is linked inextricably--
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well, inextricably until the day I suppose--
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or corded, perhaps just if we astral project
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and then bring it back, right?
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But our consciousness is anchored to our body
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and linked in a lot of ways that this is a symbiotic relationship,
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because when you have emotions, when you have thoughts,
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that can affect your physicality.
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You feel nervous, so you feel those butterflies in your stomach
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or you feel grief so you can feel pain in your chest
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or whatever that is.
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So our bodies and our consciousnesses are linked.
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And from the day that we are born, that we come into this world
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and arguably even beforehand, even as our consciousness
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is forming and anchoring into our developing body
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when we are in our mother's womb, we learn through our experiences.
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We come into the world.
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There we are in probably the operating room, the hospital,
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bright lights.
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We get slapped on the back when we start breathing.
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And from that very moment, and arguably even before,
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we begin to learn things about the world
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and about what we can expect of this strange place
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that we have been born into.
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We learn, for example.
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And when we're babies, we really don't have a lot of agencies.
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So to speak, we'll have much agency at all, so to speak.
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In fact, really as babies, the only thing that we can pretty much
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do is cry or not cry, right?
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We can make little gurgly sounds.
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We can maybe try and roll around in our crib a little bit.
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But it's basically if there's something that we need,
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if there is a need that we have, and we need to communicate
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to our caregiver, usually our parents, right?
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Maybe our grandparents or maybe we're raised in a foster family
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or maybe we were in an adoption agency for a while.
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All of those things can affect us, right?
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But so we're a small baby and we have a need.
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We either need to be held.
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We need to be fed.
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We're hungry.
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We need to be burped.
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Something is going on.
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00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,040
We have a need.
513
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,560
And our option is basically make noise or don't make noise,
514
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:57,840
right?
515
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:58,760
Cry, don't cry.
516
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,480
So we have a need, and we're probably going to cry.
517
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:06,280
We're going to try and alert someone, anyone out there,
518
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,920
that we need to be taken care of in some way.
519
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:13,400
And there's many different ways that folks who
520
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,920
are our caregivers may respond to us.
521
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,040
It's something I teach in the very first module of the
522
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,760
Re-patterning Project is three hypothetical scenarios,
523
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,400
baby A, baby B, and baby C.
524
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:30,440
Baby A learns hypothetically that when they cry,
525
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,600
they can reasonably expect their needs to be met.
526
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,720
Baby A learns that when they cry, one of their parents
527
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,520
comes over and is like, oh, hey, what's wrong?
528
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:41,320
What do you need?
529
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,240
I'm going to hold you.
530
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,920
I'm going to figure out the problem.
531
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,600
And you're going to be all right.
532
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:51,120
And that baby learns if I ask for help, I can reasonably
533
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,080
expect that my needs will be met.
534
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,960
And then they later grow up to be an adult that has what
535
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,320
we think of as secure attachment, right?
536
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,800
I mean, it's not quite that simple.
537
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,440
There's so many other experiences that can color that.
538
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,880
But generally speaking, right, if we're looking at,
539
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,560
if we're looking at the theoretical category, then that
540
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,880
generally is how baby A is going to grow up.
541
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,600
Baby B, let's say on the other hands, hypothetically,
542
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:22,040
baby B is born into a household where the parents are,
543
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,880
let's say, low income.
544
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,560
And they have to work a lot.
545
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,240
They can't always care for baby B.
546
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,680
Maybe they're also dealing with a lot of stress.
547
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:36,720
And so they drink or they do drugs or things to relieve
548
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:37,360
that stress.
549
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,840
And I say that not even in a stigmatizing way
550
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,200
because when you're in a lot of stress and pain,
551
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:47,200
as someone who has worked with addiction to some extent,
552
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,520
you will do anything to soothe that pain and to make it go away.
553
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,480
So no shame on that, right?
554
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,600
That just happens to be baby B's circumstances.
555
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,920
So baby B cries and baby B's parents
556
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:04,560
are either out working, trying to provide income for the family,
557
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:05,520
including baby B.
558
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:06,800
Baby B doesn't know that though.
559
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,880
Baby B isn't sitting there in this crib going like,
560
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,880
oh, it's OK that my parents didn't answer my cry
561
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,360
because they're out at their job.
562
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,720
Baby B just knows that when they cry,
563
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:22,800
that it doesn't work or maybe it works inconsistently.
564
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,960
Maybe they cry and their parents is passed out on the couch,
565
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,720
whatever that is.
566
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:35,240
And baby B learns that when they ask for help,
567
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,080
they cannot expect their needs to be met reasonably.
568
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,000
They can usually expect that no one is going to hear them
569
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,560
and that they're going to have to somehow figure this out
570
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,160
for themselves.
571
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,480
And of course, the more that baby B grows up,
572
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,880
maybe baby B's parents win the lottery.
