407 Josh Trent | The Art of Masculinity: Changing Your Life's Shoreline, Authoritative Playfulness & Rites of Passage

Jul 27, 2021

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How do I adapt my shoreline to the capacity that the feminine energy that I love is asking for? Well, the only way that I can change the geography of my shoreline is by doing a rite of passage that will actually change my shoreline forever. - Josh Trent

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Wellness Force Radio Episode 407

Wellness Force Media Founder, Josh Trent, joins host of The Art of Masculinity Podcast, Johnny Elsasser, to discuss how to adjust your shoreline through a Rites of Passage, the power of true brotherhood, and break down of the three stages of intelligence: gathering, applying, and embodying for greater emotional wisdom.

What is authoritative playfulness and why is it needed now more than ever in our world?

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[1:30] Vision Quest: Josh's Rite Of Passage

The M21 Guide
The Art of Masculinity | Episode 191: Change Your Shoreline with Josh Trent
Johnny Elsasser
Why masculinity, what it means to be a man, and even our relationships with either gender are evolving.
Josh's journey to fatherhood and how expecting Novah has shaped his life.
How and why many men abuse the beautiful gift and power of intimacy.
What new 'terms' Josh is most excited about with his new role as a father and starting a family.
405 Tim Corcoran
Josh's recent experience doing a 10-Day Vision Quest and what thoughts and emotions came up for him during that experience.
Solocast | Vision Quest Part 1: Honoring Our Ancestors
Solocast | Vision Quest Part 2: Touching Death
196 Aubrey Marcus
How Josh was introduced to Tim Corcoran by Aubrey Marcus and it was an immediate soul calling to do a Vision Quest.
The power of a Rites Of Passage and why it's a vital part of entering adulthood.
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette
Breaking down what a true rite of passage actually is, how it changes the 'shoreline of your being' and how to complete one.
The various types of Rites of Passages around the world and what Josh enjoyed the most about his experience doing a Native American based Vision Quest.

[8:30] True Brotherhood

Why gangs and the military are the closest things we have to a 'Rites of Passage' in American culture and neither are very good for our wellbeing or psyche.
Exploring why you cannot have true power or brotherhood from a place of violence and war; only from a place of peace.
How these groups with dogmatic, controlling leaders begin to grow an infection of resentment within and it begins to unravel the brotherhood.
The fact that the old school patriarchy was infected and has operated from that space for a millennia but we're now witnessing this positive shift away from that mentality.
Why it's foolish to think that evil does not exist because in the world there are fear and love, chaos and order, dark and night...there are always opposing forces because all is God.
Paul Chek | All Is God

[12:30] Authoritative Playfulness

Why it's not real to believe in "good vibes only" but what is real is to have "authoritative playfulness."
Breaking down what authoritative playfulness is and why it's what modern men need to cultivate.
How authoritative playfulness gives men the skills to take care of themselves and their family against evil.
The deep ego wounds we still carry with us from people being mistreated for thousands of years: greed, resentment, and betrayal.
Why we have square thinking when we need to think in a circular way to live in our 360 world.
Exploring why men are afraid of this new way of being in their masculine selves.
Why our ego will fight any time our way of being is challenged with a new idea or with change.
Holodynamics | Dr. Vernon Woolf
404 Jay Brown
Dr. Vernon Woolf's work on holodynes and how beliefs are passed on to us from our past generations.
Why, like technology, we must also always be evolving and challenging ourselves to grow.

[20:30] The Three Phases Of Intelligence

What steps you can take to help the men in your life realize that they do need to get in touch with love and Spirit.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Unpacking the 'tipping point' we all face when we have experienced a way of being that is creating pain.
Why we encounter the tipping point every single day and how we can show up by choosing to be aware of our reality and then decide how we will adapt and serve in that awareness.
086 Mark Divine
Tools that help Josh be aware, show up, adapt, and serve including breathwork.
How to show up as a better man by following the three phases of intelligence: gather, apply, and embody.
How men can apply breathwork and greater awareness in their relationships to help them solve difficult moments especially when old programming is going on in your mind's background.
358 Dr. Belisa Vranich
breathwork.io
The power of breathwork and how taking a deep, vertical breath will help reset your nervous system.
Why the biggest gift we can give to ourselves, our partner, and our space is asking for permission to learn so that we can become a better leader.
How you can become a better leader for your team by asking members to help you understand any stress they're feeling if the energy is off at work.