573
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,960
And then all of a sudden they're in a better place.
574
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,840
And maybe baby B still has some of that deep seated
575
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,480
in security deep down knowing that that is a possibility,
576
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,120
that that was their experience when they first came into the world.
577
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,400
But maybe they learn more security over time, right?
578
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,680
Baby B's parents got lucky won the lottery
579
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,160
and now they have a lot of free time to spend with baby B.
580
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,960
And that's also maybe how baby B ends up healing,
581
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,280
and becoming more securely attached, right?
582
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,960
But probably in most cases, maybe not, right?
583
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,720
Counting on winning the lottery is not usually a very good bet.
584
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,760
Any magician will tell you there is a way
585
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,600
to many magicians and occultists already doing magic
586
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:29,400
to win the lottery.
587
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,080
So it's one of the can it be done?
588
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,440
Yes, but you've got a lot of competition.
589
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,840
You're going to, it's going to have to be
590
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,360
from some real strong campaigning.
591
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,000
You might as well build a business and, and chant for it
592
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000
to be successful.
593
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,080
You're going to have a lot better odds with that.
594
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,320
Anyway.
595
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,880
So baby B essentially learns neglect, right?
596
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,080
And that sort of internal algorithm forums.
597
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,800
If I ask for help, there's kind of no point.
598
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,480
I'm just going to end up screaming and wasting my voice
599
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,880
and nobody is going to come for me.
600
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,440
So I better learn to do things and take care of myself
601
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:02,520
on my own.
602
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,960
Then you have baby C. And baby C comes into the world.
603
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:13,040
And not only does baby C learn that there is no point to crying.
604
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,640
Baby C cries.
605
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,200
And baby C is punished for crying.
606
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,520
There was a story that my mother told me from when I was
607
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,720
apparently about six weeks old as a baby when she,
608
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,800
my mother, went out and came home.
609
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,280
And then my father had been watching over me.
610
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,840
And there was a giant red hand print on my backside.
611
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,960
So presumably I had cried.
612
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,520
And my father had taken this as like in a front.
613
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,360
Like the baby is crying at me.
614
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,160
I don't know what to do with this.
615
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,520
And the baby won't behave.
616
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:44,680
The baby won't shut up.
617
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,200
And so he smacks me apparently.
618
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:47,880
So there I am.
619
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,280
And I'm baby C, right?
620
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,400
And what baby C learns is if I speak up and ask for my needs
621
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,120
to be met, that is actually dangerous to me.
622
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,120
I am inviting harm to myself.
623
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:03,040
As I said, I would later grow up to have borderline personality
624
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,800
disorder kind of thrown around at me, not officially diagnosed,
625
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:07,040
right?
626
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,160
But why is that, right?
627
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,440
If we look at when I was six weeks old, something
628
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,640
that I learned was that--
629
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,200
and of course, this was reinforced
630
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:17,800
throughout my childhood, right?
631
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,520
And it's funny because my relationships with women
632
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,240
have often been mostly secure, because I
633
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,080
had a great relationship with my mom.
634
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,720
I was really, really lucky that for all of my father's abuse
635
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,600
and his mental illness, that went untreated
636
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,320
because what resources did he have in his day?
637
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,840
Plus patriarchy.
638
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,800
And there's nothing wrong with me and all that kind of stuff
639
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,360
that really, in many ways, held met
640
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,560
of my father's generation back from being able to self-examine
641
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:48,720
because to admit fault or flaw was to be seen as less of a man
642
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,040
or whatever that looks like, all of that, right?
643
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,680
So I grow up in that environment,
644
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,440
and I learn that asking for my needs to be met actually
645
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,360
incurs danger to me.
646
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:00,520
And what does that lead to?
647
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,000
It leads to overly people-pleasing behaviors,
648
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,840
because I learn that asking for my needs directly at best,
649
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,400
I'm just not going to get them met.
650
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,520
And at worst, it's going to somehow,
651
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,680
I am offensive by asking for a need to be met.
652
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,480
I have inconvenienced you.
653
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,440
I am losing love.
654
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,160
And in the worst-case scenarios,
655
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,760
I am possibly even incurring physical violence.
656
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,800
It's amazing to me.
657
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,640
Like, it's not like, but it's amazing to me
658
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,920
that something that happens at six weeks old to me
659
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,320
as a baby can have such reverberations
660
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,800
up through my adult relationships.
661
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,280
And thankfully, I have repatterned now.
662
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,160
I've changed that wiring.
663
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:46,960
I know that as an adult, I can use my agency
664
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,680
to choose people who meet my needs in a reasonable manner,
665
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,360
or at least hear me out and have a conversation,
666
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:55,040
things like that.
667
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,840
So healing and repatterning is possible.
668
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,480
I am living proof.
669
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,440
Hopefully, at this point in the podcast season,
670
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:02,480
you know that by now.
671
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,200
But yeah, so baby A, baby B, and baby C.
672
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,480
We learn from a very young age these patterns.
673
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,920
And that's just one example, right?
674
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,760
That's one example that I think we all go through as babies.
675
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,880
We cry when we have a need that we need to have met.
676
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:24,960
And then we learn whether that need is going to be met or not.
677
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:30,600
And we go through an infinite number of permutations
678
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:31,920
of these lessons, right?
679
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,280
Another classic one is like, you reach out,
680
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,120
you touch the hot stove, and you learn that it's hot.
681
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:38,560
And then you don't do it anymore.
682
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,360
That one is probably like a smart thing to learn, right?
683
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:42,560
To not touch hot stoves.
684
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,240
But there we are as, you know, little kids.
685
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:46,560
And we reach out.
686
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,200
And again, that internal algorithm forms.
687
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,000
If X, then Y, if I touch the hot stove, I will get burned.
688
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,440
If I open up and I tell my feelings to my crush,
689
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,200
as I talked about in the Phil Farber episode, right?
690
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,560
I will get punched in the stomach.
691
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,080
That's another, like, I'm opening up, not even like asking
692
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,240
for a need at that point.
693
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:08,200
For me, that was like making a gesture of love
694
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:13,960
and receiving physical violence in return from a fellow eight-year-old.
695
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,920
[LAUGHS]
696
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,720
You know who to thought.
697
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:21,840
And as we go on, we learn these things.
698
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,720
And so we adapt our strategies for having our needs met
699
00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:28,920
and for figuring out how to be secure and exist in the world.
700
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,920
And we learn sometimes that we do certain things and they feel bad.
701
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,600
So we don't do them anymore.
702
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:39,240
And we lock ourselves out of strategies that perhaps as adults
703
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:41,160
would actually be healthier for us,
704
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,960
such as like actually asking for your need to be met
705
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,160
or actually making that gesture of love and, you know, trusting
706
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,360
that you're that a grown adult hopefully isn't going to hit you
707
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,160
physically when you try to flirt with them or whatever.
708
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,600
And so there are those strategies that we end up locking ourselves
709
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,000
out of because for whatever reason when we tried them,
710
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,040
when we were young and developing, they proved unsafe to us.
711
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,800
And then there are the strategies that we adopt
712
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,520
because we try them and they do feel good.
713
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,840
So there are a lot of people in the world, for example,
714
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,200
who they grew up learning to be funny, right?
715
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,360
Because their parents paid them more attention
716
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,440
when they were entertaining to them as kids.
717
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,400
They paid them more attention when they
718
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,240
knew how to be pleasing and when they knew how to be charming.
719
00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:34,800
And you can see, like I see this pattern in a lot of men,
720
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:39,840
for example, who learn to be these really charismatic,
721
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:45,120
seductive individuals who end up not in any way
722
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,600
having the secure attachment to be able to create
723
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,920
healthier relationships with the women that they're
724
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,360
lowering in, but they're still just like on autopilot,
725
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,200
doing the same thing that worked with mom when they were five,
726
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,480
you know, I make a joke or I do something and all,
727
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,440
now mom is laughing and she's pleased with me or whatever, right?
728
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,840
But there is still that insecurity deep down.
729
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,240
A lot of, I'm sure like you guys know this,
730
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,280
I'm probably not telling you anything that you aren't already aware of,
731
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,560
but a lot of our gifts can also come from our trauma,
732
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:22,240
you know, the ability to be funny, the ability to be intuitive sometimes
733
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:24,000
and to read the room.
734
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,640
I know for me, that was one of them that in my own repatterning,
735
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,800
it wasn't that I had to give up that gift, but I had to call my energy back from it,
736
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:39,440
from constantly spending like 80% of my human CPU scanning the room
737
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,480
for the little green falling matrix numbers and always making sure
738
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,320
like everything is always okay, right?
739
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:45,600
That's called hypervigilance.
740
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,200
That's something that we may learn growing up that we need to do
741
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,960
if we are in an inconsistent or you know,
742
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:57,200
often dangerous environment that we need to constantly be scanning the horizon
743
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:02,720
for danger and that ability to be perceptive can be a great gift,
744
00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:04,480
but we can also over-learn it.
745
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,440
So a lot of repatterning is also about,
746
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,800
I honor the gift and the wisdom that this experience brought me
747
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:16,080
and I'm also not going to let it run my life past the point of diminishing returns.
748
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:22,000
The law of diminishing returns is essentially a concept that states that
749
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:30,000
at some point a given strategy will stop being as effective as it was in the beginning.
750
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:36,720
For example, if let's say you have a farmer that is using fertilizer on their crops,
751
00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:43,440
the more fertilizer that the farmer uses, the greater the crop yield will be
752
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,920
up until a certain point, right?