[30:00] How Men Can Build Greater Emotional Intelligence

Why true intelligence goes beyond just how smart you are or how you speak.
How we can all gain greater emotional intelligence by taking very complex things, dropping into our heart, and speak with honest language.
How Josh's M21 Guide with six practices will help you on your path to embody greater emotional and physical intelligence.
What people can look forward to in starting a breathwork practice and the science behind how it helps shift the brain's chemistry.
The biggest factors that cause people to be stuck in the sympathetic or "freeze" state: trauma (big or small).
How you can get out of the sympathetic mode: hugging, nature, exercise, or conscious relationships but the no. 1 is the pulse of the breath.
Why we become victims of intellectualization where we think that life has to be this crazy, hard complex obstacle but it's all programming.
What if money was no object? by Alan Watts
The power of being aware of what "masks" you are still wearing in your everyday life instead of showing up as your authentic self.
Why sometimes fear wears a smile when we're all about "good vibes only" and putting on this front that everything is fine.
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Power Quotes From The Show How To Update Your Soul's Programming

"Why is it so hard when we're presented as men with a new way of being? It's so hard because we are fighting biology. Steven Pressfield calls it 'the resistance.' So, what is resistance's number one job? What is a holodyne's number one job? What is a core belief that got installed almost like a microchip in a computer; what is its core job? Its core job is to function without change. So, when I am presented with new information that goes against the construct of the programs that were installed in my mind that activate the holodynes and the beliefs and the way of being, there is going to be a system error, right? That is when your soul has to come in, see things from an observer perspective, and override the programming." - Josh Trent

The Tipping Point We Face Every Day

"We all have a tipping point that comes when we have experienced a way of being that is creating pain. We change through pleasure and pain; it's an axis and the reason that dark comes really strong right before light is because every day we're in a tipping point. Every single day you and I as men can choose to show up as authoritative playful leaders based on our environment and what we're aware of happening in it. How can you do this? First you have to choose that you want to be aware of what is actually going on in reality; not the subjective reality but the objective reality that you can see from 30,000 feet. After that, ask yourself, 'What is my decision making faculty about how I'm going to adapt and serve in that awareness?' " - Josh Trent

What It Means To Be An Authoritative Playful Man

"Authoritative Playfulness is what men need to cultivate because if we can be authoritative and playful, that can be trusted. Authoritative means you take care of your body, you take care of your mental health; maybe you learn how to use firearms properly to protect you and your family, maybe you learn how to grow food. Maybe you learn all kinds of skills that can protect from a place of peace and love against evil because evil is real just like love is real. Evil is real because we are still at the consciousness level where we are still carrying out the wishes of evil and those come from greed, resentment, and betrayal which are all ego wounding....

...They are still these deep, bloody ego wounds that we are uncovering from thousands of years of people being mistreated and honestly trying to be led from dogmatism. So, we get to be authoritative and we get to be playful because we have to have fun and we have to be loving. That's the art form of being authoritative playful and that's what us men have to embody today."

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About Josh Trent

Josh Trent is the Founder of Wellness Force Media, host of the Wellness Force Podcast and the creator of the BREATHE: Breath & Wellness Program.

Josh has spent the past 18 years as a trainer, researcher, and facilitator discovering the physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world.

The Wellness Force Mission is to help humans heal mental, emotional and physical health through podcasts, programs, and a global community that believe in optimizing our potential to live life well.

Josh's life is dedicated to supporting humanity coming together as one.

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