753
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:50,400
At a certain point, that farmer is using more fertilizer
754
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:55,280
that is actually costing more money than the crop yield is giving.
755
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,680
At a certain point, too much fertilizer may even poison the crops, right?
756
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,640
Another example is our income.
757
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:07,840
Adjusted for, oh gosh, this is going to be a slightly outdated statistic,
758
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,920
so bear with me because you know, in the last five years, especially since the pandemic,
759
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,320
we've had so much greed flation in the United States in particular,
760
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:23,440
that I'm pretty sure this is no longer the actual number, but a few years before that anyway,
761
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:28,880
the roughly the number of, I forget if it's individual or household income,
762
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where we would start crossing into diminishing returns in our quality of life in the United States
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was about $100,000, right?
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So let's say you have someone who is making $30,000 a year,
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and if they double that, if they make $60,000, that's going to be like life changing, right?
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That's the difference probably between whether they can afford health insurance,
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make reliable car payments, you know, all of those things,
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and that's going to be a really, really big difference in their life.
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If you then have that person who's making $60,000, and you add another $30,000 on top of that,
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and they're making $90,000, that's pretty cool, right?
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Like that's great.
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Maybe they've already got their bases covered, but maybe now they can also take their family
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on a nice vacation once or twice a year.
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Maybe they can afford a second car so that, you know,
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mom can drive the kids to soccer practice or whatever they're doing.
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That absolutely will increase their quality of life in a meaningful and worthwhile way.
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If you add another $30,000 on top of that, now that person is making $120,000, okay, great,
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but less, right?
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Then that first and second and third, $30,000 was to them.
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It becomes less and less meaningful.
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And yet, so many people, especially living in capitalism, in late-stage capitalist America,
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in particular, which is where I live, though I imagine this is, you know, a global issue as well.
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So many people learn from that initial if X, then Y, if I make more money, then I will feel secure,
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and they don't stop learning.
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And this is like the billionaire sickness that we talked about with Doug Rushkov,
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an episode two, Wettico, right?
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The idea that there is, Wettico is a concept that Doug talks about in team human that is an
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American indigenous word that essentially means the sickness of needing to hoard too much
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that they saw in the white man, right?
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That we still see in our billionaires today looking at all, like, right, like Elon Musk was told,
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like, by the United Nations apparently, you know, $6 billion would solve World Hunger.
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We got the plan and he was like, nah, never mind.
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Change my mind.
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Man, you could sneeze six billion dollars.
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I remember reading that Vanity Fair interview with Grimes as well, where she talked about how
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they were living in like a $45,000 unsecured home with paparazzi around them, with no safety or
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security for her.
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And there was a hole in her side of the mattress and she was like, can we get a new mattress?
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And he was like, well, why don't you just bring yours over?
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Bro!
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What is, what is, what is this, right?
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So, so there we have someone who has overlearned the pattern that money is going to help them feel
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secure.
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And that's the thing about it that can be so difficult is when we go on autopilot,
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we don't recognize the point at which we are reaching diminishing returns.
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The alcoholic begins as a person who takes a drink or a shot of alcohol and thinks,
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all right, I'm going to drink this and it's going to make me feel better and more comfortable.
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And it's also going to make me make me better at socializing.
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Well, that may be true of the first drink.
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It may be even true of the second and maybe even the third drink.
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But when you get to like the 12th and 13th drink, you definitely aren't feeling better and you're
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definitely not better at socializing, right?
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So realizing the point of diminishing returns in any of our given patterns and strategies
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is huge.
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It's such a critical component.
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And then of course, there are the patterns and strategies that we take on in well-meaning ways,
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which we think are going to be effective for us, but which actually are not.
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And when we shine a light on those, one thing I like to say often in the course is that
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incredulity is a great weapon against our demons.
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When we can shine a light on make these patterns conscious and realize how when we actually
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hold them up to the scrutiny of daylight, they actually don't make any sense.
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I look at myself and the pattern that I mentioned in our episode with Celeste Mott,
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that I first noticed in myself that was sort of that brain breaking, mind opening,
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paradigm shattering, entree into my understanding of repattering, was that I believe truly and fully
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that if I was valuable to people that they would treat me well, that seemed to make sense to me,
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right?
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If you have something that is valuable to you that is pleasing you, that is adding value to your life,
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why wouldn't you treasure and cherish it?
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And very early on in my repattering journey, I heard this sentence in my head, which was
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art and people destroy beautiful things all the time.
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And I imagine myself as a priceless painting hanging on the wall of a museum and that there
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would be someone out there who would come and throw a cake at it for some reasons.
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If you were paying attention maybe five or six years ago or so, there was an incident where there
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was a person who threw a cake at the Mona Lisa, right? And the Mona Lisa is behind glass,
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the Mona Lisa was fine, the person was doing it as some sort of a protest or political statement.
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I don't recall exactly what it was about at this time, but could you imagine me being
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theoretically the Mona Lisa thinking that if I'm just a good enough painting,
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then I won't get cakes thrown at me.
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It's ridiculous when you actually hold it up to the light of day, but the thing is when we're
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learning this as we're growing up and we are that fish swimming in the water of our childhood homes
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that we don't have an objective viewpoint about, then we're not going to be conscious of those
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learned strategies. And we are going to go on autopilot and we are going to simply react in ways
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to our external circumstances that we have been programmed to react with via our lived experiences.
844
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This is the source of almost all, if not all, of our mental health struggles. And there are some
845
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exceptions actually, right? So not all most, but there are such things as chemical imbalances.
846
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For example, I have ADHD. It means I have a dopamine deficiency. So I do medicate for that at times.
847
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And I also am simply mindful of what my need for dopamine is and how I can meet that need.
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Oftentimes it means engaging in work that is about puzzle solving and all the stuff I'm talking
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about with you right now. Like it's very interesting to me. It allows me to hyper focus. It holds my
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attention. I will be depressed if I'm in a job environment where I have to just like crunch numbers or
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you know, do data entry like then of course my mental health is going to struggle, right? Because I'm
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not getting my dopamine needs met by the world around me. So there are such things as chemical
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imbalances or deficiencies. I will argue, however, that the mental health industry really is not
854
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great at understanding or treating all of those yet. There is that research that came out recently
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that were like, oh, we don't really know why SSRIs have the, you know, they don't actually work with
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serotonin the way that we thought that they did. And so much of psychiatry has been this sort of trial
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and error. We'll try this drug and see how this does try that and see how that does. I just think,
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you know, man, I just think we can do better, right? So chemical imbalances, chemical deficiencies
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are a thing. I don't believe that the industry is as good as it could be at understanding and
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treating them, right? But I want to make sure that I include that exception, right? So it's not all
861
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lived experience. There's also things like traumatic brain injury that can also affect our mental health,
862
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our memory, our mood in many ways. So there's things like that too. But for things that do not
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involve the gray matter of the brain and the neurochemicals that it traffics in, I really believe
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that most of our mental health struggles come from learning these patterns and either learning
865
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maladaptive patterns, learning strategies that we think are going to work for us, but don't, or
866
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learning certain strategies that maybe worked for us in the beginning or would work if we knew
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how to use them in moderation or perhaps in tandem with other patterns and strategies. But we over
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learn them, we go past that point of diminishing returns and we end up poisoning our own crops with
869
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the fertilizer, drinking until we black out, et cetera, et cetera, right? A lot of these apparent
870
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problems, quote unquote are actually bad solutions to greater underlying problems. Even the most
871
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destructive of behaviors is motivated in some way. Even the autistic kid who is banging his head against
872
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a wall has a reason for doing that. Maybe there is something going on internally. There is over stimulation
873
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happening where actually the act of banging one's head against a wall feels by comparison, like relief,
874
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right? It is necessary for us to know ourselves and if we are practitioners to know our clients,
875
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to look at the underlying needs and strategies and motivations that are causing destructive behaviors.
876
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And it is also necessary for us to look at the beliefs about the world that we may have taken on
877
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in what feels like a very reasonable manner because our experiences of it when we were growing up
878
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reflected this worldview, the feelings and beliefs about the world that also result in things like
879
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depression and anxiety. I have a theory about depression and that is that the root of depression is
880
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simply hopelessness because we are trying strategies that aren't working and we can no longer
881
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motivate ourselves to do those strategies. And so we sort of give up the body, the mind body system
882
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kind of gives up and says, I don't know what to do here. Nothing I'm doing is working. It's futile,
883
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it's hopeless, it's pointless. And I have a theory also that anxiety comes primarily from having
884
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strategies that work inconsistently. I'm anxious because I'm doing something and I don't know
885
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if it's going to get me the result that I want or not. I am trying that strategy, but I feel
886
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anxiety, I feel trepidation because sometimes this works and sometimes this doesn't, right?
887
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Anxious attachment, which is something that I have a lot of familiarity with in my own history,
888
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primarily came from being in relationships where I'm like, I'm going to try and be pleasing, but I
889
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don't know if the person is going to leave me, right? And these worldviews can be very difficult
890
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to break ourselves out of because we have a function in our brain called confirmation bias.
891
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Confirmation bias, I believe is also the foundation of the understanding of the law of attraction.
892
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The law of attraction says like that, which you think about will be what you see in your reality.
893
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And this is explained by some precepts of neuro-linguistic programming, which is one of my
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certifications that you may see on the wall behind me here if you're watching the video,
895
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a version of this conversation. In neuro-linguistic programming, what I learned is that
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we take in information through our five senses at roughly 8 billion bits per second. I've
897
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no idea how they measured how many bits of information your brain takes in, but apparently that it,
898
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and apparently it's about 8 billion bits per second. But you can't possibly remember everything,
899
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right? There are some folks out there who have extraordinary brains with extraordinary memories
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who can remember like, oh yeah, the morning of July 1993, I woke up and I had blueberry oatmeal
901
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for breakfast that morning, right? There is an artist named Steven Wiltshire. He is a black autistic man
902
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who he'll take like a helicopter ride over a city and then he'll come back and he'll draw that
903
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city scape from memory. It's just amazing. Like these folks are the outliers in some ways who
904
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who help us to understand just how flawed our own minds and memories are at remembering things
905
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accurately. We often think that we remember things accurately and often even the things we do remember
906
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we end up distorting, right? So our brains, according to these precepts of NLPR brains,
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take in this information at 8 billion bits per second and then we delete, distort and generalize.
908
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And so we fit it into this nice neat little picture that we remember. Well, what happens to the rest
909
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of those bits of information, right? Even right now, I'm sitting here at my desk and I have bookshelves
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on either side of me, but I couldn't recite to you from memory without looking each of the titles
911
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of the books. Why? I passed that bookshelf literally every single day, right? But my brain kind of
912
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generalizes and just says, oh, those are my books. I generally kind of know where some of them are.
913
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I know that section is there, that section. If I have to look something up, I can go and look at
914
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there, at it there, right? But I don't, despite the fact that I look at it literally every day,
915
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I don't have it memorized. Why? Because my brain is like, that's not relevant for you to keep there. We
916
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can only hang on to so much information. We're going to get rid of some of what you don't need. And
917
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in the process of doing this, the brain will lock on to what is familiar. It will find even without
918
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our consciously trying, it will lock on to the things that confirm the worldview that we already
919
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believe because that feels good. It feels cohesive. Uh-huh. You know? So if I grow up with, let's say,
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an abusive father, which I did, I am in many ways going to be conditioned to view men with more of those
921
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qualities and even in some ways to, even in some ways to ascribe qualities to them that aren't
922
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even actually there that are just my own perception and projection. But also to notice more
923
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the men with those qualities, right? It is because we gravitate toward that, which is familiar. So
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law of attraction, like, it has been weaponized in so many ways. And I just, I hate to see it thrown
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out with the bathwater because if you understand the function of how confirmation bias works within
926
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our mind body learning systems, you can understand how the law of attraction is applicable. I've just
927
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seen so many people in the spiritual community, especially white people being like, well, how did you
928
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attract that experience of being racially profiled at the airport or whatever? What were you doing that?
929
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And it's just, you know, it's not helpful and it's not accurate either. Like we exist in a system
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where we are all like co-creating our reality and all sort of like agreeing on these different
931
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narratives or disagreeing on them, you know? Certainly a lot of divide. Certainly a lot of divide
932
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right now in America, for example, but, you know, we don't exist in a bubble. It's not healthy to blame
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ourselves for the things that are part of our flawed consensus narrative. But at the same time,
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I see people being like throwing out law of attraction entirely when there is a way to use it to
935
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say, wait a minute, that which I focus on. If I focus on noticing more of it, even if that's all
936
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that I do, if I understand that my brain is a bad scientist that is cherry picking the data of the
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8 billion bits per second of information that is coming into my mind and finding the things that I'm
938
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already familiar with, even if I don't want those things, even if I want a healthy relationship with a
939
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man, for example, right? But somehow I'm gravitating toward these things that are familiar because
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that is what my brain tends to notice. It finds it more familiar and then I give my energy to those
941
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things and I get locked into those patterns and habits and all of a sudden I'm replaying my childhood
942
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all over again, right? And so if we step back and we realize that this is the way that our brains operate,
943
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also you guys, there is something called negativity bias. Negativity bias was developed
944
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evolutionarily in our mind body learning system in order to protect us from danger. This is why you will
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remember something that is like scary or traumatic. And there's a point of diminishing returns
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of that too, like certain things that are traumatic or so traumatic that we will repress them or
947
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they'll actually not, you know, they'll be like buried memories, right? So that also happens,
948
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right? But, but to a certain point of diminishing returns, if we go through something that is scary
949
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or traumatic, that will stand out in our memories more because evolutionarily speaking, we evolved
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so that the caveman that remembered that, oh, this is the bush I walked by the other day where
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the saber tooth tiger jumped out at me. I'm going to go around this other way and avoid that, right? The
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caveman that learned to avoid that bush with the tiger in it was the one who was more likely to
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survive. So we evolved to actually ascribe greater, more impactful memory to those things that
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actually feel dangerous and unsafe to us. This is amazing. It was a story that a shaman once told
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a sort of parable that sums this up really well. He says the light and the dark were doing battle
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with one another and they each got to choose a weapon and the dark chose gravity that if you just
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let things be as they are and kind of sink like that pull that natural force that natural pull down,
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you will fall into the darkness. That is, I believe, negativity bias, right? You will fall into
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just noticing what is, what is that? It's almost like that sort of metaphor of the red queen
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and Alice in Wonderland where it's like you have to keep running as fast as you can just to say in one
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place. If you give in to gravity, you will fall into that negativity bias and noticing just all of the
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bad things and all of a sudden the world will just seem to be a very bad and dangerous place to be,
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which is a symptom of borderline personality disorder. Quote unquote, right? The light on the other hand
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shows for its weapon, gratitude. If you notice the things around you that you are grateful for and I
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kind of hate gratitude and grateful as words because they're weaponized against us as kids a lot,
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right? Like be grateful, eat all the food on your plate or whatever, like they're, they're weaponized
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against us in many households to get us to actually not listen to our bodies and honor our needs
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because we should just shut up and be grateful or whatever, right? But as an adult, I've come around
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to gratitude because gratitude helps us to identify that in our lives that we already like and that we
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want more of. So gratitude is a great tool. So the light chooses gratitude as its weapon and says if
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you notice the things around you in your life that you already like, then you can use that to
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notice more of them and call in more love and goodness and abundance and happiness into your life.
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So this is the essence of The Re-patterning Project is that we go through our internal algorithms.
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We notice the strategies that we're using in order to try and get our needs met and we get to ask
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as adults is this actually working for me? Is this actually a strategy that is helpful to me in
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any way? Is this the right strategy for the result that we want? And you might notice for those of
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you who are familiar with chaos magic, maybe you are practitioners yourselves. This is essentially
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the essence of chaos magic, right? We choose the beliefs, practices, and behaviors that get us the
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results that we want. We do not adhere to dogma for dogma or traditions, sake, alone. We choose our
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beliefs, practices, and behaviors based on the results that they get us. And that is our soul, judge
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of whether something is effective is if it gets us the result that we want and if it fits sustainably
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into our ecosystem, so we're not doing harm to others, right? I guess maybe you could be an evil chaos
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magician and not care about the second one, but I think for my money in the long run, it's a lot better.
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It's just a lot easier to be sustainable than you're not going to be like it war with people and
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stuff like that. Big war and small war, right? So this is the essence of repatterning is for me
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applying that sort of basic foundational value of chaos magic to a deep understanding of our
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neurodevelopment and of our mental health and how our mind body learning systems work to help us
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to navigate the world and that our mind body system is our domain and it is our birthright
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to go through our patterns, our habits, our beliefs, behaviors and to choose the patterns and the
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strategies that work to get us the results that we want in the world. For example, instead of, you know,
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people pleasing, repressing my needs and just trying to be valuable to people who are being abusive to
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me, maybe the better strategies like shocker is to actually practice discernment and to yes,
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be good to people but in a way that is also reciprocal and to ask myself rather than what can I do
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to get this person to like me, to ask myself am I even in the right relationship to begin with?
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And if I am stuck in that pattern or that dichotomy between like, well, there's the interesting people
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that I'm attracted to who treat me poorly. And then there's like the boring nice folks or whatever.
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I challenge that a great deal. You can absolutely if if you're stuck in that paradigm, I invite you to
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think more outside of those two boxes, look for those healthy relationship models with people that
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you find attractive. Look for those people. Gosh, I feel like in today's world with some of,
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you know, the the artists and public figures that we have coming forward, it's it's easier than ever
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to find examples of people who are both attractive and kind and compassionate, right? There's a lot of
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memes about artists around there that are like, you know, we made the right person famous. Like, look
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for those kinds of people. Train your confirmation bias. Train your law of attraction to notice those
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qualities in people. And then go out in the world. And as your mind is taking in that 8 billion bits
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of information per second, you're going to start attuning yourself to noticing that which you want more
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of. This has solved bar none. Pretty much all of my mental health struggles, except for like the
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fact that I still take a little bit of Adderall, the bifurscription for my ADHD, right? Everything else
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has been all about zooming out, detaching, creating space, moving back and looking at my life and my
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patterns and saying, is this the right thing for the result that I want? So there we have it. And
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what I love about this paradigm is that there need be no shame involved. Sometimes there's a little
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bit of like self-deprecating humor like why on earth do that? I think that was a good strategy. Like,
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we can laugh at ourselves with compassion for our past selves that we're really doing the best that
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we can, but there's no pathologization. There's no like you have a personality disorder, right? There's
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no need for that framework. Man, my invitation to you all is let's make it obsolete. Let's not give
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our energy and our attention to these frameworks that pathologize us, you know? I mean, yes,
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absolutely if you need medication, then be on that medication if it works for you. Do the practice
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that gets you the result that you want and if that medication is getting you a good result, then yeah,
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absolutely go to see your psychiatrist. Go to your therapist if you have a good relationship with
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them. Bring this topic to your therapist. Have this conversation with them. Ask them like, hey,
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what is it in my own life that I'm not seeing? What patterns or strategies? Am I using thinking that
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I'm going to get a good result? But really, I just need a different strategy. My need is legitimate,
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my underlying need is legitimate and I am worthy of having that need being met, but maybe I need help
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picking the right strategy and just detaching and thinking about what could I do that will actually
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get me the result that I want and so often like in our mind-body systems like our bodies will remember
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being that little kid and being like, oh no, I can't speak up and ask for my needs to be met because
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I get my ass beat, right? And bringing compassion and more importantly, a wider perspective
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to that viewpoint that has been locked into place and saying, you're not a six-week-old baby anymore,
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Arden, you can choose who you give your time and attention to, unlike you were able to
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growing up in a household with your father. You can choose people who treat you well and then you
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will be treated well. That's a better strategy than trying to overly please the people who don't
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treat you well hoping that they will change their behavior toward you. So yeah, I feel like this is
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a paradigm that really works across the board for most mental health struggles. Far more than our
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current paradigm seems to work. I spent years in therapy. It really did nothing for me. Now maybe I
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was locked into my own viewpoint too much to see what the issue was, but what was that therapist job,
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if not to guide me into a viewpoint that would have helped me more? And when I did that research and
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embarked on that spiritual journey of repotting and found all of the information that I eventually
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called into this eight-week course, my response was, why didn't anyone tell me? So today I am here
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telling you, I am telling you the things that I wish that folks had told me back in the day.
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And I want you to know that you can reclaim your agency over your life by choosing the beliefs,
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habits, practice, and strategies that actually get you to the result that you want. And I know for me
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just that agency, like my life doesn't even have to be working perfectly. I just have to be engaged
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with navigating from a place of power and sovereignty, creating those changes in my life,
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changing my internal programming so that my external results change too. That's what I want to
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all of us. So, all right, so that concludes season one of the Repattering Podcast. I hope that
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these conversations have been interesting and thought-provoking for you. I hope that they
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cause you to look at your own life and your own strategies in a different way. I hope that they
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empower you. I hope that they inspire you away from the depression and anxiety, quote unquote,
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that are products of feelings of futility and fear of inconsistency. And I hope that they empower
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you to make changes in your own life that, yeah, sometimes like it's great to have facilitators and
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counselors like I have facilitators that I go to because we all need help, we all need that outside
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perspective, but I also want to emphasize how much of this we can do on our own just by noticing more,
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just by pulling back and noticing and examining and questioning ourselves. As Socrates said,
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the unexamined life is not worth living. And written over the door of every mystery school,
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was the phrase "Noscaté Ipsum, no thyself." If you want to join me and do that, again, there are ways
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of doing that through the work of the Repattering Project, but also just like just listen,
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just listen to the podcast, it's free and journaling is free and thinking is free and changing
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yourself and making those daily, small, gradual changes to your own habits and patterns is free.
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And that's really what I want everyone to do. So thank you guys for being here. Thank you to Tomi
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my producer for beautifully producing this first season. We're going to take a little hiatus and then
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when I have season two ready, we shall return. So rest, catch up on any that you haven't watched already.
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Come join us in the Repattering Parlor, our Discord group. You can join at patreon.com/therepatteringpodcast
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just five dollars a month to join our Discord and come find me on social media. Come follow along and
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be part of this journey. Thank you guys and we'll see you next season.
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Thank you for listening to the Repattering Podcast. If you're curious about the Repattering Project,
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the eight-week course in mental mastery and creative freedom that inspires these conversations,
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you can check out more details at therepatteringproject.com. We run a cohort twice a year,
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or you can download the self-study version of the course and get started today. We also offer a
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four-week course on narrative magic and archetype titled "Mitzen Magic, Changing Your Life Through
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Story" also twice a year. If you'd like to join our community, the Repattering Parlor, on Discord,
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you can sign up for five dollars a month at patreon.com/therepatteringpodcast. Thanks to everyone who
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makes the Repattering Podcast possible. Firstly, our award-winning producer Tomi Trembath of the
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Keymaster Collective Network of Podcasts. She also produces Transcending Comics, Vision in the Void
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and Giant-sized Violence. Thanks also to Animation Studio Mortis and Madriacs who created the video
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for our introduction, as well as to Andrew Means who composed and produced our theme music.
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And also thanks to Al Alvarez, who took the photos of yours truly that you see on the cover of each
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episode if you're watching the video version. And finally, thanks to you, our listeners, who give
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meaning to this work. Our greatest wish is that whatever you've heard today inspires you to live
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freely and begin creating your reality from the inside out. Thanks for tuning in and we'll see you
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again soon.
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you
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you
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